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In late 2020, I wrote an odd little musing of thoughts. Just re-read it today, and I like these lines:
"Love must have compassion and empathy at its beck and call.
As uncomfortable as truth can so often be, it remains true without any believers, without any champions arguing its case.
Pain is, heartrendingly, unavoidable. Misery is an option we can choose willfully by thinking we know everything and have nothing to learn."

Midas Touch but for Pain
some people have the ability to diminish all they touch

3 Ways FaceBook Can Kill Your Creativity
#creativity #inspiration
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3 Ways FaceBook Can Kill Your Creativity
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Remember how Epstein's suicide wasn't captured on camera because of two camera failures (2019)?
Remember how Epstein's suicide was captured but the footage was accidentally erased (2020)?
Cool that the FBI was able to release the footage now. Not sus. Very normal. Thanks FBI.

Establishment of global phase coherence in a highly disordered fractal MgO/MgB2 nanocomposite: Roles of interface, morphology and defect
Iku Nakaaki, Aoi Hashimoto, Shun Kondo, Yuichi Ikuhara, Shuuichi Ooi, Minoru Tachiki, Shunichi Arisawa, Akiko Nakamura, Taku Moronaga, Jun Chen, Hiroyo Segawa, Takahiro Sakurai, Hitoshi Ohta, Takashi Uchino
https://…

Establishment of global phase coherence in a highly disordered fractal MgO/MgB2 nanocomposite: Roles of interface, morphology and defect
Recently, we have reported that a highly disordered fractal MgO/MgB2 nanocomposite exhibits bulk-like superconducting properties with isotropic pinning, showing an excellent phase-coherent capability irrespective of the low volume fraction (~30 vol. %) of MgB2 [Uchino et al., Phys. Rev. B 101, 035146 (2020); Teramachi et al,, Phys. Rev. B 108, 155146 (2023)]. Hence, this nanocomposite provides a useful experimental system to investigate the relationship between the structural disorder and the e…

Tracking the affordability of least-cost healthy diets helps guide intervention for food security and improved nutrition
William A. Masters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22965

Tracking the affordability of least-cost healthy diets helps guide intervention for food security and improved nutrition
This Policy Comment describes how the Food Policy article entitled 'Cost and affordability of nutritious diets at retail prices: Evidence from 177 countries' (first published October 2020) and 'Retail consumer price data reveal gaps and opportunities to monitor food systems for nutrition' (first published September 2021) advanced the use of least-cost benchmark diets to monitor and improve food security. Those papers contributed to the worldwide use of least-cost diets as a new diagnostic indic…

The 'criminal alien' slander: A recent study of 150 years of US incarceration data found immigrant men were far less likely to be sent to prison than men born in the U.S. A 2020 study compared crime rates of undocumented immigrants vs. U.S.-born citizens: U.S.-born “are over 2x more likely to be arrested for violent crimes, 2.5x more likely to be arrested for drug crimes, and over 4x more likely to be arrested for property crimes.”
‘We Voted for Retribution’
https://www.aol.com/voted-retribution-200056494.html

A new paper projecting Joshua tree habitat under future climate based on incredibly high-resolution distribution data, from Joshua Tree Genome Project collaborators at USGS. They estimate up to 80% loss of suitable habitat by 2100 under the worst-case climate scenario.
#JoshuaTree #science

Many phases in a hairy box in three dimensions
Shoichiro Miyashita
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20528 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.20528

Many phases in a hairy box in three dimensions
In this paper, I investigate gravitational thermodynamics of the Einstein-Maxwell-scalar system in three dimensions without a cosmological constant. In the previous work by Krishnan,Shekhar, and Bala Subramanian (Nucl. Phys. B 958 (2020) 115115 [33]), it was argued that this system has no BH saddles, but has only empty (flat space) saddles and boson star saddles. It was then concluded that the structure of the thermodynamic phase space is much simpler than in the higher dimensional cases. I wil…

The Additive Bachelier model with an application to the oil option market in the Covid period
Roberto Baviera, Michele Domenico Massaria
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09760

The Additive Bachelier model with an application to the oil option market in the Covid period
In April 2020, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange temporarily switched the pricing formula for West Texas Intermediate oil market options from the Black model to the Bachelier model. In this context, we introduce an Additive Bachelier model that provides a simple closed-form solution and a good description of the Implied volatility surface. This new Additive model exhibits several notable mathematical and financial properties. It ensures the no-arbitrage condition, a critical requirement in highly…