Stainless steel is not always magnetic
I had an organizing thought today so I tried to stick my measuring spoons to the magnetic knife rack. Imagine my surprise when the stainless steel measuring spoon was totally non-magnetic! Apparently austenitic stainless steels are not magnetic. Scientific American has a good explanation. The culprit is the face-centered cubic (fcc) lattice crystal structure of the atoms and the Pauli Exclusion Principle. They say that you can make Type 304 stainless steel become more magnetic by bending it which changes the crystal structure. Good times in quantum-land! I guess knives are usually made of ferritic stainless steel because they always stick to the knife racks.
No I'm not going to explain it any more than that. You can try though, Karl.
Drug overdose kills too many people
Here's a depressing fact for the day: more people in the United States die from drug overdoses (both prescription and illegal drugs) than from traffic accidents. It's around 32,000 deaths annually in car accidents and 38,000 annually from overdose (16,000 of them from legally manufactured, not always legally acquired, drugs). That's more than 100 people per day. I don't think we can eliminate addiction entirely but there are ways to reduce harm like making Naloxone available to first responders and people at high risk of opiate overdose.
By comparison 11,078 people were killed by gun homicide and 19,392 by gun suicide in 2010; 606 people were killed by gun accidents and 252 in situations with undetermined intent. For even more context, 2.5 million Americans died in 2011, and 596,000 of those deaths were from heart disease. Of course overdose, accident, and suicide kill often kill people at much younger ages than chronic disease.
If you're keeping score that is overdose (38K) > cars (32 K) > guns (31K) as far as causes of death.
Drug overdose kills too many people
Here's a depressing fact for the day: more people in the United States die from drug overdoses (both prescription and illegal drugs) than from traffic accidents. It's around 32,000 deaths annually in car accidents and 38,000 annually from overdose (16,000 of them from legally manufactured, not always legally acquired, drugs). That's more than 100 people per day. I don't think we can eliminate addiction entirely but there are ways to reduce harm like making Naloxone available to first responders and people at high risk of opiate overdose.
By comparison 11,078 people were killed by gun homicide and 19,392 by gun suicide in 2010; 606 people were killed by gun accidents and 252 in situations with undetermined intent. For even more context, 2.5 million Americans died in 2011, and 596,000 of those deaths were from heart disease. Of course overdose, accident, and suicide kill often kill people at much younger ages than chronic disease.
If you're keeping score that is overdose (38K) > cars (32 K) > guns (31K) as far as causes of death.
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