Random links
- North Korean army minister 'executed with mortar round'
- His crime? "drinking and carousing during the official mourning period after Kim Jong-il's death."
- 'I was born a boy, became a girl, and now I want to be a boy again': Britain's youngest sex swap patient to reverse her sex change treatment
- I'm a little surprised that the article used "her" to describe a person born male and who now claims to be male again - had undergone hormone therapy but no operation.
- The Worst Study Ever?
- "WHO actually included immediate deaths from murder or fatal high-speed motor-vehicle accidents in their assessment, as if an ideal health-care system could turn back time to undo car crashes and prevent homicides. Ohsfeldt and Schneider did their own life-expectancy calculations using nations of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). With fatal car crashes and murders included, the U.S. ranked 19 out of 29 in life expectancy; with both removed, the U.S. had the world’s best life-expectancy numbers (see table above)."
- For Hybrid Drivers, a Gas Pump Allergy?
- "The surprising finding, however, was that drivers of the Volt, a hybrid that runs on electricity or conventional fuel, suffer from “gas anxiety,” or a fear of having to visit a filling station. Volt drivers even end up charging more often than drivers of the Leaf, which runs only on electric battery power."