Archive for October, 2013
Shocker: Doctors Motivated by Profit Treat Patients as ATMs
October 29th, 2013Via: Mish: US Healthcare System Explained in Six Succinct Points 1. A constant battle is underway between insurance companies that do not want to pay any claims, even legitimate ones, and doctors and hospitals incentivised to rip off patients, insurers, and taxpayers with unnecessary surgeries and Medicare fraud. 2. Insurance companies demand massive amounts of […]
China: The Making of ‘Gutter Oil’
October 29th, 2013Via: YouTube: Research Credit: RP
Facebook Requiring Some Users to Provide Government ID to Login
October 29th, 2013You betcha. Via: The Drum: Thousands of Facebook users have vented their fury at the social media site on Twitter after they were locked out of the site, and were requested to provide “Government ID” to log back in.
Print a 2,500 Square Foot House in 20 Hours
October 28th, 2013Via: IndustryTap: We have seen huge advancements in 3D printing. We’ve even seen oversized wrenches printed that measure 1.2 meters in length. Now, we can print an entire 2,500 sqft house in 20 hours. In the TED Talk video below, Behrokh Khoshnevis, a professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering at the University of Southern California […]
Food Stamp Cut Hits Friday
October 28th, 2013Via: NPR: Poor families across the country will have a harder time stretching their food budgets after Friday, as stimulus funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) automatically expires. The 13.6 percent boost in SNAP benefits the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act instituted in April 2009 ends Nov. 1. The Center on Budget and […]
Keeping Blood Sugar Low May Protect Memory
October 28th, 2013Via: NPR: There’s a growing body of evidence linking elevated blood sugar to memory problems. … Study author Agnes Floel of Charite University Medicine in Berlin says there may be a couple of things at play. It’s possible that blood vessel effects can damage memory. “Elevated blood sugar levels damage small and large vessels in […]
Siri, Have Those People Killed
October 28th, 2013Via: GQ: In 2011, Air Force psychologists completed a mental-health survey of 600 combat drone operators. Forty-two percent of drone crews reported moderate to high stress, and 20 percent reported emotional exhaustion or burnout. The study’s authors attributed their dire results, in part, to “existential conflict.” A later study found that drone operators suffered from […]
Electric Utility Executives Worry About Solar Panels
October 28th, 2013Via: San Francisco Chronicle: Sitting on a rooftop, soaking up sun, the humble solar panel may not look like a threat to a multibillion-dollar industry. But some electric utility executives say it is. They even have a name for the nightmare scenario solar could create – the “death spiral.” They fear solar’s rapid spread across […]
U.S. Banks Told to be Prepared for 30-Day Crisis
October 28th, 2013Via: Irish Independent: The biggest US banks would be required to hold enough easily sold assets to survive a 30-day credit drought under proposed new Federal Reserve liquidity rules. The Federal Reserve liquidity coverage ratio proposal, approved unanimously at a meeting in Washington, goes further than the Basel III measure adopted in January and calls […]
China: ‘Unprecedented’ Policy Changes Ahead
October 28th, 2013Via: Bloomberg: Chinese Politburo member Yu Zhengsheng said reforms to be discussed at a Communist Party meeting next month will be unprecedented, adding to signs that leaders are resolved to spur far-reaching policy changes. Yu’s comments, made in a speech at a forum to promote relations with Taiwan, were reported by the official Xinhua News […]
