Can East Asian culture be explained by a genetic tendency to produce more oxytocin?
The cult of kawaii. Emphasis on nostalgia for home and childhood. Passive xenophobia. Weird highschool-like circlejerk atmosphere in the workplace. Emphasis on family relationships. More feminine men and more feminine women (not in terms of low testosterone and high estrogen so much as high oxytocin in both.) Meek friendliness to others combined with sense of distance from outsiders. Conformism.
It all fits.
This is like the science version of reading horoscopes and saying, "Woah that is SO me!"
>>8105299
Does it tickle when words go in one ear and out the other?
>>8105259
Don't blacks also have high oxytocin levels. Doesn't oxytocin make you religious? Aren't asians secularized people? I'd say it explains blacks more
I have a possibly retarded but honest question sci.
There are two balls, i apply force to the first ball and it moves, i apply force to the second ball but it doesn't move, if the first ball move because i applied force to it then did the second ball also not move because i applied a force to it?
>>8104959
What the fuck? Did you apply the same force to both balls? Do both balls bave the same mass? Are both balls on the same surface? Did your parents drop you on your head? Is this bait? Next week, on Dragonball Z....
>>8104972
I did fall on my head as a kid, but this isn't bait.
I did something that annoyed some, they said me doing the thing caused them to be annoyed, i said them being annoyed wasn't caused by the annoyance because that would be similar to saying me doing "something" causes someone that's not annoyed by it to not be annoyed it.
What would be the nutritional value of a bowl of spiders? (Common Jumping Spiders for this purpose) I'm not asking to get /fit/ or anything, I just have to know.
>>8104868
I'm not the one eating the spiders, either.
>>8104868
Bugs are generally quite nutritious, so I would suggest its nutritional value would be high
>>8104868
>What would be the nutritional value of a bowl of spiders?
Jesus Christ...I can't believe how desperate you undergraduates get...can't even afford mac n' cheese or ramen...
Is it possible that there's a force that can transform matter to anti-matter and visa versa?
Please explain it to me like I'm an idiot
Anything's possible.
>>8104839
Anything's possible, idiot.
fix'd
Cellphones proven to cause cancer:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/cellphone-cancer-link-found-in-government-study-1464324146
feels pretty good not having a phone right about now
>>8104741
How is this bad
Just let the phonefags die
study: weak link, on rats.
so...
fuck off.
Can you refine metals by distilling ore?
If you get metals hot enough, they melt and boil right?
So can you distill them?
>>8104372
I googled "distill metal" and found
>Refining of volatile metals like mercury, zinc etc. is done by distillation.
Try harder next time.
>>8104379
Yes but those metals have a low boiling point... mercury is liquid at room temp dude.
I meant something like distilling iron.
Sounds like a waste of energy. Distillation is separation of mixed liquids.
With solid metals, they either sink or swim on top. No need to get them to gaseous phase.
Why is neuroscience making no progress on the hard problem of conciseness?
>>8104368
>quantum
>>8104368
Combination of weak operational definition and limited knowledge of how the brain processes information across different regions and where/how these connections work
>>8104368
Fuck your Deepak Chopra/ Valley girls on kikebook bullshit.
If you're good with numbers, why don't you get into stock trading? You can be the rainman of wall street!
>>8104363
I am
>>8104363
Gratz
>>8104364
Really? How much do you make?
>professor says Siemens with an English pronunciation
>class starts laughing
>>8104279
>Professor says Shannon-Wiener Index
>uncontrollablelaughter.jpg
lmao
>>8104279
I'm so sick of this.
The teacher is NOT a professor, it's not difficult to distinguish between academic titles, stop calling your teacher/lecturer a professor. I know you're all still in grade 6, but that's not an excuse for this kind of blatant ignorance.
What's logically equivalent to (x)(y)(z)((Rx. Cz)-->Ty))
Pic unrelated
>>8104275
what kind of crab is that
>>8104286
A lobster I think. Beautiful creatures.
>>8104296
It is indeed a lobster.
who wants to solve chinese cartoon math?
>>8104199
Fuck off weaboo, this is trivial.
Isn't that from madoka
let p = 3, n = 2,
(1+3)^3 - 2^3 - 1 = 55
55 is not divisible by 3.
Solar panel efficiency vs extraction cost? Don't solar panels deplete?
>>8104095
This interests me. However, please be more specific.
Yes, solar cells degrade over time. It's an unavoidable problem IIRC because when solar rays that hit electrons to cause a current, that same process also slowly degrades the solar cell.
What do you mean by extraction cost? And what do you want to know about it and solar panel efficiencies?
>>8105474
Yeah, no chemical process is completely reversible. Everything degrades. It's unavoidable. That being said, I think the issue right now is the total carbon cost of extracting semiconductor materials from the ground. Is it actually carbon neutral, or are we using a fuckton of fossil fuels in the mining and manufacturing process that won't be recouped during the operational lifetime of the PV cells.
>>8105524
"True believers" in renewables will tell you that it will eventually be powered with renewables entirely.
When you do a systems analysis, e.g. an end to end analysis, one finds that solar alone cannot support the production of more solar, and also sustain our modern standard of living. For further reading, I suggest starting here:
https://bravenewclimate.com/2014/08/22/catch-22-of-energy-storage/
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>>8103942
oops.
>>8103938
This just in: popcorn beats existentialism.
My passion I pursue in the academic world involves a lot of math. Unfortunately, a lot of the time it just doesn't click with me. Has anyone ever overcame this struggle?
Everyone on /sci/ seems to be good at math and say so in ways where it seems like it just came inherently.
I will admit I have been one of those people who have came on here and asked for homework help. I'm ashamed about this as I read the textbook and all that good stuff. Oddly enough, the person who is actually willing to help presents in a way that doesn't follow my textbook's way and the answer is a lot easier when the person suggests their way of approaching the problem.
What is going on in this situation? I understand math can be like a puzzle that can be figured out in numerous ways with the same result. Why do textbooks suggest one way of answering the problem, often in the most time-consuming way? Am I simply missing something? Are there any suggestions for looking at math in a different light than just plugging in what your textbook tells you to? I actually want to appreciate math...
Not to be a downer, but in my experience, math proficiency is dependant upon an intuition that you either have or do not. Maybe you can get better. I don't know.
>>8103920
Everyone who has ever been good at math has dedicated a large portion of their time to studying/practicing/working with math.
No one inherently just understands everything.
The only way you're going to understand math is to just practice, again and again. Only then will you appreciate math.
>>8103920
Every single person on this board with a lick of mathematical knowledge worked hard to obtain and understand that knowledge. Math is hard. But the more you read, think about, and practice math, the easier it will become.
I have a Engineering Physics background among others. In my experience I often didn't understand the more advanced topics we were talking about at the time of learning them (think picking up Quantum and PDEs at the same time). After a few years of feeling that I was flying by the seat of my pants, I realized I suddenly understood what at first was baffling. Good ideas take time to ferment in your head.
Famous story:
"There is no royal road to geometry" (μή εἶναι βασιλιkήν ἀτραπόν ἐπί γεωμετρίαν)
Reply given when the ruler Ptolemy I Soter asked Euclid if there was a shorter road to learning geometry than through Euclid's Elements.
Quick Question:
I need to generate a sine waveform between 1 Hz and 3 kHz for a shaker. Which function generator do you think would be the best for the job?
>for a shaker
sine waveforms makes lousy protein shakes my dude
and i should know im an engineer
(I'm looking at the BK model 3003, but this is my first sine wave generator purchase and I want to get it right)
>>8103851
its to jerk me off
