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The situation in the morning: What Karl Lauterbach does at night

2021-07-09T18:19:21.725Z


Empty ranks in sports affect women and men differently. Karl Lauterbach reveals amazing nocturnal passions. And: The choice also depends on the weather. That is the situation on Friday.


Today it is about the effects of empty ranks on athletic performance, about the nocturnal passions of Karl Lauterbach and the connection between choice and weather.

Olympic Games without an audience?

A study shows the effect of empty ranks

Two weeks from now, the

Olympic Games in Tokyo will

begin

and they will

take place in

front of empty stands

. Spectators from abroad had already been excluded because of the corona pandemic, but because the number of infections in Tokyo is rising again significantly and the

corona emergency

for the capital region has been extended, no domestic audience is now allowed. Only 15 percent of the total population in Japan is vaccinated.

How do viewers actually influence the performance of athletes?

The Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) had this researched on the basis of the German junior biathlon squad, the results are fresh: Men and women react differently here.

Men run slower without spectators, women run faster.

When shooting, on the other hand, women perform better in front of an audience, while men shoot both more slowly and more imprecisely than in front of empty stands.

Win here, lose there - that sounds like balancing justice, at least between sports.

Apart from sport and for Japan itself, the lack of spectators results in a different calculation: economically it will be a catastrophe, in terms of health policy it is the only way to escape a catastrophe.

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Karl Lauterbach's nocturnal passion

There is actually always at least one person in top politics whose example makes you think that it must be terrible to belong to the political class.

Not long ago, the CDU chancellor candidate was Armin Laschet, who was embarrassed to the bone by his competitor Markus Söder, now it's Annalena Baerbock, who sometimes embarrasses herself and is sometimes embarrassed.

A few days ago, the writer Jochen Schmidt wrote in a SPIEGEL text: "It is astonishing that we still have someone biting the bullet and finding a successor for the position of Federal Chancellor who wants to do the work voluntarily."

Other exposed positions in politics do not seem desirable at first either.

Who wants to be Karl Lauterbach

, who has even created his task as political corona expert number 1 himself? He came to the

SPIEGEL interview

with my colleagues Markus Feldenkirchen and Martin Knobbe with

personal protection

that has not left his side for some time. Lauterbach tells how he experienced "specific physical threats" that "took me to the extreme".

And yet this conversation shows a man who does what he does because he feels it is his duty to make use of the epidemiological knowledge he has accumulated over 35 years for the general public.

He describes epidemiology as a passion

: "Even on vacation I can't do without epidemiological studies." It relaxes him to read them at night: "As a rule, I also have a glass of wine with my studies."

Even if it often works differently - here is someone speaking who is more interested in the matter than in himself. The SPD gave him a bad place on the list and didn't want him to be boss before?

"I'm part of the party, and if I don't get certain offices, it's my own fault."

There may be something else that Lauterbach is looking at his situation so calmly.

It is now more recognized among the population than ever before.

The encouragement for politicians - it goes up and down.

Today's edition of the Süddeutsche Zeitung says of another politician: “At first, he was not trusted.

Now the chancellorship seems to be flying to Armin Laschet. "

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Elections and Weather

There is this

theory that the outcome of the federal election will also depend on the weather

.

Persistent heat or drought and the result of the parties with convincing climate policy skyrocketed.

Now this theory is a bit embarrassing for us voters.

Do they trust us to have so little ability to abstract?

But there is probably something to it.

It is easier to talk about the weather than the climate.

It would also have to be admitted that the fundamental climate policy demands have not changed that much in the past few decades, but it first took the two extreme climatological summers of 2018 and 2019 before the popularity of the topic increased significantly - it needed the concrete one Heat on the skin.

Despite the thunderstorms and water masses in this country, there can be no talk of an extreme summer comparable to that of that time.

So

in the SPIEGEL interview,

Michael Kellner

, head of the

Greens election,

tries

to make the urgency of the situation clear

by referring to the

effects of climate change

in other countries: “In Canada, entire villages are burning down, in Siberia the permafrost is melting, and Madagascar is facing a drought-related hunger crisis - and here, too, heat records alternate with floods. "

According to the above theory, such knowledge would not be sufficient.

What is needed is immediate, concrete experience - which again nobody here can wish for.

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Winner of the day ...

... are the Federal President and the other politicians who are finally allowed to go outside again.

On Sunday, Frank-Walter Steinmeier was seen hiking with citizens in the Harz Mountains, today he is expected at Timmendorfer Strand.

These are goals that sound like the summer freshness of the 1960s - goals that many Germans are aiming for again during this summer vacation because of the pandemic (I went on vacation in the Black Forest myself, it was nice).

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I wish you a good start to the day.

Your Susanne Beyer

Source: spiegel

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