To those who subscribe to this blog via email —

I’ve come to realize a couple of things about how WordPress (the software this blog sits on top of) handles what you receive in your Inbox.

First, every post I build includes some theme‑related artwork as a “Featured Image” up top. The image appears above the title when you look at the post online, but it’s not included in the emails. At all. Worse (from the image’s point of view), how much of the FI you see depends on whether you’re using your phone, a tablet, or full‑screen or partial window on a deskside computer. When I figured that out I started sticking a second, smaller copy of the image onto the bottom of the post. That way everyone sees some version of the artwork, like this one that should have gone on the bottom of the 14 Oct 2024 post (The Oldest Clock Ticks Slowest):

Second, WordPress recently enhanced its offering with an Expand On Click option. I’ve been selecting that for charts, calculations and such so they don’t take up a lot of screen space but readers can get a bigger view by clicking on the small version. Except that operation doesn’t work on the email distributions. I hope they’ll extend that functionality Real Soon Now.

In the meantime, if the emailed post you see has a chart or side‑bar that’s too small to read, please click on the post’s title. That’s a link that should transfer activity to your browser, then take you to the corresponding online post where you can click on the too‑small item to see the larger version.

And thanks for your interest in Hard Science.

~ Rich Olcott