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Rheumatology Advisor: US Healthcare System Ranks Among Least Efficient in World


US Healthcare System Ranks Among Least Efficient in World
Rheumatology Advisor

The US health care system is one of the least efficient worldwide based on a Bloomberg index that assesses life expectancy, health care spending per capita, and relative spending as a share of gross domestic product Read the full story


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Bloomberg: Americans Are Dying Faster. Millennials, Too


Americans Are Dying Faster. Millennials, Too
Bloomberg

People who predict death for a living have some bad news. Read the full story


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Religion may be a miracle drug: Column

Check out this article from USA TODAY:

Religion may be a miracle drug: Column

http://usat.ly/2eCspv5


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ScienceBlog.com: Researchers find weakness in common computer chip


Researchers find weakness in common computer chip
ScienceBlog.com

Researchers from Binghamton University–State University of New York and the University of California, Riverside have found a weakness in the Haswell central processing unit (CPU) components that makes common computer operating systems vulnerable to malicious attacks. Computer hackers could take control of individual, company and government computers if a weak point in address space layout […] Read the full story


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the guardian: Ethics and genetics: opening the book of life – Science Weekly podcast


Ethics and genetics: opening the book of life – Science Weekly podcast
the guardian

When it comes to the ethics of genetic technologies who decides how far we should go in our pursuit for perfection? Read the full story


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Friday, October 21, 2016

The Washington Post: The awkward thing that happened when scientists asked a computer to tell Asian faces apart


The awkward thing that happened when scientists asked a computer to tell Asian faces apart
The Washington Post

To be Asian in America is to be quizzed, constantly, about your ethnicity. Read the full story


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Thursday, October 20, 2016

CNN: Scientists confirm genetics of schizophrenia


Scientists confirm genetics of schizophrenia
CNN

Using technology to illuminate chromosomes, UCLA scientists confirmed the core mechanics underpinning the genetics of this mental disorder. Read the full story


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Summary of Hamilton, Jay, and Madison: The Federalist - From WikiSummary, free summaries of academic books and articles


The Problem of Factions

Factions--a catch-all term for what we might call "special interests," "political parties," and pressure groups like the Moral Majority--worried Madison. If a faction grew large enough, it could impose its will on an entire nation, resulting in a tyranny of the majority.

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Stop whining

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/10/18/watch_barack_obama_s_masterful_donald_trump_rigging_takedown.html

That's what Americans do. That's why America is already great. One way of weakening America and making it less great is if you start betraying those basic American traditions that have been bipartisan and have helped to hold together this democracy now for well over two centuries.
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No Fear Shakespeare: The Tempest: Act 1, Scene 2, Page 10

http://nfs.sparknotes.com/tempest/page_30.html

Was the first man that leaped, cried, "Hell is empty
And all the devils are here."

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No Fear Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet: Act 2, Scene 6

http://nfs.sparknotes.com/romeojuliet/page_132.html

These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which, as they kiss, consume. The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
And in the taste confounds the appetite.
Therefore love moderately. Long love doth so.
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

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Guns & Suicide | Harvard Public Health Magazine | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health


Far more people kill themselves with a firearm each year than are murdered with one. In 2010 in the U.S., 19,392 people committed suicide with guns, compared with 11,078 who were killed by others.

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BBC News: Medicine Nobel for cell recycling work

I saw this on the BBC News App and thought you should see it:

Medicine Nobel for cell recycling work
The 2016 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine goes to Yoshinori Ohsumi for discoveries about the secrets of how cells can remain healthy by recycling waste.
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