/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11684280
Of course, I'm not ruling out that it's just an update of pic related.

>>9842260
>science is demonstrable, testable and repeatable. Climate "science" is not science because it is out of the bounds of the scientific method.
lemme just translate that into non-brainlet:
>IF YOU CAN'T DO IT IN A TEST TUBE IN A LABORATORY IT'S NOT SCIENCE
pic related: it's what you think science is

paleofag here.
studying the past allows us to better understand the present by giving us a more general look at how life behaves. wondering what evolutionary patterns arise in the wake of cataclysmic events? we've got examples from the fossil record that can help us mitigate the damage from pollution and environmental degradation. trying to better understand ecological mechanics in more general terms than just what we can see from modern ecosystems? the worlds of the past were dominated by very different organisms than today, but many principles carry over.

my thesis was on how trilobites grew and developed. they haven't lived for 250 million years, but understanding their ontogeny helps us get a better handle on overall arthropod growth patterning and how it arose.

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>>9115035
>literally 99.99999999999% of the time
This would mean that there are 0.00074453055 people on the entire planet who have a chromosomal intersex condition.
You gotta keep track of what order of magnitude you're working on when you pull numbers out of your ass like that, you brainlet.

>Finish my freshman year in mathematics, great grades
>Decide I am going to prove the goldbach conjecture in my summer time

>>8125081
as an example, here's something that my advisor actually had to deal with a few days ago
>http://www.timesrecordnews.com/news/local/man-claims-to-have-found-bigfoot-skull-344d87ee-9377-04e6-e053-0100007f306a-381665331.html

people just can't be happy they found a cool rock. they always gotta say it's some kind of crazy fossil when it's obviously not...

There is no prescription diet that universally applies to all humans

Look at the native tribes in the Arctic, they can consume nothing but red meat and blubber for months without serious health problems. And that only took a few thousand years to occur.

Groups are genetically different due to the different pressures on the essential components of their survival e.g. dietary needs based on location and available food resources.

Some people respond to meat diets better than others. It often comes down to the cellular biology of the individual.

"did u know that sugar and heroin light up the same part of the brain? That's why it's so addicting!!!"

Stupid questions thread ITT

I'm reading the lecture notes for a class I didnt attend and it says that the commutator relation [math][\hat{J}_z, \hat{J}_\pm]=\pm\hbar \hat{J}_\pm[/math]

Where [math]\hat{J_\pm}=\hat{J_x}\pm i\hat{J_y}[/math] and [math][\hat{J_i},\hat{J_k}]=i\hbar\epsilon_{ijk} \hat{J_k}[/math],

but I think this is wrong and it should be instead [math][\hat{J}_z, \hat{J}_\pm]=\mp\hbar \hat{J}_\mp[/math]

Is it true?

>>7636544
Lemme expand on this.

I would suggest looking into a part-time intern position in a research lab after your first year. Ask your professors. With a year of biotech experience you won't have to have your hand held during every step which is nice for both you and the people you work for. I interned for 10 hours a week after having taken an Applied Molecular Biology course.

After you're plenty comfortable with that kind of work you can begin looking for paid positions. Honestly I don't even know of many positions that you couldn't get with just a diploma so maybe you could intern over the summer and begin working for your last year, assuming 2 years.

Let me know if you have other questions. Also, where do you live? Where are you at academically speaking?

>>7326372
>What can you do with a biology degree? What are your options?
Depends on where you live, I guess. Or at least, the volume of jobs depends on where you live.

Assuming U.S., the two best states are Utah (SLC) and one of the Carolinas. I forget which, but I'm pretty sure it's NC. Biology, Chemistry, Biochemistry, etc. degrees will get you pretty good jobs in biotechnology, especially in these two states. You basically just get a comfortable and stable job working in a research laboratory.

If you don't have the degree yet, try working as a simple lab technician. You can work your way up through education. If you're not in the two states I mentioned, you can probably still find work in your state. Getting entry-level job experience is great to see if you'll actually like working in this field.

In short, biology majors should just be apart of "biotech," unless you're some kind of environmental biologist, in which case I don't know.

>>7263772
Yeah, I guess, but "really dense things in space" isn't really the same as "are there souls?"

You really can't prove/disprove the existence of souls, but this does support the belief that we're just wet robots.

This sounds cool as hell, though, and I'll be sure to read these articles. I think it will be interesting to see completely artificial animal zygotes in the future.

>>7140745
>cyborg
lmao obvious troll site

>>7049373

>>6996993
it's not very precise though is it? hardly worthy of being called "science"

i mean, i get that it might have some uses, but people put way too much stock in IQ. it certainly isnt rigorous enough to, for example, prove any racial intelligence difference (inb4 not this shit again)

>>6967674
>what are some sciency colors?
>yeah just put those in there.
>scientists use syringes, right?
>just pretend you're injecting science into it or something
>perfect

>this is science

ITT: Stupid science reporting
"Parasites infected with malaria..."
"The study found that malaria-infected parasites could bury into bone marrow..."

As opposed to the malarial parasite itself which apparently now infects other parasites.

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-28235609

>>6559385
cmon people. There has got to be at least one real student. It can't be neckbeards jerking it to warp drives all the way down.