Odd, I never seem to find such content on Physics SE, although I suppose it would stick out like a sore thumb. Perhaps they think that it has a greater chance of slipping through the cracks here.
I recently came across a situation where something was decreasing rapidly. My friend was led to say:
The price of fuel has really skyrocketed downwards lately.
Something about this statement sounded wrong. Surely a skyrocket must always go up, by definition.
What would be a more suitable w...
It's really weird how videos of Putin speeches keep getting recommended on YouTube (filled with seemingly genuine comments about how "strong" and "smart" he is).
Actually the comments are a 50/50 split between adulation and "In Mother Russia, objvb you" jokes
@NiharKarve Russia has state-funded troll factories, so it's hard to tell whether pro-Putin comments are genuine. I'm afraid that with improvements in AI it will be harder to tell whether anybody on the Internet is a biological person.
> The COVID-19 virus was found in a four-year-old boy who was initially thought to have measles in November 2019, according to a study by Milan state university published Wednesday in the Journal of Emerging Infectious Diseases, showing that the virus was circulating in Italy much earlier than hitherto believed.
It must have been in Russia too, because many Russians travel to Italy.
@NiharKarve well, from what I gather, it's funny for westerners, esp. Americans, to be like "OMG Russians so badass and stronk". It's supposed to be half-hearted but for some the joke is repeated so often it acquires shades of reality
> Stronk is an eastern European/Russian pronunciation of the word strong. Most commonly used in the context of mocking or showing reverence towards something brutish or powerful that is of eastern European/Russian origin.
Injecting a gene therapy vector into one eye of someone suffering from LHON, the most common cause of mitochondrial blindness, significantly improves vision in both eyes, scientists have found.
I recently came across a situation where something was decreasing rapidly. My friend was led to say:
The price of fuel has really skyrocketed downwards lately.
Something about this statement sounded wrong. Surely a skyrocket must always go up, by definition.
What would be a more suitable w...
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English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…