[Stevan Kaplan] cites academic studies that suggest that 2% to 4% of death-row inmates are probably innocent. "If that was the rate of failure of airplanes," he says, "would you fly?"

If 2% of all commercial airliners fell out of the sky, would you take a plane?

ETA: According to various sources there are around 30,000 commercial flights each day ( Read more... )

Give me a RL example of integrity, honor, random act of kindness, or just basic human decency that inspires you.

Inspired by today's news. 

What does your mouth taste like right now?

How's the drinking water where you live?

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My glasses are driving me nuts, AMA ( Read more... )

Does anyone know of a book (or books) like this "Don't Know Much About History: Everything You Need to Know About History but Never Learned" that are about global history, rather than American?

My SO is brilliant - I can give him any date or name any significant person in history and he can rattle off a bunch of facts and information. I would like ( Read more... )

Someone I know will be spending the next year in prison ( Read more... )

I want to take a food sensitivity test, very curious about it. 
I googled it and there's so many options, and I suspect most of that would be overpriced scam, bc food allergies and sensitivities are kind of big thing now. 
Have you ever done such test? what is the best way to choose where to get it done? I don't have a primary physician to ask

are you on Pottermore? 
what do you like about it? do you want to share usernames and friend each other on PM?