Facts: Why we need to rethink about professional politicians and their roles
Professional politicians, also known as career politicians, do their jobs with two crystal-clear instincts – higher ambitions and material success. (more…)
Technology
Neue Hoffnung für die Saigas?
Saiga-Antilopen waren deutlich flexibler als gedacht.
Senckenberg-Wissenschaftler haben herausgefunden, dass die heute vom Aussterben bedrohte Saiga-Antilope in der Vergangenheit sehr viel flexibler bei der Wahl ihres Lebensraumes und ihrer Nahrung war als bisher vermutet wurde. Die Wissenschaftler verglichen anhand von Kohlenstoff- und Stickstoffisotopen im Kollagen der Antilopenknochen die Ernährung fossiler und heutiger Saigas. (more…)
Write Ideas, a new app from the Microsoft Garage, helps students bring their ideas to the page
For Claudia Vormbaum, 23, overcoming her academic struggles due to ADHD and dyslexia is a continuous work in progress. But as an intern for the Microsoft Garage in Vancouver, Canada, she spent four months with other interns on a team developing an inclusively-designed app that helps students with the pre-writing process. (more…)
Want to be friends with Britney Spears, know her philosophy about friends (first)
That’s important if you want to be friends with Britney Spears.
Britney’s philosophy tells all what the celebrity singer thinks about friends, how they really are 🙂 (more…)
Aspirin Use Found to Lower Risk of Pancreatic Cancer
The regular use of aspirin lowers the risk for pancreatic cancer by almost 50 percent, a new study in China led by the Yale School of Public Health finds. (more…)
Should death penalty be brought back after Brexit?
The recent YouGov Survey asking Brits on what things should or should not be brought back once Britain leave the EU, surprisingly shows ‘over one third of Brits says that one of the things that should be brought back after Brexit is the death penalty’, summarised Martin Armstrong from the Statista. (more…)
Ältester fossiler Riesenpinguin
Senckenberg-Wissenschaftler Dr. Gerald Mayr hat gemeinsam mit neuseeländischen Kollegen ein neu entdecktes Fossil eines Riesen-Pinguins mit einer Körperlänge von etwa 150 Zentimetern beschrieben. Der neue Fund stammt aus dem Zeitalter des Paläozäns und gehört mit etwa 61 Millionen Jahren zu den ältesten Pinguinfossilien weltweit. (more…)
Wikileaks 3 great contributions to humanity
In October 2010 Wikileaks released about 500,000 documents covering the war crimes of US and allied forces in Iraq and Afghanistan between 2004 and 2009 – also known as the Iraq and Afghan War Diaries. (more…)