agarsev

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by agarsev 5y ago
> (nothing specific about English here, most of us speak like that in our native languages) I think it actually is something specific about English. English is stress-timed, which means that sounds are given variable amounts of time, a
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by agarsev 5y ago
The article makes the point that in a particular funding call, men got more money than women because there are more men of some ages due to imbalances of the past, rather than because of discrimination against women. However, it does not ar
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by agarsev 5y ago
> There is a high correlation and probably causal relationship between increasing global pollution and improved living standards. That would be if pollution was a global phenomenon. Climate is global and chaotic, and we only have one pla
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by agarsev 5y ago
What happened at the K-Pg limit with dinosaurs and crocodiles is similar, both went from being very wide to a handful of species remaining. The difference is what happened afterwards, when the few (single?) species of dinosaurs that remaine
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by agarsev 5y ago
In the research page linked, there is extensive research on the effects of bright light exposure to circadian rythms, which may indeed alter quality of sleep by altering natural biorythms (note that no effect is produced on sleep itself, bu
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by agarsev 5y ago
In academia, you're often evaluated on "impact". So you have an incentive to be impactful, not truthful, and while many (most?) try to be honest in the content, hyping the title is an easy way to increase your metric (impact)
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by agarsev 5y ago
It is true that English is extremely analytical, but most european languages are fusional rather than analytical: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusional_language
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by agarsev 5y ago
I think it is fine to pursue this ever increasingly detailed classification of things (not only in art or pop culture, this applies to other knowledge too, including science). The problem might come if one takes one of these descriptive, po
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by agarsev 5y ago
I think that what some outside of academia might miss is that publishing in a journal is not about distribution and access anymore. The renown of the journal where you publish is often used as a proxy for the quality of your scientific outp