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"A sprawling expanse of white #marble waste in #India is drawing tourists, filmmakers and social media enthusiasts to a landscape that looks more like a snow-covered valley than a dumping ground"
(h/t drsadhbh on bsky) #quarry

India marble waste dump turns unlikely tourist attraction
A sprawling expanse of white marble waste in India is drawing tourists, filmmakers and social media enthusiasts to a landscape that looks more like a snow-covered valley than a dumping ground.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@DrALJONES/117217788169794641
You want heroes? You won’t find them in Marvel films. These people are true heroes.
Bravely sailing in to the heart of a genocide knowing that previous attempts have faced rape and torture a…

Eu não gosto de filmes de ação ou daqueles super-heróis da Marvel. Para mim, um carro é só um meio de transporte. Não ligo muito para futebol de clubes. Não curto UFC ou qualquer tipo de esporte marcial. Mas a cada quatro anos eu me envolvo muito com Copa do Mundo. É quando eu cumpro minha cota mínima obrigatória de homem hétero, para evitar que cancelem minha carteirinha rs. #estereótipos

Substrate-Directed Wetting Layers in Bicontinuous Particle-Stabilised Emulsions
Jesse M. Steenhoff, Martin F. Haase
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13230 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.13230 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.13230
arXiv:2608.13230v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Bicontinuous interfacially jammed emulsion gels (bijels) facilitate efficient mass transport across multiple length scales due to their interwoven structure of particle-stabilised liquid channels. This unique morphology imparts considerable potential for applications in separation and catalysis, particularly when fabricated \textit{via} solvent-transfer-induced phase separation (STrIPS). STrIPS enables the continuous, large-scale production of nanostructured bijel films on solid substrates, yet the influence of the substrate properties on the formation dynamics and final morphology remains insufficiently understood. In this study, this relationship is elucidated by preparing STrIPS bijel films on silane-functionalised glass substrates with selectively controlled wettability and analysing the resulting structure with confocal microscopy. The results showed the presence of notable wetting layers at the bijel-substrate interface, whose thicknesses could be tuned through the nanoparticle weight fraction. In line with numerical simulations, increasing the substrate hydrophobicity drove a transition from a laminar, water-rich surface layer to a patch-like, progressively oil-rich structure. These findings provide crucial insight into the structure-directing role of substrates in supported bijel films, which aids their application as functional materials.
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On this day 34 years ago, I registered the omnigroup.com domain. It was the day NeXT launched NeXTSTEP 3.0, taking advantage of their new 33MHz "Turbo" workstations. In 1992, like today, Sept. 8 was the first workday following Labor Day weekend.
Happy birthday, @…!
Here's the original logo used by Omni from 1992 until our Aqua redesign in 2001. I created this on a NeXT using RenderMan with a hand-written text RIB source file, back when 3D renderings of marble carvings were still novel.