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Allergies are a big problem for a lot of people. If you're someone with pollen allergies, maybe you've wondered how people in the distant past dealt with them. After all, a thousand years ago people mostly worked outside all day, in areas where plants grow well. They had no air...

How do sperm whales vocalize? This is...apparently...a topic that LessWrong readers are interested in, and someone asked me to write a quick post on it. The clicks they make originate from blowing air through "phonic lips" that look like this; picture is from this paper. This works basically like you...

Among developed countries, Japan has long had the highest debt/GDP ratio, currently ~232%. That seems pretty bad, and conversely has made some people say that the US debt is fine because it's still much lower than Japan's. But here are some points that might clarify the situation: First, that ratio...

the Constellation-class frigate Last month, the US Navy's Constellation-class frigate program was canceled. The US Navy has repeatedly failed at making new ship classes (see the Zumwalt, DDG(X), and LCS programs) so the Constellation-class was supposed to use an existing design, the FREMM frigate used by Italy, France, and Egypt....

I'm writing this post to announce my new startup, C2 AI, focusing on small modular coal power plants, which will be used to power AI models that design new small modular chemical plants. the concept You probably know that there are lots of startups working on "small modular reactors" (SMRs)...

the problem In America, it's become fairly common for people looking for a job to send out a lot of resumes, sometimes hundreds. As a result, companies accepting resumes online now tend to get too many applications to properly review. So, some fast initial filter is needed. For example, requiring...

MRI scans and PET scans are different methods for medical imaging, and they observe different things: * MRI scans can see which nuclei are present in regions. Sometimes bond types of particular elements can be distinguished, eg in 1H NMR and fMRI. * PET scans add a short-lived radioactive tracer...