What other families of viruses have potential to cause pandemics other than influenza and coronavirus? |
- What other families of viruses have potential to cause pandemics other than influenza and coronavirus?
- AskScience AMA Series: Happy Earth Day! We are writers Elizabeth Kolbert and Emma Marris. We wrote for National Geographic about what we think the Earth will look like in 2070. Emma feels pretty optimistic about it. Elizabeth is not. Ask us anything!
- Ask Anything Wednesday - Economics, Political Science, Linguistics, Anthropology
- Do animals (other than humans) "save the best for last" when they eat, and is there an evolutionary reason some section of humanity has that urge, like developing delayed gratification?
- Why is important to put people with COVID-19 in hospitals if there is no treatment?
- How do difficult-to-get-into fruits that have seeds on the inside, such as watermelons, spread their seeds in the wild?
- Can gravitational lensing be observed at the scale of super clusters?
- Was electroshock therapy ever actually proven to do anything “positive”?
- How do conditional assembly instructions work?
- Regarding relativity: If you sped away from a clock near the speed of light (for an hour), that clock appears to freeze in time, then imagine you somehow turn around and now travel at the same speed back to the clock, would that clock appear to speed up as you approach it?
- Is virus a microbe? Does microbiology constitute study of viruses?
- Why do pimples come out after a hot bath/shower?
- Are the errors in antibody tests systematic or random?
- What color would the sky have been during the Carboniferous period?
- What is an oil well really like?
- What are some good free to use climate model programs I can use?
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| Posted: 22 Apr 2020 04:00 AM PDT Hi, I'm Emma Marris, an environmental writer from Oregon. I cover wildlife, biodiversity, climate change, agriculture, and other environmental topics. In this month's National Geographic magazine, I wrote about what a best-case 2070 might look like for the environment. If we start taking climate change and biodiversity loss seriously and tackling them with everything we've got, the future could in many ways be greener, fairer, and more pleasant than the present. But not everything will stay the same. And hi! I'm Elizabeth Kolbert. I'm a staff writer at The New Yorker and a contributor to National Geographic. I'm also the author of The Sixth Extinction. For the April issue of National Geographic, I wrote about the 50th anniversary of Earth Day and why I'm worried about what the planet will look like 50 years from now. We're looking forward to your questions. See you at 1pm ET (17 UT), ask us anything! Username: nationalgeographic [link] [comments]  |
| Ask Anything Wednesday - Economics, Political Science, Linguistics, Anthropology Posted: 22 Apr 2020 08:09 AM PDT Welcome to our weekly feature, Ask Anything Wednesday - this week we are focusing on Economics, Political Science, Linguistics, Anthropology Do you have a question within these topics you weren't sure was worth submitting? Is something a bit too speculative for a typical /r/AskScience post? No question is too big or small for AAW. In this thread you can ask any science-related question! Things like: "What would happen if...", "How will the future...", "If all the rules for 'X' were different...", "Why does my...". Asking Questions: Please post your question as a top-level response to this, and our team of panellists will be here to answer and discuss your questions. The other topic areas will appear in future Ask Anything Wednesdays, so if you have other questions not covered by this weeks theme please either hold on to it until those topics come around, or go and post over in our sister subreddit /r/AskScienceDiscussion , where every day is Ask Anything Wednesday! Off-theme questions in this post will be removed to try and keep the thread a manageable size for both our readers and panellists. Answering Questions: Please only answer a posted question if you are an expert in the field. The full guidelines for posting responses in AskScience can be found here. In short, this is a moderated subreddit, and responses which do not meet our quality guidelines will be removed. Remember, peer reviewed sources are always appreciated, and anecdotes are absolutely not appropriate. In general if your answer begins with 'I think', or 'I've heard', then it's not suitable for /r/AskScience. If you would like to become a member of the AskScience panel, please refer to the information provided here. Past AskAnythingWednesday posts can be found here. Ask away! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 21 Apr 2020 10:52 PM PDT Or is it something about preserving in the time of scarcity? Why do some people save the biggest, best potato chip to eat last? [link] [comments]  |
| Why is important to put people with COVID-19 in hospitals if there is no treatment? Posted: 22 Apr 2020 03:38 AM PDT What does a hospital do that increases survival chances over staying at home? Is the access to ventilators the sole reason? [link] [comments]  |
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| Can gravitational lensing be observed at the scale of super clusters? Posted: 22 Apr 2020 03:31 AM PDT I just learnt about the existence of the Shapley Supercluster and the Dipole repeller and it got me thinking about gravitational lensing, specifically at what scales they can occur and be observed. Could an entire super cluster of galaxies produce a gravitational lensing effect? [link] [comments]  |
| Was electroshock therapy ever actually proven to do anything “positive”? Posted: 21 Apr 2020 07:08 PM PDT Was there every any scientific background as to why it was such a prominent method of 'treating' the mentally ill? [link] [comments]  |
| How do conditional assembly instructions work? Posted: 22 Apr 2020 04:14 AM PDT This assembly instruction means "Jump to line 10 of the assembly program if the isZero bit in the status register is set to 1. How is this implemented in a microinstructional architecture? How does the computer make the decision? I'd really appreciate an answer that doesn't use the word "if"; I understand high-level programming and assembly, I want to know how its implemented at the microinstruction level. Something like "This microinstruction is performed on the value of the isZero bit, and the result, which is different depending on whether its 0 or 1, is used here. " My question would also be answered by explaining how the computer knows when to set the isZero flag in the first place; obviously there's some decision making there at a very low level. Thank you. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 22 Apr 2020 02:33 AM PDT I have been reading a bit about Relativity, I am not so familiar with physics, and I am trying to understand the idea that someone travelling near the speed of light will experience time dilation and experience much less time than a person not moving so fast? It seems to me that just like time slows down when you are travelling away from something, it should speed up when travelling towards something. [link] [comments]  |
| Is virus a microbe? Does microbiology constitute study of viruses? Posted: 21 Apr 2020 11:49 PM PDT Wikipedia defines viruses as "submicroscopic infectious agents" but google tells me that they are classified as microbes as well. i am not a science student, so i am wondering if it is going to look foolish if i write about the virus as microbe [microbes are often discussed in anthropology]. Is there any kind of consensus on this? I read this article by Claverie and Abergel where they try to rework the definitions- is it a reputed approach? Clarifications of all kinds are welcome!! [link] [comments]  |
| Why do pimples come out after a hot bath/shower? Posted: 21 Apr 2020 06:56 PM PDT |
| Are the errors in antibody tests systematic or random? Posted: 21 Apr 2020 10:06 PM PDT There's a great deal of interest in antibody testing for COVID19. The sensitivity and specificity can make a big difference especially at low prevalence. I imagine it's some degree of both, but are the false negatives/false positives produced by this type of test systematic or random? If the same person takes the same test twice, can a repeat result be trusted more than a single result? [link] [comments]  |
| What color would the sky have been during the Carboniferous period? Posted: 21 Apr 2020 01:51 AM PDT I was watching Ancient Earth, and during their episode on Carboniferous giant insects there was a throwaway line that mentioned the sky would look sepia due to the high oxygen levels (32% vs. the 21% of today). Is this true? If not, what color would the sky have been? [link] [comments]  |
| What is an oil well really like? Posted: 21 Apr 2020 03:39 AM PDT Specifically is a large oil well really a massive underground void filled with oil as is sometimes depicted? Or is it a lot of rock and oil mixed together? [link] [comments]  |
| What are some good free to use climate model programs I can use? Posted: 21 Apr 2020 11:45 AM PDT |
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