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by palimpsests 11y ago
My guess is that this demographic would tend to categorize traditional Chinese medicine as being pseudoscience – if you agree, here's an example from within that system: The 2015 Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to a Youyou Tu, a C
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> a little more schooling ... after getting a bachelor's degree (3-5 years) a general practitioner takes at the bare minimum 7 years of schooling and internship. Surgeon far more than that. One can work as a professional software e
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Those cassette adapters for a 1/8" audio jack have awful sound quality, break frequently, and are usually around $20, not $5. You would be better off upgrading the stereo, unless you just want to play tapes or listen to the radio.
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Well, no... Power is the rate of energy consumption or production. The units of power are Watts = Joules / second, the unit of energy is Joules.
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Live performance skills are most absolutely unnecessary to excel in development; this comment thread is discussing how certain people can improve their interviewing performance through the practice of being spontaneous and present. A very h
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While in grad school at UCB, I once found myself in physics building elevator with Dr. Townes and 2 young undergrads. The students were taking an intro level physics course, non-physics majors, and didn't know who he was. They started
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...which is named after the Hindu deity http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rama_(spacecraft)
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I find it fairly surprising how certain the author seems to feel that getting a doctorate would somehow equate to higher income and job stability -- English Ph.Ds aren't exactly a credential in high demand. In fact, reality indicates t
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Medicinal plants/herbs !== homeopathy; your statement reads like herbalism is somehow related.
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wait, did you just cite yourself?
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Ditto, I've noticed this as an extremely common style of communication on this site, and I often have difficulty reading through the comment threads for this exact reason.
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I think this starts to address your question: http://qz.com/250701/12-things-white-people-can-do-now-becau... And I think this article is really helpful for perspective: http://www.timwise.org/2014&#x2F
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Racism may be an outdated 'idea', but in practice and many people's daily lives, it is reality. The American society is built on systemized racism (colonialism and slavery), and the existence and lack thereof of privilege wit
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There is :-) https://hypothes.is/
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One of the best way to learn music theory (much of which is harmony) is to play jazz, or jazz-inspired styles of music – you'll get the most exposure to the most diverse array of concepts in the least amount of time (not saying it will
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I know countless guitarists, myself included, for which sight reading is not hard at all, because we've practiced this for hundreds of hours or more. All the things you described as making this difficult simply become second nature wit
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That whole article is incredibly creepy -- 'War on Aging' -- do we really need more 'War on X' rhetoric? Regarding the fact that we know that we eventually die, he states > So soul-destroying has this knowledge been,
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Thinking that death is a problem or 'a bad thing that happens' is incredibly short-sighted. Improving the well-being of humanity in general is a great goal; life extension can be a different topic entirely.
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Actually the root of all chronic illness is being born. You can't age without that happening first.
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I tend to pay attention to labels and follow the ones I like through various sources (label website, Soundcloud). Labels curate content of similar themes / genres. Some examples: Ninja Tune, Warp, Brainfeeder, Matador.
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There are many traditions that also have an eyes-open approach. I'm constantly amazed by this propagation in the West of the idea that meditation has anything to do with the mind 'wandering off' (or not wandering off, e.g. ex
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Griffith's QM is an excellent intro textbook that also reviews/teaches the necessary parts of linear algebra: http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Quantum-Mechanics-David-G... (despite being a math major in undergrad, I didn't really apprec
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| I only wish she had not done this in secret. Not done what? She published an account of her medical decisions in the NYT... hardly secret.