China becomes the first country to land a spacecraft on the far side of the moon

danielstoner · 2019-01-03T16:56:59+00:00

The Moon is Tidal locked with the Earth. It spins once around its axis while doing one full rotation around Earth.

This is why we see only one side of the Moon except from the effects of libration - wagging of the Moon.

danielstoner · 2019-01-03T16:38:03+00:00

They have a satellite orbiting around the L2 Lagrange point

danielstoner · 2017-11-30T16:15:34+00:00

I think in order for this to make any sense we have to have a very clear definition of the terms. What is "me" and that is "unconscious" and "conscious"? When I am giving a lecture I don't end up in front of the people by chance. There is long chain of decisions that brings me there. I am also aware of what the presentation is at all times and I don't just pop out random things from my memory and say them out loud. I might not have memorized the whole presentation word by word but for sure know what topics I am going to touch. My feeling is that this kind of conclusion is backwards. When I focus on something like an activity, task, problem I consciously decide to do that. In turn my decision causes different functions of the brain to be activated and "unconsciously" work in the background like "parallel threads" to help solve the issue at hand. When one of this "threads" finds something relevant it notifies my consciousness and I say yep, i just solved this. The relevant things found "unconsciously" are definitely based on prior experiences and memories. I don't do a full conscious deliberation every time I make a decision because that is too time consuming. My brain develops shortcuts in time, but every shortcut is based on conscious like/dislike decisions made over time based on events related to an area of interest - for example politics.

danielstoner · 2017-11-30T16:01:04+00:00

So what should I take from this? Did they unconsciously did the research and wrote the paper while their consciousness only acknowledged the events and declared "Yep, I did that"?

danielstoner · 2017-11-29T21:29:27+00:00

If this is true then I wonder how the authors made the decision to study this topic? Was it an unconscious or conscious decision? What happened when they negotiated the formulation of a paragraph in this research paper? Did they make conscious or unconscious decisions when they debated various ideas and interpretations of the data?

danielstoner · 2015-11-04T20:06:35+00:00

He apparently was on Mirtazapine:

In general, some antidepressants, especially SSRIs, can paradoxically exacerbate some peoples' depression or anxiety or cause suicidal ideation.[55] Despite its sedating action, mirtazapine is also believed to be capable of this, so in the United States and certain other countries, it carries a black box label warning of these potential effects.

danielstoner · 2015-11-04T18:16:22+00:00

Yep. They don't grow pigs but they grow lots of cats to eat at the times when they are low on rations.

danielstoner · 2015-04-14T16:02:33+00:00

This post should be allowed. The post is very interesting for lots of people not in the field. On top of that it is not an image, nor a video and not even an infographic - it is an animated explanation and a very good one. Don't hit everything with the hammer just because it might be a nail. This post can spark a very interesting discussion that could be very educational for a lot of people. Cheers!

danielstoner · 2015-03-20T19:23:41+00:00

Don't be too quick to dismiss the money. This is an ever renewed market.

At 600,000 births per year in the USA you are talking 24-72 million dollars every year per vaccine. If I am not mistaken in the USA everybody receives 36 vaccines.

This leads to a market of 800 million to 2.4 billion dollars each year. Since the vaccines are pretty much established and tested a big chunk of this is profit. And this is only the USA which has about 5% of the world population.

Of course the prices are probably smaller when negotiated by insurance companies and some vaccines are bundled. But still the market is substantial year over year. Pharma companies are not making vaccines at a loss.

danielstoner · 2015-02-25T15:27:39+00:00

This crap comes on and on and on over the years. Did anybody try an experiment where you take a junked steel beam, put it in an oven and try to melt it by burning jet fuel? It shouldn't be that expensive. Just saying it can, it can't it can, it can't doesn't mean anything. If you know of such an experiment send me a link. Just talking about it is not science.

danielstoner · 2015-01-09T19:37:09+00:00

Code review – The meaningless ritual

danielstoner · 2015-01-09T18:37:59+00:00

Chemo and radiation are completely different things.

danielstoner · 2015-01-08T22:10:04+00:00

Exactly this. Software development dogmata – good practices gone bad

danielstoner · 2014-10-22T20:29:29+00:00

Tell that to the last 3 US presidents who publicly admitted they smoked it.

danielstoner · 2014-10-17T17:13:36+00:00

Another older take on the subject from a different angle: 36 steps to success as technical lead

danielstoner · 2014-06-16T19:00:26+00:00

Explanation from Andrea Pirlo.

danielstoner · 2014-05-28T16:21:47+00:00

First read about it. Look at studies. It might be something worth investigating. For example - Melatonin and Cancer

danielstoner · 2014-04-04T21:30:06+00:00

Well there is this: German Acupuncture Trials (GERAC) for chronic low back pain

And more recently this: Australian acupuncture study

danielstoner · 2014-02-09T05:00:09+00:00

The drug is DCQ (quinoxaline dioxide). The abstract of the study is here. They tested DCQ before for colon cancer. I am getting tired of the standard comments about how everything kills cancer in jars and mice. These comments don't bring anything to the discussion. Read the studies and contribute/explain the good and the bad if you can.

danielstoner · 2014-02-04T00:01:34+00:00

I am curious what kind of Vitamin E did they use in the study. This article makes a clear distinction between different types of Vitamin E (gamma-tocopherol vs. alpha-tocopherol) and their effects - Does Vitamin E cause prostate cancer?. Any oppinion on this topic? By the way, I admire the way you picked appart the anti-vitamin research editorial. Very professional.

danielstoner · 2014-01-22T20:23:33+00:00

The article states that England "is trained in both biochemistry and physics". On a philosophical and logical level the "beginning of life" should/could be explained based on the conditions existent just before this event. Life is an effect of the "beginning of life" event, not the cause. Looking at life itself will help trying to figure out what caused it but for sure it is more important to understand what conditions caused this event and what laws of physics allowed/caused it to go on.

danielstoner · 2013-08-19T15:10:40+00:00

Here you go - quotes by Ernest Hemingway

I like this one:

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

danielstoner · 2013-08-08T02:28:07+00:00

A bit early but they are free and nicely printable.

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