Talk:1592: Overthinking

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First Panel: DOI: 10.1097/JSM.0000000000000221 Title: Statement of the Third International Exercise-Associated Hyponatremia Consensus Development Conference, Carlsbad, California, 2015. Tamara HB, Mitchell HR, Sandra FG et al. Link: journals.lww.com/cjsportsmed/Fulltext/2015/07000/Statement_of_the_Third_International.2.aspx

Second Panel: DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyv191 Title: Associations of sitting behaviours with all-cause mortality over a 16-year follow-up: the Whitehall II study. Richard MP, Emmanuel S., Annie RB et al. Link: ije.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2015/10/09/ije.dyv191

Third Panel: DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.09.046 Natural Sleep and Its Seasonal Variations in Three Pre-industrial Societies. G. Yetish, H. Kaplan, B. Wood et al. Link: cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822%2815%2901157-4

Full Text links: goo.gl/kc8cSs 162.158.34.206 13:17, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

DOI's

Doh, after I added the links and noticed they were off by a panel I went to add a blurb in the comic description likely at the same time someone else did so in the references section I had just created. :P lol Jarod997 (talk) 13:38, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

Linking "Digital Object Identifier" to www.doi.org is not helpful. Even their FAQ doesn't tell you what a DOI is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier will be more informative to most people, assuming wikipedia is correct. 198.41.235.101 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

Shifted DOI

The Image provided here does not match with the one given at [1]. At xkcd.com the DOIs are shifted to match the corresponding text. 162.158.92.167 14:22, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

Indeed you are correct. It would appear that Randall didn't intend to confuse us this way. ;) Problem is the comic panel on this page is auto-grabbed by a bot. Someone with more experience than me is going to have to look into this. Once the panel is updated, we can update the DOI link references. Jarod997 (talk) 14:26, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
0000000000000221 ???

The Journal of Sports Medicine seems to think that someday they might have over a quadrillion articles indexed by DOI. I dunno, maybe that's a tiny bit overly optimistic? - Frankie (talk) 16:09, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

"Figuring out which ideas are true is hard."

Verification is hard? Maybe as hard as finding a solution? OMG it's a hidden message: Randall found a proof for P=NP! 162.158.91.213 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

I'm not convinced that's hard. It seems to me more likely that accepting the consequences is hard. For example, telling people they can no longer smoke because they are harming themselves and others would likely impinge on their personal freedom or hurt their poor little feelings. 198.41.238.33 22:12, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

Figuring out which ideas are true is just science. -- Ima420r (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

Am I going to offend someone if I point out that religion is a great example of "figuring out which ideas are true is hard" ??? 108.162.249.163 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

The text says "being the character with an odd "surreal" way of thinking" about White Hat, but isn't that Beret Guy? 141.101.105.211

"Plumbing"

Can someone explain why White Hat suggests plumbing could cause overthinking? Thanks. 141.101.66.23 11:24, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

My guess when I read it was: you should understand "overthinking" as "over sink-ing", hence the plumbing suggestion. 162.158.6.222 16:14, 20 October 2015 (UTC)
I take it as a reference to lead piping, which can be blamed for all manner of physical and metal "epidemics" with no obvious vector--Laverock (talk) 10:31, 21 October 2015 (UTC)