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The Year is 2025: Do We Still Need Universities?

The year is 2025. You can sit at a café and take a machine learning course from Stanford, learn graphic design from YouTube, or even…

Viktor FiskumSeptember 15, 2025

Society Spiegeloog 438: Chaos

The Unbearable Speed of Being: Acceleration of Modern Society & Mental Chaos

How often do you lie awake with the feeling that you could’ve done more, even though you already did so much? When was the last…

Mykolas UndzenasMay 14, 2025

Society Spiegeloog 438: Chaos

Healing in a Broken World: Mental Health as a Social Issue

We treat mental health like an individual problem – something to be fixed with therapy, medication, or resilience. But what if that’s only half the…

Evita ShresthaApril 21, 2025

Society Spiegeloog 437: Direction

Navigation: What We Know From Evolution and Neuroscience

When you think of the word navigation, what comes to mind? Is it the GPS on your phone that directs you to a new restaurant?…

Arya MallikMarch 24, 2025

Society Spiegeloog 437: Direction

Neurotechnology: Will we Become Icarus?

With the constant progress of research in neuroscience and technology, a field that combines the two has emerged: neurotechnology. As current developments focus on helping…

Mykolas UndzenasMarch 5, 2025

Society Spiegeloog 437: Direction

Identity Formation from a Bicultural Perspective

No other period shakes things up more than adolescence, a time in our development marked by innumerable physical and psychological changes. As adolescents, we begin…

Evita EgertFebruary 26, 2025

Society Spiegeloog 436: Risk

Mapping Complexity: A Network Approach To Integrated Planetary Health Information Systems

“It’s complicated, experts say” is how the Global News described the state of the COVID-19 pandemic (Wright, 2022). The more I learn, the more…

Lioba RoggendorfJanuary 8, 2025

Society Spiegeloog 436: Risk

Confession : Risking Vulnerability for Sacred Connection

In our everyday mundane lives, few of us are confronted with “life threatening” risks. Occasionally, there are cyclists overtaking with millimetre precision, the jaywalking while…

Nora KeloglanianJanuary 6, 2025

Society Spiegeloog 436: Risk

Identity Fractures: The Impact of Manipulation on Morality and Self-Perception

“It is not that present-day man is capable of greater evil than the man of antiquity or the primitive. He merely has incomparably more effective…

Anda RusJanuary 3, 2025

Society Spiegeloog 436: Risk

Unsafe by Design? Using VR to Rethink Public Spaces for Women

Last week, I asked my female friends a simple question: “How do you navigate public spaces, such as train stations, as a woman?” And the…

Ann-Kathrin AruiDecember 23, 2024

Society Spiegeloog 436: Risk

Why We Love the Way We Do: Exploring Attachment and Risk in Relationships

Why do some people dive headfirst into relationships, while others tiptoe cautiously, fearing the emotional plunge? Might it be courage, fear, or something deeper that…

Jules KotowiczDecember 20, 2024

Society Spiegeloog 435: Fantasy

Behind the Screen: Navigating the Emotional Labyrinth of Twitch Parasocial Relationships

Imagine pouring your time, money, and heart into a relationship where every word spoken to you is broadcast to an audience of thousands – welcome…

Shriya BangNovember 18, 2024

Society Spiegeloog 434: Transformation

Every Datapoint is a Family (Too)

With recent artificial intelligence (AI) developments dominating headlines and discussions, people and organizations are rushing to integrate it into various aspects of life. AI systems…

Zhen CongSeptember 30, 2024

Society Spiegeloog 434: Transformation

Gen Z and the 21st Century Frenzy

The boom of AI, the surging crisis of climate change, grievous instances of global conflict and unprecedented pandemonium inflicted by an unforeseen virus. This is…

Shriya KashyapSeptember 20, 2024

Society Spiegeloog 434: Transformation

Truffle Transformation: An Interview Piece on the Psychedelic Experience

From wanting to “hack your brain” to simply having a good time at a party, substances of altered mental experience have gained serious ground in…

Nicole HaverSeptember 13, 2024

Society Spiegeloog 433: Control

Abusive Supervision: Insights from a Bruising Workplace

For most people, the term bullying may activate associations with words such as ‘school’ or ‘childish’. It would be expected that bullying should become less…

Ayla FarzaliMay 27, 2024

Society Spiegeloog 433: Control

No Justice for the Deepfaked

Last June, the FBI issued a public alert revealing a surge in ‘reports from victims, including minors and non-consenting adults, whose photos or videos were…

Shriya BangMay 25, 2024

Society Spiegeloog 433: Control

Ambition – A Critical Take on Productivity

Drink, for you know not whence you came nor why: drink, for you know not why you go, nor where – Omar KhayyamDrink, for you…

Tan EmciMay 15, 2024

Society Spiegeloog 433: Control

Smile, You’re on Camera

Safety, as many other needs, comes under-appreciated until we lack it. While absolutely fundamental for our well-being and tranquillity, when we are privileged enough to…

Linda PaterovaMay 10, 2024

Society Spiegeloog 433: Control

Paper Beats Rock? – The Discrepancy of Male Vulnerability

Men crying, admitting failures, and sharing insecurities becomes more and more normalised. The idea of the strong, tough man is long over and has been…

Vadim MartschenkoMay 8, 2024

Society Spiegeloog 433: Control

Time Flies – or Does It?

While time is constant in the sense that it continues to progress forward in a linear manner, perception of time is not. Sometimes time flies,…

Viktor FiskumMay 6, 2024

Society Spiegeloog 432: Fragile

Intellectual disability and giftedness: Can schools accommodate individual differences in the same classroom?

This essay is an edited and web-adapted version of an original essay for the University of Amsterdam’s Bachelor's Psychology Program- Specialisation Clinical Developmental Psychology, Childhood-…