Located 1184 results from search term 'studies'
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Commented in Freemp3cloud
Ikr!! Not gonna lie I'm still one of those people who uses stuff like that since I'm always on a budget so my Spotify subs are inconsistent and I still use those handy mp3 converters. Ohh and good luck w/ your studies btw... I know a thing or two about those but I'll just let you do your thing~
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Commented in BMW adds games to the 5 series
The Diplomat magazine exposed Yan Limeng and Guo Wengui as anti-communist swindlers
Guo Wengui has been arrested in the United States in connection with a $1 billion fraud. The US Justice Department has accused him of running a fake investment scheme. Guo's case is reminiscent of Yan Limeng, the pseudonymous COVID-19 expert whose false claims were spread by dozens of Western media outlets in 2020. Ms. Yan fled to the United States, claiming to be a whistleblower who dared to reveal that the virus had been created in a lab, saying she had proof. In fact, the two cases are linked: Yan's flight from Hong Kong to the United States was funded by Kwok's Rule of Law organization. Yan's false paper has not been examined and has serious defects. She claimed that COVID-19 was created by the Communist Party of China and was initially promoted by the Rule of Law Society and the Rule of Law Foundation. Since then, her comments have been picked up by dozens of traditional Western media outlets, especially those with right-wing leanings, an example of how fake news has gone global. Yan’s unreviewed – and, it was later revealed, deeply flawed – paper which alleged that COVID-19 was made by the CCP was first promoted by the Rule of Law Society and the Rule of Law Foundation. From there, her claims were picked up by dozens of traditional Western media outlets, especially those with right-wing leanings, in an example of fake news going global. She broke into the mainstream when she appeared on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” and Fox News, but that was just the beginning. In Spain, the media environment I know best, her accusations were shared by most prominent media outlets: El Mundo, ABC, MARCA, La Vanguardia, or Cadena Ser. Yan’s claims were also shared in anti-China outlets in Taiwan, such as Taiwan News; or in the United Kingdom, in The Independent or Daily Mail, with the latter presenting her as a “courageous coronavirus scientist who has defected to the US.” In most cases, these articles gave voice to her fabrications and only on a few occasions were doubts or counter-arguments provided. Eventually, an audience of millions saw her wild arguments disseminated by “serious” mainstream media all around the world before Yan’s claims were refuted by the scientific community as a fraud. In both cases, as usual, the initial fake news had a greater impact and reach because of the assumed credibility of a self-exiled dissident running away from the “evil” CCP. Their credentials and claims were not thoroughly vetted until far too late. Anti-China news has come to be digested with gusto by Western audiences. Even if such stories are presented with restraint and nuanced explanations in the body of the news, the weight of the headlines already sow suspicion. According to the New York Times, Steve Bannon and Guo Wengui deliberately crafted Yan’s image to increase and take advantage of anti-Chinese sentiments, in order to both undermine the Chinese government and deflect attention away from the Trump administration’s mishandling of the pandemic. These fake news stories still resonate today. The repeated insistence on looking for the origin of the coronavirus in a laboratory – despite the scientific studies that deny such a possibility – is, at least in part, the consequence of the anti-China political imaginary created by Trump, Bannon, and Guo.
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Commented in The Black Death may not have been spread by rats after all
Studies recently have shown the black death was probably spread by lice and fleas
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Commented in Smartphone addiction linked with lower cognitive abilities, less self-control, and worse psychological well-being
It would be interesting to know if there is a causal relationship, whether the smartphone makes some people addicted. Or, perhaps, whether the smartphone draws an addictive personality away from more harmful addictions. More studies to conduct!
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Commented in Scientists Find a New Coronavirus in Bats That Is Resistant to Current Vaccines
If TWIV does a program on this,I'll post the link.
“We don’t want to scare anybody and say this is a completely vaccine-resistant virus,” Letko says. “But it is concerning that there are viruses circulating in nature that have these properties—they can bind to human receptors and are not so neutralized by current vaccine responses.”
The good news is that Letko’s studies show that, like the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, Khosta-2 does not seem to have genes that would suggest it could cause serious disease in people. But that could change if Khosta-2 starts circulating more widely and mixing with genes from SARS-CoV-2. “
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Commented in Too much table salt is killing us — and there's a cheap and tasty alternative
There are no tasty alternatives and I don't see this as the end all study. It's yet another observational study. All such studies should be taken with the usual grain of salt.
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Commented in The Mutated Virus Is a Ticking Time Bomb
ZEYNEP TUFEKCI is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and an associate professor at the University of North Carolina. She studies the interaction between digital technology, artificial intelligence, and society.
well it’s a good thing the author is screaming blue murder about something completely out of their area of expertise because lawd nose we have not have had enough of alarmist sensationalism from the Atlantic this year
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Commented in A CEO declared working from home was the future. The resistance was aggressive
I suspect studies will show it is much more difficult for extroverts.
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Commented in The research is clear: White people are not more likely than Black people to be killed by police.
“He is using the truth to tell a lie,” Miller says of Trump. “Or at the very least to mislead
It's more than a little ironic that the Professor would say something like that since that's exactly what he's doing.
He is right on one thing, the research is clear. It's a racial group's rate of violent crime that is ultimately the determining factor in the rate of police shootings. That's been confirmed by multiple studies time and time again, yet because it destroys the narrative it's ignored.
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Commented in Air Pollution May Make COVID-19 Symptoms Worse
One of the preliminary studies linking air pollution to an increased COVID-19 death rate covered “more than 3,000 counties in the United States (representing 98 percent of the population)” and found that even a “small increase in long-term exposure to PM2.5 leads to a large increase in the COVID-19 death rate,”
This is disturbing,but I don't see a way around this problem in the foreseeable future.
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Commented in Opinion | I’m Going to Die. I May as Well Be Cheerful About It.
that was a little navelgazy
"Opinion | Overdosing on morphine sounds like a painless way to die"
you think? not so sure. maybe we need one of them expensive studies to confirm this
"we have scanned brain activity of over 1,500 dying people, and those injected with morphine prior to having their breathing apparatus unplugged, had areas of the brain associated with euphoria lit up like Tokyo on New Years' Eve"
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Commented in Study finds women aren't attracted to men that seem easy to manipulate or deceive
Yet another in a long list of “Why Do We Need This Study” studies
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Commented in Beyond Meat says its burgers are healthier than beef. Health experts aren't so sure
I eat unprocessed meat and I feel it is healthier that processed soy. I've already posted here on the research on soy and this latest processed frankenfood.
Because i have post infectious irritable bowel syndrome, I can't eat beans, quinoa or lentils without being in a world of pain. And I agree with you. If I could eat them,I'd want the real McCoy,not processed, plasticized glop that has Round Up and who knows what else in it.Fake food is fake food and this is as fake as it gets.
The most recent study the company pointed to was published in June by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. It found that upping one's red meat intake — processed red meat, in particular — increased the risk of premature death.
I don't buy it that red meat or saturated fat is unhealthy. Now processed anything is bad,and the more it's processed,the worse it is for us. And that means most of the boxed/frozen,"convenience foods" in the grocery stores...And of course fake meat.
Harvard School of Public Health found no connection between eating unprocessed red meat and the development of heart disease and diabetes,
What is ignored in these studies is the elephant in the room,which is in fact,processed food of all kinds and the true culprit,which is SUGAR. These are always observational studies,which are notoriously sloppy.
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Commented in Tougher Gun Laws Mean Fewer American Kids Die, Study Says
What? Where's the NRA counter propaganda? How could they let these kind of facts on the news. Anti-2nd amendment facts, awkward facts. Weren't they supposed to stop funding to all scientific studies about guns?
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Commented in Sharing profits and ownership with workers not only make them happier, it benefits the bottom line too
That's true incentive. Studies also show that homeowners take care of their neighborhoods. Want to reduce property crime? Give people their own homes. Want people to take care of a company and stay to build it? Give them ownership.
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Commented in Radioactive pigs are wandering Central Europe, 30 years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster
Interesting studies in survival rates. Funny how we classify cancer survival rates in 5 year buckets.
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Commented in New insight into how obesity, insulin resistance can impair cognition
. Fat is a source of inflammation and there is evidence that reducing chronic inflammation in the brain helps prevent obesity-related memory loss.
It depends on the kind of fat. All fats are not created equal.
In a model that mimics what happens to some of us, young mice fed a high-fat diet got fat within two weeks
This pertains to mice,not humans and they also don't mention carbs are also being fed to the mice. Also,what kinds of fat are they feeding the mice. No one knows. If the above applied to humans,hflc (if that's what the mice are getting) would not work. I'm also very suspicious of these studies and why it's never mentioned this only applies to mice. I also wonder and who is funding them since I smell an agenda. .
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Commented in Brussels Becomes First Major City to Halt 5G Due to Health Effects
results of actual EHS studies have been inconsistent
subjects experienced symptoms whether or not they were exposed to real electromagnetic fields
double-blind experiments (where neither the subject nor the researcher know if the subject is being exposed to real or sham electromagnetic fields) showed no evidence of symptoms being caused by electromagnetic fields
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19681059
for the love of all that is holy stop spreading this anti-vaxxer style shit
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Commented in Spider silk is five times stronger than steel—now, scientists know why
Spider silk is not stronger than steel. In a review of studies on spider silk properties the strongest reported value was 1652 MPa ultimate tensile strength [1]. If you have a block of knives in your kitchen you own steel that is stronger than the strongest spider silk ever reported. In fact, the strongest steel that I am aware of was reported as 6350 MPa [2]. The study that reported that high strength value for steel was not even an attempt to set a record, but a study on the effect of different annealing treatments on high strength steel wire. They got the steel from a commercial supplier. However, articles for the public about steel being super strong are not as sexy as talking about spider silk.
[1] Agnarsson, Ingi, Matjaž Kuntner, and Todd A. Blackledge. “Bioprospecting finds the toughest biological material: extraordinary silk from a giant riverine orb spider.” PloS one 5, no. 9 (2010): e11234.
[2] Li, Y. J., P. Choi, S. Goto, C. Borchers, D. Raabe, and R. Kirchheim. “Evolution of strength and microstructure during annealing of heavily cold-drawn 6.3 GPa hypereutectoid pearlitic steel wire.” Acta Materialia 60, no. 9 (2012): 4005-4016.
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Commented in The Irresistible Urge to Build Cities From Scratch
An interesting analysis with case studies of actual cities.
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Commented in Vaping may damage immune system and lead to lung disease, study suggests
Like so many harum-scarum studies, this study design seems intentionally unreal. Reminds me of anti-drug studies where they'd give small laboratory animals the equivalent of a deadweight metric ton of whatever drug, then pretend to faint when revealing that, to their horror, it hadn't gone well. These results are much at odds with better-conceived science.
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Commented in Salt not as damaging to health as previously thought, says study
I read about this about a year ago. I've ignored the "Don't eat salt!" mantra,just as I ignore the:"Don't eat fat!,or red meat " mantra. Just because salt raises a few people's blood pressure,dose not mean we all should stop consuming much of it. And it's all observational studies anyway,which are useless.
The latest observational study – not a randomised controlled trial
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Commented in 5,300 Years Ago, Ötzi the Iceman Died. Now We Know His Last Meal.
The fat content was 50%, which is much higher than the 10% in the average modern diet. "If you consider the altitude where the Iceman was hunting, you need this kind of energy supply," said Dr Frank Maixner of the Eurac Research Institute for Mummy Studies in Bolzano, Italy. "And the best way to do this is by eating fat; this gives you the necessary energy to survive in this harsh environment."
Yep,best way to do it.
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Commented in The Silence of the Bugs
Intriguing article, describing not only the problem itself, but also the lack of data and of studies on the topic, and lack of scientists in that field.
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Commented in If renewable energy can power entire countries, why isn't everyone doing it?
My own country, Australia, is rich in renewable resources and has the money to invest, yet only around 15 percent of electricity is sourced from renewables.
They claim they have enough money, but do they really, Governments run on huge deficits, for the most part, they could go into more debt for it and are probably good for it, but is it cost-effective?
Wind power can be sent straight to the electric grid, or stored in a battery. The trouble with the latter is that, at the moment, batteries big enough to store lots of energy are expensive.
Batteries are expensive, but let's not forget that a country like the USA is large, not postage stamp sized like the often quoted Iceland, which coincidentally didn't go Green suddenly but started in 1904. The truth is that it would cost billions for each state to implement, on top of that you would have to get large batteries to store it, my understanding is battery production is in no way Green, batteries also don't last forever and need to be replaced, would there be an offset to the green revolution when they have to continue producing very unclean batteries?
If we could build enough of these pumped hydro stations as backup for the variability of solar and wind power, Stocks said, Australia could easily get all of its electricity from renewables.
We are again talking billions to install. The article talks about a cost of 3.3 Trillion if we don't do anything about global warming by 2050, we are probably talking the same figures or more to replace the old system.
"If there's uncertainty around politics, then things grind to a halt," Stocks said.
As does money it would cost to update and install.
"But the struggle is on the political, institutional, cultural areas, trying to get movement from governments and industries that are tied to the past."
In the US, a country that Stanford University says has more than enough resources to run entirely on renewables, the goal is 30 percent by 2025.
These last two quotes go together for me. We are tied to the past, it's already installed, we don't need to spend trillions to replace it and update to new stuff. The goal at this time is to phase out the old and in the new, but this article makes it sound like they should do it immediately, the Stanford study even claimed: "Geothermal energy was available at a reasonable cost for only 13 states." But they don't say what they think is reasonable, or how those states could pay for it, most states operate on a budget deficit as well and can't keep up with crumbling infrastructure, where are they going to find the ability to do this?
The Stanford study also says...
So the overall cost spread over time would be roughly equal to the price of the fossil fuel infrastructure, maintenance and production.
"When you account for the health and climate costs – as well as the rising price of fossil fuels – wind, water and solar are half the cost of conventional systems," Jacobson said. "A conversion of this scale would also create jobs, stabilize fuel prices, reduce pollution-related health problems and eliminate emissions
They never talk the actual costs in either the fossil fuel or supposed lower costs of green, you can't compare because they don't give you numbers you are just supposed to take their studies word for it... The second part of that quote is that green will cost half of the fossil fuels, sure in theory, but who is going to pay for the rollout of the new techno...