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Comedian, musician, and writer Morgan Bassichis on embracing your playful side https://thecreativeindependent.com/peo

Comedian, musician, and writer Morgan Bassichis on embracing your playful side – The Creative Independent
Comedian, musician, and writer Morgan Bassichis discusses using humor and creativity in movement organizing, working on many things at once, and finding wisdom in what you don’t like about yourself.

Smart Contract Adoption in Derivative Markets under Bounded Risk: An Optimization Approach
Jinho Cha, Long Pham, Thi Le Hoa Vo, Jaeyoung Cho, Jaejin Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07006

Smart Contract Adoption in Derivative Markets under Bounded Risk: An Optimization Approach
This study develops and analyzes an optimization model of smart contract adoption under bounded risk, linking structural theory with simulation and real-world validation. We examine how adoption intensity alpha is structurally pinned at a boundary solution, invariant to variance and heterogeneity, while profitability and service outcomes are variance-fragile, eroding under volatility and heavy-tailed demand. A sharp threshold in the fixed cost parameter A3 triggers discontinuous adoption collap…

The UK has ramped up the use of facial recognition, AI, and internet regulation to address crime and other issues, stoking concerns of surveillance overreach (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/t…

Has Britain Gone Too Far With Its Digital Controls?
British authorities have ramped up the use of facial recognition, artificial intelligence and internet regulation to address crime and other issues, stoking concerns of surveillance overreach.

Modeling Social Systems: Transparency, Reproducibility, and Responsibility
Maximino Aldana, Roni Barak Ventura, Heather Z. Brooks, Philip S. Chodrow, Filipe Georgiou, Joseph Johnson, Kre\v{s}imir Josi\'c, Zachary P. Kilpatrick, Kath Landgren, Andrew Nugent, Maurizio Porfiri, Nancy Rodriguez, Pablo Su\'arez-Serrato, David White, Alexander Wiedemann, Sam Zhang

Modeling Social Systems: Transparency, Reproducibility, and Responsibility
Mathematical models of complex social systems can enrich social scientific theory, inform interventions, and shape policy. From voting behavior to economic inequality and urban development, such models influence decisions that affect millions of lives. Thus, it is especially important to formulate and present them with transparency, reproducibility, and humility. Modeling in social domains, however, is often uniquely challenging. Unlike in physics or engineering, researchers often lack controll…

Non-split sharply 2-transitive groups of bounded exponent
Marco Amelio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11958 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.11958

Non-split sharply 2-transitive groups of bounded exponent
We construct here the first known examples of non-split sharply 2-transitive groups of bounded exponent in odd positive characteristic for every large enough prime $p \equiv 3 \pmod{4}$. In fact, we show that there are countably many pairwise non-isomorphic countable non-split sharply 2-transitive groups of characteristic $p$ for each such $p$. Furthermore, we construct non-periodic non-split sharply 2-transitive groups (of these same characteristics) with centralizers of involutions of bounded…

Click, Watch, Learn: The Impact of Student Self-Study Materials on Physics E&M Course Outcomes
James K. Hirons, Jonathan D. Perry, Dawson T. Nodurft, Scott Crawford, William Bassichis, Tatiana L. Erukhimova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12143

Click, Watch, Learn: The Impact of Student Self-Study Materials on Physics E&M Course Outcomes
Performance in introductory courses, particularly physics, is often crucial for student success in STEM majors and can impact an individual's tendency to persist in their chosen field. To enhance students' individual learning experiences, faculty at many universities have worked to develop open-access, self-study materials to help build conceptual understanding and problem-solving skills. Faculty at Texas A&M University have contributed to these efforts, creating more than 200 online video reso…

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