There areabout 72 million kids0-17 in America. And the number kidnapped by strangers is about 100. So the odds of being kidnapped are about 1 in 720,000 or closing in on 1 in a million. Putting The Risk of Child Kidnapping in Perspective One way to look at that number: The...
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This analysis also explains why it is very difficult to narrow a gap on a fast descent. Consider a 10km sweeping road coming down from an alpine pass to the valley. Riding at 60kph, a one minute gap equates to 1km. The peloton would have to average 66kph over the whole 10km in o...
so they are focusing more on that? Yeah, it's a good question. So, murder rates have generally been coming down a little bit in the last couple of decades. But in the last few years, there's been a little bit of an uptake. ...
And frankly, it’s just plain fun to work across disciplines. I’ve help a Government major figure out how to collect & analyze a random sample of news articles for a project on public transport in Central America. I’ve helped a Biology professor figure out how to bootstrap an imbalanced...
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Today in History October 17, 1931,Chicago gangsterAl Caponeis found guilty in federal court on five of the 23 charges brought against him. He was found guilty of three counts of federal tax evasion for the years, 1925, 1926, and 1927. ``Scarface’’ as he was known, was additionally ...
It was the opinion of some of the papas that they had committed a great oversight in not burning the heart of Policarpo on the seashore, where there would have been plenty of room for the Vroucolacas to escape; but as there was no possibility of repeating the experiment, the truth or...
But it's not easy to use health apps this way as a regular part of medical care in the U.S. Case study: Hypertension Hypertension, better known as high blood pressure, is one of America's leading chronic health problems.According the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, hype...