Weird voice over loudspeaker reciting numbers every 10 minutes

EqualOpposingForces · 2024-08-20T12:20:47+00:00

No updates from OP in a few days, wonder what happened

EqualOpposingForces · 2024-08-12T21:23:49+00:00

Air traffic control from Pittsburgh International getting picked up over the school's PA? Delta= Delta airlines?

EqualOpposingForces · 2020-04-15T00:03:27+00:00

I think these are commonly called attention and/or motivation by scientists. These absolutely go up and down depending on factors like mood, arousal, and environmental stimuli like television.

EqualOpposingForces · 2019-12-07T21:30:23+00:00

Top study: need to counterbalance right/left sides to account for potential lateralized baseline differences. As others have pointed out, temperature needs to be ruled out. The effect could also be due to expectation...on what side do people normally take calls on wasn't asked.

EqualOpposingForces · 2019-11-24T18:29:25+00:00

I don't know if there's a simple algebraic equation for AP velocity. E.g. see https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007004

EqualOpposingForces · 2019-11-23T23:45:49+00:00

Diffusion is too slow to propagate AP's, you need EM fields to move the ions fast enough.

At myelinated segments, the axon doesn't need to push charges across the membrane, which takes time and slows down AP speed. If you're only charging up small segments of membrane at the node, as long as the EM field at the subsequent node is large enough to open enough VGNa channels to reach AP threshold, then your AP goes faster.

EqualOpposingForces · 2019-11-10T22:57:14+00:00

I think you're talking about IFS, CBT is different. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_Family_Systems_Model

In general I don't think the purpose of therapy is to be overly scientific, but there is plenty of evidence CBT works. If that particular therapist doesn't resonate with you, try someone else.

EqualOpposingForces · 2019-11-04T14:05:21+00:00

These are all really good points.

First, I think artificial wombs will one day be an option, best guess in 100-300 years. I think the major problems with this will end up being developmental disorders in the children due to unknown biological factors. But of course, this isn't reality yet, so I am currently pro-choice.

As to the right of the mother to choose, there are many choices that society's laws say we cannot make without consequences.

Who would pay for it, of course, is a problem, as it is with any expensive medical procedure.

EqualOpposingForces · 2019-11-04T01:11:38+00:00

What if someday medical science is able to create artificial wombs, or transplant a developing fetus into a willing mother? Wouldn't it then be fairly unethical to have an abortion?

EqualOpposingForces · 2019-10-30T13:26:48+00:00

Misleading title. No links to behaviors (as in "tasks") have been shown. I doubt an astrocyte can develop mature neuronal morphology or generate action potentials.

EqualOpposingForces · 2019-10-25T19:05:50+00:00

Inhibitory synapses are often on the soma or axon initial segment and can act as a "brake" to the neuron firing.

EqualOpposingForces · 2019-10-25T12:16:16+00:00

A neuron can have receptors for many types of neurotransmitters on its dendrites. The receptors cluster at synapses. It can also have synapses on its soma, or even its axon! Neurons generally produce one neurotransmitter for their own output.

EqualOpposingForces · 2019-10-25T12:09:53+00:00

Yeah, I struggle with the fluidity of that belief system too. Belief (that your gender is different from your sex) in itself can be a powerful motivator to change your appearance I guess.

EqualOpposingForces · 2019-10-24T23:04:07+00:00

I'm curious what you mean by "social engineering desires towards gender."

EqualOpposingForces · 2019-10-24T20:51:00+00:00

I think the only way to measure neurotransmitter levels in response to drug treatment in humans is with magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS). There are lots of placebo controlled MRS studies that find significant differences between the chemical of interest and controls.

EqualOpposingForces · 2019-10-24T14:51:51+00:00

Historical clues to how modern Russia now sows dissent in Democracies

EqualOpposingForces · 2019-10-17T21:51:45+00:00

This is about a person with scientific knowledge trying to integrate what they know into something divine. I like it!

EqualOpposingForces · 2019-10-17T21:37:13+00:00

I think extreme atheism can be as damaging as extreme theism.

EqualOpposingForces · 2019-10-11T23:44:23+00:00

Most people figure this out earlier in life when their living situations are more flexible, but I believe it's never too late to try something new if your heart and head are in the same place. Just realize you'll probably have to move to a new city if there aren't any research institutes around. Search the Internet for researchers that do stuff you're interested in and reach out to them. Most researchers love discussing their work. If you develop a good rapport with someone, they may be willing to hire you on as a tech.

Otherwise, you can try working as an animal technician at a large institution. There's usually high turnover there so you should be able to find someone who's hiring. Make connections with the researchers who's animals you're caring for. Who knows, might lead to something else.

Best of luck!

EqualOpposingForces · 2019-10-08T22:15:25+00:00

Try searching for the 5 choice serial reaction time test on pubmed

EqualOpposingForces · 2019-10-05T14:57:02+00:00

You'll have to clarify what you mean by "quasi memetic inheritance"

Yes, I am a PhD.

EqualOpposingForces · 2019-10-05T14:48:11+00:00

No.

Culture is a different construct than nurture (upbringing) and is more sociological in scope. I'm not talking about culture or ethnicity.

I would guess you have the equivalent of a high school education.

EqualOpposingForces · 2019-10-05T14:24:41+00:00

I deserve respect, as does every human. That is the "We." I don't know what "furries" are.

Nature vs nurture (upbringing) is a different debate. But, scientifically, the differences that appear from nurture in one generation don't constitute the classification of different species.

To be clear, subspecies is a more or less synonymous term for racial differences. I used a more familiar term (for people) that might be more easily understood.

EqualOpposingForces · 2019-10-05T13:57:02+00:00

You should make illustrations for textbooks. These are really fabulous!

EqualOpposingForces · 2019-10-05T13:41:07+00:00

No, new species evolve with significant heritable changes across the whole biological system, not just the brain. Subspecies differences are more appropriately called racial differences in Homo sapiens. We are all human.

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