Perhaps one overlooked benefit though was in relation to mental health, specifically of those tasked with making alphabet books. As we see below, in addition to drawing on names — be it historical figures, plants, or animals, all mostly of a Greek bent (X being there much more common) — there’s also some more inventive approaches. As a figure of note, you might hope it would be your epic deeds accomplished that would lead to your name being uttered by students for millennia to come — not for the coincidence of the tricky letter with which your name began.

Bertocchini and her team attributed the peaks to a breakdown product, ethylene glycol, likely generated by a caterpillar enzyme or an enzyme in its gut microbes (Curr. From that microbe, the scientists plucked two enzymes that degraded PET to its monomers of terephthalic acid and ethylene glycol (Science 2016, DOI: headlines claimed the microbe could help with recycling, but breakdown took six weeks on a small plastic sample, too slow for immediate applications. Yang, who wasn’t involved with the work, pointed out another caveat of the study in a technical comment in Science: The team in Japan worked with low-crystallinity PET film, which worked better for screening purposes but is relatively easy to degrade compared with the higher-crystallinity PET in water bottles and other common products (2016, DOI: Science

This microbe contains PETase and MHETase, two enzymes that depolymerize PET to its monomers (scheme shown).

Charts like this one are widely disseminated and used in countless presentations on the topic:

The graph demonstrates that over the last few decades the number of women dying from heart disease has been significantly higher than men dying from heart disease. The number of men dying from heart disease exceeds women in almost every age group. If the risk of death between men and women varies by a factor of two in the 35 to 64 age group, is it cause for alarm if men are worked up for heart disease at different rates by their doctors?

Material understandings of books were entrenched in young readers, and this very issue of materiality resulted in what Grenby describes as an “ongoing, attritional war” between children and the adults who governed their reading. In a theoretical assessment that echoes Grenby’s carefully historicized account of children’s reading, Petrucci characterizes the practices of young readers in terms of “a physical relationship with the book that is much more intense and direct than in traditional modes of reading. No such statement exists, however, in The Nursery “Alice”; by 1890, illustrated books are simply the correct reading material, the default answer to the question of what a child should read.

This week, however, the bill came due for Oberlin when a jury awarded over $11 million in damages to a family bakery for being defamed as racist by its college students and officials. In 2016, an African American student named Jonathan Aladin was caught trying to steal a bottle of wine from Gibson’s Bakery, which was established in 1885 and has been closely tied to the college for over a century. Oberlin maintains in court filings that the son and grandson of the owners of Gibson’s Bakery “violently and unreasonably attacked” an unarmed student, but that is not how the police viewed it.

Whether this is because of sloppy methodology, ideological infection, or other problems, the result is that even if there are right and wrong answers to many of our questions about human action, most social scientists are not yet in a position to find them. Among the issues that plague contemporary social scientific research:

So what does an example of good social scientific work — one that is based firmly in the scientific attitude, uses empirical evidence to challenge an intuitive theoretical hypothesis, and employs experimental methods to measure human motivation directly through human action — look like? Iyengar and her colleague Mark Lepper set up a controlled consumer choice experiment in a grocery store where shoppers were offered the chance to taste different kinds of jam.

In 2017, Microsoft made it possible to use LaTeX’s equation-writing syntax directly in Word, and last year it scrapped Word’s own equation editor. When it came to text and tables, Word proved faster and users were less prone to making errors, although LaTeX users “more often report enjoying using their respective software”, the authors noted. Similarly, users of LibreOffice, a free alternative to Word, can code equations with an extension called TeXMaths, which converts LaTeX syntax into a PNG or SVG image.

It’s designed to be fairly simple and integrate with any static site generator. Then you can include this file with your static site generator’s normal file include mechanism. For example, on builds.sr.ht, add a step like this to your :

Run a cable from the old solar panels 75 feet over to the spring. Install water level sensors in the settling tank, cut a hole for pipe, connect to pumphouse. Clear a 6 foot wide path through the woods up the hill and roll up two 550 gallon Norwesco water tanks.

We were building a new team for the corporate product, product owner of AntiMalware was leaving the team, our CTO was taking the responsibility and becoming the new owner (Big mistake, I will explain why). If you fall into this trap too and start thinking “I should rewrite the software from scratch”, consider to ask these questions I believe every developer should ask before taking the first step to code rewriting. You will be in an extremely dangerous position where you will have to ship an old version of the code for months or years, completely unable to make any strategic changes or react to new features that the market demands because you don’t have a shippable code.