Can you visualized higher-dimensional objects, /sci/?

Why do short genes still exist for men? If evolution is true wouldn't they be weeded out over time?

Lets get this meme going

Medical Science > Engineering

Prove me wrong faggots

Evolution could happen 15x faster than previously thought.

Scientists from Oxford University have witnessed 2 mitochondrial gene mutations in 50 years in a pedigree line of chickens. This suggests a mutation rate in the mitochondrial genome of 30%/1,000,000 years, whilst it was previously believed to be 2%/1,000,000 years, maximum.
The scientists also witnessed mtDNA passed down from father in that time span, showing that paternal leakage is not as rare as believed.

http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2015-10-28-chicken-study-reveals-evolution-can-happen-much-faster-thought-0

Witness my evolution
>b-but evolution has never been witnessed

Nice looking chickens.

Can anyone help me understand list coloring?

I get regular colorability but I'm really struggling with what list colorability means. Any good examples? Everywhere I look online has similar complicated definitions without any intuition.

New stupid questions general thread.

Last stupid questions general thread got pruned early.

Older stupid questions general still archive here for now >>7612327

ask a memetic engineer undergrad anything

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Sup /sci/.

After having watched these two videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4sf__sv8os
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VQFvXkz-oQ

According to the girl in the video, she visualizes a word (that is, the letters of a word), then flips the word around so she can read it backwards. Before the pedants enter the stage: She doesn't change the pronunciation so that it would sound correct when recorded and played backwards, but I don't care about that.

Now, I discovered that I can't really visualize like that. Take for example the word "ostentatious". Obviously I can spell the word mentally, and if I break it up into groups of letters I can flip those groups around to produce the word backwards, but I can't actually see the entire word in my "mind's eye", so to speak.

I think my visualization ability is normal. I can visualize objects and rotate them in my mind, but I cannot do this with words.

This whole thing reminded me of one of the popsci videos in which Richard Feynman (in his student days) and a colleague learned to ascertain when a minute had passed without external references. They found that one of them could read while doing so, while the other one could talk while doing so. It turned out that one of them visualized a clock, while the other one talked (counted) internally.

This leads me to some questions. I would appreciate it if those of you that answer would be so kind as to enumerate your answers in accordance to the questions.

1. I find that most of the time when I'm thinking, I'm actually talking to myself internally. Is this the case for you?

2. Are you able to clearly visualize a somewhat long word in your mind (the word itself, not what it represents)? Are you able to rotate the word and read it backwards without breaking it up into parts?

3. Does having your eyes open or closed affect your ability to visualize? If so, how?

Not homework; genuinely interested. Tripfagging for this thread only.

If p(3x) = x^2 and p(2x) = x, is it possible that p is a linear function from the
polynomials to the polynomials? Explain your answer. (Hint: Fractions are scalors too!!)

Why don't broken things go back together? It's still glass, so why can't you put it back?