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Any chance we can pull our know-how together to laser-write cuneiform in a glass cube?
"Why?" you may ask. And I am afraid I don't have a good answer to that question π€£
Good news: optics is effectively one of the oldest (maybe the oldest) sciences out there, so it is likely that future civilizations will know some optics.
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Now I want to write some cuneiform in a glass cube with a laser.
In order to generate the pulse I have a transient current density in the equations. That is the pulse detaching from the place where the current was.
The manual was several hundreds of pages long, and 15-years-old me was just a bit overwhelmed π€£
I have a day job and way too many time-consuming hobbies. I am trying very hard not to start learning how to code games π€£
Please, partner with someone with gamedev skills and make a modern version of SimLife.
Please, please, please π
Stop making me wish I had the time (and talent) to get into gamedev! π’
(This is amazing and you should be proud of yourself.)
Nuts and bolts come in discrete units.
The fact you are calling it a "pie" means it is not a pizza, and thus it falls outside the scope of the original question. π
Thoughts & prayers to the EPA :(
Potatoes on pizza are relatively normal in Italy (just cook them before you put them on your pizza!)
I haven't made a single scientific animation in months. I just don't have the mental space right now.
But I am preparing a series of lectures on scattering for the Plasmonica 2026 School (www.
plasmonica.it/2026school/), and it feels like a good excuse to make a few new ones.
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#PhysicsFactlet
A simple finite element simulation of a pulse scattering on a small (but not point-like) dielectric obstacle.
The scatterer behaves approximately as a re is a very faint halo of light going everywhere, but most light gets diffracted into something similar to a Airy Disk.
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"and take full responsibility for the content of the publication" is the important part to me.
This is indistinguishable from a satirical skit about MAGA electoral campaigns.
Seriously, since I have no clue who the guy is, if you were to tell me this was made by a comedian I would accept it without batting an eyelid.
I am not an archaeologist, but I assume the results are going to be published in a specialised journal?
Beside that it seems they are going to open the site to visits this summer, and there are detailed summaries of what has been found through the years www.swandro.co.uk/swandro-exca...
Maybe explain what scientific research have been kept hidden from the public (ideally providing some reliable source), instead of just name-dropping a place I had to google to even find out where it was?
Do not speak to me of the old magic
And, in many cases, they have already put that paper in a publicly accessible space (like their personal website and/or a preprint server).
This has happened exactly zero times.
Hi @katherineschof8.bsky.social
Manuela is doing some work on transcribing the "1787 Teatro dei Fiorentini production of Paisiello's Barber of Seville" (see
mathstodon.xyz/@Xibanya@mas... ) and she was interested in talking with an historian of music. Maybe you know someone? π
The Voyageurs Wolf Project of Northern Minnesota tags & documents grey wolf ecology & behavior: www.voyageurswolfproject.org
The video you see here is confirmatory proof:
Wolves. Love. Blueberries.
As much as 83% of a wolf's calories in summer months comes from eating berries.
But, but, but carnivores alpha males...
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(Silly jokes apart, this shows that wolves are smart and have good taste π)
AltGr+m=Β΅
(Linux, international keyboard)
Also: AltGr+h=Δ§
I find myself slightly suprised to be recommending a video from the Norwegian Consumer Council, but it's bloody good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...
I just found a short article/blog post (in #Italian) I wrote >15 years ago on Quantum Darwinism. It is a bit naΓ―ve, bit I think it still does its job π
"Welcome to adulthood my young Padawan".
To be fair: that book practically writes itself π€£
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