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Postby eddy » Wed Aug 01, 2018 11:09 am

When surgeons removed one sixth of a child's brain, here's what happened

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/07/31/heal ... %3A30%3A11
fascinating!

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Postby NTP66 » Thu Aug 02, 2018 5:47 pm

Boats' Disappearance In Bermuda Triangle Explained By New Theor
The mystery behind the disappearance of several boats in the Bermuda Triangle may have finally been unraveled in a new theory by British scientists. According to the recent research, "rogue" waves going up to 100 feet could be engulfing boats in the region.
I’m curious as to how that explains the disappearance of aircraft, however, unless they were all flying at a low altitude through stormy weather.

On a related note, there’s an area of the Bering Sea promo to massive rogue waves, as well. On a recent Deadliest Catch episode, they talked about this area and how experts believe it was a rogue wave that capsized a crab boat last year so quickly that they were never able to get out any communication whatsoever. Crews later found the wreckage at the bottom of the sea, with no noticeable damage that would explain why it went down like that, further strengthening the experts’ theory. Scary stuff.

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Postby tifosi77 » Thu Aug 02, 2018 6:16 pm

Yeah, a 'rogue wave' wouldn't account for Flight 19.

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Postby shafnutz05 » Thu Aug 02, 2018 7:51 pm

I was on a cutter in both the Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea. The Gulf was the worst seas I've ever seen. We were taking 35-40 degree rolls

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Postby AuthorTony » Mon Aug 13, 2018 11:13 pm

I found this extremely interesting.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/ar ... te/565769/

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Postby Gaucho » Tue Aug 14, 2018 7:50 am

:thumb:

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Postby Lemon Berry Lobster » Tue Aug 14, 2018 11:54 am

Neat article, thanks for sharing.

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Postby Silentom » Tue Aug 14, 2018 11:55 am

I enjoyed that, thanks Tony.

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Postby Willie Kool » Tue Aug 21, 2018 10:47 pm

Ice Confirmed at the Moon's Poles
In the darkest and coldest parts of its polar regions, a team of scientists has directly observed definitive evidence of water ice on the Moon's surface. These ice deposits are patchily distributed and could possibly be ancient. At the southern pole, most of the ice is concentrated at lunar craters, while the northern pole's ice is more widely, but sparsely spread...


Most of the newfound water ice lies in the shadows of craters near the poles, where the warmest temperatures never reach above minus 250 degrees Fahrenheit. Because of the very small tilt of the Moon's rotation axis, sunlight never reaches these regions.

Previous observations indirectly found possible signs of surface ice at the lunar south pole, but these could have been explained by other phenomena, such as unusually reflective lunar soil.

With enough ice sitting at the surface -- within the top few millimeters -- water would possibly be accessible as a resource for future expeditions to explore and even stay on the Moon, and potentially easier to access than the water detected beneath the Moon's surface.

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Postby AuthorTony » Tue Aug 21, 2018 10:49 pm

Neat article, thanks for sharing.
I enjoyed that, thanks Tony.
You're welcome! It was a really long read, but worth it.

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Postby Freddy Rumsen » Tue Aug 21, 2018 10:51 pm

I found this extremely interesting.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/ar ... te/565769/

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Postby Kaiser » Thu Aug 23, 2018 1:03 am

Dun dun dunnnn

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2018/08/e ... s.html/amp
In Conformal Cyclic Cosmology the universe iterates through infinite cycles, with the future timelike infinity of each previous iteration being identified with the Big Bang singularity of the next.

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Postby Gaucho » Thu Aug 23, 2018 4:50 am

boom, rinse, repeat.

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Postby Tomas » Wed Sep 05, 2018 11:12 am

Dear prospective PhD students:

There are many reasons why you might benefit from reading this fascinating story:

https://www.chronicle.com/interactives/big-lie

Among them:
1. (Obviously) Do not commit fraud. You may end up being prosecuted.
2. Do not lie if you are part of a relatively small social network (such as a particular discipline within academia). Your reputation will be tarnished forever if you do.
3. And, never, ever, pick a “hard science” (chemistry, biochemistry, math,…) for your PhD path! 😊

Frankly, vast majority of PhD specializations - maybe with the exception of business - are earning-reducing propositions...

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Postby count2infinity » Wed Sep 05, 2018 11:18 am

Heyyyyyyyyy....

Going back in time, I'd do it again. In fact, I'd skip the two years of teaching high school and just go directly to grad school.

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Postby Gaucho » Wed Sep 05, 2018 1:40 pm

Head-turning violence helps tiny songbirds kill big prey

https://www.yahoo.com/news/head-turning ... ccounter=1

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Postby Tomas » Wed Sep 05, 2018 4:57 pm

Heyyyyyyyyy....

Going back in time, I'd do it again. In fact, I'd skip the two years of teaching high school and just go directly to grad school.
You might have already seen this, but:

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and

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Good luck!! :lol:

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Postby count2infinity » Wed Sep 05, 2018 4:59 pm

Haha... I have my Ph.D. now. I've seen the first, not the second. Actually, shortly after I got my Ph.D. we were at a conference and while sitting at the bar waiting for our table someone was coming around asking if anyone was a doctor. My colleagues jokingly pointed at me... some dude was having a heart attack and they were looking for people to help. The guy wasn't amused when I said "not that kind of doctor... sorry."

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Postby Tomas » Wed Sep 05, 2018 5:05 pm

Haha... I have my Ph.D. now. I've seen the first, not the second. Actually, shortly after I got my Ph.D. we were at a conference and while sitting at the bar waiting for our table someone was coming around asking if anyone was a doctor. My colleagues jokingly pointed at me... some dude was having a heart attack and they were looking for people to help. The guy wasn't amused when I said "not that kind of doctor... sorry."
Well, then you will like this:

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Postby grunthy » Wed Sep 05, 2018 5:15 pm

Rough translation

W:Is there a doctor?

M:I am a doctor. What is going on?

W:A heart attack.

M:I am a doctor of philosophy.

W:He will die.

M:We will all die.

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Postby Viva la Ben » Fri Sep 14, 2018 12:39 pm

Space observatory at centre of alien conspiracy asks for ‘patience’ after evacuation by the FBI

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/scie ... 1.html?amp

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Postby dodint » Thu Sep 20, 2018 4:06 pm

You really went out on a limb on that one, eh?

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Postby Tomas » Thu Sep 20, 2018 4:55 pm

You really went out on a limb on that one, eh?
:lol:
Well, given that one of my past papers found LOSSES for investors due to decisions of well-connected managers (https://news.uark.edu/articles/25601/hi ... harm-firms), it wasn't as clear-cur what we'd ultimately find. In addition, it was interesting that we found the "hierarchy position" first-order meaningfully priced (24% spread reduction is quite relevant) even after controlling for:

- Many firm characteristics (related to size, profitability, overall usage of debt in firm’s capital structure, likelihood of going bankrupt…)
- Specific individual loan determinants (maturity, deal size, loan syndicate size, existence of pricing grid allowing automatic interest rate adjustments in case firm performance changes…)
- Specific loan purpose
- Tightening/easening of loan standards
- Financial crises
- Quality of firm corporate governance
- Industry and calendar time effects
- Personal characteristics of the CFO (quality of education, age, executive tenure, experience with sitting on other corporate boards, awards received (such as America's Best CFO” by Institutional Investor magazine), propensity of the CFO to be “overconfident”,…)
- “Typical” network size of *other* executives in the same county
- County’s potential to facilitate networking (sum of all business, political, religious, and social clubs in the county)
- Firm’s involvement in Corporate Social Responsibility activities
- “Community social capital” (voter turnout, census participation, and the number of charitable organizations,…)

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Postby dodint » Thu Sep 20, 2018 5:11 pm

I know, it was tongue in cheek. I see the value in the 'why' even if the declaration seems conclusory by itself.

Congrats!

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