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My understanding is that attendance exemptions are mostly to allow a student to regularly see healthcare professionals (ie weekly respiratory therapist visits) without suffering th…

In a high stakes, challenging environment, every human weakness possible becomes a huge, career impeding liability. Very few people are truly all-around talented. If you are a Stan…

Sounds like fun! Do you remember the name of the software?

Phys.org often bumbles headlines (and implications) a bit, but I like to use it as a stepping stone to the original paper (which I likely wouldn't have heard of otherwise). Sadly t…

QGIS is great, I use it daily and I hugely prefer it (and it's mobile equivalent Qfield) to ArcGIS and FieldMaps. The educational world is pretty split between ArcGIS and QGIS. Stu…

Look to Google Earth and Caltopo. These two already dominate more casual mapping

The Feynman Lectures on Physics. https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/ Extremely clear and satisfying lectures that covers all of basic physics. Much of it is accessible to anyo…

Are there many bioluminescent creatures in North-Central South Africa?

I love nature documentaries, I'll have a look at that one! I agree, lots of animals use tools in one way or another. Starting or even just controlling a chemical reaction does seem…

I'll believe it when they release geochemical data for the soot and plot the locations of the "hearths" on the cave map. Where is the published peer reviewed paper associated with …

The systematic teaching of math at some universities doesn't make a whole lot of sense either. Why should linear algebra be taught after calculus? Why is number theory basically ig…

1) Has the Riemann hypothesis been solved yet? I'd have to think for a while for the others

The phrase > here's our list of 10 of the best. seems particularly listicle-y, especially with the full stop rather than a colon or nothing

Interesting suggestion! It seems there is not a complete english translation available from a single translator, or one affiliated with any university/previous scholarship at least…

> real banned books you almost certainly wouldn't find in a public library Do I dare ask what they are?

From a NAND gate to Tetris was excellent. Informative and obvious https://www.nand2tetris.org/