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Not only is this super interesting but it is also an example of something negative becoming useful with the application of some creativity. A spill of toys or
by hackartist 8y ago
Not only is this super interesting but it is also an example of something negative becoming useful with the application of some creativity. A spill of toys or nike sneakers would normally not be something to celebrate of course, but in this case it revealed information about ocean currents and deepened our understanding. Normally we see this type of effect in medical cases where someone has suffered an accident or has a genetic defect which, while terrible for that person, can still be used to learn something with is either hard or unethical to reproduce in experimentation. For me the Floatees are a reminder that we should work to avoid medical, ecological, societal, etc. disasters but once they have happened there is a silver lining of learning we can gain with the right mindset.
- piyh 8y agoAlso see https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nuclear-bombs-made-it-possible-to-carbon-date-human-tissue-20074710/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nuclear-bombs-made... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight Blindsight is an amazing phenomenon with its implications for intelligence without consciousness and a great book by the same name.
- anotherhuman0 8y ago> One monkey in particular, Helen, [...] was a macaque monkey that had been decorticated; specifically, her primary visual cortex (V1) was completely removed, blinding her. Wow, go humans. But I guess this is nothing in comparison with what the commercial farming industry gets up to :(
- taneq 8y agoYeah, if that got a squick reaction then don't go looking up too much animal-based research. We do all sorts of ugly things to animals in the name of science. :/ But we learn all sorts of interesting and useful things from it, so... it's one of those trolley problem things.