writinghawk
Re:Spain will soon overtake Japan in life expectancy rankings
on Sunday December 30, 2018 @12:06PM (#18790076)
Yes it is. The claim made is that the change in life expectancy is due to the diet. But it's well known that "you can't explain a variable with a constant". If the diet has not changed, it cannot explain a change in life expectancy.
You are suggesting that the change in life expectancy is due to a period of living without wars and dictatorships. Whether this is right or not it is certainly a much more sensible explanation, but it has nothing to do with diet.
Re:Spain will soon overtake Japan in life expectancy rankings
on Sunday December 30, 2018 @06:00AM (#18788529)
"The chief explanation for Spain’s pronounced improvement is the country’s Mediterranean diet" -- this is scientific nonsense unless the country has only just adopted a Mediterranean diet.
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Re:How air-conditioning created the modern city
on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @05:45PM (#17762202)
Heating need not be 'all waste'. An air (or ground) source heat pump heats a room, counterintuitively, by pumping heat from the colder air outside. It uses less energy than the amount it releases into the room.