http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/06/150623103609.htm
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Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Monday, September 28, 2015
The Implications of Defining When a Woman Is Pregnant
https://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/tgr/08/2/gr080207.html
Between one-third and one-half of all fertilized eggs never fully implant. A pregnancy is considered to be established only after implantation is complete.
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Between one-third and one-half of all fertilized eggs never fully implant. A pregnancy is considered to be established only after implantation is complete.
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Stonewall Movie: 22 Hilarious Excerpts From Scathing Reviews
http://www.autostraddle.com/22-epic-comparisons-from-scathing-reviews-of-stonewall-308868/
Somehow, director Roland Emmerich has made a movie even less historically accurate than 10,000 BC, the one depicting Egyptian-style pyramids being constructed with the help of woolly mammoths.
---Steve
Somehow, director Roland Emmerich has made a movie even less historically accurate than 10,000 BC, the one depicting Egyptian-style pyramids being constructed with the help of woolly mammoths.
---Steve
U.S. foreign-born population nears high
Check out this article from USA TODAY:
U.S. foreign-born population nears high
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/09/28/us-foreign-born-population-nears-high/72814674/
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U.S. foreign-born population nears high
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/09/28/us-foreign-born-population-nears-high/72814674/
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Saturday, September 26, 2015
CDC - Pregnancy Mortality Surveillance System - Maternal and Infant Health - Reproductive Health
http://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/maternalinfanthealth/pmss.html
Since the Pregnancy Mortality Surveillance System was implemented, the number of reported pregnancy-related deaths in the United States steadily increased from 7.2 deaths per 100,000 live births in 1987 to a high of 17.8 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2009 and 2011.
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Since the Pregnancy Mortality Surveillance System was implemented, the number of reported pregnancy-related deaths in the United States steadily increased from 7.2 deaths per 100,000 live births in 1987 to a high of 17.8 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2009 and 2011.
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Abortion safer than giving birth: study | Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/23/us-abortion-idUSTRE80M2BS20120123
Researchers found that women were about 14 times more likely to die during or after giving birth to a live baby than to die from complications of an abortion.
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Researchers found that women were about 14 times more likely to die during or after giving birth to a live baby than to die from complications of an abortion.
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Friday, September 25, 2015
Thursday, September 24, 2015
London Zoo: What’s up with giraffe necks?
http://azdailysun.com/lifestyles/pets/london-zoo-what-s-up-with-giraffe-necks/article_df82a0e6-24d0-51a1-ba08-0595c2d7be59.html
The giraffe neck is comparable to the peacock's tail in that it promotes more mating success while also exposing the males to dangers and physical challenges.
---Steve
The giraffe neck is comparable to the peacock's tail in that it promotes more mating success while also exposing the males to dangers and physical challenges.
---Steve
The Atlantic: How Rand Paul Misunderstands the Fourteenth Amendment
How Rand Paul Misunderstands the Fourteenth Amendment
The Atlantic
The Kentucky senator points to its author's intent to justify his opposition to birthright citizenship—but the clause in question has no clear author. Read the full story
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In speech to Congress, Pope Francis urges action on immigration, climate
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2015/09/24/pope-congress-speech-historic-climate-change-republicans-democrats/72706718/
"We must be especially attentive to every type of fundamentalism, whether religious or of any other kind. A delicate balance is required to combat violence perpetrated in the name of a religion, an ideology or an economic system, while also safeguarding religious freedom, intellectual freedom and individual freedoms. But there is another temptation which we must especially guard against: the simplistic reductionism which sees only good or evil; or, if you will, the righteous and sinners."
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"We must be especially attentive to every type of fundamentalism, whether religious or of any other kind. A delicate balance is required to combat violence perpetrated in the name of a religion, an ideology or an economic system, while also safeguarding religious freedom, intellectual freedom and individual freedoms. But there is another temptation which we must especially guard against: the simplistic reductionism which sees only good or evil; or, if you will, the righteous and sinners."
---Steve
Study highlights which fruits and vegetables can aid weight loss - Medical News Today
- 34.9% of Americans are classed as obese
- Obesity runs at 39.5% among 40-59 year-olds, but 30.3% among those aged 20-29
- An obese person costs the public health services on average $1,429 per person per year compared with a non-obese person.
Wednesday, September 23, 2015
8 rights of pregnant women at work July 28 - CNNMoney
Other examples of reasonable accommodations may include letting a worker sit on a stool rather than stand during her shift, changing her work schedule if she has severe morning sickness, or allowing her to keep a water bottle at her work station.
Check out this story on CNNMoney:
http://money.cnn.com/2014/07/25/news/economy/rights-pregnant-workers/
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Check out this story on CNNMoney:
http://money.cnn.com/2014/07/25/news/economy/rights-pregnant-workers/
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Carly Fiorina's Ex-Husband: "She's The Ultimate Clown."
http://ringoffireradio.com/2015/09/carly-fiorinas-ex-husband-shes-the-ultimate-clown/
In the clown car that is the Republican Party, she's the ultimate clown.
---Steve
In the clown car that is the Republican Party, she's the ultimate clown.
---Steve
Tuesday, September 22, 2015
National Geographic: ‘It Wasn’t the Bear's Fault’: Grizzly Attack Survivor Stories
'It Wasn't the Bear's Fault': Grizzly Attack Survivor Stories
National Geographic
Survival rates for bear attacks are high. And those who have been mauled are often forgiving. Read the full story
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Monday, September 21, 2015
Sunday, September 20, 2015
Saturday, September 19, 2015
PLOS ONE: The Case of Moulay Ismael - Fact or Fancy?
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0085292
In general, results indicate that the Emperor could have reached his notorious reproductive success with fewer copulations than assumed so far - thus the historic reports could be facts and not fancy. With our simulation we could also provide evidence that the harem size is of lesser importance for the achievement of the reported reproductive success than thought so far. A breeding pool of 65 to 110 women leads to the maximum reproductive outcome. This highlights the importance of incorporating cost-benefit calculations – increasing the size of the breeding pool beyond that point increases the costs without additional benefits to outweigh them. Having a harem of 500 concubines might have been due to other considerations than maximization of individual reproductive outcome. For example, it could have been a means to remove the additional women from the reach of other men, thus depriving them of reproductive potential.
---Steve
In general, results indicate that the Emperor could have reached his notorious reproductive success with fewer copulations than assumed so far - thus the historic reports could be facts and not fancy. With our simulation we could also provide evidence that the harem size is of lesser importance for the achievement of the reported reproductive success than thought so far. A breeding pool of 65 to 110 women leads to the maximum reproductive outcome. This highlights the importance of incorporating cost-benefit calculations – increasing the size of the breeding pool beyond that point increases the costs without additional benefits to outweigh them. Having a harem of 500 concubines might have been due to other considerations than maximization of individual reproductive outcome. For example, it could have been a means to remove the additional women from the reach of other men, thus depriving them of reproductive potential.
---Steve
The Fight for Unplanned Parenthood - The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/19/opinion/gail-collins-the-fight-for-unplanned-parenthood.html?_r=0
If an elected official wants to try to drive Planned Parenthood out of business, there are two honest options: Announce that first you're going to invest a ton of new taxpayer money in creating real substitutes, or shrug your shoulders and tell the world that you're fine with cutting off health services to some of your neediest constituents.
---Steve
If an elected official wants to try to drive Planned Parenthood out of business, there are two honest options: Announce that first you're going to invest a ton of new taxpayer money in creating real substitutes, or shrug your shoulders and tell the world that you're fine with cutting off health services to some of your neediest constituents.
---Steve
Friday, September 18, 2015
Science Based Cuisine
Most commonly, evolution is discussed in terms of speciation, where a common ancestor's progeny adapt to different environments across generations, and start diverging in traits - thus, the same Prunus will give rise to the cherry and the apricot. But in some cases, evolutionary pressure can take different organisms to evolve similar, or, in this case, identical traits. Coffee and tea, for example, do not have the identical enzymes, but they have evolved to produce the same effect on the raw material xanthosine, in an identical chain of events that produces chemically identical caffeine. Which probably first evolved as chemical protection against insects.
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Houdini. Skeptic. (Book Review) | Doubtful
https://idoubtit.wordpress.com/2015/09/18/houdini-skeptic-book-review/
In the conclusion he is startled by the "utter inability of the average human being to describe accurately anything he or she has witnessed." With this tendency, a medium can easily accomplish wonders. These same mediums, he said, deliberately avoid honest investigation. What was not answered in this book was how Houdini managed to get into the audiences he did to make these observations.
---Steve
In the conclusion he is startled by the "utter inability of the average human being to describe accurately anything he or she has witnessed." With this tendency, a medium can easily accomplish wonders. These same mediums, he said, deliberately avoid honest investigation. What was not answered in this book was how Houdini managed to get into the audiences he did to make these observations.
---Steve
Do you want a meaningful or a happy life? – Roy F Baumeister – Aeon
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Thursday, September 17, 2015
Wednesday, September 16, 2015
Donald Trump accused Carly Fiorina of being a terrible businesswoman. Here’s the truth - The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/09/16/donald-trump-accused-carly-fiorina-of-being-a-terrible-businesswoman-heres-the-truth/?tid=sm_tw
Arianna Packard, the granddaughter of HP's founder, commented when discouraging voters from supporting Fiorina in her 2010 senatorial run, 'I know a little bit about Carly Fiorina, having watched her almost destroy the company my grandfather founded.'"
---Steve
Arianna Packard, the granddaughter of HP's founder, commented when discouraging voters from supporting Fiorina in her 2010 senatorial run, 'I know a little bit about Carly Fiorina, having watched her almost destroy the company my grandfather founded.'"
---Steve
Tuesday, September 15, 2015
Monday, September 14, 2015
The Elmore Leonard Story by Joan Acocella | The New York Review of Books
I'm sorry, Jack, but I can't shoot you."
"You just did, for Christ's sake."
"You know what I mean." She said, "I want you to know…I never for a minute felt you were too old for me." She said, "I'm afraid, though, thirty years from now I'll feel different about it. I'm sorry, Jack, I really am."
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In New York, a Win and a Loss on Health - The New York Times
The city Health Department has linked metzitzah b'peh to more than a dozen infant herpes cases, and two deaths, since 2000. The Bloomberg administration tried to discourage the practice by requiring mohels to have parents sign a consent form acknowledging the risks. But mohels, citing religious freedom, refused to use the form.
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Sunday, September 13, 2015
What the Case Against Stephen Harper Is Really About - The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2015/09/parker-donham-response/405067/
Those are his views, he's certainly entitled to them, and I expect he'll cast his vote on October 19 accordingly. That's democracy, and fair enough.
---Steve
Those are his views, he's certainly entitled to them, and I expect he'll cast his vote on October 19 accordingly. That's democracy, and fair enough.
---Steve
Are Western Values Losing Their Sway? - The New York Times
But couple the tightening of Chinese authoritarianism with Russia's turn toward revanchism and dictatorship, and then add the rise of radical Islam, and the grand victory of Western liberalism can seem hollow, its values under threat even within its own societies.
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The Next Genocide - The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/opinion/sunday/the-next-genocide.html?action=click&contentCollection=Health&module=MostPopularFB&version=Full®ion=Marginalia&src=me&pgtype=article
The quest for German domination was premised on the denial of science.
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The quest for German domination was premised on the denial of science.
---Steve
Article: 25 Books Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Other Top CEOs Recommend
25 Books Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Other Top CEOs Recommend
http://www.inc.com/john-rampton/25-books-top-ceos-recommend-you-read.html
Related topics: Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Atlas Shrugged
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---Steve
Saturday, September 12, 2015
Friday, September 11, 2015
Wednesday, September 09, 2015
Tuesday, September 08, 2015
The Year Humans Got Serious About Climate Change -- NYMag
For human to wean ourselves off carbon-emitting fossil fuel, we will have to use some combination of edict and invention — there is no other plausible way around it. The task before the world is best envisioned not as a singular event but as two distinct but interrelated revolutions, one in political willpower and the other in technological innovation. It has taken a long time for each to materialize, in part because the absence of one has compounded the difficulty of the other. It is extremely hard to force a shift to clean energy when dirty energy is much cheaper, and it is extremely hard to achieve economies of scale in new energy technologies when the political system has not yet nudged you to do so.
---Steve
Monday, September 07, 2015
Voluntary euthanasia: beware of the godly!
Beware of the godly
Religious leaders such as Archbishop Welby have no particular authority - intellectual, moral, or otherwise - in respect of issues that relate to decisions at the beginning and end of life. Religious leaders are experts on the doctrines of their respective organisations, but that sort of expertise should cut no ice with the rest of us.
Bill O’Reilly’s nonsense “nihilism”: Now the Fox News host is even lying about God - Salon.com
far as the United States goes, it is high religiosity itself that correlates with bad crime rates, deadbeat tax payers, poverty, rampant teen pregnancy, low education, a dearth of life opportunities, early death, and so on. Faith is, in short, part and parcel of a congeries of nasty ills every society should strive to extirpate.
---Steve
The correlation of high religiosity in America with everything bad « Why Evolution Is True
https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2015/09/07/the-correlation-of-high-religiosity-in-america-with-everything-bad/
The solution is easy: vote out the conservatives and loosen the grip of faith on America.
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The solution is easy: vote out the conservatives and loosen the grip of faith on America.
---Steve
Sunday, September 06, 2015
Saturday, September 05, 2015
Article: Giant rock threatens to crash near Arizona dam as rappellers battle gravity
Giant rock threatens to crash near Arizona dam as rappellers battle gravity
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/05/giant-rock-could-crash-arizona-dam
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Wednesday, September 02, 2015
Report: More than half of immigrants on welfare
Check out this article from USA TODAY:
Report: More than half of immigrants on welfare
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/09/01/immigrant-welfare-use-report/71517072/
---Steve
Report: More than half of immigrants on welfare
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/09/01/immigrant-welfare-use-report/71517072/
---Steve
Tuesday, September 01, 2015
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If you're eligible for Medicare when you turn 65, you can sign up during your Initial Enrollment Period. This is a 7-month period that begins
3 months before the month you turn 65, includes the month you turn 65, and ends 3 months after the month you turn 65.
---Steve