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New virus that causes ‘staggering disease’ discovered in US - and it can kill pet cats and those in the wild

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I am aware of how damaging cats are to the ecosystem, but regardless of that, I don't understand how you can live every day worrying whether the cat will come back or bring some kind of disease home with it. With our indoor cats I have control over what they eat and at most every few years they catch a cold. But nothing serious after 9 years of having indoor cats.

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I know several people like this

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This is happening right now in Germany. In two of our 16 federal states, the fascist party got around 30% of votes through fear mongering and propaganda. In one of the states, all of the remaining parties would be needed to create a functionable government with a majority, containing the whole spectrum from left to right. I am not sure about the future of this state.

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Two slightly off centre parallel universes

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I also have this phenomenon and thought about an explanation, as there isn't any research regarding this topic: The relative density and distribution of cones in the eyes can vary slightly between eyes, which could lead to minimal differences in color perception. There could also be microscopic differences in the structure of the crystalline lens, the cornea or the vitreous body, which could refract or filter the light differently and thus slightly influence the perceived color temperature.

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Werden wir bald alle auf Alkohol verzichten?

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Unter Kapitel Studies:

A 2016 study of a sample of academic journals (not news publications) that set out to test Betteridge's law and Hinchliffe's rule (see below) found that few titles were posed as questions and of those, few were yes/no questions and they were more often answered "yes" in the body of the article rather than "no". A 2018 study of 2,585 articles in four academic journals in the field of ecology similarly found that very few titles were posed as questions at all, with 1.82 percent being wh-questions and 2.15 percent being yes/no questions. Of the yes/no questions, 44 percent were answered "yes", 34 percent "maybe", and only 22 percent were answered "no". In 2015, a study of 26,000 articles from 13 news sites on the World Wide Web, conducted by a data scientist and published on his blog, found that the majority (54 percent) were yes/no questions, which divided into 20 percent "yes" answers, 17 percent "no" answers and 16 percent whose answers he could not determine.

Die Antwort ist anscheinend häufiger Ja als Nein. Also wieso nicht auch Ja in diesem Fall?

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Do any "thickening" products actually work to prevent hair loss/thinning?

As DHT is partially responsible for androgenetic scalp hair loss, dutasteride (a 5α-reductase inhibitor) at least has some evidence of slowing hair loss, as it blocks the action of the 5α-reductase enzymes that convert testosterone into DHT [1]. I am not a medical professional, so do your own research, but this is one of the few substance shown to have a positive effect on hair loss prevention. As this is usually a genetic problem your mileage may vary significantly.

[1] Bostwick DG, Cheng L (24 January 2014). Urologic Surgical Pathology. Elsevier Health Sciences. pp. 492–. ISBN 978-0-323-08619-6.