Thursday, October 16, 2014

10/16/14 Today's Inquiries

Sugar free oatmeal? What the hell is this crap? Gonna be a long day and a short link list.


The Links:

The New England Journal of Medicine takes a look at the first 9 months of Ebola in west Africa.

More bad coverage of the hospital where Ebola spread. It now appears that they didn't issue proper protective gear to their nursing staff for the first 2 days of Duncan's treatment.

Cutting the federal health budget and CDC funding was a bipartisan effort. Of course the trouble all started in 2001 and has only continued because of GOP budget suicide pacts but hey, bipartisan.

Luckily, for 35.99 plus shipping you can have your very own Ebola protective kit. But you can only use it once and the decontamination kit is sold separately.

Is free public wifi a public health hazard? Not for the silly radiation reason but because your information is totally insecure.

America is becoming more federalist. Good, state level authorities are doing such a great job on a variety of crises.

Obama knew arming the rebels in Syria was a bad idea and he did it anyway because everyone (in the media and congress and whatever) wanted him to.

Sure, China may now be the world's biggest economy but it's still behind in GDP per capita. A country of 1billion plus people with the GPD per capita of, say, the Netherlands would be amazing though.

Invitation Homes, you know, the hedge fund owned real estate grabbing company that bought 40% of the homes at auction in many major metro areas, is a very poor landlord. Conversely, they make a great slumlord.

Good news women! For every study telling you how to get ahead in the world, there's another study contradicting it.

Kyle Wagner thinks Gamergate is the future of culture wars in America. So, terrorism then?

Doctors need a better way to measure pain. Real time brain scans seem to be the way forward. Very true! I'd say that 80% of the patients we see rate their pain as a 10/10 when presented with a 1-10 scale. The rest say 8 or 9. Typically an 8/10 is associated with childbirth and kidney stones and 10/10 is some kind of active trauma or other major condition.

How have various fruits and vegetables changed as a result of human cultivation?


Shared because it's just so random that I had to:
All due respect, there is no way only one client gets a hand-job at a massage parlor. For you to chalk this up to “one unfortunate incident” is deeply concerning.
Also, image searches for massage parlors turn up some pretty racy stuff.

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