Friday, May 30, 2014
Via JMG: Alcohol Consumption By State
Via Policy Mic:
According to a new report by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), the hardest-drinking state turns out to be New Hampshire. The study calculated per capita consumption of ethanol from alcoholic beverages and found that the average New Hampshire resident consumed 4.65 gallons in 2012 — nearly twice the national average of 2.33 gallons. Among the New England states, Connecticut was the only one that didn't make the top 20 list for per capita alcohol consumption. Alaska, Louisiana, Florida, Delaware and Washington, D.C. are all big drinking regions, as are the Northern states, with the average resident consuming over 2.5 gallons of ethanol in alcohol per year. The NIAAA report also found that overall, per capita ethanol consumption increased by 2.2% — only seven states experienced a decrease.(Tipped by JMG reader Win)
Via Daily Dharma
Philosophy and Religion | May 30, 2014
Separating philosophy from religion
does not work well in the case of Buddhism. Trying to tease apart these
two strands of the dispensation would have seemed a futile endeavor to
most Buddhists over the long history of the tradition. We in the West
need to get over this false dichotomy, which has no significance in
speaking about Buddhism or other Asian religions.
—Robert E. Buswell Jr. and Donald S. Lopez Jr., “Buddhism: Philosophy or Religion”
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