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There's obviously something like a Rule 34-C: no matter what your fetish is, there's a crowdfunding for a device to help you enjoy it.
Groove Thing | The World's First Internal Music Player https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/groov…

Player the #oblivionremastered version yesterday for a few hours. It brought back soo many great memories of how I setup a room with my brother all those years ago with a Xbox and a beamer to play the game for many hours.
Everything looked so amazing back then and the remaster does well at transporting a similar feeling. Though the game world is sometimes a bit bare when one looks …

Flexoelectric Polarization Enhancement in Paraelectric $\mathrm{BaHfO_3}$ via Strain Gradient Engineering
Timo Piecuch, Jeffrey A. Brock, Xiaochun Huang, Arnold M. M\"uller, Christof Vockenhuber, Christof W. Schneider, Thomas Lippert, Nick A. Shepelin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19690

Flexoelectric Polarization Enhancement in Paraelectric $\mathrm{BaHfO_3}$ via Strain Gradient Engineering
Flexoelectricity - polarization induced by strain gradients - offers a route to polar functionality in centrosymmetric dielectrics, where traditional piezoelectric effects are absent. This study investigates the flexoelectric effect in epitaxial $\mathrm{BaHfO_3}$ (BHO) thin films, a centrosymmetric and paraelectric perovskite. While a large lattice mismatch induces defect-driven relaxation, a coherently grown BHO film undergoes elastic relaxation, forming intrinsic strain gradients exceeding $…

[PODCAST] Episode 308: The Campus Free Speech Panic: Who’s Fueling the Misinformation Machine?
https://pca.st/episode/a003e200-73bf-405f-9036-f96590459999
“Bradford Vivian is at Penn State. His latest book is Campus Misinformation: The Real Threat to Free Speech in Am…

Prescott's summer flings to bubble WR will need to morph into substantial contributions https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/09/dallas-cowboys-player-profile-wr-jalen-brooks/…

Congratulations on the retirement of Bill Curry after 13 years as head of the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, following an already amazing, full career at Wood's Hole Oceanographic Insitution where he was a leader in marine geology, #climate and #carbon cycling research.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.07868 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arX…

Filling the gap in the IERS C01 polar motion series in 1858.9-1860.9
The C01 Earth orientation parameters (EOP) series provided by the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) is the longest reliable record of the Earth's rotation. In particular, the polar motion (PM) series beginning from 1846 provides a basis for investigation of the long-term PM variations. However, the pole coordinate $Y_p$ in the IERS C01 PM series has a 2-year gap, which makes this series not completely evenly spaced. This paper presents the results of the first at…