You should meet the maths majors who aren’t really interested in maths but think a maths degree will allow them to become hedge fund managers or similar

Oh interesting! Is susceptible to heat as well?

People who have access to hrt usually also have access to a fridge

I’m sometimes slightly radioactive for medical reasons. Most people will be fine with a certain dosis, but little kids and pregnant people (well, their foetus) won’t. So they tell you to stay away from people because you don’t know who’s pregnant. Maybe that contributes.

Interesting, when I tried rolled oats the ducks weren’t going for them! And a bunch of them sank, too.

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Interesting! Nobody at my institute is a native English speaker. They’re from several European and some Asian and south American countries.

I’m a theoretical physics grad student and a night school maths teacher, I have never heard this distinction. People in academia around me call them round and square brackets.

You can pronounce any word any way you like, full stop. But pronouncing them the way most people do just makes for more effective communication.

Yeah, and on a scale of 0-10, that integer overflows to 0.

Well that is a nice illustration for the fact that listing an h index with no context doesn’t mean much.

Some of them might, a lot of them won’t. But most of them would be happier if personal freedom of expression weren’t at direct odds with professional fulfilment. Just like, yano, human beings in general.

Girls want to be able to choose how to look. Femininity often causes people in the sciences (and other places too) to take you less seriously. So, there’s negative consequences to choosing to look pretty, making it less of a free choice.

They just said especially for protests, implying you’d best do it more often than that. Didn’t want anyone to take them too literally.

I’d strongly advise against doing this every day. I developed osteoarthritis in my 20s just from my feet being slightly misaligned. Walking wonky can very easily permanently wreck your joints.

Given enough time and known lengths, most of my students should be able to calculate the surface area of this by the time they graduate. They’d just split everything into triangles and quadrangles, use the formula for each, then add everything together. It’s not that useful of an exercise though, didactically speaking, because once you grasp that process, it’s just repetitive and lengthy. There’d have to be a LOT of given values to make this solvable, too.

On a more subjective note, they can also form sentences. They just don’t want to when colloquial speech brings the point across just as well and it’s an informal setting. The same is true for most people of all ages in my experience.

Sibling and I were visiting my mum. Neighbour kids were playing outside when we arrived. They loudly asked ‘why does the boy have long hair and the girl short hair?’ Mum said ‘Because they each like their hair that way!’ and the kids were also like ‘yeah that makes sense’. Kids love learning new stuff, it comes easily to most of them to learn that humans can differ.

I disagree with the ‘nothing to hide’-argument, but can you please explain why it’s a logical fallacy?

Not a physicist yet, temporarily a high school physics and maths teacher until I can start my PhD

Fe-56 is the heaviest nucleus that releases energy when other nuclei fuse into it. Everything heavier requires energy, that has to come from somewhere else, to fuse. All things tend to keep doing stuff that release energy, and they don’t like to do stuff that requires energy. So, in a long enough amount of time, nuclei keep fusing together while it releases energy, and stop when it starts to require energy.

At least that’s what happens inside regular old stars. The vast majority of them will have an iron core after a certain amount of time.

It pretty much only takes nuclear physics into account though, whereas the actual universe is a lot more complicated and will thus probably not turn itself into all iron.

Yep, maths and science are only partially about learning maths and science. The even more important purpose is learning critical reasoning skills, which is a requirement for media literacy.