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The Tiny Awards have celebrated the best of the small and creative web since 2023, and voting is now open (it closes September 1) to select one of the eleven nominations for the 2025 awards, here: #TinyAwards2025

Tiny Awards
This is the home of the Tiny Awards, which, since 2023, has celebrated the best of the small, poetic, creative, handmade web.

UN: Deadly 2023 Israel attack on Reuters, AFP journalists in Lebanon was war crime
https://today.lorientlejour.com/article/1480650/un-rapporteur-says-deadly-2023-israel-attack-that-wounded…

Ho un point assez intéressant sur les startups
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J’ai fondé trois startups, la première en France. Ceux qui pensent que c’est plus facile aux US se trompent, de beaucoup.
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Jamais la France ou être français n'a été un frein. Jamais être européen n'a été autre chose qu'une chance ! J'ai créé des boîtes et des filiales de boîtes dans 12 pays incluant des puissances… | Frederic Lasnier | 56 commentaires
Jamais la France ou être français n'a été un frein. Jamais être européen n'a été autre chose qu'une chance ! J'ai créé des boîtes et des filiales de boîtes dans 12 pays incluant des puissances majeures (USA,UK, Allemagne) et des puissances émergentes (Vietnam, Mexique, Roumanie, Maroc...). J'ai dirigé, jusqu'en 2023, une boîte française qui comptait près de 1500 sublimes collaborateurs dans le monde et nous l'avons vendue à une entreprise cotée au NYSE. J'ai investi dans …

Six microlensing planets detected via sub-day signals during the 2023 -- 2024 season
Cheongho Han, Chung-Uk Lee, Andrzej Udalski, Ian A. Bond, Michael D. Albrow, Sun-Ju Chung, Andrew Gould, Youn Kil Jung, Kyu-Ha Hwang, Yoon-Hyun Ryu, Yossi Shvartzvald, In-Gu Shin, Jennifer C. Yee, Weicheng Zang, Hongjing Yang, Sang-Mok Cha, Doeon Kim, Dong-Jin Kim, Seung-Lee Kim, Dong-Joo Lee, Yongseok Lee, Byeong-Gon Park, Richard W. Pogge, Przemek Mr\'oz, Micha{\l} K. Szyma\'nski, Jan Skowron…

Six microlensing planets detected via sub-day signals during the 2023 -- 2024 season
We present analyses of six microlensing events: KMT-2023-BLG-0548, KMT-2023-BLG-0830, KMT-2023-BLG-0949, KMT-2024-BLG-1281, KMT-2024-BLG-2059, and KMT-2024-BLG-2242. These were identified in KMTNet data from the 2023 -- 2024 seasons, selected for exhibiting anomalies shorter than one day -- potential signatures of low-mass planetary companions. Detailed modeling of the light curves reveals that the anomalies in all six events are caused by planetary companions to the lenses. The brief durations…

"Industrial-Scale" Black Hole Selection without a Satellite
Zexuan Wu, Subo Dong, Andrew P. Gould, Przemek Mr\'oz, A. M\'erand
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05406

"Industrial-Scale" Black Hole Selection without a Satellite
The forthcoming GRAVITY+ instrument promises to usher in an era of "industrial-scale" mass measurements of isolated black holes (BHs), with the potential to assemble a sample of many tens of BHs via interferometric microlensing over several years. A key challenge will be selecting interferometric follow-up targets from an order-of-magnitude larger pool of ongoing microlensing events when using traditional selection based on event timescale alone. Gould (2023) proposed a criterion optimized for …

The Diplomat (2023) has only gotten better in its second and third seasons.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/the_diplomat

Anzahl der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 30.08.2025.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: 14 Tipps zum #Energiesparen

Media Coverage of War Victims: Journalistic Biases in Reporting on Israel and Gaza
Bedoor AlShebli, Bruno Gabriel Salvador Casara, Anne Maass
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06453 ht…

Media Coverage of War Victims: Journalistic Biases in Reporting on Israel and Gaza
October 7th 2023 marked the start of a war against Gaza, which is considered one of the most devastating wars in modern history and has led to a stark attitudinal divide within and between countries. To investigate the role of media bias in reporting on this asymmetrical warfare, we analyzed over 14,000 news articles published during the first year of war in three Western (The New York Times, BBC, CNN) and one non-Western English-language outlets (Al Jazeera English). Exploring the media narrat…

The EU's General Court backs the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, approved in 2023, rejecting a legal challenge that US surveillance laws fall short of EU laws (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-03/eu-court…

Comparative Analysis of Global and Local Probabilistic Time Series Forecasting for Contiguous Spatial Demand Regions
Jiahe Ling, Wei Biao Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08214 htt…

Comparative Analysis of Global and Local Probabilistic Time Series Forecasting for Contiguous Spatial Demand Regions
This study evaluates three probabilistic forecasting strategies using LightGBM: global pooling, cluster-level pooling, and station-level modeling across a range of scenarios, from fully homogeneous simulated data to highly heterogeneous real-world Divvy bike-share demand observed during 2023 to 2024. Clustering was performed using the K-means algorithm applied to principal component analysis transformed covariates, which included time series features, counts of nearby transportation infrastruct…

EUSO-SPB2 Cosmic Ray Searches and Observations
George Filippatos (for the JEM-EUSO Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05147 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

EUSO-SPB2 Cosmic Ray Searches and Observations
The Extreme Universe Space Observatory on a Super Pressure Balloon 2 (EUSO-SPB2) flew in May of 2023, marking an important step towards the observation of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECR) and neutrino-induced showers from space. The ultimate goal of this endeavor is to complement ground-based detectors and achieve unprecedented exposure and nearly uniform full-sky coverage at the highest energies, thereby enabling charged particle astronomy and enriching the multi-messenger approach to hig…

Antenna: Americans buy ~30% of all new streaming subscriptions via third-party apps like Prime Video or Roku, rising 40% from 2023, a new kind of cable bundle (John Koblin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/business/media/streaming-tv-s…

Come One, Come All! Buy Your TV Subscriptions Here!
A battle is heating up in the streaming world as millions of Americans sign up for multiple services through a single provider instead of separate apps.

Intensivering grenscontroles tot op een niveau dat ze geloofwaardig worden is vrijwel onmogelijk, we hebben de mensen er niet voor, zoals ook door de KMar aangegeven. Tegelijk is er dan ook de politieke vraag, wil je die mensen dan allemaal aan de grens zetten of zetten we die capaciteit niet liever in voor criminaliteitsbestrijding en verhogen van veiligheid elders in het land, persoonlijk weet ik het dan wel.

Kamerbrief over intensivering grenstoezicht
Staatssecretaris Van der Burg (JenV) informeert de Tweede Kamer over de operationele en juridische mogelijkheden van herinvoering van de binnengrenscontroles.

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

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

Even wat side-by-side constateringen over de #verkiezingsuitslag.
Vorige uitslag (2023) versus huidige stand van zaken.
Links wint fors (ja, D66 werd tot nu toe altijd meegerekend bij links dus waarom nu niet?)
Anti-antifa verliest meerderheid.
Met GL-PvdA vierpartijencoalitie mogelijk, zonder GL-PvdA niet.
Extreemrechts nauwelijks groter geworden.
Huidige …

JWST-TST DREAMS: NIRSpec/PRISM Transmission Spectroscopy of the Habitable Zone Planet TRAPPIST-1 e
N\'estor Espinoza, Natalie H. Allen, Ana Glidden, Nikole K. Lewis, Sara Seager, Caleb I. Ca\~nas, David Grant, Am\'elie Gressier, Shelby Courreges, Kevin B. Stevenson, Sukrit Ranjan, Knicole Col\'on, Brett M. Morris, Ryan J. MacDonald, Douglas Long, Hannah R. Wakeford, Jeff A. Valenti, Lili Alderson, Natasha E. Batalha, Ryan C. Challener, Jingcheng Huang, Zifan Lin, Dana R. Lo…

JWST-TST DREAMS: NIRSpec/PRISM Transmission Spectroscopy of the Habitable Zone Planet TRAPPIST-1 e
TRAPPIST-1 e is one of the very few rocky exoplanets that is both amenable to atmospheric characterization and that resides in the habitable zone of its star -- located at a distance from its star such that it might, with the right atmosphere, sustain liquid water on its surface. Here, we present a set of 4 JWST/NIRSpec PRISM transmission spectra of TRAPPIST-1 e obtained from mid to late 2023. Our transmission spectra exhibit similar levels of stellar contamination as observed in prior works fo…

Lions releasing 2023 third-round QB Hendon Hooker; Kyle Allen to back up Jared Goff https://www.nfl.com/news/lions-releasing-2023-third-round-qb-hendon-hooker-kyle-allen-to-back-up-jared-goff

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.08.2025.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

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.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Liz Phair:
🎵 Help Me Mary (2023 remaster)
#LizPhair
https://lizphair.bandcamp.com/track/help-me-mary-2018-remaster
https://open.spotify.com/track/3BYfQ3SIacPyf9DdmRlQMQ

"From 2003 to 2023, the share of Americans who read for pleasure fell 40 percent, a sharp decline that is part of a continuing downward trend."
Here, in my view, is one clear contributor of our becoming an increasingly less empathetic, less intellectual, less capable of critical thought populace.
READ! READ TO YOUR CHILDREN! USE THE WONDERFUL RESOURCES AT YOUR PUBLIC LIBRARY!

Fewer People Are Reading for Fun, Study Finds
From 2003 to 2023, the share of Americans who read for pleasure fell 40 percent, a sharp decline that is part of a continuing downward trend.

spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 409 nodes and 8557 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish

Crosslisted article(s) found for math.OC. https://arxiv.org/list/math.OC/new
[1/1]:
- Bounds on Perfect Node Classification: A Convex Graph Clustering Perspective
Firooz Shahriari-Mehr, Javad Aliakbari, Alexandre Graell i Amat, Ashkan Panahi

Dutch web design automation startup Framer raised $100M led by Meritech and Atomico with Accel participation at a $2B valuation, after raising $27M in 2023 (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Deploying Robust Decision Support Systems for Transit Headway Control: Rider Impacts, Human Factors and Recommendations for Scalability
Joseph Rodriguez, Haris N. Koutsopoulos, Jinhua Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08231

Deploying Robust Decision Support Systems for Transit Headway Control: Rider Impacts, Human Factors and Recommendations for Scalability
Service reliability is critical to transit service delivery. This paper describes headway control pilots conducted in two high-ridership Chicago bus routes between 2022 and 2023. A decision support system was developed for a bus holding strategy based on a reinforcement learning approach. For the pilots, a user interface enabled supervisors to monitor service and record applied actions. The first pilot tested terminal-based holding on a route affected by missed trips from absenteeism. The analy…

Studios are rereleasing old films in theaters, helping them pad out thin slates; Universal has 12 rereleases on its 2025 slate, vs. four in 2024 and two in 2023 (Esther Zuckerman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/movies/rereleases-black-swan-…

Why ‘Black Swan,’ ‘Jaws’ and ‘Clue’ Are Coming Back to Theaters
The multiplex is awash in titles that are 15, 20, even 60 years old. Nostalgia is a factor but economics play a big part, too.

"Temperatures and Carbon Emissions Continue to Rise"
#Climate #ClimateChange
https://

Temperatures and Carbon Emissions Continue to Rise - Inside Climate News
An acceleration of warming that started in 2023 continued through 2024, according to the latest annual climate assessment by the American Meteorological Society, as atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases continue to increase at a quickening rate.

#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.

@… : Zerrissen • Fernsehfilm Deutschland 2023
Trailer
https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/tatort…

Generalizing Brooks' theorem via Partial Coloring is Hard Classically and Locally
Jan Bok, Avinandan Das, Anna Gujgiczer, Nikola Jedli\v{c}kov\'a
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16308

Generalizing Brooks' theorem via Partial Coloring is Hard Classically and Locally
We investigate the classical and distributed complexity of \emph{$k$-partial $c$-coloring} where $c=k$, a natural generalization of Brooks' theorem where each vertex should be colored from the palette $\{1,\ldots,c\} = \{1,\ldots,k\}$ such that it must have at least $\min\{k, °(v)\}$ neighbors colored differently. Das, Fraigniaud, and Ros{é}n~[OPODIS 2023] showed that the problem of $k$-partial $(k+1)$-coloring admits efficient centralized and distributed algorithms and posed an open problem …

Accurate complex-stacking-fault Gibbs energy in Ni3Al at high temperatures
Xiang Xu, Xi Zhang, Andrei Ruban, Siegfried Schmauder, Blazej Grabowski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15528

Accurate complex-stacking-fault Gibbs energy in Ni3Al at high temperatures
To gain a deeper insight into the anomalous yield behavior of Ni3Al, it is essential to obtain temperature-dependent formation Gibbs energies of the relevant planar defects. Here, the Gibbs energy of the complex stacking fault (CSF) is evaluated using a recently proposed ab initio framework [Acta Materialia, 255 (2023) 118986], accounting for all thermal contributions - including anharmonicity and paramagnetism - up to the melting point. The CSF energy shows a moderate decrease from 300K to abo…

Chow-Witt Rings of Classifying Spaces of Products of Multiplicative and Cyclic Groups
Andrea Lachmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13605 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Chow-Witt Rings of Classifying Spaces of Products of Multiplicative and Cyclic Groups
We compute the total Chow-Witt rings of the classifying space Bμ_n of the roots of unity, as well as the products BG_m x Bμ_n and Bμ_m x Bμ_n for all m,n greater than or equal to 1 based on the strategy by di Lorenzo and Mantovani (2023) for Bμ_n with n even. Moreover we compute the total I^j-cohomology and Chow-Witt rings of P^q x P^r for all q,r greater than or equal to 1 and of BG_m x BG_m.

Good morning! Here is a bee waking up and stretching. This week I learned that this is the season you see a lot of bees sleeping on flowers. Many of them are male bees who are not welcome back in the hive. They live short lives where hopefully they get to mate before the end of the season. A shame they're reduced to only being breeders. This is actually a post about feminism.

Huh?
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/08/opm-orders-deletion-federal-workers-vaccination-records/407334/

OPM orders deletion of federal workers’ vaccination records
The announcement came hours after a formal dissolution of a lawsuit challenging the Biden-era requirement that federal employees be vaccinated against COVID-19, which hasn’t been enforced since 2023.

The covering radius of Butson Hadamard codes for the homogeneous metric
Xingxing Xu, Minjia Shi, Patrick Sole
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12859 https://arxi…

The covering radius of Butson Hadamard codes for the homogeneous metric
Butson matrices are complex Hadamard matrices with entries in the complex roots of unity of given order. There is an interesting code in phase space related to this matrix (Armario et al. 2023). We study the covering radius of Butson Hadamard codes for the homogeneous metric, a metric defined uniquely, up to scaling, for a commutative ring alphabet that is Quasi Frobenius. An upper bound is derived by an orthogonal array argument. A lower bound relies on the existence of bent sequences in the s…

Stable magnetic fields and changing starspots on Vega -- An ultra-deep decadal survey at Pic du Midi and OHP
T. B\"ohm, M. Holschneider, P. Petit, F. Ligni\`eres, F. Paletou, C. P. Folsom, M. Rainer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13348

Stable magnetic fields and changing starspots on Vega -- An ultra-deep decadal survey at Pic du Midi and OHP
Monitoring magnetic and activity variations in A- and B-type stars with ultra-weak magnetic fields is essential to understand the origin and evolution of these fields in this region of the HR diagram, with Vega standing as the prototype of this category. We collected high-resolution spectroscopic and spectropolarimetric data with SOPHIE (OHP, 2018) and with NARVAL/NEO-NARVAL (TBL, 2018, 2023, and 2024), yielding a total of 13108 individual spectra. Magnetic field maps were reconstructed using t…

UK Home Heating Decarbonisation Seminar Presentation (2023-08) - Short talk on UK home heating and Net Zero. #PhD #heating #research -

UK Home Heating Decarbonisation Seminar Presentation (2023-08)
Short talk on UK home heating and Net Zero. #PhD #heating #research

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

Le bouddhisme tibétain, ses grandes figures ont gardé le silence sur 3 canaux distincts :
- Le Dalai Lama de 1998 Š 2023
- Shechen Rabjam de 1997 Š 2023
- Matthieu Ricard de 2010 Š 2023
Découvrez pourquoi ces dates sont cruciales :
1/5

( \(2^{nd}\) announcement)
The #Springer Problem Book for the Indiana College Mathematics Competition (2001-2023) is now available in a (slightly less expensive) softcover format! This book, edited by me, J. Gash, R. Gillman, and @… , can be used by stu…

The Indiana College Mathematics Competition (2001⁠–2023)
This book gathers problems based on over twenty years of the Indiana College Mathematics Competition, a contest for teams of undergraduates.

Insights from the Algonauts 2025 Winners
Paul S. Scotti, Mihir Tripathy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10784 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.10784

Insights from the Algonauts 2025 Winners
The Algonauts 2025 Challenge just wrapped up a few weeks ago. It is a biennial challenge in computational neuroscience in which teams attempt to build models that predict human brain activity from carefully curated stimuli. Previous editions (2019, 2021, 2023) focused on still images and short videos; the 2025 edition, which concluded last month (late July), pushed the field further by using long, multimodal movies. Teams were tasked with predicting fMRI responses across 1,000 whole-brain parce…

The End of Hyperbolic Growth in Human Population and CO$_2$ Emissions
Victor M. Yakovenko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11038 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.11038…

The End of Hyperbolic Growth in Human Population and CO$_2$ Emissions
Using current empirical data from 10,000 BCE to 2023 CE, we re-examine a hyperbolic pattern of human population growth, which was identified by von Foerster et al. in 1960 with a predicted singularity in 2026. We find that human population initially grew exponentially in time as $N(t)\propto e^{t/T}$ with $T$=2080 years. This growth then gradually evolved to be super-exponential with a form similar to the Bose function in statistical physics. Around 1700, population growth further accelerated, …

Swarm-in-Blocks: Simplifying Drone Swarm Programming with Block-Based Language
Agnes Bressan de Almeida, Joao Aires Correa Fernandes Marsicano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11498 h…

Swarm-in-Blocks: Simplifying Drone Swarm Programming with Block-Based Language
Swarm in Blocks, originally developed for CopterHack 2022, is a high-level interface that simplifies drone swarm programming using a block-based language. Building on the Clover platform, this tool enables users to create functionalities like loops and conditional structures by assembling code blocks. In 2023, we introduced Swarm in Blocks 2.0, further refining the platform to address the complexities of swarm management in a user-friendly way. As drone swarm applications grow in areas like del…

Non-r-partite graphs without complete split subgraphs
Bing Wang, Wenwen Chen, Ping Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12210 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.12210

Non-r-partite graphs without complete split subgraphs
The classical Simonovits' chromatic critical edge theorem shows that for sufficiently large $n$, if $H$ is an edge-color-critical graph with $χ(H)=p+1\ge 3$, then the Turán graph $T_{n,p}$ is the unique extremal graph with respect to ${\rm ex}(n,H)$. Denote by ${\rm EX}_{r+1}(n,H)$ and ${\rm SPEX}_{r+1}(n,H)$ the family of $n$-vertex $H$-free non-$r$-partite graphs with the maximum size and with the spectral radius, respectively. Li and Peng [SIAM J. Discrete Math. 37 (2023) 2462--2485] chara…

First article of mine published in TanahAir.net, and the first one in Indonesian in several months!
Pengaruh pertumbuhan LNG Cina pada rencana energi Asia Tenggara
https://tanahair.net/id/pengaruh-pertumbuhan-lng-cina-pada-rencana-energi-asia-te…

Convex Order and Arbitrage
Erica Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01599 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.01599

Convex Order and Arbitrage
Wiesel and Zhang [2023] established that two probability measures $μ,ν$ on $\mathbb{R}^d$ with finite second moments are in convex order (i.e. $μ\preceq_c ν$) if and only if $W_2(ν,ρ)^2-W_2(μ,ρ)^2 \leq \int |y|^2ν(dy) - \int |x|^2μ(dx).$ Let us call a measure $ρ$ maximizing $W_2(ν,ρ)^2-W_2(μ,ρ)^2$ the optimal $ρ$. This paper summarizes key findings by Wiesel and Zhang, develops new algorithms enhancing the search of optimal $ρ$, and builds on the paper throu…

Merz 2023 übrigens "Union ist Alternative für Deutschland mit Substanz". Tja.
https://blog.till-westermayer.de/2023/07/ein-gedanke-zur-politischen-geografie/

Ein Gedanke zur politischen Geografie
Friedrich Merz sprach davon, dass die Union eine "Alternative für Deutschland mit Substanz" sei - ein weiterer Schritt auf dem Weg von CDU und CSU zurück nach rechts; die Ablösung des Generalsekretärs durch einen Hardliner und die Erklärung, dass Grüne der Hauptgegner seien, gehören ebenfalls zu die

An interview with Binance co-founder Yi He on growing up poor in China, the tests she faced during Binance's year of crisis when CZ was imprisoned, and more (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/08/13/binance-yi-he/

How Binance’s Yi He became ‘the most powerful woman in crypto’—and steered the company past its biggest ordeal
In 2023, Yi He had to face down an enormous business challenge at Binance—one that was very personal as well.

Engaging and Educating Eclipse Observers Through Workshops, Media, Planetarium shows and Citizen Science
Patricia H. Reiff, Carolyn T. Sumners, Charles H. Gardner, Amir Caspi, Sarah Kovac
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22348

Engaging and Educating Eclipse Observers Through Workshops, Media, Planetarium shows and Citizen Science
The Heliophysics Big Year was an extended year where major solar events engaged the public. It included two eclipses (annular on October 14, 2023 and total on April 8, 2024), plus solar max and the Parker Solar Probe perihelion December 24, 2024. After the eclipse of 2017, many millions more Americans planned to view the solar corona. We expanded our eclipse website with activities, citizen science projects, resources, training videos, equipment, and external links. We were the Southwest Region…

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

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

Comscore: US box office revenue from May 1 have reached $3.53B, making it clear sales will be short of the $4B summer threshold, last attained in 2023 (Rebecca Rubin/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/box-office/summer-box-office-wont-reach-4-b…

Summer Box Office Won't Reach $4 Billion
Heading into the summer, several promising films looked to propel ticket sales above $4 billion. But popcorn season will fall short of that benchmark.

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)]).

KORRIGIERTE GRAFIK FÜR ZU/RÜCKBAU
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
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Apple raises the price of Apple TV in the US and some markets globally after previously raising the price in 2023; in the US, the price will rise $3 to $12.99 (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/apple-tv-plus-price-increa…

Apple TV+ Price Increase: Service Now Costs $13 per Month in U.S.
Apple TV+ is bumping up its price by 30%: For U.S. customers, it will now be $12.99 per month, up from $9.99.

Trade, Political Distance and the World Trade Organization
Samuel Hardwick
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17303 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.17303

Trade, Political Distance and the World Trade Organization
Trade agreements are often understood as shielding commerce from fluctuations in political relations. This paper provides evidence that World Trade Organization membership reduces the penalty of political distance on trade at the extensive margin. Using a structural gravity framework covering 1948 to 2023 and two measures of political distance, based on high-frequency events data and UN General Assembly votes, GATT/WTO status is consistently associated with a wider range of products traded betw…

US newsletter publisher The Flyover now has 25 staff, 2.5M subscribers, nine state-specific daily editions, and one national edition, after its 2023 launch (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/north-ameri

Email-based publisher The Flyover has 25 full-time staff two years after launch
The Flyover is an email-first publication that is seeing success through converting its state news readers to national news.

Seahawks QB Sam Darnold fond of brief 49ers sting, lauds Kyle Shanahan, Brock Purdy

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/seahawks-qb-sam-darnold-fond-…

Quantum criticality in cuprate superconductors revealed by optical conductivity measurement
Hwiwoo Park, Sung-Sik Lee, G. D. Gu, Jungseek Hwang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19675 …

Quantum criticality in cuprate superconductors revealed by optical conductivity measurement
The ubiquitous temperature ($T$)-linear behaviour of the transport scattering rate in the normal state of strongly correlated electron systems is called strange metallicity \cite{zaanen:2004,phillips:2022,hartnoll:2022,chowdhury:2022,yuan:2022}. Although strange metallicity is crucial to understanding superconductivity in correlated electron systems, its origin remains elusive to date \cite{hussey:2023}. Here, we present the doping-, temperature-, and frequency ($ω$)-dependent transport proper…

Im #Windpark #Elster werden ältere #Windräder zurückgebaut und durch leistungsstärkere ersetzt.
Durch das #Repowering

Windpark-Umbau in Elster - weniger neue Windräder mit mehr Power | MDR.DE
Im Windpark Elster werden alte Windräder abgebaut und durch stärkere ersetzt. So wird mit weniger Fläche deutlich mehr Strom erzeugt. Der Umbau, der 2023 begann, soll im August abgeschlossen sein.

Survey on Cremona groups from a median geometric point of view
Anne Lonjou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10838 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.10838

Survey on Cremona groups from a median geometric point of view
This expository article builds on lecture notes from a minicourse entitled "Cremona groups and CAT(0) cube complexes" and given by the author as part of the 2023 Riverside Workshop on Geometric Group Theory. It presents recent constructions of actions of Cremona groups on median graphs aimed at both geometric group theorists and algebraic geometers.

Netflix acquires the Japanese media rights to carry the 2026 World Baseball Classic, marking the first time it will stream a live event in Japan (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/world-baseball-classic-netflix-japan-3ca47c79a174e31…

Netflix wins Japanese media rights for 2026 World Baseball Classic
Netflix has secured the Japanese media rights for next year's World Baseball Classic, marking its first live event it will stream in Japan. The platform will broadcast all 47 games of the tournament. Team Japan is the defending champion, having won in 2023. Previously, a consortium including Amazon Prime Video held these rights. The sixth edition of the tournament will feature 20 teams competing in four first-round pools in Tokyo, San Juan, Houston, and Miami. It starts on March 5, with the fin…

Status of the Trinity PeV Neutrino Observatory
S. Stepanoff (for the Trinity Collaboration), A. N. Otte (for the Trinity Collaboration), M. Bagheri (for the Trinity Collaboration), A. Barletta (for the Trinity Collaboration), D. Bergmann (for the Trinity Collaboration), J. Blose (for the Trinity Collaboration), J. Bogdan (for the Trinity Collaboration), A. M. Brown (for the Trinity Collaboration), L. Cedeno (for the Trinity Collaboration), M. Doro (for the Trinity Collaboration), M. Fe…

Black-hole X-ray binary Swift J1727.8$-$1613 shows Type-B quasi-periodic oscillations across the hard-intermediate and soft-intermediate states
Pei Jin, Mariano M\'endez, Federico Garc\'ia, Diego Altamirano, Federico M. Vincentelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10353

Black-hole X-ray binary Swift J1727.8$-$1613 shows Type-B quasi-periodic oscillations across the hard-intermediate and soft-intermediate states
We present a timing analysis of \textit{Insight}-HXMT observations of the black-hole X-ray binary Swift J1727.8$-$1613 across a bright soft X-ray flare on 2023 September 19 (MJD 60206). At the peak of the flare, the source undergoes a brief transition from the hard-intermediate state (HIMS) into the soft-intermediate state (SIMS), marked by the simultaneous appearance of three discrete radio jet ejections, a drop in broadband noise in the 2$-$10 keV band, and the presence of a narrow quasi-peri…

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...

Clueless Colts: Why starting Daniel Jones over Anthony Richardson has zero upside for QB-starved Indy

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/clueles

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RadcliffeAndMaconie
Soft Cell:
🎵 Torch
#SoftCell
https://orenamram.bandcamp.com/track/soft-cell-torch-oren-amram-2023-remix

Do STEM graduates fare better at times of Crises? Evidence from COVID 19 pandemic in India
Jheelum Sarkar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12471 https://arxiv.or…

Do STEM graduates fare better at times of Crises? Evidence from COVID 19 pandemic in India
I study whether and to what extent STEM college degrees offer labor market resilience during the COVID 19 shock. Both the pandemic and its nationwide lockdown affected occupations unevenly. While some jobs could adapt by switching to remote work or surging demand, others could not. Using the nationally representative high-frequency labor force survey data (2017-2023), I used a difference-in-difference strategy to compare changes in employment participation and monthly earnings between STEM and …

"Texas study reveals heat waves can cause more polluted air"
#US #USA #America #Heatwave

Texas study reveals heat waves can cause more polluted air
Heat waves are becoming more common, severe and long-lasting. These prolonged periods of hot weather are especially dangerous in already hot places like Texas. In 2023, more than 300 people in Texas died from heat, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services, the most since the state began tracking such deaths in 1989. Researchers found it may not only be temperatures that make heat waves unsafe but also the heat-related increase in airborne pollutants.

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 19.09.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1131260 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

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Free solo
2023
#FreeSolo #Boragni

Test results of the LQXFA/B02 and LQXFA/B03 cryo-assemblies for the High Luminosity LHC upgrade
G. Chlachidze, G. Ambrosio, M. Anerella, G. Apollinari, M. Baldini, J. DiMarco, S. Feher, P. Ferracin, V. Nikolic, F. Nobrega, C. Orozco, D. Orris, S. Prestemon, R. Rabehl, S. Stoynev, A. Vouris
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14369

Test results of the LQXFA/B02 and LQXFA/B03 cryo-assemblies for the High Luminosity LHC upgrade
The US High-Luminosity LHC Accelerator Upgrade Project (AUP) is responsible for delivering cryo-assemblies for the Q1/Q3 quadrupole optical components of the High Luminosity LHC upgrade at CERN. Total of 10 cryo-assemblies containing two Nb3Sn quadrupole magnets per cold mass will be delivered within this program. After the successful test of the first pre-series cryo-assembly in 2023, two more cryo-assemblies were tested at Fermilab's horizontal test facility. Production overview and the test …

Additional JWST/NIRSpec Transits of the Rocky M Dwarf Exoplanet GJ 1132 b Reveal a Featureless Spectrum
Katherine A. Bennett, Ryan J. MacDonald, Sarah Peacock, Junellie Perez, E. M. May, Sarah E. Moran, Lili Alderson, Jacob Lustig-Yaeger, Hannah R. Wakeford, David K. Sing, Kevin B. Stevenson, Natasha E. Batalha, Mercedes L\'opez-Morales, Munazza K. Alam, Joshua D. Lothringer, Guangwei Fu, James Kirk, Jeff A. Valenti, L. C. Mayorga, Kristin S. Sotzen

Additional JWST/NIRSpec Transits of the Rocky M Dwarf Exoplanet GJ 1132 b Reveal a Featureless Spectrum
As an archetypal M-dwarf rocky exoplanet, GJ 1132 b has a varied history of atmospheric measurements. At 1.13 $\rm R_{\oplus}$, 1.66 $\rm M_{\oplus}$, and 580 K, it orbits a bright, slowly rotating M dwarf in a 1.6-day period, making it a prime target for characterization. In this study, we combine two JWST NIRSpec/G395H transits previously reported by May and MacDonald et al. 2023 with two new NIRSpec/G395M transits to constrain the presence of an atmosphere. This marks the first time the G395…

MESAlab: a Pipeline for Mapping the Blue Loop with MESA runs
D. Tarczay-Neh\'ez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08946 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08946

MESAlab: a Pipeline for Mapping the Blue Loop with MESA runs
Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA; (Paxton2011, 2013, 2015, 2018, 2019, Jermyn 2023) is a widely used open-source software for modelling stellar evolution. In many studies, the computational grids covers thousands of models (e.g., Joyce et al 2024), which requires a tremendous amount of time and computational effort to process. To streamline data analysis, the mesalab package was developed. This Python-based pipeline is designed to simplify the post-processing of MESA outp…

The Guardian reports revenue in the year to March up 7% YoY to £276M, losses down £24M from £37M the year prior, and 1.3M "recurring supporters" online, up 13% (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_busin…

Guardian reports bumper year for digital reader revenue
The Guardian has reported a bumper year for digital reader revenue, up by 22% from £88m in 2023/2024 to £107m in the year to March 2025.