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Optical and Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of the Outbursting Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks
Ruining Zhao, Bin Yang, Michael S. P. Kelley, Silvia Protopapa, Aigen Li, Yang Huang, Jifeng Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03247

Optical and Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of the Outbursting Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks
We present optical and near-infrared (NIR) observations of the outbursting, Halley-type comet 12P/Pons-Brooks. Three NIR spectra were obtained during two outbursts in October and November 2023, with the 3-meter Infrared Telescope Facility and the Palomar 200-inch Telescope, respectively. The NIR spectra exhibited absorption features at 1.5 and 2.0 $μ$m, consistent with the diagnostic absorption bands of water ice, superimposed on a red dust-scattering continuum. We find that the absorption ban…

On Sunday, Israel’s far-right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir visited the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, the hotly contested holy site, and declared, “We are relaying a message that from today on, we are conquering the entire Gaza Strip, announcing our sovereignty on the entire Gaza Strip, taking down every Hamas member, and encouraging voluntary emigration”—his preferred euphemism for ethnic cleansing.

Israel’s Settler Right Is Preparing to Annex Gaza
A radical campaign that began in 2023 is entering its final phase.

Can fractal dimension distinguish between grand-design and flocculent spiral arms?
Biju Saha, Subhadip Dutta, Arunima Banerjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04411 https://

Can fractal dimension distinguish between grand-design and flocculent spiral arms?
About two-thirds of disk galaxies host spiral arms, ranging from well-delineated grand-design spirals to fragmented flocculent spiral galaxies. We introduce fractal dimension $D_B$ as a non-parametric measure to distinguish between grand-designs and flocculents. We calculate the $D_B$ of 197 grand-designs and 322 flocculents from SDSS DR18, using the samples of \citet{Buta..2015} and \citet{Sarkar..2023}. Our calculated median values of $D_B$ are $1.29^{+0.06}_{-0.04}$ and $1.38^{+0.05}_{-0.06}…

Tor-Åge Bringsværd er dŸd, melder VG og NRK. På IKO-forlaget synes vi det var stas å få jobbe med en kjempe i den norske barnelitteraturen – han ga ut fire bŸker her, den siste var Babel i 2023.

AI Investment and Firm Productivity: How Executive Demographics Drive Technology Adoption and Performance in Japanese Enterprises
Tatsuru Kikuchi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03757

AI Investment and Firm Productivity: How Executive Demographics Drive Technology Adoption and Performance in Japanese Enterprises
This paper investigates how executive demographics particularly age and gender influence artificial intelligence (AI) investment decisions and subsequent firm productivity using comprehensive data from over 500 Japanese enterprises spanning from 2018 to 2023. Our central research question addresses the role of executive characteristics in technology adoption, finding that CEO age and technical background significantly predict AI investment propensity. Employing these demographic characteristics…

Approaching the great wall
(From a hike up a beautiful side valley in the Karwendel, September 2023)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Gretel Hänlyn:
🎵 Apple Juice (6 Music Session, 11 Jan 2023)
#GretelHänlyn
https://open.spotify.com/track/3A5aS28dQBFswox9AefLSX

Content and Engagement Trends in COVID-19 YouTube Videos: Evidence from the Late Pandemic
Nirmalya Thakur, Madeline D Hartel, Lane Michael Boden, Dallas Enriquez, Boston Joyner Ricks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01954

Content and Engagement Trends in COVID-19 YouTube Videos: Evidence from the Late Pandemic
This work investigated about 10,000 COVID-19-related YouTube videos published between January 2023 and October 2024 to evaluate how temporal, lexical, linguistic, and structural factors influenced engagement during the late pandemic period. Publishing activity showed consistent weekday effects: in the first window, average views peaked on Mondays at 92,658; in the second, on Wednesdays at 115,479; and in the third, on Fridays at 84,874, reflecting a shift in audience attention toward mid- and l…

Anzahl der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 23.08.2025.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
Zusatzlesestoff: 14 Tipps zum #Energiesparen

Reclaimed Land: Cowboys look to re-sign former camp star Colts poached in 2023 https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/08/28/cowboys-isaiah-land-practice-squad-potential-signing/8586435200…

from my link log —
The joys of UNIX keyboards.
https://donatstudios.com/UNIX-Keyboards
saved 2023-08-04 https://do…

The Joys of UNIX Keyboards

Spotify geht den Netflix-Weg! 🎧 Nach der letzten Erhöhung im Oktober 2023 müsst ihr bald erneut tiefer in die Tasche greifen, wenn ihr weiterhin werbefrei Musik streamen wollt.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-10530661

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Muddy Waters:
🎵 Mannish Boy
#NowPlaying #MuddyWaters
https://weddingparty.bandcamp.com/track/muddy-waters-mannish-boy-bad-to-the-bone-radio-mix-2023-djpitsios
https://open.spotify.com/track/58PSYdY0GFg0LFb2PxYk4T

El Paso heat deaths hit record highs in 2023 and 2024. Advocates say the most vulnerable people are left unprotected
https://us2.campaign-archive.com/?e=fa4ac89bc1&u=7c733794100bcc7e083a163f0&id=72ef7d1ce0
> Get all…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- The BBC National Orchestra of Wales at the 2023 BBC Proms
Violinist Geneva Lewis joins the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and conductor Jaime Martín in Grace Williams's violin concerto and works by Dora Pejačević and Holst's The Planets.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002h7t0

Identifying Radio Active Galactic Nuclei with Machine Learning and Large-Area Surveys
Xu-Liang Fan, Jie Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01596 https://arxiv.o…

Identifying Radio Active Galactic Nuclei with Machine Learning and Large-Area Surveys
Context. Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and star forming galaxies (SFGs) are the primary sources of extragalactic radio sky. But it is difficult to distinguish the radio emission produced by AGNs from that by SFGs, especially when the radio sources are faint. Best et al. (2023) classified the radio sources in LoTSS Deep Fields DR1 through multiwavelength SED fitting. With the classification results of them, we perform a supervised machine learning to distinguish radio AGNs and radio SFGs. Aims…

📈 Bioscience researchers shared data in 92% of articles that we manually evaluated from 2023. In the chart 👇 orange shading shows 45% of articles shared ALL the relevant data, up from 7% in 2014👏. Sharing varied by data type as expected, 🧬 vs. 🔬, among several other factors.
Thanks to BIH QUEST @ChariteBerlin for ODDPub, which gave a parallel, programmatic evaluation.

In contrast, testing an international sample of circadian, neuroscience and mental health articles by the same manual method … 2/3
Edited for Alt-text.

#TuneTuesday (Aug 19)
I first learned of New York–based duo #FlyByMidnight in 2023 and I found myself really enjoying their music. And if you’re curious, their song “Borrow Your Time” is an example of the style of melodic synth-pop that is just a pleasure to listen to.

Das Geld parkt falsch auf der Straße. Wir haben nur kein Personal es aufzuheben.
Wie viele Verfahren konnten aufgrund der Privatanzeigen eingeleitet werden?
2023 konnten von 6.865 Anzeigen 4.355 Verfahren eingeleitet werden.
2024 konnten aufgrund erheblicher Personalausfälle in dem betroffenen Arbeitsbereich von insgesamt 11.034 Anzeigen nur 2.775 Verfahren eingeleitet werden

Anfrage zu Privatanzeigen im Bereich ruhender Verkehr
bitte beantworten Sie folgende Fragen, jeweils aufgeschlüsselt für die Jahre 2023 und 2024 für den Bereich des ruhenden Verkehrs mit dem Schwerpunkt auf Privatanzeige/Drittanzeige/Fremdanzeigen - im Folgenden nur noch 'Privatanzeigen' genannt: * Wie viele Privatanzeigen sind bei Ihnen eingegangen? * Wie viele Verfahren konnten aufgrund der Privatanzeigen eingeleitet werden? * Wie viele Verfahren durch Privatanzeigen wurden durch Zahlung eines Verwarnungsgeldes bestandskräfig? * Wie viele V…

Karstadt-Leerstand Thema auf dem Dach https://weddingweiser.de/karstadt-leerstand-thema-auf-dem-dach/

Kantar: the share of Indians consuming media exclusively on mobile phones grew to 23% in Q1 2025, up from 15% in Q1 2023, as TVs stay unaffordable for many (Satviki Sanjay/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

Magnetic structure and asymmetric eruption of a 500 Mm filament rooted in weak-field regions
Stefan Purkhart, Astrid M. Veronig, Robert Jarolim, Karin Dissauer, Julia K. Thalmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18121

Magnetic structure and asymmetric eruption of a 500 Mm filament rooted in weak-field regions
We performed a detailed analysis of the magnetic structure and asymmetric eruption of a large (about 500 Mm) inverse S-shaped filament partially located in AR 13229 on February 24, 2023. We linked the filament's pre-eruptive magnetic configuration to its highly asymmetric eruption dynamics and the formation of a large-scale coronal dimming in a weak-field region (mean unsigned flux of about 5 G). To reconstruct the coronal magnetic field, we applied a physics-informed neural network (PINN)-base…

GWTC-4.0: Updating the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog with Observations from the First Part of the Fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observing Run
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18082

GWTC-4.0: Updating the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog with Observations from the First Part of the Fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observing Run
Version 4.0 of the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog (GWTC-4.0) adds new candidates detected by the LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA observatories through the first part of the fourth observing run (O4a: 2023 May 24 15:00:00 to 2024 January 16 16:00:00 UTC) and a preceding engineering run. In this new data, we find 128 new compact binary coalescence candidates that are identified by at least one of our search algorithms with a probability of astrophysical origin $p_{\rm astro} \geq 0.5$ and that are n…

Felix Anudike-Uzomah's injury with Chiefs punctuates concerning trend for 2023 NFL Draft edge rushers

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/felix-a

Nach jahrelanger Kritik und ohne Nutzungsperspektive wird der umstrittene Tiefbrunnen von #CocaCola in #Gellersen bei #Lüneburg zurückgebaut.
Die Untere

Grundwasser bleibt – Brunnen geht: Landkreis Lüneburg ordnet Rückbau des Brunnens von Coca-Cola an
Die als Mineralwasser-Brunnen geplante Grundwasser-Entnahmestelle in der Samtgemeinde Gellersen wird zurückgebaut. Am morgigen Freitag (24. November 2023) lässt das Unternehmen Coca-Cola bzw. die Apollinaris Brands GmbH als Eigentümerin der Bohrung...

… found only 8% of articles in 2023 shared ANY Open data, consistent with previous reports for psychiatry and psychology research.
In our bioscience sample that year, only 8% of articles shared no Open data. Many factors underlying this difference, of course.

https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjment-2024-301333
👇 CMHN is our analysis of articles from researchers in the MRC-funded "Circadian and Mental Health Network". 3/3

Barenaked Ladies - One Night
from the album "In Flight" (2023)
2xLP Side A Track 2
( 音楽 / 音樂 / 音乐 / 음악 / music )
https://youtu.be/ETEslmfhgEg

Our Home – #PianoImprov #NowPlaying #improv #improvpiano

Our Home - #PianoImprov #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Infinite lexicographic products of positional objectives
Antonio Casares, Pierre Ohlmann, Micha{\l} Skrzypczak, Igor Walukiewicz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14544

Infinite lexicographic products of positional objectives
This paper contributes to the study of positional determinacy of infinite duration games played on potentially infinite graphs. Recently, [Ohlmann, TheoretiCS 2023] established that positionality of prefix-independent objectives is preserved by finite lexicographic products. We propose two different notions of infinite lexicographic products indexed by arbitrary ordinals, and extend Ohlmann's result by proving that they also preserve positionality. In the context of one-player positionality, th…

Suspense and Surprise in European Football
Raphael Flepp, Tim Pawlowski, Travis Richardson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21253 https://a…

Suspense and Surprise in European Football
We propose utilizing match-level suspense and surprise - which capture the entertainment utility created by competitive balance and outcome uncertainty for sports spectators - as alternative policy targets for league organizers and managers. Through simulations, we derive a benchmark range for suspense and surprise based on a perfectly balanced match before analyzing over 25,000 men's matches (2010/11-2023/24) and 725 women's matches (2023/24) from Europe's top football leagues. Our findings re…

Decoding the Hot-Mitochondrion Paradox
Peyman Fahimi, Michael Lynch, Cherif F. Matta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16824 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.16824

Corda senz’anima
Boragni
Free solo
2023
#FreeSolo #Boragni

All-sky search for long-duration gravitational-wave transients in the first part of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observing run
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12282

All-sky search for long-duration gravitational-wave transients in the first part of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observing run
We present an all-sky search for long-duration gravitational waves (GWs) from the first part of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA fourth observing run (O4), called O4a and comprising data taken between 24 May 2023 and 16 January 2024. The GW signals targeted by this search are the so-called "long-duration" (> 1 s) transients expected from a variety of astrophysical processes, including non-axisymmetric deformations in magnetars or eccentric binary coalescences. We make minimal assumptions on the emitted GW …

A new equilibrium: COVID-19 lockdowns and WFH persistence
Laura Ketter, Todd Morris, Lizi Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16671 https://

A new equilibrium: COVID-19 lockdowns and WFH persistence
This paper documents a robust link between COVID-19 lockdowns and the uptake and persistence of working from home (WFH) practices. Exploiting rich longitudinal data, we use a difference-in-differences strategy to compare office workers in three heavily locked-down Australian states to similar workers in less affected states. Locked-down workers sustain 43% higher WFH levels through 2023 - 0.5 days per week - with a monotonic dose-response relationship. Persistence is driven by adjustments on bo…