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Cancer rates among those aged 15 to 49 have increased by 10 percent since 2000
even as they have fallen among older people.
Young women are more affected than men.
From ages 15 through 49, women have a cancer rate that is 83 percent higher than men in the same age range.

What researchers suspect may be fueling cancer among millennials
Studies suggest modern life may be fueling the rise of cancer in younger adults, with factors like ultra-processed foods and chemicals under scrutiny.

An approximate history of my amateur phone photography:
1. Really poor photos. Unsavory interest in (low resolution) panoramas.
2. Photos get a little better. Sometimes they're HDRs (I suspect the camera app was set to "auto").
3. A new phone. Higher resolution and a gyroscope.
4. Switching to LineageOS, and therefore to #OpenCamera. HDR enabled unconditionally.
5. HDR does not always come great (compared to the stock Motorola app that doesn't work anymore). I enable saving component photos, so I could try getting a better quality combination using the PC. I never manage that.
6. I start experimenting with exposure correction (combined with HDR). Sometimes I do multiple photos with different "Eves" to choose the best one.
7. A new phone. Finally, given even the gyroscope was failing already.
8. I learn that Pixels have "HDR " that gets activated when you do standard mode photos. For a while I do both standard and HDR photos; also I compare the middle component image with the standard mode image. [https://opencamera.sourceforge.io/help.html#faq]
9. Before I reach any final conclusions, I read "What is HDR, anyway?" I disable HDR entirely, instead I save standard mode (i.e. HDR ) raw images (which presumably aren't affected by HDR ) [https://www.lux.camera/what-is-hdr/]. Not that I ever managed to get anything good out of raws.
10. I discover that I can switch the lens. Today I've made my first photos, switching lens to get optical zoom 💪.

I have complicated feelings that are not entirely dissimilar to Popehat’s thread here, but are…well…more complicated.
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Optimal Hamiltonian for a quantum state with finite entropy
M. E. Shirokov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16575 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.16575

Optimal Hamiltonian for a quantum state with finite entropy
We consider the following task: how for a given quantum state $ρ$ to find a grounded Hamiltonian $H$ such that $\mathrm{Tr}Hρ\leq E_0<+\infty$ in such a way that the von Neumann entropy of the Gibbs state $γ_H(E)$ corresponding to a given energy $E>0$ be as small as possible. We show that for any mixed state $ρ$ with finite entropy and any $E>0$ there is a unique solution $H(ρ,E_0,E)$ of the above problem which we call optimal Hamiltonian for this state. Explicit expressions for $H(ρ,E_…

Terwijl de klimaatschuld oploopt, nemen wij een tweede hypotheek https://www.nu.nl/klimaat/6368692/terwijl-de-klimaatschuld-oploopt-nemen-wij-een-tweede-hypotheek.html

Terwijl de klimaatschuld oploopt, nemen wij een tweede hypotheek
In de rubriek De broeikas schrijft klimaatverslaggever Jeroen Kraan wekelijks over wat hem opvalt. Deze week: Europa heeft een flinke klimaatschuld opgebouwd. Gaan we aflossen, of nemen we een tweede hypotheek?

Dispersed multi-walled carbon nanotubes in polyvinyl butyral matrix for transparent ionic conductive films
Mykola O. Semenenko, Sergii O. Kravchenko, Nadiia V. Siharova, Olha V. Pylypova, Mariya I. Terets, Oleksandr S. Pylypchuk, Mariia V. Voitovych, Tetiana Yu. Obukhova, Taisiia O. Kuzmenko, Andrey Sarikov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07584…

Dispersed multi-walled carbon nanotubes in polyvinyl butyral matrix for transparent ionic conductive films
In this work, we develop methods for increasing the dispersion degree of agglomerated multiwalled carbon nanotubes with subsequent introduction of them into polyvinyl butyral to create transparent conductive films. The influence of proton and a-proton solvents in combination with potassium triiodide (KI3) as a redox component for oxidation of the multiwalled carbon nanotubes surface, which reduces agglomeration due to electrostatic repulsion, is investigated. It is demonstrated that a-proton so…

On integrability of a $q$-oscillator lattice with a $B$-boundary
Sergey Sergeev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12540 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.12540

On integrability of a $q$-oscillator lattice with a $B$-boundary
In this paper we propose a method of construction of a double layer-to-layer auxiliary transfer matrix defined on a half-plane with a boundary. The transfer matrix obtained has the following features: - It produces a complete set of integrals of motion, - Its ingredients can be seen as an auxiliary problem for $3d$ Kuniba-Okado reflection matrix, - The model obtained has no quantum group interpretation.

SurgPub-Video: A Comprehensive Surgical Video Dataset for Enhanced Surgical Intelligence in Vision-Language Model
Yaoqian Li, Xikai Yang, Dunyuan Xu, Yang Yu, Litao Zhao, Xiaowei Hu, Jinpeng Li, Pheng-Ann Heng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10054

SurgPub-Video: A Comprehensive Surgical Video Dataset for Enhanced Surgical Intelligence in Vision-Language Model
Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have shown significant potential in surgical scene analysis, yet existing models are limited by frame-level datasets and lack high-quality video data with procedural surgical knowledge. To address these challenges, we make the following contributions: (i) SurgPub-Video, a comprehensive dataset of over 3,000 surgical videos and 25 million annotated frames across 11 specialties, sourced from peer-reviewed clinical journals, (ii) SurgLLaVA-Video, a specialized VLM for…