allan

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.

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

#chemistry

TIL there are 85 ways to tie a tie, and here I've only ever done a half and a full Windsor

https://www.futilitycloset.com/2026/03/08/neck-deep/

#ties

Whenever I walk under the low level bridge I wonder how much life it has left in it. I'm sure the city has inspectors who are monitoring corrosion rates, but it still looks pretty bad when the coatings are completely disbonded in large sections. #yeg