Humanity!!! Why are there so many people who don't bother to learn what they are talking about before leaping to 'correct' people who are already correct?

what about Monster Munch? Can we still advertise that?

oh my god.

"We proactively suspended our self-driving operations, including in California, immediately following the Tempe incident," an Uber spokesperson told TechCrunch"
The word this spokesperson wanted was "REACTIVELY".
You don't proactively do things in immediate response to events. That's called reacting.

I think it is more accurate to say that the "UK is mostly metric these days - but still a mixture". The USA is also a mixture. I use liters and mL for my liquor bottles and miles per hour for rate of speed calculations. Just like the bottles and the road signs in the UK and the USA.

This test was to determine whether a person's time sense, their experience of time, altered speed in a stressful situation.

They tested it wrong didn't they?

Extraordinary abilities in moments of stress are related to the situation and extricating oneself from it, not checking out what time it is. If, instead, they dropped a person off a cliff and tested whether the person could quickly grab a rope as it swung by at a pace they couldn't ordinarily perceive, they'd have a fun and useful test.

Here is another version of their test: I drop a big rock that you couldn't ordinarily lift on your mom. Then, I ask you what time it says on the 700 pound clock that is face down on the other side of the rock.