If we’re the greatest country in the world, why don’t we live as long as people in other developed countries and why is the gap between our life expectancy and theirs widening?
The Decline Of The (dis)United States
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Category Archives: health
One Question
For every Republican Senator and anyone running against them.
What’s an acceptable level of gun violence?
There have been 212 mass shootings in the US so far this year, 27 of them in schools.
From NPR. “We ended 2021 with 693 mass shootings, per the Gun Violence Archive. The year before saw 611. And 2019 had 417.”
Sentence To Ponder
“The activities that make people happiest include sex, exercise and gardening.”
The findings of British researchers who pinged tens of thousands of people on their smartphones and asked them simple questions: Who are they with? What are they doing? How happy are they?
More here. Also worth pondering. . . how good is the sex if one partner is responding to survey researchers?
