Comments by Andres Avila

"The overall 5-year survival rate was 69% and it declined with age. This rate was 81% in patients aged 21 to 64 and 56% for patients 65 years of age or older. When patients were grouped by the histological type of their tumors, those with benign tumors had an overall 5-year survival rate of 70%, whereas the overall 5-year survival rates in patients with atypical and malignant meningiomas were 75% and 55%, respectively."

Just google: "National Cancer data base meningioma survival rate"

My dog's trainer prefers english, so living in a spanish-speaking country I just need to say: up! down! sit! instead of arriba! abajo! siéntate! Sounds logic, but I guess chinese dog trainers get a 70% less time doing instructions! Smart dogs! Just kidding.

Let's call it iRazor and we're done

At least they can be confident that the workers will not use that uniforms in any other place, not even commuting.

I hope The Economist will never have some tens of millons of unique readers... If that happens I guess they will need to extend a little bit every article and unfortunately cut this Daily Chart.

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Robert Shiller cited in BusinessInsider:

"... After all, debt (which is measured in currency units) and GDP (which is measured in currency units per unit of time) yields a ratio in units of pure time. There is nothing special about using a year as that unit. A year is the time that it takes for the earth to orbit the sun, which, except for seasonal industries like agriculture, has no particular economic significance.

We should remember this from high school science: always pay attention to units of measurement. Get the units wrong and you are totally befuddled."

So please replace [y/100] in each "%" shown in these tables.

http://www.businessinsider.com/reinhart-and-rogoff-dangerous-debt-ceilin...

Speech recognition is the technology of the future... in the future somebody will make money with this stuff... you can go back 10, 20 years and find a similar "we almost fix this thing" article.

If you check the Passenger/Length ratio, it increases steadily from the Titanic (4,87) up to the Oasis of the Seas (17,48). This one is only 1.33 times the length of the Titanic, but with 3.59 times the passengers. Of course the ships are 3-dimensional, so guessing the other dimensions also changed by 1.33, the volume of the largest is just 2.39 times the smaller. Crowded people compared with their predecessors.

Sincere Man:
Are you saying that the Inambary will not flood that road? Because if you google about Inambari, you will easily find different articles saying that that flood will happen, starting at 90km up to 125km of the road. Can you state your argument? Or are you just saying that The Economist's fault was not to address the source? Please enlight us.

The article states that sexually selected features are expensive to maintain. In this times, to create body mass is far way easier than getting a PhD, a big wallet or a charming personality. I know because I did (the muscle thing, not the PhD). I don't say it is easy, but easier. And you can note that it works, but my guess it is that way because other men are kind of intimidate (at that level) by the big guy, rather than because women prefer that kind of guy. The same way a charm guy overcomes the shy one, or the Mercedes defeats the Ford. It's all about us guys, not women.

Every weekday at my office, the first thing I do in the morning is to turn-on the computer and wait to type my password. Then I go to the kitchenette and turn-on the electric kettle. I serve myself my first cup of coffee, and then go back to my desktop while Windows Vista plus Office still continues to startup.

Conclusion: my electric kettle is faster than my laptop. Please think how many "things" you use everyday, take longer to get ready than your personal computers. Not too many...

I really hope Google will make a faster OS. They had a good start with Chrome.

Maybe some artifacts were looted, but at least they were preserved. I guess most of the looting was done by locals (Egypt for example) and nobody knows what happened with that treasury. I prefer an european looter that build museums to show up that pieces, rather than a 3rd world one who destroy them.

I missed the original article (before being corrected). Anyone of you has it? Thanks in advance.

I think it would be interesting to compare this stats with what happened with their parents, 20-25 years ago. Though I was born in the Patagonia and used to drink a liquor at 16 (in winter is very cold), I was never drunk until 19, and I don't remember 15-16 yo guys drunk (the older guys did). Maybe I'm wrong but seems to me drunkness is pretty common now in youngsters, not only in Europe. Relaxed parents, better life standards or just "carpe diem" ?