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You already have a thread on this. Closed. Edit: to clarify, you already have a thread/threads surrounding your ideas on electrons and the universe, etc. You should confine any related discussion to that thread and only that thread.

Personally? Probably. I grew up in very cold, rural areas. Outside of that and as I've already said, -2F and colder is pretty common in the Northern US, Canada and parts of Northern Europe and Asia. I am very certain that in all those places, at least one person has spent a half hour or more outside in winter since 1926, especially in poorer and more rural parts of the world. It's also worth noting that the thymus isn't anywhere near the throat and would not cause constriction in the manner described anyway, making the article completely incorrect in the first sentence. At best, we can say that something caused constriction of his breathing. I'm not sure what that would be or if it was the cold that did it, but it was certainly not due to the thymus.

So? That doesn't mean that their explanation of his death is correct. As I've said, the exanation put forth was written in 1926 and arises from faulty and incomplete reasoning. If sudden swelling of the thymus due to the cold were a thing, you'd expect it to be prevalent in areas where -2F or colder is a common temperature. And yet we don't. I can't speculate on how he actually died in the absense of more specific and detailed information, but I can say that the diagnosis given is very unlikely.

There is a thread on sciforums that goes over this pretty well (http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?140305-Can-cold-air-really-choke-someone-to-death). Essentially, it is an incorrect diagnosis. These were written at times where what was considered the size of a 'normal' thymus was incorrect, as were other conceptions about the thymus (specifically the idea that it could swell suddenly as the article implies). The opinions presented in the article seem based on bits and pieces of information that are known now to be faulty and we've never seen any evidence for this sort of thing since, which would be quite odd when you consider how many people in the Northern US, Canada, Russia and other parts of Asia and Europe live in temperatures equal to and lower than that mentioned here. The conclusion that you can draw from this is that the story is almost certainly hogwash.

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Then please come up with a question or actual topic you wish to discuss. Right now this reads as a blog post.

Dekan has been suspended for 2 weeks. Apparently his cool male strategic reasoning didn't help him to remember that we have rules prohibiting sexist (and incorrect) remarks such as his.

Is there something in there that you actually want to discuss or should I just close this?

If you want a career in research, then you definitely need a PhD. I would say that even a Masters is insufficient for most research positions, though you could potentially get a job in industry (I'm not expert on that, however). Jobs are not the easiest thing to get for chemistry PhD's either, but if you network during your PhD through conferences and the like and you manage to do a PhD that trains you well, answers semi-interesting questions and provides you with a wide range of skills that you are able to apply, then you'll be fine. It sounds like a lot, but the key is mostly to engage yourself as much and in whatever ways that you can before you are at a point where you are actually in need of employment. A good way to do that, for instance, is to try and get travel scholarships to visit international labs and go to (and present at) conferences at home and abroad.

! Moderator Note Again, could everyone please stop hyperfocusing the conversation on homosexuals and keep to the more general theme of the OP.

! Moderator Note idontknowwhyijustknow, Please stop derailing this thread. I have split all of your posts here into a new thread, found here. Confine your posts to there.

! Moderator Note idontknowwhyijustknow, Please confine your speculations to your own thread on the matter (which I split from another thread that you were also hijacking) and stop derailing others.

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I appreciate that your paper is a scientific one and non-commerical in nature, but using SFN to try and gain citations for your paper is against our rules on advertising. Thread closed and link removed.

We don't do homework questions here, sorry. Happy to help you in your understanding, but you aren't going to put in any effort to attempt these questions or explain where you're struggling, then you have come to the wrong place.

! Moderator Note That was barley comprehensible. You need to summarise your points in a few sentences and make it 100% clear what you are talking about. At present it is very opaque and confusing. Please also keep the Snowden / McVeigh conspiracy nonsense out of it. You should know by now that this is not a conspiracy forum, but if not, then be aware that this is not a conspiracy forum. This is a science forum and we expect the things that members post to have at least a vague link to observable reality. Last chance.

Sounds like a pretty efficient recipe for explosions and death, but not much else.

! Moderator Note Do you have anything you wish to discuss or is this just soap boxing?

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