The Database Design course I took in college started on Access and moved to SQL Server which I found to be quite nice, may not be an option for your wife though since we already had student licenses through the college.
Maybe there's a PaaS or SaaS option that would work for her? Something like Jupyter notebooks maybe.
Not a chance, the consumer market it massive. Even among PC enthusiasts, AMD is in the minority. It's not even close: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey
I'd sooner expect Intel to start making their own ARM chips to compete with Apple.
Historians will be the first to tell you there is no such thing as unbiased history, the difference is historians work towards reducing and identifying bias. If I remember correctly Zinn himself says at the beginning of his book he is writing with intentional bias.
Because that's only one aspect, you also have to consider other things like availability of investment capital, operating costs, and the bureaucracy of starting and running a business.
How appropriate, a blog post about weather forecasts being inaccurate is itself inaccurate. Same down here in the Willamette Valley, I'd like to be able to breathe again.
My personal favorite example to get some perspective is from the book Days of Rage. During the 1970s domestic bombings were a daily occurrence, and at the peak there were over 2000 a year. Even the massive amount of violence in modern day Chicago is nothing in comparison to what was happening as recently as the 90s.
NATO intervention in the Yugoslav civil war wasn't carpet bombing civilian houses and hostile invasion, they bombed key military and infrastructure targets and sent troops in to stop a genocide. Though of course there were plenty of civilian casualties.
Seems like they factored in the obvious stuff, i.e. men having poorer health outcomes in general, so I wonder if this has something to do with reproduction? By that I mean women's immune systems reacting more strongly to protect a (possible) baby?