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Monday, May 30, 2022

How do strawberries get infected with hep A?

How do strawberries get infected with hep A?


How do strawberries get infected with hep A?

Posted: 30 May 2022 02:45 PM PDT

Title. Is it something to do with the fertilizer like ecoli? Or is Hep A something that survives in the soil?

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Are Caves with lava rivers/pools (like in minecraft) realistic?

Posted: 30 May 2022 08:35 AM PDT

Also could you survive in the same cave as a lava river?

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When a antigen-presenting cell activates a Th-cell, does the Th-cell take the antigen? Or does the antigen-presenting cell keep it?

Posted: 30 May 2022 01:27 PM PDT

Just really really curious what people know about this detail. I've seen 1 video where the MHC II gives the antigen to the TCR, but I cannot find a verification anywhere on the internet. Thought I'd give it a shot in here, maybe there are some experts? :D

Title of the video: 'The Adaptive Immune System' By 'Vaccine Makers Project'. It happens at 30 seconds.

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Were any viruses or diseases eradicated during the pandemic due to global lockdowns?

Posted: 29 May 2022 03:30 PM PDT

If so, which ones?

If not, how did they manage to survive nearly a year of lockdowns? How did they adapt?

Edit: spelling

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Can a person’s aching joints actually predict a storm?

Posted: 29 May 2022 05:16 PM PDT

Why is an AC wire a composite wire of many tiny wires wound together (stranded wire) but a DC wire is a single thick wire (solid wire)?

Posted: 29 May 2022 11:56 PM PDT

Does alpha decay result in a higher average binding energy per nucleon? If not, how does it make the nucleus more stable?

Posted: 30 May 2022 05:46 AM PDT

why is LDR ohmic under constant intensity but non ohmic with changing intensity?

Posted: 30 May 2022 02:43 PM PDT

why is LDR ohmic under constant intensity but non ohmic with changing intensity?

what does it mean to be of constant intensity? I know that intensity is power/area. so as the power goes up, the area goes up as well. but what does this mean in real life example?

what does it mean to have changing light intensity? i understand it would probably mean higher power over smaller area. but what does this mean in real life example?

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What will you find in a typical cubic meter volume in space (lets say between earth and moon)?

Posted: 29 May 2022 04:40 AM PDT

Is it absolutely nothing? Or are there any traces of gases or whatsoever? Thank you!

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What makes fruit ripen when not on a plant?

Posted: 29 May 2022 11:27 PM PDT

How does Paxlovid affect immune response to COVID-19?

Posted: 30 May 2022 06:14 PM PDT

I've been reading quite a bit about Paxlovid "rebound," when people test negative at the end of their course of Paxlovid and then test positive again a couple days later. I've read several variations on this sentiment:

"This is being closely investigated and we should have more guidance soon," says Dr. Roberts. "The hypothesis is that the immune system didn't have a chance to see the full extent of the virus, since Paxlovid suppressed replication early in disease," he says.

and from Monica Gandhi here:

Rebound seems to be more common if given too early after symptoms because maybe need to see virus a bit to stimulate your adaptive immune response towards it & if given to low-risk patients; agree with my fellow ID doctors here on giving for those at risk

So, what could that mean for the immune response? What exactly does it mean for the immune system to "see the full extent of the virus"? How might it affect antibody production, B cell activation, etc? Will people who take Paxlovid still acquire some amount of immunity after infection?

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Why don't blood sucking parasites die by our immune system?

Posted: 29 May 2022 09:55 PM PDT

Why don't smaller parasites like fleas or mosquitoes get killed by our immune system from the inside when they suck our blood?

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why is influenca seasonal?

Posted: 30 May 2022 12:26 PM PDT

Why are there flu-seasons and what happens to the virus in the meantime and how does it come back again? (I do understand that spreading is more successful in winter due to our habits etc but flu is almost nonexistent, so how does that work?)

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Are there blue biological pigments?

Posted: 30 May 2022 12:17 AM PDT

As it says on the tin.

I'm away that blue eyes are actually from Rayleigh Scattering and dont have any pigment in them, but are there other examples in nature where organisms do have actual blue pigmentation?

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Do humans pollinate flowers at all whenever we smell them?

Posted: 29 May 2022 04:07 AM PDT

What range of atmospheric pressure changes can be sensed by the body?

Posted: 29 May 2022 01:07 PM PDT

Some of my joints swell up when atmospheric pressure drops before a storm. It only happens sometimes, and I'm not sure why. Is this influenced more by the delta in pressure or by how quickly the pressure is changing?

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Is there a term or specific rule sort surrounding the ‘shortened grammar’ often seen on signage?

Posted: 29 May 2022 02:56 AM PDT

Many signs and labels use a sort of 'shortened grammar' in which certain words such as 'the' are omitted where their use should be obvious.

I can think of a few common examples off the top of my head, although I have seen some signage where many more qualifying words are omitted: "Do Not Enter [the] Building", "Employees must wash [their] hands before returning to work", "Objects [seen] in [this] mirror are closer than they appear", …

Is there some term for this sort of shortening and/or a general understanding of when and where it tends to be used, the specific 'rules' followed surrounding what tends to be eligible for omission, etc.?

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How do stem cells age? Are they immortal? If so, are there stem cell cancers? What's up with stem cell therapy?

Posted: 30 May 2022 12:18 AM PDT

I've been thinking about stem cell therapies lately, particularly for arthritis (not me, a friend) or as a potential theoretical Alzheimer's treatment. I'm aware that stem cells differentiate into the types of cells that need to be presented in the body from certain centres, and that they actually stick around with us all our lives. Now they are able to be used to restore a friend's knees back to an amazing degree (though not perfect). But if you received stem cell therapy from stem cells harvested from you when you were younger and put on ice, would the therapies be more effective? Is there a scientific reason to limit the number of rounds of stem cell therapy you can do, and would fully restored joints have virtually the same effective lifetime as the amount of time it took to get arthritis in the first place since adulthood?

I think these questions could be answered by understanding more about stem cells, their life cycles, and their continued availability in our bodies for treatments in later life or in times of need.

Also, is there a way to differentiate the fields of stem cell research looking into stem cells in our bodies day-to-day or those in foetuses? I hate to see people get hung up on the stem cell research debate by citing the morality of biopsying foetuses, when we could be researching the stem cells we live with everyday and celebrating groundbreaking advances in treatments and therapies.

It has actually given me incredible hopes for the future to see how effectively my friend bounced back after 2 rounds of stem cell therapy, and I'm saddened to not see more people I know with serious arthritis not look into the therapy. Is there something inherently prohibitive to the procedures? Surely: biopsy. Isolate. Culture. Get patient. Knock out. Poke where bad. Bed rest. Has the potential to be incredibly cost-effective and rapid.

In regard to Alzheimer's treatment: I've heard and observed that Alzheimer's is a form of dementia resulting from physical deterioration of the brain. Why not poke with a large dose with the appropriate stem cells?

This is a lot I know, if it's too much to explain I'm open to doing some extra reading. Thanks in advance

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Can other animals cough or get irritants out of their lungs somehow, or are humans special in this way?

Posted: 29 May 2022 05:04 PM PDT

I was just thinking, if I get pneumonia or breathe in smoke, my body is able to cough it out and deal with it quite well. But what if my cat gets pneumonia? I don't remember ever seeing an animal coughing, or expelling anything from their lungs. So what can an animal do when they have harmful things in their lungs?

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What do scientists mean when they say the universe is flat?

Posted: 29 May 2022 02:09 AM PDT

I don't understand it at all. Isn't the observable universe a sphere around us? I read something about euclidean geometry works in space and that's how we know it's flat? But then, it might be because the universe is so big, only the part we can see is flat? BUT ISN'T THE OBSERVABLE UNIVERSE A SPHERE? I don't get it.

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What does the scientific literature say about the functional differences in the roots of plant cuttings propagated in water versus cuttings propagated in soil? Will the water-rooted cuttings be impaired in any way when transplanting to soil?

Posted: 29 May 2022 05:53 PM PDT

This is a common debate in various Reddit plant communities and I want to know what the actual science has to say, not just anecdotes.

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Is mathematics or a sub-field of mathematics concerned with reconsidering, testing and/or rewriting the basics or axioms?

Posted: 28 May 2022 10:40 AM PDT

Or in general concerned with reconsidering something or things that are taken to be true. Maybe an example could be something that could seem absurd like '1=2' or '5+5=12'. I don't know, these were guesses, maybe you guys can make examples. Thanks for reading.

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How can we define temperature for a black hole when temperature is a statistical concept?

Posted: 29 May 2022 04:34 AM PDT

I mean, temperature is defined only in the thermodynamic limit i.e. when the number of particles in the system tends to infinity. Then how can we say that a black hole is at a particular temperature? What are the "particles" in consideration here?

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can perpetual exposure to lead (Pb) enlarge structure of amygdala over time?

Posted: 29 May 2022 12:51 PM PDT

Do specific nerves have a set purpose, or do all nerves simply act as a means of sending signals?

Posted: 28 May 2022 02:34 AM PDT

What I mean is: In nerve grafting, they typically harvest a nerve (let's say the sural nerve) in order to reconstruct another nerve.

Do nerves have actual specific purposes (on their own) or is it the location of the nerve itself that is responsible for it's job? (i.e. a sural nerve is the same as a sympathetic nerve so long as it is transplanted in the sympathetic chain.)

I hope I worded that correctly

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Friday, May 27, 2022

How do preservatives commonly added to food products affect our gut biome? Do they kill off bacteria that aids in digestion?

How do preservatives commonly added to food products affect our gut biome? Do they kill off bacteria that aids in digestion?


How do preservatives commonly added to food products affect our gut biome? Do they kill off bacteria that aids in digestion?

Posted: 27 May 2022 12:20 PM PDT

Why don’t trade winds move in the direction of Earth’s rotation (west to east)?

Posted: 27 May 2022 11:01 AM PDT

I understand it's because of the Coriolis effect but I'm having trouble wrapping my brain around it. I just can't understand how winds are moving the opposite way the earth is spinning.

If I set a marble on a basketball, that was spinning west to east, between the "equator" of the ball and the pole, and let it drop, wouldn't the marble move east?

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why do black holes increase in size if the singularity has infinite density?

why do black holes increase in size if the singularity has infinite density?


why do black holes increase in size if the singularity has infinite density?

Posted: 26 May 2022 06:34 PM PDT

In alot of online articles they state that the singularity has infinite density.

So when a black hole consumes an object (goes past the event horizon) why does the size of the black hole increase?

Wouldn't the mass just be squeezed infinitely without altering the size of the black hole?

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how did the water disappear on Mars?

Posted: 26 May 2022 08:51 AM PDT

So, I know it didn't disappear per say, it likely in some aquifer.. but..

I would assume:

1) since we know water was formed by stars and came to earth through meteors or dust, I would assume the distribution of water across planets is roughly proportional to the planet's size. Since mars is smaller than earth, I would assume it would have less than earth, but in portion all the same.

2) water doesn't leave a planet. So it's not like it evaporates into space 🤪

3) and I guess I assume that Mars and earth formed at roughly the same time. I guess I would assume that Mars and earth have similar starting chemical compositions. Similar rock to some degree? Right?

So how is it the water disappears from the surface of one planet and not the other? Is it really all about the proximity to the sun and the size of the planet?

What do I have wrong here?

Edit: second kind of question. My mental model (that is probably wrong) basically assumes venus should have captured about the same amount of H2O as earth being similar sizes. Could we assume the water is all there but has been obsorbed into Venus's crazy atmosphere. Like besides being full of whatever it's also humid? Or steam due to the temp?

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Why are there no more covid variants?

Posted: 26 May 2022 04:42 PM PDT

At some point it seemed like there was a new variant every 2 months or so. What happened that it suddenly stopped?

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How do we know what other planets, light years away, are made of?

Posted: 25 May 2022 07:51 PM PDT

How are calories in food measured?

Posted: 25 May 2022 08:45 AM PDT

Nowadays practically every food packaging comes with a really specific calorie count. But what is the actual process to find out how many calories there are in an apple for example?

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Thursday, May 26, 2022

Is the placement of veins entirely genetic? is there some randomness to it?

Is the placement of veins entirely genetic? is there some randomness to it?


Is the placement of veins entirely genetic? is there some randomness to it?

Posted: 25 May 2022 08:59 AM PDT

Why do our bones stop growing, do we run out of chondrocytes?

Posted: 25 May 2022 03:27 PM PDT

I would assume we run out of chondrocytes the older we get and that would be the reason bone growth slows down significantly until the growth plate closes. Or is it that a signal tells our body to stop proliferating bone cells.

Another question would then be why can't we inject out bones with more chondrocytes if that's the issue?

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What is the difference between the magnetic pole and the geomagnetic pole?

Posted: 25 May 2022 03:14 PM PDT

Wikipedia has too many fancy words that make no sense to me.

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Are there any residential scale carbon capture technologies available?

Posted: 25 May 2022 10:07 AM PDT

I'm considering adding an non-grid tie solar system to my home. As solar is somewhat variable in energy production the system would need to be sized for poor production times of year/days. Are there any electrically based carbon capture technologies that could be run with excess electricity production? I've seen some diy solutions but by the time I've purchased and had shipped the needed chemicals then disposed of them I'll have spent all the carbon I would have captured.

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How high could ice cliffs have gotten in the last ice age?

Posted: 25 May 2022 03:59 PM PDT

This is probably a silly question, but... seeing photos of the spectacular ice cliffs (in sea ice or where where glaciers end, for example) always makes me wonder how much more impressive they were in the last glacial maximum. Would or could they have been much taller than they are now?

As near as I can figure out with back-of-the-napkin math, the tallest column of ice that could support its own weight would be something like 5-5.5km tall, and my understanding is that the ice sheets have been up to 4km thick. I'm sure it wasn't just a flat 4km sheet that ended in a vertical cliff in like Montana or something, though. Would it have looked a lot like the edges of the ice sheets today, or could there have been even bigger cliffs?

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Why do some GABAergic substances such as Xanax and Klonopin cause significant withdrawals while things such as tea and Ashwagandha do not?

Posted: 25 May 2022 10:04 AM PDT

This question has always intrigued me and I'm wondering if there's someone much smarter than I who can help explain

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What percent of West African Monkeypox cases result in blindness or impaired vision?

Posted: 25 May 2022 02:39 PM PDT

What exactly is muscle memory?

Posted: 24 May 2022 07:19 PM PDT

Is muscle memory purely in the muscle or is the brain always in charge?

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Why do insects like hornets and others have hair on their bodies?

Posted: 24 May 2022 07:13 PM PDT

It seems rather bizarre considering that it isn't used to stay warm and, because there is a hard exoskeleton, they don't need it for protection.

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Wednesday, May 25, 2022

Why do genes only make up ~2% of our DNA? What is the other 98% used for?

Why do genes only make up ~2% of our DNA? What is the other 98% used for?


Why do genes only make up ~2% of our DNA? What is the other 98% used for?

Posted: 24 May 2022 04:48 PM PDT

Why can you see where a boats wake was long after the boat has left and the water has stilled? Seems like the wake can be seen for hours on evenly calm water.

Posted: 25 May 2022 05:19 AM PDT

Ask Anything Wednesday - Physics, Astronomy, Earth and Planetary Science

Posted: 25 May 2022 07:00 AM PDT

Welcome to our weekly feature, Ask Anything Wednesday - this week we are focusing on Physics, Astronomy, Earth and Planetary Science

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...".

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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.

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Does Nuclear Fission require a Fast Neutron to begin?

Posted: 24 May 2022 08:28 PM PDT

Hi

Sorry if that doesn't make sense. Basically, from everything I've seen, cross-section (likelihood) is higher with thermal neutrons than fast neutrons. However, the US NCR says that "a fissionable nuclide requires fast neutrons to induce fission." So I was wondering, is this a mistake? Does it only matter when in the process of inducing fission or is it something else? I'm assumingg I've made a mistake but I'm not sure where

Cheers.

Edit: Thanks for the replies, they helped a lot.

NRC: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1122/ML11229A705.pdf

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How does the chemical stability of a drug affect the drug absorption process?

Posted: 25 May 2022 04:52 AM PDT

Is it possible to prevent or delay the "half Life" of radioactive materials?

Posted: 24 May 2022 06:46 PM PDT

Short question arising from this thread https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/uwwibg/oc_the_most_expensive_materials_in_the_world/

Is it somehow possible to delay or prevent radioactive materials from falling apart?

If not, why is that so?

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Any three digit multiple of 37 is still divisible by 37 when the digits are rotated. Is this just a coincidence or is there a mathematical explanation for this?

Posted: 23 May 2022 08:15 AM PDT

This is a "fun fact" I learned as a kid and have always been curious about. An example would be 37 X 13 = 481, if you rotate the digits to 148, then 148/37 = 4. You can rotate it again to 814, which divided by 37 = 22.

Is this just a coincidence that this occurs, or is there a mathematical explanation? I've noticed that this doesn't work with other numbers, such as 39.

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Were there prehistoric counterparts to modern hummingbirds amongst the Pterosaurs (i.e. reptilian hummingbirds)?

Posted: 24 May 2022 03:18 PM PDT

Why is igG more dominant in the secondary immune response?

Posted: 25 May 2022 07:02 AM PDT

What the title says really. I understand why IgM is first released in the primary immune response as it has a pentameric structure and can activate more complement pathways as well as neutralisation of the pathogen. Why is igG then secreted more in the secondary response? Isn't the monomeric structure a disadvantage? I can't seem to wrap my head around it. I'd appreciate any help thanks!

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Do quarks actually have electric charge, or is it just an emergent property of having them bound into hadrons and the "fractional charge" we assign them is merely a helpful convention?

Posted: 24 May 2022 06:11 PM PDT

I have a mere armchair understanding of particle physics. Part of what I know is that there are no free quarks in nature. They always have to be bound into hadrons or some kind of theoretical high-energy quark soup. Trying to force quarks that are already bound apart simply results in pair-production of more quarks from the energy you put in trying to separate them.

For me, it raises the question, do we actually know whether individual quarks have so-conventioned "fractional" electric charge? Is it really a property that a hypothetical free quark (whatever that would mean) would possess, or could it perhaps only be an emergent property of the group? Is it even meaningful to distinguish between these scenarios?

To clarify, my goal with this is not to speculate on what it could be, or to dwell on the philosophical. My questions are:

  • Is this even knowable?
    • If yes, do we know?
      • If yes, which is it, and how do we know that?
    • If no, or if it is ambiguous/meaningless, could you explain why?
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Is speculation (as in speculating on material and stock prices) actually 'good' in any way for an economic system?

Posted: 24 May 2022 02:39 PM PDT

I think most people see it as something negative and asociate it mostly with gambling.

I would assume that the most healthy way (in a market-based economy) would be if prices for ressources are only determined by their rarerity, the costs caused by aquiring + transporting them and their potential value through further processing. Is there any upside in how speculations influence the prices further?

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How is Cre expression restricted to starburst amacrine cells in ChAT-Cre transgenic mice?

Posted: 25 May 2022 02:12 AM PDT

In a paper I'm reading, the authors restrict diphteria toxin receptor expression to starburst amacrine cells in transgenic ChAT-Cre mice. As far as I'm aware, ChAT is the choline acetyltransferase gene and is expressed in a multitude of tissues besides starburst amacrine cells. So how do the authors achieve targeted ablation of just these cells using this transgenic model?

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How is the immune system involved with acne?

Posted: 24 May 2022 11:30 AM PDT

So everyone I get sick, my acne goes away. Is this because my immune system is focused on better things?

I'm confused how this works…

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In which regions of the world do birds pollinate instead of / more than bees, and why?

Posted: 24 May 2022 10:04 AM PDT

is there a term for the temperature at which the material turns to plasma like melting point and boiling point?

Posted: 24 May 2022 08:03 AM PDT

Why we are more flexible when we’re younger? What changes as we age so it’s harder for us to stretch?

Posted: 23 May 2022 01:25 PM PDT

How do we know that ammonites were cephalopods?

Posted: 24 May 2022 01:17 PM PDT

How do we know that ammonites were cephalopods and not just snails?

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Is the corneal stroma 3 layered or is there something elese at play here?

Posted: 24 May 2022 10:47 AM PDT

So I know there's not much to go on, and that is partly my fault for not thinking about this sub in advance, but I have a question about the corneal stroma.

Today, I was at school and the teacher showed us a cornea through the microscope. It didn't say what stain it was and the teacher didn't know, but it was not HE and I'm fairly certain it was not orcein stain or silver impregnation, but I might be wrong on the latter as it was a darker stain.

The main point I want to arrive at is that the stroma, which in HE looks fairly homogenous in color, was very clearly divided into 3 fairly equal layers, with the middle one lighter, as if no pigment got attached to it, and the outer ones darker, with one of them darker than the other (I wanna say the darker one was the one near the corneal endothelium).

Now, I initially thought this has to be because of some biochemical component that binds the stain, which for some reason wasn't in the middle of the stroma, but I made a quick google search and see that the stroma has fibers going into different directions. Could this be the answer to why there were 3 layers? Is there another answer?

Ps: I will try to ask the teacher for it again, next time, and if I get it I'll take a photo. I didn't because I thought of this sub on my way home. Either way, any ideas?

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How do bond length, bond strength, atomic radii, and atomic orbital overlap reconcile with each other? (See text below)

Posted: 24 May 2022 12:09 PM PDT

Question on bond length, strength, atomic radii, and orbital overlap

We're told the following in undergrad:

Poor orbital overlap (say, in H2S with a small hydrogen and large sulfur) means a weak bond

Greater bond length means less bond strength (weaker bond)

Yet larger atomic radii means greater bond length (for instance, the bond between S and Cl is longer than S and H, but yet S and Cl have better orbital overlap, meaning their bond is stronger despite being longer).

So does this mean that "greater bond length = weaker bond" is not always true? I'm studying for the MCAT and am trying to reconcile this. Thanks.

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Does oxygen difluoride react with hydrocarbons?

Posted: 24 May 2022 11:06 AM PDT

Does Oxygen Difluoride ( F-O-F ) react with hydrocarbons(methane, ethane, butane, etc.)?

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Is there a break between convergent and divergent “harmonic-like” series?

Posted: 23 May 2022 05:27 PM PDT

The harmonic series is 1 + 1/2 + 1/3 + 1/4 + 1/5 + 1/n, and it is well-known to diverge to infinity. Now, if you square each of the terms, you get 1 + 1/4 + 1/9 + 1/16 + 1/25 + 1/n2, which is well-known to converge to π2/6.

What I'm wondering is if there is a real number y, between 1 and 2, where the sum of 1/ny will diverge to infinity if y < x and converge if y > x. That is, is there a point that separates divergence and convergence of these series?

It seems to me like there should be, but I have no idea how to begin to calculate it, and I would also not be too terribly surprised if it didn't exist. I wouldn't be surprised either if this has been asked before, but I've had no success in finding anything.

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When cellaring pipe tobacco, the conventional wisdom says that if tobacco dries out, it loses properties (oils in particular) that you can't completely get back by rehydrating. Wouldn't only moisture (water) evaporate and not oils?

Posted: 23 May 2022 08:03 PM PDT

What exactly is happening to the brain during altered states of consciousness such as trance?

Posted: 23 May 2022 08:46 PM PDT

I've been reading Lewis-Williams' works on entropic phenomena and altered states of consciousness that are achieved in shamanism, and while he does a good job of showing their universality and their effects on human perception of reality, he doesn't give a detail record of how exactly the specific sensations frequently associated with these states come about.

Some of the common sensations he mentions are floating, weightlessness, suffocation, and a range of hallucinations.

My question is, what exactly is happening to the brain that is causing this sensations — not how they are interpreted by the subject, but what is objectively happening that the subject interprets

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Why do some plants that prefer poor soil die in rich soil?

Posted: 23 May 2022 07:02 PM PDT

For example, lavender likes poor soil but doesn't do well in good soil. Shouldn't rich soil have what the plants need from poor soil?

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