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==Virginia election==
==Nuts and death==
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk8SusCLkyo VA changes vote count rules while counting] (YouTube video)<br>
[http://www.forbes.com/sites/larryhusten/2013/11/20/go-nuts-consumption-of-nuts-linked-to-mortality-benefit/ Go nuts! Consumption of nuts linked to mortality benefit]<br>
''The Rachel Maddow Show,'' 11 November 2013
by Larry Husten, (contributing medical news journalist), Forbes, 20 November, 2013


The Virginia Attorney General contest this fall exceeding close.  Democrat Mark Herring led Republican Mark D. Obenshain by 165 votes out of some 2.2 million. 
As described here:
Even more amazing than just the numbers, is that the discussion seemed to turn on the (mis)interpretation of a Venn diagram!
<blockquote>
Starting around 14:50 mark in the video you will hear that for Fairfax County--which is heavily Democratic-- and only for Fairfax County, the State Board of Elections
suddenly said that provisional ballots should be counted only if the voter '''''and''''' their representative are present whereas in all previous elections,
the interpretation by Fairfax County officials was that provisional ballots would be counted if either the voter '''''or''''' their representative is present.


===Followup===
</blockquote>
[http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/herring-wins-virginia-attorney-general-race-elections-board-announces/2013/11/25/7b661082-55e7-11e3-835d-e7173847c7cc_story.html Herring wins Virginia attorney general race, elections board announces]<br>
by Laura Vozzella, ''Washington Post'', 25 November 2013
 
In the weeks since the election, the lead has swung back and forth between the two candidates, as election officials sorted throught various re-tallies and certification processes.  We read, "The most significant discovery came in Fairfax County, Virginia’s largest jurisdiction, where officials discovered nearly 2,000 uncounted ballots on a single optical-scan voting machine...In a typical year, these additions and subtractions don’t affect the outcome. This year, the contest for attorney general was so close that the normal process of fixing errors and counting provisional ballots caused the results tally to narrow dramatically in an already close race."
 
 
[http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/obenshain-to-concede-virginia-attorney-generals-race-on-wednesday-in-richmond/2013/12/18/fe85a31c-67e7-11e3-8b5b-a77187b716a3_story.html Obenshain concedes Virginia attorney general’s race to Herring]<br>
by Laura Vozzella and Ben Pershing, ''Washington Post'', 18 December 2013
 
Obenshain's confession "allowed Herring to claim victory for the third time since Nov. 5 in a contest that on election night was the closest statewide race in Virginia history."
 
Submitted by Paul Alper


==Nuts and death==
[http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1307352#t=abstract Association of nut consumption with total and cause-specific mortality]<br>
[http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1307352#t=abstract Association of nut consumption with total and cause-specific mortality]<br>
by Ying Bao, M.D., et al, ''New England Journal of Medicine'', 369:2001-2011, 21 November, 2013
by Ying Bao, M.D., et al, ''New England Journal of Medicine'', 369:2001-2011, 21 November, 2013
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Submitted by Paul Alper
Submitted by Paul Alper
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[http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21588057-scientists-think-science-self-correcting-alarming-degree-it-not-trouble Trouble at the lab]<br>
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."
[http://www.nature.com/news/weak-statistical-standards-implicated-in-scientific-irreproducibility-1.14131 Weak statistical standards implicated in scientific irreproducibility]<br>
by Erika Check Hayden, ''Nature News'', 11 November 2013

Revision as of 16:36, 23 December 2013

Nuts and death

Go nuts! Consumption of nuts linked to mortality benefit
by Larry Husten, (contributing medical news journalist), Forbes, 20 November, 2013

As described here:

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

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