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...after a China-based cyberattack on Gmail. Google then vowed to stop self-censoring--a move that, according to a Beijing spokesman on March 12, would have "consequences." Ironically, those consequences might be gravest for China. The $600 million that Google could earn in China this year pales in comparison with the company's $22 billion global annual revenue. The pullout, however, could adversely affect Chinese start...
...days later, I got the results for Laszlo and me. It turns out that while Laszlo and Cassandra's genome-wide comparison is 83.82% similar, he and I are 83.95% alike. Which means he is 0.13% more like me than he is like her. Which means that despite appearances, I totally won the Gene Bowl. And that's not even counting the fact that unlike her, Laszlo and I both have penises. So more like...
...surprising to anyone who has followed the healthcare reform battle in the last year is that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, now signed into law, managed to pass through both chambers of Congress without a single Republican voting “Yea.” In comparison, another landmark bill passed 75 years ago, the Social Security Act of 1935, passed the House 372 votes to 33, with 81 Republicans voting in support. Thirty years later in 1965, the Medicaid and Medicare amendments were added with a House margin of 307-to-116, with 70 Republicans voting...
...reference-income hypothesis is rather abstract. The researchers wondered whether there was a more nuanced way to capture how people valued their income. They reasoned that people tend to make specific comparisons of personal wealth, not only with the average income of the larger population, but with the individual incomes of their neighbors, colleagues at work or friends from college. And the higher their rank, the greater their sense of happiness and self-worth would likely be. "For example, people might care about whether they are the second most highly paid person, or the eighth most highly paid person...
...comparison, “Modern Family,” still isn’t wildly nontraditional, at least in terms of format. It’s by no means pitch-perfect—but it’s good, and solidly good...