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Caitlin Fransen

Timeline: 1930s - YES! Magazine - 1 views

  • Decade of 1930s has highest levels in U.S. history— average 167 per year.
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      why during this time were executions the highest? what were the crimes they considered execution to be the consequence for? 
Caitlin Fransen

McAllen, Texas and the high cost of health care : The New Yorker - 4 views

  • “Just look around,” the cadet said. “People are not healthy here.” McAllen, with its high poverty rate, has an incidence of heavy drinking sixty per cent higher than the national average. And the Tex-Mex diet has contributed to a thirty-eight-per-cent obesity rate
    • Caitlin Fransen
       
      For how high high their health care market it is... it is ridiculous to think that the people their are unhealthy. The high health care expenses are attributing to their high drinking rates and their unhealthy diets. 
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The Road to Serfdom - Readers Digest, April 1945 Condensation - 7 views

  • "Friedrich Hayek has written one of the most important books of our generation."
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      its funny how the two quotes about the book differ so greatly. at first it is called "sad and angry little book" but then 4 days later by the same newspaper, but different writers said "Friedrich Hayek has written one of the most important books of our generation" its amazing how the second review cause the book to sell so many more copies 
  • "One of the Most Important Books of Our Generation."
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What Makes Us Happy? - Joshua Wolf Shenk - The Atlantic - 0 views

  • Bock declared that medical research paid too much attention to sick people; that dividing the body up into symptoms and diseases—and viewing it through the lenses of a hundred micro-specialties—could never shed light on the urgent question of how, on the whole, to live well. His study would draw on undergraduates who could “paddle their own canoe,” Bock said, and it would “attempt to analyze the forces that have produced normal young men.”
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      interesting to think about it in that way, we study all the sickness and diseases, but why not look at in a different way? how do we live well? sickness may give us some clues, but there are other ways to look at it and discover how to live well
Caitlin Fransen

Joanna Moorhead on the best country to give birth | Life and style | The Guardian - 18 views

  • Because this boy is the fifth child Dahara has pushed into the world and of the others, only one is still alive.
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      Only one is still alive? wow! did they die at birth or die sometime during there childhood? either way it shows the very poor living conditions are. Do they have a really low life expectancy age? 
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The emerging moral psychology - 7 views

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      It is crazy the way our institutions have caused our way of thinking to develop. a lot of what students learn in school becomes what they believe because of the schools influence and they also in some cases know no different.  
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