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One glass of alcohol per day...
Over in the science forum, I'm driven nuts by the failure to appreciate units and their meaning.
This is usually about the somewhat dubious practice - albeit widely used - of confusing a unit of power, the Watt, with a unit of energy, the Joule.
So apparently is one of my son's professors also gets pissed off about this sort of thing and sent this pic to his (now on line) students:
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