Pets (Pandora pockets)

by Midas Dekkers | Pets & Animals | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 904670291X Global Overview for this book
Registered by bookguide of Wijchen, Gelderland Netherlands on 1/11/2017
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Journal Entry 1 by bookguide from Wijchen, Gelderland Netherlands on Wednesday, January 11, 2017
Columns, radiopraatjes en korte verhalen over dieren die in en om het huis en de mens aangetroffen kunnen worden.

Journal Entry 2 by bookguide at Wijchen, Gelderland Netherlands on Wednesday, January 11, 2017
Gekocht bij de bieb in 2015 omdat ik maar weinig van Midas Dekkers gelezen heb, maar wat ik al gelezen had, was altijd interessant en grappig. In deze bundel zijn de feiten vaak niet alleen fascinerend, maar ook vaak tenenkrommend. Ik were erdoor geïnspireerd om meer informatie op te zoeken en een (erg lange) blogpost over malaria in Nederland te schrijven (www.integratedexpat.wordpress.com). Verder heb ik een (minder lange) review in het Engels geschreven:

Even though he likes to pick out facts to make you squirm, his stories are always interesting and often give you fascinating facts and statistics, and he has an entertaining way of presenting them, often poking fun at that strangest of animals, the human. His observations are often eye-opening, approaching life from a different angle to make you think. For example:
Why does your evening meal turn into an evening-long meal when you eat out? (p.96)
Why do we do our best to protect butterflies but are equally fanatical about killing caterpillars, then we wonder why butterflies are dying out?

Another interesting idea:
If developers had to pay for the price of the air as well as the price of the ground, they wouldn't keep building such high buildings. They'd have to build with a bigger footprint and then we would lose gardens, but people with bigger gardens tend to put buildings on them anyway. Why not have roof gardens instead on the new, wider, lower buildings? (p.118)

There was malaria in the Netherlands until 1945, particularly in Noord Holland, which includes Amsterdam. In Alkmaar, 50 % of expenditure on medicines was on quinine to cope with cases of malaria. Apparently, the larva of the malaria mosquito were actively combatted in the canals and ditches using petrol and a mysterious substance called Paris soap. There were public health campaigns encouraging people to kill the mosquitoes in their homes, where they used to do what mosquitoes do so well, bite people at night. Then, bizarrely, just before DDT became available, Dutch malaria-carrying mosquitoes abandoned people and started biting cattle instead. You have to ask yourself, did the people suddenly become less appetising or were the cattle fed something different that made them more attractive? I wonder if it has something to do with margarine? When was that introduced? No, that can't be it: margarine has been around since the 1870s and DDT was developed in the 1940s. In any case, global warming already threatens to open up more areas to the risk of malaria. I always assumed that it was too cold in Northern Europe for malarial mosquitoes. Now I hear they already here, I am not reassured!

This is the sort of factual book I really enjoy and Midas Dekkers' books will definitely be on my radar from now on.

Released 7 yrs ago (1/15/2017 UTC) at Minibieb Victoriapark OBCZ Café ZwartWit in Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant Netherlands

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Journal Entry 4 by wingKafka1954wing at Deurne, Antwerpen / Anvers Belgium on Monday, January 16, 2017




Midas Dekkers is zeker geen gewone "dierenverhaaltjesverteller"!
Dit boek had ik nog niet gelezen - omdat het lekker korte stukjes zijn, zal ik er waarschijnlijk heel snel mee beginnen. Heerlijk tussendoor!

Journal Entry 5 by wingKafka1954wing at Boekenhuisje Larum in Geel, Antwerpen / Anvers Belgium on Thursday, February 9, 2017

Released 7 yrs ago (2/12/2017 UTC) at Boekenhuisje Larum in Geel, Antwerpen / Anvers Belgium

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