/sci/ - Science & Math

http://altering-perspectives.com/2013/11/scientists-sign-declaration-animals-conscious-awareness-just-like-humans.html

How does one raise their IQ?

How well do you trust what the scientific community calls fact, when it is so often changed and proven wrong time and time again?

I mean, how well can you trust modern science when you know in one hundred years, every science book will be unrecognizable, and they'll look back at what we knew know and laugh at it?

I struggle with this all the time.

I'm watching this, and want to know if there is some scientific consensus on the dangers of microwave technology. This dangers are almost certainly exaggerated, and his evidence is anecdotal, but I fear he has some cause to his claim.

>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vScsPTZff4o&feature=related

Just a general biology thread /sci/
New innovations, discoveries, etc.
Get me caught up.

I am a bio major, and I completely love the science. Every aspect you learn, such as the chemistry, math, and physics that all explain it, enrich your world. Everything makes sense as you try to formulate some root theory to life. When you ask the big questions.
It puts the world and all its mundane bullshit in perspective.

So /b/ros, quick pondering.
The Western system of medicine is a flawed system. It uses antibiotics and other broad treatments to cure diseases/infections/etc. And as we are seeing, as all infectious disease evolves just like we do, multiple-drug resistant strains are developing faster than we can make new drugs to fight them.
What is the alternative method to broad medicinal measures?

I personally think that a viral based approach is the best. Bacteriophages, viruses tailor-made to target certain cells/fungi( like cancer, etc.), and viral vectors to implant genes into the genome of malfunctioning cells (like insulin-secreting cells of the pancreas) can be used to develop a individual-specific type of medicine. Thoughts? Ideas?

Guys.

I love biology, cosmology, climatology, and some physics. Blame publishers of the subjects (Sagan, etc. You know the names).

Fuck it, it's all really hard. I want to graduate in a subject of these or two. My high school teachers were epic in these subjects, hell, got out almost hitting honor roll. In some parts I'm a little ahead like in biology (bitches in college don’t know their cardiac sphincter from their rectal sphincter). But for some reason, these professors are making this either over complicated or under complicated.

Not to mention, I'm an artists by nature. So I prefer to sketch in class, and still manage a 75% average. Group I’m with really helping too, and acing physics. But now, I’m really starting to fail.

It’s all causing a lot of stress. The sheer work load, and the way things are, just isn’t what I thought they’d be for the sciences I’m in. By the way, here’s an extreme example of what I mean: I was about 80% in math. Math professor was so confusing and all over the place, I was getting a 25%. No. This will not due. Especially when I know the material, I just can’t function in the class or understand what she says. No, I was not the only one. Everybody had this issue with her.

I'm interested in what /sci/ has to say. Should I just go to my arts, or keep trying? Maybe /sci/ knows what kind of career path would be best for something like this?


TL;DR:
I love science. I was doing great before college. Beginning I was as well with college, now I'm not. I'm into art. What do.

>mfw some alien species would probably look at us like pets
>mfw their pets are probably as advanced as us

Ok, Intellectual then

He is a philosopher and a scientists though. Just like Darwin

As long as it is Non Authoritarian and power Decentralized , there is no problem.

>>3300888
>mfw you think you can but will never be able to

What systems would be in place for an artificial intelligence program?

So far I have these:

Symmetry detection
Object categorization (through symmetry)
Linguistics operator

The symmetry detection will be the system that allows the AI to start objectifying the world around it. I'll use a Tree as an example. After the AI has seen many trees the Object Categorization system will allow the AI to understand that even though there are many different types of trees, they are all Trees.

If we can imagine what systems the AI needs in order to successfully have some sort of problem solving, then we can begin to program it.

Want to help?

>>3151608
The extreme left is about materialism and individuality
Lolwut
0/10

Libertarian Socialism is merely libertarianism without the private tyrrany and wage slavery.

>>2775797
>mfw its a piece of a flying saucer
>mfw i want my drive core back

Bump 1 with cool pic

GODDAMNIT YOU FUCKING SUCK PEOPLE

WHY DID YOU HIJACK THIS THREAD AND TURNED INTO ANOTHER CRAPPY RELIGIOUS DEBATE?!

PFFT!..

Wait a few minutes OP, and I'll dump everything I've been holding back because of the sad state of /sci/.

>my face when we make First Contact

Don't count too much on traditional schemes to make humanity a space-faring species.

As you may have noticed it's not by being space visionaries that the current wealthy got rich.

As Robert Zubrin put it well:
"" People can be courageous, but money is timid; it prefers to reproduce itself in tried and proved ways. If your only fundamental goal is to make money, there are far more reliable ways to do so than to venture into the unknown. Thus, on Earth, developing new frontiers for profit has occurred only after such regions have been explored and pioneered at considerable risk and cost by individuals possessing rather different motives. ""

>>1149221
Because patents and because egos, but not because it's right.

In fact it's what's holding us from the singularity.

If we could discuss our ideas freely and anonymously we could cross-polinize each other very quickly.

did you ever stop to think that maybe games like mass effecot are trying to train us for the future, like we as soceity are evolving so rapidly and this grand scheme of things and global elites is the path of thei new future, that's what fucking true power is

the global elites and the fucking super powers, they are the gods, gods are man made man, that's so crazy.

but imagine the universe man, galactic civilizations. whoaaaahaahahah !!

An echo from the recent thread on Phobos?

Yes the Solar system is seriously weird, and the people who didn't notice that should pay more attention.

BUT
there are not enough "striking" oddities to believe that this was the labor of another species similar to our own. It could be instead unknown phenomenas occurring in the past, yet to be discovered and unrelated to life.