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Cancer
Cancers are one of the leading causes of death globally. Are we making progress against them?
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Society, Policy & Culture
The most popular blog posts about society, policy & culture on Hacker News. 13,070 posts.
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What the data says about gun deaths in the U.S.
The number of gun deaths in the U.S. fell for the third consecutive year in 2024 but remained among the highest annual totals on record.
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Spider Robinson: Melancholy Elephants
Copyright is a hot-button topic these days. Does information want to be free…or just reasonably priced? I discussed copyright at some length 25 years ago—a year before the first TCP/IP wide area network in the world went operational—two years before the first Macintosh went on sale!—in the following story. It won the…
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Study of 72,000 COVID-19 patients finds 2.3% death rate
Researchers from China's Center for Disease Control and Prevention today describe the clinical findings on more than 72,000 COVID-19 cases reported in mainland China, which reveal a case-fatality rate (CFR) of 2.3% and suggest most cases are mild, but the disease hits the elderly the hardest.
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Code of Conduct ⚡ Zig Programming Language
The Zig community is decentralized. Anyone is free to start and maintain their own community , which is not subject to these rules.
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Study: Volkswagen’s excess emissions will lead to 1,200 premature deaths in Europe
A new MIT study finds excess emissions generated by Volkswagen cars sold in Germany, will likely cause 1,200 premature deaths throughout Europe. The most affected countries include Germany, Poland, France, Czech Republic.
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Gell-Mann Amnesia
"Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so…
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Obesity and overweight
Obesity and overweight fact sheet from WHO providing key facts and information on causes, health consequences, double burden of disease, prevention, WHO response.
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The Intellectual Yet Idiot
(Chapter in Skin in the game )
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What Is Censorship?
RECENT CENSORSHIP NEWS > Prosecution of TV Provider Raises Free Speech Questions (8/24/2006) > Massachusetts Education Department Liable for Unconstitutional Censorship (8/1/2006) > Library Association Supports Lawsuit Against School Board Over Censorship (7/7/2006) > ACLU of Florida Sues to Stop Book Censorship by…
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The “Why your anti-spam idea won’t work” checklist
This comes up regularly on Slashdot and I find it hilarious each time, but can never find it when I go looking for it. So, here it is:
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Energy Production and Consumption
Explore data on how energy production and use varies across the world.
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Not just “a few bad apples”: U.S. police kill civilians at much higher rates than other countries
Police violence is a systemic problem in the U.S., not simply incidental, and it happens on a scale far greater than other wealthy nations.
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New study finds 45,000 deaths annually linked to lack of health coverage
Nearly 45,000 annual deaths are associated with lack of health insurance, according to a new study published online today by the American Journal of Public Health. That figure is about…
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Who makes minimum wage?
Perhaps surprisingly, not very many people earn minimum wage, and they make up a smaller share of the workforce than they used to.
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I Don't Know, Timmy, Being God Is a Big Responsibility
A note from the author You can buy this story as part of my collection, Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories. "Tim! Do you want a bar of gold?" Tim, raincoat on, about to leave for the weekend, was completely flummoxed by the question. He froze in place, one ...