Is the bar graph the raw number and the line graph the percentage or is it the other way around? A legend would be helpful.

I knew cold sores were caused by herpes, but for a long time, I thought “cold sores” were a different condition known as “canker sores” and thought that I had oral herpes only to find out later that canker sores were an unrelated thing.

It basically means how much an issue is on people’s minds and how much an issue has on public opinion. As an example, in the 2012 election, health care was a high salience issue since the candidates talked about it a lot. In 2016, immigration had increased salience- it wasn’t talked much about in 2012 but Trump’s nomination and “build the wall” increased the salience. In 2020, immigration was lower salience since Covid and Black Lives Matter took up most of the dialogue.

Edit: I’m not sure if this fits your context. I’ve only ever heard the word with respect to politics.

If I was in that guy’s position, I would have wished for a device that I could tell a proposed wish and it would tell me whether it was still grantable- would make his job far easier. Plus it would block anyone else from getting a similar device so he wouldn’t have any competition in the wish consulting agency.

Yeah, you have all these rules but then they have exceptions. Like noble gases don’t react ... except the heavier ones can react fluorine.

I didn't realize KO2 was possible

Who makes meals with carboxylate Potassium salt? RCOOK!

I was so confused until I remembered that in the UK, the word “majority” means what we call a “plurality” in the US. I take it that absolute majority means more than half in this context, which is what we Americans just call a majority, while simple majority means the most, which Americans call a plurality.

I understand the joke, but the chemist in me is like “that should be K2O and MgO” which or course wouldn’t work. When a metal and a non-metal become bonded, the metal gets named first.

Yeah, that was what I was thinking of, plus “Dust in the Wind” by Kansas.

Has Ecclesiastes never been quoted?

That was Washington in 2012. California didn’t vote to legalize weed until 2016, which was more than a year after the SCOTUS legalized same sex marriage for the entire country.

I couldn't Guess Who it was

I wrote a Python script where you can type in any two election years and it will give a map of the relative change in partisanship from the first year you put in to the second year. Note, however, that it is a relative change so e.g. Clinton and Biden both won Nevada by 2.8 points, but Clinton won the popular vote by 2.1, while Biden won it by 4.5, so Nevada moved 0 points in raw margin, but this shows up as -2.4 since that was the change relative to the national margins.

https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1MyV4K0m0dHywjSbz17qOE38ju8qauTH6?usp=sharing

Humans are usually much easier to tell whether they’re male or female at a quick look than say a dog or a horse, which you’d pretty much have to look at their genitalia to tell. So yes, humans have high sexual dimorphism.

Is that a regional phrase? I figured that’s what it meant from context, but not something I’ve heard someone say before (I live in the USA). Much more common would be “one and a half times” or “50% larger.”

Tomato worms eat the pepper plants. Wasp larva eats the tomato worm. Who eats the wasp larva?