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jnui8j | askphysics_test | 0.91 | [Computational Physics] Should I upgrade my system? Hello to everyone, I'm a physics undergraduate in Italy and I've just started my first course of computational physics. Since it's a subject that I really like I plan to continue exploring it in the next years, mainly regarding particle physics and fluid dynamics. Cur... | gb4vqih | gb4hs9w | 1,604,510,735 | 1,604,504,138 | 5 | 4 | You absolutely need a monster graphics card, mechanical keyboard, widescreen curved monitor and a shit load of LEDs in your tower to do good computational physics. It's integral the the process. | What everyone else has said is true for research. For classes, your university might not give you access to serious workstations. But (i) the assignments are reasonable in terms of computing power if you're expected to run them at home (ii) 900€ isn't going to buy you a serious 2020 workstation anyway. Plus there's li... | 1 | 6,597 | 1.25 |
tvsbdk | askphysics_test | 0.88 | How much harder do physics get in undergrad than high school? I wonder why many people take physics as hardest subject in my class. Physics in high school is just finding upon what the required variable is proportional upon and adding a experimental constant to satisfy the equation and then few calculus and concept. A... | i3b90d8 | i3b75sp | 1,649,045,119 | 1,649,044,120 | 19 | 2 | Everyone here is right that it does get much harder in college, but there are a couple things that helps make it much more manageable than the harder material would make it appear. First, you build the basics with easier material, but you're learning that earlier material with less knowledge about the subject. You bui... | I mean if you’re already okay with calculus based physics then you probably won’t have that hard of a time at least in introductory physics. Once you get to waves/heat and electromagnetism, things will get significantly more challenging, but that’s just how it goes. That at least covers roughly the first half of your d... | 1 | 999 | 9.5 |
rl3mfw | askphysics_test | 0.98 | I don't want to be an engineer, I like physics. Hi there, im currently in high school and have some financial problems in the family, my parents are not satisfied with me doing physics (i mean get a degree and pursue higher studies in) as im also considering doing engineering as it has become a need. But i don't want t... | hpdi7xb | hpdo802 | 1,640,053,657 | 1,640,056,433 | 20 | 35 | Physics is a hard way to make money. I have an undergrad degree in Physics, and in the long run I’m doing just fine financially, but it took a long time to get there. Physics undergrad degrees aren’t great financial investments. Even if you intend to get a PHD, that can still be a poor financial investment. So you’ll a... | Another route to consider would be some kind of optical engineering/photonics track. This uses lots of physics really interesting but is really marketable. Many universities don't have designated optics/photonics departments but do have many professors doing the same work in physics or electrical engineering department... | 0 | 2,776 | 1.75 |
eny88s | askphysics_test | 0.98 | Do you ever wonder how your studying/researching physics actually helps make the world a better place? I hope this is the right place to post this. I ask this of anyone and everyone who's in physics. I'm a physics undergrad student. My interest during my undergrad years has been mainly in particle physics. Up until a ... | fe6dumi | fe6g4rd | 1,578,888,002 | 1,578,889,873 | 13 | 96 | Physics is the next step in just about every field. Most fields are waiting on better physics for their breakthroughs. I really want to do my grad school in physics but other physics phds told me not to so im going to make it my side focus in my research. | “Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.” -Richard P. Feynman | 0 | 1,871 | 7.384615 |
ipgr34 | askphysics_test | 0.97 | Why are ashes white after the fire has died down, but then black when I poor water on them? | g4korie | g4jv3zq | 1,599,678,233 | 1,599,663,439 | 36 | 20 | Calcium carbonate or calcium oxide is the white. When you knock it off/wash it away the black carbon is what remains. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_ash | This is my best guess but I think it’s maybe better than nothing: Ash is mostly powder or agglomerates of powder. If the powder particles are of various enough sizes, they’ll scatter light of all wavelengths, giving it a white colour. When wet, *something* happens that makes the powder absorb the light instead of refl... | 1 | 14,794 | 1.8 |
8wdya1 | askphysics_test | 0.93 | For those that went for their PhD in physics, were you able to support yourself financially through grad school? Without the help of parents? Did you make enough to live comfortably? (I’m in USA) Also, did you work somewhere after your undergraduate before entering grad school? If so, what kind of job and why did you c... | e1usjqs | e1usji8 | 1,530,825,590 | 1,530,825,585 | 16 | 5 | Yes, my school paid a reasonable stipend that allowed for an OK standard of living in the city I was in, no parents required. My PhD was in Trieste, Italy. | I know this isn't what you asked for, but if you know some French (or willing to learn), maybe try to apply for a Ph.D. in France, the compensation usually is enough on its own and you won't need any financial help. May I ask what field are going for? | 1 | 5 | 3.2 |
h9r2ii | askphysics_test | 0.98 | What does an "average" theoretical physicist do? Hi - non-scientist who is really into physics. Sorry if this is a dumb question but I was listening to a podcast about Paul Dirac and some physicists were talking about how his abilities and insight were so far beyond everyone else. And it got be wondering, most physi... | fuyhuay | fuygctl | 1,592,264,920 | 1,592,264,145 | 175 | 84 | Hello, theoretical physics PhD student here! I think this is a common misconception that there's a lot of sitting around thinking for theoretical physics, because we're not actually physically fiddling with experimental equipment and what not. While, yes, a lot of thought has to go into what we're doing, you're right... | This is like asking "how can you be a professional baseball player if you aren't Barry Bonds if Barry Bonds was that much better than everybody else?" Well, there are 750 roster slots, so 749 non-Barry-Bonds have to fill it. Discovering the Dirac equation wasn't the only thing to do in physics for the past 100 years. T... | 1 | 775 | 2.083333 |
tiuqri | askphysics_test | 0.93 | why do light atomic nuclei release energy when they fuse and why do heavier atomic nuclei release energy when they fission? ​ why do light atomic nuclei release energy when they fuse and why do heavier atomic nuclei release energy when they fission? This graph to explain: https://imgur.com/9SU7XPA I know tha... | i1go5ft | i1gtka9 | 1,647,817,189 | 1,647,819,624 | 3 | 37 | If two particles join and become bound, there is energy released (or absorbed) equal to the difference in binding energy. So, two deuterons, which are weakly bound, join to make a He4 which is much more tightly bound. This reaction releases an energetic gamma ray. The peak or most bound nucleus is iron. If one splits s... | The effect is because the strong nuclear force is very short range, compared to the electrostatic force. The electrostatic force follows an inverse-square law and makes all the protons in a nucleus repel each other quite strongly. The nuclear binding force between nucleons is a van-der-Waals type perturbation force a... | 0 | 2,435 | 12.333333 |
tsv3l4 | askphysics_test | 0.99 | Are there any branches of math that aren't used in physics? From what little I know, it seems practically any type of math I've encountered has some applications in physics, e.g abstract algebra, set theory, topology, even number theory. What math is so pure it literally doesn't have physics applications? | i2tvmd8 | i2tzib1 | 1,648,721,441 | 1,648,724,367 | 45 | 111 | As you can probably already see from the comments so far, it's pretty hard to find a branch of mathematics that some physicist hasn't tried to make *some* use of. I guess maybe if you get specific enough -- for example, I don't think there's any physics applications for tropical algebra, although obviously there are to... | Have you tried also asking this question at r/math? It's kind of problematic to ask it in either place. There are likely to be areas of math that physicists aren't familiar with, and haven't (yet?) applied to physics, that you might learn about there and not here. On the other hand, if you ask there, you will find ... | 0 | 2,926 | 2.466667 |
oeba3i | askphysics_test | 0.94 | Why do we use circularly polarized light in laser cooling? I am studying the principles of magneto-optical traps for an exam, and can't really understand why circularly polarized light is necessary for laser cooling to work. | h45njz1 | h45mb4d | 1,625,512,048 | 1,625,511,422 | 14 | 5 | Circularly polarized light is light in an eigenstate of angular momentum. For left polarization, angular momentum is +1, while for right circular polarization it's -1. Because of conservation of angular momentum, when the atom transitions from the ground state (m=0) to the state m=+1 (m=-1) it must do so by absorbing a... | You need atoms with for example a 0,+1 and -1 state and an outer magnetic field that rises linearly through the x-direction of the trap, so that the Zeeman effect splits the energy levels depending on the position of the atoms. Now you want the atoms that move for example to the right to only interact with the laser t... | 1 | 626 | 2.8 |
otnl8e | askphysics_test | 0.96 | My teen is interested in learning about physics! First time posting here, not sure if this is the right place to post? I want to encourage them to learn more; not necessarily as a career path but more to feed his curiosity in the subject. We just talked about the Schrödinger's cat theory and my mind is blown! Where can... | h6wk9pw | h6wko14 | 1,627,522,422 | 1,627,522,615 | 3 | 48 | What age and level of education? Teenage can be everything from 13 to 19. A 19 year old might be ready to actually read the Griffith QM book. A 13 year old will find a wide variety of popsci written for him. Are there any topics of physics he's particularly interested in? | Brian Greene’s book The Elegant Universe was what moved me from “physics is somewhat interesting” to “oh damn, I didn’t know what I don’t know and now I want to understand it all” | 0 | 193 | 16 |
mmtkph | askphysics_test | 0.98 | Questions to ask a particle physicist? My high-school physics teacher is a particle physicist who has worked at both nuclear fission and fusion reactors. He offered us to gather some questions to discuss whatever we are interested in regarding this topic. What are questions that could start an interesting discussion?... | gtttmwm | gttpwwr | 1,617,900,073 | 1,617,898,522 | 28 | 22 | Ask what kind of particle a moron is | Ask him about this possible new fifth force of nature that has been observed with regards to the muons. | 1 | 1,551 | 1.272727 |
xjsj8c | askphysics_test | 0.89 | Why was I born into a 3 dimensional universe and not a 4th dimensional or 500th dimensional one? | ipa7p71 | ipa7jle | 1,663,729,545 | 1,663,729,472 | 98 | 14 | Many of the structures that are stable in 3 spatial dimensions, like atoms and solar systems, are unstable if there are more (large) spatial dimensions. That is one possible explanation. | Just lucky, I guess. If you had been born in a 7 dimensional universe you wouldn't be you. You would be an entirely different creature who would be asking "Why was I born into a 7 dimensional universe and not a 3 dimensional or 500 dimensional one?" You might find this interesting. | 1 | 73 | 7 |
rn0tic | askphysics_test | 0.95 | What's physically happening inside the Earth's liquid iron core that generates our magnetic field? I'm learning about magnetic field and wanted to see if I can understand the Earth's magnetic field better. I'm specifically interested in the relationship between Earth's magnetic field, movement of electron, and electric... | hppj0k9 | hppm20l | 1,640,282,649 | 1,640,283,914 | 2 | 14 | It is believed to be due to convective movement of liquid iron in the Earth's outer core, coupled with the Earth's rotation. It is known as the geodynamo. More information is in this Wikipedia article | This is one of the greatest not-quite-solved problems in geophysics. Turbulent convection currents in the liquid core bend and twist existing magnetic field lines in a way that amplifies them and creates a self-sustaining field similar to how a dynamo works. But it is nowhere near as simple as your diagram suggests. ... | 0 | 1,265 | 7 |
uzj1cf | askphysics_test | 0.79 | Why, in the law of Universal Gravitation, are we adding one of the masses the other mass times? What's the logic behind it? If I had a 3kg mass a distance r from a 5kg mass, why is the force between them is ((3+3+3+3+3)*G)/r^2 ? Same goes to Coulomb's law, but with charges. | iaakvy3 | iaal24i | 1,653,727,772 | 1,653,727,926 | 28 | 65 | "5 kg" has a unit, so you can't just treat it as repeated addition in that way. As for why the two masses are multiplied together in the force law, keep in mind that the force of the 3kg object exerts on the 5kg object has to be equal to the force the 5kg object exerts on the 3kg object. Multiplying the masses is one ... | Note that it is only 3+3+3+3+3 due to your choice of units: In terms of grams, it would be a huge sum with 5000 terms (3000+3000+3000+...), and if you used units that don't evenly divide the kilogram, you wouldn't be able to write it down that way at all. So from that perspective, your whole premise is flawed. However... | 0 | 154 | 2.321429 |
m9cjtn | askphysics_test | 0.96 | Which are the current important topics for research in physics? | grm49iw | grm5liy | 1,616,265,425 | 1,616,265,989 | 33 | 78 | There is research in every subfield and every subfield has probably a number of central / interesting questions at the moment. | You’ll need to be more specific to a sub field of physics you’re interested in (and even then it will be a difficult question to answer). It is comparable to asking “what are the best bands in music right now”, there are so many different genres and the answer will vary widely from person to person. If you are looking ... | 0 | 564 | 2.363636 |
b4d08n | askphysics_test | 0.99 | Not a question normally asked, but: what's the best way to get new physics news without it being distorted by the "pop science" articles? | ej677mx | ej67taw | 1,553,312,350 | 1,553,312,916 | 9 | 13 | In addition to Physics Today and Physics World, you can keep an eye on reputable blogs run by professors in your field of interest. Of course, they all have different target audiences, so they range from suitable for "professional physicists with a different specialty" all the way down to the general public. | Stay away from phys.org | 0 | 566 | 1.444444 |
t6zn4n | askphysics_test | 0.91 | By the most accepted theories of the Big Bang, is there a (possibly empty) space beyond the universe? I was rewatching some episodes of Ben 10, and in an episode of Ultimate Alien, the characters go out of universe. The character who takes the others there calls the place the space beyond, and even points to our univer... | hzejtif | hzekxrc | 1,646,448,579 | 1,646,449,102 | 8 | 50 | It's science fiction | Scientifically speaking, the universe can be divided into the observable universe and the unobservable universe; if we can observe a thing, that thing is in the observable universe; if we cannot observe a thing, that thing is in the unobservable universe. We cannot have any evidence of any thing that is not observable,... | 0 | 523 | 6.25 |
js0oqa | askphysics_test | 0.96 | How to read and understand scientific papers? I've just finished my third year of physics at uni, and I've now just started a summer internship in the department. I've been given several papers that are meant to "get me up to speed" on the stuff I'll be doing, but I can barely understand what I'm reading. Is there an ... | gbx69ie | gbxc0o0 | 1,605,087,102 | 1,605,093,442 | 4 | 7 | There are some suggestions to understand the evolution of the field, that's a good approach. What I'd say is make it an active or interactive reading by questioning the material you read. Like what it is, what are the keywords used, how is it they are doing the experiment, what is the conclusion, why this thing and no... | My strategy is to read it quickly multiple times. Often skipping bits of it. Each time I will focus on a particular point I did not understood and look for more details on this point. It works well especially if you have a lot a material to read as you can jump from one to the other and let them give you different per... | 0 | 6,340 | 1.75 |
gx6xj4 | askphysics_test | 0.97 | Can one PROVE physics equations? So I've heard of proofs in math, but I was wondering if there were proofs in physics. I often have a hard time taking some equations that I learn "on faith". This means I want to know the intuition behind them; how they came to be, the logical thought process behind them, and the mathe... | fszg8w2 | fszh2ty | 1,591,372,942 | 1,591,373,341 | 11 | 166 | I have a couple thoughts on this. I'm a 4th year grad student pursing a PhD in HEP experiment and I've had to teach many intro and upper level undergraduate physics courses. I **always** tell my students to avoid the use of the word proof, especially in lab reports. Proof is a concept that is reserved for logic and mat... | Of course! Ok, here is the deal. In math, there are things called axioms or postulates. Axioms are statements assumed to be true with no justification. For example, the Peano axioms are the axioms that form the natural numbers and define what you know to be addition and multiplication. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/... | 0 | 399 | 15.090909 |
y23ytd | askscience_test | 0.95 | Does the salinity of ocean water increase as depth increases? Or do currents/other factors make the difference negligible at best? | is1rcg3 | is1r77a | 1,665,597,157 | 1,665,597,100 | 406 | 368 | Cooled water from the poles sinks as a result of both its salinity and temperature profile. Cooler water is denser than warmer water. Cooler water with high amounts of salt is even more dense. So it sinks and is replaced by less dense and less saline (fresher) water. So yes, the salinity of water increases with depth. ... | As mentioned by /u/jellyfixh, most of the processes that modify the salinity of water (e.g. evaporation, precipitation, riverine inputs, and sea-ice formation) occur at the surface. As a result, to a reasonable approximation (ignoring the effects of mixing), you can assume the salinity of a water parcel is *roughly* co... | 1 | 57 | 1.103261 |
7ct8q1 | askscience_test | 0.6 | Let’s say a planet is 200 light years away. How do we know? Do we actually keep a telescope pointed in that area for 200 years to get a reading? If not, why is information traveling faster than the speed of light? | dpsl993 | dpslodx | 1,510,639,563 | 1,510,640,307 | 13 | 86 | We know how far away things are by a series of overlapping rulers. For example, we know how far the sun is. As we orbit the sun, we can see shifts in the positions of closer stars. From the size of the shift we can figure how far away the star is. For farther away stars, we can compare how bright they are, and their ... | There's a couple different ways, but the 3 easiest to understand are brightness, parallax and redshift. **Brightness** is straightforward. Things further away are dimmer. You can tell how bright a star should be by how big it is, and you can tell how big a star is by how things move around it -- the strength of the st... | 0 | 744 | 6.615385 |
1g9042 | askscience_test | 0.79 | If we are all star dust and all of the atoms in my body are from supernovas then does that mean I have always existed and atoms that already existed were just clumped together during birth to make "me"? Further more, once I die my atoms will still exist, correct? So does that mean they could be clumped together again f... | cai0kut | cai0gul | 1,371,120,678 | 1,371,119,804 | 26 | 15 | You are made of atoms like a painting is made of paint. Did the painting exist while the paint was in the tubes? You are not so much a lump of carbon and water as you are how these elements have been composed, much in the way a painting is not the sum of the colors, but how they are arranged. - Yes I know this isn't ... | You are committing an informal fallacy known as "composition" in your question. Just because something is true of all of the parts of a whole, does not make it true of the whole. All your atoms have always existed, but you have not always existed. You, the living person, exist now and will cease to exist when you di... | 1 | 874 | 1.733333 |
z3tlek | askscience_test | 0.92 | Everyone knows that sharks can smell blood in the water. But are there any air-breathing animals that can smell underwater? Or water-breathing animals that can smell in the air? | ixoam7q | ixoa16v | 1,669,334,985 | 1,669,334,680 | 268 | 116 | Anaconda and other snakes tongue flick underwater. Its a form of smelling since they use their jacobsons organ to pick up "smells" https://elementalscience.com/blogs/science-activities/how-do-snakes-smell-the-jacobson-organ#:~:text=Snakes%20have%20also%20developed%20a,roof%20of%20the%20snake's%20mouth. | Cadaver dogs are trained to smell decomposition, even in water. I've actually seen this done. They put the dog in the boat with them and he hangs his head over the side, sniffing like crazy. If he smells decomposition, he alerts. Usually done in lakes or other relatively still water. | 1 | 305 | 2.310345 |
q5m089 | askscience_test | 0.84 | What are the physiological differences between the SARS-CoV-2 Alpha and Delta variants? Have they been identified? Genomic sequencing is done to determine what variant an individual has been infected with, so the consequential mutation(s) within the genome has/have obviously been identified. I would anticipate, then, t... | hga2vrr | hgcpgwq | 1,633,989,142 | 1,634,045,848 | 6 | 7 | The major different spike protein substitutions are E484Q and L452R with quite a few minor mutations. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1413867021000751 | There are multiple mutations, but these are the most important ones. L452R is a leucine (nonpolar) to arginine (polar, positive) mutation that slightly changes the physical shape of the spike protein so that it is harder to recognize by Alpha-derived antibodies. D614G is an aspartic acid (polar, negative) to glycine ... | 0 | 56,706 | 1.166667 |
4926vb | askscience_test | 0.89 | Does light that barely escapes the gravitational field of a black hole have decreased wave length meaning different color? | d0olzcy | d0omwhe | 1,457,194,910 | 1,457,196,580 | 3 | 72 | has the light been affected by the time shift of the black hole! Ie being so close, time has slowed down (for it) and upon leaving the vacinity of the black hole, still going at the same speed as far as it is concerned, but slower for the rest of us observing it? | It depends on where the light starts. Scenario 1: You are hovering near a black hole. You shine a yellow flashlight towards your friend, who is far from the black hole. Your friend reports that the light is reddish. Scenario 2: You and your friend are far apart, with a black hole near the midpoint between you. Y... | 0 | 1,670 | 24 |
tz564t | askscience_test | 0.92 | Is there an electronic component that can change its resistance based on the current that flowed trough it? A bit like air ionization just more permanently. Basically satisfying the following equation: R(q) = C \* sum(q) where R is the resistance, C is an arbitrary constant and q is the charge that traveled trough the ... | i3x36nt | i3x8j0m | 1,649,435,143 | 1,649,437,155 | 8 | 24 | If you have two MOSFET transistors orientated properly one of them acts like a variable resistor. This is an image of a test I got back today: MOSFET The top transistor acts like a resistor that changes based on the output of the bottom one. | That’s basically the asymptotic trend for a capacitor, isn’t it? Uncharged it acts like a short circuit (0 resistance), fully charged it acts like an open circuit (infinite resistance). As current flows in it moves from one regime to the other. | 0 | 2,012 | 3 |
9nh029 | askscience_test | 0.94 | I’ve been perusing Wikipedia pages on hurricanes after Michael and have found detailed accounts of hurricane development for storms back in the late 1800s. How were these accounts recorded and/or constructed? | e7mpq4n | e7mdjwb | 1,539,344,954 | 1,539,322,022 | 167 | 51 | there's an amazing book called Isaac's Storm that is about the Galveston TX hurricane in the 1800s. It tells all about early weather forecasters and how they plotted and tracked storms. Great read, the book says that after that hurricane tore through the US and traveled back across the Atlantic, it still had enough f... | If you don't get an answer here, you can try /r/askhistorians | 1 | 22,932 | 3.27451 |
1zfzqg | askscience_test | 0.79 | Do any other species have specific postmortem rituals? (Such as when humans bury/cremate the dead) | cfte1me | cftx2fk | 1,393,872,543 | 1,393,913,969 | 5 | 7 | Does anyone have any documentation of crow funerals? I think I've seen one, and heard plenty of stories, but couldn't find any references to prove it. For anyone not sure what I'm talking about, I'm referring to the practice of vast flocks of crows congregating around the place a crow died, sometimes for days at a tim... | To say "only elephants" is simply untrue. Definitely the most well-known and well-documented example, but far from the only one. Many, many species grieve their fellows' deaths, but if you exclude the mourning process from "postmortem ritual," then only a specific few have documented, consistent rituals. Among thes... | 0 | 41,426 | 1.4 |
2qdrzd | askscience_test | 0.91 | Which two are more genetically different... two randomly chosen humans alive today? Or a human alive today and a direct (paternal/maternal) ancestor from say 10,000 years ago? Bonus question: how far back would you have to go until the difference within a family through time is bigger than the difference between the pe... | cn59bbx | cn58xtg | 1,419,542,636 | 1,419,541,688 | 53 | 24 | I'm seeing a lot of attempts to answer this question by asking whether the most recent common ancestor of all humans was more or less than 10,000 years ago. Estimates based on genetic data vary widely, but anthropological evidence suggests the first major migrations out of our species' African birthplace were between 1... | There are a few caveats about our genes that you have to consider before taking on this question fully. Humans have greater genetic variance in general than the races have genetic variance from one another. Racial differences are actually a very small portion of our overall genetics. For instance, skin color is a combi... | 1 | 948 | 2.208333 |
5n2mi2 | askscience_test | 0.88 | Is there anything the human body has three of? | dc8gqka | dc8i1pc | 1,484,035,079 | 1,484,038,831 | 1,496 | 4,816 | I suppose you could go with three arteries supplying the thyroid. Two fairly identical supplies coming from the sides split into superior and inferior portions, with a midline third artery, the thyroid ima, which ascends superiorly. This is only present in about 1 in 20 people however | There are three cusps/leaflets to the tricuspid, pulmonary and aortic valves Slightly off topic but each kidney is created three times - the first two (pronephros and mesonephros) degenerate and the third (metanephros) becomes your kidney and urinary tract | 0 | 3,752 | 3.219251 |
9wtlfd | askscience_test | 0.84 | If there is an infinite amount of natural numbers, and one is chosen at random, mathematically the probability of choosing that number should be 0. Why can the number still be chosen? It seems fairly reasonable that the probability cannot be 0, as if you were to sum up all the probabilities, you have to get one as a re... | e9nz4zf | e9o00yw | 1,542,174,177 | 1,542,175,376 | 14 | 15 | Your logic is flawed from the beginning, and it's relatively easy to see where you've contradicted yourself. You said "If the probability is always zero, why can a number still be chosen?". But from merely making the statement "choose a random natural number", the probability that we've *chosen* a value is always 1.... | The answer is actually simpler than you might expect. It truly is not possible to select a random number from an infinite set. Whenever a person "randomly" thinks of a number, they actually follow a deterministic process which necessarily must involve reducing the infinite set down to a finite set. Even a computer is r... | 0 | 1,199 | 1.071429 |
pglvry | askscience_test | 0.95 | How do lungs heal after quitting smoking, especially with regards to timelines and partial-quit? Hi all, just trying to get a sense of something here. If I'm a smoker and I quit, the Internet tells me it takes 1 month for my lungs to start healing if I totally quit. I assume the lungs are healing bit by bit every day a... | hbcrn7f | hbd9vu1 | 1,630,610,913 | 1,630,618,355 | 480 | 2,219 | To put it briefly, as other posters have mentioned, there is a timeline for recovery. However, its important to know that if a former smoker’s lung function is tracked over time, they will see recovery, but it is impossible for the lungs to recover to the same functional level they were at prior to the onset of smoking... | https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/336/7644/598/F1.large.jpg The above graph shows the effect of smoking on lung function over time. For lung function they use forced expiratory volume in 1 second I.e. the volume of air your lung can breathe out in 1 second when you push out hard. In the graph it shows 25yrs old as a... | 0 | 7,442 | 4.622917 |
27fd2z | askscience_test | 0.91 | We all know about trilobites, dinosaurs, pterodactyls and other animals that have gone extinct, but have we discovered any extinct plants with unique features not seen in plants today? | ci0lub0 | ci0p91b | 1,402,054,538 | 1,402,065,544 | 13 | 22 | There were tree-like lycopods at some point, such as *Lepidodendron*, those have been lost for several hundred million years. Lycopods survive, but as small creepy carpet-making mossy things. | This isn't precisely what you asked, but since you're interested in extinct plants you may be interested in Encephalartos woodii, the last member of its species. It is a male cycad from South Africa that was collected from the wild in 1895 and grown in the Royal Botanical Gardens. No female has ever been found for ... | 0 | 11,006 | 1.692308 |
104bj1 | askscience_test | 0.81 | what lies beneath the sand of a desert? | c6aad6g | c6acm0j | 1,348,029,667 | 1,348,043,074 | 5 | 17 | If you're looking for a generic answer for a generic question: geologically speaking, "sand" is simply a loose mixture of minerals within a certain size range. These are typically largely silica based minerals, like quartz, but this will vary depending on geographic location. source1, source2 Now, at greater depths yo... | The canonical desert landscape is generally thought to be a sand dune, but this is a misconception. Even in the great Sahara desert only a fairly small portion is made up of sand dune expanses (ergs), most of it is hamada (bare stone and rock). Generally speaking, just about any rock can underlie a sand dune field, mo... | 0 | 13,407 | 3.4 |
yz8px1 | askscience_test | 0.93 | Quote from an article on the Guardian news website, "a single bit of data stored on a mobile phone adds about 10 quectograms to its mass". Is this an accurate statement, and if so, how does data add mass? https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/nov/18/earth-six-ronnagrams-new-prefixes-big-and-small | iwzju6o | iwz812j | 1,668,874,090 | 1,668,868,582 | 407 | 76 | I believe it is an inaccurate statement. They are misapplying the Landauer Limit which states the theoretical minimum entropy change (and thus energy required) to change a bit of information. Since energy equates to mass (e=mc\^2), you can frame this energy as mass. In fact, if you take the value from the wikipedia ... | Bits on your phone are recorded as small electrical charges and that new SI prefix represents a mass so small it can be used to measure individual electrons. I don’t know if that exact number is accurate but that’s how data can change mass— it’s such an unfathomably tiny amount of mass that it’s basically zero for us h... | 1 | 5,508 | 5.355263 |
p5flnf | askscience_test | 0.95 | What is the specific advantage of a moon base over an orbital space station? Now that several nations have developed plans for permanent installations on the moon, what is the specific advantage of building such an installation over having an identical facility floating in space? | h96cdzg | h95mrh2 | 1,629,132,035 | 1,629,121,592 | 2,245 | 1,463 | Mass. Every gram of everything that is needed has to be launched to an orbital space station. Structural members, radiation shielding, water, rocket fuel, ammonia, cooling system, oxygen, etc. On a planetary body, you can get some for free (bury the station for radiation shielding), or minimal processing. By sendin... | Radiation. The only known worthwhile shield against solar proton events and galactic cosmic rays is matter. Every gram of orbital space station shield carted up from Earth's surface into orbit costs an obscene amount of money. So they tend to economize on the shield and the astronauts have a yearly limit on visits to ... | 1 | 10,443 | 1.534518 |
sx5ixb | askscience_test | 0.94 | What part of the brain controls the tail in primates, and does it do anything today in humans? | hxri4im | hxr73s6 | 1,645,398,806 | 1,645,394,066 | 37 | 9 | Someone else has already answered that motor cortex representation is plastic, and so we don't have any region for tail. Another interesting consequence of this is phantom limb syndrome, which can happen when someone loses a limb that had motor and sensory cortex devoted to it. Essentially, other nearby regions start t... | On a related note, if something like Neuralink came to be, then by tapping into the motor cortex we might be able to create a digital controller that is like a virtual appendage. It seems that there is enough plasticity there to adapt to it, so eventually it would feel like you have a virtual "third arm" that you can u... | 1 | 4,740 | 4.111111 |
fb40q7 | askscience_test | 0.92 | Numerically there have been more deaths from the common flu than from the new Corona virus, but that is because it is still contained at the moment. Just how deadly is it compared to the established influenza strains? And SARS? And the swine flu? Can we estimate the fatality rate of COVID-19 well enough for comparisons... | fj2gq88 | fj2gfjr | 1,582,943,242 | 1,582,943,026 | 7,611 | 125 | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation article covers it pretty well https://www.gatesnotes.com/Health/How-to-respond-to-COVID-19 “There are two reasons that COVID-19 is such a threat. First, it can kill healthy adults in addition to elderly people with existing health problems. The data so far suggests that the virus has ... | From here: https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/9/2/523 >Our cCFR estimates of 5.3% and 8.4% indicate that the severity of COVID-19 is not as high as that of other diseases caused by coronaviruses, including severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), which had an estimated CFR of 17% in Hong Kong \[9,10,20\], and Middle East... | 1 | 216 | 60.888 |
1cr0v6 | askscience_test | 0.91 | Did Apollo-era NASA have an official policy on what to do if they encountered extra-terrestrial life on the Moon? Furthermore, do they have a general policy now? X-post from /r/NASA | c9jasek | c9jb3w5 | 1,366,497,075 | 1,366,498,223 | 55 | 88 | Buzz, Neil, and Mike were all quarantined when they got back from the moon for 21 days to avoid any possible contamination. It was not till a month later that they got their ticker tape parade. Here is the wiki | Yes. The most basic thing is to keep any pobe and lander sterile so nothing from earth gets introduced to anything else anywhere accidentally. Some bacteria might be able to spread quick without a chance to remove them. This is also important to keep the instruments clean that can detect life. There is also a Group w... | 0 | 1,148 | 1.6 |
pstg3d | asksciencefiction_test | 0.85 | [ATLA] Kind of a gross question I know, but when Hama was trapped in the Fire Nation prison, why couldn't she or the other benders use their urine to waterbend and break out? As we saw during the episode The Puppeteer, Hama and the other benders seemed to be mostly unbound during their captivity, only being bound when ... | hdrwya3 | hdrwgy7 | 1,632,263,541 | 1,632,263,316 | 69 | 14 | A few things would be working against them. First, every imprisoned waterbender is likely chronically dehydrated, reducing the amount of urine produced on any given day. Second, their cells are kept pretty sparse, leaving them nowhere to try and accumulate urine over time to build up a decent quantity. Finally, any act... | While we don't know how they were treated I suppose that they were given just enough water to survive and because of that had very dry and infrequent urine. | 1 | 225 | 4.928571 |
6iidsp | asksciencefiction_test | 0.81 | [Marvel / DC] I have made it my life goal to become a street level hero. What are the steps I should undertake? Try not to copy other street tier heroes, don't tell me to just get bitten by lots of radioactive spiders. | dj6ha49 | dj6hpwq | 1,498,006,755 | 1,498,007,279 | 4 | 50 | Training and equipment. Training can come from different avenues, maybe you'll take a walk around the world and climb some mountains to train with monks. Maybe you'll find an old retired hero from your neighborhood and make him train you to take over the mantle of whatever he was. Maybe you simply build a ridiculous... | Episdode 1. You take a baseball bat and go outside on patrol. You see a guy running out of a store he just robbed. You go to conk him on the head. He grabs the bat. After a lengthy tug of war, you manage to get your bat back, and smack him in the shin for all you're worth, shattering it. He can no longer run from the c... | 0 | 524 | 12.5 |
fmmivw | asksciencefiction_test | 0.72 | [General zombies] Why are so many zombies in such a good shape? Zombies don't strike me as a very considerate lot, so how come when they sink their claws and teeth into their prey they don't rip it to shreds? They mob people, killing them by savagely beating and biting them to death. Wouldn't every zombie be heavily in... | fl500tn | fl4ze09 | 1,584,825,410 | 1,584,824,998 | 12 | 5 | What you're seeing is the result of a classic "bodybuilder" technique: de-hydrating yourself. ( https://www.bodybuilding.com/content/7-scientific-steps-to-camera-ready-body.html ) The less water you have, the more "ripped" you look. The zombies can go without a solid meal for a while, and don't drink in general, so... | Zombies attack people to eat them. Also why do you think most zombies have bitten out chunks of exposed bone? Zombie attack, probably from one zombie that took a chunk out, got full and left them to undie. | 1 | 412 | 2.4 |
yz3nlr | asksciencefiction_test | 0.79 | [Fallout] Why does everything look so shit? I mean seriously, literally every single place in Fallout is strewn with rubble, the walls have holes, there’s trash everywhere… New Vegas takes place in 2281, they literally had 200 years to clean up for themselves. Goodsprings, a town filled with seemingly normal people, pr... | iwy01nc | iwxwuq5 | 1,668,835,339 | 1,668,833,318 | 33 | 21 | That's... that's just how things look when you don't have running water and consistent supply lines. | Not literally every place. The NCR Capital is pretty neat and tidy. So is Vault City. | 1 | 2,021 | 1.571429 |
we4077 | asksciencefiction_test | 0.81 | [Marvel] What would it take to get J. Jonah Jameson to give up his crusade against Spider-Man? | iimiywy | iim3tis | 1,659,435,621 | 1,659,423,295 | 17 | 10 | I am behind on my Spider-Man comics but I believe he has actually given up and is an ally now. From what I understand JJJ father married Aunt May so he and Peter are step brothers in away now. Also he lost the Bugle I believe. He now has a podcast instead so Peter told him his secret identity and comes on as Spider-Man... | Which one? The Alex Jones one or the one with journalistic integrity. | 1 | 12,326 | 1.7 |
tj97yn | asksciencefiction_test | 0.72 | [Spongebob] How hasn't Plankton been able to recreate the Krabby Patty formula by force? Just trying different ingredients until he gets the combination correct? According to friend or foe he should know all the ingredients they had access too. Karen was supposedly a security system and recorded the whole thing. So it ... | i1jrubv | i1lvy7g | 1,647,880,916 | 1,647,912,570 | 2 | 6 | See, this is something I sort of wondered ever since I was a kid. If Plankton was able to pay a guy to eat at the Chum Bucket, a place nobody else would even think of going near, then surely he could pay a guy to just buy him a Krabby Patty, and then reverse engineer it with the technology that he's shown to have. (One... | I like to go with the theory that its all one big game. plankton and krabs aren't corporate rivals but are actually allies. krabs has plankton attempt to steal the formula for more publicity. "wow, the krabby patties are so good, people want to STEAL the recipe? i have to eat here!" thats the reason why he tries to ... | 0 | 31,654 | 3 |
se3zeb | asksciencefiction_test | 0.84 | [Spongebob Squarepants] How is the Chum Bucket so technologically advanced even though Plankton isnt making any money? The Chum Bucket is a notoriously crappy restaraunt across the street from one of the most popular restaraunts in Bikini Bottom. So how can Plankton afford such an advanced interior while making little ... | hugsl1d | hugz4gy | 1,643,305,543 | 1,643,307,865 | 4 | 27 | Research grants? | After the episode with the floating garbage patch and after noticing that buildings are old mufflers and whatnot i like to think that plankton is a scav repurposing the trash that sinks to the ocean floor. | 0 | 2,322 | 6.75 |
37h3bf | asksciencefiction_test | 0.87 | [Comics] What do comic archers like Hawkeye and Green Arrow do when they run out of arrows? Especially in huge fights like Hawkeye gets into (e.g., hundreds of aliens pouring out of a portal, or hundreds of robots swarming all around), these guys must run out of arrows pretty fast. What happens then? | crmnan8 | crmuzvj | 1,432,745,537 | 1,432,757,584 | 13 | 43 | Well they aren't taking out all the aliens with their arrows, if anything they are acting as support, getting the ones the rest of the group miss. So they probably won't be running out too often. However in those rare cases they run out, and can't get anymore back, they use either their bow as a weapon, or their marti... | http://imgur.com/9SRrgYf These guys are super-badass. I think it's probably better to not think about batman or hawkeye in terms of regular people in costumes and more like their power is doing stupidly badass action movie bs. But they also have really high tech arrows and bows and quivers, so they can probably hold a... | 0 | 12,047 | 3.307692 |
ky1mz8 | asksciencefiction_test | 0.97 | [DC] How is it that no one recognizes Diana Prince as Wonder Woman when she goes around without a mask as a superhero, or without glasses as Diana? [Possible 1984 spoilers ahead] With Clark Kent, his glasses keep his identity icognito. With Bruce Wayne, Batman wears his cowl. But Diana wears nothing more than a crown.... | gjdqlzo | gjdiice | 1,610,742,699 | 1,610,738,850 | 738 | 410 | It's pretty much the same as how Tony Hawk has a hard time being recognized as Tony Hawk when not actively riding a skateboard; devoid of context, people are more likely to assume casual resemblance than actual person, especially when it's someone famous. | Anyone pointing it out wouldn't be taken serious. Like how Keanu Reeves is actually a time traveler/vampire and there historical paintings and pictures of him that prove it, but no one really cares. | 1 | 3,849 | 1.8 |
dnv126 | asksciencefiction_test | 0.76 | [Superpowers] Which powers and abilities would be the most useful and versatile? (Unusual or staples both welcomed) | f5gd2qv | f5gfd3y | 1,572,191,992 | 1,572,192,757 | 10 | 14 | Omnipotence. Can't get more useful or versatile than everything itself | Teleportation or time control. You could honestly just start a small-scale business for transporting special, lightweight goods and charge the rich insane amounts of money because you offer a unique and practical, yet completely unmatchable service. And no one could imprison you or anything like that since you could es... | 0 | 765 | 1.4 |
3hn8tz | asksciencefiction_test | 0.9 | [Star Wars] What is the reason why a Sith Master cant stop performing force lightning by hurting himself when a Jedi Master is actually able to reflect it? If Palpatine/Darth Sidious/The Emperor was using Force Lightning against a Jedi Master (as he did against Mace Winduu and Yoda) it seemed these good fellows wouldn'... | cu8v5v1 | cu8u1ka | 1,440,026,196 | 1,440,024,287 | 23 | 8 | When, except for the moment of my death, was I ever not in control? | What makes you think he was losing control and not just faking it? He seems perfectly fine other than his face being grotesque after, and he even later slams even more lightning into Mace with much more power behind it. | 1 | 1,909 | 2.875 |
bu5xyl | asksciencefiction_test | 0.83 | [Truman Show]Since the show ended we, the Studio have been using the dome, the largest structure in the world for tour groups. We are going to lock a big tour group inside while tricking them into thinking a nuclear war happened and the air outside is deadly. What should we name this new show? | ep7bltt | ep7c1jy | 1,559,079,745 | 1,559,079,900 | 2 | 50 | Lock in. | I don't think the name is what you should be worried about. Unlike Truman, these people will have families. They'll fight back a lot more than people who are worried about a guy they saw on TV being treated badly. | 0 | 155 | 25 |
dk2upk | asksciencefiction_test | 0.94 | [Star Wars] Would have anakin still fallen to the dark, if he had become a gray jedi, or was raised by an individual like Qui-Gon? I mean, what really pushed anakin to the dark was the lack of being able to tell anyone about his true problems, and he more or less did function in a gray manner, utilizing both the dark a... | f4amqc9 | f4a5zq3 | 1,571,497,685 | 1,571,489,435 | 210 | 112 | In modern continuity the thing with the Dark Side is that it is a seductive force. The Dark Side in lore isn't like the Dark Side in video games, it's not just "Red ability bad" you can use the force in any number of ways it's **how** you use it that determines if its giving in to the dark side. What dictates whether t... | While Qui-Gon might have been significantly better for him, the best thing to prevent Anakin from falling is to remove Palpatine from his life. But the way you're thinking of using the Force doesn't exist. You can't use both the light and the dark in that way. The dark side is soul meth, and the more you use it, the m... | 1 | 8,250 | 1.875 |
pw24oi | asksciencefiction_test | 0.93 | [Batman] Which of Batman's rogues could do the most good if they were a heroic vigilante version of themselves? Basically take the morality of one of batman's rogues and switch it (EG- Turn the Joker from a gaslighting abusive maniac into a vigilante with a clown asthetic) Which Villain would be the most helpful he... | hee7nrz | hee84n8 | 1,632,690,284 | 1,632,690,482 | 32 | 115 | Mr. Freeze, Scarecrow, Hugo Strange, the entire court of owls. Basically any of his rogues that have the ability to alter the weather, make drugs, have a combined trillions of dollars, or create illnesses (implying they can also make cures). Mr. Freeze could use his technology and expertise to cure certain terminal ill... | Ra's al Ghul is swimming in money and has massive influence across Europe, Asia and the Middle East. His magic live-forever juice isn't ideal but it's not the only tool at his disposal. | 0 | 198 | 3.59375 |
tfnhgs | asksciencefiction_test | 0.83 | [Marvel/MCU] Has Steve Rogers ever watched the movie Inglorious Basterds? If so, what did he think of it? Just curious what his thoughts would be as a WWII vet and someone who personally punched out Hitler/The Red Skull. | i0x44cp | i0xl43s | 1,647,457,179 | 1,647,463,886 | 7 | 24 | Decent bunch, but he likes the Howling Commandos better. | He briefly considered writing Quentin Tarantino a note chiding him for his language, but decided against it. | 0 | 6,707 | 3.428571 |
5496sn | asksciencefiction_test | 0.83 | [Captain America: Civil War; The Avengers: Age of Ultron] Given what was done to Sokovia, shouldn't the total monetary loss be more than $474 billion? How is it calculated? I'm speaking exclusively and nearly from a monetary standpoint; as in, the amount of loss would not be offset by the benefit to the world, because ... | d805i9d | d80g2od | 1,474,728,461 | 1,474,744,903 | 8 | 9 | Sokovia was already well on its way to disintegration, which meant that it was mainly damaging already destroyed stuff. It'd be like if you bombed Somalia or Syria or Detroit. Yeah people would be hurt, but you'd hit more rubble than standing buildings. | 3 million may be a large overestimation. The city proper that was destroyed was 2km wide, so total area of about four square kilometers. "Only" about half of the city was lifted by Ultron's device. Another European nation with similar architecture, Monaco, has half the area of Sokovia (two square km). That's approx... | 0 | 16,442 | 1.125 |
tty50k | asksciencefiction_test | 0.77 | [Marvel] Somehow, Punisher manages to kill all wrongdoers. All that's left is an inept, but not corrupt, justice system. Does Frank pivot to civil servant to address this? | i30n96y | i30yrt7 | 1,648,839,049 | 1,648,843,828 | 21 | 55 | Honestly, I feel he'd escalate. Frank is a bloodthirsty, hate-filled man with nothing to live for but endless revenge. What's kept him from spiralling into a full on villain with a one-man war on society is that he has more evil targets to focus his ire on. Remove those targets and his hatred and bloodlust don't go ... | Frank's war on criminals isn't a goal, it's an excuse. Basically, the only place Frank has ever felt comfortable is in war. Regardless of the continuity, whether it was Vietnam or Desert Storm or whatever, Frank found his purpose and his calling not just as a soldier, but as *the* soldier. The soldier who leaves no me... | 0 | 4,779 | 2.619048 |
bm0f1u | asksciencefiction_test | 0.95 | [MCU] So what are the universe's thoughts on Earth after the events of Endgame? (ENDGAME SPOILERS) For much of the history of the MCU, Earth was seen as a backwater with little relevance or respect within the cosmic community. The Kree called Earth "a real shithole". The Asgardians had a fairly low opinion of Earth ... | emt2fm4 | emtf6kq | 1,557,294,899 | 1,557,309,743 | 73 | 139 | I think the more developed alien civilisations would view us as how we humans view the orcs from LOTR, chaotic, still a shithole, uncivilised, warmongering backwater planet, but yet no one would dare to simply fuck around with the orcs. | ~~Harmless.~~ Mostly harmless. | 0 | 14,844 | 1.90411 |
uo9ic8 | asksciencefiction_test | 0.91 | [MCU] Why Peter Parkers are different across the multiverse but Stephen Stranges aren't? The Doylist answer is obvious, but there is a Watsonian one you guys can think of? | i8d2i4b | i8de59b | 1,652,386,390 | 1,652,391,077 | 89 | 117 | We’ve seen three Peter Parker variants. By extension, now that the multiverse doors have been blown off, we’ve also seen multiple versions of Professor X, Daredevil, the Punisher, the Fantastic Four, Captain America, and Loki (specifically said to be the most common variant of…Variant…). While some have wide discrepa... | The stranges have all come from universes that have quite a lot of similarities with the main differences being the heroes. But otherwise a lot of the same events happened in one way or another e.g thanos, ultron. But in the Spider-Mens universes there’s basically no similarities at all except for the Spider-Men them... | 0 | 4,687 | 1.314607 |
daj8ui | asksciencefiction_test | 0.96 | [Alien/Aliens] I just discovered this sub, so forgive me since I'm sure this has been kicked around before, but I've always wondered - How do the xenomorphs generate body mass when they don't seem to have enough food to do so? Why doesn't their blood compromise the ship's hull? | f1q5flh | f1q7dyh | 1,569,693,915 | 1,569,694,969 | 5 | 211 | They get into the food stores. They're like mice. | They're basically hollow. As a chestburster they're soft, fleshy and elastic. Over the course of a few hours they use hydraulic pressure to stretch and expand their outer layer which then dries into the hard exoskeleton we're familiar with. As such, they're light enough to easily climb walls and run across ceilings w... | 0 | 1,054 | 42.2 |
1m5qft | asksocialscience_test | 0.89 | How do Marxists refute the idea that prices are based on individual desires rather than labor time inputs? | cc6oftp | cc79s53 | 1,378,959,932 | 1,379,035,571 | 3 | 5 | This is known as the mud-pie argument. You put in labor to make a mud-pie, does it mean it has a value? Watch this video for an explanation. Here is the text. This is a multi-part video series, in which this is the fourth or so video. Here is a relevant excerpt: >The problem with this argument is that Marx was ver... | First off let's separate prices from value. Value in Marx has two forms. True value (ie. the value produced by the addition of labour to natural materials which is what gives you the famous reinterpretation of Ricardo's value theory) and value within the commodity system (given by the M-C-M (money - commodity - money... | 0 | 75,639 | 1.666667 |
3wozku | asksocialscience_test | 0.85 | Why does it seem like every time an economist speaks, they come out in support of the status quo? There seems to be a dearth of radical economists. Is this merely my perception? From what I know of heterodox economists, mainstream economics has somewhat of a "one of us, one of us" culture problem and seems to have diff... | cxxwkiz | cxxwnqn | 1,450,042,499 | 1,450,042,633 | 12 | 14 | "Dearth of radicals" is a little bit an issue of perception, but it depends how you think about economics. The science is extremely tied to quantifiable models. So far, Marxian approaches haven't found the equivalent kind of empirical support. I'm not saying modern economics necessarily precludes all Marxian ideas. But... | I don't think that that is an entirely fair question. There are lots of different schools of thought in economics (just like in other disciplines), though there are also things that virtually everyone in the field takes for granted. After all, that is how science (in the broadest sense of the term) gets done (see gener... | 0 | 134 | 1.166667 |
1dh75x | asksocialscience_test | 0.81 | Mod / Meta] Question for eligible panelists who have not applied for flair, a few subreddit stats, and a friendly reminder to report bad answers! Hi everybody, I'd like to share a few stats with you first. Right now, we're averaging between 50 and 80 new subscribers each day, which is great! However.. we are presently... | c9qgaxi | c9qg6l7 | 1,367,433,412 | 1,367,433,117 | 4 | 2 | I don't want to risk my tenure just because I like to call out other economists for talking drivel. | I haven't applied for flair because I have only just received my bachelor's degree (in politics and law), because the kind of question I would feel comfortable answering does not come up often (international relations theory, security studies, European Union), and because I would rather not disclose any information and... | 1 | 295 | 2 |
2x4zkx | asksocialscience_test | 0.67 | If patriarchy is so wrong, how did it become the norm? Were we ever equal? Let me preface this by saying I support equality for all, but I'm curious as to how we wound up with the inequality we have. Why aren't women seen as superior? Why aren't we equal? Why are gender rolls wrong? Would they be OK if we attributed th... | coxvqcr | coxibtl | 1,424,966,338 | 1,424,925,010 | 4 | 2 | We've had to nuke every top level comment in this thread. If you're leaving a top level comment IT MUST HAVE SOURCES. You must support your claims with citations to relevant academic material. | You are asking a lot of questions here, I will try to answer them individually. How did patriarchy become the norm? Highly debated, answers range from the patriarchy being an outgrowth from the division of labor in early human societies to the patriarchy being a manifestation of capitalist values. Regardless, there ... | 1 | 41,328 | 2 |
11mavg | asksocialscience_test | 0.86 | Why is the US so dominating in entertainment and culture? I'm from Norway, not the largest country in the world, and I was thinking about where my entertainment comes from. Speaking a small language, I'm accustomed to speaking or listening to another language when I interact online or watch/listen to other entertainmen... | c6nq1mc | c6nsu1z | 1,350,469,024 | 1,350,486,559 | 7 | 16 | US has 5% of the world's population but with countries that have English as a first language? That figure rockets up. Canada, UK, America, NZ, Australia, Ireland, South Africa - English speaking countries (as a first language). US dominates that in terms of population. Now, given that English is a very desirable langu... | First: The Division of Labor is limited by the extent of the market. English language extends to a much larger number of wealthy people than any other language, which means there can be more differentiation within the English language market than other language markets. If there are 500 million English speaking people ... | 0 | 17,535 | 2.285714 |
yrekw | asksocialscience_test | 0.86 | What do trained economists think about trickle-down economics? Why? I did some google searching and could find very little that wasn't deeply politically charged. What does the economics field think of trickle-down economics? | c5y688k | c5y62v3 | 1,345,831,520 | 1,345,830,998 | 41 | 7 | Trickle-down economics isn't really a thing in economics. It is a political quip used to discredit people. The idea is basically a corruption of supply-side economics, which again isn't exactly what I'd call a "field" of economics, but whatever. If you are going to do any searching, I'd use that phrase instead though. ... | That it works only in very specific macroeconomic situations, usually when there is pent-up demand held back by high interest rates, high taxes and moderate to high inflation. Basically, if government or central bank actions are keeping people from spending and investors from investing, removing those barriers will kic... | 1 | 522 | 5.857143 |
xbrktq | asksocialscience_test | 0.92 | Book on sociological dynamics in Appalachia? In the vein of books like “white trash” or JD Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy”, I am interested in the sociology of rural southern areas, specifically Appalachia. Anyone have any recommendations for reading? | io1wy04 | io1qv7k | 1,662,936,761 | 1,662,934,266 | 28 | 7 | Not Appalachian, but Strangers in their Own Land by Hochschild (2016) is a great book and may scratch some of that itch you have. Plus, it has the added bonus of not being written by a twat like Vance. | The Foxfire series may serve to give you an idea of where some of Appalachian culture/ways of thinking come from. Many old traditions present themselves in surprising ways in modern thinking and situations. If nothing else they're a fun read! I am originally from the area, and I shall answer thee a specific question sh... | 1 | 2,495 | 4 |
4nas5s | asksocialscience_test | 0.93 | How do the Swiss maintain cohesion when they have so many referendums? I ask because I saw how divisive the Scottish secession campaign ended up and I'm starting to see the same with the EU referendum campaign here in the UK at the moment. Do the Swiss go through the same kind of social trauma or do they take a differ... | d42js30 | d42hg1t | 1,465,493,899 | 1,465,490,929 | 22 | 3 | I am a student of political science and swiss. First I tried to find some relevant sources, concerning cohesion and referendums, which failed. People usually don't really link the two. Are the two things comparable? Switzerland votes very often, alone last sunday there were two referendums and three initiatives (ch... | What puzzles me is, how do the Swiss maintain cohesion when they have so many languages?! | 1 | 2,970 | 7.333333 |
4he0d3 | asksocialscience_test | 0.95 | Can someone explain to me what happened to Venezuela's economy? | d2pa4uf | d2pcsra | 1,462,162,721 | 1,462,169,010 | 5 | 275 | Piggybacking on the post to request books related to the subject. | Price controls are near universally frowned upon by economists. It's where the government says, by decree, that something must be traded for "exactly X" (or more than X, or less than X). It somewhat defeats the market process - instead of something getting more expensive as it gets scarcer or increases in demand, it s... | 0 | 6,289 | 55 |
1qteeq | asksocialscience_test | 0.9 | Why aren't the so called "terrorists" of the world using nuclear weapons? I don't want them to, but what is the real reason? | cdgagxo | cdgallk | 1,384,683,009 | 1,384,683,934 | 20 | 363 | The simplest answer, because they don't have them. Nuclear weapons are not easy to develop. Only 8 or 9 countries have had the technical expertise and resources to produce them. None of the stable countries with nuclear arsenals would want a nuclear weapon to be detonated due to the fear of retribution and an all ... | There are three ways for a terrorist group to obtain a nuclear weapon: * By developing them. * By stealing them. * By being gifted them. According to this study (edit: try this if the other link doesnt work), well-organized terrorists should both be capable of developing nuclear weapons and launching them. The reason... | 0 | 925 | 18.15 |
1ntmvp | asksocialscience_test | 0.63 | What is it about Reddit that makes it lean left? Could anyone speculate on a right-leaning website of the same style with similar magnitude/scale? Or does it exist already? | ccm0swr | ccm0igc | 1,381,049,387 | 1,381,047,111 | 13 | 10 | Remember to answer questions based on the social sciences, not personal opinion. | I think this question says at least as much about NotFuzz's personal preconceptions as it does about reddit. It doesn't lean left as far as I'm concerned. Of course it's left of 80% of US politics but then that's not a useful indicator, is it? | 1 | 2,276 | 1.3 |
11fcir | asksocialscience_test | 0.9 | What are some of the most costly externalities in the world? Just curious, I figure antibiotics and the spread of disease and invasive species could be a huge one I don't really hear much about. I'd also like to hear anything about mitigation. | c6lzqoh | c6m442k | 1,350,162,242 | 1,350,182,076 | 5 | 7 | Accurate and unbiased media has huge externalities. These are externalities since it's unclear that being unbiased maximizes the media company's revenue. I think this is huge because this can prevent us from dealing with other problems. | Car travel, especially with congestion. The generalised cost per mile is far far higher than the private costs. Throw both cost curves on a graph and then throw on the demand curve. Say F1 is the equilibrium with the accepted private costs. Draw a vertical line on the graph at F1. F2 is where the demand curve bisects t... | 0 | 19,834 | 1.4 |
3rcnoa | asksocialscience_test | 0.89 | Why are "gay meccas" usually larger cities, while "lesbian meccas" are usually smaller towns? (In the United States, at least.) | cwmywqo | cwmx2c3 | 1,446,566,668 | 1,446,563,820 | 121 | 11 | Here's an Autostraddle article entitled "Where Do the Lesbians Live?". Essentially; * lesbians are more likely to start families, which is easier/cheaper in rural areas * the inevitable gentrification of gay meccas tends to force out lesbians before it ousts gay men because of systematic factors such as the wage gap ... | I'm not an expert, but can anyone tell me if 'islands of acceptance' are an actual phenomenon? My first thought was that areas where social homosexual acceptance is the norm might exist in rural and urban areas. I thought it also might be more easily advertised/remembered/memified (I don't know the word) if it were a s... | 1 | 2,848 | 11 |
vfsj6 | asksocialscience_test | 0.76 | Can someone explain why U.S. gas prices weren't higher in 2008? Given how high crude oil prices rose, it seems like gas prices should have been even higher than they were. Is it just because U.S. reserves were used, or is there more to it? Chart of crude vs. U.S. gas prices: http://www.gasbuddy.com/gb_retail_price_char... | c5478rz | c548kga | 1,340,393,334 | 1,340,398,313 | 2 | 3 | I believe the accepted reason atm is demand. China wants it too, we have to compete for it. | I thought the accepted answer was "because the recession." The drop coincides with the fall of Lehman brothers in Sept 08, which is when the recession really got bad, and thus demand dropped. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%E2%80%932012_global_recession I do not have definitive proof of this in the form of ec... | 0 | 4,979 | 1.5 |
1418op | asksocialscience_test | 0.82 | [Economics] What would be fair, revealing questions that could be asked of advocates of economic policy by a person who knows very little about the field of economics but will be affected by those policies? | c794zxx | c79bo3i | 1,354,289,760 | 1,354,313,393 | 3 | 4 | One important differentiation that often goes overlooked is the difference between a policy (ie. the ideology or set principles that we believe will lead to the desired outcome) and a program (the operational mechanism to put these principles into practice). | I work in regulatory issues. I've worked for governments, businesses, and even done some bits of work for the World Bank. I also just got back from a course on international standards in regulatory analysis. This should get you started on how to tear apart any new regulation or law. I'm referencing my documents and n... | 0 | 23,633 | 1.333333 |
od9qhq | asksocialscience_test | 0.8 | Can local police actually do much to prevent routine crime? Of course, local police can do their best to enforce conventional criminal laws in conventional ways, by responding to calls, patrolling, investigating and arresting suspects. Also, organizations like the FBI can investigate certain forms of organized crime an... | h40jat8 | h3zot4s | 1,625,399,303 | 1,625,372,229 | 9 | 8 | The answer to the question of "Can local police actually do much to prevent routine crime?" depends on what we consider to be "do much." But broadly speaking, yes. The heart of your question concerns a major topic in the academic fields of criminology and policing^(1). I will begin by sharing some facts about criminolo... | Here’s an interesting study that has lots of references that can start you out researching https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3566383 I think an interesting question to ask when measuring things is how do we measure things, and what does that measurement mean. What is prevention/effectiveness? | 1 | 27,074 | 1.125 |
td055 | asksocialscience_test | 0.84 | Why is there a shortage of nurses (at least in the US)? The shortage doesn't just seem to be in nursing, but in nursing education as well. This doesn't make sense to me: in a market, when there's a shortage, we usually see prices rise to reduce demand, which then pulls more people into the industry sending prices back ... | c4lk7ur | c4llozy | 1,336,492,613 | 1,336,499,070 | 4 | 7 | Could it possibly be that Nursing is a difficult career and/or the process of becoming a Nurse is difficult? I've heard stories of the stuff you have to know/remember from Nursing students at my local college and I sure as hell couldn't do it. | I know in my area there is the problem of a lack of people teaching nursing. They have to limit the number of nursing students they accept each year, because they don't have enough teachers to have more students. Then the program is very difficult and not 100% of people graduate after their two years. So there are limi... | 0 | 6,457 | 1.75 |
x7whb | asksocialscience_test | 0.84 | [Economics] Can AskSocialScience recommend lightweight, introductory 'popular science' style books on economics? Hey everyone I've recently become very interested in economics and, rather than pouring over textbooks as an introduction, I'd really like some recommendations for pop-sci style books about economics. I k... | c5k18vg | c5k0agd | 1,343,357,061 | 1,343,353,324 | 6 | 4 | Enthusiasm is great, but please understand that unless you actually read textbooks (and work to understand the maths) you will not be educated in the discipline. | Naked Economics is great, it's what originally got me interested in economics. Freakonomics is good too. After reading them, I recommend a textbook, such as Mankiw's "Principles". | 1 | 3,737 | 1.5 |
ihgrpy | asksocialscience_test | 0.94 | Is this Tumblr post accurate in claiming that if Walmart paid its employees a living wage, the family that owns it would have to take an 2% cut to their yearly profits, meaning they’d make only 294 million a year instead of 300 million a year? https://www.reddit.com/r/tumblr/comments/ihgn6s/if_walmart_paid_its_employee... | g30xpzt | g301kt8 | 1,598,538,858 | 1,598,513,757 | 11 | 2 | > It says it's based on data analysis by researchers and statisticians at the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education, but the link is broken. Without comment on the substance of the issue, from this reference the relevant study appears to date from 2007: "Living Wage Policies and Wal-Mart: How a Higher Wa... | Thanks for your question to /r/AskSocialScience. All posters, please remember that this subreddit requires peer-reviewed, cited sources (Please see Rule 1 and 3). All posts that do not have citations will be removed by AutoMod. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of... | 1 | 25,101 | 5.5 |
181rag | asksocialscience_test | 0.95 | Should AskSocialScience enact rules and moderate in a way closer to AskHistorians and AskScience? I've noticed that the signal/noise ratio in this subreddit has been getting worse for some time. Purely speculative answers dominate, while cited papers or analysis languish at the bottom. In this recent thread for example... | c8av2d8 | c8avl56 | 1,360,219,912 | 1,360,222,894 | 35 | 148 | Well, we already have similar rules to /r/AskHistorians, we just need some changes and fixes. I know it looks like the mods haven't done anything since the last Meta thread but I assure you that we are working in the changes this subreddit needs. Here's what we've been doing (or planning to do): * I'm hiring more mod... | YES. As a panelist on /r/AskHistorians, I say bring the hammer down. Rule with the iron fist encased in velvet. Strong moderation is the only way to ensure quality. | 0 | 2,982 | 4.228571 |
jlcr3x | askvet_test | 0.98 | All pets in the house are itching, but they have no fleas and have all been treated for fleas with collars. We have a 2 year old terrier/hound mix dog, a long haired cat, and three short haired cats all between 3 and 5 years old. They have all had flea treatment and wear sirestro collars with no signs of fleas. For som... | gaomi27 | gaoof7a | 1,604,134,440 | 1,604,136,809 | 7 | 27 | Have you been flea treating the house and car as well as the animals ? | Are they still wearing their flea collars? Is it possible that they react to the treatment? | 0 | 2,369 | 3.857143 |
zq4thh | askvet_test | 0.87 | Is there something I can give my 20 yr old cat that will just make her feel good? I dunno how to better ask the question. Species:black short hair Age:around 20 yrs Sex/Neuter status:female spayed Breed:n/a Body weight:7lbs History:A year ago she showed just the beginning numbers on some of the values for kidney d... | j0wy6sd | j0x0p04 | 1,671,497,886 | 1,671,499,041 | 10 | 27 | You can speak with your vet about sedatives or painkillers for this final phase of her life, if you feel she’s uncomfortable. | It sounds like it’s time to consider her quality of life. Talk to your vet about options, including pain killers, but it may also be time to discuss humane euthanasia. | 0 | 1,155 | 2.7 |
hs1tpo | askvet_test | 0.98 | I'm worried my new puppy may have vision problems Hello! Recently, my family adopted a 8-week-old, male mini American (Australian) shepherd. This is our first dog, but he seems to be behaving rather normally by our standards. Unfortunately, we believe that he may be experiencing some vision problems. He seems to squi... | fy8wl1q | fy8wd2w | 1,594,903,182 | 1,594,903,028 | 10 | 2 | Are both of his parents merles? Have you looked into his pedigree? | Honestly, a vision assessment is best made by a veterinarian during an in-person veterinary exam. In person, an ophthalmoscope can be used by a veterinarian to further examine the eye and may provide valuable insight into your dog's vision and overall health. An ophthalmic exam can be performed by most veterinarians du... | 1 | 154 | 5 |
s91j02 | askvet_test | 0.93 | The vet said my dog is going to die tonight. Just a little back story, I rescued my Male pit bull from animal services 6 years ago when he was approximately 3 years old. He was found on the street positive with heart worms, he was treated after I adopted him and made a full recovery from that. About 5 months ago He d... | htk52k0 | htk8neb | 1,642,740,558 | 1,642,742,436 | 46 | 56 | So it is not buried under the automod comment - OP posted a link to x-ray: https://www.reddit.com/user/Zealousideal\_Tap\_754/comments/s91oyr/xray/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=ios\_app&utm\_name=iossmf | After seeing that x-ray, I can definitely see why your veterinarian was concerned. I would say listen to your veterinarian, as they will know best even though it may not be the answer you want to hear. But if you want a second opinion, you can always try a different vet if there's one available. | 0 | 1,878 | 1.217391 |
das10j | askvet_test | 0.95 | Our 16yo kitty went missing and we found her under our house..two weeks later. We’re devastated. The odor alerted us to rip out the deck in search for closure. I’d like to retrieve her body and hope my vet could still cremate her. Is that something they would even do and how can we prepare her body? | f1w5ycx | f1x2qi8 | 1,569,780,685 | 1,569,792,893 | 29 | 69 | Cremation is definitely still possible. I would recommend wrapping the body in a small towel and placing it in a double plastic bag (trash bags, sadly, are fine). This will help reduce the odor and help maintain hygiene. I am sorry for your loss. | She probably went looking for a quiet place to die. Animals do that, don’t feel like you were at fault here. Sorry for your loss. | 0 | 12,208 | 2.37931 |
4sbfch | askvet_test | 0.96 | I'm thinking about going to school to become a veterinarian but i'm not too sure what i'll be getting myself into. What are the hard truths and things people need to know about becoming a Vet before really considering Vet School? Species: Age: Sex/Neuter status: Breed: Body weight: History: Clinical signs: Durat... | d58310d | d57zh8g | 1,468,257,445 | 1,468,252,732 | 16 | 8 | I always say it is the best job in the world that I would never recommend to anyone who can imagine doing ANYTHING else. The highs are super high and the lows are super low. But you only asked about the lows so ... Financial stress is the most important, IMO. You will be in huge debt with relatively low starting... | Something that's fairly obvious when you think about it but that people don't often consider is that it isn't just about helping animals - the people are the ones who tell you what's going on, and the ones who have to make decisions about what they will or won't do as far as diagnostics or treatment. So for most areas ... | 1 | 4,713 | 2 |
b3dhm4 | askvet_test | 0.95 | Newly adopted dog refuses to leave hiding spot to go potty Sorry, this is a long post! I'm at a loss of how to help our new pup. We adopted Mackenzie 15 weeks ago from a shelter. They think she's about 2.5-3 years old. She had a horrible past, they found her in a sewage drain with a litter of her own puppies when she ... | eiz2w9n | eiyyynn | 1,553,104,562 | 1,553,102,026 | 5 | 4 | Google these both are important and helpful: B.A.T. dog training Dr. Sophia Yin read the articles and you will find this to be literally a Godsend. it was for me. Id give advice but youre better off reading the articles as id just be saying same thing lol | As another commenter said, I'd recommend asking your vet it trying to see if you can get an Animal behaviorist. | 1 | 2,536 | 1.25 |
g49e6k | askvet_test | 0.99 | Helping cats recover from a traumatic event last night. Hello, last night one of my cats got their paw stuck in a helium birthday balloon, panicked and dashed around the house in a complete panic. This happened about 3am in the morning making me almost poop myself from the sound and scaryness. I had to chase him down, ... | fny2dkc | fnwwuiu | 1,587,351,731 | 1,587,327,016 | 12 | 5 | Try wrapping him snuggly in a thick towel; holding him til he’s calm and speaking softly. Walk him around the house. Do this often | Was it yesterday or was it two days ago? | 1 | 24,715 | 2.4 |
sbje7c | askvet_test | 0.93 | What's the lowest maintenance furry and cuddly home pet to get? Hey, I'm a single male who works and spends most of the time at home. What's the lowest maintenance furry and cuddly home pet to get in this case? | hu0ncve | hu0u920 | 1,643,031,972 | 1,643,035,205 | 91 | 139 | Not a vet, but a cat is your best option. They can freely roam your house so no special containers are needed, easily litter trained, food and water and treats, and they're fun to play with. Another thing to consider is the availability of food and vet care. Cats are obviously super common so your nearest pet store o... | Cat. I'd suggest getting an adult cat that's already socialized - there are tons of them at shelters needing a home, and they don't need as much interaction as a new kitten. | 0 | 3,233 | 1.527473 |
t0iqmq | askvet_test | 0.96 | Going to take my beagle for a hospital stay for a brain infection and want to know if I am doing the right thing. Rosie is a 10 year old beagle who has been dealing with chronic otitis since November. The infection has spread to inner ears and gotten into the brain. We’ve had a CT done and at first was recommended TECA... | hyawnfu | hyb1rh0 | 1,645,741,558 | 1,645,743,584 | 8 | 26 | I don't have much background or insight to provide regarding the medical issues your pup is going through but you seem to be doing the best you can for her with the resources you have at this time. Which is definitely not failing! Keep your heads up. You're good people for trying to make sure she gets the best care she... | To start, I'm not a veterinary neurologist and I've never treated a dog with otitis interna that's spread from the middle/inner ear to the brain. However... I'm a veterinary anesthesiologist (10 years) that supervises a veterinary MRI center (4 years), and I have seen a number of dogs that have presented for imaging... | 0 | 2,026 | 3.25 |
yezhs1 | askvet_test | 1 | ET tube size for a polar bear I have no idea how this got this far, but my wife (beautiful as she is) is going down the rabbit hole about what size endotracheal tube you would use to intubate a polar bear after seeing some pictures on fb. This sent me down the rabbit hole after her and we can't find anything. Any hel... | iu1fu1e | iu1zn9q | 1,666,904,523 | 1,666,913,224 | 117 | 130 | According to 'Zoo Animal and Wildlife Immobilization and Anesthesia' (2nd edition): "We typically carry size 8–14 tubes (internal diameter in millimeters) for black bears and 8–18 tubes for brown bears". Here is a report describing endodontic therapy of a canine tooth in a polar bear. They used a 16 mm tube. | THESE are the type of questions we should be receiving in this subreddit!!! Everything else gets the "Please go to your nearest veterinarian" answer. | 0 | 8,701 | 1.111111 |
mn31ms | askvet_test | 0.99 | My dog is decaying in front of my eyes Link to pics https://photos.app.goo.gl/kZsbnzjkkhCykgHW6 What the hell is happening to my dog? I've been taking him to the vet for months now. 6 1/2 year old border collie mix. We live in southern Wisconsin. He has two perfectly healthy doggie siblings. He started last October ... | gtv857m | gtv8q65 | 1,617,922,194 | 1,617,922,478 | 34 | 136 | Take him to a specialty vet. | It may be time for a consult with a dermatology specialist or an internal medicine specialist. Has your vet tried any immunosuppressive therapy like steroids? | 0 | 284 | 4 |
grwxf9 | askvet_test | 0.98 | Is pet insurance/wellness plans worth it for an adult dog with a lot of health problems? My dog Coconut is a 6 year old spayed Maltese mix. We got her from the animal shelter when she was 1 and she’s had... a lot of health issues since then. She had recurrent ear infections, skin problems, knee problems(with her hind l... | fs1qcuj | fs1soi2 | 1,590,633,416 | 1,590,634,818 | 10 | 22 | I have pet insurance for my dog who is prone to health issues. If you're pet already has issues, they'll be considered preexisting and won't be covered. But because my dog is high maintenance, she's had other health issues and the insurance has helped a lot! | Let me rephrase my comment. Maybe check out Banfield’s wellness plan. I BELIEVE you can do any of the plans even with “pre existing” conditions. | 0 | 1,402 | 2.2 |
396dh6 | askvet_test | 0.93 | Found a kitten covered in oil a few days ago. She is staying on my porch and keeps having seizures. She is probably 6-8 weeks old. I found her crying and converted in oil. Took her home gave her a bath with dawn to remove the oil. She was grateful. She has worms and fleas so I have been giving her wet food mixed with f... | cs0qiho | cs0tute | 1,433,868,090 | 1,433,873,046 | 11 | 14 | The kitten needs veterinary care. Can you put up an online donation thing to make $100 for the shelter? I know I'd contribute. | One approach may be to tell shelters that you are willing to foster the kitten. A lot of shelters won't take in any animals if they don't have room, but may help you take care of the kitten's vet costs and find her a new home when she's better if you can keep her at your house until she's adopted. Either way she absolu... | 0 | 4,956 | 1.272727 |
x5mwph | askvet_test | 1 | Why does my dog still have fleas after taking Simparica Trio less than 3 weeks ago? Dog, 4 months, neutered, mix, about 25 pounds, fleas seen I brought a dog home a couple of weeks ago. He took Simparica Trio on the 16th. A few nights ago I noticed a flea on me. One flea, not a huge deal. But last night I saw at least... | in35a5g | in22vh7 | 1,662,316,702 | 1,662,301,435 | 15 | 6 | Treating fleas is more complicated than giving a preventative. You’re going to need to give preventative, bathe your dog, and get the environment your dog is in treated for fleas. A flea preventative isn’t going to do much good if your dog is in a flea-infested yard every single day. Get your yard treated for fleas, gi... | Not a vet. Might need to bomb your home. DIY pest control places should have some good recommendations for ya. Stay away from large chain retail stores, those products are bunk. | 1 | 15,267 | 2.5 |
c6yxw2 | askvet_test | 0.97 | FDA Investigation into Potential Link between Certain Diets and Canine Dilated Cardiomyopathy Someone sent me this study and it has me a little worried. I’ve fed my golden retriever Taste of the Wild dog food for three years. Vets: how legitimate does this sound to you? It sounds really scary to me but I’m sure studi... | esc6h6p | esckf94 | 1,561,822,165 | 1,561,831,670 | 4 | 9 | I don’t think I fully understand why “grain free” is the problem. The article didn’t do a great job at explaining WHY this is a problem. Can someone explain why using sources like potatoes/lentils etc is concerning? I saw that the article mentioned taurine, but that’s an amino acid so the protein source in food shoul... | Not a vet... I talked to a vet tech before I got my golden puppy and she told me about this issue. She highly recommended Purina pro plan or Royal Canin. We’ve been feeding our 7 month old golden the royal canin puppy since we brought her home. | 0 | 9,505 | 2.25 |
lmdq9l | askvet_test | 0.93 | I'm so tired of feeling like I'm fighting the whole veterinary system just to save my cat. I don't know if this is acceptable here or not.... But I'm literally being broken by the veterinary system here in San Diego, it's sapping all my will. I'm emotionally exhausted trying to save my 2 year old Maine Coon. I had to... | gnv8hct | gnv3kf2 | 1,613,637,976 | 1,613,633,545 | 69 | 57 | I'm sorry you and your pet are having such a hard time. I hope my thoughts come across as kind, because i don't want you to be more stressed than what you already are. If I read your post correctly he has been treated for the most serious issue, the intussusception, by the ER clinic? That's great! Generally after disch... | It's easy to blame "the system". But what is "the system"? Lack of veterinarians? Lack of techs? Lack of ultrasound specialists? Most techs leave to go into human medicine because they cannot survive off the wage and are burnt out by the clients abuse. Not a lot of people can afford vet school, or are in huge debt afte... | 1 | 4,431 | 1.210526 |
a9ixth | askvet_test | 0.97 | Vets...what are the most popular breeds you see on a day to day basis? What rare breeds you dont see as often? Is there any particular breed that has a certain stereotype of owner? Just something I’m curious on | ecjvjwz | eck1iuw | 1,545,781,513 | 1,545,785,811 | 67 | 103 | Not a vet but a vet tech whose been in the business for almost 4 years now. The most popular breeds I see are probably labs, australian shepards, and mutts that are a mix of many different breeds. I live in the DC suburbs and there tends to be more mutts in this area though, so that might be why. It’s hard to say which... | Vet tech - Mostly we see lab mixes and pit mixes. I’ve seen so many breeds over my career, breeds are sometimes very “trendy.” Frenchies are popular now, we’ve seen a lot of huskies the pst few years too. We are located near a Petland (puppy mill pet store). We see a lot of very sick “purebred” puppies. I can spot ... | 0 | 4,298 | 1.537313 |
gqw5li | askvet_test | 0.98 | Starting my first day as a vet assistant So today will be my first day being a vet assistant and I’m a little overwhelmed at how much there is to do. I’m a slower learner and I don’t want to seem as if I’m taking too long to learn the routine. I’m just starting training today. Is there any advice anybody could give me? | frvb2qw | frvdzew | 1,590,500,366 | 1,590,502,035 | 20 | 38 | No one expects you to get everything perfect. Of course you will have a training period, but the real training extends beyond that. You will be learning the necessities of your job for at least six months or more. Be open and honest with the other staff and your doctor(s) if you don't know how to do something or if you... | Have a notebook, use it for what you need to do, writing how to do things, cool cases etc. Have spare pens (vets are always stealing them off nurses over here :p ) make sure you take breaks and eat/ drink. Asking how you can help is not going to cause problems unless you're doing it constantly. Other general workplace ... | 0 | 1,669 | 1.9 |
vfwmgj | askvet_test | 0.94 | My dog accidentally ate an entire pizza. Can someone please let me know if he will be okay and any potential warning signs to watch out for? Okay, so yesterday evening my dog, Hudson, got into an unopened box of pizza. My son was in the same room and supposed to make sure Hud didn’t get into it, but apparently got preo... | icylpwb | icyocjw | 1,655,657,321 | 1,655,658,545 | 82 | 171 | Same pup same. Totally an accident. Your boy will probably have some GI upset. | Dogs are not supposed to eat chocolate because of the cocoa, not the milk products. | 0 | 1,224 | 2.085366 |
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