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"Silver tsunami" is a catchy phrase. It would be nice if it prompted some catchy action, but I'm certainly not holding my breath.
See also "The dimensions of California’s pension crisis".
I should have posted this last week, but needless to say, the argument is still valid.
While thousands of tons of the plastic floating out there were thrown away, they weren’t thrown away here. Asia is home to five out of the five biggest plastic polluters.
A bit more detail is in "Shocking report reveals that 95% of plastic polluting the world's oceans comes from just TEN rivers including the Ganges and Niger".
Confirmation bias? Check.
Tiny, non-random sample? Check.
Data mining? Check and double check.
Failure to replicate? Check.
The world famous Milgram experiment is in tatters. (Link is to a recent New Scientist article which except for the first few paragraphs is gated. But I read it. Here are some highlights from an NPR interview with the author, Gina Perry.. Here's a link to her book about the experiment.)
Sure, but the standard is, you know, for only one side of the political divide.
Co-authored by the redoubtable John Ioannidis, this piece raises an important issue.
Maybe. As always with "research findings," use with caution.
I go with Rooney's and Z's as #1 and #1a. Too close to call.
Aren't you glad that this has been settled?
Well, if you have a few billion events to select from, you can find some really weird occurrences. (The Immaculate Recepti0n--still astonishing after all these years--is a little past the halfway point.)
Piece says Raleigh's La Rancherita has a "delicious" ACP and I wholeheartedly agree.