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Any sexual hereditary information needs to be passed via germ line cells. So if it’s not encoded within a single sperm or egg cell, then it can’t be passed down via sexual heredity.

Information that might be passed from parent to offspring after conception is not hereditary by definition, and would be a type of learning, (ie birds singing to babies in eggs, antibody transferring from mother to baby)

Everything else you mention is very easily passed down via genetics which is not chemical signaling, but actual information encoding. And simple rules can lead to complex behavior.

Edit: Here’s an example to better illustrate the genes power of information encoding. Camouflage, which is a genetically heritable trait, can be incredibly complex. We can think of the information encoded in the genes for camouflage as a visual description of the environment that the animal evolved in. So the gene’s have actually encoded what the dessert environment looks like, or the sea floor, or the vegetation. That’s a single example, but every animal carries such complex information (how to navigate certain landscapes, how to survive current living pathogens in the environment, etc) within their genes.

I think eggs and certain fish recipes are the primary use of non stick. But there are also ways to cook those without non stick.

For scrambled eggs you can use a double boiler (you’ll never have had fluffier eggs). An extremely well seasoned carbon steal pan will also work wonders (basically what fry cooks use)

For fish, cooking fish whole on a grill is amazing. Another technique with stainless pans is to get the pan searing hot first. Then add a tiny amount of oil and cook the fish and don’t touch it. This should set the surface protein quickly and create a crust that prevents sticking (requires a little practice but not too hard)

Yes, exactly. I can’t believe how little mention of silicon and wood there is here.

Silicon is much more resistant to heat and chemicals. I believe the polymers are also more tightly bound.

I also think people cook too much on nonstick. Non stick has a place in the kitchen for specific dishes. But for the most part you can cook most things in a combination of high quality stainless steel pans and cast iron. Some food sticking in stainless is a good thing (Maillard reaction), deglaze the pan and scrape it up with a good wood spatula.

What’s important to note about this analysis is that it’s well researched with links to sources. A reader is free to disagree with what the evidence may demonstrate or not, but at least it provides an education. This is the type of political discourse that we need more of rather than the vitriol that has become standard fair.

Yes you’re right.. the photon has no reference frame of its own then.

So then that would just apply to massive objects with their own reference frames.

I believe that’s an accurate model, with the caveat that it’s all relative. There’s no universal reference frame. So for the photon and his pal photons, they experience time while you (in your reference frame sitting still) are the one moving at the speed of light and not moving through time.

Edit: See below, the photon doesn’t have its own reference frame so they still don’t experience time.

Unfortunately it also feels like our tiny bubble of sanity and reason is rapidly shrinking (witness the current conspiracy laden reaction to hurricane Helene)

> Gen Z undergrads not finishing Les Miserables because they are uninterested in reading a pompous French man drone on for chapters about the Paris sewer system

This is entirely the reason to read them. Literature is partly about opening up and expanding your perspectives, and challenging the reader. If you simply surround yourself in what’s comfortable and familiar you’re not exploring the depth of the human experience.

And Hugo’s whole theme is about injustice and inequality. What it means to live in a society without sanitation, something that still exists in large swathes of the world. These are themes that continue to resonate. Just because he was a “old white man” does not negate the value of his literature. Instead this article reads as racists and ageist.

So thanks to the Atlantic for continuing to bring up difficult subjects that make certain groups unhappy because they need to be pried from their insulated and privileged perspectives.

As Hugo so eloquently writes:

    As long as social damnation exists, through laws and customs, artificially creating hell at the heart of civilisation and muddying a destiny that is divine with human calamity; as long as the three problems of the century — man’s debasement through the proletariat, woman’s demoralisation through hunger, the wasting of the child through darkness — are not resolved; as long as social suffocation is possible in certain areas; in other words, and to take an even broader view, as long as ignorance and misery exist in this world, books like the one you are about to read are, perhaps, not entirely useless.

Some of the wasps have even developed a mutualistic relationship with a virus that helps control the hosts immune system. The wasps have integrated the virus genome into their own so their offspring can continue to infect hosts.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3758193/

Debunked isn’t the correct term here. That would imply that the data is false or it’s misinformation. Instead the article you linked states:

    On the other hand, data on this issue is mixed, and some studies contradict one another.

So a better way to talk about it is that the data doesn’t yet make a cut or dry case one way or another.

Another quote from the article you linked

    Haidt argues that waiting for stronger evidence could be even more dangerous. He writes: “If you listen to the alarm ringers and we turn out to be wrong, the costs are minimal and reversible. But if you listen to the skeptics and they turn out to be wrong, the costs are much larger and harder to reverse.” … as a mother, as someone who writes about the harms of tech and tech companies, I see his point.

So even if we don’t take the data to be 100% convincing, it’s by no means “debunked” and something that we should just completely ignore.

The problem you’re ignoring is that there are many places around the country where speed limits are set unreasonably low with the intention of collecting revenue. Until we seperate speed enforcement from revenue collection, then speed limits won’t be about the science and engineering or what is safest for the road, but what is collects the most revenue.

I’ve witnessed firsthand a major roadway whose speed limit was lowered from 65 to 55 arbitrarily, along with a jump in enforcement. The road is definitely less safe in fact, since I’ve noticed people on their phones more as the lower speed gives people more confidence. The people who speed dangerously and no speed limit will stop, now drive more aggressive around cars with greater differentials in speed. One time I drove behind a women who I could clearly see had her phone propped up on her steering wheel. She and others driving irrationally or dangerously but at or below the speed limit drive right by the police.

At one point when I was stopped for going 60 and given a warning, I asked how come they don’t stop people driving dangerous or on their phones. He’s response was the “laws didn’t let him”. I’m assuming he really meant they can’t reliably collect fines for it since they can’t prove it in court with a radar detector.

> Personally, I sure don't want the stupidest and cockiest people deciding what's safe for 'themselves', and applying it counter to the expectations of imminent victims. When we normalize speeding, that's what we get.

The safest is supposed to be 85% percentile of speed on a given roadway. Many places have this specified in the books at a state level, however, after doing some research on that years ago, that’s almost never followed locally.

I’m not sure how it could be otherwise. On some level mathematics is a description of reality that we can use to compute things in reality.

For example, pi is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. It’s just what a circle is in two dimensions. The value of pi isn’t any more mysterious or connected to physics than the existence of this thing called a circle. If you have some other Euclidean shapes you’ll have other ratios and values that have other relationships to other things in physical reality.

And if reality was different, hence the physical laws were different then the math would be different.. and the beings in that world might wonder why their math and physics were so interconnected.

Hallucinations and lucid dreams during falling asleep are called hypnagogia and definitely are different as they don’t involve REM. I think a lot of people don’t talk about it for fear of sounding crazy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia

And for those interested In hallucinations, Oliver Sacks has an amazing book that I think also destigmatizes them and covers how different they can be from hypnagogic, to migraine, to drug induced, etc.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucinations_(book)

It’s not profiling as the book was collected as evidence after being charged with a crime and with a search warrant (or at least probably cause must be established with other evidence). Profiling would be using information about such a book before crimes were committed or charged.

In addition, such evidence is important in establishing bail, as risk of fleeing is of primary concern.

There’s correlation, but not causation. It’s also possible that people who are already conspiracy minded tend to be lonely because those personality traits are off-putting to others.

Interestingly The Philippines is responsible for 35% of ocean plastic waste.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/visualized-ocean-plastic...

Lots of people make bad choices for themselves and others due to psychological control, manipulation, and/or abuse, such as people who willingly join cults.

I’m not saying that is what happened to Vitali, but I think it’s the open question being alluded to.

It is important to be aware and concerned about cultures or industries that foster cult like personality leaders.

The linked paper makes the claim “We believe it is the most accurate flat map of Earth yet.”

Okay, well I did a little googling and came across this data.. it does seem having 3 or more children equates with negative effects on women being able to have a career.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/women-three-children_n_895517...

But it seems to me the issue is not that women are choosing to have careers, but that the work/career culture is not supporting women choosing to have children. So things like better maternity and paternity leave, allowing women to take years off, or part time without consequence to career, etc.

So takeaway should be, support our population by better supporting working mothers.

That’s a very sexist take, and not supported at all by the data. There are plenty of very successful women raising families. I have a relative where both the father and mother are very successful engineers working full time. Their two girls are doing amazing and going to top schools.

Raising children is full time, but both parents can and should be a part of it.

Is there some correlation here with the world lowest fertility rate?

Edit: Legitimate question, not insinuating anything. If questions are off limits, that’s pretty sad for inquiry, understanding and knowledge.

It’s a legitimate question as the article points out such a male/female inversion of fans is unique. Maybe women choosing different lifestyles, which is 100% their choice. But can still be correlated. Or other factors at play?

The article doesn’t have answers. So questions are what we are left with.

But in set theory, zero is the empty set! So Ruby creates the correct universe =D

    nil = nil
    nil.to_i = nil.to_h
    0 = {}

> Webs from woodland and zoo show eDNA from native and non-native fauna, respectively

Aside from being cute, and maybe harking back to why’s guide; I like how this feels like it aids in understanding. Each illustration provides character that helps aid in memorizing or creating a mental landscape of the exceptions.

Theres probably a lot of documentation that could be aided by illustrations like this along the lines of analogy and metaphor. Aside from making the process of reading documentation more fun, it probably helps differentiate long and complex documentation that otherwise might blur together.

Yes, you’re 100% correct. You’ve described kin selection. So if grandparent fish can somehow help their grandchildren procreate more, then that can be selected for.

I’ve heard of territory defense helping with fish, but no idea about the fish mentioned specifically.

Also to the previous comment, I think there’s already a fair bit of evidence that older larger fish do continue to breed, (hence throwing back the bigger fish breeders).

But if they stop breeding, and there is no kin selection; then yes, natural selection wouldn’t play a role.

Selection bias ~= natural selection.

If bigmouth buffalo procreate for more years because they live longer with stronger immune systems, then they will eventually make up the majority of the population.

Just came back to check replies. This is a great talk.

He mentions Obamacare and the digitization of records, which is very on point and a similar issue. In the interview he mentions, Obama says:

“In some cases, you have economic incentives against making the system better; you have service providers — people make money on keeping people’s medical records — so making it easier for everyone to access medical records means that there’s some folks who could lose business. And that’s turned out to be more complicated than I expected.”

I think “more complicated than expected” is a hilarious and sad way to sum up the whole mess that is greed and Washington DC combined.

Those Moai were the worst.. luckily there was up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A

This is why we still have the income tax system that we do. It’s a $14 billion a year industry. I’ve talked to people who work the lobbying system very hard. There’s lots of wining and dining to make sure no one messes with the complexity of the system.

We need more people who are immune to lobbying in government positions. We’ll see how this goes.. depending on the next election cycle this will either get quashed quickly, or, fingers crossed, might fight on against a growing backlash.

Yes our public schools are doing a poor job. And given the majority of kids go to public school; that is where the attention needs to be directed.

The problem is also that homeschooling has massively different outcomes for different kids. For some it’s a positive, for others it deepens divides.

Homeschooling is worse than a bandaid solution, and a regression for many kids. We can’t ignore those who are hurt by an ongoing deregulation of our educational system just because it works for some.

And worse, we need to look closely at how that system is being abused by those with specific agendas.