Warning: One of your Facebook friends could be an IRS agent in disguise.
Older workers outperform younger workers on risk taking, competitiveness and cooperation: For an optimum workforce, it is best to have a range of ages in the office.
Could human beings survive a real zombie outbreak? In one computer simulation, “After 7 to 10 days, everyone was dead or undead.”
Christmas gift idea: an (unfortunately very expensive) android that looks, acts and speaks just like your loved one. (HT to Marginal Revolution.)
The “Medea Hypothesis,” named after the Greek mother who slaughtered her own children: For billions of years the biosphere has been its own worst enemy, “moving earth ever closer to the inevitable day when it returns to its original state: sterile.”
Can you own property on the moon? Apparently, yes.
A sound cannon to curtail demonstrators is “more humane than rubber bullets or billy clubs”: The downside: hearing loss.
Carbon footprint of the Copenhagen climate summit: 46,200 tons of carbon dioxide. That’s enough to fill nearly 10,000 Olympic swimming pools, and is the same amount produced each year by 660,000 Ethiopians.
The cheapest form of therapy: “Children covered by Medicaid are given powerful antipsychotic medicines at a rate four times higher than children whose parents have private insurance.
Almost one in five Americans say they have been in the presence of a ghost: One in six say some people can use the “evil eye” to “cast curses or spells that cause bad things to happen.”
The Great Recession seems to be solidifying, not eroding, the marital bond: “The divorce rate…declined to 16.9 divorces per 1,000 married women in 2008 from 17.5 divorces in 2007 (a 3% drop), after rising from 16.4 divorces per 1,000 married women in 2005 (a 7% increase).
The limits Jack in the Box sets for certain bacteria in their burgers are up to 10 times more stringent than what the USDA sets for school lunches: The kids are also eating chicken that KFC and Campbell Soup won’t touch.
Cancer Society is more open to alternative therapies: Publishes massive reference book.
Study: Caffeine doesn’t sober you up: But it may make it harder for you to realize you’re drunk.
A newly approved chemotherapy drug will cost about $30,000 a month: Is the prospect of ObamaCare the reason?
More bad news for seniors: [Home health care] currently accounts for 3.7 percent of the Medicare budget, but would absorb 10.2 percent of the savings squeezed from Medicare by the House bill and 9.4 percent of savings in the Senate bill, the Congressional Budget Office says.
The U.S. says it approved $142 million in commercial and donated medical exports to Cuba in 2008. So why did less than 1 percent of it get there?
One way to deal with dissatisfied customers: After Indonesian woman complains about hospital in e-mail, the government puts her in jail.
MedPAC Medicare spending survey: Miami-Dade is 39% above the national average; Honolulu is 25% below.
Solving mental problems the old-fashioned way — with a knife: “In the last decade or so, more than 500 people have undergone brain surgery for problems like depression, anxiety, Tourette’s syndrome, even obesity, most as a part of medical studies.”
Madison, Wisc. has something no other city has: Black and white infant mortality rates that are the same: Nobody knows why.
A conscientious meat eater may have a more environmentally friendly diet than your average vegetarian: “Depending on how and where a food is produced, its carbon dioxide emissions vary by a factor of 10.”
Is Indian health care worse than the health services of Canada and Britain? Some patients wait a year-and-a-half.
