Word: metrical
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...read the sentiments of Physics Professor Eric Mazur (“mandatory Q evaluation is just going to serve as another excuse to postpone doing anything of substance and further cement our current approach to teaching”). Burgard said that he believed the Q is an unreliable metric of teacher performance...
...team of researchers from three universities examined data from the World Values Survey along with the behaviors of 193 volunteers and found that the happiest people weren't necessarily the best off. The metric for this finding was a 10-point life-satisfaction scale. Most respondents ranked themselves as moderately happy. The higher they scored on the scale, the happier they were and the more successful they were likely to be. But that held true only until they hit the top. People who scored a perfect 10 tended to earn less money than slightly less happy folks, and among college...
...small piles on the side of streets on the island's growing urban areas, festering in the tropical sun. Much of what is collected finds its way to the TPA Suwung landfill, about 10 km outside the sprawling provincial capital of Denpasar. Every day trucks add up to 800 metric tons of waste to quivering piles of tattered cloth, leftover food and the ubiquitous plastic water bottles. Virtually the only waste management at Suwung comes in the form of scavengers who brave the heat to comb through the mountains of trash for anything salable. Meanwhile the landfill grows...
...minutes doing so. Apply this assumption to the approximately 6400 students on campus over 200 weekdays per academic year. The result? 320,000 hours spent reading The Crimson per year. If all that reading were done on computers, it would result in the equivalent reduction of 1.23 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions. But simply making the paper necessary to print one copy of The Crimson for every room on campus results in the production of 2116 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions. Even the use of 100 percent recycled newsprint only shaves the figure down to 1,042 metric...
...have pragmatic effects here in Cambridge. For one, they extend Harvard’s recent commitment to building a green campus in Allston to the entire campus, ensuring an environmentally-friendly future for the school’s physical infrastructure. Furthermore, this plan will significantly reduce the 100,000 metric tons of carbon emissions that the Environmental Action Committee estimates FAS generates each year. Finally, Harvard will be able to best Yale yet again. Yale recently set out a similar set of standards, but it only reduces emissions by 10 percent. Climate change is an urgent problem, and Harvard...