AARP Pro-Reform Ambulance Ad
August 30th, 2009
Archive for August, 2009
I just saw a great ad from the AARP that needed to be shared.
It uses a great analogy of an ambulance getting blocked and slowed down by all sorts of cars to call out those who are trying to keep people from discussing the actual reform being proposed by using lies and misdirection.
YouTube – AARP Health Action Now Ambulance Ad – Ration Care.
If you like it, pass it on!
Shared by JonNew Comic: The Circle of Life
Best part of today's Penny Arcade: I would totally play a game where you stalked Sam Fisher as Batman.
If this isn’t an invitation for a whooping, i don’t know what is!
Pirates open fire on U.S. Navy chopper – Somalia- msnbc.com.
I could just let those words sit on your tongue and shock you, but instead, there’s a teaser commercial from A&E!
Apparently, he’s been a sheriff’s deputy with this parish in Lousiana for 20 years! Amazing and true!
Found via Chris Hardwick aka Nerdist
Why isn’t this on a tshirt and why aren’t I wearing such a shirt right now?!?!
Interesting food for thought:
In the last 30 years, the CBO’s estimates for savings from changes to Medicare have been low balled. This isn’t due to any bias on their part but instead, on the forecasting method.
When forecasting potential savings, they use historical examples of similar initiatives. When there is no previous experience, most of the time the savings are estimated at zero, which obviously changes the math.
Supporting data at the full op-ed: Op-Ed Contributor – Congress’s Health Care Numbers Don’t Add Up – NYTimes.com.
Bolivian soccer player gets revenge on an Uruguayan player for tackling him by using the dreaded Flying Kick To The Throat.
Oh Japan… what won’t your game-type shows bring us?
I suppose we can cross “show monkey magic tricks” off the list.
When people don't have signs or other external cues for direction, we will probably end up walking in circles. That's according to a new psychological study conducted by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany. For example, someone trying to walk straight through a dense forest on a day where the sun is blocked by clouds will likely start drifting into more of a circular path after just 100 meters or less. From Science News:
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Circular walking occurs when people have to rely solely on bodily cues, such as rotational shifts and joint movements, to estimate the location of “straight ahead,” (researcher Jan) Souman hypothesizes. As random errors in bodily feedback accumulate, a person eventually drifts to one side or the other. A walker dependent on bodily cues may first make a circle to the right, drift back to a straight-ahead direction, start to zigzag and then make a circle to the left."How to walk in circles without really trying"
“You may think that you’re walking in a straight line, but in fact the direction you’re walking in is drifting more and more away from straight ahead, making you walk in circles,” Souman says...
Psychologist John Rieser of Vanderbilt University in Nashville calls the new findings exciting. He and his colleagues have found that blindfolded people veer off course but don’t circle when walking up to 100 meters across a grassy field. But cues from the ground, such as variations in grass length in an otherwise predictable environment, may have reduced veering from a straight line, Rieser says. “I suspect that one’s subjective sense of straight ahead, and up-down too, are easily changed by environmental conditions,” he remarks.