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Yes, or maybe more accurately - we are the American equivalent of Formula SAE Germany. The German teams are significantly more advanced and better funded, with some of the teams ru…

This is not an accurate take. It does not require some great expertise to identify edible mushrooms, and in cultures where mushroom consumption has been common for hundreds of year…

From what I understand, one of the big bird issues with turbines is that birds of prey like hawks, eagles, and falcons don't generally look forward but down as they scout for prey,…

The aero packages for these vehicles create a pretty significant amount of downforce at relatively low speeds - for example, our car last season produced ~140 lbs of downforce at 3…

Yes, this car uses powered ground effects (PGE) to achieve the necessary downforce at low speeds (they mention this in an instagram post) In Formula SAE in the US, PGE systems are …

Although the other comments are correct about the 30mph optimization for the aero package, this car uses active underbody aero (aka, fans) to create additional downforce even when …

I learned that the two of them were housemates for a period of time while taking a mycology class from Alan - can you imagine being a fly on the wall in that place? What a colorful…

I have to say I think it's quite possible and comical that the professor interpreted your work on two of the three questions as additional evidence that you did know it should be a…

Did you know that hemp was not used in Dr. Bronners soaps until the 90s? I think it's well know that Emmanuel Bronner suffered from some mental illnesses - the man lost his family …

Everybody has different needs, so I can respect that it's not a perfect soap for all people. That being said - are you diluting it or using it straight? I usually dilute 4 parts wa…

Could you clarify by what you mean as "it wasn't very nice"? I've been using bronners for a decade and have recommended it to more people than I could count. I've never had anyone …

I'd imagine you aren't the only person who may be having a hard time adjusting from a remote freshman year to an in person sophomore year! Outlook is a big part of these things, an…

One thing I'd add to the advice given already is to get out and socialize sooner rather than later in your degree. When you are a freshman, everyone is in the same boat as you, try…

I am not 100% on HN policies regarding flagging / renaming threads, but I do see articles get renamed on a fairly regular basis without getting flagged into dead status first? Is t…

"The point of the polices was to counter the incredibly destructive result of the surge of cocaine, crack, heroin use in the mid 1970s and early to mid 1980s." This would be plausi…

Not directly related to the article, but - I am extremely disappointed that this article was flagged. It certainly displays the general inability for people to openly analyze ideas…

While this is true, it overlooks the selection pressures that exist on nucleotide selection. If I recall correctly, the canonical bases are relatively robust to radiation in the ir…

Well, yes and no. If they just wanted to heat things up, they'd throw the reaction over a Bunsen burner or some other appropriate heating element. So while I agree that the reactio…

During my rather short stint in a synthetic chemistry lab in college, I learned that it was a relatively standard practice for folks to "nuke" their reactions in a microwave in an …

Isn't DMT biosynthesized endogenously in most mammals? https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31249368/ I think it would be fascinating to know more about the anabolic/metabolic pathways …

4:52, but I had already given up on the first page once and then had to give it another go. Like others mentioned here, a lot of these are unfortunately common in the wild - the on…

Could you elaborate on what you mean by "compromised"? Sure, they can no longer be stacked 7 units high, but I am skeptical that cutting out a handful of windows and a door is goin…

Maybe it's just me, maybe it's just a snapchat "feature", but one of the first things that struck me was the idea that this young woman sent the rant out to something like 250 peop…

While I entirely agree with the sentiment of this post, I often find myself wondering - how does one effectively combat this attitude without making a full circle? How is anything …

Not a physicist, so maybe I took the wrong gist away from the article, but - it seems like what they are saying is that systems that are generally modeled by complex equations have…