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Many #Roman tiles with #children's footprints are known from all parts of the empire. But this is a special one, as it can be dated precisely due to the stamp: in 123 AD a #toddler stepped on the tile that laid out to dry before firing.

Found along the Via Appia, now in Museo Nazionale Romano -Terme di Diocleziano
Photo: https://www.archeokids.it/quattro-passi-nella-storia/

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I kid, but if you broke down how we do it now at a similar level of detail (which is subjective, granted), I think the diagram would be about as complex.

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They don’t want you to know, but this is how it still works most of the time. vis.social/@maarten/1100331431

Nodding every time the loss goes down, frowning every time it goes up, pursing my lips and making a note if it’s the same for two batches in a row.

@sgillies The more I think about it, the more I want to try this.

I appreciate a discussion among a bunch of people who are all, so to speak, capable of flying space shuttles, yet understand why not every interface should look like the space shuttle cockpit. mstdn.social/@kissane/11030051

This paper is 5 years old but I just happened across it and have been talking it up to like four different friend groups because it’s so fun. I particularly enjoyed the retrograde klimarübe (you know, the rutabaga that represents an idealized continent for climate delineation purposes … you know).

Mikolajewicz et al. (2018): “The climate of a retrograde rotating Earth” – esd.copernicus.org/articles/9/

I work in the field of remote sensing but the only thing the name “remote sensing” has going for it is that it sounds like something that a gutta-percha magnate established an as-yet–unclaimed £5,000 prize to prove the existence of in 1926.

@stephenjudkins On the north side of the street, right? Just east of that downhill slope toward the river. Can’t think what street it would have been on, though.

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Horsin' Around

This is a hometown instance run by Sam and Ingrid, for some friends.