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How Do You Actually Measure The Height Of A Mountain?
At 8,849 meters (29,032 feet), Mount Everest is ... be at the top to read it), so how do people actually go about measuring the height of a mountain? You know when you sat in that math lesson ...
New recommendations to measure obesity go beyond controversial BMI. A doctor explains.
Body Mass Index, or BMI, has long been criticized as an unreliable method for measuring obesity — and now a group of experts ...
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Mt Everest grows by nearly a metre to new height
The new height is 8,848.86m (29,032 ft). China's previous official measurement of 8,844.43m had put the mountain nearly four metres lower than Nepal's. Everest stands on the border between China ...