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Here is the basic definition in Wiki: "Junk food is unhealthful food that is high in calories from sugar or fat, with little dietary fiber, protein, vitamins, minerals, or other important forms of nutritional value.[1][2][3] Precise definitions vary by purpose and over time. Some high-protein foods, like meat prepared with saturated fat, may be considered junk food.[4] The term HFSS foods (high in fat, salt and sugar) is used synonymously.[5][6] Fast food and fast food restaurants are often equated with junk food, although fast foods cannot be categorically described as junk food.[7][8][9] Most junk food is highly processed food. Concerns about the negative…

I was reading papers on neutron flux traps. Some people in the University of Tehran used MCNP to determine effectiveness of different neutron moderators. Context out of the way, my question is regarding the situation. How did researchers paid by an organization like the University of Tehran get access to a software like MCNP?

The young soprillo, a tiny saxophone pitched in Bb an octave above the soprano, has only one manufacturer eppelsheim.com but quite a few musicians play it already. Hear it there v0tFp2_H3R8 at 05:20-5:42 soprillo.com in tabs Media, Soprillogy, Planet Soprillo or just search elsewhere for "soprillo".

If i think about it, i read on Quora: that after age 20, we lose 1 gram of brain mass per year. Given, maybe only hope to live forever: would be replacing some of neurons with artificial ones and slowly replace whole brain like this. Until your brain is slowly remade with artificial neurons. Because problem with transferring consciousness directly into a computer may be - that your brain dies and information is only copied. Than you would die and only your copy would live inside a computer! There is no proof information is immaterial and can be transferred like this. Going with former method, even so i think you would be just a copy of a copy. Here is why i think that: …

Why do people confuse Race vs. Ethnicity when they talk or post on the internet? Where the dictionary is really clear that ethnicity is shared cultural characteristics, like language, religion, fashion, way you dress, music, custom, food so on. Where race referring to physical characteristics on what the person looks like . where base on this article there is 30 human races in the world. https://blog.world-mysteries.com/science/how-many-major-races-are-there-in-the-world/ But way more ethnicity in the world.

Anyone have ideas for inventions that you know you will never bother to get a patent and try to promote? Here are a few ideas I have had. Please take them and run if you like. 1. Use "rubber finger tips" for flossing your teeth. In office supply stores they have little boxes of rubber finger tips for clerical workers or anyone to manipulate paper. The medium size are just right for me. For decades I have used rubber finger tips to wind the floss on my 2 index fingers. The most painful thing about flossing is the constriction of my index fingers. This can be made fun for kids by having rubber finger tips look like cartoon alligators. The kids will put lit…

Yes, you all heard a clarinet already. But there are many more than the Bb soprano and the Eb sopranino. ===== Ab piccolo clarinet It served in Italian military bands and is nearly extinct. Badly difficult to play, especially in tune, so here are better clarinettists: d-aqcHlSFEI duett with contrabass giSev7Vk_5w duett with octocontralto JN4OX-yefbY same musicians ===== Eb alto clarinet Presently not rare, the nice instrument got several concerti in the classical period. XE8Z3ZSQKvc - EaNh6RZsAsA - 3HiVA3IU5UA The related cor de basset is nearly extinct. Pitched in F rather than Eb, but it has added keys to reach notes written lower. Here a repr…

Hi all. Perhaps someone knows which brand/model/year automobile is factory fitted with a stainless steel muffler ? Volvo? Mercedes ? Trying to locate from a wreckyard, a 6" round one, similar to

Hello, I have over a decade of experience in electronics, embedded systems development and a number of other product development skills. I thought it might be a good idea to combine my skills with a need in an area of Science (e.g. Microbiology / Genetics / Chemistry... etc). Towards that end, I've tried now and then to email University professors in Bio / Chem. I've asked if they might have any concepts/ideas for novel, automated lab equipment that they would like to develop - and how i could help. Something that was not out there, something perhaps involving automation of existing processes/procedures, something not too crazy complicated and someth…

Or at least honing ones current scientific skill/knowledge? How would one go about this? NOTE: I am talking about non-pandemic or otherwise non-emergency situation.

I don't know if this is necessary, or of any use. I will just have to wait and see. My apologies go specially to Mordred and Markus Hanke, because they know far more than I do about GR, and they've let me play smarty-pants on their turf for a while. My fine instinct tells me I may've p*ssed them off. In case there were any hard feelings (although as I'm writing these lines I've found out that's not the case with Mordred at least) I was just checking both my own knowledge and theirs. If you check your knowledge or solid reason against wise people, you're on your way to understanding more and better. My grievances go to all those people (some OP's and their s…

The Forum members are invited to visit two blogs I have created that expand on my earlier postings under the Special Relativity and Quantum Mechanics categories: “Special Relativity from the Inside Out” LINK DELETED “Introduction to Schrodinger Ensemble Theory” LINK DELETED

Anything new happening in the world of science, I would love to know about it especially because of the quarantine

Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74. Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74. Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74. Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74. Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74. The man who controlled x, controlled c, and controlled v. My humble homage from here.

https://trueblog.net/ai-robot-was-learning-new-words-in-real-time-and-he-told-the-creator-he-would-keep-him-in-people-zoo-2004/ Hey, if I'm fed, cared for, regularly petted, have games and box sets provided for me and my robot is pretty enough.... then I'm down for being kept at the people zoo. OK Google.

OH KNOWLEDGE WIZARDS! HEAR MY PLEA. I WISH TO BECOME "TO" POSSES THE KNOWLEDGE OF OLD! FOR IT IS YOU WHO KEEP OUR LIGHT ON WITH YOU KNOWLEDGE OF THE ARCHANE ARTS! FOR IT IS YOU WHO KEEP OUR SPECIES FROM GOING BACK INTO THE DARK AGES! YOUR POWER CAN LIFT MOUNTAINS AND DESTROY CIVILIZATIONS! (p.s. I have asked for knowledge before, however that is when in a manic episode so I do not think that one counts) PLEASE TEACH ME YOU WAYS! WHERE CAN BUT A HUMBLE PEASENT BEGIN HIS STUDIES INTO THE MAGICAL ARTS OF THE SCIENCES!!!! I WISH TO KNOW ALL SO THAT I MAY ONE DAY TOUCH THE EDGE OF THE UNIVERSE!!! *flashing lights in the background as th…

I have a tendency to ask a lot of questions so I started this thread to obtain answers from a bunch of different topics in a centralized and easy to refer to space. This is to both prevent me making a bunch of different threads and condensing it all into a single area to have my questions answered. First question, is there like a single mathematics book that does not have all of the analogous "fluff" between the "definitions, processes, examples, connections, and excersises?" Going from a foundational level to an advanced level. Walking the student through all what is currently known about the given field? One in which a, lets say, 10 year old child can go from…

For as long as I remember I have had a craving for knowledge and a want to create more. However it seems like each time I do it becomes over shadows but negating thoughts such as "there are people who are smarter than you so why even try" or " there is no point in doing this, let it go." I believe that it is routed in jealousy, however I am unsure. Working out and drinking water helps, however it just seems like a constant search for something that I am currently unaware of. Any advice would be greately appreciated. I want to get out of the box of scientific insecurity and open my mind to the impossibly connected knowledge we as humanity has developed so far. Thank y…

I watch science documentaries quite often. I find most other kind of TV quite unbearable. Overall I think it's a positive experience, because you get a lot of visual information that otherwise wouldn't be accessible to you. Plus you get to hear the researches, you learn some of the story of the scientific ideas... But I've noticed it's a bit dangerous to take some statements from them too literally. There are narrative strictures that sometimes have the unfortunate effect of adulterating the message with a pinch of sensationalism. And why is it that you never get the chance to hear a complete argument by any scientist that's being interviewed? It's like a collage of sente…

Are we spending too much (relatively) on glory projects that may/will not bring benefits for centuries, if ever ? Some examples 1) Gravitational lensing was mooted in the 1920s and confirmed in 1979 and has yet to find a use. 2) Quantum tunnelling was mooted in the 1930s and first realised in the 1960s and is important to most people today. 3) The existence of other forms of life than our own developing on Earth was has been mooted several times and confirmed in the 1990 at the subsea hydrovents. 4) Fullerenes were first mooted in the 1980s and realised in that decade and are of developing importance and use. How much did each discove…

(I'm going to regret this) Someone asked in another thread (that I am not going to link to, for obvious reasons): Oooh! I thought, maybe it has an interesting origin. Nope. It just developed over time from a phrase meaning "a plausible postulate of a conspiracy" to the modern meaning of "an intellectual construct ... a template imposed upon the world to give the appearance of order to events." So, I am guessing that there is a conspiracy theory about the origin of the term! (If there is, I really don't want to know. I used to find conspiracy theories mildly amusing but now they are just boring and often dangerous.) Some people will inevitably react…

This is a reaaalllllyyyy long shot, but...I am planning to take six months out next year to attempt a thru-hike of the Continental Divide Trail in the US (~3100 miles - no small feat!), subject to me being able to raise the necessary funds for the gear I need, and getting a visa. Just wondering if by odd coincidence there is anyone on here who has done this trail, either the whole thing, or a section of it?

Hey everybody, I've been setting up my various labs lately and thought I should check in here. I really have no clue what I'm doing but eventually my goal is to figure some of this stuff out. Here's a pic of my electronics lab setup so far. I'm going with a HP theme for the most part as it will go with my server room. It's currently been commandeered to fight the corona with colloidal silver production. I would like to upgrade the lab with a HP-IB card in my vintage HP vectra P-233 but I'm still researching that. Anyway nice place here, looking forward to contributing. Stay safe and healthy.

Wonder if anyone here recognizes it. I "made it up" after 50 years of using an off the peg technique (on and off), and wonder whether I have just stumbled into already charted territory So ,to explain ,I just get comfortable ,close my eyes and bring my attention to my breathing. I don't alter my breathing , I just pay attention to it (as we know breathing is involuntary so there is no need to interfere with it on that count) After a short while my attention will slip and my mind goes down its rabbit holes of choice. When I realize this has happened (unless the rabbit hole is of special interest) I restart/repeat the process .....a…