06-26-2016, 11:33 PM
The saga has quickly become a case study in the capacity of social media to empower otherwise voiceless and isolated people, and simultaneously in the capacity of a few ill-judged, Ratneresque tweets, to undermine a flourishing business. At the time of writing, the company’s website is down, and online reviews of the business are pithy: “Simply inhumane – laughing at parents of disabled children.”
What distinguished late life from the rest of adulthood is its unique pattern of mortality. The year-on-year rise in death rates that are a feature of adulthood don’t apply in late life. Whereas a 60-year-old has a much higher chance of imminent death than a 50-year-old, a 90-year-old has roughly the same chance of dying as a 100-year-old.
BBC - Earth - Can we predict when we will die?
A Swedish footballer was sent off for passing wind during a match - with the referee dismissing him for "deliberate provocation" and "unsportsmanlike behaviour". (Sport Bladet)
Gossip column: Rodgers, Nolito, Sane, Giggs, Morata, Bellerin, - BBC Sport
NXP Semiconductor ( NXPI) offers a great buying opportunity in the midst of the Brexit selloff, said TheStreet's Jim Cramer. He said the chip company is one of the leaders in the shift to the 'Internet of Things.' Cramer also said investors should stay away from automobile stocks which have very big business in Europe. On the whole, Cramer said the selloff is not so powerful that investors should start shopping indiscriminately because the bargains simply have not appeared yet.
Jim Cramer Says Buy NXPI, Stay Away from Auto Stocks - TheStreet
Coffee was classified as a possible cause of cancer in 1991, but the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), which is part of WHO, has now reconsidered the evidence. It carried out a detailed review of the many studies published on the subject and found that coffee drinkers have no reason to worry. IARC also investigated the herbal drink mate, also known as chimarrão or cimarrón, which is widely consumed in South America, where oesophageal cancer is more common than in other parts of the world. The experts found that mate was not a cause of cancer, but they believe the temperature at which it is drunk probably is – and that other very hot drinks could also be linked to oesophageal cancer.
Hot drinks may cause cancer, but coffee does not, says WHO | Science