Twike 5: Mit Tempo 100 im Dreirad

“So viel Beschleunigung braucht kein Mensch”: ein Besuch bei Twike und eine ungewöhnliche Probefahrt im Fahrerprobungsträger. Ein Bericht von Martin Wolf (Elektromobilität, Elektroauto)

"So viel Beschleunigung braucht kein Mensch": ein Besuch bei Twike und eine ungewöhnliche Probefahrt im Fahrerprobungsträger. Ein Bericht von Martin Wolf (Elektromobilität, Elektroauto)

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Dieser fünftägige Workshop vermittelt praxisnahes Wissen aus dem CEH-v13-Programm, um Netzwerke und Systeme effektiv gegen Cyberangriffe abzusichern. (Golem Karrierewelt, Server-Applikationen)

Dieser fünftägige Workshop vermittelt praxisnahes Wissen aus dem CEH-v13-Programm, um Netzwerke und Systeme effektiv gegen Cyberangriffe abzusichern. (Golem Karrierewelt, Server-Applikationen)

Medieval preacher invoked chivalric hero as a meme in sermon

“This is very early evidence of a preacher weaving pop culture into a sermon to keep his audience hooked.”

Medieval poet Geoffrey Chaucer twice made references to an early work featuring a Germanic mythological character named Wade. Only three lines survive, discovered buried in a sermon by a late 19th century scholar. There has been much debate over how to translate those fragments ever since, and whether the long-lost work was a monster-filled epic or a chivalric romance. Two Cambridge University scholars now say those lines have been "radically misunderstood" for 130 years, supplying their own translation—and argument in favor of a romance—in a new paper published in the Review of English Studies.

We know such a medieval work once existed because it's referenced in other texts, most notably by Chaucer. He alludes to the "tale of Wade" in his epic poem Troilus and Criseyde and mentions "Wade's boat [boot]" in The Merchant's Tale—part of his masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales. A late 16th century editor of Chaucer's works, Thomas Speght, made a passing remark that Wade's boat was named "Guingelot," and that Wade's "strange exploits" were "long and fabulous," but didn't elaborate any further, no doubt assuming the tale was common knowledge and hence not worth retelling. Speght's truncated comment "has often been called the most exasperating note ever written on Chaucer," F.N. Robinson wrote in 1933.

So, the full story has been lost to history, although some remnant details have survived. For instance, there are mentions of Wade in an Old English poem, describing him as the son of a king and a "serpent-legged mermaid." The Poetic Edda mentions Wade's son, Wayland, as well as Wayland's brothers Egil and Slagfin. Wade is also briefly referenced in Malory's Morte D'Arthur and a handful of other texts from around the same period. Fun fact: J.R.R. Tolkien based his Middle-earth character Earendil on Wade; Earendil sails across the sky in a magical ship called Wingelot (or Vingilot).

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Large study squashes anti-vaccine talking points about aluminum

RFK Jr. has falsely called aluminum adjuvants “extremely neurotoxic.”

A sweeping analysis of health data from more than 1.2 million children in Denmark born over a 24-year period found no link between the small amounts of aluminum in vaccines and a wide range of health conditions—including asthma, allergies, eczema, autism, and attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

The finding, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, firmly squashes a persistent anti-vaccine talking point that can give vaccine-hesitant parents pause.

Small amounts of aluminum salts have been added to vaccines for decades as adjuvants, that is, components of the vaccine that help drum up protective immune responses against a target germ. Aluminum adjuvants can be found in a variety of vaccines, including those against diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis, Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib), and hepatitis A and B.

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