> Combined, the system produces eight kilowatt hours
Can they start educating journalists about power and energy, in university or whatever internships they do? It is really not that difficult.
Can they start educating journalists about power and energy, in university or whatever internships they do? It is really not that difficult.
> you’d get 2,113 grams of calcium
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator#/media/File:...
As far as I know, commas as the decimal separator aren't used anywhere in the English world. Although, perhaps the author was not a native speaker, but still personally writing in English and made the mistake.
Mind, that's for fresh basil and you mentioned dried, I don't know how to convert those weights.
But given how many of the investors in the UK actually study humanities at Oxford I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish there. Unless you really believe that studying humanities somehow makes you a more moral human being that then doesn't go on to destroy the world, which clearly isn't the case.
And for reference Boris Johnson studied classics at Oxford, fucked a dead pig as part of a fraternity initiation ceremony and is now doing his best to dismantle public healthcare in the UK. So I don't think the "make our society better" statement holds any value.
EDIT: comment below is right, it was David Cameron, not Boris Johnson. And he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics. So while the last paragraph is half correct and half mixed in with Boris Johnsons history, both of them have been working hard on selling off the NHS. Boris also hasn't started as many wars. So, I guess Boris is better on a relative scale?
Incidentally, Cameron is far from the only UK politician to have studied PPE at Oxford. An alarmingly high number of our leaders are products of that one degree program at one university [0] - which suggests that this program deserves a lot more public scrutiny than it gets, given the shoddy results it seems to produce!
[0] https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/feb/23/ppe-oxford...
And in theory the basics of those should be covered in high-school.
And in any case, a journalist covering a technical subject should have a basic understanding of units. It's really elementary stuff.
Before you down-vote: ask what their high school STEM grades are?
It just doesn't stick.
For my engineering degree in the US, I certainly took non-engineering/science courses as part of a distribution requirement and took various other courses and did various other activities as well. Among other things, communications has been a key part of my career track.
But the UK does all of education differently to the USA, or at least it did when I went thought it: mandatory up to the age of 16 where you got approximately a dozen GCSEs, then two years doing A-levels (3, 3.5, or 4), then you go up to university. The only mandatory requirement to do humanities was in the GCSEs.
https://web.archive.org/web/20070714204136/http://www.michae...
Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect works as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward-reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story-and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read with renewed interest as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about far-off Palestine than it was about the story you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.
That is the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. I'd point out it does not operate in other arenas of life. In ordinary life, if somebody consistently exaggerates or lies to you, you soon discount everything they say. In court, there is the legal doctrine of falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, which means untruthful in one part, untruthful in all.
But when it comes to the media, we believe against evidence that it is probably worth our time to read other parts of the paper. When, in fact, it almost certainly isn't. The only possible explanation for our behavior is amnesia.
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Besides, considering the food industry in most countries will not even get rid of kcal where there exist zero reason to use that unit, I don't think so.
Yes, because watts are defined joules per second. Joule is the SI base unit.