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According to a fresh Gallup poll this week, 43 percent of Americans regard the Supreme Court as
“too conservative,”
against 36 percent who feel that the Roberts court is an even-tempered administrator of justice.
That 43 percent is a new high, per Gallup:
“Before the court shifted to a 6-3 conservative advantage after Amy Coney Barrett replaced Ruth Bader Ginsburg in October 2020,
no more than 33% had ever characterized it as too conservative.”
But then,…

The Democrats’ Most Formidable Foe Is Not Donald Trump
Stopping and reversing the degradation of the Trump era will require a more radical strategy—and a bigger target.

🛫 Madagascar’s military power grab shows Africa’s coup problem isn’t restricted to the Sahel region
https://theconversation.com/madagascars-military-power-grab-shows-africas-coup-problem-isnt-restricted-to-the-…

Madagascar’s military power grab shows Africa’s coup problem isn’t restricted to the Sahel region
While illegal takeovers of state have declined globally, Africa has now seen at least 10 successful coups since 2020.

Bengals tried to hire Bears coach Ben Johnson for a unique job after 2020 NFL season

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/bengals-tried-to-hire-bears-coa…

A Computer-Assisted Proof of the Optimal Density Bound for Pinwheel Covering
Akitoshi Kawamura, Yusuke Kobayashi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06533 https://a…

A Computer-Assisted Proof of the Optimal Density Bound for Pinwheel Covering
In the covering version of the pinwheel scheduling problem, a daily task must be assigned to agents under the constraint that agent $i$ can perform the task at most once in any $a_i$-day interval. In this paper, we determine the optimal constant $α^* = 1.264\ldots {}$ such that every instance with $\sum_{i} \frac{1}{a_i} \ge α^*$ is schedulable. This resolves an open problem posed by Soejima and Kawamura (2020). Our proof combines Kawamura's (2024) techniques for the packing version with new …

Bahn zieht Reißleine: Cargo-Chefin Nikutta muss gehen
Seit 2020 hat Sigrid Nikutta versucht, DB Cargo zu sanieren. Nach Kritik der Gewerkschaft und einem verheerenden Gutachten zieht der Konzern Konsequenzen.
https://…

Dominion Voting settles its lawsuit against OANN for defamation over 2020 election rigging claims (Jeremy Barr/@jeremymbarr)
https://x.com/jeremymbarr/status/1974233050373398656

Jeremy Barr (@jeremymbarr) on X
Another 2020 media lawsuit just got resolved: Dominion Voting Systems has ended their lawsuit against OAN

From High-Entropy Ceramics (HECs) to Compositionally Complex Ceramics (CCCs) and Beyond
Jian Luo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05629 https://arxiv.org/pdf/251…

From High-Entropy Ceramics (HECs) to Compositionally Complex Ceramics (CCCs) and Beyond
Over the past decade, the field of high-entropy ceramics (HECs) has rapidly expanded to encompass a wide range of oxides, borides, silicides, and other ceramic solid solutions. In 2020, we proposed extending the concept of HECs to compositionally complex ceramics (CCCs), in which non-equimolar compositions and the presence of long- or short-range order reduce entropy while offering new opportunities to tailor and enhance properties, often beyond those of higher-entropy counterparts. Here, funda…

China's efforts to slow land degradation and climate change
by planting trees and restoring grasslands
have shifted water around the country in huge, unforeseen ways, new research shows.
Between 2001 and 2020, changes in vegetation cover reduced the amount of fresh water available for humans and ecosystems in the eastern monsoon region and northwestern arid region,
which together make up 74% of China's land area, according to a study published Oct. 4 in the jo…

China has planted so many trees it's changed the entire country's water distribution
Huge "regreening" efforts in China over the past few decades have activated the country's water cycle and moved water in ways that scientists are just now starting to understand.

NextEra Energy and Google sign a 25-year power supply deal, which includes restarting the 615MW Duane Arnold nuclear plant in Iowa, shut down in 2020 (Vallari Srivastava/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/nexter…

Localised Arrowheads: The building blocks of elastic turbulence in rectilinear, sheared polymer flows
Theo A. Lewy, Rich R. Kerswell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26168 https://

Localised Arrowheads: The building blocks of elastic turbulence in rectilinear, sheared polymer flows
Pressure-driven flow of a dilute polymer solution has been numerically observed to possess a form of elastic turbulence which is organised around the interactions of localised versions of 2-dimensional `arrowhead' travelling waves (Page et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 154501, 2020). As a step to confirming this theoretically, we identify spanwise-localised arrowhead travelling waves by tracking a symmetry-breaking bifurcation of the known spanwise-invariant (2D) arrowhead to a spanwise-periodic st…

mist: MIST protein interaction database (2020)
The Molecular Interaction Search Tool (MIST) is a comprehensive resource of molecular interactions, assembled from severla primary sources. MIST currently supports several species, including:.
This network has 46404 nodes and 643319 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

@… *me, 1000 years later, hooked up to a life-extension machine, still responding to GitHub issues opened in 2020*

The Atlanta Fed estimates delays faced by claimants in COBOL-based unemployment insurance systems cut US GDP by at least $40B between March 13 and year-end 2020 (Bryce Elder/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7610a755-27e3-4792-a337-27d9b301000b

Ever heard of Eric Schmitt?
He’s the junior US senator from Missouri, a Republican, naturally.
He was elected in the 2022 election.
Prior to that he was the Show Me State’s attorney general.
In that position, he championed Trump’s Big Lie about the 2020 election and supported failed lawsuits that tried to overturn the election results.
He signed an amicus brief that contended LGBTQ people were not protected by workplace discrimination bans.
He filed l…