{"id":3868,"date":"2009-10-18T03:00:50","date_gmt":"2009-10-18T08:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=3868"},"modified":"2009-10-18T03:00:50","modified_gmt":"2009-10-18T08:00:50","slug":"aint-that-a-kick-in-the-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/3868","title":{"rendered":"Ain&#039;t That a Kick in the Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2009\/10\/19\/091019fa_fact_gladwell\">The New Yorker:  Offensive Play<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scary, scary discussion of concussions and chronic brain trauma, cast in the context of the brutality of Michael Vick&#8217;s dogfighting conviction\/suspension.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[L]ate last month the University of Michigan\u2019s Institute for Social Research released the findings of an N.F.L.-funded phone survey of just over a thousand randomly selected retired N.F.L. players\u2014all of whom had played in the league for at least three seasons. Self-reported studies are notoriously unreliable instruments, but, even so, the results were alarming. Of those players who were older than fifty, 6.1 per cent reported that they had received a diagnosis of \u201cdementia, Alzheimer\u2019s disease, or other memory-related disease.\u201d That\u2019s five times higher than the national average for that age group. For players between the ages of thirty and forty-nine, the reported rate was nineteen times the national average.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theweek.com\/article\/index\/101596\/Footballs_wounded_gladiators\">Football\u2019s wounded gladiators<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Yorker: Offensive Play Scary, scary discussion of concussions and chronic brain trauma, cast in the context of the brutality of Michael Vick&#8217;s dogfighting conviction\/suspension. [L]ate last month the University of Michigan\u2019s Institute for Social Research released the findings &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/3868\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,39,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-science","category-physics","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}