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@rboheim.bsky.social
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Economist at JKU Linz and WIFO Vienna
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7 months ago
"This Bill Will Return Us to an Era of Economic Chaos"
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/o...
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Opinion | This Bill Will Return Us to an Era of Economic Chaos
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/opinion/genius-act-stablecoin-crypto.html
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Bernhard Kasberger
7 months ago
🧵 1/ 🚨 Job Opening: Join us at Johannes Kepler University Linz! I'm hiring a Pre-Doc / PhD-track Research Assistant in microeconomic theory with a focus on market design & game theory. Perfect for those considering a PhD or looking for a 1–2 year RA position. 👇
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NPR
7 months ago
A study from JAMA Pediatrics compares states that have permissive gun laws with others that have strict regulations. The states with tougher rules did not see a rise in gun deaths among children and teens.
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Guns are the leading cause of death of kids and teens, and state laws matter
A study from JAMA Pediatrics compares states that have permissive gun laws with others that have strict regulations. The states with tougher rules did not see a rise in gun deaths among children and teens.
https://n.pr/4n4tMCD
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Stefan Bruckbauer
8 months ago
Schade um die ehemalige Demokratie USA Trump administration moves to bar Harvard from enrolling foreign students
on.ft.com/4kq1bW4
Trump administration moves to bar Harvard from enrolling foreign students
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Trump administration moves to bar Harvard from enrolling foreign students
Letter from Department of Homeland Security signals new escalation in stand-off with university
https://on.ft.com/4kq1bW4
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Lukas Lehner
8 months ago
Austrian government announces €50 million to expand the Job Guarantee scheme in new budget by Finance Minister
@markusmarterbauer.bsky.social
Based on the evidence of the pilot initiated by
@svenhergovich.bsky.social
and our evaluation with
@maxkasy.bsky.social
www.inet.ox.ac.uk/news/austria...
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Austrian Government Announces €50 Million to Progress Guaranteed Job…
Programme pioneered by INET Oxford's Lukas Lehner and Max Kasy receives green light for further roll-out.
https://www.inet.ox.ac.uk/news/austrian-government-commits-50-million-to-rollout-job-guarantee-scheme-in-budget
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René Böheim
JKU Department of Economics
8 months ago
📢 Come and work with us! The Department of Economics at JKU Linz invites applications for a full 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗶𝗻 𝗟𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀. Apply by June 18, 2025. Details:
www.jku.at/en/the-jku/w...
Please share with your network!
#Econsky
#Academicjobs
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Dani Rodrik
9 months ago
More than 80 Harvard faculty members have signed on to a pledge to donate 10% of their paycheck to support staff and students, as long as the University resists Trump's unlawful demands. I am so proud of my colleagues.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Senior Faculty Pledging to Donate a Portion of Salary in Defense of University Community
Senior Faculty Pledging to Donate a Portion of Salary in Defense of University Community We are heartened by the University’s rejection of the Trump administration’s unlawful demands. We also recogn...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/17ZoSE5Yhrs9gi3_OicmK4wFuB6W7O4MLZIQ7VvN84Yk/edit?tab=t.0
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"transparency policies can reduce the gender pay gap with limited costs for firms, but may not be suited to improving women’s outcomes. ... t transparency policies mainly generate pay compression by slowing down the pay growth of better-paid employees"
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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Pay Transparency and Gender Equality
(May 2025) - Since 2018, UK firms with at least 250 employees have been mandated to publicly disclose gender equality indicators. Exploiting variations in this mandate across firm size and time, we sh...
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pol.20220766
9 months ago
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Eva Vivalt
9 months ago
Quite the quote.
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Clément de Chaisemartin
9 months ago
Just posted updated version of our DID textbook! We now have drafts of all chapters, including the one on general designs! Now you can tell your friends still on X that they are DID-outdated :-) Happy easter for those of you that celebrate it.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Credible Answers to Hard Questions: Differences-in-Differences for Natural Experiments
This book introduces applied researchers to modern Differences-in-Differences (DID) methods, that they can use to obtain credible answers to hard causal inferen
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4487202
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How I Learned to Understand the World by Hans Rosling (Omnibus) - BBC Sounds
Data visionary Hans Rosling looks back at the encounters that shaped his world view.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0029z54?partner=uk.co.bbc
9 months ago
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Matt Steinglass
10 months ago
“Two weeks after the [Aix-Marseille University] programme was launched there have been about 100 applications, with researchers from Yale, Nasa and Stanford among those who have expressed interest. The university continues to receive about 10 applications a day”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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European universities offer ‘scientific asylum’ to US researchers fleeing Trump’s cuts
Academics from US hoping to escape funding freezes and ideological impositions are being actively recruited
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/25/europe-universities-us-researchers-trump-administration-science
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René Böheim
Journal of Public Economics
10 months ago
Just published in
@jpube.bsky.social
: "The decline of manufacturing employment and the rise of the far-right in Austria" By
@kbekhtiar.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#econsky
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René Böheim
WIFO
11 months ago
#WIFO
Research Brief: Der geschlechtsspezifische Lohnunterschied verringerte sich von 19,6% (2011) auf 13,9% (2023). Auch der bereinigte Lohnunterschied sank von 7,8% auf 6,3%.
#InternationalWomensDay
@rboheim.bsky.social
@jku-economics.bsky.social
@univie.ac.at
buff.ly/iv9fsCP
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꓄ꃅꍟꂦ ꋪꍟꌗꀤꌗ꓄ꍏꈤꉓꍟ
11 months ago
Time to buy some Neil Young music.
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Neil Young to Play Free Concert in Ukraine Ahead of European Tour
Neil Young will play a free show in Ukraine with the Chrome Hearts before kicking off his European summer tour.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/neil-young-free-concert-ukraine-1235285752/
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René Böheim
John P de New 🇦🇺🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺
11 months ago
Wonderful to see Klaus F Zimmermann is now on BlueSky! Please give him a follow. He’s been one of Germany’s and Europe’s most influential economists for the last 30 years, a staunch European and the inaugural director of IZA-Bonn.
#EconSky
#Germany
@kfzimmermann.bsky.social
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René Böheim
Sascha O. Becker
11 months ago
It was time to donate again to the 🇺🇦 Kyiv School of Economics led by the amazing
@tymofiibrik.bsky.social
and
@mylovanov.bsky.social
🇺🇦 If you want to support KSE in these tough times 👇
foundation.kse.ua/en
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Home - KSE Charitable Foundation
https://foundation.kse.ua/en
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René Böheim
Chris Terry-Enescu
11 months ago
The Ukrainian government has a list of places where you can donate to the war effort here. I personally just donated $100:
war.ukraine.ua/donate/
Slava Ukraini.
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Donate to Ukraine’s defenders
The National Bank of Ukraine has decided to open a special fundraising account to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
https://war.ukraine.ua/donate/
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Timothy Snyder
11 months ago
Decent people thank Ukraine.
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ProMarket
12 months ago
NEW: Nobel Prize-winning economist Eugene Fama argues that
#Bitcoin
is fundamentally flawed and predicts it has a near-certain chance of becoming worthless within a decade in conversation with
@zingales.bsky.social
and
@bethanymclean.bsky.social
on the
#Capitalisnt
podcast.
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Nobel Laureate Eugene Fama Predicts Bitcoin Will Become Worthless - ProMarket
Nobel Prize-winning economist Eugene Fama argues that Bitcoin is fundamentally flawed and predicts it has a near-certain chance of becoming worthless within a decade. In a conversation with Luigi Zing...
https://promarket.org/2025/01/30/nobel-laureate-eugene-fama-predicts-bitcoin-will-become-worthless/
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„Dass die FPÖ aber auch auf universitärer Ebene auf Deutsch besteht und vorgeschlagen hat, dass Forschungsarbeiten künftig nur mehr auf Deutsch und nicht in englischer Sprache verfasst werden sollen, geht für die ÖVP zu weit.“
www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
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FPÖ-Chef Kickl will Einigung zu Bankenabgabe
Herbert Kickl verhandelt an der zuständigen Gruppe vorbei mit ÖVP-Chef Stocker. Differenzen gibt es auch bei der Landesverteidigung abseits von Sky Shield
https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000255253/fpoe-chef-kickl-will-einigung-zu-bankenabgabe?ref=article
12 months ago
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René Böheim
Carl T. Bergstrom
almost 2 years ago
A new arXiv preprint from James Zou suggests that quite a few academics are also using ChatGPT to write their peer reviews. I don't have to explain what an utter shitshow this is going to be, do I?
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Monitoring AI-Modified Content at Scale: A Case Study on the...
We present an approach for estimating the fraction of text in a large corpus which is likely to be substantially modified or produced by a large language model (LLM). Our maximum likelihood model...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07183
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René Böheim
JKU Department of Economics
about 1 year ago
📢 Job opening: Paid position in our PhD program (4 years fixed-term) with a very manageable teaching load. Fields: Applied microeconomics, particularly labor economics. Deadline 2025 Jan 29. Please share with your students and RT.
#EconSky
Details:
karriere.jku.at/hcm/jobexcha...
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Graduate Teaching Assistant (must hold a Diploma/Master's degree)
https://karriere.jku.at/hcm/jobexchange/showJobOfferDetail.do?jobOfferId=8a7ec30193922ce60193959ec219101e&j=&organizationUnitId=
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make sure you update your affiliations/handles from time to time
#repec
add a skeleton here at some point
about 1 year ago
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René Böheim
Alfredo Paloyo
about 1 year ago
The keynote speakers for the Australian Gender Economics Workshop are Prof Paola Profeta (Bocconi) and Prof Doris Weichselbaumer (Linz). Also, the website is now live:
t.ly/mWzth
. Please join us in Wollongong next year!
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AGEW 2025
6–7 February 2025 University of Wollongong
https://t.ly/mWzth
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#EconSky
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Hayek's The Road to Serfdom
Podcast-Folge · In Our Time · 14.11.2024 · 52 Min.
https://podcasts.apple.com/at/podcast/in-our-time/id73330895?i=1000673181962
about 1 year ago
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René Böheim
NBER
about 1 year ago
A model of female labor supply illustrating how various forces discussed in the literature affect the gender earnings gap, from Claudia Olivetti, Jessica Pan, and Barbara Petrongolo
https://www.nber.org/papers/w33153
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René Böheim
Christian Zimmermann
about 1 year ago
Almost all IDEAS pages now have a Bluesky symbol in the social media ribbon. Clicking on it creates a post including the page URL and, in the case of abstract pages, an image with title, author and abstract. Use this when mentioning an economics paper!
ideas.repec.org
#EconSky
#RePEc
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Economics and Finance Research | IDEAS/RePEc
IDEAS is a central index of economics and finance research, including working papers, articles and software code
https://ideas.repec.org/
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René Böheim
JKU Department of Economics
about 1 year ago
Our Rothschild Lecture was a great success. Thanks to everyone who came, our sponsors, and the speaker, Prof Axel Ockenfels!
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René Böheim
Eduard Talamàs
about 1 year ago
I'm designing an MBA elective titled "The Economics of AI." Algorithms, data, compute, labor markets, growth, national security... If a key paper/idea comes to mind, please let me know! I'm really looking forward to this one...
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New work with Thomas Leoni (FH Wiener Neustadt), Thomas Horavath and Martin Spielauer (WIFO) now with NBER wp 32590
www.nber.org/papers/w32590
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The Power of Inclusive Labor Force Participation for Mitigating Population Aging: Closing Gaps at the Intersection Between Race/Ethnicity and Gender in the United States
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
https://www.nber.org/papers/w32590
over 1 year ago
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Neue Untersuchung: "Im Jahr 2011 lag der durchschnittliche Lohn von Frauen 19,6% unter dem der Männer. Bis zum Jahr 2022 verringerte er sich auf 13,5%. Auch der bereinigte Lohnunterschied sank in diesem Zeitraum von 7,8% auf 6,4%." Böheim, Fink und Zulehner,
@wifo.bsky.social
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Lohnunterschiede zwischen Frauen und Männern in Österreich von 2011 bis 2022 - WIFO
WIFO Research Briefs, 2024, (71461), 12 Seiten
https://www.wifo.ac.at/jart/prj3/wifo/main.jart?rel=de&reserve-mode=active&content-id=1528640199418&publikation_id=71461&detail-view=yes
almost 2 years ago
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listen & learn:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Theory of the Leisure Class
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Veblen on conspicuous consumption and conspicuous leisure.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001sdrt
almost 2 years ago
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the world’s richest and poorest people
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BBC Radio 4 - More or Less: Behind the Stats, Is Oxfam right about the world’s richest and poorest...
We investigate how Oxfam use wealth stats to illustrate global inequality
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0h7crzz
almost 2 years ago
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René Böheim
kottke.org
almost 2 years ago
A study in Scotland has found that no cases of cervical cancer have been detected in young women who have been fully vaccinated against HPV. “It is possible to make cervical cancer a rare disease.” Amazing news!
[bbc.com]
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Focus:
hiddenbrain.org/podcast/find...
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Finding Focus | Hidden Brain Media
We spend more and more of our lives staring at screens. Our cellphones, smartwatches and laptops allow us to communicate instantly with people anywhere in the world, and quickly look up obscure facts....
https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/finding-focus/
about 2 years ago
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@arnold on @freakonomics
freakonomics.com/podcast/arno...
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Has Some Advice for You - Freakonomics
Arnold Schwarzenegger Has Some Advice for You - Freakonomics
https://freakonomics.com/podcast/arnold-schwarzenegger-has-some-advice-for-you/
about 2 years ago
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Another great episode
freakonomics.com/podcast/is-g...
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Is Gynecology the Best Innovation Ever? - Freakonomics
Is Gynecology the Best Innovation Ever? - Freakonomics
https://freakonomics.com/podcast/is-gynecology-the-best-innovation-ever/
about 2 years ago
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René Böheim
The New York Times
about 2 years ago
Breaking News: Donald Trump is ineligible to hold office again, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled, disqualifying him from the state’s primary ballot.
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Trump Is Disqualified From the 2024 Ballot, Colorado Supreme Court Rules
It’s the first court to find that the disqualification clause of the 14th Amendment applies to Mr. Trump, in addition to affirming that he engaged in insurrection.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/19/us/politics/trump-colorado-ballot-14th-amendment.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes
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#unisalzburg
Salzburger
#Rektorswahl
: Kandidat zieht wegen "Einmischung" Haslauers zurück
www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
about 2 years ago
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Jan Sauermann
about 2 years ago
Here is a livestream of some of the Nobel lectures today with Claudia Goldin starting at 14:00:
www.kva.se/evenemang/th...
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https://www.kva.se/evenemang/the-nobel-lectures-2023/
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Die Nobelpreise 2023: Wirtschaft, 7.12. | Radio Ö1
oe1.orf.at/player/20231...
oe1.orf.at/player/20231...
about 2 years ago
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What Anti-Trumpism Is Missing | by Daron Acemoglu - Project Syndicate
Daron Acemoglu urges Democrats to support working-class interests and priorities after many years of neglect.
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/trump-2024-democrats-must-return-to-working-class-priorities-policies-by-daron-acemoglu-2023-11
about 2 years ago
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reposted by
René Böheim
Tomer Ullman
about 2 years ago
famous moments in psychology / cog-sci as lego sets, a thread. 1. Pavlov's dogs.
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about 2 years ago
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add a skeleton here at some point
about 2 years ago
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reposted by
René Böheim
kottke.org
about 2 years ago
“I built a trading bot that buys stocks that are being bought by politicians. It is up 20% since it launched in May 2022. The market has been flat during the same time period.” More here.
[threads.net]
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financial literacy
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The Importance of Financial Literacy: Opening a New Field
(Fall 2023) - We undertake an assessment of our two decades of research on financial literacy, building on our empirical research and theoretical work casting financial knowledge as a form of investme...
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.37.4.137
about 2 years ago
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try again, fail better
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How to Succeed at Failing, Part 4: Extreme Resiliency - Freakonomics
How to Succeed at Failing, Part 4: Extreme Resiliency - Freakonomics
https://freakonomics.com/podcast/how-to-succeed-at-failing-part-4-extreme-resiliency/
about 2 years ago
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I‘m just sitting here, watching the wheels go round
www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
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Wie schafft man es, 15 Jahre länger zu leben – und dabei gesund zu sein?
Alt werden könnte so schön sein – wenn da bloß nicht diese vielen Krankheiten wären. Doch die müssen nicht zwingend kommen, weiß ein Experte. Und vieles können wir selbst steuern
https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000193197/wie-schafft-man-es-15-jahre-laenger-zu-leben-und-dabei-gesund-zu-sein?ref=article
about 2 years ago
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