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Volume 27, Number 291 — Wednesday , October 19, 2022
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Volume 27, Number 291 — Wednesday , October 19, 2022
The middle class contains about half of America, according to the Pew Research Center -- 50%, to be exact. Another 21% fall into the upper class and 29% are in the lower class. But what is the middle...
Meet a Stanford economics professor who would fail his own course.
Image: iphoto/Adobe Stock Extrusion and light are very much connected. There are three measurable optical properties — transmission, haze, and gloss — in addition to visible color and measurements outside the visible frequencies. “ Eppur si muove.” In 1633, Galileo mumbled those words — “Still, it does move”— after he publicly accepted the belief of the day that the Earth stands still while the sun moves around it. Under pressure from the authorities, Galileo took back his statement that the Earth moved around the sun, but this famous mumble showed he...