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After Obama’s State of the Union speech, in which he emphasized jobs, it’s interesting to reflect on how the choice of words affects politics. It turns out that the various terms used to describe the very same proposals and policies can influence whether or not voters support them in the future. But some wordless emotional expressions are the same in EVERY culture!

We all saw this in the last election, when candidate Obama’s suggestion that elderly people make out a “living will” in order to qualify for national health insurance (something many of them have already done voluntarily) was described by candidate Sarah Palin as the creation of “Death Panels.”
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Card players, plan ahead: A new study of online poker seems shows that the more hands players win, the less money they’re likely to collect. If this doesn’t seem to make sense, keep reading.

Sociologist Kyle Siler, who analyzed 27 million online poker hands, says the reason is that the multiple wins are usually for small stakes, and the more you play, the more likely you will eventually lose due to an occasional big loss.

PhysOrg.com quotes Siler is quoted as saying that his discovery “coincides with observations in behavioral economics that people overweigh their frequent small gains vis-

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Besides the threat to the West Coast of the US, there could be more earthquakes on the way to the Caribbean in the near future, and not just aftershocks either.
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We all know what WE think the “weekend effect: is: feeling lazy, doing chores, hopefully exercising, maybe having too much to eat and drink. But that could change for you in the future if you have too much fun. For physicians this phrase has another meaning: it has to do with the heart attacks, strokes, cardiac arrests and other time-sensitive illnesses during those “off hours,” that may not get treated effectively in a hospital emergency room. Thank goodness people who are in car crashes or suffer serious falls, gunshot or knife wounds and other injuries at nights or on weekends do not appear to be affected by the same medical care disparities, because you never know what will happen.
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