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Comet colours would be extremely bland and boring to a human eye (and to the regular cameras we use on Earth) - the Sun is far, no atmosphere to have meaningful shades of grey, and the material they are made of is not really vibrant at all. The budget is better spent on instuments and the cameras that capture images in the invisible spectrum (which could be always false-colorized into colorful "photos" of galaxies and nebulae we are all used to see)

This one is 11700 yo and 900 meters in diameter, but TIL that people are also fond of looking for fresh (<10k yo) craters [1] as small as 24 metres [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_impact_structures_on_E...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalgaranga_crater

...there are two kinds of people, those who do things only if it helps them achieve a goal, and those who do things just because. The ideal, of course, is to be a mix of both.

This is related to what Robert Pirsig in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance calls the romantic (subjective, "artistic") and the classical (objective, "scientific") understanding. He, too, points that the ideal is to enjoy both. Not because there are both useful and have their place and time, but because this is a false dichotomy to begin with and, ideally, one should refrain from defining the splitting and abandon both concepts (after all, the Zen in the title is there for a reason).

I'm curious, could you plz share the source for the last claim? In my field - distant from the book - it's quite respected.

"Original data collection for both studies was funded by the Norwegian Department of Defense; however, data extractions were archival and, hence, not funded."

Also, if we are talking X-rays, in Ukraine it is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Puluj, not Röntgen. Although, to his credit, the latter apparently did cite Puluj when using the X-ray emitting Puluj Lamp (Röntgen attended his lectures after all).

Haven't tried it, but it seems you could get, within 6 km, to Saint-Saveur-de-Puisaye - on bus 861 (need to call them) from Auxerre Saint-Gervais which is reachable by train from Paris.

Most likely, yes, like the loudness of baby crying. Humans are pack animals so any predator attracted by snoring or baby cry, and deciding to check it out would be in a very very big trouble.

Carl Sagan proposed something along the lines in 1961 (but using bacteria to convert CO2 to graphite), however later it became clear that wouldn't work, in part, because the depth of the created sediment layer would be >100 meters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming_of_Venus

Ironically, borsch is actually a famous Ukrainian soup and has about 20 ingredients (sometimes more, it depends on a region, village and family). Why one would reduce to only 4 ingredients and continue calling it borsch is beyond me.

Regarding cabbage, it is indeed the only ingredient of a different soup, called "schi", which (perhaps unsurpisingly) is of Russian origin.

Thread about the same research https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41512191

Yes, in Germany all months when you are expected to in the oncall rotation are basically an addendum to your usual contract that you sign and receive more money even if nothing ever happened during your shifts.

I'm suprised the post and comments here do not cite the famous Nature paper by S. Carlson - "A Double-blind Test of Astrology" - which performed a very similar experiment 40 years ago.

(and yes, astrology didn't work back then too)

[1] https://muller.lbl.gov/papers/Astrology-Carlson.pdf

It can't be iron though, as it's not soluble in milk. In fact, that's the reason why, in the 3rd trimester of pregnancy, babies stock iron for the first 4-6 months of (postpartum) life, basically, for all the way up until eating solids, and why pre-term babies have to be supplemented with iron because they didn't have a chance to complete stocking.

What prevents people from biking these 5 miles? Can't be capitalism, because bikes are cheaper than cars or just fuel with amortization costs for such trips.

For 2+ years I had to bike 12 km each time I needed groceries. In fact, this was in France.

Birth of the first (and only first) child triggers what might be the largest brain rewiring in males since pubety. Women don't seem to undergo a rewiring of the same scale [1].

To me, this makes sense, given how unusual the new skillset has to be compared to pre-fatherhood life (manipulations with the newborn, deciphering needs, new attetion patterns etc.).

[1] Mentioned in the book by Stanislas Dehaene, "Consciousness and the Brain", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness_and_the_Brain

Yes. The Reichenbach Common Cause Principle [1] tells us that behind every correlation there is a confounding variable that causally influences both of the corrrelated variables, so the project may very well be onto something.

The article already hypothesises a few confounders (leaf hair trapping particles, plants sequestering pollutants in other ways) but psychological reasons could even turn out to be stronger, given how little of exercise is sufficient to offset cadio-vascular risks - more plants around make it more likely for people to go outside for walking or running.

[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/physics-Rpcc/

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