Gravity causes everything to fall down, but when you spin a top, it stays upright. Heike Vallery (Delft University of Technology & Erasmus MC) explains why a top doesn't fall and how this can improve people's balance.

Propaganda is something from the past and definitely not something that influences you, right? Not at all: propaganda is alive and everywhere around us. Dr. Etienne Augé (Erasmus University Rotterdam) explains how you can uncover propaganda.

Who do you think of as a migrant? Someone coming from a poor country or crossing the Mediteranean sea on a boat? Perhaps you did not thing of an American living in the Netherlands. Melissa Siegel (Maastricht University) covers some of the most common misconceptions about migration.

Imagine: live created on a petri dish in the lab. Sounds pretty scary, right? Dr. Alexander Mason (Eindhoven University of Technology) is working on it. In this lecture he explains how he tries to achieve this and why there is no need to worry about it.

In a time of Magic Mike movies and superheroes in tight costumes, it might be hard to imagine that movies have made men less sexy. But that is exactly what happens. Shakespeare expert Kristine Johanson (University of Amsterdam) explains why men in movies are funny, while women are more often sexy.