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Stephen A. Smith takes a dig at Cowboys claiming Texans are now the best team in Texas following Stefon Diggs’ arrival https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/st

"Recovery of Brazil’s Spix’s macaw, popularized in animated ‘Rio’ films, threatened by climate change"
#Brazil #Birds #Climate

Recovery of Brazil's Spix's macaw, popularized in animated 'Rio' films, threatened by climate change
In Brazil’s Northeast, a South African couple is reintroducing the Spix’s macaw to nature through breeding and reintroduction efforts. They’re striving to save these iconic blue parrots from disappearing forever. Despite challenges such as habitat loss, climate change and government disagreements, they are working with local communities to return the bird to its native habitat. There are approximately 360 critically endangered Spix's macaws in captivity worldwide and very few are living i…

Trump openly speculated that there would be a “breaking point”
if he is sentenced to jail time or house arrest after being convicted of 34 felonies in his hush-money trial that concluded last week.
Speaking with Fox and Friends on Sunday, Trump speculated,
“I don’t know that the public would stand it, you know? I don’t—I’m not sure the public would stand for it.”
Seemingly hoping to nudge calamity into fruition, Trump added,
“I think it’d be tough for the public…

Trump Issues Menacing Warning on What Comes Next if He’s Jailed
Donald Trump is speaking directly to his supporters after being convicted.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.03416 has been replaced.
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Viscous rebound of a quasi-2D cylinder on a solid wall
The purpose of the present study is to extend the simple concept of apparent coefficient of restitution, widely approached in the literature for the case of a single-contact-point between a sphere and a wall, to the case of bouncing whose complexity is increased due to the shape of the contacting object. Experiments are carried out with a finite-length cylinder, freely falling in a liquid at rest. Complex 3D motions of the cylinder with respect to the wall occur during bouncing, including mul…

In a surprise vote, major European climate protection plan shelved following farmer protests
https://apnews.com/article/eu-climate-nature-protection-farmers-protests-7b222f346d4898e32766b230da781385

In a surprise vote, major European climate protection plan shelved following farmer protests
A major European Union plan to fight climate change and better protect nature in the 27-nation bloc has been indefinitely postponed , underscoring how farmers’ protests sweeping the continent influence politics ahead of the June EU parliamentary elections..Monday was supposed to be the day the member states gave their final approval to the plan. But what was to be a mere rubber stamp following months of proceedings through the EU’s institutional maze has now been indefinitely postponed. It …

Our guest from @… Ep. 209 on the past, present and future of nuclear power, veteran nuclear industry journalist Stephanie Cooke, has an excellent op-ed in NYT:

Opinion | The Fantasy of Reviving Nuclear Energy
The nuclear industry has a long history of failing to deliver on its promises.

Cyberattack on telecom giant Frontier claimed by RansomHub https://therecord.media/frontier-communications-cyberattack-ransomhub

Cyberattack on telecom giant Frontier claimed by RansomHub
The Dallas-based company had said in a regulatory filing in April that a cybercrime group was responsible for a data breach. The gang added Frontier to its leak site on June 1.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.18154 has been replaced.
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Classification of compact manifolds with positive isotropic curvature
We show the following result: Let $(M,g_0)$ be a compact manifold of dimension $n\geq 12$ with positive isotropic curvature. Then $M$ is diffeomorphic to a spherical space form, or a quotient manifold of $\mathbb{S}^{n-1}\times \mathbb{R}$ by a cocompact discrete subgroup of the isometry group of the round cylinder $\mathbb{S}^{n-1}\times \mathbb{R}$, or a connected sum of a finite number of such manifolds. This extends previous works of Brendle and Chen-Tang-Zhu, and improves a work of Huang. …

"Top oil firms’ climate pledges failing on almost every metric, report finds"
#FossilFuels #Energy #Climate #ClimateChange

"The ‘Doomsday Glacier’ is melting faster than scientists thought"
#Glacier #Climate #ClimateChange

The ‘doomsday’ glacier is melting faster than scientists thought
Miles of seawater are flowing under Thwaites Glacier, undermining an Antarctic ice sheet and threatening rapid sea level rise.