Toward simple confusion
Check out this page on statistics for Asians living in the US. Interesting read with alot of statistics.
Asians tend to concentrate in urban and coastal areas; 55% of Asians live in just six US Metropolitan Areas: Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Honolulu, Washington DC-Baltimore and Chicago. Concentrations of Asians outside the suburbs of large metropolitan areas were typically located near colleges and universities
Check out this video of a frog basically dying and coming back to life. The frog doesnt really die, but the frog (being a cold-blooded amphibian) puts its self in a kind of suspended animation. Pretty cool. Goes up there with monkeys not liking noise.. umm. I mean music.
Check out this articlethat talks about how monkey’s prefer silence over music.
For his part, McDermott says it will be important to repeat the experiment with smarter—and larger—primates, such as apes and chimpanzees. He guesses that tamarins and marmosets, both very small, may dislike music because it prevents them from hearing more biologically relevant sounds.
“One of their dominant motivations is avoiding becoming a meal for someone,” he said
This makes perfect sense. Last time I had someone noises outside my house in the middle of the night, the first thing I did was turn off the tv. I wonder what would happen if they raised these monkeys up in an environment with music…
Check out this article at the nytimes about diabetes in India. 35 million people of Indias 1.1 billion currently have diabetes. Projects suggest that in 20 years over 75 million people will be infected. Some pretty interesting things in the article, such as, some see diabetes as a marker of social status; and if you get diabetes you lesson yourself, and may have to marry into a lower caste.
“Jokingly in talks, I say you haven’t made it in society until you get a touch of diabetes,†Dr. Mohan said. He points out that people who once balanced water jugs and construction material on their heads now carry nothing heavier than a cellphone. At a four-star restaurant, it is not unusual to see a patron yank out his kit and give himself an insulin injection.
Check out this article about how cranberry juice is good to fight off infections from E Coli. In short, cranberry juice keeps them from going crazy and turning bad.
Check out this article on businessweek.com about the US population hitting 300 million. A large population means large market for goods and services. An interesting point in the article is that the US has a larger population percentage under the age of 20 (28%, compared to 25% in france, 20% in Germany, and 19% in Japan). Read the article for more info.