Author: Richard Nestoff (Page 18 of 118)

Men don’t go to the doctor.

NYT: What Does It Take to Get Men to See a Doctor?

The Cutler Center is one of the few clinical spaces trying to tackle the stubborn problem of men’s lack of engagement with America’s health care system.

Right now, men in the United States, whether infants or elders, are more likely to die at younger ages than their female counterparts. Male life expectancy at birth is currently 75.8 years — 5.3 years less than it is for women.

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GTX 1080 Ti is running hot.

Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 1080 Ti is the second-fastest single-GPU graphics card you can buy, and only because there’s a $1200 Titan Xp offering questionable value out there, too.

That was from an article written in 2017.

When I wanted to try out virtual reality, I bought a gaming computer with that graphics card.  At that time, it was almost impossible to buy a graphics card because crypto-currency miners were buying all available graphics cards.

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Gen Z are basking in dread.

Economist: The middle-aged are no longer the most miserable

Economist: The middle-aged are no longer the most miserable

The graph shows the percentage of people of each generation who are unhappy at a particular age.  The article is based on this research about the decline in mental health of the young, which is based on an annual survey conducted by the CDC.

It makes sense that Gen Z would be the most unhappy.

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