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War in Ukraine, 22-03-2022

  War in Ukraine, 22-03-2022 At this point in time, the world is witnessing the fourth week of the Russian invasion into Ukraine. All reports from independant sources suggest that the war is not going very well for Russia, and therefore Putin and his Ministry of Defense has decided to terrorize the civilian population with bombs, hunger and forced relocation to Russia. Presumably to some kind of refugee camps, whatever the situation in these camps may be. Logistics of an invasion It is said that to be able to invade a country and subdue the population for a long time (months or years) you need 20 soldiers on 1000 enemy civilians. Ukraine has 44 million, and Russia 0.8 million soldiers. Of those, 0.2 million are in Ukraine, and if reports are true, largely do not want to be there. Anyone who has ever played the board game of Risk knows that you should not move your entire force when invading a country, but leave enough behind to defend your own territory. So, with 0.6 million left behin
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Read: Study finds that adults who stutter don't stutter when they're alone

Summary of https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-adults-stutter-dont-theyre.html, accessed friday 11 februari  2022, 13:35  Study finds that adults who stutter don't stutter when they're alone Study by NYU Steinhardt Professor Eric S. Jackson finds that the perception of being heard makes a big difference in wether a person stutters. Anecdotal reports note this, but it had not been systematically investigated. It is called the talk-alone-effect. The difficulty in investigating this lies in creating conditions in which people believe they are alone. The research involve 24 adults and five different conditions: conversational speech reading aloud private speech believing nobody listens repeating this private speech spontaneous speech They created the private speech condition by giving them a challenging computer programming task, which elicits private speech. They were deceived in thinking they were alone, and moreover told that people who talk out loud to themselves perform bet
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