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Article author here. I wanted to write an accessible overview of basic laser physics, and in the process collected a zoo of weird things that lase (if pumped sufficiently hard) fro…

Yes, all the time. It is a common idiom, especially in history books.

The flower patterns remind me of Smith charts. https://www.antenna-theory.com/m/tutorial/smith/chart.php Since smith charts are made by mapping the complex plane (grid) to another …

You two fix nitrogen together?

I feel like I see antinatalism and childfree movements in the news more frequently now. I suppose if they're any good at their job, the movement won’t exist in seventy years or so.…

Baseline testosterone levels are actually even lower in most hunter gatherer populations. This suggests that your explanation is not necessarily correct.

Latin is actually very well attested, both in the classical and ecclesiastical pronunciation. There’s lots of languages, like Egyptian, where the phonology is pretty speculative, b…

In case anyone hasn’t read it, the Datacolada article demonstrating Ariely committed fraud is a great read and extremely convincing. https://datacolada.org/98

Damn this is cool

Thank you! And sure, you can email me at dblack12705@gmail.com

https://maximumeffort.substack.com/ “Some things that aren’t worth doing are worth overdoing.” I write about physics, language, and history, or whatever interests me at the moment,…

I love this book! It’s really quite excellent for teaching Latin.

Cool! It’s really fun

If you have any quantitative data on that, even anecdotal, I’d be very interested! I’m curious to see if my 300,000 number holds up

Thank you! The Reddit mod thing was really just supposed to be a catalyst for some of the ideas I had about group size limits, not really the point of the article. Though I WAS a l…