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I'm uncertain how it was in Feynman's day in particular, but in my physics course you are given essentially all relevant formulas during any exams. You have to understand what they represent, and may end up remembering some of the
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Terming it reproductive failure betrays a one dimensional perspective on childlessness.
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On the first point, I wonder what role the body size differential between males and females may play in the life expectancy gap? If life expectancy for men and women was found to be similar when controlling for height, it would suggest that
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Your survey doesn't make sense. The answer for "More" freedom apparently involves more constraints?
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You can be pro-legalization without being "pro-drug." In the sense that criminalizing drugs doesn't necessarily reduce usage.
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In most developed nations it is not a requirement to eat meat to survive, or even to be healthy. We are not physically limited in being unable to stop consuming meat in the way someone in the '60s is limited in being unable to use a ce
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If you are under 40 I don't think the prospect of a fair amount of additional healthy years as a result of this research is a particularly delusional one. Actual immortality seems unlikely to me, however.
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I've noticed some occurrences like this as well. For instance, the week before Bill Gates' recent AMA on Reddit, there were a a large number of frontpage posts about him from accounts with little to no karma. It's probably no
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I think there is almost always a part of you that knows, deep down, that you fallible. That is just from my personal experience contrasting myself as a younger person filled with hubris to my current self, though.