So this shit collapsed 2 weeks ago.

Rescue crew had been said to have worked "around the clock, 24/7" to clear the debris. But yet, only 10% of the debris had been cleared. And 100+ people are still missing.

Scientifically speaking, why is rescue so slow? How come it's been 2 weeks and they've barely made any headway clearing it? Keep in mind the nation's eyes are on it, and even international rescue crews have been called in to help.

why can't we just make more continents? there's plenty of space in the ocean

Can someone explain what ‘scientific perspectivism’ is? How exactly does it work and what do perspectivist scientists even do?

Well /sci/ what is the most interesting science? And why is it biology?

>I posted this on /x/ too but I figured the input from fellow mathematicians, physicists and psychologists (yes, they too) might be helpful

Most esoteric texts (I'm looking at you, GD) hide their lack of understanding in subjective metaphors in the hopes we come up with meaning, the author could be talking out of his ass yet we could still be able to claim his work is a masterpiece due to our made up understanding of his writings.
Every bit of information we know about the material world is derived from a combination of intuition, experience and reason, it would be nice that there was a way to apply a version of these to our understanding of what is beyond the brain, the place where the mind/soul/essence resides well enough that there could be a mathematical description of what this hidden world looks like. Math has become increasingly well equiped to deal with abstraction that is far beyond what we can touch, so much so that we are able tocome up with useful theorems for imaginary places which lack concepts such as time, distance or shape. We are, against all odds, still able to come up with rich descriptions of how objects embedded in these extreme environments interact with each other but how do we become able to distinguish between that which is, that which is not, and that which is circumstantial when trying to develop a complete description of the mindspace? How can I trust myself to be able to come to the right conclusions when I reach into the back of my mind while meditating in an effort to figure out what this new place made out of? Intuition alone might often lead to lies, experience here seems to become twisted.

Are there any books that find a solution to this problem? How do I know the rules this place has when I am not able to use my senses in order to prod it? How am I to understand what is beyond what my mind defines if whenever I let go I feel my sense of self disolving like a drop of food coloring in a boundless glass of water?

Is consciousness just a bunch of electrical impulses? Or is it something else that just cannot be explained

Is it at all likely that aliens would have boobs?

HS Sci Teacher here.

If there are no state tests/standards/admin pressure, what should introductory HS chem curriculum look like?

My goal isn't to have them memorize random facts, or learn specialized lab skills. I want to teach problem solving skills, and help them to understand the natural world from the atomic/molecular scale.

Pretty much, I can teach whatever I want, however I want.

Any advice?

The leaves do not fall straight down silly

How many of you are coddled university do-nothings?
What's it like being in fucking la la land?