Interessante Artikel im Internet

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The Endless Fall of Suge Knight

On March 20th, inside the high-security wing of Los Angeles' Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center, the man once called "the most feared man in hip-hop" is looking more like the 50-year-old with chronic health issues that he is. Suge Knight sits in shackles, wearing an orange prison jumpsuit and chunky glasses, his beard flecked with gray, listening impassively. It's the end of the day's proceedings, and Judge Ronald S. Coen is announcing the bail for Knight, who is facing charges of murder, attempted murder and hit-and-run: "In this court's opinion, $25 million is reasonable, and it is so set."

Caitlyn Jenner: The Full Story

Few recent stories have gripped the public imagination as much as Bruce Jenner’s journey from Olympic icon to transgender woman. And no one has had the unfettered access that Jenner and her family gave Buzz Bissinger, who chronicles the fears and doubts, love and courage, and tensions and traumas involved in the transition.

The Mavericks' Satnam Singh becomes NBA's first Indian-born player

At 14, Satnam Bhamara Singh dwarfed even the biggest NBA big men when they were his age. Five years later, Singh is a member of the Dallas Mavericks and the NBA's first Indian-born player.

The Talented Mr. Khater

When 23-year-old Callie Quinn moved from Texas to Chile, she counted on finding a beautiful country, meaningful work, and interesting friends. She had no idea she’d set off a manhunt for an international con artist.

Prison Born

What becomes of the babies of incarcerated mothers? Research suggests that having nurseries in prisons leads to lower recidivism rates for moms and better outcomes for their kids.

Poison Prison

Is toxic dust sickening inmates locked up in coal country?

A League of His Own

How Sepp Blatter controls soccer

The Mystery of the Hardy Boys and the Invisible Authors

Along with the Nancy Drew series, almost all of the thrillers in the popular teenage franchise were produced by ghostwriters, thanks to a business model that proved to be prescient.

 

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Inside the Shadowy Business of Prison Phone Calls

An IBTimes investigation into the secretive world of selling phone calls to inmates and their families.

 

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German pilot in WWII spared an American B-17 pilot over Germany only to reunite 40 years later and become fishing buddies

But when Brown and his co-pilot, Spencer “Pinky” Luke, looked at the fighter pilot again, something odd happened. The German didn’t pull the trigger. He nodded at Brown instead. What happened next was one of the most remarkable acts of chivalry recorded during World War II. Years later, Brown would track down his would-be executioner for a reunion that reduced both men to tears.

Hunting the thieves behind a rash of six-figure wine heists

“This is not Ocean’s Eleven,” Rittmaster says. “They’re not crawling under laser beams or anything. They’re using sledgehammers and crowbars. But they know what wine they want. This is wine stolen to order.”

Frozen Assets

The newest front in global espionage is one of the least habitable locales on Earth—the Arctic.

'Heroic' giant rats sniff out landmines in Tanzania

Rookie rodents are trained to scent out mines – and find missed cases of TB

 

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Everything You Wanted To Know About Procrastination But Were Too Lazy to Figure Out

 

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Ganz netter Artikel zur New-Horizons-Mission

Für Astrophysiker natürlich auf Babyniveau, für interessierte Laien aber interessant.

 

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Artikel über human echolocation.

 

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Yiddish on the rise

 

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Keirin Cycling Bootcamp in Japan

 

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Die systematische Selbsttäuschung beim Thema Gentechnik
Von Ralph Bock, Golm/Potsdam

http://www.laborjournal.de/essays2015/e15_01.lasso

Fand ich sehr amüsant, da ich Gentechnik auch nicht von vornherein als Teufelszeug sehe.

 

[Benrath]

Mehr ne Suche als nen Post. Ich hatte mal einen Artikel darüber gelesen, dass FB und co nicht zu mehr Diskussion und Austausch führen, sondern zu weniger, da eigentlich nur selbst bestätigendes Zeug geteilt und gesehen wird. Darüber hinaus werden die Meinungen immer extremer, dass sich Leute weniger trauen etwas zu schreiben. Kennt jemand was dazu?

 

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AI (probably) won't kill us all

A Quick Test to Test your Problem Solving

 

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dank einem tippfehler rausgefunden

trotzdem interessant

 

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hat mich auch erwischt.

 

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Ich glaube ich bin zu viel Naturwissenschaftler für solche Rätsel
Aber wohl ein sehr interessanter Einstieg in den Artikel.

 

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Cats vs dogs: Scientists confirm that felines are better

 

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A Sprawl of Ghost Homes in Aging Tokyo Suburbs

 

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Level 14: How a home for troubled children came undone and what it means for California’s chance at reform.

‘No Place for a Kid to Go’: In Long Beach, California, a group home for troubled children sinks into crisis.

 

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One Hundred Years of arm bars: A family epic spanning the Gracie jiu-jitsu dynasty’s generations of combat and betrayal, from the Amazon to Hollywood to the UFC

 

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Driven to Kill - Why drivers in China intentionally kill the pedestrians they hit

“Double-hit cases” have been around for decades. I first heard of the “hit-to-kill” phenomenon in Taiwan in the mid-1990s when I was working there as an English teacher. A fellow teacher would drive us to classes. After one near-miss of a motorcyclist, he said, “If I hit someone, I’ll hit him again and make sure he’s dead.” Enjoying my shock, he explained that in Taiwan, if you cripple a man, you pay for the injured person’s care for a lifetime. But if you kill the person, you “only have to pay once, like a burial fee.” He insisted he was serious—and that this was common.

 

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The Top Tennis Player in the World Started Here

 

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"We Own You" - Confessions of an Anonymous Free to Play Producer

 

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The Rationality of Rage

 

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Sergey Ananov: Two days on ice with three polar bears

Yesterday by Haruki Murakami

How a Soccer Star is made

 

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Found: The First Mechanical Gear in a Living Creature

U.K. scientists find the first biological gears on a jumping insect half the size of a fire ant.

 

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Thresholds of Violence - How school shootings catch on

 

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Does Trump Linguistically Engineer His Insults?

 

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Sea of Crises

Sumo + Leben in Japan

 

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A tumor stole every memory I had. This is what happened when it all came back

 

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Confession of a Russian internet provider

Can Airlines Make Money?

 

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Interview mit einem Cheater

Christoph Schmid * ist ein Schachspieler, wie er durchschnittlicher nicht sein könnte. Er ist Ende vierzig, hat eine DWZ im unteren 1800er Bereich und spielt bei einem Kleinstadtverein mit rund 35 Mitgliedern an einem mittleren Brett in der Bezirksliga. Aber in einer Sache unterscheidet sich Schmid von den übrigen Denksportlern: Er hat heimlich über Jahre hinweg mit Computerunterstützung gespielt.

 

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Corporate culture in South Korea: Loosening their ties

MEETINGS to last no more than 30 minutes; junior staff allowed to speak freely with superiors; a cut in bonuses for bosses whose teams do not take enough holidays. Since 2012 “Pride”, a handbook, has set a new tone for the internal culture of Hyundai Capital. Departments whose staff work latest into the evening are listed on the firm’s intranet: not to hold them up as models of hard work, but to tell them off for not working efficiently enough.

 

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You really want me to critique you?

Mark Lawrence (Autor der The Broken Empire und Red Queen's War) kritisiert die jeweils ersten Seiten der Fantasyromane seiner Fans. Auch für Nicht-Autoren sehr interessant zu sehen, mit welchem Fokus er an die Sache geht und was für Prioritäten er beim Schreiben hat.

 

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The Pro Dumpster Diver Who’s Making Thousands Off America’s Biggest Retailers

The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food

 

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You really want me to critique you?

Mark Lawrence (Autor der The Broken Empire und Red Queen's War) kritisiert die jeweils ersten Seiten der Fantasyromane seiner Fans. Auch für Nicht-Autoren sehr interessant zu sehen, mit welchem Fokus er an die Sache geht und was für Prioritäten er beim Schreiben hat.

wäre cool, wenns das auch von einem deutschen star-autoren gäbe. would send my first paper. ansonsten spricht er ja viel an, was auch in guten "schreib ratgebern" empfohlen wird, an adjektivitits sterben ist ein langsamer, lähmender tod.

For me this page 1 has too much description and doesn't pose enough question or introduce any tension.

das ist glaub generell der springende punkt. da hab ich bei wolfsgrau aber auch einen harten fokus drauf gesetzt. stephen king hat einen harten "ersten satz"-fetisch und träumt noch immer davon, einmal im leben einen "“in a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit" zu pullen.

jedenfalls, sehr lesenswert.

 

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Get rich or die vlogging: The sad economics of internet fame

 

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Ist das die eloquentere Version von Drachenlord?

 

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mein mitleid geht gegen 0, kein Wunder das es für sowas keine wirkliche Zahlungsbereitschaft gibt und man daher nicht davon leben kann bzw nur die absoluten Stars.

 

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Versteh auch nicht warum jeder Spast der es schafft ein Video auf Youtube zu laden plötzlich denkt er müsste davon leben können und das die ganzen Likes auf Facebook/Instagram/Twitter sich irgendwie in echtes Geld verwandeln sollten. Jeder muss heute ein Intro haben, im Outro sämtliche Social Media Websites der Welt erwähnen, um Likes betteln und nach dem ersten viral Video direkt irgendeinem Netzwerk beitreten um sich da ordentlich ausnutzen zu lassen.

 

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zu dem literatur-link: interessant.
erste sätze sind in der tat unfassbar schwer. "jemand musste josef k. verleumdet haben, ..." ist auch so ein hammer. da steckt eigentlich schon der ganze roman drin.

 

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The Racial Gap for Titles Among American Chess Players