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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

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

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-==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:
-: [[File:knitting_needles.png | 250px]]
-Paul observes,  "The U.S. designation increases as the diameter goes up while the Canadian goes down.  To add to the mystery, the sum of the U.S. and the Canadian adds to 14.  Mostly."
-For an intro class, it might be an interesting exercise to plot these and see if any transformation can reconcile things.  (Mostly!)
 ==Nuts and death==