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This measurement was performed in a lab in Germany. The main spectrometer of the apparatus used for the measurement was fabricated in Germany. The delivery route was almost 9000 km…

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Except for the incredibly low ceilings in some places.

That's an older paper that was initially uploaded in 2018 and revised last year. The preprint under discussion is at https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19459

I gave a couple of physics talks where I used the "fasten seatbelt" sign on a series of slides introducing a controversial topic (weak value amplification). I told the audiences be…

During my physics PhD I built my own Segway (and a second one with a power tool company who came to me after first asking tlb) and did a bunch of projects with a high-power laser c…

I wonder if your eyes move around a lot. It's known that we can see flicker in things like LEDs on a clock when our eyes move fast enough that subsequent flashes are sufficiently s…

The Thai anti-smoking ads are pretty straightforward/gruesome as well, and cigarette companies are required to include them on their packaging.

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My current boss worked on ActiMates. He'd probably be happy to answer questions if anyone here has any for me to pass along.

It's not just nice for that reason, that's the reason the scale exists.

I presume that's kind of the point. It's fun.

I think the point was that it's just "Kelvin" not "degrees Kelvin"

I always want to ask “degrees what?" I once worked on a system that ran at -40 degrees. I loved leaving off the scale when giving tours and telling about it, because someone would …

Have you confirmed that their charges aren't still showing up on your credit card statement? Merchants collecting recurring payments use updater services to update expiration dates…

ขอบคุณครับคุณสมศักดิ์ Glad someone called me out on not reading the article. I'll do better next time.

Here's the Substack announcement of their new Notes feature that's referenced in the article as being a likely cause for this (or maybe Musk is just being Musk): https://on.substac…

James Bruton's videos might be a good place to start. https://www.youtube.com/user/jamesbruton

Here's a nice Wyoming PBS piece on rescuing Wyomingian varieties: https://youtu.be/KZyD74vNdcc