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This thread is inspired by an old thread I made about whether or not it is wrong to step on bugs, but with a different subject. There is an episode of the Twilight Zone called the Little People where a couple astronauts get stranded on a distant planet and while repairing their ship, they stumble upon a race of tiny humans a who are sophisticated enough to build houses, boats, trucks, cities, and appear in all aspects to be identical to the humans in every way except their size. You can probably guess what happens next. An alien version of Conrad's Heart of Darkness. One of the astronauts decides he's going to be their God and begins to dominate the little peopl…

Can anyone recommend any online mags that cover exclusively or primarily math and physics? Something like Quanta. Not exclusively math and physics, but heavy emphasis.

I'm curious to this sophisticated question as to...... Was Rudolph's nose really red? Comments questions concerns serious answers only.

What does it say? If you the right person for the job? How does test score say if you the right person for the job? Some jobs have the Wonderlic test and other jobs do not? The so called Wonderlic Cognitive Ability Test they call it.

However, not intentionally, but this is how it happened. Our new dog was about 8 months old, a 15-pound Chihuahua-mix. She rarely barks but I heard her barking in the back yard. She was excited that a mouse was stuck in muddy water in a 2-foot by 2-foot planter that I was planning to transplant into. After a rain the soil was like quicksand and the mouse was trapped in it. I scooped the mouse out of the mud with a smaller plastic pot and dropped it on the dry concrete. It was shivering as though close to hyperthermia from being stuck in the cold, muddy water for I don't know how long, maybe many hours. I closed her doggie door and we stayed inside until I checked o…

Atheism is just Team B in Team A versus B of God debate. Where as I do not understand the question, so I am smarter than them both. Good is beneficence; "He is a good Tennis player" - he is skilled with a Tennis Racket, where 'skilled' is what's beneficent. "He is a good man" - he exists more so beneficently than maleficently. (This is science, it's analysis of a real, consistent pattern where people are more or less beneficent across, per say, all sports, in the first example.) Morality is thereore alignment with regard to policing, or self control of evil (malefience), or the nature of good and evil phenomenon.…

for describing the invariance of light. As well as I understand (which is poorly) when the invariance of light was discovered (by MM) there were existing geometries that were able to cope with it(sitting there more or less waiting for their relevance to be noticed) Suppose they had not been around are there any other methods that could be used to put down on paper what was being observed (in a predictive way)? Did anyone make any rudimentary attempts before Minkowski spacetime blew them out of the water,so to speak? I don't have any suggestions myself as I am very unskilled in the first place....

I heard two science journalists say that he supposedly was. I was kind of surprised, because I remember reading something he'd written where he talked about, if I remember correctly, being in a frat where there was a dynamic of jocks helping the intellectuals with girls and the intellectuals helping the jocks with school and he was receiving help with girls. Is anything known on this important topic?

I think some of you have heard of this weird-haired clownish science dude, called Einstein? No, that' was not the question, no. Einstein had a few remarkable things to say about intuition. And not just Einstein! Yet, when you say something that you intuitively feel is right, it gets questioned, ridiculed, or otherwise badly reacted upon. Why is that, I wonder...?

I am an Indian science student diagnosed with early onset schizophrenia. I turned eighteen last 21st December. I was deeply fascinated by science ever since it was introduced to us. Let's just say I got almost perfect grades -- I wasn't from a top-tier school, but still I almost always topped the class up till my psychosis became extreme and started affecting my cognition -- And now, my schizophrenia has become obvious. That means although I am a teenager, I am not enjoying life like my peers do. I am not saying "Wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh my life's ruined" because, well, no girl talks to me -- which is quite embarrassing -- I find pleasure in mundane things like getting dec…

Hello, This is just an open discussion, I have some money (5K$) aside (I know it's not much but I'm 27 so it's a miracle that I even saved that) and I am curious what would you guys invest in or do to maybe increase it. I am not a fan of stock exchange so maybe nothing in that direction. (e-currency is also in that category) I want to do something productive but I have 0 inspiration. Feel free to share ideas on this topic even if they don't apply to me.

What is the basis or guidelines for whoever designs or prepares an I.Q. test ? Who typically designs or prepares such, from what profession or expertise ? Philosophists or other ? Is it designed different if aimed to an age group, social class, gender, instruction level, other ? Is someone with a lower IQ score capable of designing a meaningful test ? Do scores change by studying something or is it some mysterious digging into a testee's common sense or some other obscure skills ? I have taken only one test in my life, at school about age 15. -Please move this subject to a proper place if deserved-

Greetings all: Before anything, when I say "humans are hopeless idiots" I do not point at any individual. My thoughts are about the general population of Earth, and their idiocies. When I think of humans, before anything, the picture of a locust pops up, where the locust symbolizes the "perfect parasite". Indeed, if we take the definition of parasite, and we see this from an unbiased, objective point of view, this very definition applies to us. In my own words, the definition of a parasite is: The parasite invades a host: (Well, this does not apply to us in the "invasion" type of way, we evolved here from an ape type, still...). The parasite robs th…

Hi, i'm a high school dropout (regret it now) looking to one day get a higher degree of study and join a scientific field (still torn between which), what kinda places do you think are good places to start learning, places to read papers, good forums and the like

Hi. Be careful if you attempt to change your avatar; it may disappear and unable to restore or replace. I could find no way; perhaps is allowed for intelligent people only.

How to treat autistic workers effectively. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-46538125

Happy new year to all and each of you! Bonne année ! Frohes neues Jahr! ¡Feliz año nuevo! Feliz ano novo! Felice anno nuovo!

A conspiracy: Wikipedia That's why, I can't believe in Einstein theory, I'm in a middle of a conspiracy. My theories are right, but nobodies accept them by that fact too The truth exist only in individual Human being, It can't be generalized to the final and only Truth for everyone...

Is a man with a gun or weapons considered the most powerful/strongest predator on earth. I mean with a weapons man seems to be unstoppable against any other animal in the wild? All it comes down to is skill of weaponry so also add SKILLFUL for one of the tools of the human predator as well the weaponry. Man can also go toe to toe with diseases and micro organisms via medicine slowly destroying it over time if a human was to be infected with it somehow. Man can also skillfully crush small bugs with bare hand and also catch snakes and bag them bitches. That's all I can think of for now with human abilities. What else do you think we can do? And restating my q…

God Trek

Time is just a concept made by man, so would it be possible to travel in back in time? The answer is no. But there are rifts, these rifts being... Black and White holes. Though traveling back in time is considered impossible, Traveling forward might just be possible. Black holes are singularities with gravity that can pull things in the hole at extreme speeds. White holes are considered the exit point of a black hole. If humans were to find a way to construct a ship strong enough to withstand the gravitational force and the debris of space, it could work. This is what I think. Please give me your opinions on both time travel and my theory. P.S. Please don't shut me down t…

Merry Christmas, everyone. May the best life can offer you be on your path, evermore. And then some!!! Happy Holidays! The_Req

So I was having a discussion with one of my teachers and they mentioned along the way in my PhD, I would learn how to formulate and/or understand where a question is coming from, be able to solve it and know exactly when I arrive at a satisfactory conclusion. This would be quite a handy skill to develop from the get go itself, if I did not misconstrue the meaning. Any/all here know what I am speaking of and how I would inculcate such an ability?

Hello guys. I'm considering dropping out of high school. It's not because I don't like high school(I thoroughly enjoy it), or because I don't want to do the work, or anything like that. Particularly, I'm not progressing at an acceptable pace in my opinion. It's essentially a social gathering at this point. So recently I've been pondering dropping out of high school in January(The beginning of the 2nd semester), and then taking the test for my GED. Pennsylvania has a requirement that if you want to take the GED test and you're under 18, you can't be enrolled in any high school, and you have to have a letter of request from your current employer. My employer…

Hi. Usually you get the recipe and end with the cake. To get something similar as a fluffy/spongy 'angel cake' ; avoiding eggs... how to come up with a working ingredients list/recipe ? Baking powder + baking soda + lemon juice (acid) +... ?? Would you do the trial-and-error or there is some guessy science to it ?