Hey guys, my mother is in a pretty bad shape due to cancer. She's had it for about half a year now and it isn't getting any better. The main issue right now is that it is blocking the intestines and doesn't allow her to digest food properly or go to the bathroom. She's on heavy chemo right now to attempt to subdue the tumor so that we have more time to find alternative treatments. She's been through two surgeries so far to remove the tumor from the intestines but because so much of it has already been removed I don't think we can do surgery like that again. If anyone has any insight or resources towards potential treatments and help please let me know.
>>7914627
http://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/clinical-trials
basically your the guinea pig in clinical trials. not sure how difficult it is to apply and get accepted.
Good luck, take care.
>>7914651
It must suck to be placed in the control group if you do a trial like that.
ITT:
Derivations of concepts in Physics that you never found satisfying
>>7914574
Physics
>>7914575
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Kepler's laws
Physic books typically jump to Kepler's laws right after teaching Newton's axioms and then totally ignore that the sun gets pulled towards the earth too.
To this day I have never seen a derivation of Kepler's laws that is consistent with Newton's third law.
So tomorrow I have an interview for a MSc in Machine Learning?
How do I get the offer? I was planning to go super geeky and talk about all the technical ML stuff I've done in my degree, in Kaggle, extracurricular stuff such as Andrew Ng's and Daphne Kolller's ML courses, etc. But the guy is not an AI professor, he's an admissions tutor with background in CE.
How do I sell myself?
>>7914562
Tell them you're a transgender pansexual muslim. Youll fly in fa[math] [/math]m
>>7914569
>Tell them you're a transgender pansexual muslim. Youll fly in fa
Add in that you are a muslim but you sexually identify as a jew so you are a transmuslim jewkin.
>>7914569
[math]\forall[/math]yy lmao
Are ergonomic kneeling chairs bullshit or does it actually help your spine ?
you can slouch just as well in a kneeling chair as in a regular chair
There is this small chair by a 'osteophilicist' which apparently will sit you in a way that simulates standing but I forget the name, would be nice if someone could find that.
Just get a small table that you can kneel at, so that you're pretty much doing lunges the entire time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqVsA5wOjTw
>people still believe in flat earths
Why?
>>7914406
what do you mean "why"?
I only believe what I see with my own eyes, and I only see the earth as flat.
Actually even better, I can guarantee no one can see the earth as anything other than flat.
>>7914409
I'm not criticizing.
I'm just asking, why? Why is it that believable in the first place?
>>7914406
you cannot even prove that the earth exists.
>Experimental evidence of superconductors with critical temperatures above 373K is presented. In a family of different compounds we demonstrate the superconductor state, the transition to normal state above 387K, an intermediate 242K superconductor, susceptibility up to 350K, I−V curves at 4.2K in magnetic field of 12T and current up to 60A, 300K Josephson Junctions and Shapiro steps with radiation of 5GHz to 21THz, 300K tapes tests with high currents up to 3000A and many THz images of coins and washers. Due to a pending patent, the exact chemical characterization and technological processes for these materials are temporarily withheld and will be presented elsewhere.
http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.01482
>>7914174
At what pressure though? IIRC this is the reason why other high temperature superconductors have failed.
>>7914174
Can't read now, but damn this would give me a boner if legit
>Due to a pending patent, the exact chemical characterization and
technological processes for these materials are temporari
ly withheld and will be presented elsewhere.
FUCK
Do you guys think it's possible to publish something that's as groundbreaking and as influential as works like Newton's Principia, Smith's Wealth of Nations, Marx' Das Kapital, Darwin's The Origin of Species and so on?
Academic books/papers that reshaped not only their respective academic fields but also society.
Or has everything become so advanced and specialized that making a huge dent like past academic giants is near impossible? Is there too much noise? Too many publications of absolutely useless shit in which bigger nuggets of wisdom just go under?
For the longest of times I have had a very idealistic view of academia, then I became part of that whole world and feel like we've become absolutely stagnant in advancing human civilization. Fucking bloggers make more of an impact than scientists do....
off-topic: absolutely loving old books
>>7913924
>groundbreaking and as influential
>Newton's Principia
... perhaps over-estimating the impact of Principia?
Why are non-european races so bad at drinking milk?
Hasn't domestication of animals been common for most ancient peoples?
I can drink milk yet I'm American.
Debunked.
>>7913932
Americans, by majority, have european ancestry...
>>7913922
>Hasn't domestication of animals been common for most ancient peoples?
... clearly not, fgt pls
>>7913892
20. An n+1 dimensional tetrahedron looks, on layer 4, like an n-dimensional tetrahedron.
>>7913898
/thread
too bad, first reply is correct :D
brb, preparing further question
Hey guys, this is hopefully /sci/ related enough for you. Recently, the Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley submitted a plan which would involve dissolving (no pun here) the College of Chemistry, currently independent administratively and admissions wise, into the college of Letters and Science and College of Engineering (pure chem would be folded into L&S and ChemE would go to CoE).
However, this would be destroying a major part of the University, both historically and academically. CoC utilizes its independence to limit undergrad humanities requirements and maximize undergraduate research, giving them a competitive edge for grad school, as well as keeping Berkeley the best undergrad Chem program in the world.
The CoC is also the college with the most Nobel Prizes out of any department at the university.
What do you think would be the best course of action for halting this administrative bungle, and what do you guys think about it? (there's a change.org petition I won't bother linking since they're worthless anyways, but curious how to prevent a scientific travesty)
>>7913725
Bump
>>7913748
/sci/ is slow, you don't need to bump after a few minutes
The administration has no credibility at all when making statements on how much money there is, how it is spent, etc.
The state audit revealed that the UC could not provide any accounting for 6.6 billion in a five year period. That was ~4.5% of the annual budget at the time, for five years running.
That said, I don't see a reliable means to stopping the administration from doing as it pleases.
"Shared governance" between the faculty senate and campus administration at Cal was exposed as a sham after the campus administration agreed to make DIA self-funding and went behind the FS's back to fund athletics to the tune of $10 million/year for seven years. When publicly called out, they merely reduced the impermissible payments to $5 million/year, and refused to fire Birgeneau, Barbour, or Brostrom (the persons most responsible for the breach of the administration's promise to the faculty).
>>7913766
(I bump when it hits page 2 on homepage, usually)
That seems like we should be fighting this even more, then. It seems to me that blame lies on all sides- Napolitano, Dirks mismanaging UC, and Brown refusing to allocate the proper funds to fulfill the university's original mission.
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So I'm staying at this hotel and they have a jar full of jelly beans and if guess it right you get a two nights stay free, I got a size comparison for you to get a feel on how big this jar is,
So how much do you think is in the jar?
>>7913528
There's a tennis ball or golf ball in the jar. Even if you got perfect measurements, you'd still be wrong.
>>7913528
When I was a kid my daycare did a jelly bean guessing contest, the prize was one of their IBM PCs loaded with games. They upgraded so they didn't need it anymore. I won that shit, good memories.
IDK, I'd estimate around 1500. If you really wanted you could count the number of jelly beans number of jelly beans that form continuous planar ring around the jar and get a circumference in terms of jelly beans and then count the number high. From that and some circle formulas you could probably get a much closer estimate though to complicate matters it looks like the jar is slightly concave which will throw you off a bit. Eh, only do this if you're autistic.
Be careful u might lose a leg
Why do people argue whether global warming/climate change is real?
Why don't people just argue that we should limit the production of pollution?
Why don't people just argue that we should find alternative energy sources that are renewable?
because the best strawman is the one that works, and becomes adopted as a platform by the opposition
>>7913396
They do argue these things. Then people shoot back that the economics of renewables aren't up to snuff yet and that the curtailing of pollution will cause economic harm (cause it's definitely cheaper and easier to pollute, so you're losing that extra bit of cash). That's when people start bringing in the global warming and environment argument, as a way of saying it's going to cost more than these economists and businessmen are griping about. How much any of it is really going to cost, who should pay what and when is still a massive debate, obviously.
>>7913396
Same reason people "argue" over whether the earth is flat, evolution is true, GMOs are safe, etc.
Let's assume that for 100% fact, climate change is completely real and humans have a huge impact.
>Would we have a chance to stop the problem within 50 years?
>Would it actually be a bad thing?
>>7913229
no
yes
More complicated than that OP. We are basically too late to stop irreversible climate change, but it can be slowed down. The slower the better. Climate change is a natural thing, but rapid change is not. Naturally it is a very slow process that happens in predictable cycles, but we have knocked the Earth out of its natural cycle for good. Rapid and unpredictable change will be a bad thing for us. We still have the means to slow it down so we can adapt as it happens.
Need to find a way to start rapidly taking carbon out of the atmosphere and oceans and making it solid.
We can put iron oxide into the ocean and cause massive algae blooms. Which will capture CO2 into organic solids and liquids. Though this will have other side effects.
Are we fucked? Like I mean we're already over our sustainable level. So what will happen the day sewage treatment plants can't keep up with the growing demand, or if there's a big drought? Do we have any kind of contingency plan against this?
>>7913155
Water consumption is basically just an equivalent of energy consumption.
>>7913155
In the developing world like China, India, Middle East? Yes. Contingency plans? Stop having so many people, which should slow the agriculture demand, and in turn allow for more water to be replenished underground.
In Russia and SubSaharan Africa? There's abundance of freshwater reserves (underground).
How many hours a day do you sleep anon? Do you think sleep affects your intelligence?
>>7913118
2 times 4 every 25 hours
I'm retarded now.
Used to sleep 9 hours per 24h and was sharp as fuck.
>>7913118
Between 0 and 10 hours with no real consistent pattern.
I'm probably worse for it.
>>7913118
I have insomnia, so it's really dependent on the day.
Sometimes I just drink myself to sleep and am out for 12 hours straight.
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