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Vegetables and fruits. Less meat, especially red meat. Less fat. Especially reduce saturated fat. No refined sugar. Reduce salt. And: Exercise. Cardio sport . Increase muscle mass.…

Warhol, Haring, Pollock – after the NFT art market of contemporary artworks failed, they now go for the safe old modernists?

Don't underestimate the art market. A lot of money in it (still), high expectations, willing artists and owners, and valuations are dependent on the expertise of a rather closed ci…

Stays. "It is important to know that you do not receive any intellectual property rights". See: https://www.christies.com/features/nft-101-11654-7.aspx?sc_l...

Sometimes when the boss is away the team works better. At least, that is the case with my team. I don't really know why. Because I really think I am not a bad boss. But apparently …

In the last decades philological standards for reproducing the original form of a musical work taking into account historical musical traditions, composing and performance practice…

I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that!

Already prepared grand space for industrial use with energy, water and public transport; 100% carbon neutral wind energy and very soon also water-neutrality were a few of the reaso…

It's nice when science confirms personal experience. Early 2020 I started to change my life. Exercise, healthier food, weight control. My conclusions: I got stronger, had less back…

It's 4 guys. Former heads of nuclear regulation US, UK, Germany, France. " Dr. Greg Jaczko, former Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Prof. Wolfgang Renneberg, form…

This is the start of a horror novel.

Reacted to that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28968555

I am not sure about the insignificance of 5%. In Germany, hospitals loose personnell, because after 3 big waves people simply can't cope with the stress any more. Every health syst…

I would like to argue that point by saying these 100,000 are not separated in 100,000 vaccinated and 100,000 unvaccinated, but I am not sure. Anyway: in Germany the numbers are: 4 …

Cause, if you write "twice as likely" you will have to measure against vaccincation rates. If 1000 people are vaccinated, and 10 get infected, versus 10 unvaccinated with 1 infecti…

Yet, the latest data out of the UK (COVID-19 vaccine surveillance report Week 42, Page 13) [1] shows that the double-vaccinated are around TWICE as likely to catch COVID-19 I hope …

Let me pay for Firefox, please!

You are talking about two different topics. The first case: this story is not an article. It's a press release, and I wish we would stop treating these like "scientific publication…

Same with me. In my case, the Economist, who does the same like the New York Times. Subscribing is a click, canceling is a call to a representative who will talk to me about how th…

You will find good holdings of national and international periodicals in university and higher ed libraries, in Frankfurt/Main, Marburg, Darmstadt, Wiesbaden, Gießen, Kassel and so…

For starters: https://news.google.com/newspapers and https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov

- after tax, social security and mandatory health insurance, you will keep around 50% of your gross income - apartment will be around € 600-700 now (1-2 rooms in a "hip", central l…

I switched to Newstral, https://newstral.com/en . I like the simplistic beauty of the "algorithm": The first three stories on the front page. And you can order and select the sourc…

Do you need a prescription for Ibuprofen in Spain? Strange. In Germany, go to the drugstore and buy it yourself. € 10 for 100 400mg pills. And if you are ill, usually you go to a d…

It's been quite a journey from a "great babbling bazaar of differing agendas and approaches"[1] to this mess. Bureaucracy always wins in the end. [1] " rel="nofollow">http://www.ca…