‘Of course you haven’t enrolled in TU Delft simply to study technological subjects. You want to know more. You want to know for example how the human brain works, how to think creatively, what Plato’s ideas were, what Time actually is, where your emotions come from..

Defending champsLast Thursday at the Zandvoort racetrack, TU Delft’s Nuon Solar Team unveiled it’s new solar-powered car, Nuna II. The 12-person team of students from TU Delft and Rotterdam’s Erasmus University is preparing to defend its title at Australia’s World Solar Challenge race, which it won in 2001 with its Nuna car.

Mild-mannered TU student by day, ruthless Internet poker shark by night, Remco Schrijvers is making big money beating American poker players at their own game.

Design professor appointedBruno Ninber van Eyben, the man who designed the national or ‘Dutch’ side of Holland’s Euro coins, has been appointed a part-time professor of design at the TU’s Faculty of Industrial Design.

Reviewed by: Ana María Fernández-Maldonado, an architect from Lima, Peru, who has lived in the Netherlands for 11 years and says, “I still like it.”

.chap H.M. van den Brink % On the waterReviewed by: Henry Ismail, from Jakarta, Indonesia, home to 15 million people and a river that is, he says, “so dirty that you’d have to be crazy to go rowing on it.”

Hugo Brandt Corstius is a former writer-in-residence at TU Delft. A mathematician who loves words, a prolific writer who likes to write under pseudonyms, Corstius is a faculty member of the Sorbonne UniversityIf you want to know about Dutch literature, there are only 500 booksyou should read.

Delft OpenHad enough of watching Wimbledon on TV? Want to see some live action close to home? Then head to the TU Sports Centre’s courts this weekend, where 120 tennis players representing 20 student societies will be in action as part of Tenniphil, an annual tournament organized by Virgiel.

Ramanan Pitchumani, from India, recently received a PhD in Chemical Engineering from TU Delft. In the appendix to his thesis, ‘Breakage Characteristics of Particles and Granules’, he wrote the following brief discourse on God and science.

Science is not a religion, argues Vinay Venugopal, responding to an article that appeared on this page two weeks ago (Delta 19).For Venugopal (27), a Hindu from India and third-year PhD student at the Materials Science & Engineering faculty, there’s a fundamental difference between quantitative scientific experimentation and subjective interpretations of holy books.