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The standard measure of a food's spiciness is its rating on the Scoville scale, which measures how much its capsaicin content can be diluted before the heat is no longer detectable to humans.
In this lesson, we'll add the single experimental fact that whenever anyone measures just how fast light moves, they get the same answer: 299,792,458 meters every second, which means that when we draw light on our space-time diagram, it's world line always has to appear at the same angle.
But every experiment we've ever done, and we've tried very hard, says that everyone measures light to have a fixed speed.
I'm stationary in the car, everything else is coming past me and the speed of light works out to be that same fixed value that we know everyone measures.
In some cases, these measures may not be enough due to dental problems, nasal conditions, or rarer ailments, such as liver disease and uncontrolled diabetes.
But race also tends to overwhelm the clinical measures.
Race can't substitute for these important clinical measures without sacrificing patient well-being.
Then, technological advances coupled with public health measures resulted in the betterment of the quantity, quality, and variety of food.
More global measures for prevention are essential to manage the weight of the world.
By the late Middle Ages, the Hindu-Arabic decimal system mostly replaced Roman numerals and fractions in Europe, but efforts by scholars like John Wilkins to promote standard decimal-based measures were less successful.
Not only that, we took extra measures to shoot it with a GoPro through the actual lens in the various videos that you've seen here.
And so we came up with this measure, which we termed semantic coherence, which essentially measures the persistence of speech within one semantic topic, within one semantic category.
Anti-terror measures quickly turn into state repression without strong protection for minority communities and for peaceful debate; this needs to be supported by a robust, independent local media.
It's the sense, and it measures whether kids like me who grow up in poor communities are going to live a better life, whether they're going to have a chance to live a materially better existence, or whether they're going to stay in the circumstances where they came from.
And this tag measures location and depth and also has a really cool little camera that's triggered by sudden acceleration.
And it's such an important measure of economic growth, the World Bank has a ranking called the "Ease of Doing Business Ranking," which measures how easy or difficult it is to start a business in any given country.
We go to extraordinary measures to keep children alive when in fact the greatest kindness that we might give them would be a peaceful, pain-free end of life.
Our teacher would give us an amount of measures and a time signature, and then he would speak a rhythm to us and we would have to write it down with the proper rests and notes.
And so in preventative measures, we're talking more about really broad groups of people and exposure to ideas to make them resilient.
But if someone were to get caught in the fallout, there are still measures they could take.
Nuclear weapons are some of the most powerful tools of destruction on Earth, and it may seem naive to put faith in these straightforward protective measures.
But even after all these measures, you could still find yourself swaying back and forth more than a meter on top floors during a hurricane.
Now he had empirical measures to quantify all kinds of test takers: the creative and imaginative, the detail-oriented, the big-picture perceivers, and flexible participants able to adapt their approach.
And the humanities and arts programs in the universities, which by many measures, indeed are in decline.
I've got a group of 10 people that work with me to gather data on key measures of technology in many different areas, and we build models.
By some measures, it's the poorest urban postal code in Canada.
It’s an increasingly common sight in hospitals around the world: a nurse measures our height, weight, blood pressure, and attaches a glowing plastic clip to our finger.
When you inhale, your lungs transfer oxygen into hemoglobin molecules, and the pulse oximeter measures the ratio of oxygenated to oxygen-free hemoglobin.
But by most measures, we have more knowledge and more resources now than at any other point in history, and still injustice abounds and challenges persist.
This black-white disparity is the largest disparity among all population perinatal health measures, according to the CDC.
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