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		oblio on July 14, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Volkswagen enters battery business with $20B inves... STEM knowledge is non intuitive and highly perishable. Plus, they never liked studying it. It's amazing how much you can cram in short term memory that gets erases within day or weeks.

galangalalgol on July 14, 2022 [–]

Outside of the relatively narrow niche of web related tech, is any other STEM perishable? Physics, chemistry and calculus haven't changed that much right?

oblio on July 14, 2022 | [–]

My bad, I meant it more in the sense that your memory of it decays quickly :-)

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