Odd that the us line stops around 2010 while the others continue. Still, it shows a minor decrease from 1970 to that point. But I concede that the opposite has been happening elsewhere especially in developing countries.counterpoint:
The US allows illiterate people to identify as literate.
I'm guessing the data stops at different times for all the areas, I don't know why they would stop at USA in 2010. Even if the literacy was relatively saturated there is still a lot of study on basic literacy on the USA to draw from.
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I'm having flashbacks to the 80s when I could buy eyeglasses that untwisted after being bent by adding heat. Why is this so new?Scientists Intrigued by Metal That Can Heal Itself After Damage
Scientists at Texas A&M University were stunned when a piece of metal appeared to heal itself before their eyes.
A different process, and metal that's several times more metal than whatever they were making your glasses with?
As far as I’m aware the applications are legit, the research still has to go through all the rest of the process to be worked into actual products. Assuming it stands up.
The cpu heat stood out to me the most. I've been out of the semiconductor industry for a decade, but my recollection is that resistance is not the only factor in heat. Quantum tunneling is a factor as well. I'm not sure how much.
I eagerly await confirmation studies. On its face it comes across as quite interesting given how lacking in heavy costs and how simple of a process they describe to achieve this.
