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Why do I find it so easy to read 4chan while drinking coffee and listening to music for a huge number of hours, but I can't use this possible huge attention span for anything else?
Because you feel no regret, no remorse, no repent, for lurking this shitty site.
Bad comparison. Here you also skip to the next thread once you're bored. If you task yourself with analyzing some random literary property of some single thread for an hour, you'd also learn to feel uncomfortabke doing that job.
>>7757964
>on 4chin, no mental effort required
>interested
>self teaching a subject or doing anything else, mental effort required
>interested
Do I actually need to go further?
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What is the geographic variation in human sexual dimorphism and neoteny?
>>7757907
It's highly variable and extremely complex, ask better questions.
>>7757907
Post more semen demon
I forgot the complete story but
It has something to do with the golden ratio as I have heard
>mfw I discovered that there are really people not believing in vaccines and not vaccinating their kids
Give people the choice between a safe, comfortable life and a painful death and they'll pick death.
>>7757853
Give people a choice between something hazy and uncertain and potentially threatening, and nothing, and they'll choose to do nothing.
It's the right heuristic for survival historically, and people reason this way for a reason.
>>7757855
I want to shoot these people and make sure only the vaccinated people get to survive.
>>7757853
Do they pay well?
/fit/ here with a medical / biochem question.
Have you guys heard of Rich Piana's 8 hour arms workout? It's a routine this guy invented which consists of alternating the same arm exercises (tricep extension and curls) for 8 hours and drinking a lot of protein shakes inbetween. He claims you can gain 1 inch of arm circumference within 1 session.
An anon on /fit/ said this routine could cause rhabdomyolysis. Is this true? Can a long workout really lead to such severe medical complications? From reading the wikipedia I, as a layman, would assume it's...
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>>7757820
YOU NEED TO INJECT COCAINE AND TESTOSTERONE DIRECTLY INTO YOUR PENIS FOR THIS TO WORK FEGGIT
>>7757820
>Can a long workout really lead to such severe medical complications?
It says in the wikipage that one possible cause is "extreme physical exercise (while poorly hydrated)". Doing the same movements for 8 goddamn hours sounds pretty extreme to me.
>>7757820
>8 hours
eight fucking hours
mate, at that point there is no "could cause" anymore, it's "will cause"
What's the current scientific consensus on the whole gender/sex distinction?
Genetically defined sexual characteristics which are both physical phenotypes and due to hormonal base hormonal levels are the best predictors of phenomenological gender behaviour, only hormone levels can arguably be changed without destroying the organism. Sex and therefore gender is then mostly genetic.
http://www.jneurosci.org/content/35/32/11252.short
http://www.psypost.org/2015/08/sex-does-matter-key-molecular-process-in-brain-is-different-in-males-and-females-36611
>Neuroscientists have found an intrinsic biological difference between...
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>>7757651
>daily mail
You're making it incredibly hard to take you seriously.
>>7757628
>What's the current scientific consensus on the
What a nice read anon, thank you.
Now that we know that all women groups are inherently inferior I wonder.
What is more efficient? All male groups, 50/50 groups or some other distribution of males and females?
If only butthurt feminists would be kicked out of academia so that sociologists could actually carry out this kind of research. It very well could be that a 50/50 distribution is ideal but we won't...
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I don't know if this is really /sci/ territory, but I cannot imagine where else this would go: Is there a situation in which raising animals, be it cattle, pork, poultry, fish, or insects, would utilize some area of land better than a crop?
Surely there are situations in which the ground is too poor to sustain plants like wheat, beans, vegetables, etc., but would support grasses that grazers eat?
Anyone got any literature to read about this, or any 2 cents to put into this?
Maybe the people in the animal board, whe should have a farming board though.
>>7757417
ha
You don't need a science answer, you need a pop-Sci answer to win your debates on /pol/ or at the dinner table with your dense ass family
>>7757417
Yes but I have no citations. There are areas in the middle East and Africa that aren't suitable for crops but can sustain livestock of some varieties. I think there may be some similar areas in the western US too but I'm not sure.
Can reading garbage on 4chan all day long cause brain damage?
>>7757397
wotu do you men damage braim''?
>>7757397
Don't know about other boards but /sci/ is carcinogenic
>>7757397
Reading /b/ every day makes you smarter believe it or not. My IQ skyrocket from 138 to 174
>Space debris/satellites begin to crash into each other.
>These bits of debris divide in a domino effect until they're the size of tiny flecks of paint.
>This supposedly makes it nearly impossible to leave/enter the earths atmosphere.
What is /sci/s' opinion on this?
Do you think this is an overhyped issue or a serious threat?
>>7757259
>This supposedly makes it nearly impossible to leave/enter the earths atmosphere.
It is a serious threat if nothing is done about it. Have you ever seen the anime series "Planetes"? It is a somewhat serious take on stuff like this and worth a watch. The story revolves around what you could call space janitors.
I think if this does become a serious problem, that things like temporary shield barriers will be used to ram ahead or encase the ship will be used. Perhaps...
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>>7757259
...whut?
18 cm and 1.2 cm?
That scale can't be right.
>>7757279
Seems like it is 9cm or close to that at least. Someone doubled the number or halved the other number.
Do you talk about math/science all day to everybody? Apparently people are getting tired of me, but its the only thing I like to talk about.
Or I could talk about art, music, and chess. I just don't enjoy mundane conversations, but this seems to alienate me from friends and family.
Anyone relate?
>>7757085
imo if you want to talk about those things like math and science do it online. There's plenty of forums , like Stack Exchange, reddit science or this board /sci/ .
>>7757085
>Do you talk about math/science all day to everybody?
No. Most people are bored by physics really so I really don't bring it up much. The only people I can converse with about physics are my brother and father who both study/studied it, my sister to an extent and fellow students at university.
People just have different passions, you shouldn't force your's on them.
>>7757085
hi /sci/ first time taking an IQ test, should I apply to Physics?
>>7756819
>yuropoors are actually retarded
>>7756839
>edges
>>7756819
IQ test says very little about intelligence unless the score is very high/low.
If you like maths, like science, and prepared to work then go for it. But don't go into phyics because you feel you're a genius and it's what you should do, do the subject you enjoy.
Could smoking one cigarrette once a week, sometimes even once a month have longterm health issues?
Yes.
>>7756772
I hope not
>>7756772
Yes, far less than someone who smokes one or more daily but more than non-smokers.
people can have their head cut off and still be alive for a minute
and people can live with less than half their brain
and jfk was "alive" like for 15 minutes after being shot in the head
so like
what part of the brain is the true center?
IE
if you shoot yourself in the head and it hits this area you'll be dead completely and utterly instantly
I mean also this area you technically be "you"
because we consider the brain to be the person
and you can take a ton away from it while still referring it as such
>>7756679
No, we consider the consciousness to be "you". Alive =/= conscious.
>>7756690
yeah well what is the absolute minimal pieces of the brain for consciousness
even deluded consciousness
>>7756679
This is interesting to me. When you say JFK wans't determined to be dead until 15 minutes later, is there anything known about his conscious state during that time. Because if you watch the video of his assassination, his head was pretty fucked. I can't imagine being conscious after that.
in a universe as big as ours, isn't intelligent life somewhere else in the universe a statistical fact?
If you unironically think that, you have no idea how unlikely life is.
>>7756263
Of course. This is a well-known example of inference from a single observation.
Hey autismos, what's the hottest STEM degree right now? What's it gonna be in 2020?
I hear a lot of people splerg over CS, but isn't an EE degree just an applied and superior CS degree?
Is a math degree worth anything more than concrete proof of your autism? Is there 'bad' engineering degrees, or is it just memes upon memes?
>enlighten me
I'm probs going into MechE, but something like CompSci could be cool because I think AI / machine learning is dank af.
Happy New Years :^)
>>7755960
Computer Engineering
Mechatronic Engineering.You can work as both a mechanical and electrical engineer.
>>7755970
Never do this, mechatronics is a meme degree.
Why have I seen memers on /sci/ praise this book? I just read the chapter on rotational motion of rigid bodies, and Taylor doesn't even go over inertia tensor transformations. That's sort of important for a practical working knowledge of rigid body mechanics. On a side note, are there any texts that have descent coverage on that topic?
>practical
there's your problem
>>7755878
So is physics essentially wankers patting themselves on the back over differential equations and euclidean geometry?
The cover is all you need to know about it
