On the erosion of middle class America. Poverty line is around 140k if actual costs taken into account. The 1960s benchmark assumed cost of food to be 1/3 of overall costs. Now it's 7% or so, meaning 1/15 of overall costs. This pushes up the poverty line to 5 times the level used, or some 150k USD pa
Example of a proxy being used as 'measurement' and the assumptions in a proxy never re-evaluated.
Nabokov’s working notecards for “Lolita.”
Nabokov used index cards for his research and writing. In one index card for research on Lolita, he creates a "weight-heigh-age table for girls of school age" to be able to specify Lolita's measurements. He also researched the Colt catalog of 1940 to get gun specifications to make those small points realistic in his writing.
eDNA sampling is dna sampled from the environment, not from organisms. Can be sampled from air. Do I know of eDNA citizen science projects?
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BDI-pathogens/covid-19_instant_tracing. (n.d.). GitHub. Retrieved 13 February 2021, from https://github.com/BDI-pathogens/covid-19_instant_tracing
hogsheads
Cut into junks a yard in length
clammy round Measures two inches full
l. per C. wt
seventy miles
eighty square miles
cubits