mineralfellow
@mineralfellow@lemmy.world
- Comment on Iraq War was preceded by the largest worldwide non-violent protests in history and the war happened anyway. 1 week ago:
No, not today, but give it a couple of years.
- Comment on Pterosaurs 2 weeks ago:
Imprint fossils preserve feathers and other soft tissues. No ears.
- Comment on Eat lead 1 month ago:
An existential crisis is an important part of growing up.
- Comment on Eat lead 1 month ago:
Private school, Mississippi.
- Comment on Eat lead 1 month ago:
I was a YEC before going to university. I studied geology. After two years, I accepted that evolution happened. After four years, I was an atheist. I went on to get a doctorate, and I have published quite a few papers about rocks that are >2 billion years old.
As a kid, there were literally 0 authority figures in my life that accepted that evolution happened. It was taken as a given that it was ridiculous. My biology teacher skipped the chapter on evolution, saying, “this is controversial.”
Patience, love, and making critical information available gives kids like I was a chance.
- Comment on Why, in English at least, is the letter W called "double U" and not "double V"? 2 months ago:
The Water of Life features in lots of fairy tales. Is that what is being referred to? Is Water of Death another name for an alcohol?
- Comment on With breasts 2 months ago:
I just think it’s funny that it goes from “terrible heads,” “fierce looking,” “beast head,” “dog teeth,” “two dog-like teeth,” to… “With breasts.” Really a dramatically different category.
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- Comment on Comparative anatomy 2 months ago:
- Comment on The two types of jobs 2 months ago:
Have you seen the FMWC?
- Comment on How do people in this day in age become nazis/neonazies sexist or even incels when there is so much knowledge against it? Do they get anything out of being that way? 3 months ago:
Feels > reals.
- Comment on Publishing Revenue 3 months ago:
Depends strongly on the community. Every sub discipline has its own standards of respectability. Publishing outside of those constraints can cause articles to be ignored.
- Comment on Sloths 🦥 4 months ago:
I wasn’t sure if this was true or a weird misunderstanding or conspiracy type thing. Seems to be true. Here is an accessible writeup: bbc.com/…/20231127-brazils-mysterious-tunnels-mad…
- Comment on Flowchart for STEM 4 months ago:
Yes. In the heirarchy of science, it ranks just below literature.
- Comment on Emma Roberts says internet culture doomed Madame Web 5 months ago:
I really liked it. Definitely could have been tighter, and the ending was not well thought out, but absolutely a fun movie. I like Ms Marvel as a character.
- Comment on No red circle. Not sure this one checks out. 5 months ago:
My wife made this joke during a presentation that was part of a job interview. Nobody laughed. Clear sign of a toxic environment.
- Comment on Hero 6 months ago:
Depends on the program you are in. The view from being a doctoral student to being a postdoc to being research/lecturing staff is very different. Not all advisors expose their students to the realities of higher levels of academia. And when a woman or minority is being mentored by a white man, they may not be aware of biases that can affect the student’s later career.
- Comment on Jan Smit 8 months ago:
I actually know him. Incredible guy. Was really pivotal in the discovery of the importance of the impact killing the dinosaurs.
- Comment on Thank god I don't sing publicly anymore 11 months ago:
When I was a teenager, I thought it was so funny that the guy sang, “Life would be ecstacy, you and me and Lesley.” Took a while to realize it was “endlessly.”
- Comment on Do the people in Reniassance festivals pccurring in Brotain also speak with faked British accents, or do they ise faked French/Iralian accents? 1 year ago:
I watched a catapult fire projectiles into a castle moat outside of Cardiff at a medieval fair. Also got propositioned by a Welsh girl, but couldn’t understand what she was saying.
