Random links
- Baby Boomers Sicker Than Parents’ Generation, Study Finds
- "Baby boomers have more chronic illness and disability than their parents, as their sedentary habits and expanding girth offset the modern medicine that enables them to live longer, a study said." Sounds like lots of expensive healthcare...
- NYT, 1924: Hitler's tamed by prison, "no longer to be feared"
- An article from the December 20, 1924 New York Times. A slight misstatement.
- The paternity myth: the rarity of cuckoldry
- "An urban myth, often asserted with a wink & a nod in some circles, is that a very high proportion of children in Western countries are not raised by their biological father, and in fact are not aware that their putative biological father is not their real biological father. The numbers I see and hear vary, but 10% is a low bound." What are the problems with such figures? They rely on a dataset "strongly sample biased toward those who have a reason to have suspicions." Estimated rate? "Zuck asserts that they’re more in the 1-5% range, with 3.7% being a high-bound figure for one study."
- Suicide bomber blown up prematurely by spam text
- The bomber in question still killed 35 people but it seems likely that the total would have been higher otherwise.