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by scientator 2y ago
I saw a production of Twelfth Night without ever having read it. Also didn't know the plot. And unfortunately I didn't ever get the gist of what was happening. I have a hard time imagining how other people are able to get the gist
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by scientator 2y ago
Water policy can often be deeply counter-intuitive. So a case can be made that the solution to the west's water problems is actually to encourage more urbanization and manufacturing. Why? Because they use so much less water than agricu
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by scientator 2y ago
Arguably the resources are tight because of too much agriculture, not too many people. Specifically, too much alfalfa, used to feed cows. I think the numbers are something like 70% of the water in Arizona is used to grow alfalfa. Reduce the
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by scientator 2y ago
I had a gas tankless heater for about 20 years and hot water came out of pretty much instantly. But it makes sense that electric tankless heaters wouldn't have the same kind of speed.
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by scientator 2y ago
The author of the article seems to think that tankless heaters will deliver hot water more slowly to taps than a traditional tank heater would. That's not the case. Having to wait for the hot water to come out of the tap is due to the
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by scientator 2y ago
The title is misleading in the sense that the article concerns the cosmological principle, which is (as the name suggests) a principle, not a law. That is, it's a guiding assumption, or paradigm. It's been guiding cosmology since
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by scientator 2y ago
>>why wouldn't this logic also apply to every other primitive particle: there is only one muon, one tau, one up quark, one down quark, etc? When Wheeler came up with his idea, antimatter had just been discovered and positrons wer
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by scientator 3y ago
I think you mean guerrilla advertising, but I like gorilla advertising better.
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by scientator 3y ago
There's also not any science behind the assumption that all matter is inherently dead, and that by complex arrangements of atoms it can become conscious. These are questions that are beyond the ability of science to currently shed much
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by scientator 3y ago
There were all kinds of competing legends about Homer back in ancient times. Many cities claimed that he had once lived there. And there was even an ancient legend that both the Iliad and Odyssey were written by a woman named Phantasia, sai
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by scientator 3y ago
You should also include dogs in your list of damaging things: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25433840-800-how-a-bi... "Birds, it turns out, seem to be particularly sensitised to dogs – even on leads. In wo