Category: Interesting Links

Are potato chips designed to be addictive?

Did human rights advocates pave way for drone warfare?

The “goal-priming effect,” in which study subjects automatically and unintentionally alter their thoughts or behavior when prompted by various kinds of information doesn’t work.

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ObamaCare “high-risk pools” will be closed to new applicants as soon as Saturday. But this was the only ACA program that was working.

Why don’t researchers of rare diseases share their data? Only 200 children in the U.S. have Sanfilippo syndrome.

Only 60 percent of U.S. parents of children age 24 months to 35 months adhered to the recommended vaccination schedule in 2009.

About one in four black children has had a parent in prison at some point during childhood.

Young black men without a high school diploma are more likely to be behind bars than to have a job. (Giving them plenty of time to read Krugman’s columns on the benefits of a higher minimum wage.)

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The White House explains sequester: innocent people will suffer; not a single dollar of waste will be eliminated.

CBO projects that the total loss of output, relative to the economy’s potential, between 2007 and 2017 will be equivalent to nearly half of the output that the United States produced last year.

Researchers who tested vitamin D pills sold in stores found they contain from 9% to 140% of the doses listed on labels.

White House decides which parts of the ObamaCare law to obey or ignore.

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