[1453] fMRI
Title Text:They also showed activation in the parts of the brain associated with exposure to dubious study methodology, concern about unremoved piercings, and exasperation with fMRI techs who won’t stop talking about Warped Tour.
Title Text:They also showed activation in the parts of the brain associated with exposure to dubious study methodology, concern about unremoved piercings, and exasperation with fMRI techs who won’t stop talking about Warped Tour.
Title Text:Hey guys! What’s eating you? Ha ha ha it’s me! Oh, what fun we have.
Title Text:No way, we gotta rewind and cross-reference this map with the list of coordinates we saw on the other screen. This Greenland thing could be big.
Title Text:I’m working to bring about a superintelligent AI that will eternally torment everyone who failed to make fun of the Roko’s Basilisk people.
原作:http://what-if.xkcd.com/120 译者:猪的米 What if 系列:https://songshuhui.net/archives/tag/what-if 这周的What If文章摘录自另一个世界中的What If,而且你得感谢我们不生活在那个世界中: ……绝大多数水肺潜水设备都能在浸没在人类血液的情况下相对正常工作。不过由于人血的密度(1.06千克/升)远高于纯水(1.00千克/升),略高于海水(1.03千克/升),因而配重需要适当改变一下。出于某些显而易见的原因,2006年以后生产的设备中绝大多数都能够应对这种情况…… ……我们都听到过一个说法,据说平均一个人每秒要吃掉4只蜘蛛。这个数字很具有误导性,因为它基于的研究关注的是蜘蛛溪流最为密集地区食用蜘蛛最为巅峰的时期。全球平… Read more
Title Text:I just learned about the Slide Mountain Ocean, which I like because it’s three nouns that sound like they can’t possibly all refer to the same thing.
Title Text:The universe long dead, IsaAC surveyed the formless chaos. At last, he had arrived at an answer. ‘I like you,’ he declared to the void, ‘but I don’t LIKE like you.’
Title Text:Life goal #29 is to get enough of them rejected that I can publish a comparative analysis of the rejection letters.
原作:http://what-if.xkcd.com/119 译者:猪的米 What if 系列:https://songshuhui.net/archives/tag/what-if 提问: 用雨伞或者帐篷遮雨太没意思了,如果你用一个激光发射器瞄准落下来的每一个雨滴,在它们落到离地10英尺的高度前就把它们一一汽化会怎么样? —— Zach Wheeler 回答: 用激光束来遮雨听上去完全可行,如果你…… 虽然激光雨伞这个想法听上去很有吸引力,但它…… (你肿么啦?) 好吧,我们现在讨论的是用激光来遮雨的问题。 (谁允许你讨论这个问题了?) 这个想法不那么有可行性。 首先我们来看看基本的能量需求。汽化一升水需要约260万焦耳的能量,[1]而在一场大雨中每小时的降雨量可达半英寸(约1.27厘米)。就这点来说这个问题回答起来并… Read more