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Dr. Michael Mosley of the BBC reports, Alien Hand Syndrome sees woman attacked by her own hand:
55-year-old Karen Byrne in New Jersey … suffers from Alien Hand Syndrome.
Her left hand, and occasionally her left leg, behaves as if it were under the control of an alien intelligence.
I thought that condition must be very rare, but then I saw that it also afflicts Russian dancers (Inga Savitskaya, Moscow 2004):
It snowed yesterday and is bitterly cold today; and Shou-Ching just brought up the topic of a vacation.
This place looks nice.
I’ve previously cited charts from Hans Rosling’s Gapminder to point out that U.S. longevity is worse than would be expected based on our GDP. Click for a legible plot:
If you fit a curve and measure distance beneath the curve, among rich nations only Brunei, Qatar, and maybe Luxembourg and Liechtenstein perform worse than the US. Americans die years earlier than we ought. I believe the reason for this is probably our agricultural subsidies for wheat, corn, and soybeans and the high intake of toxins they have engendered.
Well, Dr. Rosling has a nice new video, produced by the BBC. It does a great job illustrating how strongly longevity depends on income. In all countries, as incomes have risen over the last 200 years, lifespans have increased as well. Probably this has a lot to do with food quality and investments in water, sewage removal, and sanitation.
Here’s Dr. Rosling’s tour of 200 countries and 200 years in 4 minutes:
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