Guide to the Diversity Visa: Demographics, Criminality, and Terrorism Risk
ConclusionThe diversity visa is a relatively small green card category that has allowed in about a million legal immigrant principals since 1993, or about 5 percent of the total. As far as we know, immigrants who entered on the diversity visa are responsible for committing one terrorist attack on U.S. soil that murdered eight people. Foreign-born people from countries that have sent many diversity visa immigrants to the United States have lower incarceration rates than native-born Americans. Calls to end the diversity visa based on a single deadly terrorist attack are premature. Table 1Diversity Visa Admissions by ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 2, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
So What ’s The Problem With Rice?
There is no question that, in this barrel of rotten apples, wheat is the rottenest. But you still may not want to make cider with those other apples. What I call “non-wheat grains,” such as oats, barley, rye, millet, teff, sorghum, corn, and rice, are nonetheless seeds of grasses whose consumption has the potential for harmful effects.
I would classify non-wheat grains as less bad than the worst— modern wheat— but less bad is not necessarily good. (That extraordinarily simple insight— that less bad is not necessarily good— is one that will serve you well over and over as you learn to question conventional nutri...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - October 11, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Rice Undoctored Wheat Belly blood sugar diabetes Dr. Davis gluten gluten-free grain grain-free Weight Loss Wheat Belly Total Health Source Type: blogs
Going After Your Past – The Big National Geographic Ancestry Test Review
Have you ever wondered to which people your ancestors belonged thousands of years ago? Or how your ancestors ended up living in the region where you were born? Did you know that your genes can reveal this information? The National Geographic Ancestry Test promises to take you on a journey into your faraway past and to be part of the Genographic Project aiming to uncover one of the greatest stories of humanity – our origins. I was excited to see what my genes hide so I ordered a test with full of curiosity. Here are my results.
Where do we come from?
Have you ever wondered where would you find your ancestors if you ha...
Source: The Medical Futurist - July 12, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Genomics ancestry clinicla genetics DNA future gc3 genes Innovation national geographic personal genomics personalized genetics Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 195
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Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 195.
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What is the JOLT test?
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 29, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five abdominal aorta Astley Cooper chicken chlamydia egg Georgi Markov JOLT test meningitis rester's syndrome ricin Source Type: blogs
Death by Poison
Poison has been used for many purposes since humans have existed, often for assassination or assassination attempts. Some of those make the news, the most recent being the assassination of Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.Authorities identified the nerve agent VX on his face, and video corroborated two women wiping a substance on his face before his collapse and death. VX is the most potent nerve agent, and was developed in the United States in the 1950s during the Cold War. It is an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor, and exerts its effects like organophosphate insecticides. Victims develop...
Source: The Tox Cave - May 1, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
You ’re in my space! How preferred interpersonal distance varies across the world
Compared with English participants, Germans were comfortable with a smaller interpersonal space when chatting to an acquaintance
By Christian Jarrett
It’s really awkward when you’re chatting to someone whose sense of appropriate interpersonal space is way too close. There’s the option of performing a subtle backward shuffle, but what if they simply close the gap again?
Our judgments about such things obviously vary with individual personality – people with more social anxiety tend to prefer a greater distance – and also on the nature of the relationship we have with the other person. But culture m...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - March 30, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Cross-cultural Social Source Type: blogs
Collared dove continuity error
You wouldn’t have heard the plaintive and ubiquitous sound of an English summer, the incessant “coo-coo-coooh” of a collared dove (Streptopelia decaocto) here until 1953, when they first began to settle and breed.
According to Wikipedia:
The collared dove is not migratory, but is strongly dispersive. Over the last century, it has been one of the great colonisers of the bird world, travelling far beyond its native range to colonize colder countries, becoming naturalised in several. Its original range at the end of the 19th century was warm temperate and subtropical Asia from Turkey east to southern China ...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - March 15, 2017 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science Source Type: blogs
Lingo Lango, Jingy Jong Jango
I cannot imagine anybody who reads this blog not enjoying Gaston Dorren’s book Lingo: Around Europe in 60 Languages. Yes, sixty languages are a lot to cover, but each one is discussed quite briefly, making only one or two points about the language before moving on. The text takes less than 300 pages, so each language gets the equivalent of a blog post’s worth of discussion. You won’t learn Basque this way, but you will learn that Basque does not have subjects and objects (although speakers can still distinguish between the doer and the doee). The book is full of interesting nuggets doled out in witty prose. Most of t...
Source: Babel's Dawn - February 29, 2016 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Blair Source Type: blogs
Where Do K-1 Visa Holders Come From?
Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik were killed last week in a gun battle with police after they committed a mass shooting in San Bernardino, California. Malik entered the U.S. on a K-1 visa, known as the fiancé visa, accompanied by Farook. Their attack is the first perpetrated by somebody on the K-1 visa - igniting a debate over increasing visa security.
The government issued approximately 262,162 K-1 visas from 2005 to 2013 – 3177 or 1.21 percent of the total to Pakistani citizens.
Senator Rand Paul’s (R-KY) SECURE Act identifies 34 countries as particularly terror-prone. There were 32,363 K-1 visa, 12.34 pe...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 7, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Europe’s Anemic Growth: It’s the Money Supply, Stupid
Growth in the Eurozone has consistently come in under consensus estimates. It missed the mark again in the second quarter of 2015, posting an anemic GDP quarterly growth rate of 0.3%. Europe’s “Big Three”—Germany, France, and Italy—all contributed heavily to the second quarter’s weak performance.
I am not surprised by Europe’s sputtering performance. The growth rate of the broadly determined money supply (M3) is a strong indicator of the economy’s course. Since the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. in September of 2008, the growth of M3 in the Eurozone has been weak. This, in large part, is because ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 15, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Steve H. Hanke Source Type: blogs
Russia Raises the Stakes in Syria
What on earth is Russia doing in Syria? This question has no doubt crossed many minds in recent days, as Russia began to move substantial arms and troops into Syria. There are two possible scenarios: 1) with diplomatic ties at an all time low, and heavy sanctions already in place, Russia has decided it has nothing to lose in defying the West and backing the Assad regime militarily to the bitter end; or 2) Russia is maneuvering to give itself diplomatic leverage in any Syrian settlement by raising the stakes now. Though the latter is more likely, it’s difficult to know which scenario is accurate, further complicating alre...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 15, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Emma Ashford Source Type: blogs
The Yoga Barn: A Diabetes and Health Retreat in Bulgaria
It's always great to hear about cool new diabetes programs across the globe, and since September is National Yoga Month (seriously, it is!), we thought it was a perfect time to tell you all about a new yoga diabetes retreat overseas -- especiall... (Source: Diabetes Mine)
Source: Diabetes Mine - September 4, 2015 Category: Endocrinology Authors: Mike Hoskins Source Type: blogs
Penis Size During Puberty
Guest Author: Cheryl Greene
Background
When babies are born, “It’s a girl” or “It’s a boy” used to be the words parents were waiting to hear from the doctor or midwife. Today, parents have the option of finding out the biological gender of their baby long before birth. Now, they wait to hear “your baby is healthy!”
A number of years ago a parent wrote to us with a question about the size of her baby‘s penis. Dr. Greene answered it in detail in a Q&A titled Penis Size Defined. Theis post was specifically addressing issues of penis size in babies and has nothing to d...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - August 11, 2015 Category: Child Development Authors: Cheryl Greene Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Penis Size Teen Boys Teens & Health Top Teen Source Type: blogs
