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@louis_ide @DavidCriekemans Welk niveau ? Te hoog

Germany's Chancellor Merz: We can no longer accept the extraordinarily high levels of sick leave in our companies. We are abolishing sick leave by telephone and introducing the requirement to submit a medical certificate from the very first day of illness. We know this is a tough decision. But we can no longer afford this competitive disadvantage caused by prolonged absences from work.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost

3 weeks ago

An unusual cold patch of water in the North Atlantic could signal changes in a key ocean current, which would have sweeping consequences for climate. This blob is occurring in one of the few areas where the ocean hasn’t warmed in recent decades. wapo.st/4eFPcna

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Eurosport.es @Eurosport_ES

4 weeks ago

Pues sí, hasta Zverev tiene perro en #RolandGarros 🐶 El alemán celebró con él en la Chatrier su prime Grand Slam 🏆

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🔍 C'è un dettaglio che non tutti hanno notato guardando Zverev giocare. Nei cambi di campo, mentre gli altri bevono o si asciugano il sudore, Sascha si fa un'iniezione di insulina. Lo ha fatto anche durante la finale del Roland Garros 2026, sotto i riflettori del tennis mondiale. 🏥 Alexander Zverev convive con il diabete di tipo 1 da quando aveva quattro anni. Una vita intera, tra allenamenti, viaggi e campo, passata a gestire i livelli di glucosio nel corpo. Eppure per molto tempo non ne ha parlato. Non per vergogna, ma per una scelta precisa: non voleva che fosse il diabete a definirlo. Non voleva pietà. Lo ha fatto pubblicamente solo nel 2022. 👨‍⚕️ I medici avevano consigliato a sua madre di fargli cambiare sport: giocare a tennis con il diabete, dissero, sarebbe stato troppo difficile. Zverev quando è in campo gioca nello stesso momento due partite diverse: quella contro il suo avversario e tenere costantemente monitorato il livello della sua glicemia. 🥵 In partita la glicemia può diventare una roulette: un attimo sei in calo fino al rischio di collasso ipoglicemico, quello dopo lo stress e l’intensità ti spingono in iperglicemia con sete, crampi e confusione, tra performance che crolla e pericoli acuti se non gestita. Oltre al traguardo sportivo, che per Sascha è stato così atteso, inseguito e a tratti maledetto, questo titolo Slam vale molto più. 💭 È il megafono più potente che potesse trovare per il messaggio che porta avanti attraverso la sua Fondazione: ai bambini con diabete di tipo 1 dice che possono sognare in grande, senza privarsi dello sport e di ambire anche a salire sul tetto del mondo del tennis. #RolandGarros #Zverev

Das ist kein Luxusresort. Sazan – die albanische Insel an der Straße von Otranto – ist das maritime Tor zwischen Adria und Mittelmeer. 3.600 atomsichere Bunker. 15 Kilometer Tunnel. Ehemalige sowjetische U-Boot-Anlegestellen. Die Insel kontrolliert wer die Adria kontrolliert. Und wer kauft sie? Kushners Affinity Partners – finanziert zu 99 Prozent von Saudi-Arabien, UAE und Katar. 157 Millionen Dollar Gebühren von ausländischen Staatsfonds. Das bestätigt der US-Finanzausschuss unter Senator Wyden. Und wer leitet das Team? Kein einziger Hotelmanager. Ausschließlich Ex-Geheimdienstler und Ex-Regierungsbeamte der Trump-Administration. General Miguel Correa – ehemaliger Direktor für Golfangelegenheiten im Nationalen Sicherheitsrat. Mitarchitekt der Abraham-Accords. Kevin Hassett – ehemaliger Vorsitzender des Wirtschaftsberaterstabs im Weißen Haus. Chad Mizelle – ehemaliger amtierender Chefsyndikus des Heimatschutzministeriums. John Rader – ehemaliger Nationaler Sicherheitsrat. Nick Butterfield – ehemaliger stellvertretender Koordinator für Politik im Weißen Haus. Senator Wyden: Die Anwesenheit von General Correa „wirft Bedenken hinsichtlich der Emoluments-Klausel der Verfassung auf." Das ist kein Resort. Das ist eine geopolitische Operation – finanziert von Golfstaaten – auf einer ehemaligen sowjetischen Militärbasis – im Herzen Europas. 🇦🇱🇸🇦🇦🇪🇶🇦🇺🇸🇪🇺

How USA changes.... Then vs Now

ABENDREPORT aus Europa 🇪🇺🇺🇦 1/7 Das darf nicht wahr sein. In Europa, wo alles und jeder unter Schutz steht: Jared Kushner und Ivanka Trump wollen Albaniens geschützte Südküste in ein 1,4 Milliarden Euro Luxusresort verwandeln – Insel Sazan und Küstengebiet bei Zvernec. Die EU-Kommission „beobachtet die Lage genau." Und tut NICHTS!!! DER SKANDAL: Das Land gehört der albanischen Familie Konomi die es seit Generationen bewirtschaftet. Wer sich wehrt wird verprügelt und eingesperrt. Albaniens Regierung ignoriert den Eigentumsanspruch. 41 Umweltorganisationen aus 28 Ländern haben protestiert. Das Gebiet ist EU-Schutzzone – Heimat des Mittelmeer-Mönchs-Seehunds, 70 bedrohter Arten, 200 Vogelarten. Albanien will EU-Mitglied werden. Und baut für Kushner auf geschütztem Land. 🇦🇱🇪🇺🇺🇸Bewaffnete Männer im Auftrag von Oligarchen verprügeln Unterstützer der rechtmäßige Grundbesitzer – die ihre geschützte Küste gegen Trumps und Kushners Luxusresort-Landnahme verteidigen. Das passiert in Europa. In einem EU-Beitrittsland. Heute. 🇦🇱🇪🇺 Das darf nicht sein.

De vertaling in het Nederlands leest als een grappig verhaal…alhoewel het bloedserieuze triestige ernst is. #usa

Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza

a month ago

“AND YOU STILL DARE TO OPEN YOUR MOUTH…” Sasha Legerman: This is too accurate not to share. This Australian’s response to Trump’s rant that “NATO does nothing for America” is absolutely devastating: “Mate. You run a country where 600,000 homeless people will sleep on the

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🚨WATCH: Pope LEO said the church and Anthropic will work together to "find the way for humanity, in this time of artificial intelligence."

@TFTC21 Full Speech: Anthropic Co‑Founder Christopher Olah at Magnifica Humanitas Vatican Launch | EWTN News youtu.be/ORFrdYSvzuw?si…

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World of Statistics @stats_feed

a month ago

The World’s Most Free Countries (Freedom score): 🇫🇮 Finland: 100 🇳🇿 New Zealand: 99 🇳🇴 Norway: 99 🇸🇪 Sweden: 99 🇮🇪 Ireland: 98 🇨🇦 Canada: 97 🇩🇰 Denmark: 97 🇱🇺 Luxembourg: 97 🇳🇱 Netherlands: 97 🇸🇲 San Marino: 97 🇸🇮 Slovenia: 97 🇺🇾 Uruguay: 97 🇪🇪 Estonia: 96 🇯🇵 Japan: 96 🇵🇹

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Time spent eating and drinking each day: 🇫🇷 France: 2h 11m 🇮🇹 Italy: 2h 05m 🇬🇷 Greece: 2h 04m 🇪🇸 Spain: 2h 02m 🇩🇰 Denmark: 2h 00m 🇵🇹 Portugal: 1h 47m 🇰🇷 South Korea: 1h 43m 🇩🇪 Germany: 1h 36m 🇨🇳 China: 1h 36m 🇯🇵 Japan: 1h 35m 🇵🇱 Poland: 1h 35m 🇧🇪 Belgium: 1h 32m 🇦🇺 Australia: 1h 31m 🇱🇻 Latvia: 1h 24m 🇸🇮 Slovenia: 1h 23m 🇫🇮 Finland: 1h 21m 🇦🇹 Austria: 1h 21m 🇳🇿 New Zealand: 1h 20m 🇮🇳 India: 1h 19m 🇬🇧 UK: 1h 18m 🇳🇴 Norway: 1h 17m 🇪🇪 Estonia: 1h 16m 🇲🇽 Mexico: 1h 16m 🇮🇪 Ireland: 1h 15m 🇸🇪 Sweden: 1h 13m 🇳🇱 Netherlands: 1h 10m 🇿🇦 South Africa: 1h 08m 🇨🇦 Canada: 1h 04m 🇺🇸 USA: 1h 01m Note: women (15-64) According to OECD Gender Data Portal based on the OECD Time-use database

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper. Her name is Audrey van der Meer. She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth. The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time. Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen. Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task. When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once. The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected. When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely. Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG. Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events. The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem. Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next. Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve. Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews. Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad. Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page. A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched. The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall. The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down. The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page. That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it. Two studies. Two countries. Same answer. Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast. Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth. You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick. The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew. Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

Pizza activity around the Pentagon has reached an extreme spike this Saturday afternoon. Pizzato Pizza (2.2 mi) at 259%, Extreme Pizza (0.5 mi) at 256%, Domino's Pizza (1.4 mi) at 213%, and District Pizza Palace (1.0 mi) at 208%. DOUGHCON level is 2.

Not only in France, also in Europe.

Brivael Le Pogam @brivael

2 months ago

Une chose qui m'a frappé en bossant des deux côtés de l'Atlantique. En France, l'arrogance d'un entrepreneur est inversement proportionnelle à sa réussite réelle. Le mec qui fait 20M d'ARR te parle comme s'il avait fondé Apple. Costume bien coupé, name-dropping de fonds, regard

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Mesuret @NocnaZ

2 months ago

Na każdym kroku tej wizyty Chińczycy stosowali techniki podejmowania gościa tak, żeby pokazać światu jego miejsce w szeregu. Tu posadzili Trumpa w zbyt miękkim fotelu, Xi siedzi wyżej, optycznie wydaje się większy. Fotele na miarę, pewnie przypadek :)

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NYP Reporter: Prior to boarding Air Force One to depart Beijing, the entire U.S. delegation disposed of every item provided to them by their Chinese hosts. Gifts, badges, pins, and commemorative items were all dumped into a trash bin on site. The directive was absolute, no item of Chinese origin was permitted to board the aircraft. The precautions extended beyond the departure itself. Delegation members had left all personal electronic devices at home before traveling to China and operated exclusively on clean burner phones throughout the duration of the trip.

@elonmusk 🇨🇭Great , no need to make it great again,

Northwestern University engineers printed some artificial neurons, and they can communicate directly with living brain cells. Using aerosol jet printing, the team created tiny, flexible devices from electronic inks: nanoscale flakes of molybdenum disulfide (MoS₂) as the semiconductor and graphene as the conductor, deposited on a soft polymer substrate. By partially decomposing the polymer, they formed conductive filaments that mimic real neuron behavior, generating complex electrical spikes (single pulses, bursts, continuous firing) with the exact timing, shape, and duration needed to trigger real neural circuits. In lab tests on mouse cerebellum tissue slices, the printed neurons successfully activated living brain cells — the first time such additively manufactured devices have achieved direct, functional communication with biological neurons. Lead researcher Mark C. Hersam explained: “You can see the living neurons respond to our artificial neuron. So, we’ve demonstrated signals that are not only the right timescale but also the right spike shape to interact directly with living neurons.” The breakthrough opens the door to advanced brain-machine interfaces, neuroprosthetics for restoring hearing, vision, or movement, and ultra efficient, brain inspired computing that slashes the massive energy demands of today’s AI systems. Progress (and artificial neurons) marches on. 🧠🚀 📸 Mark Hersam Source: news.northwestern.edu/stories/2026/4…