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What do parade attendance and hands have in common besides size?
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DerFlanhop (@DerFlanhop@mastodon.social)
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What do parade attendance and hands have in common besides size?
https://mastodon.social/@DerFlanhop/114687128725758582

DerFlanhop (@DerFlanhop@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image We all know what to do right now #Nokings

new book about medicine history, "droplets" theory etc
"Science writer Carl Zimmer’s latest book is a brilliant history of medicine that takes us from Louis Pasteur’s germ theory of the 19th century to present day. Along the way, it offers an anthropological study of medical culture — a culture capable of ignoring science when it wants to. ...
"If COVID-19 spread in droplets, then it was worthwhile to keep people two metres apart, to put up plexiglas barriers around checkout stands, and make supermarket aisles one-way. Sanitizing countertops could break the chain of infection.
"But if COVID-19 was airborne, all those measures were pointless."
Bit of an exaggeration in that part of the article. The 2m distance does put you outside the densest clouds of exhaled breath, and sanitising countertops helps against other diseases. But yeah. A lot of effort wrongly expended due to the prevailing myth.
#CovidIsAirborne #books #history

Looking forward to speaking at @… again – and especially with such an awesome group of people! 💙
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Whenever her phone rang or her doorbell sounded, Dorothy Parker would say, “What fresh hell is this?” I’ve taken to repeating it under my breath every time I open my social media apps.
This may sound dark, but it reminds me that I can approach the onslaught of news and opinion with my own attitude: with humor and, above all, with curiosity.

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Plankton is fundamental to the functioning of aquatic #ecosystems. An example was seen in the 2013 deaths of #Florida bottlenose dolphins. Dense harmful phytoplankton

Nanodroplets Condensation on Solid Surfaces
Matteo Teodori, Dario Abbondanza, Mirko Gallo, Carlo Massimo Casciola
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12565 https://…

Nanodroplets Condensation on Solid Surfaces
This paper deals with the condensation of liquid droplets on hydrophobic and hydrophilic surfaces. A stochastic mesoscale model based on the theory of fluctuating hydrodynamics and the thermodynamics of a diffuse interface approach shows how direct simulation of the vapour-liquid transition from the nucleation process to droplet hydrodynamics can be achieved. Such simulations explain the role of wettability in filmwise and dropwise condensation regimes and the main limitations of classical nucl…

Partition function of 2D Coulomb gases with radially symmetric potentials and a hard wall
Matthias Allard, Peter J. Forrester, Sampad Lahiry, Bojian Shen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14738

Partition function of 2D Coulomb gases with radially symmetric potentials and a hard wall
The large $N$ asymptotic expansion of the partition function for the normal matrix model is predicted to have special features inherited from its interpretation as a two-dimensional Coulomb gas. However for the latter, it is most natural to include a hard wall at the boundary of the droplet. We probe how this affects the asymptotic expansion in the solvable case that the potential is radially symmetric and the droplet is a disk or an annulus. We allow too for the hard wall to be strictly inside…

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…

Uncovering the nanoscopic phase behavior of ternary solutions in the presence of electrolytes: from pre-Ouzo to Ouzo region
Mingbo Li, Rushi Lai, Yadi Tian, Yawen Gao, Benlong Wang, Chao Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13377

Uncovering the nanoscopic phase behavior of ternary solutions in the presence of electrolytes: from pre-Ouzo to Ouzo region
In this work, we report a comprehensive study of how electrolyte addition governs the structure and stability of surfactant-free microemulsions in a trans-anethol/ethanol/water system. The universal structural response has been validated, spanning the full range of solution dispersed-phase structurings, from sub-10 nm W/O reverse-aggregates to O/W mesoscopic droplets (~100 nm) and classical Ouzo droplets (~1 μm). Experimental results reveal that there is a threshold for electrolyte levels abov…