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Lead Poisoning and Rome
- jbverschoor 5y agoToo much text. Too large paragraphs. Writers, please think about your audience. It’s the same as requiring 2Gb of ram for an app, just so you can deliver faster. It’s lazy, it’s impolite, it’s arrogant
- atoav 5y agoAs someone who layouted more than one printed book: this is a pretty normal paragraph size for printed books. Even a bit short maybe (e.g. compared to novels). What books do you read?
- watwut 5y agoLiterally no book I hare read had lines as long as this one tho. They also dont use red text color on orange background with additional dark orange letters on it. My point here is that this particular text presentation is really quite bad.
- rodelrod 5y ago> Literally no book I hare read had lines as long as this one tho. Try Proust
- watwut 5y agopretty sure they dont pretty it as wide as this one was. My complain was not about length of the sentence, but about absurd width.
- atoav 5y agoWhich depends on the screen..
- watwut 5y agoWhich is dumb way to determine text length unless your audience is exclusively mobile. Which is my point. That text is seriously badly presented.
- skhr0680 5y ago> Which is dumb way to determine text length unless your audience is exclusively mobile. I don't think it's dumb when your users have either an 800 or 1024 pixel wide monitor. I added max-width: 800px using developer tools and the line length looks about perfect.
- bmeski 5y agoReader mode
- kace91 5y agoThe reason I'm here and not in twitter is precisely because I don't want to be fed _everything_ in shallow bursts of content. Yes, engaging the audience is important, but we've come to a point where people can't keep their attention for more than 1 minute and it's becoming deeply worrying.
- throwawaygal7 5y agoThe audience is an interested one, capable of reading at or above college level. The paragraphs are coherent and well structured. Not everything is a pop science article written for middle school level readers.
- ghosty141 5y agoGreat read. One of the bits I found quite funny: >Horace cautions that those who revere the three Graces should mix no more than one part of wine with three of water—but for the poet who celebrates the nine Muses, the ratio should be inverted.
- dash2 5y agoThis seems like a good example of why scientists need to learn from the humanities when they apply their theories to history. There's lots about the physiology of lead poisoning and the chemistry of lead pipes, but also lots of references to Latin literature to show how people lived and what they did or didn't know.