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I said many, not everyone.

I think we are at the same stage as when 3D graphics began taking over. It was used everywhere, while it was clearly inferior to 2D graphics of the time. The same problem is with A…

I don't get why it is believed that trees can't pump water above a certain limit, all it should take is a system of valves, something that plants already have for other purposes. I…

What if rickets is actually a variant of polio, and vitamin D is just a hormone, and not a vitamin? Rickets still occurs in Africa with abundant sunlight, but with polio still pres…

>I’m going to try to win the award for the most controversial theory on this thread. Extremely easy to beat that. You can see that global population used to stay at around half a b…

Nothing of course. But he reportedly insisted that war with russia would lead to the rise of communism.

Yes, the archduke who got assassinated just before the war started.

From what I've read, Franz Ferdinand was the only one with any say in the matter, who could foresee the result of the war. So there is really nothing new about this.

Cetaceans are also strongly handed, sperm whales extremely so. It's possible it has to do with the brain size itself, perhaps it allows to save nutrients for one hemisphere.

I'm going to get downvoted to hell for this, but you described the exact reason why education is a waste of time.

That, just isn't true. Many animals live in herds, flocks or other groups. There is a kind of fish that eats debris from the teeth of much bigger fishes. Predators get swarmed.

I believe that this goes beyond vocabulary. It's more about who bears the burden in communication - in most cultures, it's the speaker, who is supposed to communicate clearly, and …

He was talking about education. I'm pretty sure about it.

There is no reason to doubt that Jesus lived in the Roman Empire, once you believe that he lived at all. And there is no reason whatsoever to doubt that the church formed in Rome. …

It fell, (quite violently, in fact) in the third century. The rest was pretense.

The thing that made him question geocentrism was that Venus quite visibly orbits the Sun. It has always been known that the tides are caused by the Moon. The hard part is to predic…

Napoleonic wars? The Spanish used guns against the Aztecs. >The first use of firearms as primary offensive weapons came in the 1421 Battle of Kutná Hora. https://en.wikipedia.org/w…

People always overestimate how 'phonetic' their language is, because nobody actually uses phonemes in regular speech. In Korean in particular, there doesn't even seem to be any obv…

The amount of red light goes down, (and you can use a camera with white set to sunlight to check how much blue it gets on a clear day, it isn't an illusion at all) so if anything, …

Even the premise of the idea is wrong, as evenings are either blue from the blue sky, or white from the clouds. It takes exceptional circumstances to have a reddish evening, and ev…

I think the reason for it is actually pretty banal. Rationality won. But it didn't win over irrationality, but over superrationality, and we just suffer the horrors of its wrongnes…

Too much of sci-fi has become reality, and space alone isn't interesting. So, you can fly to another planet? What are you going to do there? Talk with computers, like you do with y…

It applies to the sensor size as well. Such as you need a 3m sensor to get 100px per radian, under ideal circumstances, unless I'm mistaken. (I think I'm not)

It isn't a way around, you still obey. Only now, the authority you obey is a machine.