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Prejudice at Age 6

January 7, 2007 – 9:12 pm

erasismA sad study showing that most kids are already prejudiced by age 6. Damn, this is awful.

By age 6, many kids are well schooled in societal prejudice. In a study, researchers interviewed 92 African-American first- and sixth-graders from varying socioeconomic backgrounds about job status and their own interest in particular occupations.

Children from all economic backgrounds associated white workers with jobs that they saw as higher in status. Furthermore, when asked about unfamiliar and even imaginary jobs such as a “tenic,” someone who organizes and marks handicapped parking spaces, children rated careers pictured with white workers above those depicted with black workers or a mixed group.

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Prayer doesn't help heart patients

April 10, 2006 – 4:50 pm

Looks like the merits of prayer on under fire again, “A recent study conducted by the Duke University Medical Center on 700 patients, found that having people pray for heart bypass surgery patients had no effect on their recovery. Researchers emphasized their work does not address whether God exists or answers prayers made on another’s behalf. This result seems to contradict a previous study by the same authors that reported “cardiac patients who received intercessory prayer in addition to coronary stenting appeared to have better clinical outcomes than those treated with standard stenting therapy alone.” We’ll see how this plays out, for now if I get sick I’d like everyone to curse for me, I suspect that might be more helpful.

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Apache versus Lighttpd

January 26, 2006 – 10:04 pm

Since I’ve been running Typo for this blog I’ve been having Apache do a mod_proxy to pass anything bound for fak3r.com to a port that Typo is running on with LightTPD spitting up the pages. I’ve read about how much faster Lighttpd is, but today I wanted to test it out on my own enviroment in the hopes that it would convince me to migrate over, if for nothing else that to learn a new webserver. Well, you can draw your own conclusions from the results, and I’ll update things later. First we run the ApacheBench (packaged with Apache, or available via CPAN – HTTPD::Bench::ApacheBench) benchmarking tool set for 10 concurrent users, each making 1000 requests (so a total of 10,000 requests) with Apache 2.0.55 running. Note that is simply pulling whatever it finds in /:

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Dark chocolate is good for you

December 22, 2005 – 5:40 pm

In more good eating news, a recent finding has determined that dark chocolate is good for the heart. Again, like beer and coffee, moderation is the key, but again, it’s that ‘daily’ mention that I like! ”Only a small daily treat of dark chocolate may substantially increase the amount of antioxidant intake and beneficially affect vascular health,” the report’s authors said. … The group, who were asked to abstain from eating foods rich in antioxidants for 24 hours, were given 40 grams of chocolate to eat. … After two hours, ultrasound scans revealed that dark chocolate – made up of 74 per cent cocoa solids – significantly improved the smoothness of arterial flow, an effect which lasted eight hours. When the experiment was repeated with white chocolate – with only four-per-cent cocoa – there was no effect, the study published in Heart medical journal said. The researchers, who said further studies were needed, suggested that the possible benefits arose from the antioxidants in dark chocolate. Dark chocolate contains more antioxidants per gram than other food and drink with the same properties, such as red wine, tea and berry fruits.”

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Yes, I will have another

December 6, 2005 – 8:23 pm

I’m always seeing reports that basically state the same thing; moderate drinking is good for you, but now we also learn that it can may lower risk of becoming obese! So while past reports have touted decreased chance of heart disease and high blood pressure, today’s report states that, “…new research suggests it may also help you stay svelte. Regular drinkers who consume one or two drinks a few times a week are less likely to be obese compared with people who do not drink” with the obvious disclaimer, “However, having four or more drinks per day increases the risk of being obese by 46 percent, researchers report.” So there’s another reason that it’s not only OK, but perhaps benificial in many ways for you to have a few beers at night after a (boring) day at work. So in the words of James Rohrer, from the department of family medicine at the Mayo Clinic, “Moderation is the best policy,” he says. “Moderate drinking is probably a reasonably healthy behavior. We cannot show any benefits from the complete abstention from alcohol.” Bottoms up.

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