Out of office: have a great summer!

The campus is nearly vacant, as most students and employees of TU Delft are out for the summer holidays. No people, no news, so the Delta editorial team might as well kick back and relax the next few weeks. We’re off!

If you can’t do without your daily Delta dose, feel free to roam around our website. There’s still plenty to read. To get you started, we have selected the five most read articles of the past academic year:

• Why is a blue line running across campus?
  
  Have you seen this blue line across campus? The funny thing is that it has a time effect.
  
   
• Leonard Susskind: ‘Sleeping during a lecture is a good thing’
  
  Leonard Susskind, a physicist at Stanford University, is a founding father of string theory. Students recently had a Skype conversation with this 78 year old physics legend.
  
   
• Astronomers unravel a blast that sent ripples in space-time
  
  By studying the collision of two neutron stars, radio astronomer Leonid Gurvits hopes to gain insight in the evolution of galaxies. Or so he and colleagues write in Science.
  
   
• TU is eruit: voorkeur voor sloop EWI (Dutch only)
  
  De TU Delft heeft de voorkeur uitgesproken om het faculteitsgebouw van EWI te slopen en achter het huidige pand nieuwbouw te plegen. Daaraan ging jarenlang onderzoek vooraf.
  
   
• ‘We could do perfectly well without nuclear power stations’
  
  Nuclear energy is making a comeback. After TV presenter Arjen Lubach argued for nuclear power stations, the VVD jumped on the bandwagon. Prof. Kornelis Blok was incredulous.