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Has there ever been a child prodigy who went on to become someone great? Seems like the most important physicists weren't prodigal until later on in life.
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Psychology -- True Story

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Put yourself in the following situation: You are standing in line in a convenience store and there are a couple of people in front of you in line and a couple behind you. The person two customers behind you is a horrendously fugly woman in there with her mother. Another customer opens the door, there was no gust of wind coming in or anything, just a perfect summer day.

As soon as this fugly woman sees the door opening, and mind you, she's standing about 7 feet from it, she collapses to the ground and starts making groaning noises like she was in pain and was basically intentionally calling attention to herself. At first I thought maybe she was really hurt, but then when another lady turned around and asked her what the matter was, she said, "I am sensitive to changes in barometric pressure, the shockwave from the door opening knocked me over."

This woman, she must have been 32 years old with her mother in her mid-60s was just saying, "Rebekah, get up, you're making a scene" and the guy who walked in was at a loss for words and he literally said, "Everyone saw that I didn't touch her, right?" in kind of a comical way and we all just awkwardly checked out and the girl didn't stand up that I could see, just kept on making a spectacle of herself.

What sort of psychological complex could lead to this type of behavior? This wench had little round red marks the size of an unsharpened pencil tip on both arms and she seemed caucasian but her skin looked like it had a strange tinge of purple to it, like maybe she had a liver condition? Could a medical problem have caused this or was this woman a looney?
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Questioning Consciousness

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How do you guys think consciousness is created? I'm not a biologist or a neuroscientist, but my rough "theory" is that consciousness is like a game that each individual neuron plays where they have to be as active as they possibly can, therefore allowing for any impulses to travel through all aspects of the neurons making the process itself sentient.
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Why does he make all the midwits seethe so much?
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Allergies cure

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I know that there's no cure for allergy. I'm allergic to seafood when i was a kid. My skin would get develop hives all over my body. I don't give a fuck about my allergies and somehow my body know that it wasn't dangerous. Any thoughts?
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Why is Social Darwinism now discredited?
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Official Mathematician (TM)

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How good do I have to get to call myself a mathematician?
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Learning math from start to finish

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Is this the best way to do it do you have any suggestions I did GCSE maths in the UK got an A 10 years ago but want to get back into maths not sure where to start. The UK curriculum is so fucking dead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTnEG_WGd2Q
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Why should one take the vaccine if they've already had COVID?

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Not trolling. Looking for serious logic/evidence-based replies.

The vaccine only gives you the stuff covid already has, so if you've already had it, then logically it doesn't make sense to get vaccinated afterwards, no?
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Future of Academia in Global Politics

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The Chinese are heavily focused on getting their youth as educated as possible, especially in stem. They know that all the jobs that actually contribute to economic growth are either in stem or are stem-related, and that jobs that don't require high levels of education are becoming less and less common. Compare this to how Western academics are saying that math and literacy are racist, and that we should lower our academic standards, since they're designed to uphold white supremacy. Asia and Eastern Europe will continue rising academically, and in a few decades, we will look down upon academics from Western Europe and the USA as being a bunch of low-IQ nutjobs.
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