• @[email protected]
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    358 hours ago

    It took till this year for scientists to have the idea to use mri to track brainchanges in pregnancy.

    Just imagine how many super basic observations we must be lacking.

    Scientific thought is ancient but we barely scratched the surface in pretty much every field.

    • @[email protected]
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      267 hours ago

      Ah see you said “pregnancy” which one o’ them woman things and see we just don’t got the time and energy to be spending on that stuff. /s

    • @phdepressed
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      107 hours ago

      Took til past couple years to get funding for it. About 75-90% of scientific proposals to the NIH are not funded.

    • @[email protected]
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      36 hours ago

      ignoring the elephant in the room that the study of anyone other than non white males is rare, people don’t talk about the obvious. We don’t write it down.

      Gravity took FOREVER before someone went “wait why?” and there’s tons of stuff we don’t even think about, like the ‘new shape’ that people just didn’t think to talk about because it’s just so simple

      • aname
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        23 hours ago

        the study of anyone other than non white males is rare,

        There’s plenty of studies on white males.

  • @[email protected]
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    138 hours ago

    I was born in the dark ages. Before 2014, we used to think the world was flat and didn’t think about climate change.

  • kbal
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    47 hours ago

    It’s stairs we didn’t have before 2014. Everyone just used ladders.

    • stankmut
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      14 hours ago

      Luckily builders would set aside space in buildings just in case someone had an idea for how to move between floors without a ladder. Made retrofitting stairs a breeze. You can’t even tell that they were added later most of the time.

    • Silverchase
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      11 minute ago

      In Abraham Lincoln’s day, everyone just rocket jumped to get to the second floor!