I have the app so I get alerts of when artists post new art, which is what I subscribe to mainly. It isn't the best so usually I still access it through the website. But this is awful for creators, taking 30% of their income is inexcusable!

There is also two books by Jacqueline Carey that take that premise; The Sundering and Godslayer. Basically the "Sauron" of the book gave a gift to mankind "Quickening" or lust so they end up procreating more and the other gods got jelouse and pushing him and started a war against him. He basically becomes the god of those lost and rejected by society. It's really good but very sad.

Except we CAN MAP dark matter in the universe, so we know it is there. MOND does a poor job of explaining that map. There are also a few good explanations for what Dark Matter is, my personal fav is Axions.

They really didn't seem like they wanted students to learn, they did the bare minimum in classes and weren't available to help students. I suspect they just didn't want people to make it to advanced math classes unless they were naturally talented at math. Most of my classmates relied on volunteer help for the class, these were people that would spend hours in the library helping students and it wasn't even their job. Was so bad that the physics and engineering departments had to teach the math. While I was in university there was an attempt to save money by grading each department to see what could be cut, and the math department got a failing grade with a note "if math wasn't essential to so many other degrees we would recommend cutting the department." I know this is anecdotal but from what I could tell they learned that their department's key job was to weed out students, not to teach.

Don't know what other countries are like but in Canada this year the prices on books stopped being discounted for almost all stuff. So, I have moved to using Book Depository or local stores instead. Can't say I'm mad cause I hated using Amazon and just didn't realize Book Depository was so good. That's on me for being ignorant

Agreed, with the exception for Mars. Let private companies go out and mine on asteroids and even on the moon. But I think the long term goal of Mars should be population and terraforming, I don't see rampant capitalism able to succeed there. A whole new set of treaties would need to be set up for that.

It's great for either bad movies or movies that everyone has seen before. Me and my friends do this a lot for old movies, I just came back from a Space Jam watching. We've all seen it, so we don't have to bother with missing plot points, just joke about the movie while we are watching.

I really liked Blindness, it's a lot more speculative fiction but it gives a lens as to how society can break down. I found it extremely depressing too, because I do think a lot of it is very likely how people would act if something that bad happens to the world.

I should have taken more time to think before submitting, but adding to this. They seem to take a lot of their talking points from social media. For example, they jumped on the idea of "Why would the Romulans needs the Federations help to evacuate people?" Now, if they had analyzed it properly they would criticize that Picard said MILLIONS of lives were in jeopardy, however the planet is earth like and we know the planets have much higher population than earth so that is clearly wrong. Looking it up, the planet is supposed to have 18 BILLION lives on it. Include the surrounding planets and solar systems; hell yeah they would need help.

no, they cherry pick what they want to see, just take the surface and don't actually analyze anything. Your point about the Picard banner is the perfect example. In the finale of ST TNG Picard joins the crew to play cards and says "I should have done this sooner." Meaning he is wanting to become closer to the people around him. Plenty of people end up looking back at things they judged and think differently about them, the banner very much could be one of those things Picard looks back on as "I should have done this sooner."

Another thing that makes radiation treatment so great is that when particles pass through a material they lose almost all their energy at the end of their path. So when tuning radiation treatment therapy they do the calculations and program the correct energy level so they can make the particle decay very close to where they need them too. So it's not just aiming a gun, you are drilling into a specific depth too.

Scientific comics are a growing medium, even CERN employs comic artist because in physics pictures are very useful tools of communication. There are also plenty of historical comics, mostly biographies. As for my favorite scientific comic that is easily Alpha...Directions by Jens Harder. It tells the history of the universe from the big bang to the beginning of Homo-Sapiens, but it doesn't just linearly tell it, it blends in images of how ancient cultures understood the universe, of how different religions depicted it, but the science is all detailed out.

"Note that gamma decay is about the only kind of radiation that actually emits something with any ability to penetrate beyond the outer layers of your skin." Neutron radiation is actually the worst kind cause it penetrates right through almost anything but lead, and because of the much higher mass of neutrons it cause far more damage than gamma.

"I'm guessing that whatever contract he signed with the publisher may have prevented him from doing that."

This is it. I had a prof that would just give the textbook as online PDFs, students could choose to download, print or just read them online. However, once his book was published the publisher REQUIRED him to make students buy it and was not even allowed to send out the PDFs of his rough draft he had before he had finished the book. He was not a fan of it but the book wasn't a crazy expensive one and if people found any way of keeping costs down by sharing he was happy for that. This all comes back to the publishers forcing profs and universities to make expensive textbooks a requirement for classes. Many textbook companies have already made it so you have to buy new texts every year even with the same text, they just change the online course that you are marked on, so you can't get 2nd hand books or else you lose marks.

I would be for this if there weren't better options that are not available to me because of the shitty music industry. I want to use Pandora because it already does tailor made playlists that use much better algorithms and show me new music. But the music industry has no interest in letting customers find lesser known bands and no interest in letting people listen to what they want to. Instead the music industry is entirely invested in a few brands they want to sell and they will MAKE you like them. This will be the same few hundred tracks looped to what they want to sell you, and not giving you what you would be interested in.