What if it's caused by random reboots lasting up to 1h? :)
Of course I'm half joking, but I wouldn't be surprised if software problems contributed to the delays (which tend to chain, as trains need to wait for each other, etc).
Curiously, I was riding a TGV in France few weeks ago, and due to some track problems, we had to change the direction and go back to previous station (and then use different track to go forward again).
It took more than 1h to start going back, and I wonder how much of it was making sure the track is clear, and how much was "rebooting the train" or whatever else was necessary.
I'm guessing that these days anything might need to be rebooted, including track themselves (I mean: there are misc detectors there).. Sometimes I'm in awe how strong the overarching duct tape is :)
It's kind of a sad trend for academic publications. I still remember those interesting things of those journals I read from journals shared on coffee tables in our building
That's a fun anecdote. I referee high school and youth wrestling and there are several coaches who are paraplegic or quadriplegic because of neck or spinal injuries they got wrestling. I assume there are other injured people who didn't want to have anything to do with the sport after their injury.
My non-medical person understanding is that the physiology and mechanics in the knee are very different but beyond that it is a "no one knows" situation which seems shameful.
Again, have zero medical background and am not a woman but my mental model from my wife and daughters' experience and from paying a lot of attention to professional women's soccer is that it is simultaneously true that there are a huge number of physical/biological things when it comes to athletics that completely different in women and yet also that they are entirely unstudied. Like it is just a crazy giant blind spot.
My sports photography habit has gotten me out to all kinds of games and I've discovered I really like women's field hockey which is almost exclusively a female sport in North America. I was surprised to find out that men's field hockey is super big internationally, because unlike soccer, people in the US never got the message the field hockey was a huge international game.
Overall women and girls are playing more than, say, 10 years ago. But they still play considerably less than men and boys, at all levels, at least in soccer, and there are many, many more joint injuries.
It is more likely to happen when they are menstruating so they can get some protection by tracking their periods so that they avoid hard training on dangerous days.
Correlation/causation. Could be as simple as being more tired than usual. Being tired is more dangerous for lots of sports, and is true for men as well (just not on a predictable schedule).
They're also more likely to get concussions from things like headers. The female body is just not as adept at physical activity as the male one. It's almost like its main focus is on creating babies.
>> "Salmon is the second-most-popular seafood in the United States, where the average American consumes more than three pounds a year. (Shrimp is No. 1, with average annual consumption reaching nearly six pounds in 2021.)"
Color me surprised. I thought seafood is consumed five times more. A salmon fillet usual weight more than 2 pounds, so we only eat 3 times a year on average?
Individual serving size is closer to four to six ounces so wild extrapolation is once a month for salmon, twice a month for shrimp. I’m at zero for both of those recently so someone else makes up for me. :) I’ve switched to sardines.
>“Didn’t it seem strange to you to get a second badge when you’d just got your first one?”
>“I’ve never been here before,” I said. “Everything seems strange to me.”
>A different cop told him to give it a rest, handed me a third badge
We all love bureaucracy if it didn't happen to ourselves