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by novia 8y ago
This is a question I asked my parents as a child, when I noticed that the driveway would change colors after pouring water onto it. I really wish my parents had known such things. It could have easily stoked my interest in physics.
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by novia 8y ago
Please link the other experiment
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by novia 8y ago
This is actually a brilliant idea
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by novia 8y ago
For anyone wondering why China doesn't want our plastics any more, here's a nice documentary: https://youtu.be/ooRVhRt1p54
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by novia 8y ago
This is a response to the New York Times story discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17661450
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Capitalism Killed Our Climate Momentum, Not “Human Nature”(theintercept.com)
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by novia 8y ago
Which prominent feminists? The person who says the most reprehensible things in the article, Diane Davis, is not a prominent feminist. I've never even heard of her. I looked up her wikipedia page, and it looks like her main hobby might
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by novia 8y ago
"Mr. Reitman said he never intended to become any kind of public figure in a national conversation about gender, and that he started the process before the movement took off. “It didn’t come from #MeToo,” he said." Misleading titl
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by novia 8y ago
I vouched for the author's comment. Any clue why people are downvoting/flagging it?
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by novia 8y ago
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/05/plants-repeatedly-go... So, yes, it is an energy intensive, demanding process, but we NEED to make the corn plants do it. Every plant would rather pass the buck to anot
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by novia 8y ago
I edited my comment and added a link to a typical video. The child watching this is already fluent in English.
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by novia 8y ago
I'm not the OP, but having also watched a ten year old consume YouTube videos... they tend to stay far far away from anything remotely educational. For example, this is the kind of thing that the particular kid I know watches: https:&
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by novia 8y ago
Edit: Oh no. Physics For Future Presidents lied to me. See here: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/alcohol-radioactive/ I'd delete this comment if it were possible.
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by novia 8y ago
Humans are to blame for the extinction of the dodo then. It doesn't matter if such things happen without humans. The point is that humans are directly responsible for the extinction of many more species on top of the normal extinction
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by novia 8y ago
>The other animals introduced to the Mauritius also had a taste for the Dodo and its eggs in particular. Which species introduced the other animals to the Mauritius?
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by novia 8y ago
Mars One is noted as being very short on funding, lacking critical concepts about hardware, life support, electrical power supply, and has been criticized as glossing over logistics, medical concerns, and protection against space radiation.
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by novia 8y ago
The first sentence is being seen as combative.
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by novia 9y ago
You could always opt for a fecal transplant.
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by novia 9y ago
Thanks for the offer, but there's more to identifying plants for me than what they look like. There's also texture, and smell. I've looked at pictures online, and it's tricky, because apparently their morphology changes
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by novia 9y ago
I ate a paw paw once, and since then I've been trying to find a definitely identified paw paw tree so I can recognize them in the wild. The fruit was so delicious and the seeds were really interesting and unique. If any of you are will
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by novia 9y ago
It’s archaeology-hostile. It pisses me off to no end when I am searching for information on reddit and come across people replying to deleted posts by some paranoid user who wishes comments were more ephemeral like Snapchat. This is what
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by novia 9y ago
"Records from the Arizona Department of Corrections show Vasquez served three years and 10 months in a state prison for convictions on attempted armed robbery and unsworn falsification. She was released from prison in 2005."
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by novia 9y ago
This comment is so completely different from my experience. I'm a woman who does not want kids. It has always been extremely difficult for me to find guys who are on the same page as me on not wanting kids. This might be because of whe
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by novia 9y ago
Neither do rickettsia or chlamydia, two bacteria. Honestly, whoever was deciding on the definition of "what is life" knew ahead of time the kinds of things they wanted to include and they worked backwards from there. We want to ex
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by novia 9y ago
The thinking on this has been changing recently as more discoveries are made. The linked article even alludes to it by calling viruses the fourth domain, implying that they are indeed life.
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by novia 9y ago
relevant radiolab episode here: http://www.radiolab.org/story/shrink/
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by novia 9y ago
"When scientists tried to gestate mice outside the womb, they expected the embryos to wither, deprived of the surface that had evolved to nurture them. To their shock they found instead that – implanted in the brain, testis or eye of a
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by novia 9y ago
"I use GBoard now and it has this horrible "correct the previous word" feature that I can't turn off." I've been having this exact problem with both swype and SwiftKey. anyone know a gesture keyboard without th
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by novia 9y ago
Will it help if I preemptively refer to myself as "diversity hire" as a joke?
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by novia 9y ago
Hi everyone. I'm a woman with a math degree who just completed a computer programming certificate. I've wanted to study math my whole life, and I wasn't exposed to programming as a field of study until college. I just wanted

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