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Oct. 21st, 2011
My mail box is a converted milk box
Oct. 21st, 2011 04:26 pmA sort of air-lock affair where there's an outer and inner door. There's also a top shelf with a regular mail slot in it.
If you had a large item to put into that mail box, would you open the door and place inside or fold it in four to cram it through the slot?
[added later, after today's mail]
Let's say the item was an envelope of the sort the slot was designed for. Slot or door?
If you had a large item to put into that mail box, would you open the door and place inside or fold it in four to cram it through the slot?
[added later, after today's mail]
Let's say the item was an envelope of the sort the slot was designed for. Slot or door?
A question from Sewasp I didn't feel qualified to answer:
It seems to me I have seen analyses *somewhere* that show that the overall cost (to individual and society) of a healthcare system that discourages people from going to the doctor/ER unless they're Really Really sick (i.e., they put off going to the doctor until it is truly unmistakable that there is something wrong) is much higher than that of a healthcare system which supports people going in whenever they THINK there might be something wrong, even taking into account hypochondriacs and people who make honest mistakes ("that's not diverticulitis, you just have gas").
But I have no idea where to find these analyses (and whether they're reputable). My own experience would tend to argue that this is very true, but I admit I don't know how many people with nothing essentially wrong with them and cost time and effort to diagnose, versus the cost for the one guy ignoring things until they go out of control.
But actually it turns out we're involved in something interesting:
Canada’s MOST space telescope will soon have company to study the “twinkling” of stars in our Galaxy. Not the twinkling you see at night, but the true vibrations of stars that are often detectable only above the Earth’s turbulent atmosphere. The six nanosats of the BRITE (BRight Target Explorer) Constellation will join MOST in orbit to make highly precise measurements of the brightness variations of a large number of bright stars. Many of those stars are not just the brightest to your eye: they are among the brightest in energy output of all stars in our galaxy.