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lative to body size, our brain is three times the size of a chimpanzee’s brain.
New study: Medicaid can account for at least eight percent of the decline in nonwhite child mortality from 1965 to 1979. HT: Tyler Cowen.
German hospitals promise pain free operations.
CMS: ObamaCare slowed health care spending last year, but it will increase spending this year.
“Relative to body size, our brain is three times the size of a chimpanzee’s brain.”
Does it really matter? Computers in the 70s were gigantic compared to today. Nobody would say that they were better.
Right, we may be focusing on the wrong thing here.
Chimpanzee brains could be markedly more efficient
Who knows, a majority of our brain could be wasted space
I always heard intelligence had to do with number of folds in the grey matter, not overall size.
It is rumored as such, smooth brains are more common in smaller animals.
“Great idea from David Friedman: Instead of hiring public defenders for people who can’t afford a lawyer, give the defendants vouchers.”
Certainly. Choice is always better.
or they can be their own lawyers
“Great idea from David Friedman” – that really is a great idea. It would also free up those who currently only serve as public defenders to expand their practices.
“Medicaid can account for at least eight percent of the decline in nonwhite child mortality from 1965 to 1979.”
Great. Now the question is: how much more improvement could be seen if we had a something better?
It would be hard to tell
Pain-free surgeries could go a long way towards getting people back on their feet quicker. An interesting direction.
Does that mean we should increase prescription drugs post surgery?
The article said it had more to do with changing when and what drugs are administered. The goal was to reduce both pain and risk of addiction.
As of right now though, hydrocodone is pumped into people in mass and it hasn’t shown signs of stopping. The ideal would be a rug that targets pain receptors and blocks them rather than producing enough endorphin to counteract it