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📉 Stat of the Day: The gap in life expectancy between men and women in the US has grown to its widest in nearly 30 years, driven mainly by more men dying of Covid and drug overdoses, according to a new study in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine. Per the study: women had a life expectancy of 79.3 years in 2021, compared with 73.5 years for men. The 5.8-year gap is the largest since 1996, and an increase from a low of 4.8 years in 2010.
🤔 Did You Know?... The calorie content of a food was originally measured using a calorimeter (pictured above). Here’s how the device works: a known amount of food – with all of its water content evaporated – is placed into a container surrounded by a known amount of water. The dehydrated food is then literally set on fire – and its calorie count is calculated from how much the device’s water temperature rises.
📰 Worth a Read: Is time travel even possible? An astrophysicist explains the science → (The Conversation)
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