March 23, 2014 in Science & Technology
follow: http://www.twitter.com/tweetsauce Sources and more below! are you an uninsured American? Check out: https://www.healthcare.gov Music by http://www.youtube.com/JakeChudnow and http://www.audionetwork.com Mental Floss “micromorts” video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLmBJ4_5eG4 WHO life tables: http://apps.who.int/gho/data/view.main.61780?lang=en K.C. Cole “The Universe and the Teacup”: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Universe-Teacup-Mathematics-Beauty/dp/0156006561 Abraham Wald: Survivorship Bias http://learn-math.info/historyDetail.htm?id=Wald Soyuz 11: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_11 The Crew That Never Came Home: The Misfortunes of Soyuz 11 http://www.qsl.net/up0r/NetEng.htm The atmosphere (chart): http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/Atmosphere_layers-en.svg “Poke” your birthday: http://www.pokemybirthday.com estimation of the number of cells in the body: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23829164 leading causes of death (US): http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/pdf/10LCID_All_Deaths_By_Age_Group_2010-a.pdf
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follow: http://www.twitter.com/tweetsauce Sources and more below! are you an uninsured American? Check out: https://www.healthcare.gov Music by http://www.youtube.com/JakeChudnow and http://www.audionetwork.com Mental Floss “micromorts” video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLmBJ4_5eG4 WHO life tables: http://apps.who.int/gho/data/view.main.61780?lang=en K.C. Cole “The Universe and the Teacup”: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Universe-Teacup-Mathematics-Beauty/dp/0156006561 Abraham Wald: Survivorship Bias http://learn-math.info/historyDetail.htm?id=Wald Soyuz 11: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_11 The Crew That Never Came Home: The Misfortunes of Soyuz 11 http://www.qsl.net/up0r/NetEng.htm The atmosphere (chart): http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/Atmosphere_layers-en.svg “Poke” your birthday: http://www.pokemybirthday.com estimation of the number of cells in the body: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23829164 leading causes of death (US): http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/pdf/10LCID_All_Deaths_By_Age_Group_2010-a.pdf
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