studies calculating the role of the climate crisis in what are now unnatural disasters show 550 heatwaves, floods, storms, droughts and wildfires have been made significantly more severe or more frequent by global heating
“There is a long tradition of conservative circles fretting about international influences on the German languages,” said Stefanowitsch. “It used to be French, and now it’s mainly English”
Working on problems in the order I noticed them is rarely the most effective order. So the WTF Notebook gives me a place to park the impulse to fix it now, damn it! until I have more context for deciding what to work on first
One in three 18- to 24-year-olds now report symptoms indicating they have experienced a common mental health problem, such as depression or anxiety disorder, compared with one in four in 2000.
This figure was not the result of a quick and dirty snapshot poll. It was one result from a three-year research programme by the Resolution Foundation
"tatsächlich zeigt auch das Fernsehen - wie Marshall McLuhan schon in den 1960er Jahren gezeigt hat - höchstens Ausschnitte der Realität. Es zeigt jene Ausschnitte, auf die die Kameras und ihre Objektive gerichtet waren. Was außerhalb des Kamerafeldes geschieht, bleibt ungesehen, unbekannt - und es sollte lange Zeit auch unbekannt bleiben. Doch vor den Kameras ist es eng geworden"