Cambridge University is teaching students a fake form of the German language, that does away with the language’s gender usage. Many languages, German, French, Spanish – and so on – have gendered nouns that require a gender specific definite or indefinite article (and other forms).
NPR reporter bungles simple facts to make her argument.
The Oregonian, published since the 19th century, admits to a long and powerful history of deliberate, cruel racism and as an advocate of xenophobia, much like the admission of National Geographic in 2018. Powerful publishers have spread hate and disinformation for more than a century – how can we trust anything they produce today? They have all lost our trust.
This article confuses “average” in the title, with “median” used in the report. Why do they do this?
Just an ordinary Mom of 2 traveling the world, working remotely, and saving tons of money by earning a U.S. income while living in much lower cost of living countries … the meme expressed here is bogus.
She was born in Albania, speaks multiple languages, attended universities in the U.S. and elsewhere, and did various work-related internship programs in Albania and Switzerland, was founder and CEO of he own business, almost certainly has EU citizenship and US residency, enabling her family to stay past the 90-day visa limits.
Just an ordinary Mom of 2.
New paper notes climate models, and for that matter media attention is focused on the least likely scenarios – which are the worst case. But some say these worst-case scenarios are not physically possible, let alone likely. A direct consequence of much attention given to likely impossible scenarios is that 40% of young adults suffer from serious anxiety, scared of outcomes that are highly unlikely to develop.
“Just 7% of Americans have ‘a great deal’ of trust and confidence in the media, and 27% have ‘a fair amount,” said Gallup in dishing up the depressing news for media outlets. “Meanwhile, 28% of U.S. adults say they do not have very much confidence and 38% have none at all in newspapers, TV and radio. Notably, this is the first time that the percentage of Americans with no trust at all in the media is higher than the percentage…
A reporter named David Axe writes the same, scary, fear-inducing “worst Covid variant yet” headline story nearly every month the past year. He’s been wrong every time. But his editors don’t seem to mind.
Climate activists are working to reframe “climate change” to “climate pollution”.
This Axios news report makes the classic reporter error – providing percentage increases without every providing a starting value. Does a scary +100% mean something increased from 1 to 2? We have no way of knowing.