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Sharks kill less than 20 people per year - elevators accidents 27.

Of course, reduced exercise from taking the elevator instead of the stairs is almost certainly a bigger health hazard than elevator accidents. Yet, I wonder if you could strategically use advertising to try to spark fear of elevator accidents in order to achieve the former - increased exercise. Think of it as "shark week" for elevators but to achieve a public good. Consider the following brief, relatively gruesome tale of one such incident:

As Nikaidoh stepped onto the elevator, the doors closed, pinning his shoulders. "He tried to pull back and he couldn't," Steinau told HPD officers. "The doors wouldn't open."

... Nikaidoh struggled, trying to shrug out of the elevator, or possibly pull himself inside ... but the elevator kept moving upward. The ceiling sliced off most of his head. His left ear, lower lip, teeth and jaw were still attached to his body, which fell to the bottom of the elevator shaft, as the elevator continued moving upward.
The Houston Press

(And, of course, this is far from the only tale. Given a large enough group of people, there are lots of examples even of rare events).

Les Stroud on Eating for Survival

"We talked with the Survivorman star about finding your meals in the backcountry, and why you should consider foraging your own holiday feast—and maybe even eating it raw and rotting"

Jonathan Kay: When accused sex-criminals are exonerated, the media too often goes silent

"Tremell was one of the lucky ones: Thanks to a random meeting with a Times photographer, a prominent columnist ended up publishing an article setting the record straight. But in the vast majority of cases, that never happens. Unless you’re someone on the scale of Lord McAlpine — the retired British politician falsely accused of pedophilic crimes in recent weeks — there’s no systematic way to clear one’s name on the Internet, or even in the same mass media outlets that originally aired the accusations against you."

Where people are oldest - Maine tops Florida

A map showing the median age in various US states. Interestingly, it seems to be the states with higher median age voting Democrat not Republican despite what some rhetoric would suggest.

Marijwhatnow? A Guide to Legal Marijuana Use In Seattle

From the Seattle Police Department. Though the post notes that "All Seattle Police officers have taken an oath to uphold not only state law, but federal law as well" it seems they don't plan to enforce federal law.

Given the concern over the morning after pill potentially causing an abortion and the government mandate to provide this in US health insurance packages in 2013, here's one case involving a US company currently providing health insurance to their employees (and paying above average wages):

• The fine for not including contraceptive / abortifacent coverage in their health insurance: $1.3 million / day
• The fine for not providing health insurance to employees: $2 million / month

Why is the for not providing contraceptives/abortifacent coverage roughly 20 times as much as the fine for not providing any health insurance at all?

To quote the Washington Examiner:

The Greens weren't arguing that morning-after pills should be illegal. They weren't even trying to keep their employees from using them. They just didn't want to implicate themselves in what they saw as immoral activity.

The fine is basically $100 per employee per day. By comparison, the morning after pill costs $10-$70 and a month of birth control pills can be had for $9/month without insurance.

I like time-lapse videos and somehow guess that Darren will approve of this one:

(The video includes slow-motion footage of people taking photos of said train about 30 seconds into the clip).