Vidya Sagar V @vidyasagar@scholar.social
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- https://vidyasagarv.com
PhD student in Particle Physics @ Université Paris-Saclay. Interested in #Philosophy #SciComm
Joined Mar 2018
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Last day to sign up to attend #SummerSchool!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeT4ZWL5iEiYulx72qpBR3zFfmGOoX-6OSXX_D-tL3aps57rw/viewform
(Don't worry, we won't be shaming you if you sign up and can't make it or anything—this is just so we can send you the link to the video conference room instead of publishing them and getting the chat spammed or something)
All the presenters are amazing and we'd love to have your feedback or even just your listening ears :)
Also, I'm presenting and I want mine to have a good audience haha
See you at #SummerSchool!
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heyya last day to sign up to be a #SummerSchool moderator! if you have about an hour to spare and want to come to a cool talk while helping make sure that participants + presenters are safe, fill out this form here!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdhbyCphu5Er9YAKZdyM59206d4SAEASC-3hErWy1_uhAF1aQ/viewform
@InvaderXan Thank you so much! You saved me so many hours!
@InvaderXan I have spent hours trying to find which issue this clip is from. Where did you find it?
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Random bookmarks
Instead of saving these to my hard drive, I'm putting them here now. Maybe someone might find them interesting?
• Phosop, Thai goddess of rice
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosop
• Eastern vs Western culture about wearing face masks
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3075211/face-masks-and-coronavirus-how-culture-affects-your-decision
• Cosmism – early 20th century Russian philosophical and cultural movement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_cosmism
• Orrery, showing positions of planets and other solar system objects for any specified date
https://mgvez.github.io/jsorrery/
• 49 lentil recipes
https://www.epicurious.com/ingredients/11-reasons-to-stock-your-pantry-with-lentils-gallery
• Thailand's philosophy of sustainable living
https://theculturetrip.com/asia/thailand/articles/thailands-philosophy-of-sustainable-living/
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Ripe bananas glow blue in ultraviolet light.
Like many fruit, unripe bananas are green because they're still full of chlorophyll. In bananas, that chlorophyll breaks down into a UV reactive pigment.
Some birds and insects are tetrachromats, and can see UV light. To them, bananas which are ripe and ready to eat are super obvious, and easy to see from the air.
Book idea: Collection of History's Greatest Speeches - Corrected for Sexism
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every paper i read cites at least 2 other papers that i immediately add to my "to-read" list. it's like a hydra, this will literally never end.
If we built hardware the same way we build scientific software
#DarkMatter :
We do not know what it is.
There seems to be huge amounts in the Universe.
We have no idea why.
#Antimatter :
We know exactly what it is.
There seems to be almost none in the Universe.
We have no idea why not.
"Philosophy is what you do to a problem until it’s clear enough to solve it by doing science." - Jerry Fodor
@vidyasagar In fact, of the 216 award recipients in the Physiology or Medicine category, 180 used animal models in their research.
Did you know, mouse and rat studies have earned around 75 Nobel Prizes in health and physiology?
Starting from the most abstract principles is a good way to relearn something, but a bad way to learn something.
"When people thought the Earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the Earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the Earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the Earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together."
- Web/Blog
- https://vidyasagarv.com
PhD student in Particle Physics @ Université Paris-Saclay. Interested in #Philosophy #SciComm
Joined Mar 2018
