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>>8761690
I'd say they're both about the same, it also depends on whether you enjoy more traditional methods or your tech savvy. The only big con about using kindles are the limited selection of books you can choose from.

>>8761690
>>8761690
Real books are still superior imho senpai. I can hold three fingers on different sections, while I read a fourth. Makes it easy to cross-read to look something up. I can write with a pencil in it. I can attach notes stickies to them.
Monochrome readers are bad anyway. Try to read a fucking anatomy atlas in one of those. Way too small screen and not in color. A cheap android however does the trick, with the above mentioned disadvantages. Yeah I know I can make digital bookmarks and stuff, but that is just not as convenient as real books. The only advantage of digital reading is the low weight combined with the huge capacity. Quite good for traveling. Digital readers get boring after a while, holding the same thing again and again.
>retention
I dunno but asking this makes you look a bit retarded. It's totally up to you what you remember and what not.

>>8761690
I barely read hardcopy books after getting into the groove of reading on a Kindle. And I feel like I remember about the same amount, maybe a little more with the Kindle, as I can look up words whenever I wonder what they mean (ESL). You can also make both notes (of almost any length), bookmarks for each page, highlight passages and search for words or phrases in the book. It beats flipping through the pages trying to see words or passages when you want to show something to others, in my opinion.
Besides, if I finish a book and want the next in a series, or another by the same author, it takes approximately 15 seconds from reading the last word to reading the first of the next book. That's really the main selling point, apart from the fact you can read in near-perfect darkness and still retain night vision (and avoid fucking up your melatonin-production, which regular backlit screens tend to do)

>>8761180
Yale is better

>>8761180
I know someone who did CS at Sussex.

Shit hot programmer.

>>8761273
>UK

Humans probably evolved to walk upright so their hands would be free to carry and use tools.

>>8760228
dunno but humans are good are thinking, throwing baseballs, punching like a boxer, and walking long distances

I don't envy those who are trying to solve such a puzzle

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>>8760234
But Orrorin (6.1-5.7, avg. 5.9 mya) shows adaptations for bipedalism and clusters with hominins when testing for morphological similarities, and exhibits morphometric affinities to both early hominins (Australopithecines) and Miocene apes.

is it a string?

>>8760163
uwu

>>8760171
Don't answer a question with a question.

no I'd quite like a million dollars

>>8759028
I'd turn down a million not to be such a brainlet that I can't study maths.

I hate my life

>>8759030
>>8759031
congratulations
this is the brainlet filter and you failed

>I get that atoms are 99% empty space

the do the maths. you could git every proton, neutron etc. into the space of an atom until there was no space, meaning it would be a single "point"

unless if you mean a literal point, which by definition is one dimensional...

It isn't. That's not what the Big Bang theory says, and that picture is wrong.

>>8758918
Are you even aware of how much of stuff there is in the universe? There are 100 billion stars in our galaxy alone. Are you telling me all that mass can be compressed to the size of an atom and still have room for another 100 billion galaxies?

>>8758160
BUILD THE WALL

>>8758176
/thread

>using a pen
Brainlet detected.

>>8757226
>Is biology really just memorizing stuff ?

Nope, its messy and experimental.

And you have to memorize a fucking shitload

>>8757254
>And you have to memorize a fucking shitload
I didnt ask how much I said if it was just memorization or not m9

if you go into evolutionary biology yes

if you go into shit like micro/molecular/genetics/immunobiology then no

>>8757143
no

>>8757145
Why not?

>>8757145
Come on, dont bump on me anon.

>>8763706
>Has anyone else blown their chances of ever achieving anything intellectually worthwhile?

Are you dead? If not, your premise is flawed.

Some more depressing randomly picked highlights):

Putting in literally zero effort in the last 1.5 years (3 terms), where, apart from attending lectures, I probably did less than 2 weeks worth of 9 to 5 on weekdays work.

My senior thesis where I quickly realised that a maths or physics degree would have given me 50 times better preparation, my lack of mathematical maturity left me as a type of illiterate (which was a brutal feeling), I didn't give a shit about the topic and procrastinated like a madman.

Being "that guy" in a major group project in my final year. I never thought it would come to that but I really was. I remember there was another all nighter but I actually couldn't stay up all night due to a lack of interest / willpower, even with tonnes of coffee.

Being at a job interview at canary wharf (that I failed and was surrounded by people from actually good universities) and then in my university the next day. It was like a brief jolt in everyday life where I could look around and see that everything was shit.

The old library that was too small yet always half empty, being knocked down for a shiny new library constantly filled with normies that opened after my first year. In my first year I literally overheard two people talking and one girl saying that only weirdos go to the library. These are the types of people that people like me are supposed to go to university to get away from (not that I thought that, but it should be true).

I could go on but I won't.

>>8763706
> but vice versa is obviously not true.
I'm not so sure senpai, shitposting aside, if you can do one you can probably do the other with little additional effort.

>As an example, I got to fourth year without knowing what dev, grad, eigenvectors, or curl were
How the fuck have you done that? Seriously I know people that did Mech Eng in the UK and they did this in like first year.

>I took zero phsyics courses
But what about thermodynamics and statistical mechanics?

?using gravity to explain gravity?

>>8763489

Show me a 3d picture. DO you perhapos mean a sculpture?

Besides, gravity is 4d, you can't "explain" it in 3d any more than you can "explain" a cube in 2d.

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>>8763068
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>>8763054
>Is Nutrition a meme?

Yes, it literally doesn't matter what you eat.Pure sugar? That's fine. Human shit? That's fine. So-called "nutritional science" is just a Jewish scam to keep the white man down, good thing you're too smart to have fallen for it!

>>8763067
>Pure sugar? That's fine.

That doesn't sound right. Your body needs vitamins, proteins, etc.

>>8763054
There's hardly any data or rigorous experiments, so it's very political and interpretive. Definitely soft science borderline non-science. Heavy industry involvement and people's emotional investment into their food choices doesn't help either.

>>8762959
>negative numbers

Thank god for imaginary numbers.

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>>8762959
>you will never define a unit matching the usefulness of i

>>8762959
>>8762981
>Frogposting

>>8762856
I dunno maybe like 5 crucial.

>>8762856

Theres literally no fucking point to science at all without sound philosophical foundations.

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