• Europäischer Gerichtshof: CO2-Emissionsscheine für alle Flüge in und aus der EU — auch ausländischer Unternehmen http://t.co/bIdfAOjO #
• Evolution of menstruation: fetal invasiveness. Most mammals don’t menstruate! http://t.co/p6NAKo0X Interesting abortion PS #
• After admiring graffiti in Sao Paulo and Rio (will blog pictures) I’m very impressed with this street art compilation http://t.co/wEMiCYlE #

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• #travelinsight 80: Oh wie schön ist Panama — back home safely! #

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• If you thought England is laughing about the Euro crisis: They will loose whatever the outcome for the Euro will be http://t.co/swNTPVI1 #
• Obama takes up 99% / Occupy Wall Street message http://t.co/l0pdIhsJ Quite certainly good for the movement, but needs to go further #
• Calvin and Hobbes — Dad Explains Science collection. Last one is my all-time favorite http://t.co/MTZtPXKe Oh joys of parenting and science! #
• God save America — a frank & clear assessment of Republican candidates http://t.co/A0uunScZ (SPIEGEL english, recommended by many friends) #
• Big Bang Theory vs. the Algorithm of dating http://t.co/OdEFHcbG Pre-selection in matchmaking services impoverishes our relationships #
• Top 10 untranslatable relationship words http://t.co/tcjvEhZi rich language makes richness of experience #psychology #constructivism #
• Two thirds of psychologists report using bad research practice, one third has doubts about integrity of their own work http://t.co/CNEuTlof #
• #travelinsight 79: Portuguese must be the only language in the world where native speakers learn to conjugate their verbs in school… #

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• Look at the center for 20 sec and never trust your eyes again http://t.co/zP6DGLM3 scariest optical illusion (http://t.co/vZGyDxmj) #
• More „gaslighting“: Manipulating people’s (emotional) reality and silencing them http://t.co/8PSxfws3 Must-read for women and men! #feminism #
• Gummibärchen sind nicht gut für die Gelenke, plus Wissenswertes über Verdauung von Eiweißen allgemein http://t.co/VeQ8bfh9 #ZEIT #Stimmts #
• Political internet art: the pepper-spraying cop http://t.co/hJL08QZG I wish I could be more optimistic about how many people that reaches #
• Fighting for atheism is not about atheists‘ rights — difference between identity (e.g. gay) and idea movements http://t.co/qnBqKeRT (#vegan) #
• No-fault divorce laws make especially women happier, and don’t increase divorce rate http://t.co/yQqpZHMx And: opt-in „covenant marriage“ #
• US vs International Time Magazine covers http://t.co/DoddGv1h Bible and anxiety instead of politics. US friends see what you are missing! #
• Egypt imports tons of tear gas from US, Egyptian port officials refuse to sign for the shipment http://t.co/1VlaPOxx I wish it had worked! #
• Freiheitsindex Deutschland — abstrakte Freiheit schätzen und konkret Verbote wollen http://t.co/rvesWd5t Oh je. #
• Linksextrem = Rechtsextrem? http://t.co/T1YBhjkY Gefährliches konservatives Dogma, das Kampf gegen echten Extremismus erschwert #ZEIT #
• Geschichte deutscher Entwicklungspolitik. Mit kurzen Lichtblicken schockierend http://t.co/uAFed6xZ Eine Erklärung für fehlenden Fortschritt #

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The Guardian has a very informative article on how supermarkets have taken over the country (in this case of course the UK), virtually wiping out small shops and changing communities for the worse. Some of the numbers:

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• „Gaslighting“ http://t.co/mwwktWwE sad that it happens but fascinating concept, with important implications for working with abuse survivors #
• Glad to get good news about the #OWS library and relations with police after the crackdown at Zuccotti Park http://t.co/urbBNOMj #
• Schlechte Nachrichten vom Strom-Kartell und Atomendlager, gute zum Ende von Kohlestrom und Ökostrom-Nutzung der Zechen http://t.co/wU2HCnHa #
• Awesome visualization of how „Western Dance Music“ evolved, with global influences http://t.co/ZuT7Gkjl sadly US-UK-centric #

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A combination of personal experiences, conversations with friends and reading feminist blogs (more serious thoughts on the Nice Guy™ concept I encountered there coming soon) have tempted me into writing a little guide to avoiding bad love, in basically two sections: Reality and Respect, with Misunderstood Romance as an overarching theme holding them together.

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In the spirit of a rainy Sunday (now that my free time is mostly concentrated on the weekend, that really sucks) I’m catching up with my blogging. So these are almost real-time pictures from my current life and work on the Fazenda Ambiental Fortaleza as a WWOOFer (these are the Brazil farms, mine is BRA108). Their main product is Bob-o-link Coffee, but they also have a range of „micro-lot“ coffees, specific beans in small quantities. And there’s a café in Freiburg using their coffee: „Elephant Beans“ in Basler Straße near Johanneskirche (for the locals ), run by Jörg Volkmann who I had the pleasure to briefly talk to on Skype. Oh how the world is small!

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• While press raises worry about „Sharia“ in the new Libya, it is unquestioned in „liberated“ Iraq and Afghanistan http://t.co/T8UAlAls #
• Berlusconi zeigte, wie Anti-Parteien-Impulse antidemokratisch werden können und ein heimlich autoritäres Regime http://t.co/Ss6EyODR #
• XKCD „Missile Launch Web Interface“ http://t.co/z7WSwgNJ Which mistakes are important — also hover mouse on image and read. #
• Science tattoos. Many are nerdy, but love the finks http://t.co/pfxgtEK3 and Strebe Projection world map http://t.co/v0yw73qT #
• „Tribal Bonds“: Sometimes refreshing to see the positive sides of our species pointed out http://t.co/BZ6MXrpU how pro-social we really are #
• I didn’t think Daylight Saving Time could ever make me laugh. Can, if dogs and food come into play http://t.co/jPlqpcQo #

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This little comic comparing different gods‘ achievement made me laugh twice — first because the comparison is so sweet, and second when I talked about it with a friend who pointed to some methodological flaws in the conclusion. So I can’t resist sharing it here, and commenting on how it illustrates some problems in (especially) social science research on intervention effects.

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