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[raindown]

Nah you‘re right, a lot of publishers give out the work if you ask them politely. The last one just asked me to see my paper when it’s done :)

[scuttles]

Published scientist here. Yeah, if you email the author(s) of the paywalled publication, 99% of them will have no problem sending you their publications for free. This is because the paywall is put up by the journal we publish our papers in, and we scientists don't see a cent of the money you would pay to read our publication. Plus, a lot of scientists are very ego driven, and would be extremely flattered if you contacted them directly asking to read their work for nearly any reason.

[trishapellis]

1:55 In principle, dolphins are not fish, they are mammals. This is because they have all of the base characteristics that define a mammal (breathes air, warm-blooded, internal pregnancy, feeds its calves milk from a teat etc).
However, a funny detail in taxonomy is that every animal descended from an animal of a certain branch of the tree of life is technically classified as the same kind of animal that's at the base of that branch of the tree of life (this is simplified and probably not very well explained but I am an amateur who just likes knowing sciencey stuff). So because all mammals descend from that one fish that crawled out of the water and whose descendants developed lungs... technically, all mammals are fish. Including dolphins.

[ViiKing_]

I love this, and I love that Jack actually looks up the things he doesn't understand and shares them with the class. I need more.

[ojrmk]

16:30 If the truck and diver were travelling at a constant speed in a vacuum due to being part of the same inertial frame he'd dive into the pool. Air resistance, or if the truck is accelerating, would likely mean he'd, at best, bean himself on the diving board or indeed fall behind the truck.

[InfamousMax]

2:00 ALL live emerged from water -> fish goes on land -> fish becomes mammal -> mammal goes back into water -> mammal grows fins again -> Dolphin

[curvingfyre]

1:50 the context is that, since all cordates are an offshoot of the "fish" family, we are all technically within that family still, including dolphins, AND including *humans*

[labbit]

Imagine being the Aliens in the Harry Turtledove story. You go to Earth, you think they’re primitive because they don’t have FTL tech, you mock them and then invade them. 8 minutes in and your whole fleet gets bombarded with missiles and nukes and most of your fleet is fucked and the ones that aren’t fucked are disabled from the damage.

[nikitatavernitilitvynova]

I told this story before but I once kind of corrected my professor in class. He didn't kick me out though as he noticed the mistake he made.
This professor taught us the history of sociology and how to retrieve information. Basically how surveys work and how to make a good survey. All of this ties into my product and communication design degree. Anyways. This professor loved to engage us students by making polls in order for us to discuss the topics we'd study that day. And get most information on our own. One day we studied the aspect of marriage and religion. So he made a poll about polygamy. The questions were two if I'm not mistaken. Something along the lines of: Do you know what poligamy is? And is poligamy moral? Or something like that.
I clicked on yes for the first one. And then I believe yes again for the second one. I raised my hand when he asked for who voted yes and why, and I told him I picked yes because it was the closest option to what I would've picked if it depends was an actual answer. Because poligamy isn't legal in many countries. But it is not only legal but moral in other countries. So it's a gray situation not a black and white one. He looked at me surprised and said: "You're totally right. I made a mistake in the poll and I should know better as I'm teaching you all of this."
To be fair the professor really liked me and I liked him too because I loved the subject and I'd always add my two cents and answer whebever he asked for our opinions on things. It was the usual five people who always had an answer ready. And I was one of them.

[milksheihk]

17:45 the battery will get warm because you are short circuiting it, The nose ring should get warm too, but if you actually wanted to zap the person they'd need to be wearing two studs that aren't connected together so the current flow through the wearer.

[gabrielneves]

1:31 actually yes usually, as scientists and researches, regardless of the field usually love to make knowledge more accessible

[nikitatavernitilitvynova]

I'm adding my own two cents:
Structural mechanics: Let's use math to see if an object can stand erected on it's own

I did an exam on that and I'm glad I got a slightly higher mark than the lowest. I'm glad I passed even by a bare minimum. Both my brother, mother and her friend saw the exam test as the professor told us to keep the sheet I guess to solve it at home or to see the mistakes once the marks were published. None of them were able to understand anything. My brother barely understood a thing and he studied mechanics for a short while in highschool. My mom though her friend's brother (an engeneer I believe) might've been the only person she knows about who could've understood such gibberish. Probably not even my grandma if she was still alive could've solved it if translated. For reference she was Ukrainian and a health and safety engeneer.
Edit: the professor gave us a sheet with three problems to solve where we had to calculate the constraint reactions (I'm not English so I used google for that. Not sure if it's correct though) and what would happen if any kind of force was applied to the structure. Like would it tip or slide or not move at all kind of stuff. Very hard to comprehend things.

[nedhunter]

20:10 I believe the reason that humans can't quantum tunnel is actually that the circumstances required for a macroscopic object to do so (IE, all of its component particles doing so simultaneously) is just so absurdly unlikely that it can reasonably be expected that we will never observe it happening at any time in human history. I am no expert, however, so this explanation could be completely wrong.

[obnoxiousbluebird]

Dolphins were my absolute favourite creature as a kid. I had countless dolphin toys and decorations and a dolphin lamp and dolphin bedsheets and a dolphin blanket and my dream was to swim with the dolphins. So naturally, when we were giving the option, I chose the dolphin to do my school project on, and eagerly began researching everything I could about

So anyway, dogs are my favourite creatures of all time how about you?
Dolphins? No way, never liked them. Always thought there was something dodgy about them!

[joshuahunt]

17:02 Wasn’t it originally intended that the humans in the Matrix were being used for processing power rather than energy, but that plot point got scrapped due to executive meddling?

[jacobmartin]

Just made the connection at 8:50 at why they'd always cover corpses with lye back in the day. The more you know

[FelixEnder]

11:40 we cant even get rid of the daylight saving time.. so i dont think we will ever change anything about our calendar

[domi-no]

9:15
Ultimate crossover.
Halloween
Logic
AND diagrams

[WilburJaywright]

13:05 The joke here is that all these questions require that he not understand anything about what he’s looking up. Like asking, “What country is England in?”

[CaptainMangles]

If you get Damien to read this subreddit, he would research every single meme.