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When research stays a trade secret, public safety suffers. Not a single field study on moderation or online harassment has ever been replicated in 40 years of research. It’s hard to know if Lampe’s moderation research applies anywhere other than early 2000s Slashdot. It took 10 years for others to ask similar questions, and their findings seem to point in an [opposite](http://arxiv.org/abs/1405.1429) [direction](http://arxiv.org/abs/1504.00680).
A toxic web: what the Victorians can teach us about online abuse
J Nathan Matias
Die Pest ist keine Krankheit, die im Menschen ihren Ursprung hat; das Bakterium Y. pestis überlebt in wilden Nagetierpopulationen auf der ganzen Welt – in so genannten Pestreservoirs. Der alte zentralasiatische Stamm, der die Epidemie von 1338 bis 1339 am Yssykköl-See verursachte, muss also aus einem solchen Reservoir stammen.
Ursprung Des Schwarzen Todes Identifiziert
mpg.de
Virtually every review of the situation questioned how much desperately needed brainpower was being squandered by the intentional neglect of America’s Negro schools.
Hidden Figures
Margot Lee Shetterly
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