DrW

We have lots of graduate students from China and India in our department. If they participate in intramural sports, the favorite (at least for the male students) is... soccer. Nothing else comes close.

Interesting. Both write-ups are actually based on the same data. My source was the original study, your source somebody else's interpretation of the study. The correction for reporting differences indeed brings the US "much closer to the rates of our European counterparts" (your source), but "US disadvantage persists" (original study). Your source concludes: "Unless the U.S. improves (and ultimately ensures) access for all — healthcare policy that American citizens still cannot agree upon — the discrepancy of infant mortality among nations is likely to continue to be glaring."

That is not true. Different from you, I actually have a study that backs my point of view. https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w20525/w20525.pdf Summary The US has higher infant mortality than peer countries. In this paper, we combine micro-data from the US with similar data from four European countries to investigate this US infant mortality disadvantage. The US disadvantage persists after adjusting for potential differential reporting of births near the threshold of viability. While the importance of birth weight varies across comparison countries, relative to all comparison countries the US has similar neonatal (<1 month) mortality but higher postneonatal (1-12 months) mortality. We document similar patterns across Census divisions within the US. The postneonatal mortality disadvantage is driven by poor birth outcomes among lower socioeconomic status individuals. In their discussion, the authors specifically note, "infants born to white, college-educated, married women in the U.S. have mortality rates that are essentially indistinguishable from a similar advantaged demographic in Austria and Finland." These are the people well-covered by health insurance, both in Europe and in the US.

Realistically, we will probably retire to somewhere close to the kids. However, one place in inland Florida I could imagine to live would be Ocala. I love the Ocala National Forest/Wilderness, and the Juniper Springs canoe run is one of the most beautiful in the US (and well manageable for senior citizens). Furthermore, one of my hobbies are model railroads, and the largest US brass model dealer is located in Ocala.

Well, to bring this into perspective https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/inflation-rate Is that all Biden's fault?

FAMILY was one of the most innovative, but also most underrated bands of the late 60s/early 70s.

Polk Salad Annie was written by Tony Joe White, and his performance beats Elvis by miles (well, it is difficult to do the pelvis gyrations when you have to play guitar at the same time)... My favorite Tony Joe White song... Usually, singers/songwriters are not very high on my preferred music list. However, way back in Germany a TV station had a competition asking for songs mentioning types and/or models of cars, and the "Continental Lincoln" in this song made the list.

Well, I am a scientist. Thus, I dug a bit further and stumbled upon a female jazz/big band drummer, Viola Smith. Here is a clip from 1939. She died in 2020 at the age of 107.

Well, in my examples I tried to stick to the AFC vs. NFC set-up for the 17th game. If you allow for games within the same conference, there are certainly more possibilities; I like Jags versus Dolphins, hoping that Trevor Lawrence's development progresses faster than Tua's. .

As to your idea, in many cases you can find interesting match-ups. In other cases, not so much. Who do you want to play the Jags? Carolina in the "expansion-team-from-the-same-year-which-also-has-a-large-cat-as-mascot" bowl? Or take the Falcons in their current state. Do they play the Texans in the "MLB-world-series-revenge" bowl?

Well, that was just a matter of time when this discussion would gain traction. In a town hall meeting here in Lubbock last Thursday, US Representative Jodey Arrington (R-Lubbock) first thanked the SCOTUS for confirming that abortion rulings should be left to the individual states. However, just a few minutes later he stated that he would work on federal legislation to ban abortion in the US, hoping that his efforts would gain more traction after expected gains for the GOP in the 2022 elections. Giving the power back to the states now seems just like a lip service by some Republicans.

And here is the perhaps earliest female rock drummer... Maureen "Moe" Tucker. Camera by Andy Warhol (demonstrating that an artist excelling at some expressions of art can suck at others).

Actually, this was surprisingly good. However, it was more mainstream and less influenced by the music in their home country.

He will read it and then explain to us why BillsFan4 is wrong.

17-year old Lucy Landymore plays Zappa's "The Black Page" Today, Lucy is percussionist in Hans Zimmer's orchestra (they do lots of movie scores) and does tutorials Zappa's percussionist, Ruth Underwood, explains aspects of Zappa's "sound":

I have no direct data on this, but I highly doubt it. First, in Europe (as in the US and most other places on Earth) gue to rotation of the Earth the predominant wind direction is west to east, favoring the transport of atmospheric gases from the Netherlands to Germany, not the other way around. Secondly, the Netherlands have a very high population density (nearly twice as high as Germany), leaving not much space for farming land. Thus, the agricultural areas are highly fertilized, producing nitrogen oxides. I think you overinterpret the pic with the empty shelves in the grocery store. It is simply supposed to show you that the tractor blockade by the Dutch farmers is successful, nothing more.

I was aware of that. The plan does not include bulldozing of existing structures and the building of ghettos. These are just imaginations of a conspiracy-afflicted mind.

Well, you had here an interesting topic, and it should be worth discussing (especially for the Dutch people) if farmers should be required to reduce fertilizer use or livestock numbers. But then you could not help yourself and had to add the last quote: With that quote, the credibility of your post went right down the drain. For one, they got their chemistry wrong. NO2 is really unstable, but is also very reactive and will be converted to a number of different nitrogen oxides, none of which are good for your health. More importantly, do you really believe the TriState City conspiracy? Do you really believe a politician, as bad as they might be, imagines a Judge Dredd-like future? For whom do they build 30,000 square miles of ghetto?

You might want to look for a source that goes beyond 2010. It took me two minutes.

Here is what I posted earlier in this thread.

Well, there you found a really "fair and balanced" source of information. Daniel Turner worked for the Koch brothers and several Republican campaigns. He appeared not only on Fox News, but also on such pillars of unbiased reporting as OAN and NewsMax. "Power the Future" claims "We are the voice of energy workers advocating for their jobs and communities, and pushing back on the radical environmental movement which uses their vast power and resources to advance their agenda."

More on Prager U, this time from the Weather Channel. https://features.weather.com/course-climate-misinformation/

I know. I just googled it and it surprised me too. Apparently, some EV drivers want to have to do something with their hands. My first car way back in Germany was actually a "super beetle" with a 1500 cc engine and a 2-speed transmission.

This is not quite true. For $101,000 you can get an Audi or for nearly double the price a Porsche with a 2-speed manual transmission. https://www.motorbiscuit.com/electric-vehicles-manual-transmissions/