Can science give us advice on everyday problems? In the podcast 'NEMO knows what to do!', scientists provide surprising insights. In the first episode, Lizzy and Iris ask science about love for advice.
What can you do if you are in love with two people? The Faces of Science Jakob van den Eijnden, Karlien Strijbosch and Eveline Groot tell you whether love is written in the stars, how philosophers thought about love and why it might be best to emigrate.
NEMO knows what to do! · #1 In love with two people
The podcast is a production of NEMO Kennislink and NEMO Science Museum. In this first episode, three Faces of Science speak. Meet:
Karlien Strijbosch
Cultural Anthropology and Migration Studies, Maastricht University
Karlien's PhD research is about migrants who (have to) return from Europe to Senegal. What does this mean for them and the people around them? What do they say about their experiences? And what not?
Viewing and reading tips from Karlien
A surplus of men in China yields an interesting proposal from a professor. What could that look like?
- An Economist Is In Hot Water For Suggesting That Chinese Women Take Multiple Husbands. A 2017 Novel Imagined This.
- Two-husband strategy may be a remedy for China's one-child policy, professor posits.
The TV show 'Je Zal Het Maar zijn, season 6, episode 2:Polyamory'. In it, Sophie Hilbrand follows three people who have a relationship other than a monogamous heterosexual relationship. Watch via NPO Start
Eveline Groot
Philosopher in the history of philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Eveline investigates the philosophical ideas of the French philosopher Germaine de Staël (1766–1817) about human nature, morality and politics. She also pays attention to the reappraisal of female thinkers in the history of philosophy. If more than half of the world's population is made up of women, where have all the women's voices gone in the history of philosophy? And what does the lack of these sounds mean for the development of our thinking?
Reading tips from Eveline
- Charles Hupperts (translation), Plato, Platonic Love, the Symposium and the Phaedrus (Damon Publishers)
- Alain Badiou, Ode to Love (Parresia Publishers)
Jakob van den Eijnden
Astrophysicist, University of Amsterdam
Jakob studies neutron stars, the most extreme and small stars in the universe, which, with their enormous gravitational pull, eat the outer layers of other stars and spit them out into the surrounding space.
Read more about love at NEMO Kennislink.