steeplebob t1_j8x1fuv wrote on February 17, 2023 at 3:46 PM

Reply to Jane Fonda agrees to attend Vienna Opera Ball with Austrian tycoon for 'quite a bit of money' by nimobo

Plastic face makes me sad.

steeplebob t1_j4rcjg6 wrote on January 17, 2023 at 6:56 PM

Reply to Vaccine hesitancy is predictive of nocebo side-effects following COVID-19 vaccination by PHealthy

Reminds me of a study about how we experience real pain simply by expecting future pain: https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003335

steeplebob t1_j3xhfv7 wrote on January 11, 2023 at 7:09 PM

Reply to Why are coastlines crinkly near the poles but smooth in the tropics? by emsot

I believe in his book “Scale” Geoffrey West explains that the “crinkliness” of coastlines is primarily a function of the slope of the land, such that the steeper the slope the longer the actual coastline. I think he includes a mathematical expression for the relationship but I can’t recall it off-hand.