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3 Drinks a Day Keeps the Doctor Away 470

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday August 31, 2010 @12:54PM from the drink-em-if-you-got-em dept.

Nzimmer911 writes "Heavy drinkers outlive non-drinkers according to a 20 years study following 1,824 people. From the article: 'But a new paper in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research suggests that - for reasons that aren't entirely clear - abstaining from alcohol does actually tend to increase one's risk of dying even when you exclude former drinkers. The most shocking part? Abstainers' mortality rates are higher than those of heavy drinkers.'"

What's Wrong With the American University System 828

Posted by Soulskill on Friday July 30, 2010 @03:17PM from the not-enough-belushi dept.

ideonexus writes "The Atlantic has an excellent interview with Andrew Hacker — co-author with Claudia Dreifus of a book titled Higher Education? — covering everything that's wrong with the American university system. The discussion ranges from entrenched tenured professors more concerned with publishing and parking spaces than quality teaching; to 22-year-old students with unrealistic expectations that some company will put them in a management position after graduating with six-figures of debt; to football teams siphoning money away from academic programs so that student tuitions must increase to compensate. It really lays out the farce of university culture and reminds me of everything I absolutely despised about my college life. Dreifus is active in the comments section of the article as well, lending to a fantastic discussion on the subject."

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by fedyaZero on Thursday December 11, 2008 @12:21AM

Finnish E-Voting System Loses 2% of Votes 366

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday October 29, 2008 @02:11AM from the in-america-we-call-that-the-margin-of-error dept.

kaip writes "Finland piloted a fully electronic voting system in municipal elections last weekend. Due to a usability glitch, 232 votes, or about 2% of all electronic votes were lost. The results of the election may have been affected, because the seats in municipal assemblies are often decided by margins of a few votes. Unfortunately, nobody knows for sure, because the Ministry of Justice didn't see any need to implement a voter-verified paper record. The ministry was, of course, duly warned about a fully electronic voting system, but the critique was debunked as 'science fiction.' There is now discussion about re-arranging the affected elections. Thanks go to the voting system providers, Scytl and TietoEnator, for the experience."

Comment Recharging is not neccesary (Score 1) 665

by fedyaZero on Thursday July 20, 2006 @05:51AM (#15748607) Attached to: Test Driving the Tesla Roadster

I'm curious what sort of possibilities there are for rapid charging

I think that eventually "gas" (or whatever they'd be called) stations will provide precharged batteries service: they will remove drained battery (or part of the battery, if it is not monolithic) from car and install a fresh, charged one. Probably, it won't take more time than refueling with gas, as soon as car makers will provide the easy/standard way to install/deinstall car batteries. Also these "gas" stations will be responsible for properly recycling the old ones.

The car makers could develop a standard interface to batteries, and battery and car industries could be totally decoupled. It could be like low voltage devices and AA batteries we use today.

Consumers still can use a long "wall outlet" recharging if they want to, for example, if "precharged batteries service" is not available in their area.

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