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I was an EMT in the Los Angeles area for four years, and then in the Seattle area for four years. I developed the mindset that even if the patient died, we (the firefighters/EMTs/p…

I read the paper; much of the electronics details got past me on the first read, but I think that the part most relevant to your question is their statement that it needs to be det…

The reversed-biased method is actually the basis of single-photon detectors used in quantum optics experiments, especially experiments with entangled photons. Here's a paper that u…

"All right; but apart from the sanitation, education, medicine, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for…

Different poster here. My wife and I retired to Portugal (near Lisbon) about two years ago. I guess we're two of the "affluent gentrifiers". :-) In contrast, we met a 20-something …

My rule of thumb is, stores would not offer loyalty programs if it lost them money.

Another good WYSIWYG front end is LyX: www.lyx.org . I've written a few hundred physics lecture notes with it, as well as a number of Beamer presentations. I find it much easier to…

If you have some diy desire and skill, you can get a lot of bang-for-your buck from the speaker kits from Parts Express ( https://www.parts-express.com/speaker-components/speaker-s…

Same. The only thing I miss about owning my own home is that I can't set up a home theater. The last house I owned had a bare-to-the-studs basement when we bought it. I built a hom…

Well, for my wife and me, like the featured couple, we moved here to Cascais, where we have leased a 3 bedroom apartment. (We moved from Seattle, not L.A., but most of the dynamics…

If you have the math background (advanced calculus and vector algebra), then there is no better writer than David J. Griffiths. He is the only textbook author I have every encounte…

lbrito, do you currently live in Portugal? And, how did you learn Portuguese? My wife and I are working on it (she is much farther along than I am), and man is it tough! So many ti…

To start with: We decided to apply for what's called a "D7" visa. Skipping over the details, it allows us to reside in Portugal long-term; it is somewhat analogous to the U.S. "gre…

Wow. I had no idea how intricate and CLEVER the mechanism of a mechanical watch is. Being no engineer, I cannot imagine how someone could think of all these clever designs. (Yes, o…

My wife and I did this immediately upon retiring: Pacific Northwestern U.S. to Lisbon, Portugal. Early days yet (less than one year), but so far has been fantastic. Much lower cost…

A lot less than that nowadays. I set up a very similar experiment about 3 years ago at my school, based on a series of papers by Mark Beck, now at Reed College in Oregon, US. Here …

Emo Phillips once said, "I used to think that the brain was the most important organ in my body; until I realized who was telling me that."

The webmaster at lowtechmagazine.com says: "...Compressed through this dithering plugin, images featured in the articles add much less load to the content: compared to the old webs…

Beat me to it! I have no memory of where I first heard it, but it was in my far-away long-lost youth. Despite that, I have never forgotten it, nor lost the ability to call it up in…

I learned to play the guitar. Not well, but well enough...And, I learned the sort of songs you can play at parties, that people can sing along to. Once I started engaging with peop…

My reading of the text is that "dimensions" he is talking about are the various ways of being good at physics, not the many ways an individual person can be talented. From the text…

I'm not persuaded that the stated facts lead inevitably to the conclusion they reached. From another article (linked from the Verge post): "* YouTuber Luke Miani decided to test wh…

Agree completely! I had no idea that "foreground" could be used as a verb! "...A pious fraud like Brossier foregrounds questions of truth and motive..."

jIyajbe@gmail.com will find me. (Hopefully posting this will not increase my spam count...) Thanks!!!

I would love to get this script! I am doing photon counting with an LED readout; this would help me enormously.