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Footnote 11 The average player in our sample is 28 years old during the 2019 playoffs. Average performance, as captured by the player Game Score (GS) was 9.4 before the Bubble and declined to 9.2 inside the Bubble. This slight drop is consistent with the fact that being in the Bubble ...
Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.”– Bill Bryson Home “I can...
(where he sold Vanessa Feltz's old clothes to local transvestites) to becoming embroiled in labyrinthine bureaucracy on behalf of a Congolese asylum seeker; from hospital radio to litter picking; and, from working at a homeless drop-in centre to averting climate change (although not all ...
For Book Club members, this is free. Non-members must pay an extra ¥2 per book.1 John is a six-year-old boy, which book is suitable for him?A. Women in Science.B. First Big Book of How.C. A Really Short History of Nearly Everything....
所属专辑:Bill Bryson 万物简史 喜欢下载分享 声音简介这一段主要讲述了支持大爆炸理论的“宇宙背景辐射”的发现故事以及这一发现的重要性。 语言仍然相当幽默,读的时候有几次忍不住想笑出来哈哈。 开头部分还有“我们不知道,我们认为我们知道自己不知道以及以为自己知道”的猜疑链表达。 以及:低情商:你家电视信号真...
Before trying to break into freelance travel writing, it’s best to ask if the travel writer’s life is right for you. Do you love having freedom over your work schedule? Do you love visiting new places, and finding new ways to tell old stories? Do you feel a certain bravado about wa...
English is such a deliciously complex and undisciplined language, we can bend, fuse, distort words to all our purposes. We give old words new meanings, and we borrow new words from any language that intrudes into our intellectual environment. —Willard Gaylin ...
told Congress in March 2011 that U.S. plants could withstand a similar event here. Levis said that U.S. utility companies spent $6.5 billion in 2009 alone to replace old equipment and improve precautions, and that plants are prepared for extreme events ranging from fires and explosions to lo...
Republicans regularly attacked Altman as “extreme” and for old social media posts where she used a “defund the police” hashtag, which she distanced herself from during the campaign. Kean, who narrowly defeated a Democrat in 2022, is the scion of one o...