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The Rise of the Foot to the Demise of the Qubit James Vincent

An expert says airlines that facilitate could be taking a reputational risk because it could bring focus to the fact that there are people on their flights infected with COVID. James Vincent is a London Bay senior reporter for the Verge and the author of the newly released Beyond Measure, the hidden history of measurement from qubits to quantum constants. In Finnish, a penin kulmah is the distance from which a dog's bark can be heard. A calip is the amount needed to graze a single cow, according to some set of Irishmen. And going back to Finland once more, paren kusmah isthe distance a reindeer can travel without having to stop

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