TempermentalAnomaly
@TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world
- Comment on [deleted] 18 hours ago:
Fish aren’t silly?
FISH ARE SILLY DILLY! - Comment on Great Mug 6 days ago:
we define “science” as the aggregate consciousness of scientific researchers
This is something I wish I could preach convincingly to everyone. The activity of scientists, a social group, are arguing and trying to convince one another that their interpretation of the data acquired by using their tools and methods is what become a scientific consensus.
Forefronting the method (often a vaguely defined one rooted in a hypo-deductive model from about 150 years ago that most people learned in grade school) removes the relationships between people and other people and people and institutions.
I wish I could find the paper but there’s a wonderful enthographic study on how scientists interact with each other to transform the discourse.
- Comment on Great Mug 1 week ago:
Reminded me of this.
- Comment on A complete tier list for our solar system 1 week ago:
You’ve described the Aristotelian-Ptolemaic model which dates back to the 2nd century CE. This was part of, but not the extent of the mideval cosmography.
In the cosmography of the middle ages, there existed a realm outside the spheres where God and the angels dwelled. Each of the planets color the divine light of God and pour God’s beneficence upon the Earth. The earth was low and seemingly distant from the heavenly realms. And in the middle of the earth was hell.
A competing mideval theory put God at the center and the Earth at the most distant sphere. It borrowed from another tradition, the Neoplatonists. Here God is a a pure light and the sphere distort the light of God. Humans couldn’t handle the pure light of God, but all the distortions make the universe appear fractured and not unitary. We don’t see God in everything, just the many things.
- Comment on Humans are part of the ecosystem. 1 week ago:
There are no evil viruses. Some are just detrimental to us.
- Comment on Humans are part of the ecosystem. 1 week ago:
Why does this matter?
- Comment on Life pro tip for friends of pharmacists 1 week ago:
Over, under, and misuse have resulted in adaptations by bacteria. Which is to say, life evolves. Its too bad, and there is still a role for antibiotics in our world, but we have to trim our use of it.
- Comment on Life pro tip for friends of pharmacists 1 week ago:
Course lengths for antibiotics isn’t well studied. From this article:
In fact, the optimal length of treatment in many common infections is not well studied and may be more than a little arbitrary. One infectious diseases doctor has suggested, somewhat satirically, that most of our current rules for antibiotic administration have more to do with the number of days in the week than they do with robust scientific evidence.
We have a growing and, frankly, terrifying issue of antibiotic resistant bacteria from over prescribing and longer than necessary courses.
- Comment on Anon thinks about wheat 1 week ago:
Sweet corn is a mutation that was only really cultivated in the late 1700s. Before that dent and flint corn were the norm. These corns require nixtamalization to soft the corn and then need boiling, grinding, and cooking to make something like tortillas.
- Comment on Anon thinks about wheat 1 week ago:
I can’t tell if this is in jest or ignorance.
- Comment on I love science 1 week ago:
I’m not denying that modern evolutionary theories use math and I think it’s important, but that in many sciences, math isn’t the focus like it is in physics. A lot of good science can be done without math. Darwin did good science without math.
To be very clear, science doesn’t need math. We use math as a tool to accurately describe phememona and relationships with math.
I don’t what you are saying about models being mathematical by definition eben if people can handle it. I don’t see how the model of the cell is mathematical. Models require relationships and not mathematics to describe those relationships.
- Comment on I love science 1 week ago:
I’m not familiar with what they do. Describe it and I might be able to. Or not.
- Comment on I love science 1 week ago:
I hate how we center physics and it’s use of mathematical tools as the right way of doing science. Many, if not all sciences today, leverage mathmatical tools to create models. But Darwin, as far as I recall, didn’t use math at all. A whole host of sciences don’t approach their problems through mathematically described laws or even statistical models. Earth sciences, botany, anatomy, organic chemistry, ethnography, and archelogy come to mind.
- Comment on I love science 1 week ago:
Engineering is not science. It uses science to make decisions.
- Comment on This bedroom game is weird 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Education is important. 4 weeks ago:
It’s the Earth Kingdom.
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- Comment on Boing. 1 month ago:
AI COULD HAVE MADE THIS!
no… no… It probably couldn’t have
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- Comment on No Black Friday deal for loyal/previous customers 1 month ago:
- Comment on Anon thinks we're being bamboo-zled 1 month ago:
Here’s a link to the Erya.
- Comment on Lemmy Politics 1 month ago:
This account is 5 days old and has 26 posts.
- Comment on Holy shiiiiit 1 month ago:
That really lightened the mood.
- Comment on Hi, Jeffrey! 1 month ago:
- Comment on Just how? 2 months ago:
Throwing my vote in for Gauss.
- Comment on She strongly disagrees 2 months ago:
It’s sad because they aren’t curious about nuance and polarize it instantly. So it’s impossible to reorient to those more interesting qualities. Doing so is a rhetorical mistake. So we’re left with not leaving a comment or engaging in an unnecessarily polarized discussion.
- Comment on Become unrecognizable 2 months ago:
I do not know how meditating 10 min/day morphs into a Leatherface audition, but I’m hitting up my zafu right now!
- Comment on Become unrecognizable 2 months ago:
ADHD brain made me skip the most important line: take your meds people
- Comment on She strongly disagrees 2 months ago:
You aren’t bring fair minded about it or examining it in context.
- Comment on Encountering those who go through life clueless 2 months ago:
Hell yeah. Matching people’s energy and tone have been invaluable for me. And not just in the terrible situations. I find matching kind and energetic people even when I’m not in the mood to be the best cure for my malaise.
