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Comment Re:No (Score 1) 729

by BigBunion (#41218029) Attached to: Do We Need a Longer School Year?
What I'm saying is that the US spends more per student than any other developed country, yet we consistently score in the bottom quartile in science and math. The entire system is broken, and spending more days per year doing the same dumb crap isn't going to make the system better. http://mat.usc.edu/u-s-education-versus-the-world-infographic/
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Submission + - Calorie Restriction May Not Extend Lifespan (sciencemag.org) 1

Submitted by sciencehabit
sciencehabit writes: Slash your food intake and you can live dramatically longer—at least if you're a mouse or a nematode. But a major study designed to determine whether this regimen, known as caloric restriction, works in primates suggests that it improves monkeys' health but doesn't extend their lives. Researchers not involved with the new paper say the results are still encouraging. Although the monkeys didn't evince an increase in life span, both studies show a major improvement in "health span," or the amount of time before age-related diseases set in. "I certainly wouldn't give up on calorie restriction as a health promoter" based on these findings, says molecular biologist Leonard Guarente of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge.

Comment Re:scotch (Score 2) 434

by BigBunion (#40725055) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Storing Items In a Sealed Chest For 25 Years?
Liquor doesn't improve in the bottle- only in the barrel. Wine improves with age because of interactions between sugars, yeast and/or bacteria. The alcohol content in liquor is too high for bacteria or yeast to survive. That said, I'd consider putting in a couple of bottles of a hardy red wine or a port. It should age gracefully over 25 years.

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