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...become industrialized like the fast-food system. On one level, we're spending less on food than at any time in history, but it's coming to us at a very high, unseen cost. And I think we're just beginning to understand that. Ultimately, the most shocking things in this film were when Barb Kowalcyk told me that meat producers knew where the meat that killed her 2-year-old son came from and it sat on the shelves two weeks after he died - and the government did not have the power to recall it. Another was when...
...pediatrics at the University of Washington in Seattle, whose studies were the first to dispute the claim that educational DVDs improve babies' language skills, noted the importance of Richert's findings in advancing our understanding of how babies learn - or, in this case, don't learn - language. "The novel thing here is that this is actually the first experiment in the real world using these products to robustly test their claims," he says...
...case of the Chile earthquake, by about three inches. The law of conservation of angular momentum, however, requires that even under these exigent circumstances, the Earth's angular momentum stays constant, which means the planet must step on the gas (or the brake) to accommodate shifting mass. The same thing happened in 2004 with the 9.1 Sumatran earthquake that triggered the tsunami. That earthquake should have shifted the Earth's figure axis by 2.76 inches and shortened its day by 6.8 millionths of a second, according to computer models...
...This is a student outreach initiative designed to convince you all that…the best thing to do is explore diverse disciplines and study what you really love,” said Diana Sorensen, Harvard’s Dean of Arts and Humanities. “We want to show you examples of people who followed their interests and have gone on to have interesting and successful lives...
Louie makes for a particularly inspiring example. She poked fun at her strict background, explaining that she started in the Social Sciences track as an Economics concentrator because both she and her parents thought it was a very “practical” thing...