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Thanks, y'all. I'll need to grab a fluorescent tube and give that a try with the kids.

See also: https://www.thegreatcourses.com/professors/sean-carroll/

It’s winter in the Midwest US. The air is extremely dry. This leads us to more easily build up static... picking up electrons. Our hair goes in funny directions. We shock each other when touching. It’s a fun part of winter. We also get shocked when touching the light switch on the wall since it’s connected to the ground of the house. The shock becomes visible at night, which adds a layer to the experience. Touching the light switch, feeling the jolt as the electrons flow from the finger to the lower resistance copper wire of the toggle switch into the ground, I can see the little micro lightening bolt jumping away from me toward the house ground. But why does it look blue, and not orange or white or something else? Is it just the temperature... the wavelength of the current being transferred?

Looks like they’re charging the helicopter module now and plan to launch it in the coming days... so long as the harsh cold and wind hasn’t disabled it

You agreed to certain rules and behavioral guidelines when you created your account. You broke them. Is this really that hard to understand? You could always start a blog, but it’s rather clear you’re just trying to troll.

Someone with an obviously temporary username is trying really hard to prove they can get themselves banned quickly. Another poor kid whom mommy obviously didn’t love enough. If you hate it here so much, nobody is keeping you.

Bring people together to discuss interesting things, usually on the topic of science... but not always. The common theme is people here appreciate science It doesn't cost much to host software on a server somewhere, and my guess is there's some extremely limited ad revenue. Unless you're asking to pay for it all yourself out of your own funds, it's none of your business. This isn't a corporation. It's just a website. Nope, but IIRC it's based out UK and those are the laws it follows There's an entire subforum for feedback. There's also a report post feature.

Works fine. Tap the gray heart and release. The green upvote and red downvote buttons then appear next.

For me, as someone who aligns deeply with your central point that we should learn for the sake of learning and self-improvement and strive for continuous improvement throughout our lives (kaizen), the issue is better framed in terms of the system itself. Those who are honest and work hard are not receiving the same benefits from the system as they did in the past. For too many millions of people, hard work and knowledge alone are no longer sufficient to maximize the chances of a good life and the avoidance of suffering. For many, the only way to advance sufficiently is to game the system... to get the best grade... to avoid any and all red marks on their record and public transcript... to get that better job, that better performance review, that better paycheck, that better chance of comfortable retirement. If we keep playing baseball or football the same way even when the umpire or referee has begun calling the game differently... marking things as fouls that previously would've been inbounds... then the onus falls to us to begin playing the game differently to align with what the enforcers are doing. I say all this as someone who doesn't cheat... who avoids lies... who believes in learning as its own reward... and who teaches his kids these values as best I can... but I also recognize that the system itself has evolved and the sad state described above has sadly become more common. As I think is obvious by this post, my thoughts on this subject are only at best half formed... but in a world where it matters more WHO you know than WHAT you know, it's really not much of a surprise that kids are picking up on and acting upon different cues and paths to success.

Answer is the same as it was last month:

Most of their homes are heated with electric furnaces. No bueno when no power and no water. It was nearly -30C here when I woke up earlier this week (-20F), and that was before the windchill which dropped it another 20 degrees below that... but we have LPG and running water still.

Mine 90 minutes estimate was wrong. Believe we're 10-15 minutes away now

Hmm... It's still not yet arrived. Did you tune in through your wormhole or from the television in your tardis?

T-minus 90 minutes

Does the conversation change at all if we include nonhuman animals taking their own lives? I'm thinking of beached whales and the like...

Yes

I think I can guess at what you’re saying, but the ambiguity prevents me from confirming.

The metric of success depends on the nature of the study being done. They don’t look at the reflectivity of light when measuring the fuel economy of automobiles, or internet bandwidth when studying the effectiveness of insulin in diabetes treatment, for example. The metric of success depends on the nature of the study being done.

He paved the road that Trump drove to the presidency. He died happy knowing what he’d done.

Thank you for clarifying. I misapplied the thread context (2nd impeachment) to your comments regarding the first. Cheers

She also refused to let the secret service agents who protected her life with their own even use the restroom in her home Which had like 12 of them

Just to be clear, most of my examples were of the right cancelling themselves. Indeed, she’s continuing to speak with the honorable voice of her late husband... whom Trump also cancelled in a manner of speaking

He’s not making that as a personal choice, though. He’s asserting that science and biology have chosen this, that it’s valid as a genetic description, and that anyone who points out the obvious error of this claim is ignoring reality (I believe “idiot” was the word... his word, not mine).