In 1934 a 13-year old girl did the calculations to show that a Spitfire would need 8 cannons
instead of the planned number of 4, to enable it to shoot down a German bomber attack.
RAF said that her "important contribution to our later success in the Battle of Britain was
vital to this country's survival.
Does it mean that the Taliban are right that we should never allow girls to get an education?
Discuss.

How and why was Theranos able to fool so many into investing in something that makes no scientific sense?

How many of you have made your own hourly schedules?
Once you graduate and start looking for a job, or say you end up with an unrelated job that has downtime.
How have you decided to schedule and best use your time?

I have different interests and studies I want to continue for my own self fulfillment, but I'm finding it difficult to just pull a schedule out of thin air. And without that structure I'm finding it difficult to stay on task.
Whats the best way to tackle it?

Is rape really as traumatic for women as we are led to believe? I mean, a lot of women orgasm during rape, and they even end up dating or marrying people who rape them.

what is /sci/s favorite crystal and why?

is there any scientific evidence that the holocaust actually happened or is the holocaust possibly just a big fake rumor?
if questioning the holocaust story was made illegal then does that make the holocaust story non disprovable and fundamentally unscientific?

Is a human powered mode of transportation such as a bike cleaner than an electric car when taking diet into account as the energy source for calories used?

How the fuck do full blueberries survive the digestive system?

I eat mixed berries multiple times a day in my oatmeal and without fail, I always poop them out whole.

How does this interpretation of MWI make sense?

>When a physicist measures the object, the universe splits into two distinct universes to accommodate each of the possible outcomes. So a scientist in one universe finds that the object has been measured in wave form. The same scientist in the other universe measures the object as a particle. This also explains how one particle can be measured in more than one state.
Ok, fair enough. Seems logically consistent so far...
>As unsettling as it may sound, Everett's Many-Worlds interpretation has implications beyond the quantum level. If an action has more than one possible outcome, then -- if Everett's theory is correct -- the universe splits when that action is taken. This holds true even when a person chooses not to take an action.
And now this interpretation stops making sense. How can "an action have more than one possible outcome"? Only the position of quantum particles has "more than one possible outcome", not macroscopic events. There isn't a 50/50 chance of me "choosing" to carry out an action; that is a deluded and infantile way of seeing the world, totally in contrast with the reality of determinism.
>This means that if you have ever found yourself in a situation where death was a possible outcome, then in a universe parallel to ours, you are dead. This is just one reason that some find the Many-Worlds interpretation disturbing.
And now it just gets silly. "I was almost hit by a bus, so therefore in another universe I was hit by the bus!" Makes no sense at all. You can't upscale the concept of subatomic particles existing in different positions in parallel universes (which is already slightly preposterous, but not out of the question) to the macroscopic world of every-day physics (for example, pretending that a dice may fall on a different score despite being thrown in an identical way).

Why would people trust scientists who looked at these scatter plots and decided they needed trend lines?