A little encouraging news from a study of health care costs and longevity. Longer life itself does not necessarily mean greater overall health care costs. “The basic lesson of our study is that although healthy people live longer, they don’t cost more in the long run,” said Jim Lubitz, acting chief of the Aging Studies Branch in the statistics center’s ...

Employees Pay 48% More for Company Health Plans The headline says it all.

…but you just might find, you get what you need. Rolling Stones Last week’s NY Times Magazine had an article on some interesting research about affective forecasting. That’s research about how well people can predict how they will feel about events such as getting something they want or losing something valuable. In general they found: “On average, bad events proved ...

Geez, looks like the Brits are having the same concern about their young-sceintist output. BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Bac could ‘save science’