Great and simple tips!

from http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-energy-source.html

"The World Health Organization and other sources attribute about 1 million deaths/year to coal air pollution."
"For every person killed by nuclear power generation, 4,000 die due to coal, adjusted for the same amount of power produced."

"attribute this phenomenon first and foremost to what is described as engineering thinking or an engineering mindset. The concept includes an assumption, which has been raised in psychological research, that engineering as a field of study and a profession tends to attract people who seek certainty, and their approach to the world is largely mechanistic. So they are characterized by a greater intolerance of uncertainty - a quality that is evident among extremists, both religious and secular.

Those with engineering mindsets are also characterized by an approach that requires society to operate "like clockwork" and abhors democratic politics, which requires compromises. It's clear that this is a cumulative tendency and not a stereotypical generalization."

From http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/why-are-so-many-would-be-terrorists-engineers-1.263214 earlier this year.

On the contrary. Not only are both efficiency and quality of government-run health care disputed, but so are the methodologies used to compare them between countries. The media keep repeating, that US health care is somehow worse and point to life expectancy statistics among others but health care is only one of the determinants of life expectancy - rate of homicides, deaths from traffic accidents and broader lifestyle variations in the US are significant too, yet they have little relevance to efficiency or quality of health care. When these factors are accounted for, US health care quality suddenly jumps to the top.

See the WSJ here http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/does-the-us-lead-in-life-expectancy-223/tab/article/
and The City Journal here http://www.city-journal.org/html/17_3_canadian_healthcare.html