Persuasion Experiment
Tesla’s profits would evaporate if not for these regulatory credits Last quarter, Tesla brought in $595 million in regulatory credits revenue. If we consider that revenue to be profit, it represents 145% of Tesla’s $409 million in net profit last quarter. More: Tesla is now losing money on what should be its ostensible reason for existence – selling cars.
Patents are sought by academics and their institutions to protect their inventions. Academics also seek patents to enhance their individual profile and status for the purpose of job and promotion opportunities. This article addresses the concerning development of patent inventorship credit (or credit that might be viewed as inventorship credit) being offered for sale by established education fraud companies along-side offers for authorship on academic papers and thesis writing.
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About a quarter of women and one-eighth of men reported increased same-sex attraction after psychedelic use. […] Fewer participants described themselves as single after their psychedelic use compared to before.
The Stasi (Ministerium für Staatssicherheit) was the East German secret police, and that country had the highest proportion of informants and secret police in history: 1 in 60 people were involved by 1989. […] Nevertheless political activists managed to start a grassroots revolution. […] How effective was the Stasi?
The Securitate was the secret police agency of the Socialist Republic of Romania. It was, in proportion to Romania’s population, one of the largest secret police forces in the Eastern bloc. At its height, the Securitate employed some 15,000 agents and almost half a million informants for a country with a population of 23 million by 1989. […] Assassinations were also used to silence dissent, such as the attempt to kill high-ranking defector Ion Mihai Pacepa, who received two death sentences from Romania in 1978, and on whose head Ceaușescu decreed a bounty of two million US dollars. Yasser Arafat and Muammar al-Gaddafi each added one more million dollars to the reward. In the 1980s, Securitate officials allegedly hired Carlos the Jackal to assassinate Pacepa.
Upon capturing dozens of the snakes in cooler temperatures after sunset and extracting and analyzing their venom, they made an unexpected discovery. Rather than developing more complex toxins for a wide variety of potential prey, as the researchers assumed, the rattlesnakes were instead producing simpler venoms containing fewer and more focused venoms. The findings indicate that, over time, the snakes were finely tuning their venom for more specific prey.
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