Reading the quotes from Ashe reminds me of some of the cops who plant evidence at crime scenes: they’re convinced they’ve already got the right suspect, and manufacturing evidence is just a convenient shortcut for persuading everyone else of their version of the truth.
Sitaridou has established that rather than having developed from modern Greek, Romeyka descended from the Hellenistic form of the language spoken in the centuries before Christ, and shares some key features with ancient Greek.
Are they referring to Koine Greek, or some other ancient dialect?
Or maybe they could call it the “Plasticine”.
Is it not implied that skulls are also getting larger proportionally?
The third parameter is saturation, which comes into play for non-monochromatic (i.e., multiple-wavelength) colors.
72% of all hues.
The space of visible colors is three-dimensional, and the spectrum is missing two dimensions (brightness and saturation). You can’t assign a percentage to that.
So is the theory that life started as two separate self-perpetuating processes (membranes and nucleic acids) that eventually joined together?
If you ever look at a spiderweb next to a road, they’re jiggling and shaking, and it’s a cacophony of stimuli. … But Jorōs seem to be able to live next to them.
Oh great—Chaos Spiders.
When Heggarty’s team reran the analysis with this new database, their findings broadly agreed with the earlier, farmer-origin theory, locating the origin squarely in Anatolia about 8,000 years ago. From there, some branches of the language moved eastward and gave rise to languages including Persian and Hindustani. Other branches moved west to eventually develop into Greek and Albanian. But the analysis also recognizes the steppes as playing an important role as a secondary homeland for most European languages: After one branch traveled northward from Anatolia to the steppes, it radiated from there into northern Europe, giving birth to Germanic, Italic, Gaelic, and other European language families.
Wait, this theory implies that the Iranian languages (including Scythian, Sarmatian, and Saka as well as Persian) were not part of the steppe pastoralist branch?
As of now, /c/science has five posts that are less than a day old. When the community starts to get more crowded, then we should worry about making it more selective.
Maybe in part because when you talk, you’re constantly making subconscious live adjustments to your voice based on feedback from hearing it through your head. So when you hear it recorded and it doesn’t sound like what you’re expecting, that auto-correcting part of your subconscious wants to jump in and adjust it.
And why goblins have to do their accounting for them.
Maybe they searched for “how to limit search results by date”, but the instructions they found were obsolete.
And when they do get that call, many cops say, they’ve likely spent more time learning about their department’s sexual-harassment policy than about gunfighting.
Yes, that’s totally the underlying cause of all the issues facing police officers today.
According to the article there were seven other officers on site doing nothing, but Peterson was charged because his position as school resource officer made him an exception to previous rulings that officers don’t have an obligation to protect anyone.
While we are still gathering the facts of this attack, we know it was carried out by radical Iran-backed militant groups operating in Syria and Iraq.
That seems like a reasonable guess, but they shouldn’t be presenting it as knowledge if they haven’t yet identified the attackers.
The people responsible for developing Windows should never be allowed near any kind of critical infrastructure.
I’d like to know how many people feel compelled to make a purchase because they see an ad rather than because they actually need or want something. My assumption is that this number is very low
If that’s the case, then most advertising budgets are wasted and companies could increase their sales by diverting that money into improving their products or reducing their prices. But none of them seem to be doing that successfully.
It also counters the consumer-as-rational-agent model that underlies most mainstream economics.
It always seemed like a natural assumption to me: the particles we know about were discovered because they interact with each other via at least one other force in addition to gravity. But there’s no other force common to all particles, so why not expect particles that only interact via gravity? They’d naturally be hard to detect, since gravity is so much weaker than the other forces.
Assuming that the only particles that exist are the ones that happen to be easy for us to detect feels like observer bias.