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> One reason the practice hasn’t been more widespread is that it delivers a diminished dose of a drug. It isn’t clear how much of a high secondary users receive, and some medical e…

To me, the most interesting sentence in this essay is: "[H]e, Gödel, had felt that a nuclear chain reaction would be possible only 'in a distant future'." Gödel was second-to-none …

I didn't like how obsessed I'd become over Hearthstone. When this happened, I took it as an opportunity to delete the app and I haven't played it a single time since.

Yeah, I think the anger is a device for keeping each other from selling, but has nothing to do with how this situation arose.

Same. Never before seen a thunderstorm where no precipitation hit the ground. The heat doesn't feel so new to me. As a kid I was always watching for those 100F+ days with the fasci…

On Facebook, most of the friends and family I used to know have been reduced to the memes and shares that flow through them. Twitter, on the other hand, will have me doomscrolling …

More like "Endurance Athletes Set New Records Due to Lack of Races." Everyone has had to reevaluate what they're doing without the usual competitions. I'm going for a 1-mile person…

I made a few close friends there in the chat, where other hacker wannabes and philosophy neophytes would gather. The chat forum had fun weird bugs that my friends and I would play …

That's cool. I'm happy that some people had good homeschool experiences. I grew up in a house full of books and loved to read and it mostly turned out okay except for the constant …

After homeschooling, I also have a hunger for learning. It is the hunger of someone that did not always get enough to eat as a child and isn't going to let calories go by uneaten. …

If you want an eye-opening, follow https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeschoolRecovery/ for a bit. I've seen some really terrible examples of homeschooling that left people stunted and ove…

No, he's explaining that acting responsible puts him in positions of responsibility.

This is what everyone at Starbucks is taught.

Yes. If enough customers die using a product, people will stop using that product.

Prelude to Mathematics by W.W. Sawyer was written to give students an overview of modern math concepts beyond algebra. Topics include non-euclidian geometry, linear algebra, projec…

Lots of us are unfamiliar with the day-to-day details of soviet communism. Were people paid for their labor? Was everyone given ration cards? Was a party membership enough to get s…

What institutions are you thinking of?

I imagine that the differences between men and women seem a lot less interesting if you are a woman pursuing a career in STEM and are trying to either improve your spatial reasonin…