Wired Magazine visualizes Playmate BMI and US average BMI over the years.
While the US average BMI shows an increasing trend, Playmate BMI shows a decreasing trend. (via Wired)
Actually I think most of the bmi drop occurred earlier, and it’s been flatter recently.
Of the 45.6 million persons in the U.S. that did not have health insurance at some point 14 2007, 9.7 million, or about 21%, were not U.S. citizens. The Census Bureau does not ask if anyone is here legally or illegally, so we can’t tell how many are actually illegal aliens. … Also among the uninsured are 17 million Americans who live in households where the annual income exceeds $50,000; 7 million of those without coverage have incomes of $75,000 a year or more. … Many of the uninsured are young and healthy (40% are between ages 18 and 34) and at this point in their lives, particularly in this economy, choose to put their dollars elsewhere.To me, it’s shocking that misleading statistics on the number of people without healthcare maraud around every national newspaper.
“We found the highest wind power densities over Japan and eastern China, the eastern coast of the United States, southern Australia, and north eastern Africa,” said researcher Cristina Archer, an atmospheric scientist at California State University in Chico.
These specific areas generate roughly 10 kilowatts per square meter or more. “This is unthinkable near the ground, where even the best locations have usually less than one kilowatt per square meter,” Archer added.
A number of technological schemes have been proposed to harvest energy from these high-altitude winds, including tethered, kite-like wind turbines lofted miles high. Up to 40 megawatts of electricity could be generated by current designs and transmitted to the ground via tether.
These superfast droplets probably come from the breakup of fast-moving large drops [Scientific American]. When a fat drop is speeding toward the ground, any droplets that break off of it also are falling at the big drop’s velocity, which could be higher than the smaller drop’s terminal velocity.
BBC - Earth News - The plant that pretends to be ill
“The plants feigns sickness to stop it being attacked by insect pests known as mining moths, which would otherwise eat its healthy leaves.”
That’s the shocking headline on digg, but if you actually drill down you can see there’s a lot more to the case.
The recording companies accused Thomas-Rasset of offering 1,700 songs on Kazaa as of February 2005, before the company became a legal music subscription service following a settlement with entertainment companies. For simplicity’s sake the music industry tried to prove only 24 infringements. Reynolds argued Thursday that the evidence clearly pointed to Thomas-Rasset as the person who made the songs available on Kazaa under the screen name “tereastarr.” It’s the same nickname she acknowledged having used for years for her e-mail and several other computer accounts, including her MySpace page.
So they don’t care so much that she downloaded the songs as much as that she shared them.
Steve Marks, executive vice president and general counsel of the Recording Industry Association of America, estimated earlier this week that only a few hundred of the lawsuits remain unresolved and that fewer than 10 defendants were actively fighting them.
Do I like that the RIAA is doing this? No. Do I like shock-value headlines? No.
PRINCETON, NJ — Thus far in 2009, 40% of Americans interviewed in national Gallup Poll surveys describe their political views as conservative, 35% as moderate, and 21% as liberal. This represents a slight increase for conservatism in the U.S. since 2008, returning it to a level last seen in 2004. The 21% calling themselves liberal is in line with findings throughout this decade, but is up from the 1990s.
