Random links
- New Designer Drug Flakka Gives Users Super-Human Strength
- Perhaps next week we'll hear reports of someone attacked by a radioactive spider.
- When ‘Moneyball’ Meets Medicine
- "At last report, in the United States, measured by [disability-adjusted life years], the third-largest health problem was low back pain. Fifth is major depressive disorders. Eleventh is neck pain. Thirteenth is anxiety disorders. None of these maladies kill anyone directly, so they don’t even show up on a list of leading killers. But they still cause huge amounts of pain and suffering, and cost our economy billions of dollars in lost productivity."
- Artificial Sweeteners May Change Our Gut Bacteria in Dangerous Ways
- "The Israeli study suggests that artificial sweeteners enhance the populations of gut bacteria that are more efficient at pulling energy from our food and turning that energy into fat. In other words, artificial sweeteners may favor the growth of bacteria that make more calories available to us, calories that can then find their way to our hips, thighs and midriffs"
- Income inequality: poverty falling faster than ever but the 1% are racing ahead
- Income inequality is a more complex issue than how it's often presented.