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TTX is stated to be heat-stable, and thus cooking does not render it safe, but I'm having trouble finding a specific citation which indicates to what temperature range it is stable. Of course,...
05 May 2019 771 5 View
I'm not talking about paradigm shifts like quantum computing, but rather just a new CPU architecture that isn't based on the x86 or other existing systems, or at least not one of the commonly used...
04 April 2019 1,048 9 View
It seems to me that a lot of time writing a paper is wasted on formatting the paper to a specific journal’s format. LaTeX and BibTeX allow an author to easily change the format the paper and...
01 January 1970 4,263 2 View
I've been thinking about RG's advertising and wondering what kind of ads could be run that wouldn't be too intrusive or in violation of RG's core ideals of promoting research. One option that I...
01 January 1970 5,657 0 View
Anthropology is the study of humans. But a lot of what anthropology studies would apply to anything that we would reasonably considered “people.” I think the study of people, which would include...
01 January 1970 3,726 11 View
Especially in discussions, I've had a tendency to use the recommendation system as a "like" button. However, I wonder if this is a good idea or if we should limit its use to cases where a comment...
01 January 1970 3,353 4 View
The most usual way in which we measure educational attainment/knowledge is by seeing what degree(s) a person has. However, it seems that a number of people are in a similar situation to myself. I...
01 January 1970 7,092 7 View
I think the questions are fairly straightforward, so I won't add too much, but a social network is only useful if a lot of people use it, and while there's certainly activity on RG, it seems to be...
01 January 1970 5,632 5 View
Preprints are a great way to communicate findings, and more and more are becoming an alternative to "traditional" peer review. However, so many people will only listen to the results of a paper,...
01 January 1970 7,528 15 View
One of my potential research areas, when I was working on my M.S. in Computer Science, was data sonification. There’s so much information on data visualization, and it is a tool that is used in so...
01 January 1970 1,067 7 View
I know that RG scores don't really mean much, and that we have no idea how they're really formulated, and that they can change at a drop of a dime. But I have to admit that I'm happy to see an...
01 January 1970 1,735 0 View
I tend to consider mathematics the body of axioms, definitions, systems of logic, and their results. If you're not adding to this body, you're not doing mathematics. Arithmetic, calculating,...
01 January 1970 4,582 11 View
I am working on updating my draft paper on a general concept of means. Theory of Means One of the core failures of the drafts to date has been a lack of examples. There are plenty of examples...
01 January 1970 7,258 2 View
Rejection of organs and other tissue is common. It's hard to find a good match, and usually people who receive tissue donations have to take immune suppressants. And yet, there seem to be a lot...
01 January 1970 4,524 3 View
I've been working on developing an overarching theory of "eidoi" which are a generalization of gender, race, and other cultural phenomenon. The goal of the initial paper was not to create a...
01 January 1970 4,886 0 View
I might write a full paper on the topic, but for now, I just want to consider the idea. Journals do not pay researchers for their work. Instead, they get the work for free, and often charge for...
01 January 1970 717 25 View
A common assertion against religion is that it is delusion, but in order to protect themselves from seeming too bigoted, a lot of people who make this assertion about religion also demand that a...
01 January 1970 2,024 80 View
Recent outbreaks of diseases, including measles, have been blamed largely on changes in vaccine coverage due to the antivax movement. In many ways, this claim seems reasonable. But "seems...
01 January 1970 7,013 3 View
Climate change is a hotly debated topic, and there is a lot of political fervor that finds its way into discussions about the topic. A discussion of climate change science, with someone who...
01 January 1970 1,918 5 View
One of the arguments against using HHS region level, or state level data, is that the pockets of unvaccinated individuals are very small and compact. If that's the case, and we have pockets of...
01 January 1970 5,097 8 View
A growing body of research has indicated that plants interact with their environment and with each other in far more sophisticated ways than a lot of botanists originally believed. Plants have a...
01 January 1970 9,055 4 View
I think most businesses have changed their menus around, relocated products in the store, and in other ways changed aspects of the experience, specifically to see how customers would respond so...
01 January 1970 9,179 6 View
It is often said that humans have a responsibility to protect the environment. In many ways, I agree, but I cannot provide a rational argument as to why this is the case. I have a vague idea, but...
01 January 1970 8,874 7 View
If part of the point of submitting preprints to ResearchGate, OSF, and other sites, is to get feedback, we probably shouldn't be limiting ourselves to posting the final manuscript, but also...
01 January 1970 9,749 0 View
To self-identify as a polymath would be an utter nonsense disproving the claim. This claim was made in a discussion on RG. According to the OED, a polymath is "a person of wide knowledge or...
01 January 1970 666 3 View
It may seem bizarre to consider a reality that can only be modeled using theories constructed in paraconsisent logic. But are there reasons to believe that this is the case? Well, we haven't found...
01 January 1970 1,894 16 View
I consider all journals to be predatory, to an extent: https://www.researchgate.net/post/Are_all_journals_predatory_and_can_we_make_it_so_that_we_benefit_from_our_own_work That being said, there...
01 January 1970 7,563 3 View
I came across a rather non-scholarly question on RG, about the existence of destiny. A lot of great philosophical discussions could be had about destiny, and I think RG is a fine place to have...
01 January 1970 3,191 10 View
I have noticed in my various studies that there are cases where theories from one body of discipline do not align to the theories of another. I saw this a lot while expanding my research on the...
01 January 1970 2,963 10 View
I've been thinking about this topic for a while. I admit that I still need to do more work to fully understand the full implications of the problem, but On the Brittleness of Bayesian Inference...
01 January 1970 2,996 31 View
