Tag: Squeeze

Lighten Up: Sawyer Squeeze Water Filter

I’m currently using the MSR MiniWorks EX and it’s a great pump filter. It delivers a lot torque on the lever and can fill up an empty Nalgene in just a few minutes. However, it’s relatively expensive ($90 on REI), large, and weighs a ton by ultralight standards. 460 grams (about on...

Proving the Squeeze Theorem using the Epsilon Delta Definition for the Limit

Out of the many techniques there are for solving limits, the squeeze theorem is a fairly famous theorem that has the ability to evaluate certain limits by comparing with other functions. For those who do not know the squeeze theorem, it states the following: Let A be some domain contain...

“Now it is Difficult to Get Married”: Jat Society and the Marriage Squeeze

In 1990, the Nobel Prize winning Indian economist Amartya Sen published an essay in The New York Review of Books estimating that the world was missing 100 million, primarily Asian and Middle Eastern women. The main causes were attributed to the rise of sex selective abortions, which began ...