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==Knitting needle conversion==
==Knitting needle conversion==
Paul Alper sent a [http://www.purplekittyyarns.com/info/knitting-needle-conversion.html link to this table] which gives conversions for sizes of knitting needles:
Paul Alper sent a [http://www.purplekittyyarns.com/info/knitting-needle-conversion.html link to this table] which gives conversions for sizes of knitting needles:
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==Nuts and death==
==Nuts and death==

Revision as of 18:28, 21 December 2013

Knitting needle conversion

Paul Alper sent a link to this table which gives conversions for sizes of knitting needles:

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Nuts and death

Association of nut consumption with total and cause-specific mortality
by Ying Bao, M.D., et al, New England Journal of Medicine, 369:2001-2011, 21 November, 2013

3-minute video

Submitted by Paul Alper

Trouble at the lab
Economist, 19 Oct 2013

The subtitle of this article announces, "Scientists like to think of science as self-correcting. To an alarming degree, it is not." Weak statistical standards implicated in scientific irreproducibility
by Erika Check Hayden, Nature News, 11 November 2013