The educational system isn’t setting the prices. The publishers are separate private enterprises which are mostly profit-driven.
In the last 20 years, “open access” journals have been created where the author (author’s grant money, mostly from the government) pays the charges instead of the readers. That has led to a whole slew of other problems including predatory and phony journals springing up.
It was a quote from the TV miniseries Chernobyl. The reading was the highest the dosimeter could measure, so the actual value could have been (and was) much higher. They also underestimated the impact if that reading had been accurate.
Like any other material. And later, they blamed the aftereffects on witchcraft or bad humor balance.
11 mR/hr? Not great, not terrible.
I’d get a couple of coppers on him.
I can see how it would be possible, but difficult. Pulling nails back out, though? Oh, man.
Interesting. The word for good with both is related to dextral or right-handed, and the word for bad with both comes from sinister or left-handed.
It’s so hard to find left-handed hammers that I’m sure you just felt forced to do it the other way.
Right. Because being against vigilantism must mean you love vigilante victims.
But wouldn’t a person who raised themselves already have that mindset? Seems like they would be better advised to allow others to help them when they are genuinely willing.
If nobody thought it was possible, why were they trying to do it? If you read the article, this wasn’t an accidental discovery while trying to do something else.
I take time off of work to spend with loved ones. It’s great!
¿Por qué no los dos?
Yet another things GenZ and Millennials are ruining by refusing to participate.
Skinny Dip Hollow.
My favorite is British “lasagna.”
A dwarf at elf practice? I’d never live it down.
I bet you don’t even own a TV.
Can anyone find independent reports of this massive celebration for the announcement of the results of the Francis Field Trial in 1955?
Edit: Found a Wiki summary
Melange