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35 Scientists Share That “One Science Fact” They Wish The Whole World Would Know
Each and every single one of us has at least one pearl of wisdom that we feel needs to be shared with everyone else. Something that the world definitely needs to hear. A piece of information, a tiny parcel of a fact that might change everything for the better. Scientists are no different in that regard. They do, however, have access to far more interesting facts and revelations than anyone not from their field. From biology, physics and chemistry to medicine and beyond.
Today, we're bringing you a whole host of intriguing science facts and opinions about science. All those brainy and bright scientists shared their insights under the #MyOneScienceTweet hashtag, started by entomologist Dalton Ludwick, and it’s eye-opening, to say the least.
Scroll down, upvote the facts you thought were the most illuminating, and let us know in the comments what you think. We can’t wait to hear your top science facts, too, Pandas!
Bored Panda wanted to learn more about the way good scientists should approach things and why there have recently been more people mistrusting science in general, so we reached out for a chat to Steven Wooding, a member of the Institute of Physics in the UK. He is also a member of the Omni Calculator Project which hosts a lot of interesting and frankly fun tools like the Weird Units Converter.
To start things off, Steven shared with Bored Panda the most interesting science fact that he knows: "A photon created at the sun's center takes up to 100,000 years to get to the surface but then only 8 minutes to get to Earth. Due to the density of the sun, the newly created photon encounters an atom after a few millimeters; it is absorbed then re-emitted in a random direction. So most of the time, it will not be making progress towards the surface. Once in the emptiness of space, most photons make an uninterrupted journey to Earth." We're willing to bet you probably didn't know that, dear Pandas.
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TrickQuestion 3 years ago (edited)
"I'd rather have a dead kid than an autistic one" is what they're really saying.
Rissy cake 3 years ago
It's usually happens when born. I have autism but not from vaccine. I'm thankful my family wasn't antivax.
MimSorensson 3 years ago
In the womb, even. While our brain is developed, it’s developed into an autistic one. Autism isn’t something you “get”, not ever. That whole idea - from ONE false and massively disproven article - is just so strange.
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Daniel (ShadowDrakken) 3 years ago (edited)
I mean, duh? A vaccine isn't going to be changing your entire genetic makeup
Frankenfrog 3 years ago
Woah, you're using words way too big for them to comprehend
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Monkey Spunk 3 years ago
I've got a scar from my BCG if that counts, although that's more down to teenage boys punching each other in the vaccination site than the vaccination itself
Manny_Flawz 3 years ago
I ask the vaccine=autism idiots one simple question: How did I get vaccinated before I was born ? I have yet to receive an answer.
GFSTaylor 3 years ago
Autism often doesn't show until about the age the MMR vaccine is given. Babies that appear to be developing normally, suddenly seem to be losing ground, responding differently. It's pure coincidence, but too easy for people to belive it was the vaccine that caused the change.
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Scagsy 3 years ago
Well, this shouldn't need saying. I really worry about humanity when I see things like this.
Concept-Peter Roosdorp 3 years ago
I got my morals by watching The Golden Girls when I was 8. Around the same time I saw how Wonder Woman could kick butt and catch bad guys. And my mother spent 12 years in med school. I am very sure that a woman could do anything a man can do as long as it doesn't require a penis. And vice versa for a man. That being said, not all woman would be physically able for acts of strength, but on the other hand, neither are all men.
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Valley Girl 3 years ago
Someone WAAAAAY smarter than me needs to research why people suck so bad that this statement needed to be made.
Monic Krugell 3 years ago
Female 'any career' deserved the same respect as our male counterparts.....
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bumble bee 3 years ago
If the genetic material in any organism is not a naturally occurring mutation, ie would never be naturally feasible, then it is GMO. Just because they took insect DNA and through multiple modifications that would never occur naturally, have it combine with say Human DNA to form a new organism does not mean it is not GMO. This new non naturally occurring organism is indeed GMO
Grumble O'Pug 3 years ago
Well that’s a little specious because it’s one thing to domesticate and propagate to go from mustard seed to Brussels' sprouts and adding genes from other animals and plants to get traits you can’t get any other way.
Diane Aguilar 3 years ago
No it isn't, it's literally the same thing. Both instances you're talking about are instances of humans interfering with nature to genetically modify plants (and animals). Humans have been genetically modifying both for centuries. It's just that people who either are scared of or hate science take the anti-scientific "GMO = boogeymen" propaganda nonsense seriously. FYI, a lot of that propaganda is from organic manufacturers/businesses that have a vested interest in profiting off of people's ignorance and those businesses do a lot more harm to the environment than do GMO manufacturers/businesses and produce such terrible yields overall that if all crops were to be switched over to organic it would cause a neo-Malthusian event that would kill off billions of the poorest people in the world, something a lot of pro-organic advocates wouldn't have a problem with.
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Two_rolling_black_eyes 3 years ago (edited)
The "humble" apple tree and many other plants that feed us every day are taken to a whole other level. If you bought an apple or many other fruits from a store, its almost certain to come from a Frankenstein tree. The roots are one genetic variety, the trunk a second genetic variety, and branch the apple was picked from a third one. Arborists graft them together to create the best tree. The roots are strongest and uptake nutrients the best, the trunk can support the most amount of apples, and the branches grafted on produce the best version of the apple variety you are looking for. Its not uncommon for a single tree, (especially a hobbyist) to have multiple genetic apple types (Gala, Fuji, etc) being produced from the same tree. There may be different races of a single apple like Gala so one group of branches bears fruit one month and another group bears fruit 2 months later. Many varieties like McIntosh produce seeds that can't grow into the type of fruit it is. Grafting is the only way.
Thorfin Wolfsbane 3 years ago
That's all well and good until Monsanto patents the genetic code for food and owns the rights.
Paul Davis 3 years ago
For me the issue was when Monsanto was doing things like building wheat plants to generate their own insecticides...impossible to believe that company would do something like that in a responsible way, and am scared that the insecticides are unremovable for being inside the wheat. So it's like atomic energy -- could be fine, but you can't trust the people doing it to do it responsibly because of greed and a proven track record of psychopathic carelessness.
jammer 3 years ago
This 100%, but also fu€k Monsanto, I’m not having any glyphosates in my food.
Becky Samuel 3 years ago
Oh. I give up. There's no reasoning with bull-headedness.
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Rick 3 years ago
Bananas used to be packed full of giant seeds and had to be boiled before eating.
Missy Moo Moo 3 years ago
Yep it makes about as much sense as saying chemical are bad, natural is better
Steven told Bored Panda that the fundamental basis of the scientific method involves proposing an idea of how the world works and then proving it by experiment. In short, scientists have to set their egos and feelings aside for the sake of getting a step or two closer to the truth. However, that's far easier said than done! We sometimes forget that scientists are human beings just like we are.
"To be a good scientist, you have to be open to your original notion being wrong. However, scientists are also humans, so it can be incredibly tough emotionally to accept that you are wrong. It's best to look at the bigger picture of human knowledge and progression. You being proved wrong will help focus effort on other ideas that might be correct. In this way, you play your part in building knowledge," the scientist explained.
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Tiny Dynamine 3 years ago
It's impossible to argue against this and it a good explanation of why god doesn't exist. If it created us to be the master species, why did it make us so selfish and irresponsible as a whole? "I have created people to destroy this planet in a relatively short period of time. Not one of my best ideas, but I've had enough, really."
Vicky Z 3 years ago
Bronx zoo in New York in 1963 was advertising to have the most dangerous animal in the world! People were running to see the mysterious animal and when they were there they were standing in front of a mirror! Simple and accurate
Thomas Ewing 3 years ago
And there are too many of us! The planet cannot support 8 billion humans.
Frankenfrog 3 years ago
Which is why more people should adopt the childfree lifestyle. Want to save lives? Don't force it upon someone in the first place!
Darren Seabolt 4 months ago
We are no animals, we are humans created in God's image with a soul.
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Jessica Gunn 3 years ago
Even Conspiracy nuts know that you can't "catch" autism, so they say it's "because your Mother took them"
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Wrong. There's a huge amount of debate ... among stupid or greedy people trying to discredit science for political gain
KatHat 3 years ago
Well, it's not "debate" it's "lying". Words mean things.
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Ray Martin 3 years ago
Personally, I wish the 5G thing was true, because my internet is bullshit.
Phil Boswell 3 years ago
The only possible way in which you might consider vaccines "causing" autism is that they save the lives of people who might otherwise have died, and some of those people have autism…how far can we stretch the definition of "causing" before it breaks entirely?
Lulu Lemons 3 years ago
My mother is an artist and incredibly knowledgable about science as well. This is hurtful stereotyping, even if you didn't mean it like that.
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Chris Watson 3 years ago
Pharmaceuticals are the most dishonest, and greedy businesses on the Planet. You don’t think they make mistakes? You think they always admit to wrongdoing?
More! 3 years ago
Vaccines, yes. Experimental jabs, possibly not. We’ll all see, down the track.
ThePlantMoss 3 years ago
the covid vaccine had decades of research behind it
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Hugh Cookson 3 years ago
They basically have no fear and will only back off if they have been hurt - even then, if the aggressor, regardless of size, tries to attack they will always come out teeth first .... love them to bits. Almost as much as Honey Badgers.
Jack Holt 3 years ago
Wait till you hear the noises they make, then you'll see why they're called that. It sounds as if the gates of hell have just opened.
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GirlFriday 3 years ago
NO, that is a tiny bear. I have seen the Tasmanian Devil countless times on TV.
Narwhal Blast 3 years ago
No, that is a piglet. I have seen tiny bears countless times on TV.
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Brent Hollett 3 years ago
That's what an uninfected one looks like. An infected one looks horrible, and dies painfully.
Teresa Taylor 3 years ago
I was going to say that. Most Tasmanian devils have a terrible cancer that causes facial tumors. It's rampant among the population. There's only a small isolated area that is disease free.
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Tracy Sellars 3 years ago
Everyone talks about how Australia is dangerous but seem to forget this is our most vicious predator. Not a bear or not a lion. This little ball of cutie grumpiness.
Tobias the Tiger 3 years ago
Oh, yes, where Chris' power suit kept malfunctioning and he kept becoming a sort of "weredevil" randomly!
Load More Replies...Steven agrees with the idea that there generally seems to be less trust in scientists and science itself by the public. "You have to have an open mind to accept ideas from others. A great example is the flat earthers. They what to check and verify that the Earth is round by themselves and don't trust anything anyone says on the subject," he pointed out how some people can be misguided.
"One reason for mistrust in the latest science is that the public see the scientific method playing out in real-time. As more data comes in, the scientists change what they say, which can confuse the public. They may see a scientist admit they were wrong, which raises doubts about everything scientists say. A better understanding of the scientific method would certainly help the public's trust in science," the expert shared a possible reason for all the mistrust.
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Pamda Panda 3 years ago
This. 100%. BUT ALSO. Even IF they did, if you would rather your child be dead from preventable diseases than autistic, you should not be a parent and screw you.
Lulu Lemons 3 years ago
thank you! As an autistic person the idea some people would prefer death over being like me is incredibly upsetting
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Chaotic-Pansexual (she/they) 3 years ago
Y’know I don’t wanna be one of those either but I already have autism and underlying autoimmune disorder so what have I got to lose! Get your stinkin vaccines!
Devil's Advocate 3 years ago
Adults is a pretty destructive problem, especially as it causes unsustainable numbers of adults in the planet
Allan Breum 3 years ago
"Vaccines cause adults." That might actually be the best argument Against vaccines...
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Becky Samuel 3 years ago
A major study published this week estimated 1.2 million deaths last year from drug-resistant infections. That's more than malaria or AIDS and it's only getting worse.
Concept-Peter Roosdorp 3 years ago
And don't take them unless you actually have to. Having a cold isn't a reason. Colds are caused by viruses and antibiotics work against bacteria. (viruses aren't alive)
Salla Jaakkola 3 years ago
It used to be a common belief, that you had to eat antibiotics for an x amount of days, or the "rest of the bacteria will become tolerant to antibiotics". New evidence suggests that shorter treatments could be used with many infections, and in some cases antibiotics aren't needed at all. Resistant bacteria arise from using antibiotics too much. https://www.who.int/selection_medicines/committees/expert/22/applications/ABWG_optimal_duration_AB.pdf
Two_rolling_black_eyes 3 years ago (edited)
Many diseases can be treated with shorter regimens so the prescriptions for those have been shortened. However, if antibiotic is prescribed because it is known to be effective for a known disease, you need to finish it. The problem is overuse of antibiotics for suspected diseases or just to shut up the patient. "Take this Amoxicillin and I'll let you know in three days what the lab results say you have". You now have someone on a three day regimen risking drug resistance against whatever organisms they do have in them. People don't want to hear "go home and come back if it gets worse or your fever goes over 103 We need to run some labs before we can give you the right treatment." They want a tube of pills that will make them better right now, even if they don't help at all. Treatments with risk should be reserved until someone's going to suffer irreparable damage or death if nothing is done. Give that kid in the ER remdesivir if it looks like they are about to lose respiratory function before the COVID test comes back. Send the kid with a light cough home and tell the parent's to keep an eye on them.
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Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
And don't run to the doctor when you have a simple cold. Colds are viruses, so antibiotics are useless. All you're doing is numbing your body to them so they won't work when you really need them.
Lavi Berko 2 years ago
true. very very true. ever had mrca? pain, very very pain. responsibly dispose of them.
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Annamagelic 3 years ago
Drives me nuts when people complain about scary "chemicals" or "toxins", but are completely unable to say exactly which chemical is bad or why. Or assume anything with a long scientific name is bad. Just consider the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide, it causes thousands of deaths and millions in property damage, but that doesn't mean we should ban it.
Pixie 3 years ago
But, but, but, like, really many people are really badly addicted to it, they even die from withdrawal 100%. How can we let this happen??!!1! ( /s )
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Missy Moo Moo 3 years ago
Yep water is the most toxic chemical to humans. More people are killed from water toxicity than any other chemical (aka drowning)
Lillukka79 3 years ago
It's the chemistri of carbon, and everything organic in origin has carbon so it's not wrong.
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Linda R Ryan 3 years ago
How about when they say they don't eat anything with preservatives (salt is a preservative, btw) while they are smoking a cigarette?
Eiram 3 years ago (edited)
I watched a video of a Mexican lady doing a taste test of which is fast food vs real Mexican food. She kept saying she could taste the preservatives in the fast food, but then she would get the guess wrong and switch which one tasted bad with preservatives (she described them as lemon and salt... she didn't like lemon or salt?). Obviously liar, changing her facts and then smugly saying she was right the whole time.
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Rannveig Ess 3 years ago
I find statements like this a bit manipulative. I don't know anyone who thinks "all" chemicals are bad for you. And yes, everything in the universe has a "chemical" name. Most know what chemicals they are deathly allergic to, or that make them sick, or that are banned in other countries while others don't ban them. People aren't completely stupid. I'm told to eat soy, that it's so good for you, and plant-based foods are the next new thing, but I'm extremely allergic to soy, seaweed and a lot that I'm almost being told I'll be forced to eat someday. It's about educating people, and scientists or the government not telling us that being allergic to, say, MSG, is all in your head because it's "only" beets.
Persephone 3 years ago
This! I'm a biochemist and I cringe everytime when someone says X has chemicals. Well, technically, yes that's true.
Christina Uhlir 3 years ago
There are of course chemicals in nature, but chemicals made in laboratories and irresponsibly "used" are killing wildlife, insects - pollinators, and cause illnesses in people.
Marilyn leger 3 years ago
Oooo — it's natural, it must be safe. So arsenic, poison ivy, Golden Poison Dart Frog, Blue-ringed Octopus, Red Widow Spider, Common Tiger Snake, Cone Snail, Pufferfish, lionfish, Fugu, Deathstalker Scorpion, Mosquito.. . .
One thing that many of us are likely to agree on is that the flood of information in the Digital Age can be overwhelming at times. It sometimes makes us dream of running away to an uninhabited island that doesn’t have tech or internet access. Alas! Not everyone has that luxury.
So the next best alternative is learning to navigate the choppy waters of information overload. We’ve got to learn to distinguish between reliable and unreliable sources, and learn to fight back against our diminishing attention spans.
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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
This. February 2020 to January 2022, for example. New/more data means you change conclusions. If it's science.
Paul Davis 3 years ago
Anti-science people are always trying to use the progress of understanding, where theories are modified, against the process of science. When in fact that is its strongest feature. Then claim their religion is never-changing because it's based on absolute truth -- yet no two people can completely agree on their religious beliefs.
Marcellus II 3 years ago (edited)
"Much"? Hm. A lot of dots on i's and crosses on t's, not that much wholesale rewriting. Plus a lot of filling in where we now don't know, have hypotheses or not even that. Real wholesale throwing out is rare vs the whole of science; I guess Paleontology and its species is top there.
Becky Samuel 3 years ago
I think most of the underpinning of physics is on increasingly shaky ground, as they dig deeper and deeper and still find that all the hypotheses are completely incompatible with each other.
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Niall Mac Iomera 3 years ago
Have to disagree with this. We're not going to discover that were wrong about most things. We may refine our knowledge though.
Christina Uhlir 3 years ago
Perhaps much, certainly not everything, especially what you eat, is proven to preserve your health or ruin it - undoubtedly proven.
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NopedOut 3 years ago
Would nanobots that target cancerous cells effectively be a cure, though?
Gin. No tonic 3 years ago
For every cancer, its cells are different. Nanobots need to know what to target exactly - how to know which cell is healthy, and which is cancerous? Nanobots can treat the specific cancer that it knows.
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Paul Davis 3 years ago
There is too much bandwidth given to crackpot science and conspiracy nutjobs these days. And a lot of those people are being manipulated for financial gain by unscrupulous politicians and businessmen.
Susan Bosse 3 years ago
I'm 33 years in remission and my mom is about three months. Another friend is one day, after being given a death sentence four years ago. Thank you to everyone in your field!!!
aj B 3 years ago
Researchers want to find cures absolutely. Many of these researchers have signed contracts with pharmaceutical companies who will absolutely bury a cure in a vault for as long as possible for their bottom line though.
Adam Jeff 3 years ago
But what possible incentive would the companies have to do that? I would imagine that selling a cure to cancer would be a pretty good earner for them...
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Christina Uhlir 3 years ago
Kate, please work hard to teach people not to get cancer in the first place. Hint: Plant-based diet.
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Vetus Vespertilio 3 years ago
When they’re little, they get the cat crazies every afternoon and race around in circles belly-flopping in any water they find. Their upper lip and nose are flexible and can elongate into a tube like an elephant’s trunk, which they use like a snorkel when they’re under water. Tapirs are fascinating!
Load More Replies... Id row 3 years ago
And as the human population increases by 80 million each year, how much forest space will be left in 100 years? We're not much different than locusts, except locusts don't know better.
Humansarethevirus 3 years ago
Sadly people don't care and keep breeding more life to suffer and destroy more habitat. Religious people are the worst breeders
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Charlotte Bayer 3 years ago (edited)
i japanese mythology they are also the guardians of dreams! they are lovely animals.
Bacony Cakes 3 years ago
It's a three-way cute off between Tapirs, Pangolins, and Capybaras.
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Christina Uhlir 3 years ago
.......and how easy it is - just stop destruction of wild lands and stop massacre of animals !!!!!!
Narwhal Blast 3 years ago
Omg please check True facts about Tapir on YouTube! First thing that came to mind was ZeFrank's voice: "if you never take any risks, like tapir, you might just fade away".
Entertainment and pop culture expert Mike Sington from Hollywood knows all about how info overload, especially on social media, can make it hard for some of us to distinguish between facts and fiction. Earlier, he went into detail with Bored Panda about some of the red flags we should watch out for, indicating that a fact or source isn’t trustworthy.
"Red flags to watch out for that a claim may be fake: it's outlandish, it's too good to be true, you haven't seen the claim anywhere else, you've never heard the source, the source isn't reputable, you can't find two other sources making the same claim, your gut tells you, 'this can't be true,'" Mike shared.
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Randolph Croft 3 years ago (edited)
Just 100 corporations are responsible for 71% of global emissions. So stop blaming the population. Start with the 100 corps. https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jul/10/100-fossil-fuel-companies-investors-responsible-71-global-emissions-cdp-study-climate-change
Two_rolling_black_eyes 3 years ago
Those 100 corporations are still made up of us. Star Trek isn't going to show up and fire a Genesis device to save the world. Only humans can stop it. Also, if 71 out of 100 people are killed by car accidents, that doesn't give one permission to shoot someone in the head because they aren't the leading cause. No one is innocent. Both need to be stopped. It will take most of us to stop both ourselves and those corporations.
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Jarrod Nichols 3 years ago
Unpopular truth - the single best thing you can do for the planet is to stop making so many people.
Vicky Z 3 years ago
And then you have Elon Musk saying that we need to be more because if there are not a lot of people on earth there won't be enough for Mars! That guy is ready for Mars cause he is literally from another planet!! He has no contact with earth anymore
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If it's us, then there is no hope. Humans just do more and more damage as we increase the population by 80 million people each year. That's like adding the entire population of Germany to the planet every single year. Without a plan to reduce the population, we will reach critical mass sooner rather than later. And humans only care about their wants, not what's good for the planet.
Solidhog 3 years ago
One of the warmest times was during the geologic period known as the Neoproterozoic, between 600 and 800 million years ago. Were we responsible for that? Climate change is real. But claiming it is mainly down to humans is like saying oceans are rising because all the fish urinate too much.
Devil's Advocate 3 years ago
It's not "us", it's a mixture of natural processes sped along by a handful of massive corporations who by giving money to the right people and planting some trees, claim to be "carbon neutral". You and I can do very little to affect the climate in any measurable way.
Adam Jeff 3 years ago
Of course individually we can't affect the whole world's climate, in the same way that me going on a shooting spree wouldn't affect world population in a measurable way. But that doesn't mean it would be OK.
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H Moore 3 years ago
Guess the other 5 extinctions were because the lifeforms didn't fix it huh
RedMarbles 3 years ago
Yes, climate cycles and there have been several mass extinctions. But the scientists have been saying for decades now that this one is human driven, going to be catastrophic, and humanity has to make changes to limit (there's no more prevent) the damage. They are screaming louder than ever.
Load More Replies... Christina Uhlir 3 years ago
Absolutely !!! Stop voting greedy crooks into power, they are killing us all.
Concept-Peter Roosdorp 3 years ago
My biggest fear is that people don't understand that all climate change is delayed. The effects of our actions aren't noticed for a couple of years, so if we do nothing now and wait 5 years, when we notice that it is now so bad that something must be done. It's then gonna take a few years before the curve starts dropping. In other words, the longer we wait, the longer we are going to suffer. And I don't think anything will be done until too many voters start suffering, only then will the politicians do something.
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laura edwards 3 years ago
Less than 10 percent will ever wake up at all. If you have to do CPR and the person still dies, you didn't do anything wrong. Do not feel any guilt.
Summer Mason 3 years ago (edited)
Tell that to me again. A mom who saved countless life's using cpr. But woke up to her son dead from sids at 15 days old and couldn't f*****g wake him back up even with administering infant cpr to him. It's f*****g bullshit either way. It hurt more than anything in the world and why I walked away from the medical field. I'm sick of people I learn to love or have loved that can't be saved.
Load More Replies... Otter 3 years ago
This is why when Grandma is hospitalized, your doctor will ask if you want her to be a full code. Don't say you "... want everything done", because CPR only rarely saves lives, and if you do it on a frail elder what will happen is that they will die anyway, with a whole lot of ribs being broken at the time of death. Don't ask for CPR to be done on frail elders.
Concept-Peter Roosdorp 3 years ago
I even heard a medical professional say that even if nobody knows cpr, doing anything that resembles it is better than nothing. And then they continued to say that if you ever are in that situation, most likely the person will not live, even if everything is done exactly right.
D K 3 years ago
Ventilation and blood circulation… acting as the patient’s “lungs and heart” until help arrives. At times ROSC (return of spontaneous circulation) occurs with the use of an AED/defibrillator.
Kitty Queen 3 years ago
Or, you know, epinephrine shot to help jump start the heart
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Micah 3 years ago
Also, most people will need to push harder than they realize. As I was getting my EMT certification, my instructor had to keep reminding people "If you have to perform chest compressions, that means they're already dead. If they manage to survive, I doubt they'll mind some bruising."
Panda Kicki 3 years ago
I learnt that years after I had done CPR on a neighbour who had a bad fall down the stairs. Found him when I came home from work in the morning and did CPR alone for 30 mins until ambulace arrived. He died and everyone I told asked me what I did wrong bc if he died I must have. The fact that he had major inner bleedings was apparently something I was supposed to fix with CPR..
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Caro Caro 3 years ago
This is so cool. I must have swallowed gallons in my youth and I'm ok. At least, I think I am ;)
Id row 3 years ago
That show Monsters Inside Me has made me more paranoid than I already am about all bodies of water.
Paul Davis 3 years ago
There is a hypothesis that humans are designed to live with parasites and lack of parasites are behind a lot of modern immune system issues. On the other hand, some parasites can be pretty nasty, so it's hard to know what to do with that idea.
Tee Witt 3 years ago
I have always found any natural water to be fascinating under the microscope, so many little lives in a drop of water, never found anyone who agrees with me though.
Kathy 3 years ago
Well, now you have! I've always found all of nature absolutely fascinating, there's so much more out there - and inside there - than can be seen with the naked eye.
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Matthew Howard 3 years ago
not to worry the plankton you see here is harmless, it's the smaller stuff you need to worry about
"The rise of social media has decreased the reliability of information because misinformation can spread so quickly before it can be corrected," the entertainment industry expert shared.
Even a simple Google check can help fight back against the spread of misinformation. If you take the time to double-check something that sounds iffy, you’re better off than you’d be if you just straight-up believed it. If you can’t find any reliable sources backing up the ‘fact,’ odds are that it’s fake.
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Robert T 3 years ago
I can neither agree nor disagree until you tell me what your definition of a tentacle is.
Rannveig Ess 3 years ago
Tentacles only have suction cups towards or at the end of the limb. Arms have cups the entire way from beginning to end.
Load More Replies... Lee 3 years ago
My aunt used to call them testicles. No one corrected her because it was too funny.
Tamra Stiffler 3 years ago
Yeah, my dad calls his prostate his "prostrates". I'd say it's funny, but it's mostly really uncomfortable. 🙄
Load More Replies... Rissie 3 years ago (edited)
Well that's nonsense if you check the definitions according to the oxford dictionary. There is so much overlap in both terms and whatever you want the appendages on an octopus to be called, arm or tentacle both fit somewhat but aren't perfect.
Earl Grey 3 years ago
Correct. Tentacle is an umbrella term for various hydrostatic appendages that include arms, cirri, eyestalks, etc.
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Daniel Marsh 3 years ago
Seriously? This is the one thing you wish people knew? Not to confuse "arms" with "tentacles"? You know what? You're wrong. I'm not going to argue with you on the basis of biology, because I know it's the trendy thing for marine biologists studying mollusks to make the distinction you're making. The thing is that biologists don't get to change the English language just because they'd like to draw a scientific distinction. Try defining an arm in the sense of an octopus' anatomy, and you can't help making the absolutely preposterous claim that "arms" have suckers on them. To wit, "The basic difference is arms have a line of suckers going down them, whereas tentacles don't have suckers until you get to the tentacular clubs, which are the kind of large part at the end," Morag Taite, a postdoctoral research associate at Aberystwyth University in Wales, told Live Science. There are no suckers on the end of my arm. You, have one at the distal end of yours.
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(T)reacherou(S) 3 years ago
Yes! It's just a few people every year that gets killed by a shark, humans on the other hand kill lots of sharks all the time. They are of utterly importance to the oceans!
Tobias the Tiger 3 years ago
And usually when someone is killed by a shark, it's because the shark mistook them for prey.
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Oskar vanZandt 3 years ago
No one needs to eat shark-fin soup... so let's leave the fins on the sharks and just allow them to keep swimming.
Bob Standen 3 years ago
Tell this to the Chinese who have millions of sharks mutilated just to harvest the fins for soup. The rest of the shark is thrown back to die slowly and painfully.
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Two_rolling_black_eyes 3 years ago (edited)
This should be #1. The biggest problem in science is biases because it cripples growth. The Earth remained the center of the universe for 1000s of years longer than it should because we knew that it was true. Millions of women die unnecessarily every year from heart attacks because the entire detection and treatment regime was developed on men. Contextual biases like racial profiling have dramatically affected the African American community's treatment options for chronic diseases. Way too much psychological theory is all based on first world1 8-22 year old college students who, unsurprisingly, do not reflect the overall psychological spectrum of our planet. How many of us can say our own psyche worked the same at 8, 18, 38, and 88? Outright racism gave Hitler proof the Jews were inferior.
Otter 3 years ago
Most decisions are made for emotional or subconscious reasons, and after the decision is made, the person looks around for reasons to justify the decision that has already been made. And that is why people make seemingly irrational decisions based on crap data, because they made up their mind before they look for facts. So if someone changes their mind about something when new data is shows their opinion is wrong, you know they're capable of rational thought. And vice versa.
Mike suggests that everyone should remain skeptical and try to find additional evidence and supporting sourcing before reposting any bit of info. Otherwise, they might be contributing to the problem. “Amplification doesn’t make a claim true or accurate," he said that just because a lot of people believe something doesn’t make it true.
The expert pointed out that the personally trusts the Associated Press, Reuters, and The New York Times the most. "They employ fact-checkers and editors that ensure the information they post is correct. They’re basically doing the research and homework for you," he told Bored Panda.
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Furgus McGurgus 3 years ago
100%. I don't know a single domestic cat who's ever been responsible for a wind farm.
Oskar vanZandt 3 years ago
My cats are now indoor cats (since summer/autumn 2020) and prior to that were very lousy hunters- they had 18 years and one dead bird between them by then. Also, they have never been licenced engineers engaged in wind turbine installation...
Josephine 3 years ago
That's so cute that they hunted down that bird together.
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phil blanque 3 years ago
First of all, "domestic" cats have never been domesticated really. The cat in your house is physiologically almost identical to its "wild" cousins, differing primarily in coat texture and color. So a "domestic" cat in the outdoors instantly becomes a hunter...they are 100% carnivores, and probably the most effective land-based hunters on the earth. So they kill birds and rodents...and insects. It is what they are, and it what they do.
Yort 3 years ago
...uh okay, but a housecat contributed to an entire species going extinct on a single island.
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ZAPanda 3 years ago
Er you know what kills way more birds than cats? In the USA alone, there's this species of primate that is single-handedly responsible for killing 9 billion chickens per year.
Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
They should see what happens when you let a fox near a henhouse ;-D
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Everything has to eat and carnivores will do better with good hunting instincts, not the cats fault it is a cat. 7 billion humans who evolved with a large capacity to help companion animals and want them near is not in and of itself a fault either imo. It's just evolution of species taking place as we live it.
Samantha Lomb 3 years ago
So yu keep them indoors. Or in a catio. Easy fix. Be a responsible pet owner
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james amen 3 years ago
And pray tell,.... how do you possibly quantify this? Where do you see any documented evidence, recorded, on the going~ons of everyday, ordinary cats that could possibly add-up to the kinds of numbers of bird deaths that you are intimating? (Enough to possibly draw as far reaching conclusions that you made)?.... Please stop making cats look bad, giving them an unjust accusation.... There are enough cat-haters already without your inducing.
otplus 3 years ago (edited)
Dude any non indigenous species introduced in another biome, produces an impact. Specially cats, they have been responsible of the extinction of several bird species. https://sciencenordic.com/animals-and-plants-denmark-videnskabdk/scientist-australias-feral-cats-should-be-eradicated/1451560 https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms2380 And this is not new knowledge, it has been know since the start of the century https://archive.org/details/domesticcatbirdk00forbrich/page/n1/mode/2up I love cats but that does not mean they are not one of the worst plagues humanity has unleashed on several biomes, that is not counting mice
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Miss Frankfurter 3 years ago
I live in a little mobile home park. A really nice one for retirees. There's also a golf course. It's on a flood plain, with meandering branches of a river, and wetlands. Our new owner has a habit of running golfcourses into the ground and selling to a developer. He's going to try to kick us out of our homes.i researched this and I'm the only one who's concerned. Everyone else is saying that he can't build anyway. No. But by then he will have kicked us out. Apparently it is up to me to try to stop this. All by myself. Township and conservation authority. I hope I succeed. In which case, you're all welcome.
RedMarbles 3 years ago
So sorry you have to deal with this. Hopefully some people will come around and help you so you won't be the only one trying to prevent it.
Load More Replies... Daniel Marsh 3 years ago
PLEASE DON'T BLAME THE HOMEOWNERS! Go to Google maps, and scroll up and down along the Mississippi River. Nearly all construction you find in the "flood plain" is government construction. The problem is that ill-considered flood control measures make rivers jump their flood plains. Now go to floodmap, and a major, coastal city like NY, Boston, Philly, or DC. Set the flood level to something vaguely plausible (like 2 m). Everything you see developed but flooded will have been a government project: airports, train yards, seaports, warehousing, etc.
Earl Grey 3 years ago
That and the fact that many government flood plain maps are decades out of date.
Load More Replies... Christina Uhlir 3 years ago
Is here anything in the nature people do not "control" - meaning ruin, destroy?
Essex Eagle 3 years ago
And shock horror, when do gooders stop you from dredging waterways ( like they had been done for many years) those rivers ( gasp) burst their banks ! But oh no its not that the capacity of the channel the river runs through that's to blame it global warming fantasy time...
Solidhog 3 years ago
Rivers don't "move." They erode the area around them and either get wider or deeper. Such as the Grand Canyon.
Lathari 3 years ago
Look up avulsion on google. Rivers build out their deltas and at some point it will be easier and steeper to just carve out a new shorter channel rather than use the old one.
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ZAPanda 3 years ago
many research scientists have autism. Some research scientists work in health. Therefore, autism causes vaccines.
Lilly Swaim 3 years ago
I do miss when Asperger's was separate though, made for a lot less assumptions when you explained to people why I'm a bit off
Chaotic-Pansexual (she/they) 3 years ago
Oh my god thank you. As someone on the high functioning end of the autism spectrum, I struggle with this a lot even though I know the facts. I’m high functioning enough not to need constant help (other than behavioral therapy as a child) but I still have sensory issues, cognitive issues and lacking social skills that get in the way of daily life. But to most people I don’t “look” autistic and so most are actually surprised to learn it. Sometimes I feel like I’m being in-genuine with vocalizing my diagnosis because of this, even though it is valid and real.
June 3 years ago
Or when NTs reply "oh you know that's the same for me" when you try to explain some of your issues and you don't look "autistic enough". 😐
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Bunzilla 3 years ago
I'm pretty sure I'm on the spectrum as well. I just have way too many peculiarities that line up, compared to most other people. It honestly helps to know, because a lot of the time, you end up asking, "what's wrong with me?" And there's nothing wrong, per-say, you're just a little different.
Mariza 3 years ago
I will start this with this is just MY OPINION... Being a late diagnosed Autistic female at 32 in the UK. I personally hate all the stuff like different abled. It IS a disability - it causes problems and things that must be overcome because society does not fit with Autism. If I didn't have my partner I wouldn't have had any help at all, I was given my diagnosis and just left. I was told there's no adult support. If it's not a disability then I think people are then just trying to soften and make light of just how much I struggle every single F-ing day. It's exhausting, often humiliating, hard life. Some things are better - I make for a better driver, I notice more, my whole family would rather me drive than anyone else but those pluses are few and far between for me. The hardships way outweigh them and that, for me, must make Autism a disability. It's hard, we need help wherever we are on the spectrum. Well.. there's my 2 pennies and a bit of a rant.
Evelyn Haskins 3 years ago
It is NOT a diagnosis, It is simply a description of behaviour. Before you can 'treat' it you need to know the cause
Eiram 3 years ago
To anyone who thinks Autism (and other learning dissabilities) doesn't really exist because of some kind of spectrum that anyone can fall onto... they are wrong. It's not a brain disease, it is a measurable, testable, disability with very specific markers that have to be met. Being tidy, or messy, or fast or slow are not measurements used, but rather IQ vs, ability, vs knowledge, vs capability to execute an action, all in measurable quantities can lead to a testable diagnosis. Autism is not a weird person without social skills, its an actual physical and psychological disorder and disability that everyday people can deal with, and achieve better lives once they know how to.
"There are literally too many online sources to list that can’t be trusted and should be avoided. Anyone can basically post anything they want… proceed with caution.”
Mike noted that our attention spans have been “reduced to mere seconds at a time.” That’s because this is the way that information and entertainment are fed to us right now.
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Robin DJW 3 years ago
You'd be surprised a how many people fanatically pound one drum or the other.
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Thomas Ewing 3 years ago
It's not survival of the fittest but survival of the survivors! We are all survivors; some more fit than others. Killing/capturing the best of a species lowers the quality for the remainder.
Devil's Advocate 3 years ago
I think this is widely understood, but it's trying to figure which is the main decider because it's important to know. Are criminals created at conception, or can nurture make or break someone no matter what?
Paula Divello 3 years ago
I always considered the "nature vs nurture" phrase to mean they worked symbiotically, like yin/yang
Dillon Hughes 3 years ago
Thank you! I can't believe bp let this be on here! This is a fact in every aspect of our lives! From favorite color, food, to if you lgbtq blah blah! Yes its a balance!
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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
Evolution has never and will never be a process of simplicity toward complexity, nor toward perfection. No. If it doesn't kill off the breeders before they breed, it sticks around in the genome. thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.
Piet Puk 3 years ago (edited)
And whatever change fits the environment in the best way, is most likely to reproduce and pass the change to the next generation.
Paul Davis 3 years ago
It's hard for people to learn this because literally almost every movie and TV show that ever mentions "evolution" at all inevitably talks about it as if it is a directional thing toward a perfect or more powerful creature.
Daniel Marsh 3 years ago
Better way to put it: evolution is not a value judgment. If you think consciousness or intelligence or socialization or sexuality is a good thing, you must know it would not exist without evolution. But ALL change is evolution, not only the change that you, for whatever reason, value.
Devil's Advocate 3 years ago
Evolution is literally the adaptation of a species to better fit their environment, whatever those differences are.
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Eb 3 years ago
If it's freely chosen, I agree, but it's so tightly bound up with human trafficking, modern slavery, drugs and other abuse that it's hard for many of us to think about in isolation.
Amy S 3 years ago
If it was legal sex workers could go to the police for help, it could be regulated and protections put in place. While it's illegal victims don't go to the police for fear of being prosecuted themselves.
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Robin DJW 3 years ago
I agree, too, but isn't this more political than scientific? I'm open to rebuttal.
Phil Vaive 3 years ago
It's okay, you can say the words "the bible". The bible has been responsible for immeasurable suffering based on its misrepresentations.
DC 3 years ago
Sure it should! Same for ... a lot of things (don't wanna distract here), but ... look at them. Look at people voting "No Tolerance!" - what'ya expect from these? Thoughts? Wake up, must be dreaming. They're braindead, and should be considered a danger to decent ethics and progress in general. Fuggem!
Bob D. Lin Quint 3 years ago
But but what about my 2,000 year old book? Surely it got everything right forever
J 3 years ago
Regulate it. It will make it harder for traffickers, dealers, pimps etc to become involved. It would allow agencies to make sure that sex workers can access health care and drug treatment and allows the government to access additional income through taxes, rather than in the pockets of criminals. I speak from the UK, I don't think this would work in all countries.
“People get tiny bite-sized bits of news by scrolling a Twitter feed, they entertain themselves by scrolling quickly through Instagram and TikTok. It’s creating a habit that doesn’t have to be," he warned.
"The good news is there’s plenty of long-form entertainment and news available, you just have to seek it out. I believe the benefit is worth it. I’ve discovered it improves your ability to focus, it’s more calming, you retain more information, and it gives you a more balanced and nuanced view of the world."
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Judes 3 years ago
I think she's saying that there will never be a single cure for cancer (hence the ".." around cure), not that we'll never be able to cure all cancers.
Miss Cris 3 years ago
The ".." should be around "a". To say a single cure to all cancers.
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It would need a repair at the genetic level which isn't that inconceivable.
Nicky 3 years ago
There are cures for individual types of cancer like the HPV vaccine preventing most cervical cancers!
Amanda Nolting 3 years ago
Yes but that's not a cure. That's a preventative measure. Just like not smoking is a preventative measure. To cure it means someone already has to have it.
Load More Replies... Thomas Ewing 3 years ago
Slow it down, yes, but never cure. Death cures it pretty well, though.
Christina Uhlir 3 years ago (edited)
....but there's the way to stay healthy: plant-based diet, clean bodies, cleaner planet. The animal agriculture is the biggest polluter.
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Octavia Hansen 3 years ago
Again . . . birth control would reverse this cycle. Human answer to just about everything is MORE MORE MORE, and supply will NEVER keep up . . .
Amanda Nolting 3 years ago
Fortunately birth rates are going down. Yes the world is wildly overpopulated But the baby boomer generation is aging quickly. The generations of families having 8 to 12 kids to help with farm work are quickly dying out. People are having less kids or no kids as it's becoming socially acceptable. Choosing to have an abortion is gaining support. We're overpopulated now. But in a couple of generations that won't be the case at all.
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Frankenfrog 3 years ago
Let people work from home, work at different schedules. Not everyone needs to work 9-5 and not everyone needs to work in an office when their job could be done even better from home.
DC 3 years ago
Not always. I have to disagree here, and make this point valid by stating that I live in a city that, after WW2, was rebuilt as "autogerechte Stadt" (=car-adapted city), and in the nineties, they started reducing some streets' and crossroads capacity massively, for example by taking away lanes to turn right adjacent to the actual crossroad, skipping the traffic light for right-turners. Takes them out of the actual crossroad's load of traffic, and is efficient and safe. But, making the use of your car less convenient ... didn't work as planned, as driving in a major city nowadays sucks anyway, only people with an at least somewhat valid reason do so ... and they took away the Aegi-bridge, too (now, guess where I'm from, huh ... ?). Which sucks.
An Co 3 years ago
The proper solution to too much traffic is to build sky scraper condos near the city center and good public transportation connecting them to the city center. They should include a playground for children INSIDE the condo complex.
Eiram 3 years ago
This was tried... people decided they didn't like never leaving a single building to do all their daily life activities. Check out history.
Load More Replies... Darren Seabolt 4 months ago
Actually, science and religion can work hand in hand if it's the right ones.
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Helena R 3 years ago
I work in a hospital lab, we run 24/7 to get results for patients. We get almost no recognition despite how qualified and hard we all work. Hospitals would not be able to operate without us, unless you just want to guess how sick people actually are. Same goes for pharmacy
Ozacoter 3 years ago
Thanks for your effort. I know a lot of biologists in fertility clinics and its the same. The doc gets all the praise.
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Kate Jones 3 years ago
Although there is something to be said for doctoring in the 1800s.... it might be nice if the cure for my migraine would still be heroin and vibrators.
Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
Is this reseachers or the people who run blood samples? Only 11 US states require lab techs be certified to a certain minimum standard.
Shana White 3 years ago
*and radiologists and any other healthcare professionals, nurses included, that are trained to assist in diagnoses. Medicine is always a group effort.
Kate Jones 3 years ago
lol it's like old timey cops who used to solve crimes based on instinct and then dna came along and it was like...eureka! And suddenly we find that we can barely prosecute people anymore without dna evidence. How many people were convicted on 'gut' feelings and bad testimony that is so wrong and biased.... science for the win, thank you.
james amen 3 years ago
Well, i guess, then, that more-and-more doctors are having less-and-less to do with clinical laboratory scientists....
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Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
This is why the US practice of 8 weeks of maternity leave is so damaging. I firmly believe that one parent needs to stay with kids until they're old enough for school, and it doesn't matter which parent. The fact that families now need two full-time incomes to survive is proof that capitalism is deadly to a healthy society.
Ozacoter 3 years ago
I think that at least the kid needs to be with their family the first 2y. Ideally. But we should start with 6m leave for each parent (non transferable so the dad also does it) plus 2m pregnancy leave. Then the kid at least would have one their parents at home for the first year.
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Robin DJW 3 years ago
Please define "attachment" as used in the tip. I think I know, but as written, it could be a hundred things.
Robert T 3 years ago
Well the one I am pretty sure it is not, is an email attachment. So that just leaves 99 others...
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Arun Manickam 3 years ago
In India mothers get 24 weeks paid maternity leave which can be extended upto 2 years and still be considered in-service while considering for promotion. The sad part is we fathers only get 15 days for all the hardwork 😩
Eiram 3 years ago (edited)
Please be careful with this concept. It's not scientific. My mother claims the few hours she was being repaired after my birth (the most damaging birth of all her 7 children) and my gender (the first girl after three boys) are the reasons she never felt "attachment" to me. It is an obvious excuse for a lifetime of her ignoring me. I blame other things (low IQ, easy to manipulate, too many kids, I'm not one of the problem children so my problems don't matter, etc.)
Kathy 3 years ago
Oh, that's so sad! Some parents never feel attachment to their children, and sometimes it's just a specific child that they can't bond with, while they have no such problems with their other children. Parent-child bonding resulting in healthy 'attachment' isn't always something which comes naturally, but methods are usually available to help those willing to take the time and effort to change that.
Load More Replies... james amen 3 years ago
Dr P, 'getting it right' can only occur as long as attachment is *Always* through expressions of genuine love. Otherwise, without genuine love being the very centre of our interactions with children, then one's attachment to children will only be hollow, dead, and wrong.
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Libstak 3 years ago
The material world needs science to comprehend it. Religion tries to understand our complex sense of self and is not nor should it be focussed on material things.
Lathari 3 years ago
But it isn't even doing a good job of that. Modern approach to mental ailments is parsecs ahead of religion in allowing people to live their lives if not happily but at least with a semblance of normality.
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Cuppa tea? 3 years ago
Science is trusting the data. Religion is believing into something, even without proof.
Paul Howard 3 years ago
"If a 'religion' is defined to be a system of ideas that contains unprovable statements, then Gödel taught us that mathematics is not only a religion, it is the only religion that can prove itself to be one." - John D. Barrow, The Artful Universe (1995).
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Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! 3 years ago
Science asks questions it tries to answer. Religion gives answers that can't be questioned.
Troux 3 years ago
One way of picturing the difference: Imagine a "connect the dots" image but with no numbers, just the dots themselves. Science attempts to determine the numbered order and find information on the original image source in order to recreate it most accurately, and will fill in the numbers along the way so that future generations can redraw the same connected lines, but will almost certainly never connect all of the dots. The research is prudent so there's reason to trust it. Religion connects the dots in a way that is familiar, reassuring and conclusive. The picture is complete and the story is told, so there's no room or reason to doubt it.
Niall Mac Iomera 3 years ago
No. Religion just draws its own dots and threatens to kill you if you disagree
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ZAPanda 3 years ago
Science uses data, measurement, testing and when counter-evidence comes up, it accepts the refutation and comes up with a new theory. Just by using that simple method, it has created computers, jets, and mars rovers. Religion, however, uses "received faith", an old book, "received faith", and rejects any counter-evidence with convoluted arguments like "the devil is misleading us" or "god is testing our faith" etc etc. And what has it achieved? Witch hunts, crusades, oppression of women and nonwhites, mass murder, the ongoing disaster in the middle east for the last 5000 years, burning at the stake, the breaking wheel, the iron maiden (not the band, they're cool), and... er...? Some quaint old buildings made with slave labour?
Ozacoter 3 years ago
Also religion never updates unlike science. I cannot care less that in the iron age slavery, rape and pedophilia were normal. Now they are not and I refuse to trust any person who defends a book like the bible that contains examples of all kinds of crimes against humans. For example the other day one spanish bishop was reiterating how gay people are sinful. That same bishop said once that 13yo boys often tempt you and try to seduce you, that they want sex. No, sorry. Nobody should be supporting a church that pays this kind of men.
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Eiram 3 years ago
Science is measurable, repeatable, using a specific method to get unkown results. Religion is just belief and faith with nothing provable or measurable and based on a written or verbal set of rules and history that decides beforehand what the results will be. These are not comparable, but they can be compatable.
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Robert T 3 years ago
I'm just imagining the T-Rex trying to use an iPad to order the food for the week. LOL
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Scagsy 3 years ago (edited)
Do you have to have the shoes? Can I just run without them? Finding a pair is only going to slow me down. What if I'm not near a mall? I need answers.
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Mark Howell 3 years ago
A T-Rex could only look at an I-Pad, it's arms are too short to be able to swipe the screen ;o)
Thomas Turnbull 3 years ago
Then again a T-Rex would not be able to use an iPad with such little arms
GC Rovario-Cole 3 years ago
Though, the T.Rex's arms just weren't long enough to operate the iPad.
grey galah 3 years ago
Dinosaurs lived for such a long long time compared with humans....oh wait! Birds
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Carmen Sandiego 3 years ago
You could've at yeast given us a warning (very punny, put that coat back)
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Jake Burger 3 years ago
If only fungi know, how do we know? And how do we know that they know?
Devil's Advocate 3 years ago
It's actually more than 30,000, but they're not even close to the sexes we think of as humans so...
Hugh Cookson 3 years ago
Wow, if incarnation is a thing, I'd love to come back as a fun guy (geddit - cha cha ting)
Kathy 3 years ago
Apparently, each sex of fungi only needs to be able to identify other fungi of their exact same sex - and then avoid having reproductive sex with them, because genetically they won't be able to have offspring with them! They can then happily 'reproduce' to their hearts content with any of the other thousands of fungi sexes, producing more and more possible permutations of definitive sexes as they go... Isn't nature just truly incredible?!
Kathy 3 years ago (edited)
Way, way too much! How selfish of them! We simply can't allow that kind of excessively salacious behavior, they will just have to settle for a few hundred and leave the rest for all the other sexually deprived lifeforms!
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Christina Uhlir 3 years ago
Agree!!! Phytochemicals - nutrients made by plants are essential for human health as well.
Thomas Sweda 3 years ago
You could say that about many things on the planet. Trees! Water ! Soil! BEER ,
M O'Connell 3 years ago
Their discarded shells make up considerable amounts of sedimentary carbonaceous rocks!
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Robin DJW 3 years ago
I agree wholeheartedly, T. Relationships with others will always be spiked if we are not at ease with ourselves.
Load More Replies... Phil Vaive 3 years ago
This one seems to be forgetting that mental illness exists. Or dismissing it. Either way, it's not great, or correct by any means.
Thomas Ewing 3 years ago
Liking yourself is paramount to good mental health. Don't depend on others for your self-esteem. Be strong and grow!
Parmeisan 3 years ago
Kinda makes you think, on a philosophical level, what would Heaven even look like? Can any of us even describe our own perfect world? Most of us (even the introverts) would not want to be 100% alone forever, but as soon as you introduce people to your world you introduce misunderstandings, disagreements, and pain. I think about this sometimes.
Load More Replies... Cathy Jo Baker 3 years ago
My thoughts exactly! Any schoolteacher out there already knows this!
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postboredom 3 years ago
There is a whole industry about this for years. From how we can learn how to compute like a cell to collecting water like a beetle
Devil's Advocate 3 years ago
Not necessarily true, some things in nature are terribly ineffective or inefficient, but they are the limit of biology. A normal electric pump is better than the heart, for instance, but there's nothing biological that could perform that way
MikeWheelerFan 3 years ago
And that, my friends, is how CRISPR came about. The thing that might change the lives of future children who would otherwise have disabilities.
Daniel Marsh 3 years ago
YES! And nature almost NEVER does ANYTHING by centralization, institutionalizing or reducing potential outcomes.
Daniel Marsh 3 years ago
Dung Beatles move very heavy objects by rounding them off and rolling them.
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Tiny Dynamine 3 years ago
From all of the light thrown out by the sun, a miniscule amount of it reaches the earth, but it's enough to keep the planet alive and it will do this for billions of years.
v 3 years ago
This is more amazing to me than the timescale posted by OP.
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Thomas Sweda 3 years ago
That is really interesting. And every time you see a star, you’re looking at ancient history. It made have already been destroyed.
Gandalf the Pink 3 years ago
This is a common pop science perspective but it isn't really accurate. That you are looking at ancient history assumes there is a universal point of reference which we can define history from, but there isn't. There is no universal time, or simultaneity, or even any universal agreement on the order of things. But the biggest unjustice to nature here is the misunderstanding of the speed of light. Light from a star didn't just take thousands of years to reach us, but it got here as fast as it could, at the speed of information itself. At the speed of nowness. The stars you look at are as much now as possible, they can't under any circumstance be more now than they are. There is no future star there that has already died, because your universe only makes sense from your point of reference, and it hasn't died yet. You cannot access the future it dies any faster than time already passes. This is the weird unintuitive nature of relativity that is so hard to wrap one's head around.
Load More Replies... Glirpy 3 years ago (edited)
Pretty sure this is just a guess. I'd like to know how humans could measure this?
Pixie 3 years ago
Physics and math, not measurement. Knowing how photons behave, and knowing what's happening inside the sun, how the atoms and protons/electrons there behave, gravity of the suns mass and the outward force of energie and light and how it all interacts. I'm afraid my amateur astronomic knowledge together with my non-native english isn't up to an deeper explanation, sorry.
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Cold Contagious 3 years ago
I agree. I also think that for some people, they need to be made more aware of the problem and I believe that for other people, they are already well aware of the problem and utilize it to others detriment.
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Donkey boi 3 years ago
Care to actually read the tweet? Let me help you by highlighting the important bits, 'systemic OPPRESSION and DISCRIMINATION f**k with psychological and physical health'. Where does he mention race? Does he mention a location? The fact that you jump to race says an awful lot about you. People with disabilities (mental and physical), different genders, sexual orientations, heck even people that play dungeons and dragons, the list is endless and they have all been oppressed, discriminated against and just generally treated as inferior. Until you can read that, understand it, and not get offended, you are one of the people that oppresses and discriminates! P.S. Biden is not my president! My president is Michael D. Higgins.
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Greg Heffley 3 years ago (edited)
I really wish there is a way to report trollers like @DillonHughes
ZAPanda 3 years ago
just hit the downvote button till his score is in the minuses, and remind him about tinder so he can get a date, because he's obviously not got a life.
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ZAPanda 3 years ago
yeah. you know, it's only been a year since the last iphone came out. Did they test that thing properly? I mean it might be pumping your brain full of radiation or explode! /s/
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TS Rhodes 3 years ago
As my mom always said, "I'd rather have siders than whatever it is they are eating!"
Pezor Zass 3 years ago
Exactly! i don't know why more people don't get this. it's so obvious!
Load More Replies... M O'Connell 3 years ago
If they are in your space, that means there is a source of food in your space, and they are taking care of that problem for you.
Load More Replies... TrashPandaSociety 3 years ago
Not if that mother forking spider drops slowly down from the ceiling in my basement, then drops quickly to the floor and charges at me. I will rage stomp it to death, thank you.
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Daniel Marsh 3 years ago
No language is natural to anyone. Colonizers' babies aren't born speaking a particular language any more than someone who is indigenous. Thinking of one dialect as oppressive and another as victim will only trap the already under-privileged into a life of hardship, poverty, and bitterness. In fact, the way societies have deliberately maintained an underclass is by maintaining an illiterate population.
Nicky 3 years ago
Usually the most influential city has the established accent/dialect. The exception is the US - because of anti-Semitism and a fondness for mid-Western broadcaster Murray, the NY accent is looked down upon in favor of the more standard mid-Western one.
Diane Aguilar 3 years ago
Well, that's a ridiculous assertion with zero basis in reality. Jewish people exist everywhere in the U.S. and have all sorts of accents and the flat Midwestern accent became the ideal standard because it was the easiest accent for television viewers to comprehend when TV became a widespread medium in the 1950s (before then, when movies were king, the ideal standard was the mid-Atlantic accent, e.g. the way Cary Grant or Katherine Hepburn talked); your statements are in fact vaguely anti-Semitic because they rely on hoary old Jewish-American stereotypes.
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DC 3 years ago
THIS applies for every field that has been mentioned here so far. Be it physics, engineering, research or development - it's a systematic of systematics, so to say, that seeks to prove things ... or to make use of the proben things, and prove they improve against what was before (in regard to technology).
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Bunzilla 3 years ago
While we're not 100% responsible, we are guilty of worsening it and speeding it up exponentially. Technically we're still coming out of the last ice age. If it was happening naturally, species (including humans) would have more time to adapt to the changing climate. Honestly, we know who the top contributors are, but everyone is too hesitant to go after them for it. Corporations have far too much power.
M O'Connell 3 years ago
The consequences of a rise in global average temperature are not confined to temperature, nor are they evenly distributed across the planet. An increase in temps causes more violent and less-predictable weather patterns. Here in North America we depend on the jet stream to confine polar winds to high latitudes to moderate winter temperatures. A warming globe weakens the jet stream and actually causes more severe cold weather in wintertime.
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Vetus Vespertilio 3 years ago
If you could take your head out of your nether passage long enough to notice that higher Covid vaccination rates mean fewer Covid deaths, you’d be mortified by all the schmegegge that spews out of your brain.
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Tiny Dynamine 3 years ago
Hmm, they're the current creatures mostly closely related to dinosaurs, you mean.
Henry Cheves 3 years ago
No, they are the same. You don't get to evolve out of being something. I can't believe you're trying to correct an expert in their field on a "What should everyone know" thread.
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Ok. I'm going to eat some dinosaur now. I wonder if T-rex tastes like chicken though.
Gin. No tonic 3 years ago
Pterosaurus was a flying reptile = NOT a dinosaur, but a bird IS a dinosaur? Wtf?
Daniel Marsh 3 years ago
No no no no no no no no no no NO. That's like saying humans are lungfish. Cladistics are helpful for morphology, but stupid as Hell to impose on English.
Phi 3 years ago
Nope, it's like saying that humans are mammals. Dinosaurs are a general group/categoy and no one animal like monkeys.
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Annamagelic 3 years ago
"Baby Sign Language" is a thing many parents of hearing children teach their babies to facilitate early communication and is thought to HELP with spoken language development. I can't understand why parents of deaf children would deny their children a useful communication tool like sign language.
Gin. No tonic 3 years ago
Can someone explain how an implant does not turn deaf people into hearing people? Is it physical, cultural, disability-wise or...? I can understand that hearing doesn't mean that a person can understand the language (meaning of sounds), or that learning any language (including sign) doesn't interfere with learning any other. But how is that person not hearing?
Jyri Hakola 3 years ago
One fact behind this bit sensitive debate is the fact that after the introduction of coclear implants many of the sign languages especially in the smaller countries have begun to be a dying languages with very few new native speakers annually and the deaf community have sense that also their culture is also slowly dying due medical progress.
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Grumble O'Pug 3 years ago
Microplastics are an issue. There is still emerging research on how it affects our biome
M O'Connell 3 years ago
Food comes from outdoors and is handled outdoors. Everything can possibly have dirt and soil microbes on it, or insect parts, or 'foreign material' like sand, dust, or plant material. It's just how things work.
ZAPanda 3 years ago (edited)
there is no magic that gets added to a chemical whether a "man" makes it or nature makes it. NaCL in the ocean is chemically and atomically identical to lab salt. The same applies to any other chemicals you care to name. The *only* unnatural chemicals I can think of, that is, that DO NOT appear in nature, are some dyes, pesticides and plastics (specifically petrochemical plastics). MSG for example is a salt made by fermenting and distilling certain natural juices etc. It does NOT have to be made in a factory, and chemically there's zero difference between that and factory-made. Just look here and fear no more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bka20Q9TN6M
Load More Replies... Dillon Hughes 3 years ago
No s**t... Dehydrated food still have mostiure... Salt and sugar are chemicals, ya know nao2 and stuff
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Libstak 3 years ago
As someone who is alive because of surgery and whose sister and parents are also alive because of the same, this makes me rage, it is so unfair.
Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
Right? I would have died so many times without prompt surgery, from a caesarean to arterial stent implant to appendectomy...
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Kristina Kolacia 3 years ago
Idk what is supposed to be 'safe' surgery but in my country (light red on the map), we get an ambulance and surgery covered by health insurance even if we don't have a job. USA is all pinky here but surgery can send you into crippling debt. :D so you can have a better surgery theoretically, we have a good enough surgery for sure.
Samantha Lomb 3 years ago
I agree. Russia is red but safe surgery is totally a thing here and again ambulance is free and even cancer treatment affordable.
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Psycho Cat 3 years ago
Are you sure you haven't mixed up your colours? Because here in Serbia, we all have access to safe surgery which does not cost us our entire savings account, house, soul and more. I'm pretty sure that this map is not accurate.
ZAPanda 3 years ago
american propaganda. I am sure 'safe surgery' is american codeword here for 'you have to pay for it'.
Load More Replies... Gin. No tonic 3 years ago
According to this map, it's the other way around (light red - full access, dark red - no access)
Load More Replies... Miss Frankfurter 3 years ago
And.... there is no such thing as minor surgery. There's so much that can go wrong, even with that.
MotherofGuineaPigs 3 years ago
We have access to surgery in the US, but not necessarily the means
TrashPandaSociety 3 years ago
Don't forget the USA, where life saving surgeries are not available to people on state aid healthcare, because most surgeons won't take state-aid healthcare plans. So millions of people in the USA die at home.
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Karis Ravenhill 3 years ago
"Just because I talk with an accent, doesn't mean I think with an accent".
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Eb 3 years ago
True, and yet so many seem to reject the lived personal reality of emotions and beliefs that dictate so much of what humans do and are!
Evil Little Thing 3 years ago
We aren't rejecting that you feel and believe the way you do, we are rejecting the assumption that your feelings and beliefs are equivalent to facts. People believe all kinds of nonsensical things, and many feel strongly about their beliefs. That doesn't make them true.
Load More Replies... Vetus Vespertilio 3 years ago
Some people’s minds are so open you could drive a Humvee through them without touching the sides.
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Lathari 3 years ago
When wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone national park, revenues from fishing went up. Wolves ate deers, allowing more trees and shrubberies to grow, reducing erosion, leading to cleaner water in rivers and streams, increasing fish populations leading to more recreational fishing with more licenses and gear sold.
LivingTheDream 3 years ago
Thank you Captain Obvious. Your work here is done.
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LivingTheDream 3 years ago
please stop and study how an ecosystem functions. Also, try a few English courses.
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T. Hornworm 3 years ago
Uh, wouldn't all psychological things be connected to brain mechanisms?
Ashley Schriber 3 years ago
Yes. I believe the point is that certain psychological things are thought to be hardwired unchangeable *simply because* there is evidence linking them to brain mechanisms, which is not how it works. Brain mechanisms can be linked to stuff that can be changed and stuff that can't; stuff that is hardwired and stuff that is influenced by life experience and environment.
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Empirically it does. How many psychopaths have changed the way they feel or indeed don't feel?
Ashley Schriber 3 years ago
The claim is not that *everything* connected to a certain brain mechanism can be changed; it's that connection to a certain brain mechanism doesn't prove something is unchangeable. As another poster mentioned, everything we experience is connected to a physiological mechanism.
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Busy Panda 3 years ago
So instead of "conspiracy theory", we should call it "conspiracy hypothesis"?🤔
Daniel Marsh 3 years ago (edited)
I can't believe this guy is a scientist. "Theory" is "working presumption." While its unhelpful when people regard theories as mere hypotheses, science ends when theories are treated as facts.
Henry Cheves 3 years ago
It is my theory that you're wrong, and you should stop trying to disprove experts.
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PattonPawter 3 years ago
No idea what the animal in the photo is, could another Panda please tell me?
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Miss Frankfurter 3 years ago (edited)
Without bacteria, when we are children our immune systems won't develope as well. They need to be introduced to it in order to develope. Of course not the awful ones. But basic environmental stuff that is non-harmful, but we come across in everyday life. When I was born I spent 48 days in an incubator and didn't go home until I was 3 months old. In the nursery that long. When I got home my Mom didn't sterilize by bottles, just washed well in dishsoap and rinsed well in very hot water. My grandmother went ballistic. Mom said "She's just spent 3 months in the nursery. She wouldn't know what to do with a germ if she came across one. Her body has to learn that.". Said back in the mid 50's and since proven scientifically correct. Science has shown that antibacterial soaps aren't doing kids any favors.
Ashley Schriber 3 years ago
This is why I did not upvote the "look what's in sea water!" picture. A picture of microorganisms doesn't tell you anything. What are they and what effect will they have?
Bacony Cakes 3 years ago
It just looks like a bunch of copepods and some kinda crustacean larva. Worst case scenario, the new season of Spongebob takes place in your oesophagus.
Load More Replies... ZAPanda 3 years ago
You don't have to comment if you have nothing useful to say.
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Miss Frankfurter 3 years ago (edited)
Oh how true! Not just the immune system effects. It not only can make you nauseous, but the cells of your digestive system are the fastest replicating cells in your body. Mouth sores that make it not only difficult to eat, but also drink and talk. Anemia and need for transfusions. Get too much of a certain kind of chemo, you can lose your hearing. Until we can develope targeted therapies, chemo isn't picky about what cells it will go after. Even healthy ones.
LivingTheDream 3 years ago
I still have some neuropathy in my fingers and feet from chemo two years ago. Small price to pay for the chance to live a long life
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Caroline Nagel 3 years ago
My mom was grey when she got cancer, but with the chemo she received for her cancer her hair turned black again. No, not everybody who needs chemotherapie looses their hair.
Miss Frankfurter 3 years ago
Also had a patient who previously had straight hair. It came back with beautiful curls.
Load More Replies... LivingTheDream 3 years ago
Take your disinformation elsewhere. Idiots like you kill people.
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Henry Cheves 3 years ago
If you destroy all religious texts and all scientific texts, eventually, all the scientific texts will be recreated. But the religious texts might never come back at all, because they cannot be proven through trial and error.
John L 3 years ago (edited)
I disagree with this. Although I am not religious, I believe that religion (believing in a higher being or state) existed before scientific principals. Ancient man buried one another and performed rites, before fire was invented. Even some modern animals do this and they have no science.
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I hate this stupidity on so many levels. (1) Nothing spreads misinformation like censorship. (2) Science ITSELF is based on skepticism of science. (3) People distrust "science" chiefly because they distrust the bureaucrats who announce themselves the arbiters of science. (4) Writing skeptics off as "anti-science" while refusing to condescend to the great unwashed by explaining to them. (5) Greater harm to science? Using the authority of science to promote beliefs (psychology, sociology, anthropology, literary criticism) promotes anti-science. Using science to "disprove" religion promotes anti-science. Demanding we all "follow the science" when science hasn't had time to discern the truth promotes anti-science. Using overly broad, simplistic assertions because the commonfolk won't be properly manipulated by the more nuanced truth promotes anti-science. Misrepresenting science to claim greater certainty or more dire consequences because you want to use science to demand urgent, necessary responses to foreseen crises promotes anti-science.
Daniel Marsh 3 years ago (edited)
God, how I wish Dr. Fauci had said, "if we contain coronavirus successfully, you'll be much safer than if you wear a mask during a full-blown pandemic" when he wanted people to let people who needed masks have them, and that he said, "masks still won't keep you safe, but they can help slow the spread of coronavirus" when he wanted people to wear them. Instead, he lied about "emerging research" which did not exist. Likewise, these campaigns of deceit against treatments like ivermectin are going to set back trust in medicine and vaccines a hundred years; there is an enormous difference between, "insufficient scientific safeguards" and "no evidence whatsoever."
Load More Replies... Caroline Nagel 3 years ago
Yes, scientists have made mistakes, but they are willing to learn, do research and admit they were wrong.
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Dillon Hughes 3 years ago
I thanked my vet profusely every time he had to put one of my pups down... Their job requires so much brains and heart...
aubergine10003 3 years ago
Pet insurance is mostly a scam, though. The monthly payments are about equal to what you might be reimbursed for any sort of routine care (and even lower-end emergency care).
John L 3 years ago
Actually it depends. For people who understand (and accept) that pets have shorter lifespans, yes. For those who think medical advances can keep pets alive (and typically suffering), because they can't lose "muffy", it makes sense.
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Some people in UK are horrified by vet bills. Well that's what humans would be looking at without the NHS
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Kiwii Stone 3 years ago
Surely this emphasises that extinction is a natural event as species evolve?
Becky Samuel 3 years ago
Yes. There is a natural background level of extinction that is completely natural. However, human beings have accelerated this rate by many, many thousands of times.
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Miss Frankfurter 3 years ago
Because if it's empty land, it's not being used. We feel the need to build on empty spaces. Otherwise it's "useless" land. We're idiots. If I won the lottery, I'd buy a huge swath of land and do absolutely nothing with it. Just let it be what it is. Wetlands and all.
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LivingTheDream 3 years ago
This should be higher. The push to maximize crop output has created a scenario where all crops could be destroyed by a single event due to their homogeny. Multiple strains have a better chance of at least one or more surviving in the event of a disaster.
Grumble O'Pug 3 years ago
People forget that with diversity if an event wipes out a swath of similar species, then the remaining ones will start the process of filling the niches left open and create new species….or so Darwin said
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M O'Connell 3 years ago
Normal cycles in the climate are gradual and proceed over a long time-scale. Anthropogenic climate change has been exceptionally rapid. Religious texts are not a valid source of scientific information because there are no sources within them which can be validated.
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lunar eclipse 3 years ago
Yes. No need to ditch culture to obtain modernity. You can be modern while being cultural
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Cuppa tea? 3 years ago
I think it's more psychological addiction rather than physical. Just the knowledge one took the drug is more satisfying than the drug effect.
BasedWang 3 years ago
dunno why the donvotes... I would say this is fairly true
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PeopleAreGaySteven 3 years ago
your comment starts out awful, really, because i think you’d be surprised how many use drugs and are not addicted. but in the end, i had to upvote (despite other comments you’ve made) because this is a genuinely good thing to offer.
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BasedWang 3 years ago
nah brah. Literally did blow like three different times last year and still got some in my drawer. Never tempted to reach for it. About once every few years I feel like gettin high off lean again, but thats about it. Few days in the summer might pop a unnecessary Vicodin because I like to grill and chill. But never reach for the multiple bottles that I can. I wouldn't really call that denial. Just that I like to get high and make bad decisions every now and again
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Dillon Hughes 3 years ago
Duh... That's why I have roses next to my tomatots. The roses get sick faster to tell me if I need to help the tomatoes out. Everything gets sick and dies, its called life.
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Daniel Marsh 3 years ago
All dialects operate under shared conventions so that they can function as communication between people who share those conventions in the context in which they are used. But rules are taught to increase clarity, beyond informal, familial speech. Sometimes people take them too far: in English, a dangling participle invites confusion, but a strict rule against dangling participles requires a formalism up with which we shall not put. But, it's still good advice to avoid them.
Frances M 3 years ago
I know. Science is “the study of xxx” and there is no limitations on what xxx means.
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Henry Cheves 3 years ago
75% percent of all known organisms are beetles, which means that there's a 1 in 4 chance that anyone you meet is SECRETLY A BEETLE! -Emily from QC
Daniel Marsh 3 years ago
Funny, but not close to true. Only about 1 in 4 INSECTS are beetles.
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Vetus Vespertilio 3 years ago
Well up to your usual linguistic standards, I see.
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Bunzilla 3 years ago
This is why I don't agree with this insistence that all life in the universe needs water. All (or most?) of the organisms that evolved on Earth evolved to use water and oxygen because that's what was what was available here. We evolved to take advantage of it! Heck, maybe we're the outliers in the universe if liquid water is so rare.
Daniel Marsh 3 years ago
Don't misunderstand the OP. Bacteria growing on desert sands is still mostly made out of water. But then there's an unbelievable amount of water throughout the universe, even in the space between star systems.
Load More Replies... Dillon Hughes 3 years ago
Yea their called air plants, so yea even plants, its very common. Their in my ward right now
M O'Connell 3 years ago
If you are referring to Tillandsia, they still need water. They are adapted to living without soil in the branches of other plants and rely on humid air and condensation for water. If you are keeping them indoors they do need to be watered periodically.
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Daniel Marsh 3 years ago
But get this: Water/Ice is the ONLY substance which EXPANDS when it freezes. If lakes were made of ANY other substance, they would freeze from the bottom up and make surviving a freeze impossible. (Fact-checking on myself: Certain metals expand as they solidify, but do so at temperatures way, way, way, way above water's boiling point)
Jyri Hakola 3 years ago
Everyone whose hobby at wintertimes is ice fishing knows this even without the help of the science….
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Jyri Hakola 3 years ago
Ther are indeed plenty of microbes in human body but the number of 50% sounds that oddly high that I’ll follow the good scientific practice and ask a reference for this claim.
M O'Connell 3 years ago
Ballpark 50% of the number of cells, but the microbes themselves only make up 1-3% of total mass. See the National Institute of Health Microbiome Project, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/43021?report=HMP
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Nathan Pogorzala 3 years ago
Damn near everything is in a symbiotic relationship, every cell, every being.
Dillon Hughes 3 years ago
That's not hard to believe... Tonight I'm going to be about %1nachos! Nom 2lds or diclious!
d bradley 3 years ago
finally, throwing out an interesting scientific fact without trying to hit someone in the head
ZAPanda 3 years ago
Approximately half the population needs the hit in the head, which is why they get the "one tweet" to make an impact rather than just entertain.
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Miss Frankfurter 3 years ago
Tell that to a little girl back in the 60's who so wanted to be an astronomer. Needless to say, I'm not an astronomer, but it's a pretty great hobby.
Caroline Nagel 3 years ago
Loads of amateur astronomers make significant discoveries.
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Exceptional intelligence is kinda necessary. But guidance councellors, curriculum designers, etc., often have a pretty shitty idea as to what demonstrates intelligence.
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LivingTheDream 3 years ago
Not weird but thanks for labeling such a large population of the world based on your world views. I would think that someone who understands science would be aware of how eggs of all kinds have provided a good source of food for for millions of years.
DC 3 years ago
... and you didn't think of the possibility that this might be meant in a lighthearted, humorous way? Damned, those people eating animal materials never take any jokes any well, just always brag about being a superior species and cry whenever their illusion is questioned, even in the most innocent way thinkable...
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Nathan Pogorzala 3 years ago
You think chickens lay eggs strictly for human consumption?
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Robin DJW 3 years ago
My family had a few dozen songs that we sang as a family on long car trips. Silly songs, love songs, clever songs, rounds... Also carols that we sang on Christmas eve... so many times, so much music. None of us was trained singers, no one played an instrument, but we had lots of music.
Pezor Zass 3 years ago
are you a professional troll, or just a gifted amateur?
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Becky Samuel 3 years ago
Hmmm. Not buying this one. I can drink cheapo wine straight from the barrel all day, but one glass of supermarket plonk and I have the headache from hell.
BasedWang 3 years ago
I know this is an expert, but I don't think its 100% true. In perfect situations it is, but theres alot of population who react to sulfites negatively. Alotta allergic reactions and can trigger asthma issues. Other than that in people without these reactions, then yes this is 100% correct
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 3 years ago
Some people are more sensitive to sulfites than others. Some people are even allergic to them.
ZAPanda 3 years ago
headache is not allergy... allergy is if your face swells up with hives or you get an asthma attack...
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Miss Frankfurter 3 years ago
You can go on the internet and find a picture that the Hubble telescope took on the month and day you were born. For those of us old folks, not the year of course, but it's pretty cool. Also, on YouTube you can go to NASA site and here the wind ON MARS!!
Pixie 3 years ago
Many of the space projects from NASA have their own twitter account, the mars rovers, and the new webb telescope just blocked the sun ('s twitter account), because it needs darkness. NASA is great on Twitter.
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Dillon Hughes 3 years ago
If you adapt that makes it ideal.... Every organism adapts to live in their ideal climate
BasedWang 3 years ago (edited)
Ideal for the individual, not necessarily earth though. Which when she starts burning out however long in the future, I would say that would be less than ideal for humans. well and everything else that can't keep adapting
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Daniel Marsh 3 years ago
All but one lineage of dinosaurs did go extinct. The ones that didn't go extinct solved natural challenges in ways other than those which defined the dinosaurs. Dinosaurs could run without losing their breath; birds fly. Dinosaurs maintained heat by using their size; birds developed quills (which dinosaurs did have) into complex feathers (which no, all but the dinosaurs which evolved into birds did NOT have). Calling a bird a dinosaur makes little more sense than calling a human a lungfish.
Nicess 3 years ago
So according to your logic, in order to avoid extinction they had to downsize... I wonder how humans will do that.
Grumble O'Pug 3 years ago
They filled the niche that allowed them to thrive. Megafauna birds still exist (ostrich), but the mammals pretty much got killed off (at keast we still have the moose)
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Didn't you know that penguins rule the oceans? They're not called emperor penguins for nothing ;-)
Load More Replies... ZAPanda 3 years ago
Hopefully some (rightwingers) will go extinct from ignoring scientific advice, but we can only hope.
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LivingTheDream 3 years ago
When I was diagnosed with Cancer, the first thing I was told was "DO NOT go to the internet for this"
Evil Little Thing 3 years ago
No. Placebos affect the severity by which you judge your subjective experience with your illness - they make you *feel* a bit better. They *do not* do things like shrink tumors.
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Lathari 3 years ago
Using multiple different crops and strains, preventing monocultures. Using crop rotation and fallowing to reduce fertiliser usage. Having at least few wide ditches with bushes in them for birds to nest -> less need for pesticides. Have wide enough runoff areas to use up washed off fertilisers. Make sure pollinators have habitats. Those should be good start.
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Grumble O'Pug 3 years ago
I live in farming country and see the waste water with too much fertilizer
Nicess 3 years ago
People, listen up! Living is bad, but we have to do it anyway! Stop making me feel guilty all the time.
Pezor Zass 3 years ago
The point is to try to do as little damage as possible. You don't have to feel guilty for existing, just be aware and be careful.
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It's so kind of you to grace us with your wisdom, and in such a graceful way. Please, do inform us of your superior knowledge more often so that we may laugh at your profound stupidity.
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Miss Frankfurter 3 years ago (edited)
Conserve it all. It makes me sick to my stomach when I see plastic and oil slicks and fishing lines. The ocean creatures are living innocent lives out there. We are FAR from innocent. We are the most guilty species on earth. Also, if it's beautiful, everyone has to go yhete to see it, yhus wrecking it. People should NEVER have been allowed to visit the Gallopigos. Get us the hell out of there now except for those trying to save it. And please, close the hotel on Kangaroo Island. Back to arriving on the ferry in the morning and leaving at night. Only the conservationists who work there get to stay.
Xenon 3 years ago
Just think how much deeper the oceans would be if sponges didn't live there. ;)
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Grumble O'Pug 3 years ago
Fertilizers. I live in farm country: they spray like mad
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LivingTheDream 3 years ago
Farmers are aware of this and have generations of land conservatorship experience. When farms are taken over by companies, Like corn and soy for commercial use, that is when conservation usually goes out the window. Fallow fields and natural pesticides have been around farms for thousands of years.
Janos Schumacher 3 years ago
My family owns a farm. Before my great grandparents moved there in about 1918, there were no trees. Just grass. Now there's a large piece of woods, 40 acres or so. Plus additional tree rows. Diverse crops that are rotated regularly. Good land maintenance. Summer fallowing. Yes, there are farms out there that are harmful. Most on the northern plains only add to diversity. Lots of trees get planted when you have a farm in the northern plains.
Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
Your yard will be much healthier if you add understory plants (like milkweed) and ground cover plants (like moss) to your trees and shrubs...and get rid of your lawn, as it's completely useless. Also, if a plant isn't native to your locality, don't plant it in your yard. Invasive plants like to get rid of native plants.
Karla Nelsen 3 years ago
Shout that to the big corporations that own the farmers ... they are the ones who need to hear that, not the farmers.
#89
Nicky 3 years ago
Detection= early discovery and surgery = cure (A mammogram saved my life and now I'm cancer-free - this sure feels like a cure to me!)
Scagsy 3 years ago
Congratulations. I bet there were some tough times but you got through them. Good for you!
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T. Hornworm 3 years ago
Dinos are still part of it but it's mostly other living things because they have more biomass. Right? Dinos are made of carbon too...
Daniel Marsh 3 years ago
No. There were unique conditions in certain times that helped dead plant matter become coal, oil, etc. Dinosaurs didn't live during these times.
Load More Replies... M O'Connell 3 years ago
No. The vast majority of oil and gas come from organic matter deposited during the carboniferous period, which ended approximately 50 million years prior to the rise of dinosaurs.
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#92
Becky Samuel 3 years ago
Biocontrols. Natural predators. Genetically engineered (gasp!) bacteria and viruses. GMO and other breeding methods to increase disease resistance.
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#94
ZAPanda 3 years ago
This is definitely not science, this is postmodernism. Please all pandas google the Sokal Hoax and see where this "theory" ends up. I'll give you a hint. "Science is not neutral. Therefore we can ignore vaccines as patriarchal discourse". --- free sample.
Daniel Marsh 3 years ago (edited)
Careful not to fly from one extreme to another. Yes, evil-doers have always tried to cast doubt on clear meanings, from Satan in the Garden ("Did he really tell you that?") to Pilate condemning Christ ("And what is truth?") to far more mundane denials of perjury ("that depends on what your definition of 'is' is") and, well, pretty much the entire field of deconstructionism. But these are effective because they play on the realization that words are far more fungible than we're comfortable with. Communication requires the speaker and the interpreter to establish a common set of connotations, references and inferences that are often very much overestimated.
Load More Replies... BasedWang 3 years ago
yuuup. Like for example the one tribe that couldn't see blue because they never had a word for it. it was just green
ZAPanda 3 years ago
I bet if you put electrodes in their neurons you'd pick up the electrical signal for blue. Not having a word for it does NOT magically make you colourblind.
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Caroline Nagel 3 years ago
Nobody should swim with dolphins. We should leave these animals alone.
TrashPandaSociety 3 years ago
Dolphins are social animals that enjoy being social. What's wrong with swimming with dolphins? And I do mean "with" and not "on".
Load More Replies... Janos Schumacher 3 years ago
My wife's degree is in Aquatic Biology. Though she's been a chemist for 15 years, previously she basically just went fishing every day. All her classmates chose the degree just to go fishing. Aquatic Biology is pretty much boats and fishing. And research about what you caught of course.
#96
Vetus Vespertilio 3 years ago
You are also the unique, direct result of a single successful sperm out-swimming 100,000,000 other sperm, through approximately 7,500 generations. The chances of you existing at all are incredibly small and yet, here you are!
Load More Replies... Dillon Hughes 3 years ago
Psudo science! Its really cool! Like the ley lines or how the monkeys in Japan learned something then the monkeys in Asia learned it, dispute zero connection! Neat stuff
Grumble O'Pug 3 years ago
Far too complex for your microscopic comprehension
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Daniel Marsh 3 years ago
Now, we're just getting stupid. The fact that flies clean themselves doesn't mean they don't puke on their food, and it doesn't mean that getting rid of typhus, cholera, dysentery, etc., didn't mean getting rid of house flies. (Greatest disease-fighting invention ever? The automobile, a.k.a., horseless carriage. A society run on animals pooping in the streets would always be doomed to filth and disease.)
John L 3 years ago
This is misleading. I can appear healthy, yet still pass on disease. Flies may be "clean", but they like dirty things, hence...
TrashPandaSociety 3 years ago
All healthy looking beings still harbor disease.
Load More Replies... BasedWang 3 years ago
so every time you ever puked you did it on yourself as opposed to anywhere else?
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Daniel Marsh 3 years ago
I'm not sure which point the OP is trying to make. First, most snow doesn't melt. It sublimates. A solid sublimating is sort of the equivalent to a liquid evaporating. Secondly, permafrost isn't pure water. So it doesn't simply run off. Rather, it soaks deeper into the ground... but it doesn't really go anywhere. This has huge ecological implications, especially given the large volume of organic matter caught in the permafrost.
Pixie 3 years ago
So are troll and Dillon Hughes, but there surely are people who would see the nuances
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ZAPanda 3 years ago
no, your brain selects words based on your background culture, training, language, geography, religious brainwashing, parental brainwashing, etc etc etc
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Jo Johannsen 3 years ago
I'm not comfortable with this seemingly dogmatic take on the subject.
DC 3 years ago
Me neither. If a train, for example, works flawlessly, but the operator doesn't react to a signal, the train ain't to blame.
Load More Replies... BasedWang 3 years ago
there has to be a better way to say this. Just read an article the other day that some piolet was being cocky and told his co-piolet that he could land with his eyes closed. Killed everyone on board I believe. That's straight negligence, but where is the web? is this dude counting like the entire life of the person and what made them an incredible asshole? That seems like a stretch for something so serious
ZAPanda 3 years ago
nice refutation there, nobel prize time. or maybe not.
Load More Replies... Daniel Marsh 3 years ago
Better way of putting it: No system should be designed to rely on people acting correctly at all times. If a human error can trigger a catastrophe, the system was designed badly.
Bacony Cakes 3 years ago
To be fair, that was intentional coordinated sabotage.
Load More Replies... ZAPanda 3 years ago
Let me maybe unpack here. I think the author is saying that a number of factors come into play in human error. Wet roads. Skewed/warped tracks. Miscalculations in the code. If for example you google Ariane-5, it blew up because of a code error. Small errors compound and become large errors and human response is often overcompensation. This is basically chaos maths. If you want the crayons version, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-mpifTiPV4
Dillon Hughes 3 years ago
I was drunk driving and hit someone... Nope there are totally other factors in play, don't blame me! (Making a point, I didn't d any of that)
Robin DJW 3 years ago
Bunk. Ok, so it was more than one person, but it was still people who caused the planes to fly into the twin towers.
ZAPanda 3 years ago
and what made them do that? and what caused them to have those beliefs? etc? see, we are on a web already.
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What do you think ?
Chich 3 years ago
Wildfires are not "bad". They have been around millions of years longer than we have. Many ecosystems ans species depend on them.
Ranch Dressing 3 years ago
They are very bad in Australia when they have become unprecedented in size, the air quality becomes dangerous and millions of animals are lost to the flames
Load More Replies... Christina Uhlir 3 years ago
Just 222 (including mine) up - vote clicks??????????????? What does it tell you about people?
Yort 3 years ago
So cool to come on here to relax and see people arguing that cats have done nothing wrong and in fact dogs are the real monsters, and we shouldn’t do anything to keep cats in check but also it’s entirely your fault that pollution exists and corporations are not responsible at all.
Humansarethevirus 3 years ago (edited)
Actually humans population need to be kept in check, they destroy everything thousands of species extinct thanks to humans
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
From medicine: No, WebMD is not more accurate than "real doctors". You get a few dunces in any field, but some diseases are harder to pin down than you think, b/c they all start with "aches and fatigue" or such.
Ozacoter 3 years ago (edited)
I need to disagree in that one. It is important to take what you read online with skepticism. And to use trustworthy sources (like PubMed). But doctors are very very uneducated when it comes to non basic illneses (flu, cold...). And are very often dismissive of their patients. So for many, the only chance of diagnosis and improvement is to do their own research and then find a specialist in that area. Believe me, it took me 10 years to get diagnosed with endometriosis with textbook symptoms just because nobody listened to me. And thats the case for most chronic or not obvious diseases. Most doctors prefer to lie and say that you are healthy than to admit that they dont know something.
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Stargazer66 2 years ago
#3 You're talking about hybridization, NOT genetically engineering, which is what GMO products are. GMO soy and corn have been genetically engineered to accept glyphosate aka herbicide ROUNDUP and not whither and die. And these GMO crops ABSORB that herbicide! And WE ingest it. GMO foods are not innocuous. They are NOT natural. They are genetically engineered by man and are no longer 'natural'. No longer 'normal'. They've been tinkered with and have had genes inserted that don't belong and were never there naturally. So stop saying GMO is natural. It isn't. Hybridization is natural. Genetically engineering is not.
jennifer kerkow 3 years ago
If you actually support data based policies and personal experience in regards to prostitution, you wouldn't be supportive of it. 9 out of 10 women want to leave the industry, the average age of entry is 13, prostituted women have higher rates of PTSD than veterans, many of them are murdered at the hands of pimps and John's, the younger the girl, they higher price they fetch. THOSE ARE FACTS.
Samantha Lomb 3 years ago
Its funny how conservatives find so much "anger" in people disagreeing with them but mock others for being "emotional"
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Chich 3 years ago
Wildfires are not "bad". They have been around millions of years longer than we have. Many ecosystems ans species depend on them.
Ranch Dressing 3 years ago
They are very bad in Australia when they have become unprecedented in size, the air quality becomes dangerous and millions of animals are lost to the flames
Load More Replies... Christina Uhlir 3 years ago
Just 222 (including mine) up - vote clicks??????????????? What does it tell you about people?
Yort 3 years ago
So cool to come on here to relax and see people arguing that cats have done nothing wrong and in fact dogs are the real monsters, and we shouldn’t do anything to keep cats in check but also it’s entirely your fault that pollution exists and corporations are not responsible at all.
Humansarethevirus 3 years ago (edited)
Actually humans population need to be kept in check, they destroy everything thousands of species extinct thanks to humans
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
From medicine: No, WebMD is not more accurate than "real doctors". You get a few dunces in any field, but some diseases are harder to pin down than you think, b/c they all start with "aches and fatigue" or such.
Ozacoter 3 years ago (edited)
I need to disagree in that one. It is important to take what you read online with skepticism. And to use trustworthy sources (like PubMed). But doctors are very very uneducated when it comes to non basic illneses (flu, cold...). And are very often dismissive of their patients. So for many, the only chance of diagnosis and improvement is to do their own research and then find a specialist in that area. Believe me, it took me 10 years to get diagnosed with endometriosis with textbook symptoms just because nobody listened to me. And thats the case for most chronic or not obvious diseases. Most doctors prefer to lie and say that you are healthy than to admit that they dont know something.
Load More Replies... Stargazer66 2 years ago
#3 You're talking about hybridization, NOT genetically engineering, which is what GMO products are. GMO soy and corn have been genetically engineered to accept glyphosate aka herbicide ROUNDUP and not whither and die. And these GMO crops ABSORB that herbicide! And WE ingest it. GMO foods are not innocuous. They are NOT natural. They are genetically engineered by man and are no longer 'natural'. No longer 'normal'. They've been tinkered with and have had genes inserted that don't belong and were never there naturally. So stop saying GMO is natural. It isn't. Hybridization is natural. Genetically engineering is not.
jennifer kerkow 3 years ago
If you actually support data based policies and personal experience in regards to prostitution, you wouldn't be supportive of it. 9 out of 10 women want to leave the industry, the average age of entry is 13, prostituted women have higher rates of PTSD than veterans, many of them are murdered at the hands of pimps and John's, the younger the girl, they higher price they fetch. THOSE ARE FACTS.
Samantha Lomb 3 years ago
Its funny how conservatives find so much "anger" in people disagreeing with them but mock others for being "emotional"
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