The European Union has frozen roughly €23 billion ($24.5 billion) worth of assets of the Russian Central Bank, Reuters reported, citing EU Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders, who revealed the figure at a news conference on Wednesday. The amount is much smaller than expected out of the reported $300 billion frozen …
Read More »Bright eyes? People with larger pupils are ‘smarter’ than those with smaller ones, new study claims
Cognitive abilities like attention control, fluid intelligence and working memory capacity have been linked to baseline pupil size by researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology, who conducted several large-scale studies involving over 500 participants. First, they calculated the average pupil size of each of the participants — aged between 18 …
Read More »Smaller Russian oil corporations oust energy giants from top of WWF environmental rating
“For the first time over the last seven years we are facing the unprecedented level of transparency of oil & gas companies in incidents and emergencies coverage,” the report reads. The rating that has been published since 2014 rated eighteen Russian energy enterprises with annual output of more than two …
Read More »It’s ‘OK now…we have a new president’: Pelosi willing to make smaller Covid-19 relief deal, is accused of having played politics
Pelosi (D-California) changed her tune on Covid-19 relief during a press conference on Friday, where she appeared more willing to cut a deal with Republicans than in previous months. Pelosi previously led House Democrats for months in a battle with the White House, unwilling to agree to anything less than …
Read More »Puzzling higher AstraZeneca vaccine efficacy for smaller dosage explained: It was reportedly tested on people only under 56
On Monday, the pharmacological company announced that its AZD1222 vaccine for Covid-19, which is based on a common cold virus that causes infection in chimpanzees, has an efficacy of 70 percent. The number is average for two slightly different tests. One involved people, who received half a dose of the …
Read More »The error in the interior, making the room visually smaller. Photo
So it is not necessary to arrange a small space. “Small spool, but precious!” we, the inhabitants of close dwellings. But did you know that there is a way to visually enlarge a modest square meters? Before you the five most common interior design mistakes and ways to quickly remedy …
Read More »Smartphone OnePlus 6T will get the unibrow smaller
The network has posted renders of one of the prototypes of the smartphone OnePlus 6T based on the current flagship, the OnePlus 6. The differences will relate primarily to monobrow – it will become noticeably smaller and change the shape to a keyhole, but it will be, shall we say, …
Read More »Roskomnadzor can lead to the disappearance of smaller providers
Everyone’s favorite Roskomnadzor, bearing the favor of the “residents” Runet, their actions can significantly change the balance of power in the market of Internet providers. According to the Russian Association for electronic communications (RAEC), further pressure on providers to install equipment to block can lead to the disappearance of small …
Read More »A scandal all over Europe: Polish MEP said that “women are weaker, smaller and dumber”
Korwin-mikke scored another trick. Polish MEP-nationalist Janusz Korwin-Mikke can be punished after he made offensive statements about women. “And, of course, women should earn less than men because they are weaker, they are smaller, they are less intelligent,” he said in the debate in the European Parliament. According to the …
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