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Musstet ihr schon mal eine Batterie wechseln bei einem elektronischen Uhlmann & Zacher-Knaufzylinder, wenn das Ding ganz leer ist?
Mike Krüger hat den Soundtrack dazu geschrieben! 😡 🤬
🎶 SIe müssen erst den Nippel durch die Lasche ziehn
und mit der kleinen Kurbel ganz nach oben drehn...
https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Revolutionizing brain‒computer interfaces: overcoming biocompatibility challenges in implantable neural interfaces https://jnanobiotechnology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12951-025-03573-x

How Americans are feeling about their chances on the job market, according to an AP-NORC poll (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/poll-economy-trump-inflation-electricity-costs-hiring-jobs-ffa4a9de69db090f47f968ba656d694b
http://www.memeorandum.com/251019/p52#a251019p52

Absence of skewness in the voltage fluctuations of a tunnel junction in the quantum regime
Clovis Farley, Bertrand Reulet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15352 https://

Absence of skewness in the voltage fluctuations of a tunnel junction in the quantum regime
Current fluctuations in a tunnel junction have a remarkable property: On the one hand, their variance corresponds to vacuum fluctuations at low voltage bias $V$, when the electron energy $eV$ is smaller than the photon detection energy $hf$ . On the other hand, their skewness, i.e. their third moment, is frequency independent, equal to $e^2I$ as if electron transport were simply Poissonian. We address the following question: Could it be that at low voltage, the vacuum fluctuations generated by …

Development of BPM electronics for PIP-II at Fermilab
Shengli Liu (Fermilab, Batavia, USA), Nathan Eddy (Fermilab, Batavia, USA), A. Semenov (Fermilab, Batavia, USA), Brian Fellenz (Fermilab, Batavia, USA)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15388

Development of BPM electronics for PIP-II at Fermilab
This paper presents the uTCA4.0-based BPM electronics for PIP-II, featuring four 250 MSPS ADCs and a Xilinx UltraScale+ MPSoC FPGA with 10 GbE uplink. Design elements include signal conditioning, clock, and thermal management. The FPGA performs signal processing, time tagging, digital down-conversion, and phase drift compensation. Position and phase resolution, and thermal stability - is validated through dedicated testing.

Fox found its culprit for high grocery prices following Democratic election victories -- Joe Biden (Craig Harrington/Media Matters for America)
https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-found-its-culprit-high-grocery-prices-following-democratic-election-victories-joe
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p95#a251217p95

China’s CO2 emissions have now been flat or falling for 18 months.
The rapid adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) saw CO2 emissions from transport fuel drop by 5% year-on-year, while there were also declines from cement and steel production.
While emissions from the power sector were flat year-on-year, a big rise in the chemical industry’s CO2 output offset reductions elsewhere.

Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions have now been flat or falling for 18 months - Carbon Brief
China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions were unchanged from a year earlier in the third quarter of 2025, extending a flat or falling trend that started in March 2024.

We're hosting a public Meeting on 27 Nov 19:30 at Harbour Hotel in Galway together with Sinn Féin, Social Democrats, Labour & Independents discussing what is next for the left following on from the presidential election.
All welcome to attend and contribute to the discussion.

IRS Direct File,
the electronic system for filing tax returns for free,
will not be offered next year,
the Trump administration has confirmed.
An email sent Monday from IRS official Cynthia Noe to state comptrollers that participate in the Direct File program said that
“IRS Direct File will not be available in Filing Season 2026. No launch date has been set for the future.”
The program developed during Joe Biden’s presidency
was credited by users with…

IRS Direct File won't be available next year for submitting tax returns for free
The Trump administration has decided not to offer the IRS' electronic tax filing system for free next year, and its future is unclear. An IRS official informed state comptrollers in an email Monday that "IRS Direct File will not be available in Filing Season 2026." Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said better alternatives exist and the private sector can do a better job. The program, developed during Joe Biden's presidency, was praised for making tax filing easy and economical. However, it face…

Big news for the energy transition!
And a nice little 'told you so' moment for yours truly :)
In the first half of this year, renewables produced more electricity globally than coal, for the first time.
And 2025 is the date I predicted for this to happen, back in 2016, in a blog post for Ecofys! The score was 23%-40% at the time, with most of the renewables share still coming from hydro, and the prediction was less than obvious.