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🕊   mesoamerica

 + americas, historical
 random, unassorted, & of wildly varying importance

• mesoamerica

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linguistics

• Did case systems dissappear to make embedding easier?
• Why did early Indo-European languages seem to be morphologically complex?

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internet

wikipedia

• As of December 2013, what's the status of the ongoing debate between deletionists and inclusionists on English Wikipedia?

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gods and superrationality

• Intro to "Gods" and Superrationality
• Do atheists have a standard definition of "God"? If not, what is it that they disbelieve?
• Is it possible to describe God mathematically?
• If a cell inside human body had consciousness, would it be aware of the larger consciousness inside which it is living?
• Could believers with strong faith in God sometimes exhibit behavior similar to Stockholm Syndrome?
• What's it like to have a transcendent spiritual experience?
• If God doesn't exist, why did He talk to me last night?
• What is the message behind Marquis de Sade's "120 days of Sodom"?
• What is the message behind the Marquis de Sade's "Eugénie de Franval?"

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cogsci, brains, and RNA

• Could we build a super computer out of wires and switches instead of a microchip?
• How much data is stored in our bodies?
• What sparks a thought? OR How does a thought spontaneously arise in the brain? Specifically in the absence of an obvious stimulus.
• Is the complete connectome enough to model the brain in silico? If not, what else is needed?
• To what extent does our knowledge derive from the senses?
• Are cosmic muons causing mutations or even influence evolutionary rate?

• Classical Conditioning: Why were Pavlov's dogs so significant?

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origin of life

• Is Stephen Wolfram's NKS, an attempt to explain the universe with cellular automata, in conflict with Bell's Theorem?
• How did life on Earth begin?

/bio/

• Cell Biology: How can a human's immune system fight off a virus and keep the human alive?
• Could viruses have been created by extraterrestrials?

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physics

newtonian~mechanics

• Why does kinetic energy increase quadratically, not linearly, with speed?
• Deriving Newton's Third Law from homogeneity of Space
• Where does the reaction to action come from?
• Why the Principle of Least Action?

special~relativity

• Einstein's postulates ↔ Minkowski space for a Layman
• Help Me Gain an Intuitive Understanding of Lorentz Contraction
• What are the mechanics by which Time Dilation and Length Contraction occur?

• Metric tensor of coordinate transformation

relativity

• Alternate layman's metaphors for illustrating curved space-time
• Mathematically-oriented Treatment of General Relativity
• How does gravitational lensing account for Einstein's Cross?

strings

• Does gravity require strings?
• How did string theory begin?
• What is S-matrix theory and what was its role in the development of modern physics?
• What is the significance of the S-matrix in physics?

statistics

• How to guess the correct fitting function to some data?

• Why don't experimental physics groups have statisticians in it?

• Combining multiple theories with 5 \sigma confidence level

• What are the implications of a court banning Bayesian probability?

• How can I apply bayes theorem to my everyday life?

• Can signal detection theory help us distinguish the signal from the noise in science?

• Is coincidence really a scientific anomaly? If so, what are the laws and/or rules that support this?

/pg/

• How does one derive the equation for the speed of sound?

• When and how were relative distances to the planets first measured?

• What is a tensor?

• Understanding Tensors

• Should formulas in Physics be memorized?

• Natural phenomenon which inspired science?
• Common false beliefs in Physics
• What is a good list of inconsistencies in physics that forced us to develop much more mathematically advanced theories to explain the inconsistencies?
• How do you judge scientific conclusions in areas where you have little knowledge?
• Is Ron Maimon an expert or misguided in his deviations from the mainstream?

• How reliable are our emotions?
• What objective criteria distinguish between valid science, fringe science and pseudoscience in physics?
• What are some of the most fascinating things physicists know or understand that most people don't?

people

• 🕊   index

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mathematics

calculus

• What is the easiest and fastest way I can take (and pass) a calculus course?
• Does calculus have a point?
• Calculus isn't intuitive to me.
• How can/does calculus describe the movement of a particle?

ordinals

• Is infinity the measure of human ignorance?
• What is infinity in mathematics?

• Does Gödel preclude a workable ToE?

/mg/

• How many kilometers would be the span of sky you could see between horizons, assuming a plain terrain?
• How big is a number with 280 million zeroes?

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economics + society

• What are Ron Maimon's political beliefs?
• Why does Ron Maimon not drive a car?
• What would Ron Maimon do as President of the United States?
• What does Ron Maimon think about the Israeli-palestinian conflict?
• How do you explain economical crisis ( 2008 - 2012) to a layman?
• How would Karl Marx agree and/or disagree with John Keynes criticisms of Capitalism? and why?
• Are there examples of where allowing exorbitant wealth accumulation to an individual is beneficial to society?
• Are Republicans or their political operatives attempting to suppress the votes of American citizens? Are these methods, when successful, reversible?
• What defines a brilliant philosopher?
• Philosophic Puzzle: How to be Non-Hypocratic AND Non-Anarchistic?
• Why is it important to teach children manners?
• Why does the "system" always have to be bad?
• Why are most Americans so ill-equipped to talk about race?
• Why are a lot of liberals seemingly opposed to talking about differences between groups of people, especially when the differences involve things that are important? I’ve found that class, racial/ethnic groups, and crime rates seems taboo to them.
• Was Reagan a bad president? Why? If you think Reagan was a bad President, what were his failures and shortcomings?

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curricula

• Reading the Feynman lectures in 2012
• How should I study math?
• What reservations do you have about how math is taught to young students and what alternatives do you suggest in light of these?
• What do I do with a kindergartener who can do algebra?

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DOCS,~misc.

• SCUM Manifesto
• /sci/ Putnam Problems
• encyclopedia dramatica
• Death Note: L, Anonymity & Eluding Entropy
• Programming Sucks
• The Star In Yellow
• The Mentally Advanced Series/Transcripts

• Wikisource bible translation

• faceless together
• shii anonymity essay
• international association of time travelers forum
• LG blotter 24_

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• On the Origin of Species

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