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Droplet on a sugar fiber
St\'ephane Dorbolo, Floriane Weyer, Alexandre Delory, Apurav Tembe, Zhao Pan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09797 https://

Droplet on a sugar fiber
The motion of a water droplet on a single vertical sugar fiber is analyzed. The fiber is positioned vertically, with the droplet placed at its pending end. If the capillary force exceeds the weight of the droplet, the droplet remains suspended at the fiber's extremity. As water dissolves, the fiber eventually breaks. Subsequently, the droplet may fall down carrying a portion of the undissolved fiber or, more interestingly, the droplet may be propelled upwards, remaining attached to the fiber. T…

Droplet-gas phases and their dynamical formation in particle imbalanced mixtures
Jose Carlos Pelayo, George A. Bougas, Thom\'as Fogarty, Thomas Busch, Simeon I. Mistakidis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09314

Droplet-gas phases and their dynamical formation in particle imbalanced mixtures
We explore the ground state phase diagram and nonequilibrium dynamics of genuine two-component particle-imbalanced droplets in both isotropic and anisotropic three-dimensional confinements. A gradual transition from mixed droplet-gas to gas configurations is revealed as the average intercomponent attraction decreases or the transverse confinement becomes tighter. Within the mixed structures, a specific majority fragment binds to the minority droplet, satisfying the density ratio locking conditi…

Deformation of ellipsoidal droplets in homogeneous and isotropic turbulence
Fabio Guglietta, Diego Taglienti, Mauro Sbragaglia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09692

Deformation of ellipsoidal droplets in homogeneous and isotropic turbulence
We study the statistics of deformation of neutrally buoyant droplets in homogeneous isotropic turbulence (HIT), wherein the characteristic droplet size $R$ is smaller than the characteristic Kolmogorov scale $η$ of the turbulent flow. We systematically focus on the characterization of droplet statistics obtained with various phenomenological ellipsoidal models (EMs) -- assuming that the droplet preserves the ellipsoidal shape at all times - with the droplet moving as a passive tracer in the tu…

What A Day: MAGA's Dripless Fits (Crooked Media)
https://crooked.com/newsletters/what-a-day-magas-dripless-fits/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250610/p8#a250610p8

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They Looted Companies — Now They're Looting the Government
Most executives are no longer rewarded for building durable businesses or contributing to the real economy—they’re rewarded for how efficiently they extract value from the companies that they control.
“Because these people have gotten away with looting corporations, they’ve come to believe it’s their right …

Spatially Local Estimates of the Thermal Conductivity of Materials
C. Ugwumadu, A. Gautam, Y. G. Lee, D. A. Drabold
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10041 https:…

Spatially Local Estimates of the Thermal Conductivity of Materials
In this paper we describe a spatial decomposition of the thermal conductivity, what we name "site-projected thermal conductivity", a gauge of the thermal conduction activity at each site. The method is based on the Green-Kubo formula and the harmonic approximation, and requires the force-constant and dynamical matrices and of course the structure of a model sitting at an energy minimum. Throughout the paper, we use high quality models previously tested and compared to many experiments. We discu…

Congratulations on the retirement of Bill Curry after 13 years as head of the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, following an already amazing, full career at Wood's Hole Oceanographic Insitution where he was a leader in marine geology, #climate and #carbon cycling research.

Economic and Policy Uncertainties and Firm Value: The Case of Consumer Durable Goods
Bahram Adrangi, Saman Hatamerad, Madhuparna Kolay, Kambiz Raffiee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07476

Economic and Policy Uncertainties and Firm Value: The Case of Consumer Durable Goods
The objective of this study is to analyze the response of firm value, represented by the Tobin's Q (Q) for a group of twelve U.S. durable goods producers to uncertainties in the US Economy. The results, based on an estimated panel quantile regressions (PQR) and panel vector autoregressive MIDAS model (PVM), show that Q for these firms reacts negatively to the positive shocks to the current ratio, and debt-to-asset ratio and positively to operating income after depreciation and the quick ratio i…

Statistical mechanics of fluids with hidden degrees of freedom
Masanari Shimada, Tetsuya J. Kobayashi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10253 https://

Statistical mechanics of fluids with hidden degrees of freedom
Although coarse-grained models have been widely used to explain exotic phenomena in complex fluids, such as droplet formation in living cells, these conventional approaches often fail to capture the intricate microscopic degrees of freedom that such fluids inherently possess. In this study, we propose a model that incorporates distinct microscopic degrees of freedom and their interactions, without directly relying on conventional coarse-grained descriptions. By introducing two key assumptions, …