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In the sixteenth century, lunacy was a constant theme that was never questioned. It was still frequent in the seventeenth century, but started to disappear, and by 1707, the year in which Le François asked the question ‘Estne aliquod lunae in corpora humana imperium?’ (Does the moon have any influence over the human body?), after lengthy discussions, the university decided that their reply was in the negative. In the course of the eighteenth century the moon was rarely cited among the causes of madness, even as a possible factor or an aggravation. But right at the end of the century the idea reappears, perhaps under the influence of English medicine, which had never entirely forgotten the moon, and Daquin, followed by Leuret and Guislain, all admitted the influence of the moon on the phases of maniacal excitement, or at the least on the agitation of their patients. But what is important here is not so much the return of the theme as the possibility and conditions necessary for its reappearance. It reappears entirely transformed, filled with a new significance that it did not formerly possess. In its traditional form, it designated an immediate influence, a direct coincidence in time and intersection in space, whose mode of action was entirely situated in the power of the stars. But in Daquin by contrast, the influence of the moon acts through a whole series of mediations, in a kind of hierarchy, surrounding man. The moon acts on the atmosphere with such intensity that it can set in motion a mass as heavy as the ocean. The nervous system, of all the parts that make up the human organism, is the part most sensitive to atmospheric variations, as the slightest variation in temperature, humidity or dryness can have serious effects upon it. The moon therefore, given the important power that its trajectory exerts on the atmosphere, is likely to act most on people whose nervous fibres are particularly delicate:
“Madness is an exclusively nervous condition, and the brain of a madman must therefore be infinitely more susceptible to the influence of the atmosphere, which itself undergoes considerable changes of intensity as a result of the different positions of the moon relative to the earth.” [Daquin, Philosophie de la folie, Paris, 1792]
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(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)

Die Ausschreibung für zwei #Offshore-Windflächen in der #Nordsee mit 2,5 GW Kapazität ist erstmals gescheitert.
Niemand hat ein Gebot abgegeben. Branchenvertreter sehen die Gründe vor allem in gestiegenen #Baukosten

Ausschreibung von Windkraftanlagen: Niemand will sie haben
Zum ersten Mal ist eine Ausschreibung für den Betrieb von Windanlagen im Meer gescheitert. Den Investoren sind die Risiken zu hoch.

Adaptive Attention Residual U-Net for curvilinear structure segmentation in fluorescence microscopy and biomedical images
Achraf Ait Laydi, Louis Cueff, Mewen Crespo, Yousef El Mourabit, H\'el\`ene Bouvrais
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07800

Adaptive Attention Residual U-Net for curvilinear structure segmentation in fluorescence microscopy and biomedical images
Segmenting curvilinear structures in fluorescence microscopy remains a challenging task, particularly under noisy conditions and in dense filament networks commonly seen in vivo. To address this, we created two original datasets consisting of hundreds of synthetic images of fluorescently labelled microtubules within cells. These datasets are precisely annotated and closely mimic real microscopy images, including realistic noise. The second dataset presents an additional challenge, by simulating…

A Linear Generative Framework for Structure-Function Coupling in the Human Brain
Sam Frank Kelemen, Joaqu\'in G\~oni, S\'ergio Pequito, Arian Ashourvan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06136

A Linear Generative Framework for Structure-Function Coupling in the Human Brain
Brain function emerges from coordinated activity across anatomically connected regions, where structural connectivity (SC) -- the network of white matter pathways - provides the physical substrate for functional connectivity (FC) -- the correlated neural activity between brain areas. While these structural and functional networks exhibit substantial overlap, their relationship involves complex, indirect mechanisms, including the dynamic interplay of direct and indirect pathways, recurrent netwo…

Facts look different in different contexts...
Nigeria, Libya, Caspian Sea, and other oil patches in impoverished places are effectively without the concept of environmental regulation. They flare whatever wherever they want. In Nigeria the rampant theft of unrefined oil and "fire pit refining" is beyond anything done by regulated refiners in TX.
Not that we want to emulate Nigeria or Azerbaijan or Libya...

A facile vector substrate platform via BaTiO3 membrane transfer enables high quality solution processed epitaxial PZT on silicon
Asraful Haque (Centre for Nanoscience,Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India), Antony Jeyaseelan (Centre for Nanoscience,Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India), Shubham Kumar Parate (Centre for Nanoscience,Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India), Srinivasan Raghavan (Centre for Nanoscience,Engineeri…

A facile vector substrate platform via BaTiO3 membrane transfer enables high quality solution processed epitaxial PZT on silicon
The direct integration of high-performance ferroelectric oxides with silicon remains challenging due to lattice mismatch, thermal incompatibility, and the need for high-temperature epitaxial growth. Here, a hybrid integration approach is demonstrated in which crystalline BaTiO3 (BTO) membranes are first transferred onto Pt coated Si substrates and subsequently used as vector substrates (VS) for the growth of epitaxial (001) Pb(Zr0.52Ti0.48)O3 (PZT) thin films via chemical solution deposition (C…

Azerbaijan detains alleged Russian spies as relations with Moscow nosedive: https://benborges.xyz/2025/06/30/azerbaijan-detains-alleged-russian-spies.html

Another passenger plane is lost in Russia.
This is the third since the war began. The other two were the Malaysia Airlines plane shot down over Ukraine and the Azerbaijan Airlines plane shot full of shrapnel over Grozny.
Can’t imagine why today’s plane would have been shot at considering it was in the Far East… but we’ll see.
Not sure why anyone would take the risk to fly to a Russian airport these days.
#russiaUkraineWar #russia #airtravel
https://www.khaleejtimes.com/world/russian-rescuers-find-missing-plane

Today the European Commission will release a draft budget which is expected to make major changes to agribusiness subsidies (the CAP).
I think the only way to fix the #CAP is to kill it completely. Rename it and forget it. I'm not anti-regulation in general but I don't believe it's possible for bureaucrats in Bruxelles to meaningfully manage lands 2500 km away.
Why? Elinor Ostrom ex…