Sunday, December 14

Part 3 of Shoot Yourself in the Foot health care: the more antibiotics, the better bacteria mutate effective defenses against them

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"[T]he world is heading towards a time when common infections will increasingly kill because drugs are no longer effective against them...

Part 2 of Shoot Yourself in the Foot health care: "Sitting Disease" and Televisionitis

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Quotes below taken from USA Today June 25 report Study: Watching too much TV could lead to early death .  See the full report for a link to ...

Shoot Yourself in the Foot health care, Part 1: Gluten in wheat isn't the big problem, gliadin is

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"Asked if the farming industry could change back to the [wheat] grain it formerly produced, Davis said it could, but it would not be ec...
Tuesday, November 11

Affection, Attention, and Bananas

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"They work for bananas.  They love bananas.  So, they'll work endlessly for a mouthful of banana," added Poling. The quote i...
Wednesday, October 29

Two sides to the boom in pawn shop banking lead to same place

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One side is outlined in Todd Zywicki's August 2013 article for The Volokh Conspiracy, Pawn Shops Boom as Consumer Retail Banking Retreat...

Speaking of shifting the poor out of big cities: London property values

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"New research provides evidence of what many Londoners have long suspected: property prices in London are only partly linked to the loc...

Shocker: Majority of America's poor are now in suburbs

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A cynic would wonder if U.S. federal programs are deliberately shifting the poor out of big cities to make way for real estate developers al...
Friday, October 24

Ebola and the Silent Epidemic of Contaminated Hypodermic Needles

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Black Bag Doctors How common is it in Africa for medical caregivers to reuse hypodermics that haven't been properly sterilized or ste...
Wednesday, October 15

Official: Duncan should have been moved to a hospital with biocontainment unit

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CNN's breaking news report on a second DAllas health care worker testing positive for Ebola symptoms was updated at 5:53 AM EDT with th...
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2nd healthcare worker who tended Thomas Duncan tests positive for Ebola

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2nd healthcare worker tests positive for Ebola at Dallas hospital By Catherine E. Shoichet and Holly Yan, CNN updated 5:14 AM EDT, Wed Octob...
Tuesday, September 23

Can American Children Be Stopped From Using Marijuana?

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Oh sure.  All we have to do is figure out why so many American children don't listen when their parents tell them not to use dope.  Towa...
Thursday, August 28

The mysterious journey of Bardarbunga's magma, clearly explained by the Beeb

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As millions of people around the world including air traffic controllers watch and wait and wonder, the complex secret life of volcanos goes...
Wednesday, August 27

Legal Marijuana Farming's Phantom Profits and Why The Real Profits Are For Crooks

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"The boom in medical pot farms has led to a decline in pot prices, which in turn has caused people to grow even more to make up for the...
Saturday, August 23

James Bamford's shattering conversations with Edward Snowden

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Of all the people who might interview Edward Snowden, James Bamford is the logical top choice. But just because of this Bamford would have b...

That's a lot of bananas to lug around the oceans

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"The project, which has spurred a series of port and infrastructure upgrades throughout the Caribbean and the US eastern seaboa...