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.
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. ...
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 ...
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 much...
The CPI for nondurable goods spiked by 10.7%, the highest since July 2008 (purple line). The current spike in gasoline prices since late February has not yet made it into the index. So the year-over-year jump in retail sales of 17.6% needs to be seen in light of price increases for...
One man's rags are another man's riches: identifying adaptive preferences using panel data One of the motivations frequently cited by Sen and Nussbaum for moving away from a utility metric towards a capabilities framework is a concern about adapt... T Burchardt - 《Case Papers》 被引量: 254...
A total of 105 stress-related genes were evaluated with each neighborhood metric using linear regression, adjusting for race, age, and year of surgery. Genes in the Conserved Transcriptional Response to Adversity (CTRA) and stress-related signaling genes were included. Notably, the expression of ...
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...
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 numbe...