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Our corona-free review of the year: You were particularly moved by stories about super hunters, the climate crisis and gender gaps.
1. What ends up on our plates – or not
Whether it be Hörnli with minced meat for the microwave or ready-to-eat hash browns: the Swiss like what can be prepared quickly. The annual turnover for ready meals was over 136 francs per capita last year.
But how healthy are ready meals? You obviously asked yourself that too and Searched for answers in this text.
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It has to be done quickly: Almost 80 percent of food purchases in Switzerland come from industry and are processed.
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By the way: If you have already made New Year’s resolutions, you will probably feel the same way as the four Einstein test subjects. You lived without sugar for a month. Did everyone stick to the sugar abstinence? Find out!
2. How we can destroy the climate – and still save it
The polar ice caps are melting, sea levels are rising, forests are being cut down: we all know that it is high time to change our lives. Why don’t we change anything anyway? The environmental psychologist Gerhard Reese explains in this interview.
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What has to happen so that we act more environmentally friendly?
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Environmental engineer Devi Bühler is someone who does something: she builds her own tiny house out of wood in order to keep CO2 emissions as low as possible. Would such a life in a few square meters also be something for you?
3. How differently medicine treats women and men
Same diagnosis, different biological sex: What the Swiss Society for Intensive Care Medicine published kept you busy. The researchers found that women under 45 years of age have to be significantly sicker than men of the same age to be admitted to the intensive care unit. But there is more.
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The researchers sifted through 500,000 patient entries from Swiss intensive care units.
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When it comes to chronic back pain, both men and women suffer equally. Almost 90 percent of the Swiss are affected at least once a year, according to the Rheumaliga back report. No wonder you were very interested in what could help.
4. Animals and their superpowers
Have you been woken up by the loud croaking of a crow? And did you get annoyed about it? Who knows, what corvids can do, the feathered wild animals and their complex phonetic language perceive differently.
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Corvide can think causally, plan for the future, choose between several alternatives and have creativity in the construction of tools.
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The article about Switzerland’s most popular pet was also well received. Cuddly cats are just cute. But they also have a completely different side.
5. This is what our community has discussed the most
What two American psychologists discovered over 25 years ago is still causing discussion today – also in the SRF commentary column. The so-called Dunning-Kruger effect was used as an opportunity to take up one of the four basic questions of philosophy: “What can I know?”.
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According to the Dunning-Kruger effect, incompetent people conspicuously often overestimate their own abilities while at the same time underestimating the performance of more competent people.
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Finally, another star of the click figures: The fall of our universe. Well, everything ends someday – also this review of the year.