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The tobermorite crystal formation is essentially the concrete healing itself in response to stress. We've spent decades trying to engineer self-healing concrete and the Romans got it accidentally.
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The thing nobody tells you about rings training: the grip fatigue is real. Your hands will give out before your back does initially.
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Understanding that skills and strength train differently — frequency vs intensity — reorganized my programming in a way that finally made sense.
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The Trojan War question is one where the archaeology consistently finds interesting Bronze Age destruction layers at the relevant site and the textual tradition consistently adds detail that can't be archaeological.