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BTW, zwei Jahre nach Inkrafttreten des #Plastiktütenverbot​s in #Vermont ist deren Nutzung um 91 Prozent zurückgegangen.
Laut einer Studie der University of Vermont wird das Gesetz von rund 70 Prozent der Befragten positiv bewertet. Der Erfolg wird auf die einfache Umsetzung, g…

Vermont plastic bag use dropped 91% following ban, researchers find | Gund Institute for Environment | The University of Vermont

Here’s the lightning sketch of Paul’s Treatise Against Efficiency that I’ve never written:
1. Efficiency is asymptotically inefficient: as costs approach zero, the cost of further reducing them approaches infinity.
2. Efficiency prioritizes the measurable over the difficult-to-measure.
3. Efficiency prioritizes what those in power see (or imagine) over on-the-ground reality.
4. Following from 2 and 3, efficiency reduces the amount and quality of information flowing into a human system.
5. Efficiency foments institutional inflexibility.
6. By removing slack, efficiency causes small failures to cascade more readily and increases the risk of catastrophic failure.
7. Following rom 4, 5, and 6, efficiency trades small costs for massive risks: from failures, from missed opportunities, and from inability to adjust.
8. Efficiency, when pushed, strangles the emergent phenomena that in the long term create all new things of value.
9. Thus, although it can be a by-product of evolution, efficiency as a goal in itself strangles evolution.
10. Efficiency as a goal strangles joy.

Superconducting Diode Effect in Gradiently Strained Nb0.5Ti0.5N Films
Zherui Yang, Shengyao Li, Shaoqin Peng, Xueyan Wang, Liang Wu, Ri He, Zhen Wang, Yanwei Cao, Xiao Renshaw Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00942

Superconducting Diode Effect in Gradiently Strained Nb0.5Ti0.5N Films
The superconducting diode effect (SDE), combining superconductivity with diode-like nonreciprocal current flow, recently emerges as an ideal candidate for zero-dissipation electronic circuits. Such technologically advantageous diodes are achieved by intricate material engineering to disrupt inversion symmetry, which leads to the production challenges as well as a limited pool of viable materials. Here we exploit the gradient interfacial strain to experimentally induce the SDE in Nb0.5Ti0.5N (NT…

Ich hatte ja Sorge, dass die Sprachbarriere Europa und insbesondere Deutschland zurückhält. Jetzt bin ich froh darum. Wir haben selber ne Wagenladung voll Probleme, wir müssen nicht noch importieren. https://silvan.cloud/@gersande/115647757482315486

Probing Non-Fermi-Liquid Behaviour of Composite Fermi Liquid via Efficient Thermal Simulations
Bin-Bin Chen, Hongyu Lu, Zi Yang Meng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02218 https://

Probing Non-Fermi-Liquid Behaviour of Composite Fermi Liquid via Efficient Thermal Simulations
The two-dimensional electron gas in a perpendicular magnetic field, i.e., the quantum Hall system, is remarkably rich. At half filling of the lowest Landau level, it has been predicted that ``composite fermions'' -- emergent quasiparticle of an electron with two magnetic flux quanta -- can experience zero net magnetic field and form a Fermi sea, dubbed composite Fermi liquid (CFL). However, the seemingly simple appearance of CFL is a strongly correlated quantum many-body state in disguise, and …

PSA: Alle Schweizer:innen die die Unterlagen nicht per Post geschickt haben: Heute ist Abstimmung, ab an die Urne! Erbschaftssteuer fürs Klima ist zwar nicht Eat the Rich, aber das nächstbeste was wir machen können.
#chvote25 #Abstimmung

Days in San Francisco since feeling threatened by a deranged man in need of help: zero.

One of my favorite mastodon features is the time-based muting. Someone's posting through (suffering, lol) a football game, and I have less than zero interest in sportsball? But I generally enjoy following them? Mute them for 1 hour (or 6 hours), and my screen is no longer littered with crap about touchzonegoalruns.
Or maybe you don't want to see my stupid replies to a dumb horror movie from 40 years ago? Mute me for an hour or two, and voila!

A House of Dynamite (Netflix)
is an expertly crafted political thriller about living 18 minutes from nuclear annihilation.
Directed by Kathryn Bigelow, it shares thematic DNA with two of her previous films, The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty.
The film tightens the tension in the first 18 minutes, releases it just enough to breathe, then resets and winds you up again—and then again.
There is no climax. That frustrates some viewers, but the ending makes the point: …

Supercondutivity of Nb-Ta-Ti-Zr-Hf high entropy alloy polycrystalline and amorphous thin films
P. Hruska, Z. Janu, J. Cizek, F. Lukac
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22278 https://…

Supercondutivity of Nb-Ta-Ti-Zr-Hf high entropy alloy polycrystalline and amorphous thin films
We studied the superconductivity of high-entropy Hf-Nb-Ta-Ti-Zr alloy films affected by structural order. While films deposited from the same target on a substrate with a room temperature are amorphous, and if superconducting, only at temperatures below 1.9 K, films deposited on a substrate with a temperature of 740 $^o$C and 630 $^o$C are superconducting with a critical temperature of 6.61 K and 6.63 K, respectively. The observed effect of structural order on superconductivity can be explained…