On the 8 Spot

The urban health penalty, they decided, had inverted itself. The new reality was that living in the suburbs and the country was the killer. In January 2005, Vlahov and his colleagues penned a manifesto they cleverly called “The Urban Health ‘Advantage,’ ” and published it in the Journal of Urban Health. Cities, they posited, were now the healthiest places of all, because their environment conferred subtle advantages—and guided its citizens, often quite unconsciously, to adopt healthier behaviors.

via Why New Yorkers Last Longer — New York Magazine.

College Kids All Racist In Their Own Special Ways

By Hamilton Nolan, 12:12 PM on Wed Jul 8 2009, 30,144 views (Edit, to draft, un-top, Slurp)

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College: where drunk kids are guinea pigs for social science. The funnest college-kid studies involve race, because they make everyone uncomfortable! Now comes a new study of interracial college roommates that proves we’re all terrible. A racial breakdown:

If You Are White:

* Your black roommate makes you uncomfortable.

* You make your black roommate uncomfortable.

* You are far more likely to “break up” with your roommate if they’re not white.

* You will not be affected academically by your roommate’s race, because you care only about your own kind.

If You Are Black:

* You will do better academically if you have a white roommate, maybe in an effort to overcome your inferiority complex.

* Or maybe because you just don’t like them and can get some work done.

* If you have a white roommate, your own “positive emotions” will decline.

If You Are Asian:

* Not only are you more racist than any other group, you also make those around you more racist. Scientific fact!

If You Are of a Race Other Than These:

* You are not as interesting to social scientists.

Jerks, every last one of us!

via College Kids All Racist In Their Own Special Ways – Race – Gawker.