I have a friend who bought into the "all natural" meme, and thinks GMOs are evil and organics are the way to go to save the earth
His arguments are
1.Its not natural
2. it allows plants to grow in places mother nature did not intend for them to grow
3. its not natural
4. a food is only food for you if its made naturally with natural ingredients rather than ingredients i a lab
5. we have enough food in the world, why do we need gmos?
How should I explain to him that GMOs are not all the evil?
>>8883002
tell him to google golden rice.
>>8883010
he'll just say its unnatural and we already have enough food on this planet to feed everyone, and that we need to be more responsible with our food wastes
>>8883002
>1.Its not natural
Show him the artificial selection of corn.
Post your favorite common core math problems
>>8878733
The test was clearly on estimation.
Smartass kid deserved to get it wrong.
>>8878739
103 ~ 105
28 ~ 30
105 - 30 = 75
What is /sci/ majoring in and why?
>>8878255
Math. It was fun. Have my last final in 2 hours. After that, I'll collect my 300K starting.
>>8878255
Physics
For the bitches
>>8878255
Electrical Engineering, because muh electricity. I don't enjoy anything anymore I just do what's expected of me.
>Oh, so you're good at maths? Quick! what's 6213 multiplied by 142?
>Why do we have to study math? Its useless!
>>8875732
>"posts on /sci/"
>"ITT: Things Brainlets say"
>be boy genius
>get arrested
Experiences with brainlets thread
Ahmed is a brainlet, you mong.
>>8888888
>>8889434
>be so intelligent that you already know you look like a terrorist so you bring something that looks like a bomb to school in the age of terrorism and the school shooter
How do you know if you'd like working in a field when you won't know until you are almost finished with the degree?
Well, it's mostly a guess. In general you choose the subject, not the job, so you pick a subject you like and hope your job (if you have one) won't suck
>>8889350
You play with the tiniest version of what your degree encompasses.
Builders = Lego
Bugs = Bio
Maths = Yourself
Magic = Magnets (how do they work?)
Music = Singing
Fighter = Rapid movements
>>8889358
That's retarded
Because I'm looking into it.
yes, ice crystals tear your cells making the task of reviving your 500 year old cadaver even more impossible, it is basically the SOLAR FREAKING ROADWAYS of achieving immortality
>>8889040
Ice crystals haven't been a thing in cryopreservation for decades
Yeah there are obviously a ton of concerns but anyone saying "lol no ice crystals" is trolling.
All the portrayals of spaceships either have steel or 'white', and they're either ISS tier style or star trek TNG style super sleek.
What would the best way to build the living area of a star ship?
Assuming they have the ridiculous amount of raw resources and industrial capacity to build a huge ass interstellar spaceship with presumably relatively tiny crew area
-rounded surfaces to make getting flung around hurt less
-shock dampening walls to make getting flung around hurt less
-surfaces made of copper or brass cause people are dirty
-recessed components to make getting flung around hurt less
-lots of self sealing star trek doors
>>8888972
> huge ass interstellar spaceship
> getting flung around
A huge ship won't shake around like you see in Star Trek. Huge masses don't accelerate quickly. It's like how school buses don't need seat belts.
>>8888979
All work and no green sunlit fields makes Jack a dull boy.
Hey /sci/ is space a dimension?
>>>/vp/32463282
you don't even need to make up fake quotes for tyson memes anymore, you can use real ones like 'there are more transcendental numbers than irrational numbers' or 'there are five levels of infinity'
You must be 18 to post here.
the more important question is
is time an dimension?
How much further advanced would we be if any and all human experimentation was legal? For example what if it was allowed for experimentation to be done on prisoners? Or why not just allow voluntary experimentation in exchange for payment?
Imagine the greater understanding we would have.
>>8888442
Not that much surprisingly considering how we figured out how to scan your entire body with a CAT. As for freaky dewky shit like cloning and genderswapping and gene splicing...we would probably all be dead because of an accident by now.
>>8888445
I think a lot could be learned in neuroscience by selectively and locally anesthetizing different parts of the brain, and then evaluating the subject in every conceivable way.
>>8888442
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_war_crimes#Human_experimentation_and_biological_warfare
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_human_experimentation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentation_in_the_United_States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_experimentation_in_the_United_States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_radiation_experiments
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_4.1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_SUNSHINE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Whitecoat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_subject_research
>Sophmore
>Eurocuck
>Going to CERN in 2 weeks because of a science project
What to do in Geneva and how to get the most out of the visit?
Haven't studied particle physics but currently reading The Particle Zoo by Gordon Kane. Is it any good? Any other materials you could recommend?
>>8886662
I'd throw a wrench into it while nobody is looking and see if it creates a new universe.
>>8886671
Seems like they got pretty hardcore security there but lets go for it ))
>>8886662
Go to the old section of Geneva and have a look at the church and the Uni. It's nice there, except for all the niggers
Has anyone here taken the "gaokao," China's college entrance exam?
>most stressful exam in the world
>nine hours long, spread out over two days
>there are two streams: social science and natural science
>acceptance rate for the top two universities is 0.3%
>schools install "suicide catchers" to prevent students from killing themselves
>>8885169
Is China where humanity went to die?
>>8885181
>they're communists
sounds about right
>>8885169
I wonder what percentage of their time is devoted to studying material vs. learning ways to cheat
What's the programming language of choice for/sci/?
Java
haskell
>>8884674
>inb4 some schmuck says "python"
C++ or get the fuck out
What do you learn after calculus?
My math education ended at second level with what would be considered by Americans to be Calc I and we also touched on some vectors. I went on to pursue a liberal arts degree and now want to pick up where I left off. Is there a /sci/ approved branch of maths? After lurking a bit, is topology considered to be a meme?
>>8883797
>What do you learn after calculus?
Everything.
>is topology considered to be a meme?
Algebra, Analysis and Topology are the 3 pillars of modern mathematics. Without any of them you are not a mathematician.
>Is there a /sci/ approved branch of maths?
Check the wiki for that but a good start would be:
>Complete Calculus (which means go through Calc II and III)
>Then get some introductory book on Analysis, Algebra and Topology. One book for each. For each topic you can find introductions that are like 300 pages long.
>>8883797
Linear algebra, and no, topology isn't a meme, but that's too advanced for you.
>>8883802
>topology isn't a meme, but that's too advanced for you.
WRONG.
Topology is not too advanced for anyone. The core concepts of topology (point-set) is literally a self contained theory, for which you need no previous background in anything but the formal language of set theory.
After that you decide if you want to learn analysis and/or algebra to be able to apply topology to more interesting problems.
How do we make science "cool"? Or in better terms. How do we market it towards the brainlet normie masses? Clearly, that's something SJWs have figured out
Use Objectivist aesthetics.
>>8889828
Don't? No matter whose propaganda it's spouting, popsci is never real science.
>>8889828
You don't, faggot. I rate your post a B8/10.