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Sebastiaan (Bas) Haring (born 23 April 1968 in
De Bilt
De Bilt () is a municipality and town in the province of Utrecht, Netherlands. It had a population of in . De Bilt houses the headquarters of the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI).
It is the ancestral home and namesake for the pro ...
) is a
Dutch
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* Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands
* Dutch people ()
* Dutch language ()
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People E ...
writer of
popular science and
children's literature
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,
television presenter and
professor
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. He is a full professor at
Leiden University, where he has held a chair in "public understanding of science" since 2007.
He also hosted his own philosophical TV program for Dutch public broadcasting.
Haring first achieved prominence with his 2001 children's book ''Cheese and the Theory of Evolution'' in which he explained
evolution
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and its implications. The book received several awards and has been translated into ten different languages.
His book ''For a Successful Life'' was published in 2008 by Beautiful Books Limited (UK).
Bibliography
* Cheese and the Theory of Evolution (2001)
* The Iron Will (2003)
* Media technology (2007)
* For a Successful Life: A Plea for the Unsuccessful Life (2008) (Beautiful Books Limited)
* The Aquarium of Walter Huijsmans (2009)
* Why? (2009)
* Falling Quarters-A smart selection of readable science (Along with Ionica Smeets, 2010)
* The Consciousness (2010)
* Plastic pandas (2011)
* Waarom cola duurder is dan melk (2016)
References
External links
Official page (Dutch)Dutch television archives (Dutch)
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1968 births
Living people
20th-century Dutch philosophers
21st-century Dutch philosophers
Dutch children's writers
Dutch television presenters
Leiden University faculty
People from De Bilt