The question “Is coffee good or bad for your health” just got settled once and for all again, with a new answer that contradicts many previous studies, again. A new study presents a conclusion that answers everything, or nothing, or both: “Association of Coffee Drinking with Total and Cause-Specific Mortality,” Neal D. Freedman, Ph.D. [pictured […]
Tag: Death
Copious Deaths, and the Greatness of Presidents
Large numbers of deaths may be good for an American president’s reputation, suggests this new study: “War and Presidential Greatness,” David R. Henderson (Naval Postgraduate School) and Zachary Gochenour [pictured here] (George Mason University), SSRN working paper #2029774, March 27, 2012. The authors explain: “Historians and journalists commonly survey other historians on the relative ‘greatness’ […]
Dead in one country, but still alive in another
“Apparently a patient can be dead in one country, but still alive in another, under the same circumstances,” writes Dr. Erwin Kompanje of Rotterdam, The Netherlands, in his essay “How dead is a brain dead patient?” BONUS (for philosophers): The Shrödinger’s Cat paradox is not exactly analogous to this, but also is not exactly not.
Autopsy of a snowman & Dr. Butt’s patterns of deaths
Video of an autopsy of a snowman (via onetruemedia, HT Jennifer Ouellette): BUTT: For general background to this phenomenon, we recommend Dr Butt’s study: “Patterns of death among avalanche fatalities: a 21-year review,” Jeff Boyd, MBBS, Pascal Haegeli, PhD, Riyad B. Abu-Laban, MD MHSc, Michael Shuster, MD, John C. Butt, MD CM, Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2009 […]