How, you may ask, did I know this? Because I looked at all the Western Australian fish from the Fishes of Australia website, determined if I had the species, then looked at the existing world record or minimums for any open records, then set up a reference notebook. You might also ...
@ADQ yeah I think the population metric is probably the most debatable there, though I do think having a large amount of people-power probably translates to some extent to military power. Also I just found this interesting ranking of military power, I know nothing about their methodology, but...
when I told her about the job I’ve had the last few years, the places I’ve gotten to visit. Sushi in Japan. Swimming in the South Pacific. Seeing kangaroos in Australia. Her eyes would get huge, her cheeks bright red. She’d punch me, but she’d be laughing when she did it....
–plummets to 12th place: It takes us over 2.6 million people for each medal. China drops all the way to 21st. Australia remains strong, moving from 4th overall to 2nd place per capita. There are other ways. You could measure by the amount of money a nation spends per athlete, or eve...
Six articles emanated from North America, six from Europe and one each from Africa, Australia, China and India respectively. Most articles used quantitative methods and examined various aspects of healthcare. Studies centered on: indicators; equity policies; evaluating the equitability of healthcare ...
The definition of “no natural immunity” has acquired a new metric. You’re right. It has been “blown way out of proportion”, but not the way you intended it to mean. It’s bigger, more insidious, more intractable and more dangerous than is commonly acknowledged or supposed. The mes...
Trip duration (Anova:p = 0.600, Tukey post-hoc test:p.adj = 0.814) and maximum speed (Anova:p = 0.924, Tukey:p.ajd = 0.633) did not differ significantly between the two species (Table2). In contrast, TP travelled significantly faster (mean speed, Anova:p < 0....
1 Countries such as Australia and New Zealand have decreased their previously strong focus on controlling viral spread and are now transitioning to strategies for managing endemic disease. They have seen continued success, recording higher case counts but few deaths. The experience of these countries,...
Some people would argue that 2016 was the year that the world economy started to come apart, with the passage of Brexit and the election of Donald Trump. Whether or not the "coming apart" process started in 2016, in my opinion we are going to see many mo
na look at the effects of global warming on a particular country to get this thing into context and I want to look at Australia, a country with 12 000 kilometers of coastline. Theres a whole series of problems. What I mean by that is uh... in a country like this, well, there are...