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Übergewicht bei Kindern: Liegt es an den Genen?

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Den Artikel kann ich lesen, Danke :) also es geht um Epigenetik und wie das Verhalten bzgl Ernährung und Lebensweise auf die Nachwuchs sich auswirkt: kurz vor der Schwangerschaft abnehmen spielt eben keine Rolle, sondern wie man (und sogar die Vorfahren) sich nachhaltig ernährt hat.

Spannendes Thema!

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Donald Trump issues Greenland deadline

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I’m concerned that anybody could think such spearheaded attacks could bring anything but chaos. I agree on Greenland, kidnapping a high value target with a flashy operation has nothing to do with conquest. Successful US dominance was based on diplomacy, imo Trump overrates military supremacy once deprived of diplomatic credibility.

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Europe moves to break Visa and Mastercard's grip — but not everyone agrees

“It’s as if cash did not exist, and the industry argued it was unfair because merchants have to accept it, and users don’t pay a fee,” Peter Norwood, a researcher at Finance Watch, a European non-profit that aims to reform finance in the public interest, told Euronews.

“Cash is a public good. That is what the digital euro is meant to preserve in the digital age.”

The only obstacle to this very great thing are the lobbying bastards who just want to continue hoarding cheap money. And it appears there one Spanish ex-banker - Navarrete - in the EPP sweating since years to slow it down. I wish him all the worse.

Why do Europeans vote more and more self interested pricks who work actively against European welfare? The idiocy.

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Renee Good Not an Activist, Had Just Dropped Son at School

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It will probably go on as all totalitarian regimes go: either a lot of blood and then hopefully freedom again, or Russia Reloaded. The pigs in charge for sure won’t leave anything willingly, you have to hang them by the feet (in a Mussolinian way I mean) if you want to break out of it… Any day spent whining and protesting peacefully is one day closer to the end of democracy and one day less they have to really fight. The moment democracy is being shit on is not on the next Election Day, it’s right now.

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SUVs Now Account More Than Half Of All Cars Sales In Europe

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I despise this SUV trend, too, but isn’t it a bit extreme to judge a person just by the car they drive? The majority of people don’t even think about it and the market is flooded with these things, so they have less and less choice. There are cases where SUVs make sense, in mountainous regions and where it snows a lot, but I agree that space has to be better used and public space respected.

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ELI5: Why is there a grill in front of the front door in on this car?

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It should be a pressure relief channel coming from the wheel arch: wheel rotation creates a complex air flow and I think this channel lets trapped air flow outwards (and stay attached to the vehicle sides, improving aerodynamics). Probably I got much wrong and more probably still, it’s of no real use for a road car driving under 200km/h.

Edit: could also be linked to brake cooling, now that I think of it…