Eben Byers suffered a ghastly fate when his jaw fell off his face – after he drank over 1,400 bottles of radioactive water. Ebenezer McBurney Byers – known as Eben Byers – was born in 1880 and raised by his wealthy family in the US. He went on to be a Yale University graduate and was known for his athletic ability.

In the early 1900s, the sports fan won several gold championship medals.But when he injured his arm playing sports in 1927, he was prescribed Radithor. The dangerous substance, Radithor, made his tissues and bones disintegrate from the inside. And not long after losing his jaw, the organs inside his body began to crumble too, leading to his death aged 51.

So how did it go so wrong for Eben?

Medics believed Radithor would help him to heal quicker so he was prescribed a small spoon a day. After a few doses, Eben began to feel like his old strong self.As such, he began sinking a whole bottle of Radithor every 24 hours. One year later, he was overdosing necking three bottles every single day. Then, in 1931, his jaw gave up on him.

He reportedly didn’t even feel pain because his nerves were melted. Medics attempted to surgically build a new jaw for Eben but it was too late. After having consumed over 1,400 bottles, his imminent death was the only outcome. He died in 1932 before his body was exhumed in 1965 to be studied. Eben’s body was still found to be radioactive all those decades later.


https://www.oddely.com/a-man-who-drank-radioactive-water-until-his-jaw-fell-off-in-terrifying-case/

What causes the feeling in your chest when you feel sadness? The sort of tingling that dissipates though your body in around 2 seconds?

How advanced do you think AI will get in our lifetimes? Personally I think that we’re not even close. The best explanation of where we are with AI is the famous Turing test. If a program (that is able to receive and process instructions from humans, and respond in an intelligent way) can fool a human into believing it was a human, then we can say we’re at the beginning stages of AI.

If you don’t already know, a Turing test is a simple idea. You see the human (or people), ask them a series of questions, and if they answer, or respond in a way that doesn’t seem like a human (incomplete sentences, or a blank stare), then you know we’re not close. This isn’t a perfect test though. You need to know if the responses are human, and this could easily be faked. I’d love to believe we’re close, but I think it’s far too early to claim we’re on the road to true AI.

How can clocks be real if time isn't real?

Why are Homo sapiens the only species of humans that survived?

IQ is a very real thing. Enjoy.

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMFAsG9KsxI

The law of entropy always increases holds, I think, the supreme position among the laws of Nature...if your theory is found to be against the Second Law of Thermodynamics I can give you no hope; there is nothing for it to collapse in the deepest humiliation.

I have more respect for young earth creationist flat earthers than for singularity cultists. At least they can fall back on an omnipotent being that made reality to explain the absurdity instead of le supercomputers.

>Bayesian Statistics
Isn't this is basically just religion?

hello sci I've got an question about education
lately i've found myself gravitating towards more technical descriptions of things I'm wanting to learn about and alot of these descriptions end up culminating in math which i don't understand but would like to

i'm in university for finance now and i have 2 thoughts please help
maybe i should study math to gain an increased understanding of the world
i could go into many different fields with a math degree, including finance
is this correct thinking? how smart do you have to be to study math?