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Submission + - Online Calculator: More education, lower mortality

Submitted by Healthily Anonymous
Healthily Anonymous writes: The Robert Wood Johnson foundation just released a study on education, income and health. And perhaps it isn't too great a surprise that the three are linked.

"Compared with children living with someone who has completed some college, children in households without a high-school graduate were more than four times as likely--and those in households with a high-school graduate twice as likely--to be in suboptimal health."

But one fascinating part of the study isn't in the report at all. It's an interactive "calculator" of sorts produced by the study's authors, which lets users select their area — down to the county level! — and see the average levels of education and mortality. They can then adjust education levels and watch as the number of expected deaths each year changes. If, for example, you increase the levels of education in the Bronx to match those in Manhattan, you could expect a 28% drop in yearly deaths — from 3142 to 2262 per year.

Education

Submission + - Study: More education, lower death rates?

Submitted by vivIsel
vivIsel writes: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has released a study that looks at the links the education and income of a parent and the health of his or her child. The result, according to the LA Times, is this:

"When it comes to children's health, family income matters. So does education."

The study also includes an interactive calculator that lets users modify the levels of education in their area and see what happens to mortality rates. From the article:

"For California, for example, the chart says 61% of adults have some college education and that there are 309 deaths per 100,000 people. If that were to go up by 5 percentage points, there would be 294 deaths per 100,000 people. Factor in the size of California's population, and the difference is significant."
Democrats

Submission + - How Obama Could Win

Submitted by vivIsel
vivIsel writes: From, of all places, the Yale Daily News, comes an idea that could change the way campaigns are run — and, for that matter, win an election. Two students spent time in New Hampshire going door-to-door for Obama, only to be disillusioned with a system that had drawn too many volunteers: as a result, it reminded, reminded again, and finally annoyed voters, all trying to secure their attendance on election day. They propose an alternative: harness the extraordinary volunteer energy the Obama campaign in particular has produced to do public service. It's an added benefit, they argue, that doing so could win him the presidency.
It's funny. Laugh.

Submission + - Stallman Attacked by Ninjas (yale.edu)

Submitted by vivIsel
vivIsel writes: When RMS took the stage to address the Yale Political Union, Yale's venerable parliamentary debate society, it was already an unusual speech: instead of the jacket and tie customary there, he sported a T shirt, and no shoes. But then he was attacked by ninjas. Apparently some students took it into their head to duplicate an XKCD webcomic before a live audience — luckily, though, Stallman didn't resort to violence. Instead, he delivered an excellent speech about DRM.
The Internet

Submission + - Buckley on upstart student journalists

Submitted by sprint
sprint writes: William F. Buckley Jr, the famous (infamous?) conservative intellectual, like many, is no lover of traditional political journalism, or moneyed politics, and his latest column makes no bones about that. But he's found a cause to champion against the mainstream media: the revolutionary — to hear him tell it — folks at TheScoop08, who claim to want to change the way political journalism and politics happen in this country. Whether or not they'll manage that, they're getting a lot of attention from the devotees of the man many call the founder of neoconservatism.
Television

Submission + - Internet Conquering American Idol?

Submitted by vivIsel
vivIsel writes: All sorts of media outlets have been a-buzzing by the saga of Sanjaya Malakar, an American Idol contestant who might just be headed for victory — but the thing is, he can't really sing. Thanks to the efforts of a lot of Indian-American patriots, some teenyboppers, and perhaps most importantly, the blogosphere and related entities, Fox's television behemoth (American Idol is the most-watched show in America) might be headed for an embarrassing moment. At least, that's what Dave Della Terza, the founder of votefortheworst.com is hoping for. The Times is covering the story, as is the Washington Post. The Boston Globe has its own cynical take on the affair.

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