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Wireless Emergency Alerts – WTF Is This?!
Commercial Mobile Alert System (CMAS) is apparently now on T-Mobile. This sounds like a lot of fuckary to me. At first blush it seems like a good idea (which is probably why our politicians passed it),...
View ArticleGeoEmpires: A Location-Based Game That Lets You Conquer Real Territories
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WebServicesDir/~3/crlE5KUPDBs/ Seems like real-life Risk.
View ArticleWells Fargo Closes Business Checking Account of Blog “Mortgage Lender...
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Chernobyl’s radioactive trees and the forest fire risk
Much of the 30km exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear plant is pine forest, and some of it so badly contaminated that a forest fire could create a devastating radioactive smoke cloud. via BBC...
View ArticleThe Straight Dope on Cholesterol: 10 Things You Need to Know – Part 2
6. Inflammation makes it worse, but the inciting event is the LDL particle getting past the endothelium. 7. LDL particles (LDL-P), not LDL cholesterol content (LDL-C), is what drives sterols into...
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The Quality Of Care Delivered To Patients Within The Same Hospital Varies By...
By Tyler Cowen donkeyrock shared this story from Marginal Revolution. That is the new paper by Christine S. Spencer, Darrell J. Gaskin, and Eric T. Roberts. Let me excerpt the three most important...
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The economics of declining Somali piracy
By Tyler Cowen donkeyrock shared this story from Marginal Revolution. The number of successful pirate hijackings has dropped since November 2011 when over 40 successful attacks were recorded for that...
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Absolute risk versus relative risk: Why you need to know the difference
By mreades donkeyrock shared this story from The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.. Six years ago, the airwaves were alive with Lipitor ads. Lipitor, a statin and the largest selling drug in the world at...
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Ban The Death Penalty
By Amy Alkon donkeyrock shared this story from Advice Goddess Blog. Ban The Death Penalty A Bloomberg editorial has some strong arguments for this: After the U.S. Supreme Court lifted a four-year ban...
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Strangling Bank Access For Lawful Businesses
Report from Rep. Darrell Issa’s oversight committee blasts Operation Choke Point [The Hill, earlier here, here] via Strangling bank access for lawful businesses – Overlawyered. Key Findings * Operation...
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That Was the Week That Was (#428)
By Maggie McNeill donkeyrock shared this story from The Honest Courtesan. Theoretically, all childrenin the United States are at risk ofbeing trafficked. Theoretically, I’m at risk of drowning in a...
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The Crime Of Letting An 11-Year-Old Who Wanted To Wait In The Car Wait In The...
By Amy Alkon donkeyrock shared this story from Advice Goddess Blog. The Crime Of Letting An 11-Year-Old Who Wanted To Wait In The Car Wait In The Car I was babysitting for money at 12. Yes, being paid...
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Fed Ex Is A Delivery Service, Not A Package Contents Assessment Service
By Amy Alkon donkeyrock shared this story from Advice Goddess Blog. Fed Ex Is A Delivery Service, Not A Package Contents Assessment Service Fed Ex — admirably and correctly — refused to pay the...
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Applying Feminist Logic To Other Crimes
By Amy Alkon donkeyrock shared this story from Advice Goddess Blog. Applying Feminist Logic To Other Crimes Terrific piece by Ashe Schow at WashEx. An excerpt: Feminists have been arguing that it’s...
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Three more courtroom defeats for EEOC
By Walter Olson donkeyrock shared this story from Overlawyered. The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is used to getting its way since most employers would rather settle rather...
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