Newmark's Door

Dang. Disappointing.

I didn't know this.

This is the frontier of medicine and health care for the foreseeable future: "People tend to compare everything against the average, but . . . we can’t impose the average on everybody.”

North Carolina is tied for seventh. (Should be higher but give it a little time.)

I tip I hadn't seen before.

This will be quite useful:

For Dr. Kevin Spencer, a solution to stuck rings is long overdue. He said he sees patients with stuck rings in the ER at least once a week.

(The main impetus for removing a stuck ring is doctors want it off before surgery.)

In the meantime, there are subsitute procedures: see here, here, and here.

Link via Marginal Revolution.

A whole lot of truth here. I hadn't heard of Brandolini's Law before, but it could become my favorite.

Harsh, man. Harsh.

Because people are idiots. 

Please tell the "No Nukes" crowd that we've f0und at least one use if nuclear power they might well approve of.

This seems correct and useful to me:

To find out how you’ll behave in the next bear market, investigate how you behaved in the last one.