Tar_Alcaran

Whose page numbers did you pirate?

Not a lot of wildlife needing rescue in high risk areas though.

When the officer asks you to empty your pockets, you say “no thanks”.

Unless you live in the authoritarian states of America

Only if your room is really really warm

The latter. Mercury bromide is highly toxic (I’m pretty sure all mercury salts are highly toxic). Its also a solid, not a liquid.

But mercury and bromine are the only two liquid elements at room temperature in their elemental form, which is why they’re “water”. One is silver, the other reddish brown and syrupy.

I mean, the other part of “why do so many people die from cows” is along the lines of “They work with cow every day”.

This is why cows kill so many people. Its really easy for an animal five or six times your weight to kill you just by interacting the same way it does with its own species.

That gets worse as the animal gets bigger.

And cows are basically calm little angels compared to say, hippos.

Luckily you have a couple hard copies of your journal paper and an inked up copy of your thesis after reviewer number 2 decided to no longer like his own suggestions on how to graph the mass accuracy

I hate this because it’s true.

We can apply a purity test here (ie. what qualifies as a university) but… why except for pedantry?

Well, because it’s only true for a veeeeeery narrow definition of “university”. If you include other schools, there are British ones that predate it by three centuries. If you don’t require current operation in the same building, or allow name changes, there are ancient Greek ones that predate it by more than a millenium.

Z values are measurement of how many standard deviations something is from the mean. 95% of your values fall between -2 and +2. Most “interesting cases” are about outliers, something that’s very uncommon. If it’s common, you don’t tend to write a paper about it. Nobody cares if someone had a slightly above average tumor, but if they have 50kg tumor, that’s publishable.

The survivorship bias plane shows a world war 2 chart of where the bullet holes were on planes. The conclusion famously isn’t to armor those parts often hit, but to armor the parts that weren’t hit, because no planes hit there returned to be recorded.

To be fair, a hundred pages wouldn’t fit in the margins

I recall being a grad student, and one of my friends was super happy their paper was mentioned. The context was basically “Contrary to claims by [friend et al]…”

Much more impressive too!

Also, you can totally have a lawn. It’s a great place to Do Things in your garden, and it’s better than bricks or concrete. I can’t host a bbq in between the shrubs after all.

Just, turn the bits where you don’t Do Things into some other plant than lawn grass. At the very least you don’t really need those corners, and come on, a natural zone is way easier to maintain than a lawn too!

I’m not wondering any less now.

We’re called chemists, and it’s more of a friendly rivalry

95% is the lower limit of being fine.

80% is “You should go to a hospital. No, I mean by ambulance”

Easy to state but do you have any proof of the connection?

How about the results section in abstract of the paper, which mentions “association” six times and “cause” zero times.

https://ehrs.upenn.edu/health-safety/lab-safety/safety-alerts/ultracentrifuge-explosion-damages-laboratory

This is a famous example from when they didn’t have alarms. The don’t just happily wobble across the room.

The safety shielding in the unit did not contain all the metal fragments. The half-inch thick sliding steel door on top of the unit buckled allowing fragments, including the steel rotor top, to escape (Image 3). Fragments ruined a nearby refrigerator and an ultra-cold freezer in addition to making holes in the walls and ceiling. The unit itself was propelled sideways and damaged cabinets and shelving that contained over a hundred containers of chemicals.

It’s called mitosis