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TIL: The (in)famous problem of most scientific studies being irreproducible has its own research field since around the 2010s when the Replication Crisis became more and more noticed [source, comments]
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Wall Street Journal: "Donald Trumps Dominanz bei den Vorwahlen am Super Tuesday bedeutet, dass die Würfel für eine Wiederholung seines Duells gegen Präsident (Joe) Biden 2020 gefallen sind. Es ist kaum zu glauben: Die zwei grossen Parteien sind dabei, die womöglich einzigen Kandidaten zu nominieren, die gegen den jeweils anderen verlieren könnten. Es ist Amerikas grosser Präsidentschaft-Unbeliebtheitswettbewerb."
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TIL that after Salvador Dali expressed support for Spanish dictator Franco's regime, Pablo Picasso refused to mention Dali's name or acknowledge his existence for the rest of his life [source, comments]
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TIL Ice-T made up a gang to keep real gang members off his back in high school. “We actually created a fake gang. We told people we were part of the Hillside Crips. We had them thinking there was hundreds of us. I never had any trouble.” [source, comments]
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TIL Research suggests that working irregular shifts for a decade ages the brain an extra six and a half years. [source, comments]
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67 years ago today, Ghana won its independence as the first Sub-Saharan colony. https://gh.ambafrance.org/Ghana-the-path-to-independence
La France au Ghana
Ghana: the path to independence
Sixty-five years ago, on the night of 5 to 6 March 1957, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, the architect of the independence movement, stood before (...)
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«Heutige Wohnungssituation ist eine bewusste politische Entscheidung der Bürgerlichen» https://www.watson.ch/!612779427
watson.ch
«Heutige Wohnungsnot ist eine bewusste politische Entscheidung der Bürgerlichen»
Wohnungsnot herrscht in der ganzen Schweiz. Eine Serie über den Luxus Wohnen, den sich die Unter- und Mittelschicht zunehmend nicht mehr leisten können.