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🎵 Hoochie Mama
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https://open.spotify.com/track/0ioFIQXbTUaliQpsJyX4zN
https://wickit.bandcamp.com/track/2-live-crew-hoochie-mama-wick-it-remix-2020

psi: Plant Photosystem I excitation energy transfer network (2020)
Weighted directed network of the light-harvesting Photosystem Ι (PSI) of the plant Pisum sativum. The nodes represent chromophores with different identities (i.e. chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b, β-carotene and derivates, lutein, violaxanthin), while edges represent FRET transfer between chromophores. The link directionality connecting nodes in the PSI network depends on the energy levels of the connected chromophores. The…

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Geographic Spines in the 2020 Census Disclosure Avoidance System
The 2020 Census Disclosure Avoidance System (DAS) is a formally private mechanism that first adds independent noise to cross tabulations for a set of pre-specified hierarchical geographic units, which is known as the geographic spine. After post-processing these noisy measurements, DAS outputs a formally private database with fields indicating location in the standard census geographic spine, which is defined by the United States as a whole, states, counties, census tracts, block groups, and ce…

#SeniorFitness at 68
Let's start Sunday with 82 decline push-ups (29½-cm offset) before brunch. After a 45-minute walk with my wife, I did 16 minutes of primal squatting while reading aloud for breathing regularity from Samuel Johnson's "Rasselas" (1759; this edition, 1942).
75 more declines in set 2. Another 24 with parallettes for full chest-to-floor range-o…

@… For *me* 2024 is better (acknowledge that’s not universal).
My current job pays way better, wife and I managed to buy a home during the low interests of 2021, and my son is going to be born this year.
There’s still a lot of bad in the world, like the genocide of the Palestinian people, but there was a lot of bad in the world in 2020 too. I o…

Reports: Commanders to sign former first-round pick Noah Igbinoghene https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/reports_commanders_to_sign_former_first_round_pick_noah_igbinoghene/s1_17049_40122575

Reports: Commanders to sign former first-round pick Noah Igbinoghene
The Washington Commanders are signing cornerback Noah Igbinoghene to a free agent deal, according to multiple reports Sunday. A first-round pick by the Dolphins in 2020, Igbinoghene will be playing for his third team. Miami traded him to the Dolphins last August, and he became a free agent at the end of the 2023 season. He becomes the fourth member of the Cowboys' 2023 roster to move to the rival Commanders since Washington hired Dan Quinn as head coach in February. Quinn was the defensive coor…

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What are human values, and how do we align AI to them?
There is an emerging consensus that we need to align AI systems with human values (Gabriel, 2020; Ji et al., 2024), but there is very little work on what that means and how we actually do it. We split the problem of "aligning to human values" into three parts: first, eliciting values from people; second, reconciling those values into an alignment target for training ML models; and third, actually training the model. In this paper, we focus on the first two parts, and ask the question: what are …

"The Daily Caller lost 57 percent of its audience; Drudge Report was down 81 percent; and The Federalist lost a staggering 91 percent."
Atlantic: Traffic To Cultist Sites Has Cratered Since 2020 - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2024/04/atlantic-<…

Atlantic: Traffic To Cultist Sites Has Cratered Since 2020
The Atlantic reports: The flow of traffic to Donald Trump’s most loyal digital-media boosters isn’t just slowing, as in the rest of the industry; it’s utterly collapsing. The Daily Caller lost 57 perc

psi: Plant Photosystem I excitation energy transfer network (2020)
Weighted directed network of the light-harvesting Photosystem Ι (PSI) of the plant Pisum sativum. The nodes represent chromophores with different identities (i.e. chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b, β-carotene and derivates, lutein, violaxanthin), while edges represent FRET transfer between chromophores. The link directionality connecting nodes in the PSI network depends on the energy levels of the connected chromophores. The…

Reports: Commanders to sign former first-round pick Noah Igbinoghene https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/reports_commanders_to_sign_former_first_round_pick_noah_igbinoghene/s1_17049_40122575

Reports: Commanders to sign former first-round pick Noah Igbinoghene
The Washington Commanders are signing cornerback Noah Igbinoghene to a free agent deal, according to multiple reports Sunday. A first-round pick by the Dolphins in 2020, Igbinoghene will be playing for his third team. Miami traded him to the Dolphins last August, and he became a free agent at the end of the 2023 season. He becomes the fourth member of the Cowboys' 2023 roster to move to the rival Commanders since Washington hired Dan Quinn as head coach in February. Quinn was the defensive coor…

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What are human values, and how do we align AI to them?
There is an emerging consensus that we need to align AI systems with human values (Gabriel, 2020; Ji et al., 2024), but there is very little work on what that means and how we actually do it. We split the problem of "aligning to human values" into three parts: first, eliciting values from people; second, reconciling those values into an alignment target for training ML models; and third, actually training the model. In this paper, we focus on the first two parts, and ask the question: what are …

Biden calls Trump 'unhinged' and says 'something snapped' in former president after he lost 2020 election (Samantha Waldenberg/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/11/politics/biden-trump-unhinged-seattle/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240512/p9#a240512p9

Cowboys DB coach Al Harris promoted to assistant head coach https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cowboys_db_coach_al_harris_promoted_to_assistant_head_coach/s1_17236_40124371

Cowboys DB coach Al Harris promoted to assistant head coach
Al Harris has a new title. The defensive backs coach for the Dallas Cowboys is expected to be promoted — adding assistant head coach to his current title, Josina Anderson of CBS Sports reported Sunday. Harris, 49, has been on the Cowboys’ coaching staff since 2020 when Mike McCarthy was named the team’s head coach. McCarthy spent four seasons as Harris’ head coach when the former NFL cornerback played for the Green Bay Packers (2006-09). Under Harris’ tutelage, Trevon Diggs and DaRon …

Leuk dit. Ik houd erg van LPBoon. Desondanks…Net op dit moment doe ik al zijn boeken die ik hier heb, een twintigtal, het huis uit, ik ga ze niet herlezen of her-herlezen. Iemand anders mag ervan gaan genieten. https://mastodon.nl/@neerlandistiek/112415736193081707

Thinking back to that time when WCAG 2.2 first went to review and French #overlay company #FACILiti, best known for its SLAPPs, asked to get a side-door added to WCAG for overlays:

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 Draft for Review
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.

Globally, March 2024 was:
• 0.73°C warmer than the 1991-2020 average for March
• the warmest March on record, 0.10°C warmer than March 2016, the previous warmest March
• 1.68°C warmer than an estimate of the pre-industrial average for 1850-1900
https://climate.copernicus.eu/surf…

Magnetic fields beneath active region coronal loops
Philip Judge, Lucia Kleint, Christoph Kuckein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05391 https://

Magnetic fields beneath active region coronal loops
We examine the hypothesis that multipolar magnetic fields advected by photospheric granules can contribute heating to the active chromosphere and corona. On 28 September 2020 the GRIS and HiFI+ instruments at the GREGOR telescope obtained data of NOAA 12773. We analyze Stokes profiles of spectral lines of Si I and He I, to study magnetic fields from photosphere to the upper chromosphere. Magnetogram and EUV data from the HMI and AIA instruments on the SDO spacecraft are co-aligned and studied i…

Address: House of Corrections 🙂😡🥺
Dramatized historical fiction | Follow the journey of Merry, an ex-con and recovering addict, between the time periods of 1947 to 1968, from a rarely seen Black woman’s point of view.
POC, Family drama, Women, Incarceration, stars known actors and an Emmy-nominated producer.
1 seasons, 12 episo...

Address: House of Corrections 🙂😡🥺
Dramatized historical fiction | Follow the journey of Merry, an ex-con and recovering addict, between the time periods of 1947 to 1968, from a rarely seen Black woman’s point of view. POC, Family drama, Women, Incarceration, stars known actors and an Emmy-nominated producer. 1 seasons, 12 episodes as of May 12, 2020.

Commanders sign another former Cowboys player to deal https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/commanders_sign_another_former_cowboys_player_to_deal/s1_127_40123934

Commanders sign another former Cowboys player to deal
Dan Quinn is assembling Cowboys East in Washington. John Keim of ESPN reported on Sunday that the Washington Commanders are signing cornerback Noah Igbinoghene. The 24-year-old Igbinoghene played out last year on the Cowboys under the new Commanders coach Quinn, who was previously the defensive coordinator in Dallas. A first-round pick in the 2020 NFL Draft (No. 30 overall), Igbinoghene plays far more often on special teams these days than he does on defense. But he fills that role very well, e…

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Signatures of quantum geometry from exponential corrections to the black hole entropy
It has been recently shown in [Phys. Rev. Lett. 125 (2020) 041302] that microstate counting carried out for quantum states residing on the horizon of a black hole leads to a correction of the form $\exp(-A/4l_p^2)$ in the Bekenstein-Hawking form of the black hole entropy. In this paper, we develop a novel approach to obtain the possible form of the spacetime geometry from the entropy of the black hole for a given horizon radius. The uniqueness of this solution for a given energy-momentum tensor…

The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to undo sanctions against several #lawyers allied with Donald Trump for filing a #meritless lawsuit challenging Michigan’s 2020 presidential election results. 
Lawyers Sidney #Powell, Lin

Supreme Court declines to undo sanctions on pro-Trump 2020 campaign lawyers
The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to undo sanctions against several lawyers allied with former President Trump for filing a meritless lawsuit challenging Michigan’s 2020 presidential election results.  Lawyers Sidney Powell, Lin Wood and others brought the lawsuit against Michigan state officials and Detroit in November 2020, one of dozens of suits filed in an…

Shit. It’s fucking cold out here. I coulda been in Cabo, but nnnooooo.
#DeepThoughtsOfSpringBirds #HashTagGames

Filing: to settle a 2020 class action suit about Chrome's Incognito mode, Google has agreed to destroy billions of data points it allegedly improperly collected (Wall Street Journal)
https://t.co/A33M8S8ZBe

HISTORY WILL JUDGE THE COMPLICIT
Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?
By Anne Applebaum
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/07/trumps-collaborators/61225…

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Online disinformation in the 2020 U.S. Election: swing vs. safe states
For U.S. presidential elections, most states use the so-called winner-take-all system, in which the state's presidential electors are awarded to the winning political party in the state after a popular vote phase, regardless of the actual margin of victory. Therefore, election campaigns are especially intense in states where there is no clear direction on which party will be the winning party. These states are often referred to as swing states. To measure the impact of such an election law on t…

The corona of a fully convective star with a near-polar flare
Ekaterina Ilin, Katja Poppenh\"ager, Beate Stelzer, Desmond Dsouza
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05580

The corona of a fully convective star with a near-polar flare
In 2020, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) observed a rapidly rotating M7 dwarf, TIC 277539431, produce a flare at 81° latitude, the highest latitude flare located to date. This is in stark contrast to solar flares that occur much closer to the equator, typically below 30°. The mechanisms that allow flares at high latitudes to occur are poorly understood. We studied five Sectors of TESS monitoring, and obtained 36 ks of XMM-Newton observations to investigate the coronal and fla…

Die #COVID-19-Lockdowns im Frühjahr 2020 haben zu einer signifikanten #Reduzierung der #Luftverschmutzung in der

Air pollution reductions caused by the COVID-19 lockdown open up a way to preserve the Himalayan glaciers
Abstract. The rapid melting of glaciers in the Hindu Kush Himalayas (HKH) during recent decades poses an alarming threat to water security for larger parts of Asia. If this melting persists, the entirety of the Himalayan glaciers are estimated to disappear by end of the 21st century. Here, we assess the influence of the spring 2020 COVID-19 lockdown on the HKH, demonstrating the potential benefits of a strict emission reduction roadmap. Chemistry–climate model simulations, supported by satell…

Special counsel urges Supreme Court to reject Trump’s immunity claim

Special counsel Jack Smith on Monday urged the Supreme Court to reject Donald Trump’s “novel and sweeping” claim that he is immune from criminal prosecution on charges of conspiring to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

“The President’s constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed does not entail a general right to violate them,” Smith said in his office’s main brie…

Special counsel urges Supreme Court to reject Trump’s immunity claim
A president’s “constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed does not entail a general right to violate them,” Jack Smith writes in his office’s brief.

That didn't age well ...

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Parisi's hypercube, Fock-space fluxes, and the microscopics of near-AdS$_2$/near-CFT$_1$ duality
Parisi's hypercube model describes a charged particle hopping on a $d$-dimensional hypercube with disordered background fluxes in the large $d$ limit. It was noted previously [Jia and Verbaarschot, J. High Energy Phys. 11 (2020) 154] that the hypercube model at leading order in $1/d$ has the same spectral density as the double-scaled Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (DS-SYK) model. In this work we identify the set of observables that have the same correlation functions as the DS-SYK model, demonstrating that …

SPIRou spectropolarimetry of the T Tauri star TW Hydrae: magnetic fields, accretion and planets
J. -F. Donati, P. I. Cristofari, L. T. Lehmann, C. Moutou, S. H. P. Alencar, J. Bouvier, L. Arnold, X. Delfosse, E. Artigau, N. Cook, \'A. K\'osp\'al, F. M\'enard, C. Baruteau, M. Takami, S. Cabrit, G. H\'ebrard, R. Doyon, the SPIRou science team

SPIRou spectropolarimetry of the T Tauri star TW Hydrae: magnetic fields, accretion and planets
In this paper we report near-infrared observations of the classical T Tauri star TW Hya with the SPIRou high-resolution spectropolarimeter and velocimeter at the 3.6-m Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022. By applying Least-Squares Deconvolution (LSD) to our circularly polarized spectra, we derived longitudinal fields that vary from year to year from -200 to +100 G, and exhibit low-level modulation on the 3.6 d rotation period of TW Hya, despite the star being viewed almo…

In October 2020 I installed two Samsung SSDs as cache devices in my NAS box (Synology DS918 ).
In the past 2 weeks, *both* of them failed. I suspect it’s because I have my security cameras writing to the NAS storage, and this crept my writes up to their 100% lifespan. No data loss because they’re cache devices only; my real data is on spinning disk.
I’m actually impressed that they failed at just about the same time. A good reminder to replace failing spinning disks immediately.<…

The first 3 weeks of February were as warm as a normal April, here in the Netherlands: average 8.9⁰C, that's about 5⁰C warmer than the already warmed 1991-2020 average for February.
Given the forecast, the whole month will definitely be the warmest February on record too.
#ClimateChange #globalwarming

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Successive Refinement of Shannon Cipher System Under Maximal Leakage
We study the successive refinement setting of Shannon cipher system (SCS) under the maximal leakage secrecy metric for discrete memoryless sources under bounded distortion measures. Specifically, we generalize the threat model for the point-to-point rate-distortion setting of Issa, Wagner and Kamath (T-IT 2020) to the multiterminal successive refinement setting. Under mild conditions that correspond to partial secrecy, we characterize the asymptotically optimal normalized maximal leakage region…

Upgrade of NaI(Tl) crystal encapsulation for the NEON experiment
J. J. Choi, E. J. Jeon, J. Y. Kim, K. W. Kim, S. H. Kim, S. K. Kim, Y. D. Kim, Y. J. Ko, B. C. Koh, C. Ha, B. J. Park, S. H. Lee, I. S. Lee, H. Lee, H. S. Lee, J. Lee, Y. M. Oh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03691

Upgrade of NaI(Tl) crystal encapsulation for the NEON experiment
The Neutrino Elastic-scattering Observation with NaI(Tl) experiment (NEON) aims to detect coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering~(CE$ν$NS) in a NaI(Tl) crystal using reactor anti-electron neutrinos at the Hanbit nuclear power plant complex. A total of 13.3 kg of NaI(Tl) crystals were initially installed in December 2020 at the tendon gallery, 23.7$\pm$0.3\,m away from the reactor core, which operates at a thermal power of 2.8\,GW. Initial engineering operation was performed from May 2021…

a deadly #BirdFlu outbreak has skipped species impact and been affecting seal and #SeaLion colonies...
#SouthAmerica has been particularly hard hit with over 20,000

Bird flu is killing thousands of seals
Avian influenza is killing tens of thousands of seals and sea lions in different corners of the world, disrupting ecosystems and flummoxing scientists who don’t see a clear way to slow the devastating virus. The worldwide bird flu outbreak that began in 2020 has led to the deaths of millions of domesticated birds and spread to wildlife all over the globe. This virus isn’t thought to be a major threat to humans, but its spread in farming operations and ecosystems has caused widespread econom…

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Parisi's hypercube, Fock-space fluxes, and the microscopics of near-AdS$_2$/near-CFT$_1$ duality
Parisi's hypercube model describes a charged particle hopping on a $d$-dimensional hypercube with disordered background fluxes in the large $d$ limit. It was noted previously [Jia and Verbaarschot, J. High Energy Phys. 11 (2020) 154] that the hypercube model at leading order in $1/d$ has the same spectral density as the double-scaled Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (DS-SYK) model. In this work we identify the set of observables that have the same correlation functions as the DS-SYK model, demonstrating that …

Nachdem im letzten Jahr fast alle #Armenier #Bergkarabach verlassen und #Aserbaidschan die volle Kontrolle übernommen hat, scheint man vor Ort weiter Fakten zu schaffen - oder eher zu beseitige…

Handling Open Research Data within the Max Planck Society -- Looking Closer at the Year 2020
Martin Boosen, Michael Franke, Yves Vincent Grossmann, Sy Dat Ho, Larissa Leiminger, Jan Matthiesen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18182

Handling Open Research Data within the Max Planck Society -- Looking Closer at the Year 2020
This paper analyses the practice of publishing research data within the Max Planck Society in the year 2020. The central finding of the study is that up to 40\% of the empirical text publications had research data available. The aggregation of the available data is predominantly analysed. There are differences between the sections of the Max Planck Society but they are not as great as one might expect. In the case of the journals, it is also apparent that a data policy can increase the availabi…

A Texas appeals court has ruled that Republican Attorney General #Ken #Paxton can face discipline from the state bar association over his failed effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
A disciplinary committee of the State Bar of Texas accused Paxton in 2022 of making false claims of fraud in a lawsuit that q…

Texas AG Ken Paxton can be disciplined for suit to overturn 2020 election, court says
A Texas appeals court has ruled that Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton can face discipline from the state bar association over his failed effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election. A disciplinary committee of the group says Paxton made false claims of fraud in a lawsuit that questioned the 2020 presidential election results showing President Joe Biden won. A three-judge panel of the 5th District Court of Appeals ruled Thursday Paxton can be sanctioned by the committee because the l…

Yet another House Republican announces retirement — and says 'dysfunction' has 'taken a toll' - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/house-republican-retirement-dysfunct…

Yet another House Republican announces retirement — and says 'dysfunction' has 'taken a toll'
House Republicans will now have one more vacant seat to fill this November after yet another member of the majority announced his retirement on Thursday.Rep. Jake LaTurner (R-Kansas), who was first elected in 2020, stated he would not be seeking a third term in the House of Representatives this fall...

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A mesh-free framework for high-order simulations of viscoelastic flows in complex geometries
The accurate and stable simulation of viscoelastic flows remains a significant computational challenge, exacerbated for flows in non-trivial and practical geometries. Here we present a new high-order meshless approach with variable resolution for the solution of viscoelastic flows across a range of Weissenberg numbers. Based on the Local Anisotropic Basis Function Method (LABFM) of King et al. J. Comput. Phys. 415 (2020):109549, highly accurate viscoelastic flow solutions are found using Oldroy…

2020:
Bruce Springsteen, Little Steven boost Biden, take on Trump as Election Day nears
https://www.app.com/story/entertainment/music/2020/10/27/bruce-springsteen-little-steven-boos…

Bruce Springsteen, Little Steven boost Biden, take on Trump as Election Day nears
It's election season on E Street

Upgrade of NaI(Tl) crystal encapsulation for the NEON experiment
J. J. Choi, E. J. Jeon, J. Y. Kim, K. W. Kim, S. H. Kim, S. K. Kim, Y. D. Kim, Y. J. Ko, B. C. Koh, C. Ha, B. J. Park, S. H. Lee, I. S. Lee, H. Lee, H. S. Lee, J. Lee, Y. M. Oh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03691

Upgrade of NaI(Tl) crystal encapsulation for the NEON experiment
The Neutrino Elastic-scattering Observation with NaI(Tl) experiment (NEON) aims to detect coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering~(CE$ν$NS) in a NaI(Tl) crystal using reactor anti-electron neutrinos at the Hanbit nuclear power plant complex. A total of 13.3 kg of NaI(Tl) crystals were initially installed in December 2020 at the tendon gallery, 23.7$\pm$0.3\,m away from the reactor core, which operates at a thermal power of 2.8\,GW. Initial engineering operation was performed from May 2021…

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Setting the stage for the search for life with the Habitable Worlds Observatory: Properties of 164 promising planet survey targets
The Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics 2020 (Astro2020) has recommended that NASA realize a large IR/O/UV space telescope optimized for high-contrast imaging and spectroscopy of ~25 exo-Earths and transformative general astrophysics. The NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program (ExEP) has subsequently released a list of 164 nearby (d<25 pc) targets deemed the most accessible to survey for potentially habitable exoplanets with the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO). We present a catalog of s…

Data Feminism for AI
Lauren Klein, Catherine D'Ignazio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01286 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.01286

Data Feminism for AI
This paper presents a set of intersectional feminist principles for conducting equitable, ethical, and sustainable AI research. In Data Feminism (2020), we offered seven principles for examining and challenging unequal power in data science. Here, we present a rationale for why feminism remains deeply relevant for AI research, rearticulate the original principles of data feminism with respect to AI, and introduce two potential new principles related to environmental impact and consent. Together…

Trump’s trial calendar becomes clearer – as do his delay tactics
A federal case in Washington over Trump’s efforts to #overturn the 2020 #election had once been expected to go first.
But when Trump filed appeals on grounds of presidential immunity last year, the presiding US district judge, Tanya

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Precision mass measurements at the JYFLTRAP double Penning trap pin down the mass surface across the neutron midshell at $N=66$
Precision mass measurements of $^{104}$Y, $^{106}$Zr, $^{104,104m,109}$Nb, and $^{111,112}$Mo have been performed with the JYFLTRAP double Penning trap mass spectrometer at the Ion Guide Isotope Separator On-Line facility. The trend in two-neutron separation energies around the $N=66$ neutron midshell appeared to be steeper with respect to the Atomic Mass Evaluation 2020 extrapolations for the $_{39}$Y and $_{40}$Zr isotopic chains and less steep for the $_{41}$Nb chain, indicating a possible g…

They panic-bought bidets during the pandemic. It changed their lives.
Bidets — which clean you up with a stream of water, reducing the need for tissue — certainly weren’t the only items that people waited months for during that strange time.
But while many have regretted buying their Pelotons or even their homes, those who installed the bathroom fixture at the height of the Great Toilet Paper Shortage of 2020 are far from remorseful.
Instead, they’ve become true believers…

They panic-bought bidets during the pandemic. It changed their lives.
Four years after the toilet paper shortage of 2020, bidet converts say they’re never going back — and bidet manufacturers say U.S. sales have never been better.