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Cycle of Creativity – Inspire, Create, Rest, Repeat #creativity #inspiration https://muz4now.com/2023/cy…

Cycle of Creativity - Inspire, Create, Rest, Repeat
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Homogeneous hypersurfaces of the four-dimensional Thurston geometry ${\rm Sol_0^4}$
Guoxin Wei, Zeke Yao, Xi Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10545 https://

Homogeneous hypersurfaces of the four-dimensional Thurston geometry ${\rm Sol_0^4}$
In this paper, we classify hypersurfaces with constant principal curvatures in the four-dimensional Thurston geometry ${\rm Sol_0^4}$ under certain geometric assumptions. As an application of the classification result, we give a complete classification of homogeneous hypersurfaces in ${\rm Sol_0^4}$, which solves a problem raised by Erjavec and Inoguchi (Problem 6.4 of [J. Geom. Anal. 33, Art. 274, (2023)]).

Thermodynamics of Einstein-Geometric Proca AdS compact objects
Asalkhon Alimova, Elham Ghorani, Beyhan Puli\c{c}e, Farruh Atamurotov, Ahmadjon Abdujabbarov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09389

Thermodynamics of Einstein-Geometric Proca AdS compact objects
In this study we explore metric-Palatini gravity extended by the antisymmetric component of the affine curvature. This gravitational theory results in general relativity plus a geometric Proca field. Building on our previous work, where we constructed its static spherically symmetric solutions in the Anti-de Sitter (AdS) background (Eur. Phys. J. C 83(4):318, 2023), we conduct a comprehensive analysis of the system's thermodynamics. We examine the thermodynamic properties of the Einstein-Geomet…

Oh great, the 3 warmest months of July on record globally are now 2023, 2024, and 2025.
https://mstdn.social/@Powerfromspace1/114994787705123922

PKPs Powerfromspace1 (@Powerfromspace1@mstdn.social)
Attached: 1 image @extretemps@toot.community #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming July 2025 Worldwide,according to NASA, had a temperature anomaly of +0.45C vs 1991/2020 (+1.03C vs 1951/1980) and was the 3rd hottest July on record, +0.16C behind both those of 2023 and 2024. https://bsky.app/profile/extremetemps.bsky.social/post/3lvvxirf7mc2i

Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.08.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1071459 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

“Belgium to recognize Palestine, sanction Israel”
https://www.politico.eu/article/belgium-to-recognize-palestine-sanction-israel/
But still “only … if Hamas releases all remaining Israeli hostages kidnapped in the Oct. 7, 2023 attack and the m…

Belgium to recognize Palestine, sanction Israel
Foreign Minister Maxime Prévot said the move would happen only after Hamas releases all Israeli hostages and no longer manages Palestine.

Aufschrieb zu meiner (nicht nur) SF-Lektüre im August.
https://blog.till-westermayer.de/index.php/2025/08/29/science-fiction-und-fantasy-im-august-2025/

Science Fiction und Fantasy im August 2025
Ich fange mit einem Buch an, das eigentlich eher ein Sachbuch ist - Mark McCaughreans "Reiseführer" 111 places in space that you must not miss (2023). Der Titel beschreibt eigentlich auch schon ganz gut, was es mit diesem Buch auf sich hat, das wohl tatsächlich in einer Reihe erschienen ist, die auc

TIL how to spell check in vim
#vim

Belkin will just cut off any Wemo Model (except for 4 Models) from having access to their servers on January 31st 2026, effectively bricking all those devices, making them unusable. They will all end up in the landfill. Thanks Belkin! Great job! The best part is: There are Models on this list that have been sold up until the end of 2023! #Belkin

A second security breach at Tea exposes more than 1.1M user messages, dating from early 2023 to as recently as last week, many containing sensitive information (404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/a-second-tea-breach-reveals-users-dms-about-abortion…

A Second Tea Breach Reveals Users’ DMs About Abortions and Cheating
The more than one million messages obtained by 404 Media are as recent as last week, discuss incredibly sensitive topics, and make it trivial to unmask some anonymous Tea users.

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 05.09.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Förderantrag

"Antarctic ice has grown again – but this does not buck overall melt trend"
#Antarctic #Climate #ClimateChange

Owning two Pixel phones running GrapheneOS made me both chuckle and tear up a little. It’s such an amazing operating system that I’m planning to start making monthly donations to support the project.
I had my Pixel 6a since early May 2023, but yesterday I upgraded to a Pixel 9a because the speakers and earpiece microphone on my 6a had started to fail badly, and the battery was showing its age.
I’m glad I made the upgrade, and now people can hear me clearly on the phone again.

In 2023, I wrote an article about two Bioenergy-with-CCS 🌲🔥🍃 (BECCS) projects in Denmark🇩🇰, which is somewhat timely given recent news.
It was published on the shipping news page Fathom World, which is no longer online, so I have republished it.
Back then, Ørsted announced plans for carbon capture and storage at two of its bioenergy power plants (Asnæsværket and AvedŸreværket). 🧵

Denmark's biomass plants become part of carbon dioxide shipping project
Ørsted plans to ship carbon emissions from two of its biomass-fired power plants in Denmark to the Northern Lights project in Norway.

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…

Phase II of the LAMOST-Kepler/K2 Survey. II. Time Domain of Medium-resolution Spectroscopic Observations from 2018 to 2023
Mingfeng Qin, Jian-Ning Fu, Weikai Zong, Peter De Cat, Antonio Frasca, Tianqi Cang, Jiangtao Wang, Jianrong Shi, Ali Luo, Haotong Zhang, Hongliang Yan, J. Molenda- \.Zakowicz, R. O. Gray, Jiaxin Wang
https://arxiv.org/…

Phase II of the LAMOST-Kepler/K2 Survey. II. Time Domain of Medium-resolution Spectroscopic Observations from 2018 to 2023
The LAMOST-Kepler/K2 Medium-Resolution Spectroscopic Survey (LK-MRS) conducted time-domain medium-resolution spectroscopic observations of 20 LAMOST plates in the Kepler and K2 fields from 2018 to 2023, a phase designated as LK-MRS-I. A catalog of stellar parameters for a total of 36,588 stars, derived from the spectra collected during these five years, including the effective temperature, the surface gravity, the metallicity, the α-element abundance, the radial velocity, and v sin i of the ta…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
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Sources: Pinecone, which provides an AI-compatible vector database, is exploring a sale after receiving takeover interest; Pinecone was valued at $750M in 2023 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/top-funded-ai-database-star…

Top-Funded AI Database Startup Pinecone Considers a Sale
When the artificial intelligence boom began a few years ago, investors flocked to startups that helped businesses transform and store proprietary data in a format AI could understand, known as a vector database. The technology allowed businesses to use a customized AI chatbot to search or ...

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The orbital period and inclination of the neutron star X-ray transient MAXI J1807 132
E. A. Saavedra, T. Mu\~noz-Darias, M. A. P. Torres, I. V. Yanes-Rizo, M. Armas Padilla, A. \'Alvarez-Hern\'andez, J. Casares, D. Mata S\'anchez, S. K. Rout, S. Navarro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20178 …

The orbital period and inclination of the neutron star X-ray transient MAXI J1807+132
The neutron star X-ray transient MAXI J1807+132 has undergone outbursts in 2017, 2019, and 2023. We conducted an $R$-band time series photometry campaign using the Isaac Newton Telescope during the 2022 quiescent state. We detected a periodic variation in the light curve, consistent with ellipsoidal modulation, which allowed us to determine an orbital period of $P_{\rm orb} = 4.258 \pm 0.008$ hr. By modelling the light curve, we obtained a binary inclination of $ i = 72\pm5 \, °$ and a mass ra…

Do these comments in the Israeli press possibly explain what is happening in #Gaza?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun…

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

Berend Botje https://archivo.kamasystems.nl/es/2023/03/29/berend-botje/

Everything you wanted to know about 2023 KQ14 (but were afraid to ask)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2025/07/19/complete-guide-to-ammonite-the-solar-systems-latest-member/

Greening Schoolyards and Urban Property Values: A Systematic Review of Geospatial and Statistical Evidence
Mahshid Gorjian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19934 https://

Greening Schoolyards and Urban Property Values: A Systematic Review of Geospatial and Statistical Evidence
1.1 Background Parks and the greening of schoolyards are examples of urban green spaces that have been praised for their environmental, social, and economic benefits in cities all over the world. More studies show that living near green spaces is good for property values. However, there is still disagreement about how strong and consistent these effects are in different cities (Browning et al., 2023; Grunewald et al., 2024; Teo et al., 2023). 1.2 Purpose This systematic review is the first to b…

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}…

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.08.2025.
Die summarische Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt…

Wide-field Polarization Imaging and Numerical Modeling of the Coma and Tail of Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS)
Mirza Arnaut, Christian W\"ohler, Pritish Halder, Goldy Ahuja, Shashikiran Ganesh, Megha Bhatt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21284

Wide-field Polarization Imaging and Numerical Modeling of the Coma and Tail of Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS)
Imaging polarimetry is a well-known method for analysing the structure and composition of cometary dust. Accordingly, comets are classified based on the phase angle dependent degree of linear polarization of their comae. The goal of this study is to examine the size and structure of the dust grains in the coma and in particular in the tail of the bright comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) and to infer possible variations. For this purpose, we rely on the method of telescopic wide-field polarime…

Methodological Advances and Challenges in Indirect Treatment Comparisons: A Review of International Guidelines and HAS TC Case Studies
Matthias Monnereau, Ana Jarne, Axel Benoist, Cl\'emence Fradet, Maurice Perol, Thomas Filleron, Louise Baschet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11587

Methodological Advances and Challenges in Indirect Treatment Comparisons: A Review of International Guidelines and HAS TC Case Studies
To evaluate methodological challenges and regulatory considerations of indirect treatment comparisons (ITCs) with the analysis of international health technology assessment guidelines and French Transparency Committee (TC) decisions. We conducted a pragmatic review of ITC guidelines from major health technology assessment (HTA) bodies and multistakeholder organizations. Then, we analyzed TC opinions published between 2021-2023. We extracted data on ITC methodology, therapeutic areas, acceptabil…

Flexport announces it is selling Convoy's tech to DAT Freight & Analytics, after acquiring the digital freight startup's tech stack in late 2023 (John Kingston/FreightWaves)
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/less-tha

Less than 2 years after Flexport bought Convoy’s tech stack, it’s being sold to DAT
Flexport is selling the Convy tech stack to DAT, less than two years after it bought it from the defunct digital brokerage.

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…

Tracing the light: Identification for the optical counterpart candidates of binary black-holes during O3
Lei He, Zhengyan Liu, Rui Niu, Bingzhou Gao, Mingshen Zhou, Purun Zou, Runduo Liang, Wen Zhao, Ning Jiang, Zhen-Yi Cai, Zi-Gao Dai, Ye-Fei Yuan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02475

Tracing the light: Identification for the optical counterpart candidates of binary black-holes during O3
The accretion disks of active galactic nuclei (AGN) are widely considered the ideal environments for binary black hole (BBH) mergers and the only plausible sites for their electromagnetic (EM) counterparts. Graham et al.(2023) identified seven AGN flares that are potentially associated with gravitational-wave (GW) events detected by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration during the third observing run. In this article, utilizing an additional three years of Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) pub…

Activities of Women in Physics Group in Spain 2022 to 2023
Pascuala Garcia-Martinez, Carmen Ocal, Ana Xesus Lopez, Mariam Tortola, Milagros F. Morcillo-Arencibia, Alberto Martin-Molina, Sonia Estrade
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18816

Activities of Women in Physics Group in Spain 2022 to 2023
In this paper, we present the main actions of the Women in Physics Group of the Spanish Royal Physics Society over the period of 2022 to 2023, in which we celebrated the 20th anniversary of the group. We also outline relevant equality initiatives implemented during this period by the Spanish Government as well as analyse their impact on the status of women in Physics in our country. In 2023, our scientific society approved the Gender Equality Plan, thus becoming a pioneer scientific society in …

Counter-Streaming Velocities in a Quiescent Filament
Garima Karki, Brigitte Schmieder, Pascal Demoulin, Pooja Devi, Ramesh Chandra, Reetika Joshi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18115 …

Counter-Streaming Velocities in a Quiescent Filament
Filaments/prominences are cold plasma (~ 10000 K) embedded in the solar corona, two orders of magnitude hotter. Filament plasma is structured by the magnetic field in thin elongated threads. Counter-streaming flows have been observed. The aim of this paper is to characterize these flows. For that, we use high spatial resolution observations of spectral data obtained with THEMIS in H-alpha and with IRIS in Mg II k lines on 29 September 2023. We best detect counter-streaming flows in both the blu…

Exploring the Relationship Between Swift Short Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows and their Host Galaxy Properties
Cristian Castrejon (Northwestern, CIERA), Anya E. Nugent, Wen-fai Fong, Genevieve Schroeder, Alicia Rouco Escorial, Olivia Guerra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20156

Exploring the Relationship Between Swift Short Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows and their Host Galaxy Properties
We present a comprehensive compilation of short-duration gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglows in the X-ray, optical, and radio bands, comprising 150 events discovered primarily by the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory over 2005-2023. We pair these observations with uniformly modeled host galaxies to understand how broadband afterglow luminosities are influenced by their environmental properties. We compare the X-ray and optical afterglow luminosities at 3 hr with projected physical and host-normalized…

Assessing the Sensitivities of Input-Output Methods for Natural Hazard-Induced Power Outage Macroeconomic Impacts
Matthew Sprintson, Edward Oughton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19989

Assessing the Sensitivities of Input-Output Methods for Natural Hazard-Induced Power Outage Macroeconomic Impacts
It is estimated that over one-fourth of US households experienced a power outage in 2023, costing on average US $\$150$ Bn annually, with $87\%$ of outages caused by natural hazards. Indeed, numerous studies have examined the macroeconomic impact of power network interruptions, employing a wide variety of modeling methods and data parameterization techniques, which warrants further investigation. In this paper, we quantify the macroeconomic effects of three significant natural hazard-induced US…

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.08.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1104581 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Unprecedentedly bright X-ray flaring in Cygnus X-1 observed by INTEGRAL
P. Thalhammer, T. Bouchet, J. Rodriguez, F. Cangemi, K. Pottschmidt, D. A. Green, L. Rhodes, C. Ferrigno, M. A. Nowak, V. Grinberg, T. Siegert, P. Laurent, I. Kreykenbohm, M. Perucho, J. Tomsick, C. S\'anchez-Fern\'andez, J. Wilms C. S\'anchez-Fern\'andez, J. Wilms
https://

Unprecedentedly bright X-ray flaring in Cygnus X-1 observed by INTEGRAL
We study three extraordinarily bright X-ray flares originating from Cyg X-1 seen on 2023 July 10 detected with INTEGRAL. The flares had a duration on the order of only ten minutes each, and within seconds reached a 1-100 keV peak luminosity of $1.1-2.6\times10^{38}$ erg/s. The associated INTEGRAL/IBIS count rate was about ${\sim}$10x higher than usual for the hard state. To our knowledge, this is the first time that such strong flaring has been seen in Cyg X-1, despite the more than 21 years of…

New inequality indicators for team ranking in multi-stage female professional cyclist races
Marcel Ausloos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20113 https://arxiv.o…

New inequality indicators for team ranking in multi-stage female professional cyclist races
Cycling competition is highly interesting since the team ranking is based on the best performance of some subset of team members. The paper develops new inequality indicators, a methodology to construct them, and numerical illustrations allowing to provide operative arguments in their favor. The numerical illustrations subsequently deal with hierarchical ranking indicators of (female) cyclist teams, competing in multi-stage races. For the illustration, the 2023 editions of the most famous long …

Evaluation of Time Series Forecasting Models for Predicting Lung Cancer Mortality Rates in the United States: A Comparison with Altuhaifa (2023) Study
E. Kubuafor, D. Baidoo, O. J. Okeke, R. Amevor, G. Arhin, J. T. Korley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16052

Evaluation of Time Series Forecasting Models for Predicting Lung Cancer Mortality Rates in the United States: A Comparison with Altuhaifa (2023) Study
This paper evaluates the performance of the following time series forecasting models - Simple Exponential Smoothing (SES), Holt's Double Exponential Smoothing (HDES), and Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) - in predicting lung cancer mortality rates in the United States. It builds upon the work of Altuhaifa, which used Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) data from 1975-2018 to evaluate these models. Altuhaifa's study found that ARIMA (0,2,2), SES with smoothing para…

Latitudinal dependence of the solar wind during periods of high and low activity through interplanetary scintillation
A. Waszewski, J. S. Morgan, R. Ekers, M. Johnston-Hollitt, M. C. M. Cheung, N. D. R. Bhat, R. Chhetri, S. C. Fu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14155

Latitudinal dependence of the solar wind during periods of high and low activity through interplanetary scintillation
We present a study of the solar wind over different periods of the solar cycle, specifically focussing on the minimum between solar cycles 24 and 25, and the active, ascending phase of solar cycle 25. With the use of interplanetary scintillation (IPS) data taken by the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) from mid-2019 and early 2023, we have sampled over a wide range of solar latitudes and elongations, probing a large section of the surrounding heliosphere from $\sim$90 to 140R$_\odot$. The MWA obs…

#vereinfachteSprache
Im Jahr 2023 loderten verheerende #Waldbrände in den nördlichen Wäldern. 🌲🔥 Diese Brände setzten sehr große Mengen #Kohlendioxid frei und verschlechter…

Verheerende Waldbrände in den Wäldern im Norden im Jahr 2023 (vereinfachte Sprache)
Erfahre, wie die borealen Wälder in Kanada und Russland 2023 unter den Waldbränden gelitten haben.