I’d say if you have 80% of the requirements you might as well apply. I would frankly ignore years of experience more or less entirely.

It’s not exactly uncommon for a listing to advertise the person they want, but to accept applicants with significantly less on the basis that they can get there. Nearly every job I’ve ever got I was not at the level advertised in something or other.

Well of course we’re going to throw poo at him

The best place to make new friends is at the urinals. It’s considered polite to strike up a conversation and if nothing else pass a friendly comment on your neighbour’s todger.

There are very good reasons not to microwave tea, first of all:

• I usually find microwaving anything in a mug adds some unpleasant flavour from the mug. Using glass eliminates this, but worth noting.

• Microwaving the tea itself will break down some compounds and release more tannins, your tea will be worse.

But even if you’re just microwaving the water, the kettle wins (depending on what tea you are brewing). Black tea should be brewed as close as possible to 100°C - when you have a kettle you should pour it just as it comes off the boil, around 90-95°C. By that point the water has actually been boiling for quite a while (at least the water around the element), allowing the rest of it to heat up. It’s very difficult to achieve this in a microwave, and dangerous too since you can just end up spraying boiling water around your microwave.

It makes a lot more sense for me to make myself rich now than to make a version of myself rich who will never become me.

For best results buy one per family member per floor. Actually better get two so you can have one at seated height too.

Academic publishing seems like a problem that should be easy to solve. It’s a situation where greed is outright making the service worse for everyone, so it seems like a new journal that does things differently (e.g. by not charging researchers) could become wildly successful… So why doesn’t that happen? Are there barriers to creating new journals?

I’d go both knees… I wouldn’t do it but centre of forehead would be tempting.

Ah, that makes more sense!

That’s a great resource, but good god I can’t imagine a worse environment for me to work in than one where I’m constantly being questioned by children.

Is the angle different the other side somehow? Is the north/south swapped or something?

No, but actually, yes. But only in Neum.

Atoms.

Yeah I think that’s what’s so interesting about it! It’s one of the few situations where we have been able to (in a limited way) study how consciousness comes about in a mind. Perhaps leaving us with more questions than answers… Tantalising.

If you’re interested I highly recommend this evidence review on the topic. I don’t remember the details but there does remain some compelling evidence for both sides. It seems like the two halves are able to communicate in some ways, but not in others. It’s not fully clear if this means there are two distinct consciousnesses, or if they continue to operate as one.

The only thing I can think of that this could refer to is split brain patients who have undergone a specific medial procedure once used to treat epilepsy. It’s possible, although not well understood, that the two halves of their brain operate sort of independently, and only one has access to speech.

It’s a very interesting topic, well worth diving into! But it’s also very muddy, there is contrasting evidence for and against the “two mind” theory.

Anyway, I’m fairly certain this “theory” does not apply to healthy brains which have not undergone this procedure.

Man, this looks cool! A genuinely fresh, original open world RPG!

It would be even better presented as a matrix or similar so we can see which news sources overlap on a single juror.

It definitely is.