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Fast food is America’s signature export, and one of its most pervasive: Every day another few outlets open in Europe or Asia, spreading the distinctively American diet to the world. It’s ironic, then, that hamburgers, french fries, and ketchup are not even originally ours, a fact that is clear from...
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Why does over the counter mean "take a product off a shelf" while a prescription gets handed to you ... over the counter?
This state of affairs ended in 1938 -when two different categories of non-narcotic drugs—prescription and over-the-counter—were created. Although the Federal Food, Driig, and Cosmetic Act was passed in 1938, this distinction was not spelled out in that law. In fact, it seems clear that the legislative intent of that law was violated by this distinction.
http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/63959/originofcompulso00temi.pdf?sequence=1
Who knew pictures made from toilet bacteria would be so pretty?
In Cosmos, his most recent series, DeSieno uses bacteria harvested from the most unseemly places—subway poles, toilets, iPhone screens—to turn cosmic images taken from the Hubble into abstract blurs of color and shape
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Robert Heinlein: “There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.”
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Tenure doesn't mean what you think it does
A pattern of misbehavior, such as using the full identifying details of undergraduate students in blog posts, may not be acceptable. But the idea that tenure can be revoked over that blog post may not be acceptable either.http://m.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/02/stripping-a-professor-of-tenure-over-a-blog-post/385280/ Www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-02-10/free-speech-and-Marquette-s-ivory-tower
The range of normal values for thyroid stimulation / production hormone levels can vary significantly among patientshttp://m.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/02/why-is-one-of-the-most-common-diseases-still-so-mysterious/385256/
The number of kids on a program called Supplemental Security Income is almost seven times larger than it was 30 years ago.
Impossible to work pt 2
One woman I met, Ethel Thomas, is on disability for back pain after working many years at the fish plant, and then as a nurse’s aide. When I asked her what job she would have in her dream world, she told me she would be the woman at the Social Security office who weeds through disability applications. I figured she said this because she thought she’d be good at weeding out the cheaters. But that wasn’t it. She said she wanted this job because it is the only job she’s seen where you get to sit all day.
Impossible to work pt 1
As far as the federal government is concerned, you’re disabled if you have a medical condition that makes it impossible to work. In practice, it’s a judgment call made in doctors’ offices and courtrooms around the country.
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Illiteracy as an incentive
THIS is what poverty sometimes looks like in America: parents here in Appalachian hill country pulling their children out of literacy classes. Moms and dads fear that if kids learn to read, they are less likely to qualify for a monthly check for having an intellectual disability.
Many people in hillside mobile homes here are poor and desperate, and a $698 monthly check per child from the Supplemental Security Income program goes a long way — and those checks continue until the child turns 18.
“The kids get taken out of the program because the parents are going to lose the check,” said Billie Oaks, who runs a literacy program here in Breathitt County, a poor part of Kentucky. “It’s heartbreaking.”
Spell check is unsatisfied with satisficing.
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satisfice [ˈsætɪsˌfaɪs]
vb
1. (intr) to act in such a way as to satisfy the minimum requirements for achieving a particular result
2. (tr) Obsolete to satisfy
Definition of 'Satisficing'
A decision-making strategy that aims for a satisfactory or adequate result, rather than the optimal solution. This is because aiming for the optimal solution may necessitate needless expenditure of time, energy and resources. The term "satisfice" was coined by American scientist and Noble-laureate Herbert Simon in 1956.
Investopedia explains 'Satisficing'
The theory of satisficing finds application in a number of fields including economics, artificial intelligence and sociology. Satisficing implies that a consumer, when confronted with a plethora of choices for a specific need, will select a product or service that is "good enough", rather than expending effort and resources on finding the best possible or optimal choice.
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Before J. M. Barrie introduced us to the charmingly cranky and vindictive Tinker Bell, fairies had traditionally been cast as vicious scoundrels hell-bent on stealing your kids and tearing up that lawn you paid so much money for. Today the fairy is a decidedly more whimsical, endearing creature, and nowhere is it more legendary than in the deserts of Argentina.
Here dwells the remarkable pink fairy armadillo (Chlamyphorus truncatus), a 5-inch-long, quarter-pound critter with a rosy shell atop silky white hair. This smallest of all armadillos spends almost its entire life burrowing through the earth, hunting various invertebrates and chewing up plant matter. It is a rarely seen, almost totally unstudied marvel — what you read here is pretty much all we’ve observed about the pink fairy armadillo.
So exactly how elusive are they? Conservation biologist Mariella Superina of Argentina’s National Scientific and Technical Research Council has been studying other armadillos in the pink fairy’s habitat for 13 years and has never once seen one in the wild. And locals can’t tell her how to track them. The only specimens she gets are injured ones found and brought in for rehabilitation or those confiscated from chuckleheads keeping them as pets.
Unlike in all other armadillos, the pink fairy’s shell is not fully attached to its body, instead connecting with a membrane that runs along the spinal column. The thin carapace’s underlying blood vessels actually show through, giving it that beautiful hue that you’re now reconsidering being beautiful because it’s made of blood.
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