A Mandelbox is a mathematical object akin to a Mandelbrot set. (Neat video)
Did the median wage paid to male workers fall by 28% from 1969 to 2009, as the Brookings Institute claims? Or did they grow by 7% between 1969 and 2007, as Scott Winship claims?
Republicans are more scientifically literate than Democrats or independents are.
Hat tip to Marginal Revolution on all of the above.
Scientific American: Is food safety based on science? A lot of it isn’t.
OECD: the European Union will see an increase in health expenditure of 350% by 2050. The economy is only set to expand by 180%.
Three health ideas from Harvard. (video)
Swiss study: to accept coordinated care, general practitioners require up to 40 percent more pay. Patients also need a substantial reduction in premiums to accept it.
New study: Native Americans ravaged the environment long before Europeans came to North America. Everybody already knew this except for greenies, college students, Hollywood, Kevin Costner,…oh, and Marlon Brando, George C. Scott …
Leading Obama Care Backer wants waiver for his city.
Sudden Bursts of Exercise can Cause Heart Attacks. Irregular sex is also risky.
Judge to seniors: Take Medicare or lose your Social Security.
Hospitals give themselves high marks for patient safety. 29 percent cited their efforts as “A-Excellent” and 46 percent said “B-Very Good.”
Now they tell us: Ten former White House economists are urging Congress and President Obama to stop bickering and take up the proposals offered by a bipartisan deficit commission.
Men underwent more than 1.1 million cosmetic procedures last year. Fastest growing procedure: facelifts.
Quote of the day: Gates: ‘We haven’t done something like this kind of on-the-fly before’…
Consumers are paying an additional $1,355 a year on “hidden” out-of-pocket health care expenses. Includes home health aides not covered by insurance, alternative medicines, ambulance services and nutritional products.
Last Thursday morning, you could buy a packet of potassium iodide tablets for $10. Tuesday morning it would have cost you $540. (HT to Tyler Cowen)
Pagophagia: It means addicted to eating ice. Other bizarre eating addictions listed.
Scientists: Alien life found in meteorite. Robin Hanson: Why other scientists refuse to accept that finding.
Government Entitlement Programs Amount to Over One-Third of Total Wages.
Medicare Illegally Paid for Seniors’ Viagra.
Robots are winning big at major online poker sites.
White House refuses to release records on how ObamaCare came to be.
How Safety Net Hospitals survive in NYC: Millions in bribes to legislators.
Remembering Caesar: Should we celebrate or mourn his assassination on the ides of March? David Henderson does the calculus.
Can animals be virtuous? No. They can’t be wicked either.
The new Chevrolet Cruze Eco can reach eye-popping fuel economy levels of more than 50 miles per gallon on the highway ……. with a conventional gasoline engine! One more reason why the government shouldn’t pick technological winners and losers.
Don Morran: Today’s tax code generally favors small businesses over larger ones. But, small businesses face disproportionately high costs in complying with it.
Pain Facts: The 20 per cent of family doctors who are frequent prescribers wrote 55 times as many prescriptions for opioids as the 20 per cent who prescribe the least.”
