It now costs, on average, $5.55 to buy a four-litre bag of milk in Toronto (a 13 per cent increase since 2021). In Ottawa, it’s $5.31 (a 12.7 per cent increase). Historically, price increases have been smaller in Ontario. In 2018, the price for a four-litre jug was $4.27 at…
Three original Disney multiplane cameras survive: one at The Walt Disney Studios, Burbank, California, one at the Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco, and one in the Art of Disney Animation attraction at Walt Disney Studios Park in Disneyland Paris. A 4-plane Multiplane background. The multiplane camera, invented in…
But it was only the beginning of what must be Walt’s longest unbroken string of good decisions in the history of the entire show. He comes clean to Skyler and finally admits he did everything for himself. He reveals the location of Hank’s body. He gives the ricin to its…
Cronkite died at his home on July 17, 2009, at age 92 from cerebrovascular disease. Though there is a school of journalism named after him, Cronkite didn’t actually graduate from college. After two years of political science studies, he dropped out of the University of Texas at Austin to pursue…
The series featured Bernie MacBernie MacBernard Jeffrey McCullough (October 5, 1957 – August 9, 2008), better known by his stage name Bernie Mac, was an American actor and comedian. Born and raised on Chicago’s South Side, Mac gained popularity as a stand-up comedian. He joined fellow comedians Steve Harvey, Cedric…
“War Horse” is based on the novel of the same name by British author Michael Morpurgo. While the book is set against the backdrop of World War I, the characters and stories depicted in the book are fictional. However, the plot of “War Horse” was, indeed, inspired by a real…
Americans don’t know it and children aren’t taught it, but George Washington is responsible for our Thanksgiving holiday. It was our first president, not the Pilgrims and not Abraham Lincoln, who led the charge to make this day of thanks a truly national event. The first Thanksgiving proclamation in the…
All WaMu branches were rebranded as Chase branches by the end of 2009. The holding company, WaMu, Inc., was left with $33 billion in assets, and $8 billion in debt, after being stripped of its banking subsidiary by the FDIC. The next day, Washington Mutual Inc., the bank’s holding company,…
To reach equilibrium, osmosis causes the water molecules to move out of the egg and into the corn syrup until both solutions have the same concentration of water. The outward movement of water causes the egg to shrivel. To reach equilibrium, osmosis causes the water molecules to move out of…
The intuition of the difference-in-discontinuities design is very similar to the difference- in-differences design. A pre-treatment regression discontinuity identifies time-invariant effects of other laws as well as the discontinuity in outcomes due to time-invariant sorting. So RD requires different assumptions and less data that DID, but it estimates a more…