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From the bottom of the deepest ocean trench to the top of the highest mountain, the zone that covers nearly the whole of known life, is only something over a dozen miles—not much when set against the roominess of the cosmos at large.
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
But as countless American communities learned all too well during the Covid-19 quarantines, an absence of traffic jams without accompanying infrastructure changes to slow down the drivers who remain can transform whole communities into wide-open raceways — and send road deaths skyrocketing, particularly among vulnerable road users.
Study: Downtown Congestion Is Still Down — And It Could Help Explain Roadway Dangers
Kea Wilson
The standard error will be large when the standard deviation of the underlying distribution is large.
Naked Statistics Stripping the Dread From the Data
Wheelan, Charles
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