Tuesday, July 28, 2015

'Jaw-dropping': Medicare deaths, hospitalizations AND costs reduced

Check out this article from USA TODAY:

'Jaw-dropping': Medicare deaths, hospitalizations AND costs reduced

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/07/27/medicare-mortality-costs-study/30757669/


---Steve

Monday, July 27, 2015

Honore: America's in denial about gun culture

Check out this article from USA TODAY:

Honore: America's in denial about gun culture

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/07/27/honore-americas-denial-gun-culture/30764255/


---Steve

The reckless plot to overthrow Africa's most absurd dictator | Andrew Rice | World news | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/21/how-former-us-army-officer-launched-disastrous-coup-the-gambia

charged five Gambians with violating the Neutrality Act, a seldom-invoked 1794 law that makes it illegal to mount a military expedition against "any foreign prince or state" with whom the US is at peace.

---Steve

The Evidence Supports Artificial Sweeteners Over Sugar - The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/28/upshot/the-evidence-supports-artificial-sweeteners-over-sugar.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&abt=0002&abg=1


---Steve

Ta-Nehisi Coates woke me up: Lessons on race, atheism and my white privilege - Salon.com

http://www.salon.com/2015/07/27/ta_nehisi_coates_woke_me_up_lessons_on_race_atheism_and_my_white_privilege/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

godless though I am, the fact of being human, the fact of possessing the gift of study, and thus being remarkable among all the matter floating through the cosmos, still awes me."
---Steve

Gardasil safe

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2015/07/27/gardasil_new_study_shows_it_s_safe.html


---Steve