Um…what’s it say about Tylenol?
Can you think of any now?
Submitted 8 months ago by LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone to science_memes@mander.xyz
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CubitOom@infosec.pub 8 months ago
shalafi@lemmy.world 8 months ago
They sure weren’t teaching that an overdose is instakill on our liver.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Arioxel@jlai.lu 8 months ago
Part of the reason Pluto’s classification hit so hard in the US is that it’s the only ‘planet’ ever discovered by an USian astronomer. That national pride made the 2006 decision sting more than elsewhere. Some of the top figures from the AAS even challenged the legitimacy of the decision afterwards.
(I copy-pasted this comment for the third time even though I don’t like to do that, but it’s important to know where does such reaction come from : partly from pure national pride)
Eq0@literature.cafe 8 months ago
Interesting, because I saw a looot of Europeans being very emotionally involved in the topic!
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 8 months ago
That’s interesting because it’s completely bullshit.
Americans don’t know SHIT about that lol
maxwells_daemon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Average cluttered orbital neighborhood fan
Vs
Double dwarf planet Pluto - Charon system enjoyer
RamenJunkie@midwest.social 8 months ago
Always a planet, fuck scienctists! (Seriously, nerdy chicks are hot, fuck them.")
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 8 months ago
A dwarf planet is still a planet
MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
audricd@piefed.social 8 months ago
They are two genders.
shalafi@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Well, mainly, yeah? The vast majority of us fall on one end of the scale or the other. But it is a scale, same as sexuality.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 8 months ago
But there are
Woke and fash
Stupidmanager@lemmy.world 8 months ago
lath@piefed.social 8 months ago
Alphas.
White Jesus.
IQ.
9 out of 10 dentists.
Apple a day.
Speculater@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I recently told my mother that I’m probably the most intelligent person she will ever meet while explaining why her conservative briefs are dumb as shit and she defensively asked what my IQ is…
I was no contact for the past eight years or so and it was at a family reunion that we saw one another.
I don’t know my IQ, I’m actually a pretty slow learner, and I have horrible test anxiety. But as a polyglot physicist with a dash of perpetual autodidactic inclinations, I’m pretty well informed and I don’t know if intelligence can be measured, but I know it when I see it.
It’s funny that conservatives think quick wit and fast words equate to intelligence without ever stopping to think about the substance.
missfrizzle@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
I recently told my mother that I’m probably the most intelligent person she will ever meet
and so humble, too! seriously though, this is a major red flag. I rarely find smart people to brag about how smart they are.
lath@piefed.social 8 months ago
Objectively speaking, intelligence is considered to be the ability to reason.
Following that line, high intelligence would be the ability to reason well.However, we humans do well because we specialize. It was discovered early on that we can’t do everything.
One could say it’s our individuality which drives us towards having different proficiencies and the entire chain of schooling would better serve to explore and encourage pursuing such specializations.Where the means to cultivate proficiency are lacking, the end result will often be incomplete.
That shouldn’t mean there is a lack of intelligence, but that it hasn’t been developed to its potential.
I would say.. the base intelligence remains the same while expectations rise in concert with each own’s path of development.Life is neither easy nor fair. And opportunities aren’t equal. So i often try to remind myself that perspective changes with experience and as such any standard we set ourselves and others to tend to be laced with personal bias.
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
The story of how North and South America were settled by the first humans. What I was taught was that the Bering Sea was frozen at the end of the last ice age, and then glaciers opened up and people migrated southward.
The problem is that the timing is too tight and the migration would have to have happened too quickly. Many native groups have long seen this story as flawed, as well.
This was covered in the book “1492”, and at the time of publication, researchers weren’t quite sure what model to replace it with. Probably some of the migration was using boats along the west coast rather than going over land. That book is getting pretty old now, though, and I’m not sure if or where things have settled out.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Racial supremacist preferred narratives favour suppressing evidence that Polynesians could navigate larger Pacific before Europeans could navigate Atlantic. But simply artifacts predate the “land bridge theory timing”
piccolo@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Genetic evidence clearly shows native americans origins are from Siberian people. While there are evidence Polynesians made contact with them before europeans, native americans were already well established for tens of thousands of years before then.
Midnitte@beehaw.org 8 months ago
Feel like a lot of the “myths” are also just because you’re not going to teach a 16-year-old about quantum mechanics to explain why table salt exists
sleen@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
so what you’re saying is that this is ageism. And we are infantilizing individuals irrespective of their experience and actual understanding.
shalafi@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Never been a big fan of children, but they fucking love me, even if I’m clearly annoyed at the time. I was asking my ex-wife about this mystery. “You don’t talk to them like kids, you talk to them like little adults and they respect that.”
She was right! I talk to them like adults that simply don’t know as much as I do.
Klear@quokk.au 8 months ago
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 8 months ago
Relevant Pratchett
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 8 months ago
Well there are deepening levels of understanding depending on the learner’s pre-existing (e.g. matter > atoms > protons/neutrons/electrons > fermions), and there are things that are just plain incorrect, that were assumed to be correct, because science advances (e.g. Pluto is a grey ball of boring nothingness very similar to Mercury).
crank0271@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Pluto is a grey ball of boring nothingness very similar to Mercury
It isn’t?!
it_depends_man@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The “tongues have taste zones” thing is the only thing that comes to mind.
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Also “the 5 senses”. It depends on how you define “sense” there’s at least a dozen to over 20.
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Holy mackerel!
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 8 months ago
We had to write angry letters to our children’s school about 5 years ago to get them to stop teaching taste regions. It’s really baffling.
Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I remember being like 7 and trying that out for myself by touching a lemon slice to different parts of my tongue. I think when I realised that it tasted sour regardless of where on my tongue I touched it to was when I first started questioning authority.
14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
at similar age, a teacher told me there can’t be polygon bigger than 360-gon, because that would be a circle. i wasn’t of course in a place to fight with her, i just thought “wtf, how dumb is this bitch?”
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 8 months ago
I remember many kids in my schooldays saying the same and being gaslit by the teacher into thinking they tested incorrectly.
credo@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Wait, that’s not a thing?
My whole life is a lie.
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 8 months ago
The very architecture of the Internet (it was a written with a capital I back then) made it impossible to take over, and traffic would naturally route around any damaged links or nodes.
Google and CloudFlare have since proven that sonsabitches with enough money can subvert it completely, and it only takes a few dudes dragging an anchor from a boat to disconnect entire countries for weeks and months.
shalafi@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Cut cables mostly just slow the internet. Probably very few remaining places without plenty of redundancy.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 8 months ago
It still routes around damage, but if all the roads are closed you can’t get in or out of somewhere.
cobysev@lemmy.world 8 months ago
[…] the Internet (it was a written with a capital I back then)
Back then, an internet (lower case “i”) was a small internal network of computers that communicated with each other.
The World Wide Web, being a massive collection of computers across the globe that are interconnected, quickly earned the title of “THE Internet” (upper-case “i”), to differentiate it from smaller isolated networks.
“World Wide Web” turned out to be a mouthful to say, so we replaced it with “the Internet” instead. Although most websites still start with “www” to represent their global reach.
Nowadays, we’ve stopped using the word “internet” to describe smaller networks, so the word mostly just refers to the global network. And as such, if doesn’t really matter if you capitalize it or not.
However, I was there when the web became accessible to the public and the nomenclature has stuck, so I always capitalize the Internet when referring to it.
merc@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Back then, an internet (lower case “i”) was a small internal network of computers that communicated with each other.
That’s what I was told too, but I never once encountered anybody who used the small-i “internet” term. I heard “network”, or “intranet” or often topology-related things like “the token-ring network”. Maybe that’s just me, but I suspect that small-i “internet” was never really a term that was widely used, if at all.
curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 8 months ago
Back then, an internet (lower case “i") was a small internal network of computers that communicated with each other.
That is an intranet, not internet, and is still applicable as a term. You just hear people say LAN more these days.
“World Wide Web” turned out to be a mouthful to say, so we replaced it with “the Internet” instead. Although most websites still start with “www” to represent their global reach.
The world wide web was always just one part of the internet, specifically the portion supported by http. Ftp, email, etc existed then as well, but was not part of the www.
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
It took them a long time to get there. As corporate ISPs took over from the government and universities, the Internet got built around a few large pipes rather than several smaller ones. It’s cheaper to build and maintain, but more prone to failure.
Some of the redundancy from the old ARPANET is still around in the US. Everywhere else, it mostly got built as above. One ship laying an anchor somewhere they shouldn’t has brought entire countries offline.
argh_another_username@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
It’s a collaborative site.
blackbeards_bounty@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Was gonna say, I’ve seen this reposted for so many years I figured some one would have made it by now, o/w I was gonna. Thank you not-yet-dead Internet
merc@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
IMO, that site needs more cold war propaganda myths.
For example:
Myth: The US won WWII
Truth: The biggest battles of the last few years of WWII were between Germany and the USSR, and the USSR won, pushing the German army back to Berlin.
–
Myth: Unions are communism, and therefore bad.
Truth: It is thanks to Unions that we work 8 hour days instead of 12 hour days, and that we have a 2 day weekend. They’re an essential part of balancing the power of the rich against the power of the workers.
–
Myth: Unions hold back the most skilled, so if you’re skilled or smart you shouldn’t be in a union.
Truth: The best actors in the world are members of SAG-AFTRA. They negotiate deals where they make tens of millions per movie. The union doesn’t hold them back. It just means that when the film studios try to screw over the less powerful actors and the union votes to strike, the rich and powerful actors need to do their part to help the less powerful actors out.
heydo@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Years since graduation:
Oh fuck this site!
Goddamn I’m old
noxypaws@pawb.social 8 months ago
Cool site but sadly the link for “Learning styles (visual, auditory, kinesthetic) determine how you best learn” being debunked is both dead and missing from archive.org
I’d really like to know more since I’ve very recently been learning about very similar processing modalities for ADHD brains
Still, cool site and resource!
RamenJunkie@midwest.social 8 months ago
Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet due to not clearing its orbital path.
Why would they just lie about Pluto like that?
#Pluto4Lyf
dethedrus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
That’s messed up!
trolololol@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s in fact a teenager planet and it doesn’t clean his room. Once it does it will be bumped back to planet.
We’re doing this for his own good.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Arioxel@jlai.lu 8 months ago
Part of the reason Pluto’s classification hit so hard in the US is that it’s the only ‘planet’ ever discovered by an USian astronomer. That national pride made the 2006 decision sting more than elsewhere. Some of the top figures from the AAS even challenged the legitimacy of the decision afterwards.
US pride, again.
SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Both 1960 and 2020 are showing the same 6 facts, and the facts shown were debunked years before 2020
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Cool but flawed website.
Earlier times dont include myths that are on later years.
There is no overlap in myths between 1990 and 1970-80 but there is with the 60sw
“Sugar causes hyperactivity in children” is mentioned to have been corrected around 1995 but stops making the list from 1980 onward.
I wanna recommend it to others but i cant in this state.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 8 months ago
Just put in 2010 and most of everything it said is incredibly obvious. Plus some of the dates of updated sources seem really incorrect. For example, one of them is it is a myth that most oxygen comes from trees, but I very distinctly remember my math teacher of all people saying in 2006 or 2007 that when he was in school he corrected people that it’s mostly from plankton. And even if I’m misremembering this, he definitely said something about it being from plankton in those years, but it says the updated sources are from 2020.
It says that it is a myth that the big bang theory explains where the universe came from but in 2020 we found out it doesn’t explain what came before. Like… No? That’s always been what it is. Sure, it’s always been a Christian talking point to sort of say that, but then why say 2020?
But I guess it’s hard to really gauge what should and shouldn’t be included. I remember my 5th grade teacher telling me that Robert E. Lee was an honorable man. I don’t really remember exactly what all she said and if she got deeper into Lost Cause rhetoric than that, but she definitely said Lee was a “good man.”
smeg@feddit.uk 8 months ago
What you were taught
“Mobile phones will never replace desktop computers”
What we know now
Mobile devices became the primary computing platform for billions of people worldwide.
That isn’t a response to the initial statement at all, which is very much an opinion or prediction rather than any claim to be a fact. I’m suddenly feeling pretty sceptical about this website.
danekrae@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I like it, though there wasn’t a single one of the false facts that I was taught in schools.
“Dinosaurs shed their skin all at once like snakes”
“Girls are naturally not as good at math as boys”
I don’t mean to be rude, but If this was taught in your school, everyone around you is probably a moron.
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
“Planet X (Planet 9) exists and explains gravitational pull”
Weird conspiracy theories were not taught at my school.
Also:
In 2017, a photograph appeared to prove that Amelia Earhart survived her plane crash and was taken prisoner by the Japanese. However, it was later proven that the photo was taken two years before her disappearance, leaving the mystery unsolved.
Updated understanding emerged around 2010
The updated understanding emerged 7 years before the photo appeared?
This is why websites need downvotes.
Kushan@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah I didn’t get taught any of the stuff mentioned for me either.
One thing I did notice that wasn’t mentioned was the tongue map, that I was taught about in the 90’s - you know the one that said that your tongue has different areas for detecting different kinds of tastes - sweet at the front tip, sour at the back, that kind of thing. All bullshit.
kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Yeah, the concept is nice, but it tells me that the Big Bang doesn’t explain what happened before it (the leading hypothesis is that the Big Bang started time, so there is no “before”) and sources a Wikipedia article on spiders. Then, it cites the common myth about Daddy Longlegs being highly venomous, says that that wasn’t dispelled until 2020, and then cites a fucking BuzzFeed listicle.
Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Where did you go to school? I’ve never heard of either of those before.
whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Yeah I think that the “you have to discharge your batteries entirely before charging them” would be a better fit, even though it wasn’t false at the time, but the technology changed
primrosepathspeedrun@anarchist.nexus 8 months ago
The constitution of the united States.
recently_Coco@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
IQ tests!
They are standardized eugenics and should be rethought entirely
sleen@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Also the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 8 months ago
I agree. A much better test is whether you wear a red MAGA cap.