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If children aren't eating, the cause is most likely not being able to afford food, or not being provided with food by their parents. If teachers were to have any effect, it would b…

A clearer way of stating it might be not "the euro students value their education more because it's free," but "the euro students value their education more because college attenda…

From Harold McGee's fabulously scientific book On Food and Cooking[0]: "Hearts of palm are the growing stem tips of various palm trees, especially the South American peach palm Bac…

Small farms that keep grain-fed livestock absolutely do.

One of these things is not like the others. Other people cannot kill me with their gay marriage or expensive coffee flavored drink.

Also, even more archaically, to grains of salt - for example, those used to cure corned beef.

> In my experience, they typically like to pick apart others, but can't handle being picked apart. Yes. cryoshon even states in his post that he wouldn't want to be around a person…

Primary/secondary textbooks are not professional academic publications, and typically lag far behind the latter. Your primary/secondary teacher's behavior is not a reflection of pr…

You'd have to reach a very high salary before you can buy a presidential election or gun control laws (stuff I think GP was alluding to in their post)

In what way? And isn't "black market company" an oxymoron?

Yep. The AmazonBasics brand of aspirin may appear, but it will just be putting their label on the product manufactured by the companies already specialized to manufacture it (as is…

> The original commenter's scenario talked about novice vs. experienced. It talked about novice vs. "skilled, competent" drivers, which suggests the latter meeting some threshold b…

Yes. It seems like never having a serious health problem in your life would be the "edge case," at least if you live to be elderly.

This is the first time I've heard of the Sentinelese, but based on the Wikipedia articles[0], they have been observed using enough words, grammar, etc. for linguists to make hypoth…

> My point was more that, in this case, she is “just a librarian”, because this type of thing is what being a librarian is supposed to mean—it’s just that most people suck at being…

I wonder what kind of liability insurance, regulatory compliance, etc. is required for a business like this (in the US, where any injury to a child seems culturally likely to lead …

Are there numbers on the average height of those fatal falls? If they're from balconies, roofs, etc., I'd say being on a bike (a few feet from the ground) would make it much safer.…

> I suspect adults learn languages a lot faster than kids, when we spend the same amount of time being exposed & practicing. In linguistics, it's pretty well accepted that kids lea…

Presumably their class sizes would also be a responsive part of the system (so they wouldn't be half full).

> So taking a year or two to figure out how to be an adult is not the worst approach to take. A year spent figuring out how to be an adult would indeed be helpful. Unfortunately, f…

When an entire department wants a publication on paper, a single copy in a library won't serve that need (since that copy can only be in one place at once). I experienced this in c…

And that's not taking into account that much of academia comprises disciplines where nothing is exactly "useful", or expected to be (e.g. arts and humanities). Metrics of worthines…

Yup. One of my high school classmates was an assistant manager at the Burger King where we worked as soon as he graduated high school.

Very much. I watched the show for the first time by "binging" the first four seasons, just ahead of the season 5 premiere, so I went in already having heard all the buzz about the …