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Testimony from an Ogyen Kunzang Choling (OKC) Survivor https://buddhism-controversy-blog.com/2017/10/29/testimony-from-an-ogyen-kunsang-choling-okc-survivor/

Full-History Graphs with Edge-Type Decoupled Networks for Temporal Reasoning
Osama Mohammed, Jiaxin Pan, Mojtaba Nayyeri, Daniel Hern\'andez, Steffen Staab
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03251

Full-History Graphs with Edge-Type Decoupled Networks for Temporal Reasoning
Modeling evolving interactions among entities is critical in many real-world tasks. For example, predicting driver maneuvers in traffic requires tracking how neighboring vehicles accelerate, brake, and change lanes relative to one another over consecutive frames. Likewise, detecting financial fraud hinges on following the flow of funds through successive transactions as they propagate through the network. Unlike classic time-series forecasting, these settings demand reasoning over who interacts…

Halifax mural festival

Interstitial oxygen order and its competition with superconductivity in La$_2$PrNi$_2$O$_{7 \delta}$
Zehao Dong, Gang Wang, Ningning Wang, Wen-Han Dong, Lin Gu, Yong Xu, Jinguang Cheng, Zhen Chen, Yayu Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03414

Interstitial oxygen order and its competition with superconductivity in La$_2$PrNi$_2$O$_{7+δ}$
High-temperature superconductivity in bilayer nickelate La$_3$Ni$_2$O$_7$ under pressure has attracted significant interest in condensed matter physics. While early samples exhibited limited superconducting volume fractions, Pr substitution for La enabled bulk superconductivity in polycrystals under pressure and enhanced transition temperatures in thin films at ambient pressure. Beyond rare-earth doping, moderate oxygen or ozone annealing improves superconductivity by mitigating oxygen vacancie…

I rarely leave my neighborhood these days, so when the opportunity came last weekend to visit a town about 80 km from my home, I took a little detour to visit and take photos of the town’s only national historical marker.
(Those who have been following me long enough know that documenting historical markers in #Wikidata and

Landing at Nasugbu historical marker
NHI historical marker for the landing of the American forces at Nasugbu during World War II

So much groundwater is now being pumped that it is filling the oceans as it drains off land,
becoming one of the largest drivers of global sea level rise.
https://www.propublica.org/article/water-aquifers-groundwater-rising-ocean-levels

“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat
A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.

Parallel-in-Time Preconditioning for Time-Dependent Variational Mean Field Games
Heidi Wolles Lj\'osheim, Dante Kalise, John W. Pearson, Francisco J. Silva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01958

Parallel-in-Time Preconditioning for Time-Dependent Variational Mean Field Games
We study the numerical approximation of a time-dependent variational mean field game system with local couplings and either periodic or Neumann boundary conditions. Following a variational approach, we employ a finite difference discretization and solve the resulting finite-dimensional optimization problem using the Chambolle--Pock primal--dual algorithm. As this involves computing proximal operators and solving ill-conditioned linear systems at each iteration, we propose a general class of par…

Using Large Eddy Simulations to Study How Climate Change Influences Aerosol-Cloud Interactions
Hongwei Sun, Peter Blossey, Robert Wood, Ehsan Erfani, Sarah Doherty, Je-Yun Chun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01319

Using Large Eddy Simulations to Study How Climate Change Influences Aerosol-Cloud Interactions
Because aerosol-cloud interactions are the most uncertain climate forcing in the Earth system, it is important to better understand the aerosol-cloud interactions, especially how they will change with climate. This study carries out large eddy simulations (LES) of a 3-day stratocumulus-to-cumulus transition (SCT) along an airmass-following trajectory in the Northeast Pacific Ocean. By perturbing aerosol concentrations within the marine boundary layer (MBL) in the SCT simulations, we evaluate ae…

"Ocean currents can generate electricity, and our study shows Africa's seas have some of the strongest"
#Africa #Oceans #Energy

Ocean currents can generate electricity, and our study shows Africa's seas have some of the strongest
The world's oceans cover more than 70% of Earth's surface. They're filled with currents, some much stronger than the fastest flowing large rivers. These currents can be harnessed as clean, marine renewable energy. Marine energy is much more predictable and reliable than many other forms of renewable energy because unlike the sun and wind, which regularly do not produce electricity, ocean currents never stop moving around the planet. New research has found that the eastern and south-eastern coas…

There’s a new #OpenStreetMap website feature related to #Wikidata!
When viewing objects in OSM that have a Wikidata tag, you can now click the Wikidata icon to turn the opaque QID values into human-readable info (plus a link to Wikipedia if any).