Not to be pedantic, (but I’m going to be) but it should be long live George, since it says “descendent of the current monarch” so George and his children (or Charlotte and Louis if there are abdications) would fit that criteria longer than Harry’s children, since they will not be descended from the monarch once Charles passes.

There are two major things people who settle want to avoid: huge legal expenses and protracted court proceedings. Even if you are 100% in the right, a trial is always risky. You are relying on another person or people to apply the law rationally and correctly, and people are fallible. By going to court you run the risk of losing, paying more and taking a definitive hit to your reputation, after weeks and weeks of your business being aired to the public. Often the trial process can bring more unfavorable information to light that can damage your reputation.

If you settle, yes you have to pay money but it is less than if you had lost the trial, and the matter is resolved quietly and comparatively quickly with minimal legal fees (compared to the expense of a full trial). Instead of weeks of repeated coverage, there is a day or two of mentions and then the whole matter vanishes from the public conscience.

As an example, most people will remember details they heard from the Depp/Heard defamation trial for years. You probably don’t remember a major celebrity settlement from a year ago. So negotiating a settlement can be a good way to sweep the issue out of the public eye and be able to move on. For celebrities, especially those who have to rely on promoting their work, getting rid of controversies quickly can help ensure the success of their upcoming projects as well, by avoiding a long stint if negative publicity.

Maybe true, but I feel like, as with the first two world wars, there would he enough countries involved for it to be called a world war, even if it is lopsided in terms of the number kf countries on each side.

Also, I wouldn’t be surprised if Russia bullied some of the former Soviet bloc countries into “siding” with it—like Belarus, for example. As far whether or not China would get involved….I think that they would leverage the potential for allying with Russia to force concessions from the US on things like Taiwan.

This is essentially the latest in a series of proxy wars we’ve been fighting with Russia since the 40’s. It’s not that we don’t all know what’s really happening, it’s that no one wants to be the one to officially start world war 3–which is what will happen if open war between USA and Russia happens.

Shoes can be used for self harm, particularly the laces or any structural metal, such as the shank. So no shoes can be left accessible to someone who may be at risk of harming themselves or others.

Medical facilities have hard floors because they are easier to keep clean/clean up, but hard floors are slippery. This isn’t a big deal for people in shoes, but mental health patients may not be allowed shoes. Enter the grippy sock; keeps your feet from cold hard floors while also keeping you from being Bambi on ice.

It’s worth noting that hospitals give these socks to ALL inpatients, regardless of allowed access to shoes. This is because if you’re mostly in bed but have to get up to go to the bathroom (or walk to the chair or whatever), you don’t necessarily want to take the time to put on shoes to walk ten feet and back. The floor is still slippery though, so by requiring everyone to have the grippy socks, there’s less chance of people slipping.

Some hospitals give you different colored socks depending on how much of a fall risk you are, so if you’re seen wandering about the floor staff know whether or not you should be doing so alone.

It could be a tooth thing. There’s little tubes in the enamel of your teeth and if you eat a lot of acidic things the minerals that sit in those tubes can get pulled out. (Ditto if you do tooth whitening procedures). If this happens, the affected tooth can become really sensitive to sweets or sugary foods. You can potentially reduce or get rid of the sensitivity by using a remineralizing toothpaste or gel (sensodyne is probably the best known brand but there are others).

If it persists, it’d be a good idea to get a dentist to look and make sure you don’t have anything more serious going on.

Yes I can confirm this. I haven’t made a cent off any of my publications. The papers that are available for free are from “open access” programs, where the researchers probably paid a fee to make the work available for free instead of having it behind the standard pay wall. It os becoming more common for funding agencies to require that you make the work freely available.

That said, your public library probably either has or can get any paper you want, it just might take a bit to do an inter library “loan” of the article. Or email the corresponding author. Many (not all) are willing to send you a copy.

In the land of chemistry and physics, ArXiv is a popular way to accomplish satisfying funding agency open access requirements without having to pay the journals extra.

Source: am also in academia

Someone tag Elon—he can revive this once twitter get’s kicked out of the app store.

Plus, having sensory organs close to the brain reduces the distance those inputs have to travel. Nervous signals are fast but they do take measure able amounts of time based on how far they must travel. When fractions of a second can mean life and death, getting all the info to your brain quickly means you’re likely to live longer than your butt-eyed peers.

No, because phonons aren’t strictly related to forces applied externally. Molecules are naturally experiencing vibrations—spring like oscillations—along all of the interatomic bonds. When you have a bunch of molecules linked together, all of those vibrations are now interconnected and affecting each other, which is what we call a phonon.