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>Einstein made a tremendous contribution to a tower that was already quite tall, while Darwin's contribution was to the ground floor where everybody could get on. I see your point, but if Darwin created a new field but Einstein cont
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> He was not particularly fast in his thinking nor was he mathematically gifted. May I suggest that, the media tends to declare someone a genius if his work cannot be understood by laymen. Physicists like Einstein are declared true geniu
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> Here’s where our boy Galileo gets deliciously sneaky, "Our boy Galileo"?? What kind of language is this? Is she trying to be funny? She should try to get her facts right first.
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> Galileo had invented a powerful telescope Galileo did not invent the telescope and his telescope was not powerful. His inovation was in the places he chose to look and the way he interpreted what he saw.
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> the heliocentric model of the solar system, according to which the Earth and other planets rotate around the Sun. The planets do not rotate around the sun. The planets revolve around the sun.
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Is there a living creature without a microbiome?
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The point was not about the elimination of gas, although thanks for mentioning that. The point was to have examples of how the gut effect the mood. Because the article talks about nervous system in the gut.
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I sincerely apologize if I offended anyone's belief in physics. But at least I know that some of the greatest philosophers thought about the nature of Time the way I do. They said Time is not an independent physical entity to be measur
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Unfortunately most comments are about problems with medical doctors and not about the subject of the article. Can you share your personal experiences about how gut issues effect your mood and decisions. For instance, I observe that when I h
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by nyc111 8y ago
What a sloppy reporting! Most pictures do not have captions. They are not even related to this case. They are stock photos from the CMP lab. The caption under the first photo is made up "Remains and samples which were found at the scen
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by nyc111 8y ago
I agree. This sounds like a publicity ploy. According to Wikipedia "Ficus carica is dispersed by birds and mammals that scatter their seeds in droppings." How do they know that the seed was not brought there by a bird? Did they ch
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> velocity = d/t. Thanks for the example. Here d/t is a proportionality. Or at least half of a proportionality. But the terms of a proportianality must be of the same type. And here they both must be distance. Because we compar
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> We don’t see, hear, smell, touch, or taste time. And yet we somehow measure it. I’m not sure we measure time. What we measure is distance. What is called a clock is always an oscillator. This oscillator is used as unit distance. Then t
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Thanks for asking. Here's my reply https://notlar11.wordpress.com/newton-the-greatest-genius-of...
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>Really fascinating! Insatiable curiosity... I see that several people commented on Leonardo's curiosity. When I was about 18 or therabouts I came across a book about Leonardo. That book made a big deal about how curiosity was the d
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by nyc111 8y ago
This is great! An example of an earth satellite with highly elliptical orbits is Molniya orbits mentioned here https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/OrbitsCatalog
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So reading Huxley's lecture, https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/h/huxley/thomas_henry/piece-o... are we supposed to understand that chalky places like Dover were the bottom of the sea long long time ago? (He
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> My Ying character is also absent from the database used to make online medical appointments... I meant, in the above case, why can't he make an appointment using his identity number from his Resident Identity Card? http:/&#x
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This is really curious because this suggest that Chinese database does not have a unique identifying number for each individual. Can there even be a database without a unique identifier? There must be millions of individuals with the same n
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Ask HN: Google request permission for using likeness of celebrity in Doodle?
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Thanks for neocities.org link!! I created a site. It was fun and refreshing.
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> In reality, evolution is the outcome, and there are four evolutionary forces that drive it: mutation, genetic drift, gene ﬂow, and natural selection... It is interesting that they did not include symbiosis. It should be there, no?
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Do you think VAR is good for football?(absurdia.atavist.com)
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> Primitive man must have noticed that events did not occur simultaneously... Could not make sense of this statement. Isn't just the opposite true? Whatever happens, happens simultaneously because for us only the present exists.
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Do you think VAR is good for football?(absurdia.atavist.com)
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This was funny. He explained the idea in fewer words!
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Ask HN: Brazil World Cup wins paradox
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> He was sued that same year by the state for illegal construction and illegally creating an educational institution. I congratulate Prof. Nesin for creating such a place. No one will remember the stupid bureaucrats who tried to obstruct
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Black hole geometry(m.youtube.com)
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There is this popular Slicon Valley mantra: "Fake it till you make it" I'm wondering if she was trying to follow this mantra but she was stuck too deeply in the fake part.

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