reading_journal_2021
2021-12
2021-12-30
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Starting Jan. 1, 2022, the “No Surprises Act” consumer protection law goes into effect. This legislation will ban most forms of surprise billing, or balance billing, in which a person unknowingly gets medical care by a provider outside their private insurer’s network, even when visiting an in-network facility.
Ask “Are you part of my plan’s network?” rather than, “Do you take my insurance?”
2021-09
2021-10-03
2021-08
2021-08-11
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A harmonic divisor number is a positive integer whose divisors have a harmonic mean that is an integer. The first few harmonic divisor numbers are 1, 6, 28, 140, 270, 496, 672, 1638, 2970, 6200, 8128, 8190.
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2021-08-10
2021-07
2021-07-29
2021-07-17
2021-07-13
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A new material made of scandium, aluminum, tungsten and oxygen did not change in volume at temperatures ranging from 4 to 1,400 Kelvin (-269 to 1126 °C, -452 to 2059 °F).
Name of the new material - orthorhombic $Sc_{1.5}Al_{0.5}W_{3}O_{12}$
Of all the four elements, scandium is rarer and more costly.
The other ingredients are widely available, and bond together using a “relatively simple synthesis”.
2021-07-11
2021-06
2021-06-14
2021-05
2021-05-26
2021-05-12
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You can now use Google Pay to send money from US to India.
Only person-to-person payments are allowed.
Businesses in U.S. can’t send to either individuals or businesses in India.
2021-05-06
2021-05-05
2021-01
2021-01-27
2021-01-20
2021-01-18
2021-01-17
2021-01-12
2021-01-01
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