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Organic chemistry is the least or one of the least math-intensive chemistry subjects at the undergraduate level.
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I had not heard of gofundme prior to this. I think this is because the places where I would naturally see news about such crowdfunding sites are heavily biased towards the kinds of projects that Kickstarter specializes in, namely games. As
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Hello, could you please describe what being a staff scientist is about? It seems that you are someone who does research at a university but is not a professor. Do you work under a professor?
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Is Zhongguo University the official English name of that university? If so, then no. The only actual university I can find with that sort of name is Zhonghuarenmin university, which has the official English name of Renmin University of Chin
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I speak enough Japanese to know this, but I still disagree. These organizations have an official and well known English name, and these English articles were written for English speakers, not Japanese speakers. It would be like calling Chin
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12y ago
This is different, as Nihon University and All Nippon Airways already have official English names.
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>If you create a dynamic work environment with a constant influx of interesting problems to deal with, you lose the 8-by-5 solid employees with families you make up the framework of lots of successful companies. I have no experience with
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Well, I just learned this from your post, and I am Canadian.
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Even if number 2 happens often, the embargo would still be effective in that North Korea would have to spend more for the embargoed goods. Adding complexity to a transaction is not a small thing.
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"Academic and government positions require you to work in a bureaucratic setting, maybe for the rest of your life. In industry, you can be a lone wolf if you want. In this sense, there is greater freedom in industry." Can someone
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Thank you very much for linking this article.
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What field are you working in? I am a prospective physics graduate student, and I want to do physics research as a career. However, I am uninterested in going into academia after attaining my PhD, and I am also financially independent due t
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> Microsoft word on a macbook, and your penultimate version of a file is not backed up. From that sentence, I interpreted it as the latest version of the thesis was not backed up, and that she may have lost several days' work.
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I have not read the Culture series. What about the AI in the Orions Arm universe project? http://www.orionsarm.com/
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It seems that the same thing is happening to Youtube. There is now a 'settings' button in the bottom right of the player that I need to click first before changing the player size, video quality, or the annotations. I do not under
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13y ago
Thank you for the reply. Do you mind if I ask some more questions? Suppose that I am financially independent and do not care about being paid, then would that open up more paths for me?
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Thank you for the reply. So the only, or at least best, way of doing science research is to be an academic, or work at a national laboratory (does that count as academia?)? Thus, the statement "only reason to do a PhD is to be an acade
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Suppose that I want to do basic research in, say, physics. How would I do so without a PhD?
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Here is the link to the paper: http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2013/130830/ncomms3402/full/nco...
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Could you please expand on this, or suggest some links so that I can learn more about how high profile research labs work.
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There are women in the video, although not as many as there are men. For example, you can see two women at the 35 second mark at the right side of the screen, and another near the left side of the screen at the 1:35 mark. There are more, bu
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League of Legends has about an order of magnitude greater number of players. However, Dota 2 has until recently been in open beta, and League of Legends came out years earlier. Although the beta keys are essentially obtainable for anyone, t
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Feyman was too young for the really fundamental work on quantum mechanics. He won his Nobel prize for his work on quantum electrodynamics. However, he created the path-integral formulation of quantum mechanics, which can be thought of as an
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A while ago, r/askscience was briefly listed as a default subreddit, until the moderators (and probably users) asked for the subreddit to be delisted.
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The article states that the ring is to be worn on the pinky of the dominant hand.
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He is saying that only Google can do both number 1 and number 2.
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I agree. Although it has been some years since I have seen the movie, I believe that near the end of the movie, the King of Qin finally understood the meaning behind the "sword" character.
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http://www.orionsarm.com/ world building project. Neal Stephenson's "The Diamond Age" features technology that I would personally like to achieve some time in my life time.
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True. However, the spacecraft would still be radiating heat for quite a while, as I suspect the primary method of heat dissipation would be radiation. I suppose the spacecraft could carry some form of coolant, and eject it once the engines
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However, as the "analysis" section of the wikipedia article mentions, ever since the invention of ICBMs and other more accurate and faster methods of delivering nuclear bombs, the trend has been towards carpeting the target area with smalle
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