What unconventional (perhaps unethical) methods do you use to gain an advantage in academia? Brain enhancing drugs included.

average scientist

What is spin? How does it work?

Assuming you had to commit Eugenics to create a Flawless human race with no mental illness, no criminal Behavior and no Financial struggles, how would you go about it?

My idea would be to go through most student-athletes at the varsity level IQ testing in anyone without an IQ of 110 would be chemically castrated in the rest of the population will be chemically castrated as well

Have you ever had outlandish or borderline absurd ideas for engineering projects? Post them here.

A recurring idea of mine involves a geoengineering megaproject that involves digging a canal to divert a small (around 5 to 10 percent of flow) portion of the Colorado River in order to flood the area that is now Death Valley national park and create a massive new manmade lake. The canal must be routed to have minimal impact on nearby Las Vegas; some of it may have to be underground.

Essentially I would try to recreate a series of prehistoric lakes that existed in the area 20,000 years ago. Runoff would eventually flow south to the Salton Sea (largely eliminating the ongoing salinity crisis there), before finally reaching the Pacific Ocean.

Are there any real world applications for mathematical proofs?

Is it possible for the universe to restart ? Since Big Bang exist, scientists believe there’s a thing called Big Crunch that will do the opposite of expanding and restart the universe once again to the beginning ( Big Bang). What I don’t like about this theory is that we will all have the same life on repeat forever. Is this possible though ? Please tell me it’s not, I don’t want to live as an incel forever

Covid is claimed to be an "RNA Virus'.

This means they claim Covid is a set of RNA instructions which exists on its own and is simply protected by a 'capsid' or 'shell' of material. That's it.

In nature, though, the ONLY organisms we ever find have cells which contain DNA, and RNA is used to transcribe that DNA to produce proteins. There is no lifeform on earth that exists simply with or as RNA.

Furthermore, DNA and RNA never exist on their own and never 'act' in any intelligent or agentive way. They exist inside living organisms. In other words, DNA and RNA alone have no drive to live or aquire resources or replicate - only organisms do that.

Just think about this for a moment. Any person with a wide understanding of life on earth should find the idea of viruses, especially of "RNA Viruses" extremely suspect.

Viruses don't exist.

This is what a mathematician really looks like.

How is aspd treated in the west and how effective is it usually? Most online materials I have found is pretty nonspecific and seem to imply either that nobody gives a fuck or it never works.