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Basic science publications have been falling for a decade. NIH budget cut would likely accelerate the decline (Anil Oza/STAT)
https://www.statnews.com/2025/07/21/nih-budget-cuts-basic-science-research-decline/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250721/p113#a250721p113

Frequency comb generation in low-loss, low-stress, high-Q deuterated silicon nitride microring resonators in an 8-inch photonics platform
Y. Cao, G. F. Chen, C. Lau, L. Y. M. Tobing, S. L. H. Jang, Y. F. Tsang, J. O. Yoo, Y. T. Toh, J. S. Goh, L. W. Lim, C. W. Wong, D. K. T. Ng, D. T. H. Tan, X. Luo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17287

Frequency comb generation in low-loss, low-stress, high-Q deuterated silicon nitride microring resonators in an 8-inch photonics platform
Systematic studies on different SiN films in terms of propagation losses are presented, and deuterated SiN emerges as a good candidate for ultralow loss (< 0.1 dB/cm) and reliability by simple 8-inch process with low thermal budget. Frequency comb generation in high-Q (~1 million) deuterated silicon nitride microring is demonstrated and used for intensity modulated direct detection transmission. Negligible power penalty for 25.78 GBaud/s NRZ and PAM4 is achieved at error rates <10-6, below the …

#Minnesota Pubic Radio (MPR) parent company cuts 30 jobs following federal funding cuts | MPR News (h/t akuzee@bsky.social)
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/08/15/m

MPR parent company cuts 30 jobs following federal funding cuts
Minnesota Public Radio's parent company laid off 30 staff members Friday after Congress clawed back funding that it had previously approved for public broadcasting. Cuts in state funding from the Minnesota Legislature exacerbated the budget gap.

For Trump,
“it’s no billionaire left behind
— and good luck to everyone else.”
“It’s telling that President Trump has chosen to release his budget on a Friday night with no fanfare whatsoever,”
said Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee,
following the administration’s release of approximately 1,200 pages of budget documents.
“That’s probably because his budget would raise costs for working people,
destroy basic s…

'No Billionaire Left Behind' in Trump Budget Request That Trashes Workers, Struggling Families | Common Dreams
One expert critic said the updated request "confirms once again that the president continues to break his promises to lower families' costs and help people who are struggling to make ends meet."

Tour 124: #SachsenAnhalt: #Wanderung #Wernigerode - #Kummerholz (ca. 22 km)
Dieser …

Filing: WBD says it plans to "significantly reduce" CEO David Zaslav's annual pay, including his cash bonus, after shareholders rejected his 2024 pay package (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/warne

Warner Bros Discovery CEO David Zaslav Pay to Drop After Company Split
WBD CEO David Zaslav will see his pay package take a haircut after the proposed separation of Warner Bros. Discovery in 2026. The company granted him $225 million in stock option awards.

This is me (playing bass) with my first band ever called Rapa Nui. This was officially our first gig, although the first one happened a few months before this one, in Sarajevo, in front of the then-demolished Youth House.
Back then, I hated melodic punk, feeling the buzz from bands like Motorhead and different extreme metal and grindcore artists.
However, in 2016, I rediscovered an old favorite.
This is a story of how Bad Religion made me start listening to punk rock, an…

How I Started Believing in Bad Religion
For almost a decade, after their song You, made me fall in love with punk rock, I hated the band called Bad Religion. And then they turned out to be one of my favorites ever.

Stochastic Modeling of Filtration with Sieving in Graded Pore Networks
Binan Gu, Pejman Sanaei, Lou Kondic, Linda J. Cummings
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11820 https://

Stochastic Modeling of Filtration with Sieving in Graded Pore Networks
We model filtration of a feed solution, containing both small and large foulant particles, by a membrane filter. The membrane interior is modeled as a network of pores, allowing for the simultaneous adsorption of small particles and sieving of large particles, two fouling mechanisms typically observed during the early stages of commercial filtration applications. In our model, first-principles continuum partial differential equations model transport of the small particles and adsorptive fouling…

Three-year Program in Logic and Debate. The Art of Reasoning in the Nālandā Tradition
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University of Alaska - Fairbanks - Alaska & Polar Regions Area Studies Bibliographer & Curator of…
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GPT-5's release was underwhelming, offering incremental improvements and failing to meet expectations, showing that pure scaling simply isn't the path to AGI (Gary Marcus/Marcus on AI)
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/gpt-5-overdue-overhyped-and-underwhel…

GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it.
A new release botched … and a breaking research new paper that spells trouble