Do you avoid GMO-free food to avoid supporting anti-science?
No I just eat whatever as long as it's not clearly bad for me. I'm not gonna miss out on tasty food just because it's GMO-free.
>>8234715
I've heard GMOs can cause long term health problems, especially inflammation. They say that because you're altering the nucleus of the cell, your body doesn't recognize it.
Is there a shred of evidence for this claim?
I've heard about some pig experiment where showed pigs who eat GMO foods correlated to an increase inflammation.
Pls /sci/, is this just a meme?
>>8234896
>They say that because you're altering the nucleus of the cell, your body doesn't recognize it.
Christ I hear a lot of anti-GMO bullshit, but that takes the cake. Personally I think GMO food should be labeled because I believe in the consumer's right to make informed decisions, but I would purposely buy GMOs over non-GMOs.
How does LSD alter the neurological receptors, so that it produces the "ego death"?
I have had this experience last year, and I've never really looked at it from an objective perspective, but it has changed me as a person and I started reading a lot more since.
The "me" knowing that "I" exist has faded for about 30 minutes, and time passed either very slowly or very fast.
bumpi
serotonine receptors
https://theconversation.com/magic-mushrooms-expand-your-mind-and-amplify-your-brains-dreaming-areas-heres-how-28754
>This finding of a similar pattern to dream activity is intriguing. While the psychedelic state has been previously compared with dreaming, the opposite effect has been observed in the brain network from which we get our sense of “self” (called the default-mode network or ego-system). Put simply, while activity became “louder” in the emotion system, it became more disjointed and so “quieter” in the ego system.
>Evidence from this study, and also preliminary data from an ongoing brain imaging study with LSD, appear to support the principle that the psychedelic state rests on disorganised activity in the ego system permitting disinhibited activity in the emotion system.
Dear /sci/, growing up I've always been bad at math and never really paid attention during classes, but now at the age of 23 I realize how amazing it really is. I've forgotten most of what I've learned during high school and would not just like to relearn that, but also progress to the level of a Math major. I know if I put my mind to it I can do it, I just need to be directed to some useful resources. ANY SUGGESTIONS at all would be appreciated. Thank you.
>>8231215
http://4chan-science.wikia.com/wiki/Math_Textbook_Recommendations
Here's thunderf00t's video proving the Hyperloop will kill you. Is this a valid experiment that concludes the Hyperloop will be a failure or is it clickbait trash? He has a PhD in chemistry if that changes anything
Fuck. Forgot the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIVJvpNyjdc
>>8228375
>thunderf00t's
stop reading there
>>8228375
You should watch his other longer video on the hyperloop's various problems.
I want to see what /sci/ thinks regarding organic tobacco. I'm not talking about company cigarettes bought from the store. I would argue that it is good for the human body.
Im pretty sure smoking anything is bad for you, although I do feel that store bought cigarettes fuck me up more than hand rolled ones though
>>8234244
Pretty much this. Any smoke inhalation would result in harmful effects on the lungs
Grow your own tobacco and chew on the fresh uncured leaves. Bam, no cancer.
>centrifugal force isn't real XD
ITT shit undergrads say that annoy uou
>>8230972
>evolution is just a theory just like gravity
>>8230972
>I have a 4.0 first semester freshman , HUH engineering school is easy ,, LELELELE ima engineer
>dark matter
How can you see "the existence of life on other planets is extremely probable" when we've only been able to prove the existence of life on one planet.
With that sample size we can only say "life exists on planet(s)" but we cannot extrapolate from this at all.
It is mathematically retarded to say anything about the likelihood of life regardless of how many stars, planets, galaxies, etc. you can prove there are.
If anything the existence of life becomes lower the bigger we find out the universe is, because it's just 1/x where x is the number of planets we discover.
>>8235712
>If anything the existence of life becomes lower the bigger we find out the universe is, because it's just 1/x where x is the number of planets we discover.
The fuck?
>>8235758
1 is the planets we discovered life on, x is the amount of planets we discovered total.
>>8235766
just because we discovered a planet, it doesn't mean there isn't life there
it would be still in the bacteria phase
ITT post real scientific facts, theories and hypotheses that you find unsettling, creepy or overall mysterious
>/x/-tier garbage like chemtrails, HAARP, UFOs certainly not welcome
KIC 8463852
things I find creepy are events in earth's history for which there is no conclusive explanation
for instance, chemostratigraphy shows enormous negative and positive excursions in the δ13C at the end of the Permian. They're the biggest spikes in the entire phanerozoic and the Carbon-values are generally all over the place until they spontaneously stabilize in the middle of the Triassic.
Geologists have yet to determine the source of these excursions.
>>8232652
Moloch worship by the global elites
Am I the only one happy about machines taking jobs? Manual labor jobs are the easiest for machines to perform, and are usually done by uneducated people because they don't require much intellectual skill. If machines made human role obsolete, it would have some drawbacks of course like blue collar unemployment, but I think the benefits outweigh the costs in this.
Since the only jobs left are jobs that require human intellect, more people are white collar. This makes education all the more important to society, giving incentive for more and better schools. Also, things would become cheaper for everyone. A machine can always work faster than a human and it doesn't need pay and mandatory breaks and vacations, therefore reducing the expenses of the company and reducing the cost of the product. Like farmers being replaced by machines would increase the production of crops dramatically while lowering the expenses the company would have to pay, making food cheaper for the general public.
Because of the large amount of unemployed manpower from previous blue collar jobs and the new highly educated youth, there would be more doctors, lawyers, scientists, architects, economists, and anything else you can think of that a machine can't do. I think this would be beneficial, for example more doctors would make being operated by a doctor cheaper for the public.
Do you agree with my point of view?
There wouldn't be more doctors because they only let a fixed number of students to become doctors. If there were an increase in the number of doctors then their wages would go down and they don't want that. (also the quality/skill of doctors would go down)
The other jobs you mentioned are already highly saturated, more students there wouldn't mean they'd have jobs (and if they did then the wages would again go down).
Just wait for it to take your job.
Who's gonna buy the production then?
>Am I the only one happy about machines taking jobs?
yeah bro youre the only person in the whole universe with that opinion
Do you think the skull is an ancient ape, a hoax, or someone's pet?
>>8235089
almost certainty a fake, i have never seen a protohuman skull with teeth like that.
Gorilla skull for comparison
>>8235089
Papio hamadryas
Only using: ! ; ( ; ) ; / and digits: 4 ; 5
Can you make an equations to get result = 2
ALSO you need to do it in fewer characters than me.
>>8235027
well i didn't use 5 at least
4!/((4)((4!)(4!)/((4)(4)(4))))
>>8235037
so can my 4 year old.
>>8235027
55!5!44!/4!45!
Can we measure anything that cannot be defined in terms of time, distance, quantity, or direction?
>>8234975
mass?
>>8234985
I was under the impression that counting all of the particles something was made of would give the mass.
Complexity, entropy, curvature, radiation, resistance, viscosity, etc.
Is there any aerosol chemical that I can spray this fly with to make it unconscious/asleep ? Would ether suffice?
Pic related, my fly.
>>8234971
If you can catch it and stick it in the freezer for about 5 minutes it will be incredibly slow once you take it out. Up to 10 minutes and you can handle it (though it will quickly regain mobility). I've never exceeded 10 minutes as I'm not sure what that would do to it and I always feel like a sadist when I mess around like that.
>>8234971
sweet fly, OP
what's its name
Can you tie a fly just like a dog?
Is everything decided by luck?
yup
nobody knows, its 50/50>>8234884
If randomness truly exist in our universe, there should be external things that mess with the amount of matter and energy our the universe.
Because if our universe it's a "closed" system, everything can be predicted if you have all the variables.
What causes this kind of skin? I've seen it twice, and only on Somalians.
Black envy
>>8234600
What don't you understand, the picture is quite clear on why this is happening.