FeynmansMiniHands
FeynmansMiniHands t1_j29jcmg wrote
Reply to comment by Navvana in Before Newton, how did people explain falling apples? by maugustus
It's important to note that Newton also defined the modern concept of 'Force'. The concept does not appear in preNewton works.
FeynmansMiniHands t1_j0i741e wrote
Reply to comment by ineedutolisten in So far 2022 has had the second widest range of daily average temperatures in the Central England temperature series. This shows the 5 years with the widest and narrowest range of temperatures in the series from 1772. [OC] by neilrkaye
This is a common but incorrect feeling. Unless you work in a lab with NIST certified equipment, the glass thermometers used by 18th century english scientists are almost certainly both more accurate and more precise than any thermometer you've ever handled.
The CET dataset only specifies temperatures to a 0.1 degree precision, which even the earliest mercury thermometers could achieve.
Science and technology has improved, but we don't need to measure temperature out to the 5th decimal places for climatology.
FeynmansMiniHands t1_j0432v5 wrote
Reply to [OC] Johnson & Johnson has HALF the net profit margin of Pfizer despite making almost $1bn more in net revenue by giteam
Am I wrong or does the net profit and tax not add up to the EBIT?
FeynmansMiniHands t1_j5u778x wrote
Reply to An ALS patient set a record for communicating via a brain implant: 62 words per minute by esprit-de-lescalier
It's really exciting to keep seeing these results come out of BrainGate