Dr Wingnut

Day: March 21, 2005

  • War movies

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    For some reason, we have been watching very many World War II movies at my house lately; From Here to Eternity, Pearl Harbor, Saving Private Ryan, and U-571 in the last two weeks alone.  And it occured to me that I don’t recall ever seeing a moving from the German point-of-view related to the greatest…

  • Knowledge

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    It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward.  Ignorance is never better than knowledge.Enrico Fermi (1901 – 1954)

  • Physicians vs guns

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    Physicians:The number of physicians in the U.S. is 700,000.Accidental deaths caused by Physicians per year are 120,000.Accidental deaths per physician is 0.171.(Statistics courtesy of U.S. Dept of Health & Human Services)Guns: The number of gun owners in the U.S. is 80,000,000.The number of accidental gun deaths per year (all age groups) is 1,500.The number of…