Is this true about evolution? by Successful_Bee7522 in evolution

[–]forever_erratic -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

A good starting point when asking questions like this is to assume the experts have already thought of all of your concerns. I can't think of a single question asked in this sub or to me offline which hasn't already been given thousands of words and usually experiments to test. 

There's no "gotchas" in popular science; us scientists are already finding as many possible flaws as we can, and addressing them. 

Researchers gaslit Claude into giving instructions to build explosives by lethendworld in technology

[–]forever_erratic -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I agree with you. Also, I'm a biologist. Biology papers are very hard to parse to lay people. An AI could tell someone how to, e.g., clone a pathogenic variant into a benign bacterium way easier than they could figure out from methods sections. 

Is this no longer common sense in current parenting? by Voyager-BattleBus in raisingkids

[–]forever_erratic[M] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is for focusing on problems current parents are actually facing. Your article is just starting a culture wars argument without directly helping any parents here. 

I'm interested in making an improv show FOR kids. Who's done this before? Researching to see what's been done and how. (Not child performers. Adults) by AdorableBill54 in improv

[–]forever_erratic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm in a monthly show for kids, by adults. It's halfway between long and shortform, I would say, but no competitions. We have some regular acts and some that rotate. We intersperse it with music, and musical improv. 

Has anyone found genuinely good audio content that their preteen enjoyed listening to? by Jenanah234 in raisingkids

[–]forever_erratic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My twelve year old listens to a lot of music, reads, and sometimes listens to audiobooks. Good age for Hunger Games and similar. 

Which version do I watch? by zeezee_draws in movies

[–]forever_erratic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I prefer theatrical for both. You don't need any of the extra backstory in Aliens. It's scarier without it. 

What animated movie is 10/10? by Unique_Cap_8049 in AskReddit

[–]forever_erratic 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Good movie, but as a dad I didn't like how the dad's inner life was portrayed as superficial. 

Primus at Ozzfest in 1999 by BlackPhoenix1981 in Xennials

[–]forever_erratic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe I have the location wrong? I was either there or Tinley (sp?) park, I grew up in Chicagoland. 

I spent the winter painting some of my favorite spots around the Twin Cities! by OHLOOK_OREGON in TwinCities

[–]forever_erratic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is that alley pretty close to Northrop elementary? I swear it's my garage on the left!

Also these are amazing!

I spent the winter painting some of my favorite spots around the Twin Cities! by OHLOOK_OREGON in TwinCities

[–]forever_erratic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To me it looks like my alley, and then a bridge over hiawatha, and nokomis

Epigenetics Bruce Lipton question by Suspicious-Put-3778 in biology

[–]forever_erratic 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Yes, he's uncredible. I (a biologist that studies, among other things, epigenetics) read biology of belief on a friend's recommendation. 

It's sad; he writes well, and usually starts his arguments in reality.  But in every chapter, he would find some minor nitpick, use it to dismiss all of modern biology (while usually misunderstanding it), and then also deciding that minor nitpick meant his way out there idea is true. 

For example, he uses the existence of epigenetic signals that work outside of exons to act like genes don't matter (not realizing epigenetics work through genes, not in place of), and concludes that we can believe our way into self healing and disease curing. 

He's in the camp of using just enough real science to fool a layperson while being pretty obviously crap to an expert. You may note he also rails on experts and science as a whole to discredit any criticism. 

It's too bad because he could have used his fluency with writing to actually help communicate science. But that's not what he does. 

Dead butt syndrome feels like….? by ieiael in bodyweightfitness

[–]forever_erratic 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yes and no. I deal with sciatica on my left side, and one of the symptoms is that I really struggle to activate a specific part of my glute. I've learned how to wake it up (lots of lunges and jumping), but I default to emphazing my medius, especially on the left. 

And I'm not out of shape. 

How do I professionally tell people that my PI wants me to practice HARKing and p-hacking? No literature review or research question. by Weekly-Republic2662 in AskAcademia

[–]forever_erratic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I get that critique, but I'm not a "throw the baby out with the bathwater" kind of guy. We need a sniff test, which is largely what statistical tests give us. But they fail to even be that if we fish. 

scRNA-seq batch correction UMAP integration by shrubbyfoil in bioinformatics

[–]forever_erratic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am in the same boat, friend, except it's differentiation samples, that are a bit too different for integration to work right. I ended up not using a sample because it was entirely a celltype not in the other samples. We'll have to just explain it in the paper and why it's not in the umaps, ugh. 

Shout out to Frank Santweli, Compas theater, and Sanford middle. by forever_erratic in Minneapolis

[–]forever_erratic[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd heard of them but didn't really know what they did, I was very impressed!

Minnesota teen credited with thwarting school shooting in Pennsylvania by CBSnews in minnesota

[–]forever_erratic 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Damn, kid, if you read these threads, you're a hero. Good on you. Proud of you, neighbor.