I found this on their website: https://www.us.mensa.org/shop/benefits-and-services/

Sigma balls 🫳🗯️

I’ve seen both. Making science accessible is always a good thing. He also has moments where he’ll aggressively debate someone over the Amazon river basin or ancient civilizations when it’s apparent he’s out of his element.

In fairness, he actually knows a lot about astrophysics. The problem is that he likes to pontificate on all things science as if he’s degreed in every field.

Nice! I’ll check it out!

Legitimate question here. What’s stopping researchers from creating their own federated publishing system for academic journals?

It’s for this reason I am certain that the most intelligent people are not members of Mensa.

Let it be someone else’s carpet. Or in this case, driveway.

https://youtu.be/Ce_uT1TXYr0

Skip to 3:10 for the action.

They’re referring to the relationship between surface area and combustion. Talc, for example, melts but does not burn. Talc powder can ignite if blown over an open flame.

They know to ascend slowly to avoid it, but it can absolutely happen.

https://www.whoi.edu/press-room/news-release/how-do-marine-mammals-avoid-getting-the-bends/

Mostly as a show of strength and territorial control. Nothing unexpected. It’s not as nuanced as their pheromone communication.

We’ll have more accurate clones of more recently extinct species. DNA just doesn’t last that long.

The precogs were FMM. They were named after famous crime fiction authors, Agatha (Christie), Dash (Dashiell Hammett), and Arthur (Conan Doyle).

Like a tube of toothpaste

Lobsters have olfactory sensory neurons, located in the aesthetasc sensilla on their antennules, which allow them to detect the pheromones in the urine of other lobsters.

A dominant male lobster will pee to signal his dominance and deter other males from his territory. Females may also pee to signal their readiness for mating, and the urine of a dominant male can attract females.

Lobsters also communicate through touch and by using their claws, but no one really gives a fuck after reading about the pee thing.

Lobsters have urine nozzles under their eyes, and pee in each other’s faces to communicate.

I had to look it up out of curiosity. The rib cage and lungs of sperm whales are adapted to collapse under pressure, squeezing all the air in the lungs into a small space and increasing internal cavity pressure.

https://manoa.hawaii.edu/exploringourfluidearth/physical/ocean-depths/pressure/compare-contrast-connect-deep-divers

It’s more of a philosophical god than a being with consciousness. He said that god is “the sum of the natural and physical laws of the universe and certainly not an individual entity or creator.” Simplified, everything in existence is god, but individual things are not god on their own. That point is an important distinction between Spinoza’s god and animism.

Perceiving god as more of the framework of existence itself is a very compelling way for me to appreciate the connection of all things, without accepting a bearded man in the sky or encroaching on my scientific understanding.

Spinoza’s god fascinates me enough to be agnostic rather than an atheist with conviction.

Awareness. Engagement. Unity. Support. Connection.