Leseklick: We’ve just had the best decade in human history. Seriously

The Spectator - We’ve just had the best decade in human history. Seriously

Schöne Grafik diesbezüglich gibt es hier.

Videoklick: Is Meat Bad For Us or Not?

Videoklick: Schaurige Parasiten – Vernachlässigte Krankheiten

Videoklick: China Doesn't Want You to Watch This Video

Leseklick: Block on GM rice ‘has cost millions of lives and led to child blindness’

The Guardian - Block on GM rice ‘has cost millions of lives and led to child blindness’

Videoklick: Why Turkey is invading Syria

Leseklick: Spitzelerlass für Wissenschaftler in Russland

Ruhrbarone - Russland: Spitzelerlass für Wissenschaftler

Videoklick: John Oliver über Trump & Syria

Leseklick: Race, genetics and pseudoscience: an explainer

Ewan's Blog: Bioinformatician at large

"The aim of this article is to provide an accessible guide for scientists, journalists, and the general public for understanding, criticising and pushing back against [arguments in favor of racial groupings and alleged genetically-based intelligence differences between them]."

Vier Wissenschaftler, ein Bioinformatiker und drei Genetiker, haben einen sehr lesenswerten Artikel veröffentlicht, in welchen sie erklären, warum Genvariationen die Unterteilung der Menschheit in verschiedene Rassen nicht erlauben. Sie gehen auch auf die Unterschiede im IQ zwischen verschiedenen Rassen ein. Eine der involvierten Wissenschafter schreibt in ihrem Blog dazu: 

"We wanted to correct the misconceptions that many people have about these topics, and directly confront a number of untrue ideas promoted by a small group of pseudo-scientists who refer to themselves as “race realists” or proponents of “human biological diversity” (HBD)."

Leseklick: A Million People Are Jailed at China's Gulags. I Managed to Escape. Here's What Really Goes on Inside

Haaretz - A Million People Are Jailed at China's Gulags. I Managed to Escape. Here's What Really Goes on Inside

Rape, torture and human experiments. Sayragul Sauytbay offers firsthand testimony from a Xinjiang 'reeducation' camp

Videoklick: John Oliver über die Ein-Kind-Politik in China

Leseklick: Ernährungswissenschaften sind ein Kuddelmuddel

Vox - Is eating beef healthy? The new fight raging in nutrition science, explained.

A group of 14 researchers just set off a firestorm with a new series of studies that upends years of nutrition advice about meat. Their five systematic reviews, published Monday in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine, suggest there’s no health reason to eat less red meat — not even the bacon and salami we’ve been told for years to cut back on.

Update (7. Oktober 2019):

New York Times - Meat’s Bad for You! No, It’s Not! How Experts See Different Things in the Data

Videoklick: What I learned about freedom after escaping North Korea

TED Talk der in Nordkorea geborenen Yeonmi Park

Videoklick: You should be skeptical when it comes to hyped-up AI.

Videoklick: Ein egoistischer Grund, die Welt zu verbessern

Videoklick: Xinjiang: The story China wants the world to forget

Al Jazeera - How virtual detectives exposed China's 're-education camps'

Videoklick: 10 Wacky Things About Turkmenistan

Leseklick: Und jetzt die ganze Wahrheit über Syrien

NZZ - Und jetzt die ganze Wahrheit über Syrien

Leseklick: The Dueling Narratives of India’s Kashmir Crackdown

The Atlantic - The Dueling Narratives of India’s Kashmir Crackdown

New Delhi’s actions have been welcomed domestically, but Narendra Modi’s government will have a hard time selling its message abroad.

Videoklick: China’s Mass Internment of Uighurs Is a ‘Modern Cultural Genocide’

Leseklick: Über die Waldbrände im Amazonas

Forbes - Why Everything They Say About The Amazon, Including That It's The 'Lungs Of The World,' Is Wrong

Videoklick: Interview mit dem ehemaligen nordkoreanischen Botschafter Thae Yong-Ho

Leseklick: Modi’s Decision on Kashmir Reveals a Brittleness in India

The Atlantic - Modi’s Decision on Kashmir Reveals a Brittleness in India

But whatever the cocktail of ideology, domestic politics, and security concerns that drove India’s decision, it does not change the fact that the move reveals a certain brittleness in India’s constitutional arrangements. Who is to say that a future Indian government—or even this one, emboldened by the apparent popularity of its decision—won’t try something similar with a state such as Nagaland, Tamil Nadu, or West Bengal? That many BJP leaders routinely use shrill anti-Muslim rhetoric raises the stakes further.

Leseklick: Wie Taiwan seine Vergangenheit aufarbeitet

NZZ - Erst die Wahrheit macht frei – Taiwan hat getan, was China noch bevorsteht: sich den Dämonen der vergangenen Diktatur zu stellen

Leseklick: The Kashmir crisis isn’t about territory. It’s about a Hindu victory over Islam.

Washington Post - The Kashmir crisis isn’t about territory. It’s about a Hindu victory over Islam.

Videoklick: Deepfakes: Is This Video Even Real?

Videoklick: John Oliver über den turkmenischen Präsidenten Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov

Videoklick: Arab military effectiveness

Leseklick: The Global Warming Consensus

Neurologica Blog - The Global Warming Consensus

Interessanter und wichtiger Blogeintrag von Dr. Steven Novella in seinem Neurologica Blog über den Konsensus zwischen Wissenschaftlern, dass der Klimawandel maßgeblich menschengemacht sei. Der Artikel setzt sich auch mit den Kritikern und Klimawandelleugnern auseinander. 

Eine neue wissenschaftliche Studie, veröffentlicht in dem renommierten Fachmagazin Nature, wird in dem Blogeintrag auch erwähnt. Die Studie zeigt, dass es in den letzten 2,000 Jahren bis zum Beginn der industriellen Revolution keine zeitlichen Perioden gab, in welchen es global (!) zu einem merklichen Anstieg oder Fall der Temperaturen kam. Klimaschwankungen gab es schon immer, aber diese waren meist regional auf bestimmte zeitliche Perioden beschränkt. Dass, so wie seit der industriellen Revolution der Fall ist, die Temperaturen überall auf dem Planeten ansteigen, gab es in den untersuchten 2,000 Jahren davor nie. 

In der Studie heißt es:

[W]e find that the warmest period of the past two millennia occurred during the twentieth century for more than 98 per cent of the globe. This provides strong evidence that anthropogenic global warming is not only unparalleled in terms of absolute temperatures, but also unprecedented in spatial consistency within the context of the past 2,000 years.

Videoklick: The violent rise of India's cow vigilantes

Leseklick: Mehr Einwanderung führt zu mehr Terroranschlägen - durch Rechte, nicht aber durch Einwanderer

Washington Post - Terrorism does increase with immigration — but only homegrown, right-wing terrorism

Many people think that more immigration into Western countries leads to more terrorism, because immigrants from non-Western cultures are more likely to be terrorists. My research finds a very different kind of relationship. Immigrants aren’t committing terrorism in Western Europe. Rather, native citizens appear to be committing terrorism because of their hostility to immigrants.

und hier der Link zur wissenschaftlichen Veröffentlichung.

Videoklick: Talking with Conspiracy Theorists in the Age of Bulls**t

Videoklick: India and Sri Lanka's violent fight over fish

Eine neue Folge Vox Borders, diesmal aus Indien und Sri Lanka

Videoklick: Fakten als Politikum. Wissenschaft unter Druck

Videoklick: Xinjiang: China, where are my children?

New evidence that children in China's Xinjiang region are being systematically separated from their families has been uncovered in research commissioned by the BBC.

BBC - Xinjiang: China, Where are my children?

Videoklick: Why We Should Invest In Rat Massage

Videoklick: How India runs the world's biggest election

Die nächste Folge Vox Borders aus Indien und Pakistan

Leseklick: Über die russische Desinformationskampagnen

Medium - Top Takes: Suspected Russian Intelligence Operation

Videoklick: How this border transformed a subcontinent

Vox Borders ist zurück. Diesmal in Indien und Pakistan.

Videoklick: Inside China's 'thought transformation' camps

Videoklick: Hong Kong’s huge protests, explained

Leseklick: The development and decay of democracy

Vox - The development and decay of democracy

The fate of social democracy should worry not only those on the left, but anyone concerned with democracy in Europe.

Videoklick: When white supremacists overthrew a government

Leseklick: China Is Cutting Tariffs—For Everyone Else

The Atlantic - China Is Cutting Tariffs—For Everyone Else

"By contrast, China is helping its citizens by making new friends. One way to offset the rising prices to Chinese consumers otherwise stuck buying American is to lower their costs if they switch. On average, it is now 14 percent cheaper in China to buy something from Canada, Japan, Brazil, or Europe than it is to buy something from the United States. Beijing is making it worthwhile for its consumers to develop new commercial relationships. And once those new ties are formed, the Chinese may not bother to switch back."

Videoklick: Böhmermann über Homöopathie

Videoklick: Strategies for Deep Decarbonization of the Electricity Sector or the Economics of Power Utilities

Jesse Jenkins - Getting to Zero: Strategies for Deep Decarbonization of the Electricity Sector

siehe auch: Videoklick: Powering the next 100 years

via NeuroLogica Blog

Videoklick: ‘Fighting the good fight’: Why free speech has no political party

Videoklick: Why drugs cost more in America

Videoklick: China's secret internment camps

Leseklick: Was passiert wenn der Staat soziale Medien abschaltet

Washington Post - Shut down social media if you don’t like terrorism?

Videoklick: People are Manipulating You on Facebook

Hier Teil 1 über YouTube und Teil 2 über Twitter

Videoklick: Twitter Platform Manipulation

Hier der Teil 1 über YouTube

Videoklick: Filming the Speed of Light at 10 Trillion FPS

Videoklick: How Virtual Reality Helps Catch Nazis

Videoklick: Manipulating the YouTube Algorithm

Videoklick: Powering the next 100 years

Videoklick: How the British failed India and Pakistan

Videoklick: Kashmir-Konflikt

Videoklick: Plastikmüll - So versinkt die Welt im Plastik

Videoklick: John Oliver über Public Shaming

Videoklick: The Jangmadang Generation

The Jangmadang Generation

This is not your typical film about North Korea.

Videoklick: A Police Shooting, a Viral Video, and an Obsessive Quest for Truth

Videoklick: Hospital Competition Can Impact Your Health

Videoklick: John Oliver über Automation

Leseklick: What the media won't tell you about ISIS

The Atlantic - What the Media Won’t Tell You About ISIS

Leseklick: A scientist on the myth of ugly produce and food waste

Vox - A scientist on the myth of ugly produce and food waste

Videoklick: A Massive Hoax Exposes Social Justice in Academia

Leseklick: Was ist dran an der Studie zum Insektensterben

Ecology is not a dirty word - Insectageddon is a great story. But what are the facts?

These are all important limitations – this study simply does not show evidence that global insect declines are happening, nor does it provide evidence that insects will be extinct in 100 years.

Videoklick: False Positive - When forensic science fails

Videoklick: Wie aus einer Zelle eine Kaulquappe wird

Watch a single cell become a complete organism in six pulsing minutes of timelapse

Leseklick: Why Fears of Fake News Are Overhyped

Medium - Why Fears of Fake News Are Overhyped

Leseklick: Antifa ohne Faschismus

taz - Antifa ohne Faschismus

Wann ist politische Gewalt legitim? Viele Linke begehen einen großen Denkfehler, wenn sie sich in der Tradition des Widerstands in der NS-Zeit sehen.

Leseklick: Steven Pinker entgegnet seinen kulturpessimistischen Kritikern

NZZ - Die Welt wird immer besser. Aber je besser die Welt, desto krasser die Nörgelei!

Steven Pinker entgegnet der Kritik an seinem Buch "Aufklärung jetzt: Für Vernunft, Wissenschaft, Humanismus und Fortschritt"

Leseklick: Want to Cultivate a Liberal European Islam? Look to Bosnia.

The Atlantic - Want to Cultivate a Liberal European Islam? Look to Bosnia.

Videoklick: Inside the Fake Science Factories

Leseklick: Wie die Ideen des Nationalsozialismus noch immer Kindererziehung beeinflussen

Scientific American - Harsh Nazi Parenting Guidelines May Still Affect German Children of Today

Videoklick: Vortrag über das chinesische Social Credit System