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  1. Nov 2017
    1. Homeopathic.com owner is Dana Ullman, MPH, who TIME magazine described as "the Leading Proselytizer of Homeopathy" and ABC News touted as "Homeopathy's Foremost Spokesman."

      Dana Ullman has also appeared as an expert witness on the topic of homeopathy in a number of court cases. In at least 1 of these he has been described as being "not credible"[1] [2]

    1. DANA ULLMAN, MPH, CCH, is one of America’s leading advocates for homeopathy. He has authored 10 books, including The Homeopathic Revolution: Why Famous People and Cultural Heroes Choose Homeopathy, Homeopathy A-Z, Homeopathic Medicines for Children and Infants, Discovering Homeopathy, and (the best-selling) Everybody’s Guide to Homeopathic Medicines (with Stephen Cummings, MD).

      Dana Ullman has also appeared as an expert witness on the topic of homeopathy in a number of court cases. In at least 1 of these he has been described as being "not credible"[1] [2]

  2. Oct 2017
    1. Looking at statistics on course management site (e.g., CourseSpaces or Moodle)

      The only LMS that are present at UVic is (arguably) Moodle. Thus, I recommend rephrasing this to read 'Looking at statistics on CourseSpaces (see this page for more details)' And hyperlink to the Moodle.org resource about Quiz result statistics.

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  8. Nov 2016
    1. Coral reefs result from the work of little polyps, creatures only a few millimeters long, budded on top of one another. Over centuries, the shells of these creatures combine to form the exotic shapes of coral reefs. Tiny differences in the anatomy of each polyp species affect the shape of their shells and produce the exotic shapes of each reef.

      Skeletons, not shells. Far from the most articulate description but generally not wrong.

    1. What did it mean for a project not to be venture backable? Likely, it met one of the following criteria:There was no business model (ex. no customers to charge, or no advertising model)The project was not structured as a C corpThe project could not conceivably return an investment at venture scale
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  10. Sep 2016
    1. Alejandro Farias, 23, from Brownsville, Tex., a supervisor for a freight company, sees himself simply as Latino. His ancestors came from the United States, Mexico and Portugal. When pressed, he checked “some other race.”

      This is a problem because so many people are not getting recognized and many don't even take the test.

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