/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11708524
It sounds like a joke but "we live in a society" is becoming a reality.
We have hyper production of academic people but only tiny fraction of them get the interesting positions and not always in a fair way.
This causes huge dissatisfaction and something's gotta give.

>>11483577

>people I knew in my student days got master degrees
>they literally finished undergraduate education with cheating

>>11242704
They could write numbers as lines instead of as numbers.

Welp, I'm finished for another semester of Uni. What the fuck do I do for the next 3 months?

What's the scientific reason that white and, to a lesser degree, Asian countries advanced far quicker and to a greater extent technologically than other countries? Especially when you consider that some of the unenlightened countries are the ones with greater resources and less challenges (such as harsh winters). Also, why did whites evolve a different skull shape to the their supposed ancestors in Africa? It makes sense that they would lose melanin to increase Vitamin D uptake but why would their skull shape change? Especially since we KNOW scientifically that all races are intellectually identical and that intelligence is an immutable characteristic of the human existence which has no causal relationship to brain shape or size except insofar as diagnosable mental illness and impairment is concerned which of course isn't to suggest that those races with smaller prefrontal cortexes are in anyway inferior or impaired?

Honest question. If you removed everyone under 100 IQ (assuming 100 is the average of the entire world and not simply a first world baseline) what would the new IQ be? If you repeated this multiple times what would the relationship be for increasing IQ? How much of the population would be excluded after each removal.

Have there been any serious studies into the correlation between androgens and prevalence of homosexuality and/or transgenderism (and associated disorders)?

ITT: Post things you know are indisputable scientific FACT.
I'll start. The eyes are projectors which project what your mind perceives from the pineal gland into a 4 dimensional mind map of reality.

>plant life dies at 150ppm atmospheric CO2
>currently 400ppm atmospheric CO2
>optimal levels for plant life 1,200-1,500ppm CO2
>plant life can survive well over 10,000ppm atmospheric CO2
>humans can survive up to 60,000ppm atmospheric CO2
>increased CO2 levels raises the optimum temperature for plant life by approximately 6C

really activates those almonds
why do liberals hate plants so much?

Why the fuck do lethal injections use three different chemicals which all have to be balanced perfectly instead of just putting them on a general anesthetic drip until so they fall asleep and then die? Am I missing something?

Make Your Own Word Problem Thread

Make up a word problem and solve other peoples. I'll start with something easy:

Assume a ramp with base and height of (x,y) = (5,10)m, which extends in the z direction indefinitely, is approached by a wheel, which starts at some position on the line created by a plane coincident to hypotenuse of the ramp intercepting the x-z plane, at an angle of 20 degrees from the z axis on the x-z plane.

What is the incline experienced by the wheel? What is the actual distance traveled?

>stop showing up to my lecturers stupid ramblings 3 weeks into the semester
>pick up all the on course assessment on the fly
>sitting on HD
>get to the final without studying or even looking at the lecture notes past week 3
>oh shit nigga
>pull a sicky and get it deferred until the next semester
>study everything in the course in 1 week after 2nd semester starts
>get ~70% on the final

Why do we even bother paying these uni cunts? What an absolute rort. This is electrical engineering by the way. I'm sure there's some harder gay theoretical number fucking in maths or physics but it's worthless so who cares anyway. My point is this isn't some fucking liberal arts bullshit. If we just spent 3 weeks focusing on 1 subject 5 days a week instead of splitting it up in this retarded high school way we could easily smash out every course with far better average grades. And they wouldn't be able to justify charging such a retarded amount then.

Why do we die if our core body temperature drops a few degrees but our extremities can function at much lower temperatures?

>>10773144
>challenging
>only covers college tier shit
pick one

Is there a way to make glasses more accurate? My prescription works well enough for the usual 20m but at further ranges, like at the back of a lecture theater, the writing on the board is still sometimes blurry. If I squint a bit I can make it out. I'm not sure if most people experience this but there are heaps of people sitting at the back and they don't seem to have a problem with it.

tldr; is there anyway to get a better/more accurate prescription?

>"Math is a human invention"

Why is it assumed by all mainstream scientists that physically changing the brain doesn't affect cognitive abilities?

>>10201785 (you)

Is it possible to edit the DNA of a living person to produce some desired result? I remember reading something about it being possible but I don't understand how since you would need to alter the DNA of every applicable cell wouldn't you? How would you actually go about changing the DNA of a living person?

Do blacks have low IQ because they're black or are they black because they have low IQ?

Scientifically speaking, why are only primary Caucasoid countries successful? Why is it that every other primarily nonwhite country is a war torn shit hole with people trying leave?

>>10131739
>>10131702
>>10131646

A proof for lack of free will:
Sleep Walking
Q.E.D