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Nagraj Gollapudi on the yo-yo fitness test, ESPN Cricinfo: A player starts at speed level 5, which consists of one shuttle. The next speed level, which is 9, also consists of one shuttle. Speed level 11, the next step up, has two shuttles, while level 12 has three and level
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Here's another instance of an unsound university press release exaggerating the conclusions of a study. The headline goes "Children in India demonstrate religious tolerance, study finds". According to the 2011 Census, 182 million people in India are between the ages of 9 and 15. The two
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There's a formula in thermodynamics 101 called Carnot's theorem that goes like this: This is a famous equation because it defines the absolute upper limit of efficiency achievable by a heat engine, irrespective of how much its performance is optimised. ηth is the thermal efficiency; Tc
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I've had migraines since 2006, when I started college. The pain is excruciating, disabling, ruinous, usually on both sides of my head. I can sense a migraine coming 12-24 hours beforehand, in the form of a small sphere of ache embedded deep inside my brain that I can
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There are many similarities between Kaala, Pa Ranjith's second flick with Rajinikanth, and their first film together, Kabali (2016). The thematic one is the most obvious, where Ranjith focuses on class mobility, caste discrimination and social welfare and brings them into mainstream cinema using Rajini as his frontman.
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I'm no artist, nor a scholar of art. I can't analyse images to pick out patterns. Heck, I think an image is well-crafted only because those commentators I trust have said it. My admiration of formal art is only by proxy, and will stay that way.
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I received an email from a fellow journalist last week with the following subject: Banks wont recover even half of the Rs 4,000,000,000,000 bad loans of 37 companies That number with all those zeroes is four trillion. It's a large number. For example, there
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It had to come to this at some point, and here we are finally. To undertake a challenge to write one blog post a day – when I've mentioned to my friends and colleagues that I'm doing this, all of their responses have presumed that this is
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There's a report in Science dated June 8 with the headline 'Middleweight black holes found at last'. The abstract describes an effort by an "international team" of astronomers to find intermediate-class black holes, which weigh more than tens of solar masses but less than
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There were two developments in the news last week that were very important but at the same time didn't get mainstream attention: Microsoft acquiring GitHub and the LHC collaboration's measurement of the strength of the Higgs boson/top quark interaction. Before either of these developments could
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Until a few hours ago, I thought Harry S. Truman had been one of the worst-performing American presidents of all time. I was wrong. I'd spotted an infographic on Twitter, drawn up by FiveThirtyEight and talking about how Donald Trump might soon beat Truman in terms of having
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Whenever I think of world-building – as in the fantasy exercise where you build out the lay of the land, and then the land itself where you're going to situate your story – the first thing that comes to mind, of all things, is Ikea. Yes, the Swedish furniture brand.