This article is just fucking great.
"Many laboratory researchers perceive this, I fear, to be someone else’s problem. But it isn’t. If the West is really in its decline-and-fall stage, its Caligula stage, its Donald Trump stage, then this isn’t just an issue for political and financial elites. It’s also a problem for the ‘experts’ who crawl around after these elites, massaging their egos and defending their interests."
" And too many ordinary scientists hold politicians in utter intellectual contempt — even though it is the scientists who have chosen a career that allows them to pursue relatively simple problems (such as building a machine to detect gravitational waves) rather than genuinely difficult ones (such as running a social-care programme in a small town)."
http://www.nature.com/news/the-elephant-in-the-room-we-can-t-ignore-1.19561
>>7936260
>even though it is the scientists who have chosen a career that allows them to pursue relatively simple problems (such as building a machine to detect gravitational waves) rather than genuinely difficult ones (such as running a social-care programme in a small town)
That's such a conceited statement it's unreal.
>>7936270
Take it as it is, slightly ironically, but still. I'm a Phycisist, I'm doing my Ph. D. in High Energy Physics phenomenology, I have a slight impression of what the author means.
>>7936260
Good article and partly true. Indeed the scientists choose to pursue simpler problems that directly interest them more like scientific mysteries, a theory of everything, the origin of life.
The reason we don't have more scientists or would-be scientists in politics is because a lot of scientists are autistic, and don't care for the public image or boring social contract that needs to be followed in politics. Politicians don't succeed because they are autistically smart. Most politicians succeed because they are great con artists. Look at Trump, so much evidence that he has been scamming people, coverage of him insulting everyone rather than addressing actual problems, and he gets the nomination from a good part of the U.S. population.
This is what scientists can't, or don't want to become. Maybe if the public cared more for honesty and good arguments rather than public image, or stumping your opponents, or insulting others to feel superior, maybe then scientists would succeed.
>you can't prove that the past ever existed or the future ever will
>you can't prove that we're all frozen in the present moment with fake memories
Prove me wrong, /sci/
black science kid strikes again
>>7936132
You're a dick. Ergo, QED.
>>7936132
>gorillas
>bears
>jaden
are we gonna switch animals every three days?
My teacher says time is the tears of Allah. He says, though we can measure it with clocks, only a Muslim can understand it.
Give me a /sci/ explanation of time.
>>7936076
Time is planck-scale tears shed literally by everything in the universe. God wills time to be
>>7936076
Why don't you ask your teacher instead?
>>7936076
muslim here:
your teacher is full of shit.
What is time? We can measure time with a clock but not explain it. Please explain it for me /sci/
>>7935985
>We can measure time with a clock but not explain it
We can use time to measure speed,acceleration,velocity,gravity etc (i ran out of ideas), and we can also measure time based from the given above. why did you tell that anon?
>>7936065
Measured time is useful. But what is time?
Was time created? Was there a time when time didn't exist, as in before time was created, but how could there be a before if there's no time?
You can't explain that.
How to survive a nuclear strike? Please explain the science behind surviving it as well.
As we all know, the threat of a possible nuclear attack is likely to rise, considering that Russia is likely to disintegrate (according to the recent intelligence reports) and the vast amounts of ICBMS will be left at different autonomous regions' disposal who could use them erratically.
You can call me a moron all you want, but I'd rather be a moron than dead, should things play out this way.
Any serious proposals on surviving a nuclear strike or helping others to do so are welcome. I'm also interested in the science behind this, and this is why I'm posting this here.
>>7935139
OP here.
Wanted to mention that I'm not implying that Russia will disintegrate now - but it is likely to do so in the coming decades. (See Stratfor Global Intelligence decade forecast)
>>7935139
Bomb them first.
>>7935139
There is pretty much no way to survive a nuclear strike IRL.
Do you guys have any tips for mathematical proofs?
[pic obviously nrelated]
>>7934617
When in doubt, go for contradiction.
>>7934632
this
Doing nothing but referring to the definitions religiously will get you through your first proof course and probably most of Real Analysis
If we are herbivores by nature. What made our ancestors decide to eat meat?
Knowing this today. What do human still eat meat?
>>7934446
It's tastier and when you don't know how to farm it's easier to find than scavenging
>>7934450
But we were not made to catch food. Our legs can't keep up with animals try to catch a deer with your bear hands.
>>7934455
It's not about speed it's about endurance, how do you think our ancestors managed to survive before they developed more effective weapons?
I am a talentless dumbass, is there a documented way to improve intelligence? It's becoming frustrating
>>7933951
>Can someone become smarter?
No, deal with it asap.
Practice, practice and more practice is the key to everything. Practice at math and you will get more used to thinking of the solutions in problems the more you solve. No secret techniques. If you don't want to do that, take up a trade and live a comfortable life.
>>7933956
I am not interested in math particularly, but general analytical skills that are correlated to math as well. So there is no hope to improve that?
>>7933951
i would go to coursera edx and khan academy and start learning the engineering courses. It would take maybe 2 years but you can prlly prove to someone you arent a dumbass even with no certificate.
thoughts about this, /sci/?
also, happy Pi Day!
>>7931410
It's 14/3/2016 though, ameridumb
>>7931410
>>/9gag/
>>7931410
posted at pi'o'clock. grats op
is this board mostly students or working professionals?
>>7929388
Neither
>>7929388
see >>7928975
>>7929388
mostly fags
I want to teach myself physics. How would I go about doing this?
>>7935589
This is a really bad place to ask, everyone will give you some really autistic graduate-level reading list. If you're in UK buy CGP.
>>7935592
I'm in the US.
>>7935593
HS/intro college physics
Halliday, Resnick, Walker
http://libgen.io/book/index.php?md5=A1F255962D377ABE7BB5D37A191ECB38
Classical Mechanics
Taylor
http://libgen.io/book/index.php?md5=C69A7A99A150E064FF2FCFCE3F1CC3A4
Electrodynamics
Griffiths
http://libgen.io/book/index.php?md5=635B96707ABD947654A466A3F6D9EDFD
QM
Griffiths
http://libgen.io/book/index.php?md5=81B63E9586AF74981C89047E7206E323
General Relativity
http://libgen.io/book/index.php?md5=22E1CE772E77713506F166E017C0F4BC
All of the above is undergrad level shit.
What's the slowest growing divergent infinite sum, if there even is one at all?
The slowest I can think of is 1/x.
>>7935382
... 1/(2x)?
nice pic
>>7935394
That grows at the same rate
1/(2X) = O(1/x)
I want a function f(x) that has a diverging infinite sum but f(x)=o(1/x)
Ego pura mathematica facere, ergo sum.
Where were you when you realized that people who don't study pure mathematics cannot even carry themselves into existance, therefore being pointless beings supported by our perception of them?
I do pure math, therefore I am.
>>7935130
You fucked up that Latin grammar so badly, it hurts to read.
Math grad student here btw.
>>7935189
>Knowing ancient as fuck languages
Did you turn gay or were you born gay?
I just google translated that shit.
>>7935197
Latin was mandatory in high school for me. Why are you so proud of your low verbal intelligence?
How conclusive are the dangers of giving alcohol to children?
I'm from a weird part of wurope and I had alcohol(white wine) for the first time 5 years, given to me by my parents ofc. I didn't like it, and by the time I was 18 I tried pretty much all times of alcohol sparingly. I never got blank-out drunk in my life because alcohol was always unexceptional.
I'm doing a PhD thou but I have self-diagnosed depression
You have fetal alcohol syndrome
RIP mate
>>7935088
Well, the reason in the US we have legal drinking age as 21 is due to any [potential] damage that ethanol could do to a person's brain.
>>7935096
so if you only care about the potential dangers it has over the human brain, why not ban it entirely, for adults as well?
Whats the best technique for minimizing the amount of time to fill the bubbles.
>>7934780
Put a dot on the bubbles
ez
>>7934781
needs to be filled all the way though
>>7934780
fill the edge to form a ring, and then darken the inside of the ring like the savage you are.
