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❓Why do the Nordics & Dutch speak English so much better than the Germans, Italians & French?

➡️ New Working Paper:

Out-of-School Learning: Subtitling vs. Dubbing and the Acquisition of Foreign-Language Skills
w/ F. Baumeister & E. Hanushek

www.nber.org/papers/w33984

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Not sure if that rate is the same in the US. There are a lot of chicken farms in NL and they generally keep good track of outbreak statistics so this was easy to find.

I've wondered about this, too. The Dutch "knowledge platform for livestock and public health" (collab between Ag Department and Universities, etc.) estimates the risk of avian influenza infection for free range farms to be 6x the risk for indoor farms.
(www.kennisplatformveehouderij.nl/vogelgriep)

I had 4 days off and by the end of that time I was thinking about creative pursuits, maybe even getting involved in my community. Thank god that's over now

for a brief time we had a repository of common information at hand, a way to dig media out of storehouses and cross-reference data from different sources. but today, google is a website that lies to you about dogs