If you’re a scientist, a student or a citizen of any country in the world except for the United States, Myanmar or Liberia, there’s no avoiding the metric system. The system, featuring meters, liters and kilograms, was adopted following the French Revolution and devised by a group of ...
Metric System: The Metric System is a system of measurement that is based on base ten. This makes it simple to use. There are specified base units for length, volume, and mass. Answer and Explanation: According to the U.S. Metric Association, credit for the idea of the metric system sh...
I could just toss this argument off with the circulating joke that says that the world is divided into two types of countries: those on the metric system and the country that walked on the moon. But that would be too glib. Also, kiljoys would note that Myanmar and Liberia are also hold...
Who discovered soil contamination? Who was the first to develop and perform antiseptic surgery? Who commissioned the Explorer 1? Which tool should the scientist use to measure pH? Who and when were microRNAs discovered? What is the history of the metric system?
Atherosclerosis in children and youth. A morphometric multinational investigation of WHO/ISFC (1986鈥 using atherometric systemdoi:10.1016/s0021-9150(00)80288-9J.E Fernandez-BrittoR WongD ContrerasP NordetN Sternby
Iceland Herring Fishing Museum – in the 40’s they discovered the fish. Oil boom but with fish. This saved the country. A way to make money. Last year they caught zero herring. The assumption is there will always be fish there. I was faithful in the moment and brought urgency to it...
If we look back to the golden age of pharma, say the 1950s – 1970s, we see incredible productivity. Entire drugs classes were discovered during this time including the benzodiazepines, antipsychotics, synthetic opiods, antifungals, etc, etc. Janssen Pharmaceuticals alone discovered over 70 new ch...
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free energy principle—the ones that are so difficult to translate into english—are already written in the native language of machine learning. julie pitt, head of machine-learning infrastructure at netflix, discovered friston and the free energy principle in 2014, and it tran...
Another possible explanation for the continuing UFO coverup would be that those in the know have discovered some strange and ugly truth. Perhaps something to the effect that humanity serves as lab rats to a group of aliens who are a hundred million years ahead of us in tech, but equal to...