AbouBenAdhem
@AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world
- Comment on If I stick my head out a car window or a gust of wind hits my face it's like my throat closes and I can't breathe. How come motorcycle riders without helmets don't seem to have this problem? 1 day ago:
One thing that might be a factor is the Bernoulli effect (moving air has lower pressure than still air). When your head is in moving air but your chest is in relatively still air, that would create a pressure differential that makes it harder to draw air into your lungs. On a motorcycle, your whole body is in moving air so the pressure differential wouldn’t exist.
- Comment on I feel like I've never heard of a dog getting pink eye, do they get pink eye? I would have thought pink eye would be more common with dogs constantly sniffing arses? 3 days ago:
“Pinkeye” has two definitions: bovine pinkeye is a specific bacterial disease that only affects cattle; otherwise, “pinkeye” is a generic synonym for conjunctivitis.
Dogs can’t get bovine pinkeye, but they can and do get other types of conjunctivitis. It may just be less noticeable in dogs because their eyes don’t have white sclera like humans’ do.
- Comment on If a space Alien landed in the states. And hooked up with one of his or her fellow travelers and had a kid in the US would that kid be a US citizen? Or do we have something in place for it? 1 week ago:
It depends on how you (or the Supreme Court) defines “persons”.
They might technically have to become corporations.
- Comment on If a virtual particle dips or blips out of existence then where do they go? Do they come back at a different point showing movement when the blip occurs? Are they some how different when returning? 1 week ago:
Think of particles as bundles of conserved quantities like charge, energy, mass, etc. In interactions, these quantities can be re-bundled into different particles—but the re-bundling isn’t creating or destroying the conserved quantities themselves.
- Comment on If a virtual particle dips or blips out of existence then where do they go? Do they come back at a different point showing movement when the blip occurs? Are they some how different when returning? 1 week ago:
Virtual particles appear and disappear as part of the interactions between real particles. The general phenomenon of particles appearing and disappearing in interactions happens with both real and virtual particles; the interactions are such that momentum, charge, etc. are conserved. So the things you should expect to see persisting in existence aren’t particles, but those conserved properties.
- Comment on Was there ever a solid or scientific answers to which came first chicken or the egg? 1 week ago:
Every egg that hatches was previously fertilized (at least for sexually-reproducing organisms). The animal that hatches from the fertilized egg became a genetically distinct organism when its egg was fertilized, not when the egg was hatched or laid.
In the case of chickens, eggs are fertilized before being laid; when we talk about “unfertilized eggs”, we usually mean eggs that were not fertilized before being laid. Such eggs were not part of the discussion until you introduced them.
- Comment on Was there ever a solid or scientific answers to which came first chicken or the egg? 1 week ago:
A quote isn’t “literal” if you insert a word that completely negates its meaning.
- Comment on Was there ever a solid or scientific answers to which came first chicken or the egg? 1 week ago:
What’s your point? Unfertilized eggs don’t hatch, so they’re not part of the scenario in question.
- Comment on Was there ever a solid or scientific answers to which came first chicken or the egg? 1 week ago:
No, but the fallacy is in thinking the new species appears when the egg hatches, rather than when it’s fertilized. The egg is already the new offspring.
- Comment on Was there ever a solid or scientific answers to which came first chicken or the egg? 1 week ago:
The egg is the same organism as the individual that hatches out of it.
It’s like saying “which came first, the child or the adult”?
- Comment on Why can’t we swap our minds today? 1 week ago:
There’s not a hard-coded wiring diagram of how the neurons from the brain connect to the rest of the body—everybody’s wired a bit differently, and the brain normally figures out how to work with what it’s got during development. So there’s no one-to-one way to connect the nerves from one person’s brain to those in another person’s body—and if it doesn’t get the signals it’s expecting, it will just seem like noise.
Besides which—if I remember correctly, you can’t generally reconnect severed nerves. Instead, the remaining portion of the nerve cell has to grow a new axon that retraces the route of the old one, and it can only trace the old path for a limited distance (like, if it’s close enough to receive chemical signals from the original site). But I’m not sure I’ve got all the details right on that.
- Comment on What is the easiest way to convert latitude and longitude to a point on a jpeg map? 1 week ago:
If you use a plate carrée projection (in which all lines of latitude and longitude are rectangular and equal), it’s a simple linear formula:
x = (longitude + 180) * (map width / 360)
y = (latitude + 90) * (map height / 180) - Comment on Why do doctors not seem to give a fuck about pain? Is this just an American doctor thing, or is it universal? 2 weeks ago:
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The side effects of medication can interfere with diagnosis and treatment
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Pain can be a useful diagnostic indicator itself
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They see people in pain all the time, so it doesn’t seem like an exceptional state to them
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People with low pain tolerance are overrepresented in the population of people seeking medical care, so experience biases medical providers to assume that as a factor
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- Comment on Is there a parenthesis gesture like there are air quotes? 3 weeks ago:
You turn to the side and talk to the camera.
- Comment on Why is the old testament handed down from GOD (which is my favorite book) but the New Testament was written by a man (King James) ? 3 weeks ago:
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King James didn’t write the New Testament—he commissioned an English translation of both testaments from originals that had already existed for over a thousand years in Hebrew, Greek, and Syriac.
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Most Christians hold that both the Old and New Testaments were “divinely inspired” but created through human intermediaries.
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- Comment on Why The Economist hates wealth taxes. 3 weeks ago:
Shifting the tax burden from the working class to the wealthy reduces the ability of the wealthy to influence politics—that’s how you get leaders willing to prioritize workers over owners.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Kava root.
- Comment on Can energy be associated with/related to spacetime ? 4 weeks ago:
In plain terms, energy has gravity.
- Comment on Can energy be associated with/related to spacetime ? 4 weeks ago:
Through mass/energy equivalence, E=mc^2^. Energy distorts spacetime the same as its equivalent rest mass.
- Comment on Can energy be associated with/related to spacetime ? 4 weeks ago:
Energy bends spacetime, just like matter. Is that what you mean?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
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Are you aphantasic (unable to form mental images of things based on descriptions)?
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Have you tried audiobooks?
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Have you tried reading books of movies you’ve already seen (so you don’t have to keep track of characters and plot, and can focus on how they’re expressed in prose)?
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- Comment on Redditors discussing "Is the threat of inbreeding exaggerated?" is it true? 5 weeks ago:
It gets worse over time but it also eventually gets better, after the deleterious recessive alleles have been eliminated. Like in herd animals where a herd has only one breeding male per generation, so every generation is half-siblings.
The general rule is that a population with a fixed degree of inbreeding will have a corresponding number of deleterious alleles so that the selection pressure balances out; but when you change the degree of inbreeding, you get a spike in expressed mutations until things balance out again.
- Comment on Why do businesses and other public facilities have a metal plate where the door knob should be? Is pushing open the door more sanitary or something? 5 weeks ago:
I assume it’s an access plate to service the door mechanism.
- Comment on Why does it feel like most art museums are for adults and most science museums are for kids? 1 month ago:
Most art is referencing social and historical contexts that kids might not be aware of yet. Most science museums are geared toward teaching scientific principles that kids are also less likely to be aware of. So art museums build on previous knowledge, while science museums supply knowledge to those who don’t yet have it.
- Comment on When a judge tells the jury to ‘forget XYZ,’ how can the jury possibly do that? 1 month ago:
As individuals, they can’t. But as a group making a decision through verbal discussion, they can exclude the information from the deliberative process. At least to their own satisfaction, they need to construct a justification for their verdict that doesn’t rely on the forbidden evidence.
- Comment on What character is the king of plot armor? 1 month ago:
Candide.
- Comment on What's the difference between a mythology vs a religion? Are they both mutual? 1 month ago:
A mythology is a set of shared stories that define a culture—its values, its productive metaphors, its identity. They may or may not be believed in as actually true—even when they are, they’re generally understood to have occurred in a place and time distinct from the culture’s current reality. But the point of a mythology is the relationship it establishes between community members, while the point of a religion is the relationship it establishes between its adherents and the god(s).
- Comment on Back in my day it was ok to receive a paddlin (simpson ref there) at school as a kid. But on the flip side it was against the law to beat a paddle a prisoner by a guard, why the rule difference? 1 month ago:
Where did you grow up?
It was definitely illegal for teachers to assault students in California when I was a kid in the 80s.
- Comment on When drawing up the middle east after WW1 and 2 how come the Kurds got the shit end of the stick? 1 month ago:
The Treaty of Sevres, which the Ottoman empire signed at the end of WWI, included an independent Kurdistan—but then Atatürk overthrew the Sultan and rejected the treaty.
- Comment on How do you pronounce 'Niche'? 1 month ago:
niːʃ