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This catch 22 is screwing me over. I had some traumatic life circumstances get in the way during my college experience, thus preventing me from getting undergrad research in. I've had one interview in two months and it's starting to get very discouraging. I really have a strong passion for the sciences and doing anything else like customer service or retail would drive me insane.

I just caught part of a TV program called Spy in the Wild. BBC1 1735 - 1835 today. I will have to complete it on iplayer /catch up. It shows the most amazingly realistic robotic artificial animals designd to fool real animal herds in the wild in order to video the. These robots look like the real thing, orangutangs, crocs, egrets, penguins, sea otters etc and have sound vision and realistic action. These are unprecedented scientific tools but watching them made me wonder the title question How soon before we can make a Terminator ? They are so nearly there. Watch the programme if you get a chance.

Hello Everybody, I just wanted to express my opinion on magic tricks. I have seen many magic tricks on YouTube and other media platforms. And, most of them are extremely hard to explain. My opinion on it is that some of them are just illusions, and some of them are real. What do I mean by "real?" By that, I mean that if a magicians disappearing trick is real, it means that the magician has actually disappeared.

And three things are worth more or less mentioning in a science forum: In Pisa, I did not find any souvenir that somehow refers to Galileo throwing weights from the Leaning Tower. 😢 If in Newton's time such fine fabrics as nowadays used in flags would have existed, the question if light is particles or waves would have decided immediate against him: (My own picture of a patch of light seen through the Italian flag) I've been reading Einstein’s Clocks, Poincaré’s Maps: Empires of Time, by Peter Galison. It is a great book, showing how Poincaré and Einstein were in very close contact with the practical problems of timekeeping. Po…

I had to delete the Apple notes app from my phone because it suddenly decided that I should be notified about one of the notes. I did everything I could think of to make sure I didn’t receive any notifications from that app. It didn’t work. Since the notification was appearing on my lock screen I went so far as to block all notifications from my lock screen. It didn’t work. A few days later there it was again. In frustration I tapped on it so I could examine the note to see if there was something specific to the note that I had done that was causing it to appear. Expecting, to be greeted with a request for my passcode or my finger print since I was after …

Hello, I've been plagued by a question for several days. Is there such a thing as a science chat? I'm looking for a chat where people write about their thoughts on the world, the science books they've read recently. I'm not looking for a forum, because I would like to talk to someone face to face, for example.

Perhaps because we are living through a post-apocalyptic movie, the forum seems to be attracting a larger that usual number of people with their own wacky ideas about how the world works. So I put this together, partly based on my own observations but also a few pinched from the Crackpot Index (http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html).

Yo, this is a appeal to not get banned by your favorite Mad Scientist, Vmedvil, I want out of this ban!

"Children are strong and powerful" - Trump "Putin was strong and powerful" - Trump The building is high and tall. The sky is up and water is wet.

what do you think about this issue?

hi, I feel myself at some stages still new. but Although all articles that I scanned contain "results" section with numeric analyses (e.g. manova's or other spss analyses), I do not know whether such types of analyses are mandatory or numeric or graphic representations. I mean only for theoretical articles. hımm yes,at a time I remember one article at a known journal presumably with no discussion and results (in fact the tongue was wholly speculative) but still unsure whether such telling methods can be acceptable by good journals.(here by "good" I mean wide IF and indexed databases, as much as possible) could someone show me articles with no numeric/anal…

I've put three people on my ignore list in the last 48 hours. Am I a bad person? Could I have done otherwise? --> Possibility for a merging with Free Will discussion Am I missing the fun of discussing non-sense? Am I giving others more than their fair share of gibberish to deal with? Does this thread belong in Ethics?

I already have Google and am hoping that their quantum division bets broken up into baby Googs like happened to ATT and the baby bells. So anyone have ideas about startup quantum players?

Just in case someone doesn't know what a tromba marina is (ok, nearly everybody should ignore that, as the instrument was abandoned before the baroque era): the bowed string instrument has a special bridge called guidon, just in equilibrium so one foot hits the soundboard at each vibration cycle to produce a loud strident sound resembling a trumpet. Tromba_marina and Schnarrsteg on Wiki Being a historic curiosity, it's mostly played by people who invested little time to learn it without a professor, but here's one good audio record. Yes, that's a string instrument. wlBolbo24Rc on Youtube. Enjoy this rare sound!

Dear friends of music, arts, and all inquiring minds! Here's a nice web address to hear a celesta https://www.celesta-schiedmayer.de/en/celesta/celesta-audio-samples/ at the website of one manufacturer - there aren't so many. Also pictures and explanations there. In short, the celesta has a keyboard and hammers like a piano to strike high-pitched metal bars placed over tuned air resonators. Many symphony orchestras have one, but it's not very common. One other manufacturer http://www.glockenspiel-lippert.de/celesta.html and Wiki claims Yamaha produces some too. A third-dozen more companies have existed, including the inventor's one, Mustel. Some instruments subsist,…

Or is it primarily online?

Quite a bit is pretty fanciful from a scientific perspective, but is an extremely well done production. The setting is a fair sized city set inside of a large martian dome. Heavily modified assets and ridiculous level of detail really make the city come to life. The actual build aspects may not be everyone's cup of tea, but I've found it easy enough to skip past when things become too dry.

The baritone oboe, also called bass oboe, is a tenor, playing an octave lower the oboe's written range - I suppose it could extend more the upper register. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bass_oboe While the instrument is rather common in museums, and several luthiers announce it in their catalogue, recent instruments and records are rare. One example here http://www.oboequartet.com/index.php?article_id=22 search for CD 1, click on Probehören, listen the solo from 0:05 to 0:13. Miriam Moser plays a tenor with bulb bell developed by Fossati and Rainer Egger. One other example, music from 1:48 to 1:54, from 2:32 to 2:46 and elsewhere https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rU_…

Wagnertuben (lower horns essentially) were ordered by ol' Richard for his operas. Bruckner and a handful more composers used them too. They would deserve wider use: nice sound, range not covered by similar instruments, and (I believe) available in many symphonic orchestras. Anyway, here are opportunities to hear them clearly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmLRtqGOAJk only music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hifo18bVG80 some waffle (in German) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-4xZD6BX_w begins 4:50, with some waffle (in German) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFm2C-ve7qw 0:00 to 1:40 with waffle (in German) and from 6:23

Hi, again. I'm kind of obsessive-compulsive linguistically. Plus I have a (small) problem. My question has to do with the grammatical splitting of English nouns into countable/uncountable, that has little to do with meaning. I understand most people take a stance much more utilitarian than mine. That really resonates with me. But, I've met problems with words like "input" or "advice" before. When you are under the obligation of teaching your students proper English, and you know they're going to be judged by the level of it, this trivial matter kind of crosses some line. "Input" and "advice" are uncountable. So, if you want to refer to one, let's say, instantiat…

are there numeric expressions to clarify the case? For instance if we assume that between 5000000-500000000 yearly watch target how much money will this bring as income?

Here is the basic definition in Wiki: "Junk food is unhealthful food that is high in calories from sugar or fat, with little dietary fiber, protein, vitamins, minerals, or other important forms of nutritional value.[1][2][3] Precise definitions vary by purpose and over time. Some high-protein foods, like meat prepared with saturated fat, may be considered junk food.[4] The term HFSS foods (high in fat, salt and sugar) is used synonymously.[5][6] Fast food and fast food restaurants are often equated with junk food, although fast foods cannot be categorically described as junk food.[7][8][9] Most junk food is highly processed food. Concerns about the negative…

I was reading papers on neutron flux traps. Some people in the University of Tehran used MCNP to determine effectiveness of different neutron moderators. Context out of the way, my question is regarding the situation. How did researchers paid by an organization like the University of Tehran get access to a software like MCNP?

The young soprillo, a tiny saxophone pitched in Bb an octave above the soprano, has only one manufacturer eppelsheim.com but quite a few musicians play it already. Hear it there v0tFp2_H3R8 at 05:20-5:42 soprillo.com in tabs Media, Soprillogy, Planet Soprillo or just search elsewhere for "soprillo".

If i think about it, i read on Quora: that after age 20, we lose 1 gram of brain mass per year. Given, maybe only hope to live forever: would be replacing some of neurons with artificial ones and slowly replace whole brain like this. Until your brain is slowly remade with artificial neurons. Because problem with transferring consciousness directly into a computer may be - that your brain dies and information is only copied. Than you would die and only your copy would live inside a computer! There is no proof information is immaterial and can be transferred like this. Going with former method, even so i think you would be just a copy of a copy. Here is why i think that: …