The metric system got its start in the French Revolution, that mob of malcontents who were inspired by long-haired radicals with names like George Washington, John Adams, and Benjamin Franklin. Apparently the French had been using all sorts of measurement systems, many not all that easy to t...
📐Personal project WebApp teaches Americans the Metric System (and, similarly, Metric users the US Customary System) in a Duolingo-like way.
This laser-focused strategy not only resonated with voters but also differentiated his campaigns from competitors who often got lost in irrelevant debates. The Much-Needed Distractions By strategically introducing controversial or attention-grabbing elements into a campaign, Crosby has been able to shift ...
Our discretionary spending metric does not include cash withdrawals from the household’s accounts, because we cannot classify what that cash gets used for. If we assumed that all cash was used for discretionary spending, and updated our metric accordingly, the coverage numb...
“To have that long of a period of time and no increase in life expectancy was probably the most shocking finding,” said Dwyer-Lindgren, an assistant professor of health metric sciences at the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. “That’s not true for ...
The University of California and California State University have botheliminated standardized testing requirementsfor admission. Although some UC leaders have indicated interest in reviewing the effect of that decision on student outcomes, faculty leaders say there may not be muc...
The short but sticky-soda-sweet answer is that this is just one of many examples of America's fractured approach to measurements. And soda's embrace of the liter coincided with a brief window in history when it seemed that the metric system might take over in the U.S. Let's explain. ...
As long as troll farms found success in using these tactics, any other bad actor could too, he continued: “If the Troll Farms are reaching 30M US users with content targeted to African Americans, we should not at all be surprised if we discover the IRA also currently has large audiences...
This admixture, however, did not continue substantially in the Late Neolithic and Bronze Age, as suggested by the older admixture date for the LNBA population (Figure 3B) and the relatively larger genetic variation among Early Neolithic individuals compared to the homogeneous LNBA cluster, as ...
The study is monitored by a Data Safety Monitoring Board. Recruitment Three main approaches are used to recruit patients into this study. First, potentially eligible patients are identi- fied through a review of electronic medical records (EMR) using the ICD-9 billing codes for HTN (401- 401.9...