Source: 10 Questions to Challenge Your Medical News Savvy | Medpage Today
I intend to post a link to this quiz weekly for life underwriters who are serious about improving their knowledge base.
I scored 70%.
Should have been 80% but I clicked the wrong button. I knew the answer but answered the question incorrectly. I had the same problem in college!
My parents (both in their 80’s) moved in and began a whole food, plant-based diet. The outcome? It’s never too late overcome serious health issues!
Source: My Aging Parents’ Shocking Health Improvements Through Food
For the first time in modern history, the most common living arrangement for young adults is living in their parents’ homes. But where is the practice most common?
Source: Where Millennials Are More Likely to Live With Mom and Dad
In a new weekly segment, we’ll examine the increasing pressure on the middle class and how that’s driving political discourse. Rachel Martin begins by interviewing The Atlantic’s Derek Thompson.
Source: Hanging On: A Pressured Middle Class In Economic Recovery : NPR
Do you know what skin cancer really looks like? … Are you sure?
Source: Tweet of the Week: What’s Your Diagnosis? | Medpage Today
Eric O’Grey was 51, obese and suffering from diabetes and high cholesterol when he took home an overweight shelter dog. Now the duo are headlining a campaign on how pets improve humans’ lives.
Source: Eric And Peety Make The Case That Pets Are Good For Humans’ Health : Shots – Health News : NPR
The video located in the website link above is a must see. Wonderful story!
Welcome to peak insanity.
You might ask what does this have to do with underwriting? Great question. Here’s your answer:
Back during the savings and loan crisis in the US (yes, I’m old) I remember seeing lots of lender initiated life insurance applications to cover mortgage debt. The applications were made years after the loans were on the books. One app sticks in my mind. Like any good underwriter I asked for and received a financial statement. The valuation of the real estate seemed high to me. I told the underwriter to decline the case based on inadequate finances. I was questioned on my decision.
One of the properties (there were multiple properties listed on the balance sheet) was in the same city the underwriter lived in. I said go drive by the house and you tell me if you think it’s worth $800,000 based upon appearance and location. The next day he walked into my office.
“It’s an empty lot.”
Hey, at least there are buildings on this $7.2 million property in Vancouver!
Source: The Ivy league want students who’ve had meaningful experiences, not just achievements – Quartz
“Our youth’s values appear to be awry, and the messages that adults are sending may be at the heart of the problem.”
Interesting read.
So is the following article.
Source: The educational strategy that’s turning students into unimaginative robots – Quartz
Now add this to a generation who cannot detach themselves from a tiny computer screen. What do you get?
An absence of critical thinking skills and creativity.
Robots.
Should we choose to devalue Humanities we become less human.
Think about it.
Dr. Everett Piper, President Oklahoma Wesleyan University
Source: This is Not a Day Care. It’s a University! – Oklahoma Wesleyan University
TRIGGER WARNING
If you believe in trigger warnings this is your trigger warning. Don’t read this article because it will piss you off and make you hate me.
Update 03.25.16
The president of Emory University has met with 40 to 50 student demonstrators who said they were concerned and frightened after someone wrote ‘Trump 2016’ .
Source: Emory University students scared by ‘Trump 2016’ chalk signs | Daily Mail Online
It’s enough to make you root for Trump. Well, almost.
After the GOP front-runner’s name was written in chalk on a campus wall, students said they ‘feared for their lives.’ The school vowed to identify the taggers. But professors at the school are now pushing back.
Source: Emory University Students Think Donald Trump Is Out to Kill Them – The Daily Beast
“They’re living in a cocoon bubble, and the university is validating their fears. If these students are frightened by someone writing ‘Trump 2016’ on campus, they need to see a psychiatrist.”
Harvey Klehr professor of political science at Emory
We are starting to see some of these young men and women leave the bubble and figure out how to make it in this world.
From what I’ve witnessed psychiatry and counseling may not be enough to help these victims of a higher educational system gone awry.
Man’s penis gets bit by a viper
Source: Gross Anatomy: Snake Bites Penis
TRIGGER WARNING – the pictures are very difficult to look at especially if you’re a male.
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