Read these for a better brain: Bulletproof Plan to Activate Untapped Brain Energy Pentagon Wants Brain-Stimulating Headset to Improve Combat Skills | DoD Buzz Satnavs ‘switch off’ parts of the brain: Using a satnav to get to your destination ‘switches off’ parts of the brain that would otherwise be used to simulate different routes —… Read More »
Just in case you thought government regulations exist to protect the citizenry, Wisconsin prohibits butter based on where it is made and what it tastes like. Should taste testing be a function of government? Source: Wisconsin’s Irish butter lawsuit: Kerrygold is banned under unique state law – Twin Cities
Gallup says that worry about hunger and homelessness is higher than it’s ever been for low income Americans. Something fundamental is wrong, various commentators, like ZeroHedge.com, are proclaiming. But Gallup fails to take one very important fact into consideration: inflation. $30,000 in 2001 is worth less than $22,000 when adjusted for CPI. Of course the… Read More »
The State of Texas has some long term funding problems. One of those is its Texas Public School Retired Employees Group Benefits Program (TRS-Care). The idiocy started in 1985, when the program was started. At its creation in 1985, TRS-Care was expected to remain solvent for just 10 years, with the understanding that additional funding or benefit… Read More »
The Justice Department has joined a California whistleblower’s lawsuit that accuses insurance giant UnitedHealth Group of fraud in its popular Medicare Advantage health plans. Sounds bad, right? Whatever the outcome, I love this bit of the article, [UnitedHealth spokesman Matt] Burns also said that “litigating against Medicare Advantage plans to create new rules through the… Read More »
Remember how your doctor said to take a baby aspirin every day to prevent a heart attack? Well, that may not be very good advice. Source: Taking an Aspirin a Day to Prevent a Heart Attack or Stroke May Be Risky
Most polling of the Affordable Care Act finds popular support for many of its benefits when no costs are mentioned. However, a new Cato Institute/YouGov survey finds that support plummets, even among Democrats, if its popular provisions harm the quality of health care. Source: Poll: Support for Obamacare’s Most Popular Provisions Plummet if Quality of… Read More »
Dr. Greiger, the author of How Not to Die, citing a meta-analysis of the impacts of fiber intake on the likelihood of having a stroke identifies a minimum intake of over 70 grams of fiber. That’s a lot of fiber. For the details, check out the full article at the link below. Source: How Much… Read More »
While the political implications of this study are interesting, what it says about how people justify their decisions and actions is the more intriguing aspect to me. The creators of the Her Opponent production assumed…, …that the gender inversion would confirm what they’d each suspected watching the real-life debates: that Trump’s aggression—his tendency to interrupt and… Read More »
Maybe he’s on to something: “Here’s what I would tell the president: If you can’t get a better deal and if you can’t protect that 62-year-old worker in Greenville from having dramatic premium increases because Democrats won’t work with you and you can’t get the Republican party on board, stop, take a time-out, let it… Read More »