via Robert Downey Jr’s rise, fall and rebirth in Hollywood thanks to Iron Man | Daily Mail Online.
Good to see that Robert Downey Jr is both alive and doing very well
06 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, health economics, movies Tags: Robert Downey Jr
The Great Escape in infant mortality
06 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economic history, health economics, population economics Tags: infant mortality, life expectancies, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
Child mortality declined dramatically – and #India and #Ghana are catching up fast.
From: OurWorldInData.org http://t.co/uReMfGyoPd—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) November 11, 2014
An internal inconsistency in certain leading conspiracy theories
05 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, economics of media and culture, health economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: antiscience left, climate alarmism, conspiracy theories, conspiracy theorists, GMOs, political psychology
Do vaccines work?
04 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economic history, environmental economics, health economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, antiscience left, conjecture and refutation, vaccinations, vaccines
Beautiful charts by WSJ on history of vaccines and diseases:
graphics.wsj.com/infectious-dis… http://t.co/MWXr8nPWie—
Neil Halloran (@neilhalloran) February 24, 2015
Grammar pedants don’t know when to stop
04 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, health economics, law and economics Tags: economics of language
The Great Escape in England 1930 – 2001
03 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, health economics Tags: British economy, capitalism and freedom, child mortality, infant mortality, life expectancies, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape
The kidney donation gap widening
03 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: organ donation
Since 2004, the waiting list for kidneys increased by 41,500 patients, while transplant operations increased by 1,000 http://t.co/pOSMiajbIh—
Mark J. Perry (@Mark_J_Perry) June 11, 2015
The Great Escape – vaccine preventable deaths
02 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economic history, health economics, politics - USA Tags: anti-vaccination movement, The Great Escape, vaccinations, vaccines
Death rates from the two leading causes of death in the USA since 1950
02 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, health economics, politics - USA Tags: life expectancies, The Great Escape
Figure 1: age-adjusted death rates from heart and cerebrovascular diseases, USA, 1950 – 2013
Source: Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.
RT Sorry, vegans: Eating meat and cooking food is how humans got their big brains
02 Aug 2015 1 Comment
in economic history, health economics Tags: economics of physiology, PEETA, The Great Escape, vegans, vegetarianism
Eating meat and cooking food made us human, the studies suggest, enabling the brains of our prehuman ancestors to grow dramatically over a few million years.
Although this isn’t the first such assertion from archaeologists and evolutionary biologists, the new studies demonstrate that it would have been biologically implausible for humans to evolve such a large brain on a raw, vegan diet and that meat-eating was a crucial element of human evolution at least a million years before the dawn of humankind.
via Sorry, vegans: Eating meat and cooking food is how humans got their big brains – The Washington Post.
The alternative to orchestrating a vast conspiracy
02 Aug 2015 1 Comment
in applied price theory, economic history, health economics Tags: conspiracy theories, GMOs, moon landing
Only the richest countries have safe drinking water
31 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: safe drinking water, water pollution
The CDC essentially argues that only the richest countries have safe drinking water. vox.com/2014/8/13/5998… http://t.co/7iBfYjj6cC—
Vox Maps (@VoxMaps) May 20, 2015
Life expectancies at age 65 by sex and race, USA, 1950 – 2010
31 Jul 2015 1 Comment
in applied welfare economics, economic history, health economics, politics - USA Tags: life expectancies, The Great Escape
There was quite a jump in life expectancy in the decades of the 1950s and 1960s, followed by slow progress for white females and black females. In the case of men of both races, the situation appears to be steady progress in post retirement life expectancy since 1950. Black male life expectancy actually fell in the 1960s for those aged 65.
Figure 1: life expectancies at age 65 by sex and race, USA, 1950 – 2010
Source: Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.
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