Lieve vrienden,
De afgelopen jaren hebben we kunnen genieten van verschillende digitale rondleidingen in het British Museum 🏛️
Met behulp van foto’s, landkaarten, tijdbalken en videoclips zijn we beter bekend geraakt met verschillende Bijbelse wereldmachten van Egypte helemaal tot aan Griekenland.
Op veler verzoek heb ik besloten nog één keer en nieuwe geschiedenis tour te maken, namelijk over het volgende deel van Daniëls droom, de benen van ijzer: Rome. 🏺
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Wellicht tot dan? 😃
Groetjes
Jan Romme
Avoiding news may lead one to think I live under a rock, but if it's important enough, the major news stories will make it's way to my perception. If something horrific happens in my country, I do find out about it perhaps hours after the news breaks - maybe a few days for less dramatic stuff from other people in my life. That said, what difference does it make if I hear about the story hours after it happens?
The idea that saturated fats cause heart disease, called the diet-heart hypothesis, was introduced in the 1950s, based on weak, associational evidence. Subsequent clinical trials attempting to substantiate this hypothesis could never establish a causal link. However, these clinical-trial data were largely ignored for decades, until journalists brought them to light about a decade ago. Subsequent reexaminations of this evidence by nutrition experts have now been published in >20 review papers, which have largely concluded that saturated fats have no effect on cardiovascular disease, cardiovascular mortality or total mortality.
People are surprised this morning to learn that it's the companies with cargo on the ship that crashed into the bridge that will pay the damages, not the ship owner or ship operator. That's because of ancient maritime law (older than the US constitution) called "General Average" designed to prevent sailors from fighting over which cargo to toss overboard, and instead to focus on saving the ship: