Pandemonium architecture – Wikipedia
October 13, 2018Three Letter Agencies
October 13, 2018http://wiki.c2.com/?ThreeLetterAgencies
CIA
FBI
NRO
NSA
DOD
DHS
DEA
DOE
CID
..
NIH
CDC
Want To Live Longer? Take Up Tennis.
October 12, 2018Want To Live Longer? Take Up Tennis, by @StevenSalzberg1
https://www.Forbes.com/sites/stevensalzberg/2018/09/17/want-to-live-longer-take-up-tennis/ +10 yrs w/ tennis vs +3.4 swimming & +3.2 jogging. This is very surprising. Is there a hidden confounder? Income?
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“Tennis: 9.7 years gain in life expectancy
Badminton: 6.2 years
Soccer: 4.7 years
Cycling: 3.7 years
Swimming: 3.4 years
Jogging: 3.2 years
Calisthenics: 3.1 years
Health club activities: 1.5 years
The authors didn’t expect tennis to do so well, as you can see in this quote:
“Surprisingly, we found that tennis players had the longest expected lifetime among the 8 different sports.”
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One possible reason for tennis, badminton, and soccer doing so well is that out of the 8 sports studied, these are the ones that require 2 or more people and involve social interaction. As the authors explain,” “}}
People Have Limited Knowledge. What’s the Remedy? Nobody Knows
October 12, 2018Inside Out (2015 film) – Wikipedia
October 12, 2018https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_Out_(2015_film)
Nobel laureate Thomas A. Steitz dies, mapped the structure of the ribosome | YaleNews
October 11, 2018https://news.yale.edu/2018/10/10/nobel-laureate-thomas-steitz-dies-mapped-structure-ribosome
Tom Steitz’s passing is a sad day @Yale. Steitz was a great scientist & influential thinker, who helped shape molecular biophysics over many decades https://twitter.com/RonBreaker/status/1049966285726146561
Harari’s New Book Review in The Economist
October 11, 2018In the kingdom of cyborgs
Big data is reshaping humanity, says Yuval Noah Harari
Uneven and easy to mock, his new book contains provocative and profound ideas
Aug 30th 2018
