The trade-offs associated with getting an education Usually higher education is associated with higher income. The main reason why people go to college is that they expect to earn more once they obtain their degree than they would with just a high-school diploma. Consider the hypothetical decision of Ann, who is currently employed with a salary of $35,000 per year. She is considering quitting h...

A surprising finding in our seminars in Latin America and Spain was that approximately half of the participants continued to use the old French anatomical nomenclature. The substance of this paper is a table in which we compare the anatomical names for the items reviewed in our seminar, in a Spanish version of the old French nomenclature and in the Spanish, Portuguese, and English versions of t...

We argue that combined observations of galaxy rotation curves and gravitational lensing not only allow the deduction of a galaxy’s mass profile, but also yield information about the pressure in the galactic fluid. We quantify this statement by enhancing the standard formalism for rotation curve and lensing measurements to a first postNewtonian approximation. This enhanced formalism is compatibl...