I know this stuff can get a little high-level and “strength-and-conditioning-nerdy,” but stick with me. My goal here is to help OnSI athletes and the everyday a ...
Before the season, I wrote about the Huskers’ records that I thought could be in danger of falling in 2025. Dana Holgorsen and Raiola are an elite combination o ...
Seeing its primary use in the United States while the majority of other countries use the Celsius scale, the Fahrenheit scale places water’s freezing point at 32°F and the boiling point at 212°F under ...
Within today’s industrial landscape, the standards associated with acceptable, and even expected, performance continue to rise. Machines need to function ...
Back when I was a Catholic-school kid in northern Wisconsin, my school lessons briefly focused on the metric system. This was ...
In the public realm, the establishment financial press, such as the Wall Street Journal, regularly ran headlines of the ...
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Why America Rejected the Metric System

The United States nearly adopted the metric system in the 1790s. A French scientist was on his way with the official kilogram to convince Congress—until pirates intercepted his ship ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In 1862, Rudolph Koenig, an acoustic ...
Overfishing is the harvesting of wildlife from the sea at rates too high for species to replace themselves. Scientists have been sounding the alarm about this looming catastrophe for decades. But ...
Knigge, Ryan P., Tocheri, Matthew W., Orr, Caley M., and McNulty, Kieran P. 2015. "Three-Dimensional Geometric Morphometric Analysis of Talar Morphology in Extant Gorilla Taxa from Highland and ...
Abstract: In this paper, the application performances of isolated bidirectional dc-dc converters (IBDCs) based on all-Si and all-SiC power devices for next-generation power conversion application are ...
Abstract: The bipolar transistor was invented in 1948 by W. Shockley at Bell Laboratories in the United States. Since then, the transistor has advanced along with the progress of integrated circuit ...