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Pass by catastrophe. Pass by catastrophe is an academic urban legend proposing that if some particular catastrophic event occurs, students whose performance could have been affected by the event are automatically awarded passing grades, on the grounds that there would then be no way to assess them fairly and they should not be penalized for the ...
Rogers Commission Report. Front page of the Commission Report to Congress. The Rogers Commission Report was written by a Presidential Commission charged with investigating the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster during its 10th mission, STS-51-L. The report, released and submitted to President Ronald Reagan on June 9, 1986, determined both the ...
Catastrophic cancellation. In numerical analysis, catastrophic cancellation[ 1][ 2] is the phenomenon that subtracting good approximations to two nearby numbers may yield a very bad approximation to the difference of the original numbers. For example, if there are two studs, one long and the other long, and they are measured with a ruler that ...
A long-awaited memo related to student loan debt cancellation is now public in a heavily redacted form.. And while the memo itself tells us almost nothing, experts believe its existence and paper ...
The limits of emergency management. A friend and respected colleague in the field once referred to disasters as a “numbers game”: You have to garner limited resources across relatively siloed ...
Weather-related cancellation. A weather cancellation or delay is closure, cancellation, or delay of an institution, operation, or event as a result of inclement weather. Certain institutions, such as schools, are likely to close when bad weather, such as snow, flooding, air pollution, tropical cyclones, or extreme heat, causes power outages, or ...
On Thursday, Aug. 8, the band featuring Mark Hoppus, Tom DeLonge and Travis Barker announced on social media, "Unfortunately, due to illness, we are unable to make it to Kansas City and St. Louis ...
James Damore was spurred to write the memo when a Google diversity program he attended solicited feedback. [2] The memo was written on a flight to China. [12] [13] Calling the culture at Google an "ideological echo chamber", the memo states that, whereas discrimination exists, it is extreme to ascribe all disparities to oppression, and it is authoritarian to try to correct disparities through ...