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Do other monogamous animals ever "fall out of love" and separate like humans do?

Do other monogamous animals ever "fall out of love" and separate like humans do?

Do other monogamous animals ever "fall out of love" and separate like humans do?

Posted: 12 Aug 2021 06:02 PM PDT

I've looked everywhere and I can't find an answer. Can the shamwow absorb mercury?

Posted: 13 Aug 2021 03:19 AM PDT

AskScience AMA Series: I'm Dr. Rebecca Schwarzlose, a neuroscientist who studies brain organization and development, here to discuss the maps in your brain that give you perception, movement, meaning, and mental imagery - and make it possible for new technologies to decode your thoughts. AMA!

Posted: 13 Aug 2021 04:00 AM PDT

Hi Reddit! I'm Rebecca Schwarzlose, a cognitive neuroscientist here to talk with you about brain maps and how our little brains create the spectacular range of senses and abilities we enjoy. Did you know that when you imagine a face, you are using the same brain maps that allow you to see and visually recognize faces? Did you know that imagining being touched activates the same brain maps that allow you to feel actual touch? Did you know technologies already exist to eavesdrop on activity in these maps and decode information about what you are perceiving, planning, or imagining?

Here's some info about me: I have a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from MIT and study the developing brain as a postdoctoral scholar in the psychiatry department at Washington University in St. Louis. Together with colleagues Nancy Kanwisher and Chris Baker, I discovered and named a new brain area: the fusiform body area. I have been the chief editor of Trends in Cognitive Sciences, a scholarly reviews journal. I have also written a book about brain maps for the public called Brainscapes: The Warped, Wondrous Maps Written in Your Brain - And How They Guide You (Mariner Books, 2021). The book was supported by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Program for Public Understanding of Science and Technology.

You can find out more about the book from The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, the Avid Reader Podcast, the Smart People Podcast, and my author site. For more brain facts, check out my personal blog Garden of the Mind, my blog Brainscapes on Psychology Today, my Book Bite, or find me on Twitter @gothemind.

I am excited for your brain questions! See you at 2 PM ET (18 UTC), ask me anything!

Username: /u/Gardenofmind

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Will a organ that was donated from a younger person to an older person help minimize the aging process? Also, will the organ age faster due to the already aged organs around it?

Posted: 13 Aug 2021 08:09 AM PDT

Will Strontium bone dating be a viable option for archaeologists in the future who study people after the industrial revolution?

Posted: 13 Aug 2021 08:24 AM PDT

Watching a documentary on Stonehenge, they dated someone's bones with Strontium-90. The main thing as a requirement being that the food the person ate, grown in that area, was the main help dating. As the industrial revolution started, and especially in modern times, food people eat regularly comes from thousands of miles away. Will this affect how useful strontium dating is?

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Do sloths think slower, too?

Posted: 12 Aug 2021 12:58 PM PDT

Obviously, sloths move quite slow compared to most other animals. I've heard that some of a sloth's bodily systems also work slower. Specifically, I've heard several times that a sloth can starve to death with food in its stomach because its digestive process is so slow, it can't get the nutrients, etc. out before it dies.

But do sloths' cognitive processes move slower, too? I just watched a gif of a sloth interacting with a dog, and the sloth seemed to be trying to get a good look at it. Does it take longer for the sloth to process the information it is taking in?

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What would the sounds that are shadowed in the IPA chart sound like?

Posted: 12 Aug 2021 04:48 PM PDT

I understand that we as humans are incapable of creating such noises through our mouths but what about from a computer simulation, would that be possible and if so, what would it sound like?

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In barren parts of the ocean, would adding a “jungle gym” like network of beams help introduce life in that area?

Posted: 12 Aug 2021 07:47 PM PDT

Imagine a bunch of boxes interlocked together made of beams (I'm going to say metal beams but there's other options for the material) that sat on the ocean floor. The beam box could be however wide and tall, and maybe if some substrate was added, coral could grow like in coral farms or whatever the coral reintroduction thing is. Would this structure ultimately grow coral or lots of algae and kelp of sorts, and bring life in that area? And is bringing life to barren areas of the ocean floor even beneficial? Thanks and sorry for rambling.

Edit: what about a big boat unloading boulders? I'm so curious what the barren flat sea floor would look like if it was lined with boulders. Just algae, or would there be fish everywhere?

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How long does it take a COVID-infected cell to release new virons into the host body?

Posted: 12 Aug 2021 07:43 PM PDT

Hello, I'm having trouble finding information regarding COVID's activity within a single human host. Here are my questions:

1.) How long does it usually take a COVID-infected cell to release new COVID virons into the host's body?

2.) How many individual COVID virons are usually released from a single infected cell?

3.) What percentage of infected cells reach the stage of releasing new virons (i.e. not killed by apoptosis)?

4.) What percentage of the new virons end up infecting new host cells?

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Why would Ptolemy have to assume that moon follows a path that sometimes brings it twice as close to earth to predict the positions correctly?

Posted: 12 Aug 2021 09:17 AM PDT

From the book "The Theory of Everything" by Stephen Hawking:

Ptolemy's model provided a reasonably accurate system for predicting the positions of heavenly bodies in the sky. But in order to predict these positions correctly, Ptolemy had to make an assumption that the moon followed a path that sometimes brought it twice as close to the Earth as at other times. And that meant that the moon had sometimes to appear twice as big as it usually does.

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Should current rapid COVID tests be accurate for delta variant?

Posted: 12 Aug 2021 10:27 AM PDT

How do quantum logic gates actually work?

Posted: 12 Aug 2021 02:01 AM PDT

Like how do you actually physically alter the phase and magnitude of a superposition? I know it is done using matrix multiplication but how the fuck do you multiply a photon??

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How far back do modern human brains go?

Posted: 12 Aug 2021 12:01 AM PDT

So, say you had a time machine and your plan was to go back and kidnap a newborn homo sapien and then bring that child to the present and raise it like any other human today. How far back could you go and still have the basic biological brain capabilities of any modern day person? Like the ability to learn complex languages, master basic educational concepts and successfully study advanced topics.

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