> Levothyroxine is one of the most commonly prescribed drugs in the US, with approximately 7% of the population estimated to have an active prescription.
Russia's famous YouTube blogger fled abroad, stating that he is afraid of living in Russia due to increased arrests and repression. znak.com/2021-06-22/…
@Cerberus Maybe the statistics is skewed by the fact that in the USA the statisticans work more thoroughly and in Russia, for instance, they may just pull figures out of thin air.
The video blogger said "I have to constantly keep my floors in the flat extra clean, because I'm afraid that the police will raid my flat and put my face on the floor. So it should be kept clean".
The famous Lancet article about Alexey Navalny said that he caught some ultra-hard antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria while in the Omsk hospital. European docs spend as much effort fighting these as they spent on fighting the results of poisoning by Putin's thugs.
Liberal arts education (from Latin liberalis "free" and ars "art or principled practice") is the traditional academic program in Western higher education. Liberal arts takes the term art in the sense of a learned skill rather than specifically the fine arts. Liberal arts education can refer to studies in a liberal arts degree program or to a university education more generally. Such a course of study contrasts with those that are principally vocational, professional, or technical.
== History ==
Before they became known by their Latin variations (artes liberales, septem artes liberales, studia...
> Rooted in the basic curriculum – the enkuklios paideia or "well-rounded education" – of late Classical and Hellenistic Greece, the "liberal arts" or "liberal pursuits" (Latin liberalia studia) were already so called in formal education during the Roman Empire.
> The first recorded use of the term "liberal arts" (artes liberales) occurs in De Inventione by Marcus Tullius Cicero, but it is unclear if he created the term. Seneca the Younger discusses liberal arts in education from a critical Stoic point of view in Moral Epistles.
> Curricula differ from school to school, but generally include language, chemistry, biology, geography, art, music, history, philosophy, civics, social sciences, and foreign languages.
> In the United States, liberal arts colleges are schools emphasizing undergraduate study in the liberal arts. The teaching at liberal arts colleges is often Socratic, typically with small classes; professors are often allowed to concentrate more on their teaching responsibilities than are professors at research universities.
> In 1937 St. John's College changed its curriculum to focus on the Great Books of Western Civilization to provide a new sort of education that separated itself from the increasingly specialized nature of higher schooling. This was one of the first instances of a revival for the more classical approach to the liberal arts as expounded by Plato and Cicero.
My mom's Xiaomi phone started displaying the error message:
The Google application has suffered an error again. Please send a report to Xiaomi.
The code under the "see more" button is extensive, but the gist of it is that the "EXCLUSIVE background task UPDATE_HOTWORD_MODELS crashed".
The error ...
In Russian, such a container for microbial sampling is called бакпечатка (bakpechatka), as I learned just now. I've no idea about the etimology of the Russian term. Probably "bak" stands for "bacterial" and "pechat" is for "print" (to press).
The container is used for taking bacterial samples by ...
> Results showed that VTC regions corresponding to face and word recognition increased with age. Compared to the five- to nine-year-olds, teenagers had twice the volume of the word-selective region in VTC. Notably, as word-selective VTC volume doubled, limb-selective volume in the same region halved.
> According to the investigators, the decrease in limb-selectivity is directly linked to the increase in word- and face-selectivity, providing the first evidence for cortical recycling during childhood development.
@Cerberus wiki is not helping well with epitheta, epitheton, or epithet. those definitions are awful.
@Cerberus 'beavers' is fine when you want to make it sound OK in a headline like that. But 'fishes' and 'deers' and 'shrimps' makes me squinch my nose.
@Mitch Agreed. I just didn't even know you could use beaver as plural.
Although it did not sound unnatural to mine ears.
> An epithet can even be meant for collective use, e.g. in Latin pilleati 'the felt hat-wearers' for the brothers Castor and Pollux. Some epithets resist explanation.[13]
Somehow in the process of looking for something I invariably find things I couldn't find before but not the thing I'm looking for now. There must be a postulate in here somewhere.
I am trying to fill in the blank in this sentence: "There is a(n) ___ of research on this topic."
Using the word paucity would imply, to me, that I feel there is definitely not enough research and more needs to be done. However, what I am trying to say is that I know some amount of research has b...