Scientifically speaking... what's the deal with music? Why did appreciation for music evolve in humans? What's the evolutionary benefit of it? It seems like a mystery. Even animals like human music, what's up with that? How is that possible?

What are some good books to learn about the process of harnessing nuclear energy? I want to research this stuff as a hobby and thought this would be a good place to ask.

How does the /sci/ence explain this?

Which Wikipedia/Britannica articles should I be printing and archiving in binders for my WW3 Doomsday vault?

I need the most important and useful information for when there is no more Internet and we have to rebuild civilization.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/598314-senate-unanimously-approves-making-daylight-saving-time-permanent

Fuck these fucking cocksucking faggots: both the Republicans and Democrats. I still got to work for a living and can't change my schedule and neither can a lot of astronomers including those who are citizen scientists whose observations have results in the discovery of asteroids and over a century of data on variable stars (see https://www.aavso.org/ for more details).

Pix related ( just envision the dude smashing the telescope as the US federal government)

normally enzyme names are straightforward

How bad an idea is it for me to drink this NyQuil from 2007?

how hard would it be to put a permanent camera on the moon to livestream the earth from the moon, like a livestream of pic rel?
i really want this, didnt they send a rover to the moon recently? why didnt they do this too damnit?

I am a scientist, and I have wondered if I would ever come across a great discovery. If I don't think about it, I can wax eloquently forever. If I think about it, it was finally understanding orders of magnitude. What happens to patterns as you look across them...and then it changes. Images within images. There may be limits, but consensus on the images is first before consensus that you have reached the border of an image, or of the set. This is where science has led me. I'm a schizo, reading this in a cassette-tape recording voice of the Foundation audiobook. Even writing this sentence is a little bit ironic, in some way. Lol. Fuck my life.
Stop doing shit.
Then do just what you have to. And life will figure itself out. Trust me. Lol. And now comes the entropy. It hits at this moment. The strings attatched, to some the chains. Visible chains, invisible chains, chains over time, chains over space. A prison of chains across the universe, and nothing can move. But then what? You live your life in the space between the chains. And you forget the chains. And then you find new chains in space. And you work around those. And eventually there is no more space. What do? Lol, I hear "Big Bang" is a theory, yo.

Rolling for shit numbers, c'mon let's go.

Is there a survivorship bias when discussing suicide?
Let's imagine there's a certain subset of the population who will simply never be happy, no matter what lifestyle changes they make. Let's imagine that there's something deeply rooted in their brain chemistry that no medicine can address, something on a genetic level, and nothing on the horizon will fix that within their lifetime. Would it be wrong to say that these people are within their rights to make a respected decision on whether or not to end their own life? If so, is it then inappropriate to treat their suicide as a preventable mistake rather than a long term, informed decision?
If we can imagine that, yes, there are some people who might as well kill themselves, doesn't it make sense to imagine that these people would be more likely to choose fully lethal options rather than things that give them a lower chance of dying, like overdosing on a somewhat banal drug or jumping off a bridge? If we run with that kind of thinking, we can reasonably assume that a disproportionate amount of Suicide survivors are more accurately described as "Cry for help" people, and that the survivor sample set totally ignores people who may have been reasonable to end their lives.
I'm shocked that I truly can't find ANY papers doing as much as speculating on this. Are people scared to talk about suicide in an open way? I'm not suicidal, but I have some personal interest in the topic, so if anyone can point me to a good book that tries to discuss suicide and its interpretations in a way that feels at least somewhat objective and neutral I would be interested.