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Report shows climate change is fueling extreme wildfire seasons across the Earth #environment

Report shows climate change is fueling extreme wildfire seasons across the Earth
Climate change is driving extreme wildfire events worldwide, finds a new global report revealing a stark picture of increased fire events across multiple continents.

Watching #IdrisElba portray the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 prime minister and the United States 🇺🇸 president in two movies this year wasn’t in my bingo card. 😮 One movie is a fun watch and is very silly, while the other is sobering and really terrifying.
#films

Graphene and thin graphite films for ultrafast optical Kerr gating at 1 GHz repetition rate under focused illumination
Amr Farrag, Assegid M. Flatae, Mario Agio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.17713 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.17713 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.17713
arXiv:2511.17713v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The ability to address sub-picosecond events of weak optical signals is essential for progress in quantum science, nonlinear optics, and ultrafast spectroscopy. While up-conversion and optical Kerr gating (OKG) offer femtosecond resolution, they are generally limited to ensemble measurements, making ultrafast detection in nano-optics challenging. OKG, with its broadband response and high throughput without phase-matching, is especially promising when used at high repetition rates under focused illumination.
Here, we demonstrate an ultrafast detection scheme using the third-order nonlinearity of graphene and thin graphite films, operating at 1 GHz with sub-nanojoule pulses and achieving 141 fs temporal resolution. Their exceptionally large nonlinear refractive index, orders of magnitude higher than conventional Kerr media, enhances detection efficiency at smaller thicknesses, enables sub-picosecond response, and supports broadband operation. Their atomic-scale thickness minimizes dispersion and simplifies integration with microscopy platforms, optical fibers, and nanophotonic circuits, making them a compact, practical material platform for nano-optical and on-chip ultrafast Kerr gating.
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情绪化城市 - 立 🧍‍♂️
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Hi spooky rebels! 🎃 It's time for the Great Hauntway! We're doing a Slow Ride to the Great Hauntway on Sun Oct 26. Meet 11:30, Roll at 12:00.
Brief Stop at the LED arch on car-free JFK. Details: https://www.safestreetrebel.com/blog/spooooooky-slow-rid…

Niet gek als je een kabiniet hebt.
Nederlandse EU-invloed 'verschrompeld' tijdens kabinet-Schoof https://nos.nl/l/2587472

Nederlandse EU-invloed 'verschrompeld' tijdens kabinet-Schoof
De afgelopen anderhalf jaar is ons land flink wat invloed kwijtgeraakt binnen de EU, zeggen diplomaten tegen de NOS.

"Ideally, that's what you've got in an acting career is an equal number of dramas and comedies and an equal number of small films and big films."
—Jason Bateman
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Adaptive User Interest Modeling via Conditioned Denoising Diffusion For Click-Through Rate Prediction
Qihang Zhao, Xiaoyang Zheng, Ben Chen, Zhongbo Sun, Chenyi Lei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19876

Adaptive User Interest Modeling via Conditioned Denoising Diffusion For Click-Through Rate Prediction
User behavior sequences in search systems resemble "interest fossils", capturing genuine intent yet eroded by exposure bias, category drift, and contextual noise. Current methods predominantly follow an "identify-aggregate" paradigm, assuming sequences immutably reflect user preferences while overlooking the organic entanglement of noise and genuine interest. Moreover, they output static, context-agnostic representations, failing to adapt to dynamic intent shifts under varying Query-User-Item-C…

India's pollution refugees fleeing Delhi's toxic air #India

India's pollution refugees fleeing Delhi's toxic air
Pollution levels in India's capital shaped Natasha Uppal and her husband's decision on parenthood—either raise their child away from the city, or stay put and remain childless.

'Bigger, hotter, faster': Extreme blazes drive rise in CO₂ fire emissions #environment

'Bigger, hotter, faster': Extreme blazes drive rise in CO₂ fire emissions
Rampant wildfires in the Americas drove a jump in global greenhouse gas emissions from fires in the year to February, new research found Thursday, warning that climate change was fanning the flames.