askland on May 12th, 2007

Received this from my mother. Thought I’d post it for Mother’s Day. Will I live to be 80? I recently turned 65 and had to choose a new primary care physician for my Medicare program. After two visits and exhaustive lab tests, he said I was doing “fairly well” for my age. A little concerned [...]

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askland on May 12th, 2007

In August of 2006 Pluto was declared to no longer be a planet. This was due to a rewriting of the definition of “planet”. According to the new definition, a full-fledged planet is an object that orbits the sun and is large enough to have become round due to the force of its own gravity. [...]

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