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by smartscience 6y ago
Counterpoint https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedown_(drugs) Drugs only 'feel good' for that purpose in the few hours after they are consumed. If people's psychological state is influenced (either way) se
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by smartscience 6y ago
Actually yes :) At least the optimization crowd don't use the phase 'heat treatment', which helps somewhat. But who I really feel bad for is the recruiters trying to hire a chemist who specialises in the element lead.
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by smartscience 6y ago
Don't forget neutrons! Not as quick to measure, and not so good with very small samples, but well-suited to combinations of extreme environments beyond just pressure, such as temperature, magnetic field, voltage gradient etc. https:&#
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Indian Vulture Crisis(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by smartscience 6y ago|0 comments
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by smartscience 6y ago
Could this also incorporate a library of common connector designs, to be included in the generated documents? Often it can be difficult to work out the numbering when they're very small on the real connectors.
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Why are clinical trials so complicated?(blogs.sciencemag.org)
3 points by smartscience 6y ago|1 comments
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by smartscience 7y ago
If this could be shown to work, that might not be such a bad idea provided the effects could be ceased quickly if the reaction becomes a problem in itself. It's been suggested that the antivirals only provide a substantial benefit in t
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Category: Principles(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by smartscience 7y ago|0 comments
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by smartscience 7y ago
Torrents/filesharing and ransomware would be possible additions to this list.
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by smartscience 7y ago
Have to say this one got me thinking somewhat. Nowadays we would call these observations 'tweets' of course.
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by smartscience 7y ago
> Most properties never attempted to renew my contract Martin & Co by any chance? They tried this, but they must have forgotten that the property was an annex next to the landlady's main house, and we spoke every day. The estate
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by smartscience 8y ago
Also, how would you ever prove it?
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by smartscience 8y ago
> You'd be hard pressed to go anywhere with an absence of gravity acting in that spot. Okay I think I've found somewhere, but I'm not sure. What experiment should I perform to test that gravity is really absent?
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by smartscience 8y ago
http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/03/all-in-all-another-bric...
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by smartscience 9y ago
Sorry to hear. It seems influenza is one of the comparatively few things that can kill us as easily now as it could in the relative dark ages of medicine.
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by smartscience 11y ago
He talked about bringing a shotgun to work to stop the launch. Perhaps it would be better to say it exemplifies what the paternalists imagine they are doing.
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by smartscience 11y ago
Lest we forget, that well-intentioned paternalism is sometimes entirely on target: on Reddit at the moment there's a link 'Engineer Who Blamed Himself For Not Stopping Challenger Launch Dies' http://www.huffingtonp
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Newton and the kissing problem(plus.maths.org)
3 points by smartscience 11y ago|0 comments
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by smartscience 12y ago
Like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-ZnPE3G_YY ? Matches the lip reading too.
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How do math geniuses understand extremely hard math concepts so quickly?(quora.com)
3 points by smartscience 14y ago|1 comments
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by smartscience 16y ago
My work is indirectly related to proton beams. Your comment about energy deposition in human tissue reminded me they can be used for cancer treatment that's localised to a certain depth. In fact http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_Beam_The
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by smartscience 16y ago
I'm guessing they picked an integer A for the average of the men's and women's percentages, and then a smaller (positive or negative) integer D for the deviation from this average for each sex. Then they could use A+D as the score for the w