Just breath through your mouth, works like a charm

I sleep so much better after I started doing this. Seriously, try it out for like a week/month and you’ll never go back, I swear

In my opinion, it’s always been about determinism and convergent evolution. Determinism states that if the cards were reshuffled and evolution were to take place again from the beginning, more or less the same would happen. There wouldn’t be sentient octopuses or hive mind ants controlling the planet, because there are simple evolutionary pressures giving rise to features that eventually lead to more or less bipedal apes.

This hooks into convergent evolution. This is about the fact that features like wings and eyes were so successful in terms of evolution they actually evolved independently of each other multiple times. Eyes evolved in different lineages and evolutionary pathways around 65 times during the history of earth. This indicates that simple evolutionary pressures (like needing to look around) will always end up with something that is a lens based retinal pigmented organ. This deterministic view of evolution leads many to believe that on another planet that looks like earth, inhabitants will look like us due to the rules and constraints of evolution.

Thank you. So many people are still living with data from 1970 in their heads

Fuck that scale bar though. The decimal separator makes it look like the human hair is 10cm thick.

The Fermi paradox is the discrepancy between the lack of conclusive evidence of advanced extraterrestrial life and the apparently high likelihood of its existence.

The first person to coin the word meme was Richard Dawkins in his book ‘the selfish gene’. He also postulates in the same chapter that religion is a particular form of a meme. So you’re one hundred percent correct!

You should read the book Superintelligence, it’s very interesting, and catches not only possibilities and limitations, also societal impact.

Eowyn, no

Where does Annihilation fit in here? Pretty sure it’s both.

Stardew Valley

Time series forecasting is a pretty well-established statistical method though.

It is pretty cool, but it’s a bit misleading… They didn’t ‘see’ dark matter, because it doesn’t interact with light or any particles. But they detected weak gravitational lensing caused by the dark matter (or any alternative source of the gravity we’ve coined dark matter), so this is not really conclusive physical evidence of dark matter.

But I’m no expert, please let people with astrophysics background correct me if I’m wrong.

Oh yes, definitely this. I’ve just done this for the first time ever two weeks ago on a 5 year old xiaomi redmi note 7, and this ancient thing is suddenly a beast again! Everything is suddenly so smooth and fast without all that bloatware and spyware

They say very easily that it is economically viable, but I don’t see any proof or even calculations of this. It’s a nice discovery to be sure, but this kind of journalism is not the best way to communicate to the people.

Dolphins would have a pufferfish take the coke, then eat the pufferfish. It’s very efficient.