stelelor

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[–] stelelor@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

It's not as much a negative award as it is a funny award. The winners do real research and continue meaningfully to science.

I'd like to see an "Andrew Wakefield-Monsanto" award for intentionally bad science.

[–] stelelor@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

The question is whether the entire bundled package deal is a pretty good job or not for yourself.

That's a great way of putting it. Unfortunately, the drudgery of each job is rarely explained or even acknowledged to young people entering the workforce. That's how we end up with burnt out people in their 20s and 30s.

[–] stelelor@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

It’s not an indication that they don’t love or value you, rather the exact opposite.

100%. The opposite of love isn't hate, it's apathy. A parent who reacts that strongly still cares about you on some level, however messed up their way of expressing it may be. A parent who would shrug and continue watching tv, on the other hand, is beyond redemption.

[–] stelelor@lemmy.ca 36 points 3 weeks ago

I was going to make fun of the title (which is basically "Sick ants stink, the others don't like it and make it stop") but IMO this is the important bit:

Then, the team conducted an experiment showing that the sick pupae only produce the smell when worker ants are nearby, proving it is a deliberate signal for destruction.

That does go beyond just smelling bad due to illness.

[–] stelelor@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Everyone makes mistakes

Except psychopaths who know their claim is garbage but lie through their teeth to get it published. That's not a mistake, that's corruption.

[–] stelelor@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

your brain does that, not the speaker

This is fascinating. I never realized that sound is processed like this. Not that different from sight then, which is processing a bunch of electromagnetic frequencies.

[–] stelelor@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So it's not the record or the CD or whatever that is magic. It's our brains. Holy shit that is so cool. Thank you for explaining it so well!

[–] stelelor@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Oh ok, I thought you meant pulling the eyeballs "inwards" as in towards the back of your head! What you describe, I'd normally call "crossing" my eyes.

[–] stelelor@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Moving your eyes inwards

Details, please. 🤨

[–] stelelor@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I just tried that and I can definitely say the closure happens at the pharynx for me, which is also what I do consciously when I hold my breath.

[–] stelelor@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

I am intimately familiar with that feeling. Because it's not just popcorn that causes it. In apples, the seed chambers are lined with a hard membrane that is extremely similar in size and texture to a popcorn hull. If you bite too close to the core, or if you eat apple slices from uncored apples, youwill get one stuck in your throat.

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