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Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Ig-Nobelpreise für kuriose Forschung verlassen die USA
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college_freshmen: Dutch college freshman (1995)
A small network of friendships among freshmen at Dutch College in 1994-1995. Friendship ties were surveyed at 7 different times over the year, and each edge is timestamped. The direction of an edge indicates that person i named person j, and the edge weight represents their level of friendship, ranging from -1 (risk of conflict) to 3 (best friend).
This network has 32 nodes and 3062 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Tim…

Iran’s foreign minister has claimed the situation in the country has
“come under total control”
as authorities carry out a brutal crackdown against the nationwide protest movement.
Abbas Araghchi made the comments to foreign diplomats in Tehran, without supplying evidence.
The few messages and videos to have emerged from Iran overnight showed that protests were continuing,
but an ongoing internet blackout made it difficult to judge whether the authorities’ use o…

Documents and a source: a foreign hacker compromised files relating to the FBI's Jeffrey Epstein investigation in 2023; the FBI confirms a "cyber incident" (Raphael Satter/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/foreign-h

Exclusive: Foreign hacker in 2023 compromised Epstein files held by FBI, source and documents show
A foreign hacker compromised files relating to the FBI’s investigation of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein during a break-in at the bureau’s New York Field Office three years ago, according to ​a source familiar with the matter and recently published Justice Department documents reviewed by Reuters.

Jag har en ny artikel på Tyngre som handlar om blodfetter och högt LDL kolesterol.
Du får veta lite om historik bakom upptäckten att det ökar risken för åderförfettning (arteroskleros) och efterföljande hjärt och kärlsjukdom. https://tyngre.se/artiklar/forskning/v

Varför högt kolesterol dödar folk i förtid | Artikel
Högt LDL-kolesterol är inte en myt utan en av de bäst dokumenterade riskfaktorerna för hjärt- och kärlsjukdom – och forskningen bakom den slutsatsen sträcker si

Sinkt zu schnell: NASA-Weltraumteleskop stellt vor Rettungsmission Forschung ein
Seit über 20 Jahren erforscht das Weltraumteleskop Swift Gammastrahlenblitze, zuletzt ist es aber zu schnell abgesunken. Bis zur Rettung muss es nun pausieren.

Weeks after the Trump administration lowered minimum wages for some temporary farmworkers,
the Trump Organization sought approval to hire 36 foreign workers for its Virginia winery at a pay rate nearly $2 an hour below what it previously offered
—highlighting the company’s continued reliance on overseas labor even as Donald Trump argues Americans are being pushed out of jobs

Trump Vineyard Seeks Foreign Workers At Lower Wages After Trump Administration Policy Shift
Records show the Trump Organization has requested over 2,000 foreign workers since 2008. Its latest request seeks a $13.90 hourly wage—the lowest the winery has offered since 2021.

college_freshmen: Dutch college freshman (1995)
A small network of friendships among freshmen at Dutch College in 1994-1995. Friendship ties were surveyed at 7 different times over the year, and each edge is timestamped. The direction of an edge indicates that person i named person j, and the edge weight represents their level of friendship, ranging from -1 (risk of conflict) to 3 (best friend).
This network has 32 nodes and 3062 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Tim…

Kommerzialisierung von Forschung: Deutschland droht 1,7 Billionen zu verpassen
Nur rund 30 Start-ups mit Milliardenbewertung: Warum Deutschland laut Experten sein technisches Potenzial bislang kaum nutzt und was auf dem Spiel steht.

Ig-Nobelpreise für kuriose Forschung verlassen die USA
Seit 35 Jahren werden die Ig-Nobelpreise für kuriose Forschung in den USA verliehen. Jetzt zieht die Gala nach Europa um – aus einem ernsten Grund.
https://www.…