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> 1. Das Argument „Deutschland hat einen höheren Krankenstand als alle anderen Länder und der ist durch die telefonische Krankmeldung gestiegen“ ist schonmal nicht empirisch sauber zu validieren. Es gibt keine einheitliche Erhebung der Krankenstände über die Länder und auch keine gute Vergleichsbasis innerhalb von Deutschland über die Zeit. Das wurde schon vor Monaten vorgebracht und gilt auch weiterhin. https://www.tagesschau.de/faktenfinder/kontext/krankenstand-krankmeldung-100.html

Just because I happened to have this image up in the Photos app - here's one of the beautifully restored dining cars in the Pride of Africa, the luxury train operated by Rovos Rail in South Africa. The company sources old carriages from across southern Africa, and renovates them in its Pretoria workshop. Lovely job here - check out the timber pillars.

#train #trains #SouthAfrica cc @diningcar

@timrichards @diningcar Most civilized.

Man who exploded Cybertruck in Las Vegas used ChatGPT in planning, police say https://www.npr.org/2025/01/07/nx-s1-5251611/cybertruck-explosion-las-vegas-chatgpt-ai?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

I was suspended for a week from Facebook once for posting a Hitler quote for the purpose of highlighting the dangers of censorship and a lack of a free press.

#META #Hitler #Irony

How important is beauty to scientists? Most conversations about this revolve around the things we can see or hear, like photos from the James Webb Space Telescope, or the way physicists perceive some equations as elegant. Sociologists Bridget Ritz and Brandon Vaidyanathan spoke to thousands of scientists about the subject, and discovered they're also motivated by a third kind of beauty: The aesthetic experience of understanding itself. "In our surveys and interviews, when asked where they find beauty in their work, scientists regularly pointed to times when they grasped the hidden order, inner logic or causal mechanisms of natural phenomena," write Ritz and Vaidyanathan for Aeon. "These moments, one UK physicist told us, are ‘like looking into the face of God for non-religious people – how you can look at something and think, oh my God, that’s how things actually work, that’s how things are!’"

https://flip.it/UMbdnw

#Beauty #Science #Research #Physics #CellPhotography #Aesthetics #Philosophy

The team monitoring Chicago police reforms includes veterans of consent decrees nationwide. But some bring baggage: controversial raids, mishandled investigations & misconduct allegations. Inside the challenges of who watches the watchdogs: https://news.wttw.com/2025/01/07/who-are-chicago-s-police-monitors-team-members-have-history-misconduct-cases-other

@timrichards @diningcar That’s amazing.

One way or another, the gang knew it would have its pound of flesh
https://www.universalhub.com/2025/one-way-or-another-gang-knew-it-would-get-its

#CambridgeMA #turkeys #MassAve

A third of the world’s sharks, rays and chimaeras are threatened with extinction, and their numbers have dwindled since 1970, finds a new IUCN report and a study.

Overfishing is the biggest threat to these marine fish, halving their populations in five decades, followed by the international trade in shark parts, habitat degradation and pollution.

By Spoorthy Raman
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/01/new-evidence-spells-massive-trouble-for-worlds-sharks-rays-and-chimaeras/

#News #Conservation #Environment #Oceans #MarineBiodiversity #Wildlife #Sharks