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Will smoking increase the risk of ade and prion disease from covid19 gene therapies?

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Galileo BAD, Archimedes GOOD

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>Galileo is the most overrated figure in the history of science. [...] Here’s a simple snapshot of Galileo at work.

>The cycloid. [...] The cycloid is the path traced by a point on a rolling circle. [...] What’s the area of the cycloid? That was a natural question in Galileo’s time. Finding areas of shapes like that is what geometers had been doing for thousands of years. Archimedes for instance found the area of any section of a parabola, and the area of a spiral, and so on. The cycloid was a natural next step. It fit right into this tradition.

>Of course nobody cared about the area of the cycloid as such. That’s not the point. [...] Archimedes, when he found his areas, gave clever geometrical arguments; gorgeous proofs. The point is not that he gave you a “formula” to compute various areas. How often have you needed to know the area of a spiral anyway? Never, of course. The point is not the result. The point is that Archimedes took human thought to a new level. His proofs are beautiful; they are logically flawless. They give you a sense that you are at the pinnacle of what the human mind can achieve. Everybody wanted to see more that kind of thing.

>So solving problems like the area of the cycloid then, in this sense, in the Archimedean sense, was the way to prove yourself a worthy geometer. So Galileo tried. And failed. All those brilliant feats of ingenuity that Archimedes and his friends had blessed us with; it just wasn’t happening for Galileo. He just wasn’t any good at it.

>In fact he said so himself. Here is a quote from Galileo on Archimedes: “Those who read his works realise only too clearly how inferior are all other minds compared with Archimedes’, and what small hope is left of ever discovering things similar to those he discovered.”

>That’s Galileo. And he’s quite right. Except maybe it’s not that *all* other minds are inferior to Archimedes. Although certainly Galileo’s is.

http://intellectualmathematics.com/blog/galileo-bad-archimedes-good/
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Commonplace Thread

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Like a Commonplace book but it's a thread instead (hence the name)!
Dump notes about something you're learning or are interested in explaining here.
Who knows, maybe somebody will learn from your notes, use/steal them, correct your understanding of the subject, and/or add onto them.
All subjects of any field from biology to logic—whether treated at an advanced, simple, intermediate, or fundemental/philosophical level—are welcomed to be discussed here.
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Why does the moon appear red during a lunar eclipse?
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Which one do you think is the best at pure maths?

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Id say its gotta be Breyer. His opinions and dissents are so logical.
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Treatment of macropenis

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Black anon here. Do they have penis reduction surgery? I'm knocking myself unconscious with every boner and I've had three occasions where people phoned the police on me because they thought I was armed. It's really destroying my life.
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Is wind energy a meme? I work tangentially to the industry and we have been pivoting to it away from oil and gas. Should I kms for being involved?
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What's the point of females being weak? Wouldn't it help survival of offspring if both parents could hunt and protect?
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Embryo selection for IQ is already happening underground. I personally know an elite who recently paid for this process. Here is what will happen. Most people will succeed in banning embryo selection, elites will simply evade the bans, and after a few generations the IQ gap between elites and nonelites will be so significant that your chances of joining the elite world as a non-embryo-selected person will be literally zero. The power differential will be greater than any in history. All because people moronically pushed to ban embryo selection without realizing how easy it is to evade laws if you have money.
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If a person has access to a good meal after several months of famine, his brain works at 100% capacity instantly?
If not, how long does it take for the brain to recover?
Let's take an example: a man eats between 300-700 calories a day for four months, it is obvious that during that time lapse his brain will function below its true capacities. Then the man has access to a nice dinner. How does this affect his brain?
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