Why Our Children Are Killing Themselves

Why are the British hanging themselves?

Suicide statistics for Britain (England and Wales) from 1950 to 1990 are analysed. A rising suicide rate among males, particularly the young, is associated with an increased use of hanging as a suicide method. The same trend is not seen among females. Death by hanging can seldom be concealed or regarded as other than suicide, so statistics for suicidal hanging are likely accurate. Increased sui...

Are our commonest killing diseases preventable?

Why Are Indian Children

We examine height-for-age for 170,000 Indian and African children to understand why, despite two decades of sustained economic growth, the child malnutrition rate in India remains among the highest in the world. First, we show that Indian firstborns are actually taller than African firstborns; the Indian height disadvantage appears with the second child and increases with birth order. The patte...

Are We Killing Our Fat Cells before Grafting Them?

S ince its inception by Neuber in 1893, there have been numerous modifications in fat grafting techniques , all attempting to maximize posttransplant adipocyte survival. Despite ongoing research, there remains wide variations in viability after autologous fat grafting, with reported loss ranging from 40% to 60%. 1 Research studying various methods of harvesting , force and time of centrifugatio...

Why (and How) Networks Should Run Themselves

The proliferation of networked devices, systems, and applications that we depend on every day makes managing networks more important than ever. The increasing security, availability, and performance demands of these applications suggest that these increasingly difficult network management problems be solved in real time, across a complex web of interacting protocols and systems. Alas, just as t...