Located 10074 results from search term 'Science'
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Commented in Robots Are People, Too: On the Ways Writers Use Non-Human Characters to Tell Human Stories
And this is why I like science fiction so much.
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Commented in Your microbes live on after you die − a microbiologist explains how your necrobiome recycles your body to nourish new life
Won't happen to me cause I'm donating my body to science and then getting cremated.
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Commented in Sci-fi books are rare in school even though they help kids better understand science
I grew up on science fiction as a kid. I'm amazed at how many far fetched ideas I read about as a kid are not fiction anymore. I remember how fantastical Dick Tracy's watch was.
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Commented in Beware of 'Shark Week': Scientists watched 202 episodes and found them filled with junk science, misinformation and white male 'experts' named Mike
I never watched Shark Week even when I had cable tv.I don't care about seeing programs about sharks,sharks,and more sharks...No junk science either. But yeah,Discovery was scraping the bottom of the barrel when we cut the chord and that was ages ago.
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Commented in Amazon Prime’s ‘The Peripheral’ Is A Series For The Uninitiated
I've seen the first two episodes and highly recommend it to anyone who loves science fiction. I never read any book by Gibson, but I might read his stories after this series. It's gonna be a bit like happened with Lord of the Rings, I think: first I saw the movies and after that I have read the trilogy and was still in full awe. :-)
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Commented in Physicists Just Entangled A Pair of Atomic Clocks Six Feet Apart
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Commented in I’m nearly 60. Here’s what I’ve learned about growing old
I never thought I'd change the world...I'm donating my body to science,no funeral,no nothing. I'm just another brick in the wall,to quote Pink Floyd.
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Commented in It’s official! According to science, reading fiction makes you nicer.
I agree...Science fiction I think especially helps as it makes people more tolerant of the "other"...
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Commented in 'Seized by an invisible hand': Victims speak out about Havana Syndrome
Science Vs podcast did an episode on it that was fairly interesting.
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Commented in People who believe in science are more likely to wear masks in public to battle COVID-19
Science nerd here...I'm in a massive wad of stupid here. It's just disturbing.
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Commented in Hospital Food Is Never Great, But For Some Patients It Means Death
Yeah,those so-called "nutritional support" drinks are basically just useless skim milk,sugar,emulsifiers,fake flavoring and vitamins to replace all the real nutrients removed during processing.
Hospital food has a reputation for being pre-packaged and heavily processed, so this may not be a huge surprise. Instead of having a menu based on the best nutritional science, these meals are often sculpted by a desire to save money.
Yep. When I was in hospital,breakfast and lunch were often heavenly processed. I ate nothing offered me for breakfast except the two boiled eggs. They only trued feeding me the processed crap a few times before they gave up.
"Lunch" was typically a sandwich,chips and a cookie. I'd eat the meat and ignore the rest. Dinner was good. They did try though by giving me blueberries and cantaloupe 3 times a day,which I enjoyed.
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Commented in Science has fixed the worst part of psychedelic drugs usage for depression
hank you for your kind words. He's lead a pretty good life in spite of this mess. I hope he can be helped someday as well. We talked yesterday and he was in a pretty decent mood. The depressive aspects are retched but he's been able to channel his mania into writing science fiction fan fic. Whatever meds he's been given right now are working,so I'm pleased with that. I'd read about ketamine,i but just stumbled across it being used in several states by accident.
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Commented in Don’t Arm Robots in Policing
Remember the 3 laws of robotics people.
The Three Laws of Robotics (often shortened to The Three Laws or known as Asimov's Laws) are a set of rules devised by science fiction author Isaac Asimov. The rules were introduced in his 1942 short story "Runaround" (included in the 1950 collection I, Robot), although they had been foreshadowed in some earlier stories. The Three Laws, quoted from the "Handbook of Robotics, 56th Edition, 2058 A.D.", are:
First Law A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
Second Law A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
Third Law A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.[1]
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Commented in Japanese billionaire to fly eight members of the public on SpaceX moon flight
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Commented in The poison found in everyone, even unborn babies – and who is responsible for it
We have seen through Covid-19 that wartime-style mobilization, huge in scope and scale, can be mounted against a mortal threat to the population. We have seen with our own eyes that this is possible. We must come together to shine our best science and leadership to learn and address the full extent of the threat to us and the damage to our environment and health posed by forever chemicals. And stop it – now.
Who should foot the bill for all of it? The companies who have been reaping billions in profits each year, for decades, from making and unleashing this lethal poison into the world, all the while knowing the grave health threat it posed to us and our children – but chose not to tell us
Yeah that’s not gonna happen for an actual threat that someone can be held accountable for
nice thought tho
we just don’t live in that reality
that’s someone else’s reality and not ours
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Commented in Food futurology: What will we be eating 10 years from now?
I sincerely doubt this will happen since we have the short intestines and small cecum of a carnaviior/omnivorous being . Also,on average.1 in 12 us us have IBS and one in 100 have IBD and such a diet is not going to fly with us.
In a nutshell,there is not a "protein craze." Humans have always eaten this way. There is a vegan craze with a relentless pushing of the vegan religion on all comers.
Remember how insects were pushed as a food source and how well that worked out? I believe those who refuse to get in lock step with a small,but vocal minority will be vindicated.
People who write such pieces presume incorrectly that because they eat no meat means everyone should do the same,ignoring science,anatomy, evolution,everyone being different and some having medical problems precluding such a diet. The long term consequences of removing fat/meat from the human diet are only recently being investigated. What seed oils do to humans is not a fun ride, but I digress.
Add to that, even those without gi problems are not going to eat this way because we need meat and-animal fat to function normally. Some people will,of course. Not much research has been done on the consequences of eating such a diet,but I feel more will be learned as time goes on.
In my history,you can find lots of links dealing with this subject and I'd just as soon not add more. . Unless our intestines are impressively altered so we become hind gut ferminters and unless our microbiome changes to allow us to process veg matter like rabbits do,humans will continue to eat what we evolved to eat. And vegans will continue to demand we stop.
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Commented in Most statin problems caused by mysterious 'nocebo effect', study suggests
The trouble is that the science around statins is tainted by the sheer amount of money involved. This study is arguing that statins don't have real side effects so people should take more? No bias in that result??
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Commented in For The First Time, Physicists Have Controlled The Interaction of Time Crystals
What a headline. Is this like living in a time of science fiction or what?
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Commented in Bill Gates calls GMOs 'perfectly healthy' — and scientists say he's right
Scientists who make money from GMO foods declare them safe. Who'd've thought it!
The main problem with GMO foods is the money. Patents on living things owned by companies, mean the amounts of money involved, taints the scientific testing, the safety testing. At this point testing of safety among other things can't be relied on any more.
GMO is not inherently safe or dangerous. It is quite possible to make poisonous food crops. We are relying on science to test these for safety and efficacy and the science is owned and paid for by the companies owning the patents, interested parties.
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Commented in Half the universe’s ordinary matter was missing — and may have been found
Half of the observable universe's ordinary matter
FTFY (and even then I find it rather exaggerated, because we can only observe what our infant technology and science lets us observe)
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Commented in Scientists grow mouse which is 4% human
I always thought it was unethical to do such things with human DNA. Aah, wait a minute, it is only unethical when others do it. I understand.
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Commented in Did men's beards evolve to absorb a punch to the jaw?
sure
and peacock tails evolved to absorb a peck to the rear and lions evolved manes to absorb bites to the neck
get real. you know other primates have beards too, right? hair on the face of mammals evolved long before primates emerged 85 MILLION years ago. facial hair is a primitive feature not and advanced one
mouse lemurs have facial hair and it's hard to imagine lemur prize-fighting stance to deliver fist blows to the jaw
a thick beard evolved through the same process as any other - random mutation (in this case facial hair on males) and natural selection (females mating more with one type of male than other over generations)
for other examples see "homo sapiens penis size relative to other primates and mammals"
by the time we get to homo sapiens in Vitruvian man form, homo erectus females had already been selectively breading most bodily hair away (probably because of lice and skin parasites) and longer head and facial hair (probably because washing and grooming with oils and mud makes it manageable and parasite free while pleasurable to touch when they do the funky monkey)
this in turn makes males with good-lookin' facial hair more desirable by females which made their social pecking order standing higher which made females want higher order standing offspring so they would prefer mating with higher order standing males; rinse, repeat and round and round we go, all the way up to and including this guy
so homo sapiens are just part of the same, hominid thousand-generation evolutionary branch continuing trend of female preferences of random mutation males and pop science is stupid
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Commented in Meet the unknown female mathematician whose calculations helped discover Pluto
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Commented in U.S. EPA reaffirms that glyphosate does not cause cancer
Tainted science, regulatory capture, revolving doors, litigation against disinterested scientists. Who would believe the US EPA and Monsanto any more?
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Commented in Indonesia picks site for new capital as Jakarta sinks
It's wonderful that they're actually doing something. It's also a great chance to plan the city to avoid all the congestion that's there. I think that things like this happening (new cities being formed to avoid climate-related issues), plus market forces of the insurance industry, will be what convinces naysayers that climate change is real. It's actually sad that it's those things that are going to convince them and not any of the science or the warnings.