I never actually read it as a dig at “elderly” scientists but I think you’re right haha

Tbf I think it’s supposed to be understood more conceptually as seeing how many things we take for granted as being outside the realms of possibility have just not yet been tackled the right way.

Don’t think “traitor” makes sense applied to the Chinese. The op-ed is indeed all over the place, don’t think it articulates its point very well

No worries Yeah, sounded like a mixture of abstruse and obtuse 😂

*abstruse

They’re using walking (region alpha) vs biking (region beta) region as an analogy: “paradoxically” you’ll reach some further distances earlier, based on your choice of mode of transport. Which wouldn’t work in my case cause I’ll take the bike to the grocery store down the street. At any rate, your “choice” of defense mechanism influences your rate of recovery, is what they’re trying to say

Damn, will I have to make another post?!

My favorite kind

Boy do I have a post for you!

I will steal this))

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I can relate to the queasiness BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world

Damn, good point. Couldn’t come up with a counter-example so just copy/pasted off of Wikipedia verbatim lmao Look out for tomorrow’s TIL when I look up what that type of locomotion is called lol

Actually, I’m really at a loss at what to call this paraphyletic group; tetrapods come to mind but they technically still include snakes…

Fair enough, thought of converting it to 100k but was too lazy lol

Fair enough. The data is presented very weirdly. I changed the post

You’re very welcome

Also confer this very topical article

Planet Nine from Outer Space

Appealing or appalling? Big difference.

This goes in the “no shit” pile of research Still good to have confirmation

The main reason it went extinct…

You’ll have to elaborate on that