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Monthly Archives: September 2010

2010-09-14

Natural fission

This is intriguing, and I’d never heard if it before. Apparently, two billion years ago, for around one million years, there was an area in Gabon where uranium 235 concentrations and other factors coincided to create several natural fission reactors. Cool. Err, well, I guess it was actually hot… Curtin University via APOD. See also: [...]

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2010-09-06

On learning…

Learning is strange. Sometimes you get something, and sometimes you don’t. Sometimes you pound your head for hours trying to solve a problem, then later go back to it and solve it in minutes. I have two good examples: This spring, I decided to learn to unicycle. And not just riding on smooth streets to [...]

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2010-09-06

National Drivers Test

To continue on my latest post… GMAC Insurance released their 2010 National Drivers Test results. The findings are interesting: If taken today, 18.4 percent of drivers on the road – amounting to roughly 38 million licensed Americans – would not pass a written drivers test exam. The national average score was 76.2 percent; a score [...]

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2010-09-04

America’s Best Drivers

This is surprising, according to the latest ‘Allstate America’s Best Drivers Report,’ Fort Wayne ranks eleventh for longest time between accidents among drivers in the two hundred largest cities in the country. Even more surprising, 11th is down from 6th last year. I never would have guessed, but apparently drivers in Fort Wayne are involved [...]

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2010-09-01

Prescription overdoses

The Journal Gazette published a good story on prescription drug overdoses: ‘ODs from Rx drugs soar: Legal opiates now tied to more deaths than heroin, cocaine combined.’ The story highlights some interesting statistics, and makes an important point: … the problem is increasing even while most people’s concerns are elsewhere: Billions are spent to stop [...]

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