When I read articles about how DST is having all these deleterious effects (either from making the change or from sticking with DST year round) I think it shows a much deeper sickness with our society. We fight over what specific numerals should be on our clocks, which digits are healthier for us, but it seems that living our lives entirely beholden to mechanical time is the problem. It's literally killing us, but to live otherwise has become inconceivable to us.
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This is a nice survey of different ways of defining atomic radii. There turns out to be good physical reasons behind what, at first glance, look like arbitrary choices in the definitions.
How big is an atom? Why atomic size has no single answer
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/the-quest-to-understand-where-atoms-end/4022813.article
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TIL there are 85 ways to tie a tie, and here I've only ever done a half and a full Windsor
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@Lkdc@dmv.community just this past week I over-heard some co-workers (in Canada) wondering what it was. They thought it was a country in eastern Europe.
I was genuinely surprised that they didn't know.
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@vga256@mastodon.tomodori.net I'd heard about the lawsuit and coating failure over a decade ago (it was the hot goss for engineers at the time) I didn't realize they were still battling it out in court.
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@vga256@mastodon.tomodori.net yeah, and in the meantime corrosion from road salt is eating the structural steel away. Which will end up being even more costly than if the city simply re-painted once the problems became apparent in 2013.
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