It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"Jupiter, assuming the form of Diana, followed the girl as if to aid her in hunting, and embraced her when out of sight of the rest. Questioned by Diana as to the reason for her swollen form, she replied that it was the goddess' fault, and because of this reply, Diana changed her into [a bear]"
Hyginus, Astronomica …
Role of hydrogen dynamics and deposition conditions in photochromic YHO/MoO$_3$ bilayer films
Edvards Strods, Martins Zubkins, Viktors Vibornijs, Dmitrii Moldarev, Anatolijs Sarakovskis, Karlis Kundzins, Emija Letko, Daniel Primetzhofer, Juris Purans
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16946
Poster No 857: Plastic changes in the occipital regions during pitch perception associate with blindness onset age; "Specifically, the primary visual cortex remains engaged in pitch processing tasks following late blindness." https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15641972
Shield AI has emerged as a lead contender in the increasingly crowded race against competitors like Anduril and AeroVironment
to outfit the U.S. military with killer drones.
The $5 billion-valued startup, founded in 2015 by brothers Ryan and Brandon Tseng,
sells a suite of hardware and products, including autonomous piloting software that has been used to fly fighter jets.
In March, it raised $240 million in a funding round led by Korean conglomerate Hanwha and Amer…
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Well at least Israel has no need for their nukes anymore. They should start dismantling them today.
A continuous damage accumulation scenario for elastomeric frictional wear
Ombeline Taisne, Julien Caillard, C\^ome Thillaye du Boullay, Marc Couty, Costantino Creton, Jean Comtet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17860
This is absolutely the right messaging.
Obama made a deal that everyone was following until Trump killed it. It is 100% Trump’s fault that we now have a de facto war with Iran and that it is undeniably an illegal war by any interpretation of international law.
Just like the economy, Republicans in this century have an unequivocally worse record in recent decades on war vs. peace than the Democrats, even with their record being shabby (unlike on the economy…)
Finally, with a hundred thousand dead, two thirds of the buildings bombed, all the hospitals and infrastructure destroyed, more than a million people on the verge of starvation, and Israel's leadership even more openly bragging about their intent to ethnically cleanse the area, it's gone on "too long".
Well done Lammy and Starmer. You finally noticed eh?
So trade deal talks are off, and weapons export licenses are... Well. We'll see. "Always Under Review" they say.
And the main reason for the slight and tiny change in emphasis? Mostly Trump. They are following Trump. They feel easier criticizing Israel's genocide now Trump looks easier with it.
#ukpol #gaza #israel
Thin active nematohydrodynamic layers: asymptotic theories and instabilities
Mehrana R. Nejad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16523 https://
It's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday! ⚡
"And Dardanos' child, #Ganymede, prince of Phrygia, the dear delight of Zeus' bed, dipped deep the bowl of gold [at the wedding of Peleus and Thetis], filling the cups for wine-offerings."
Euripides, Iphigenia …