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A 26-year-old German backpacker survived nearly two weeks lost in Western Australia's outback after her van crashed, and was rescued by a motorist more than 30km from her vehicle. She survived by drinking puddle water and sheltering in a cave, expressing immense gratitude for her rescue and the community support she received. Her rescue was attributed to luck, and she is now recovering in Perth.
German sandal maker Birkenstock has filed for an initial public offering (IPO) in the U.S., indicating a growing market for new listings.
A 26-year-old German climber died after falling 500 meters in the Alps near the Swiss resort of Zermatt. The man had set out alone to climb the Strahlhorn peak and fell down a rock face on the Adlerpass, a mountain pass below the peak.
Native speakers of German and Arabic have different brain structures due to increased connectivity in areas needed to handle the specific natures of their respective languages. The study supports the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis that language structure shapes our worldview and how we think. The research also explains why people may find it difficult to learn a language with highly different structures from their native tongue. The study used magnetic resonance tomography to study the brain connectivity of 47 native German speakers and the same number of people who learned Arabic as their first language.
A study by scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig has found that the language we speak shapes the connectivity in our brains that may underlie the way we think. The researchers analyzed the structural language connectome of native German and Arabic speakers and discovered differences in the wiring of the language regions in the brain. The study provides new insights into how the brain adapts to cognitive demands, and could give researchers a way to understand cross-cultural processing differences in the brain.