Growing up, health classes taught us the definition of binge drinking is someone who drinks five beers or shots in a night. We were discouraged from being a binge drinker, but we all know people who did it at various points. But a new study shows just how much drinking it takes to be in the elite class of truly heavy drinkers. Continue reading
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If a computer handled redistricting
Every 10 years, when census numbers get updated and shifts are required to ensure “equal representation,” complaints of gerrymandering and district tampering inevitably arise, as humans try to cope with a variety of variables that can lead to all sorts of accusations of favoritism or marginalism. Continue reading
Those hipsters and their skinny jeans almost created a crisis for the U.S.
This headline means one of two things:
- I can write one those god-awful clickbait headlines with the best of them; headline writing became a strength for me when I worked at a newspaper.
- GET OFF MY LAWN! (Or something like that.)