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Réfutation des affirmations de Soteria International sur la "communauté bouddhiste persécutée OKC" et son fondateur Robert Spatz
https://blog.rmendes.net/2024/12/15/rfutation-des-affirmations.html

Réfutation des affirmations de Soteria International sur la "communauté bouddhiste persécutée OKC" et son fondateur Robert Spatz - rMdes - a place to write and think freely
En tant que victime, survivant de la dérive sectaire Ogyen Kunzang Chöling (OKC) et défenseur de la justice, des droits des enfants, des droits humains et de la …

Mit der #Zukunftsklage wollen wir vor dem Verfassungsgericht BVerfG erreichen, dass die BundesRegierung den Klimaschutz ernst nimmt.
Unsere von @… engagierte Anwältin Roda Verheyen schreibt uns:
"Obwohl das neue Sonderverm…

Titans CB eager to 'remind everybody who L'Jarius Sneed is' after injury-shortened 2024 season https://www.nfl.com/news/l-jarius-sneed-eager-to-remind-everybody-after-injury-shortened-2024-season

Javonte Williams Wins Brian Schottenheimer’s Trust Ahead of Week 1 https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/javonte-williams-confidence-lead-running-back-preseason/?adt_ei=[email]

Control of lumen morphology by lateral and basal cell surfaces
Chandraniva Guha Ray, Markus Mukenhirn, Alf Honigmann, Pierre A. Haas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04316 https://

Control of lumen morphology by lateral and basal cell surfaces
Across development, the morphology of fluid-filled lumina enclosed by epithelial tissues arises from an interplay of lumen pressure, mechanics of the cell cortex, and cell-cell adhesion. Here, we explore the mechanical basis for the control of this interplay using the shape space of MDCK cysts and the instability of their apical surfaces under tight junction perturbations [Mukenhirn et al., Dev. Cell 59, 2886 (2024)]. We discover that the cysts respond to these perturbations by significantly mo…

I would do this daily (or how ever often is necessary) to rarely get sick again!
https://sfba.social/@nwchapman/115124195881987830

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Development notes from xkcd's "Machine".
https://chromakode.com/post/xkcd-machine/
saved 2024-05-09 h…

Development notes from xkcd's "Machine"
How we designed xkcd's massive rube goldberg machine game in 3 weeks.

Svalbard lost 1% of its ice in the summer of 2024, more than any year on record #Svalbard

Svalbard lost 1% of its ice in the summer of 2024, more than any year on record
Svalbard, an Arctic archipelago that is technically a part of Norway, lies about halfway between the northernmost part of Norway and the North Pole. Currently, about 60% of Svalbard's surface is covered in glaciers, but these glaciers are melting rapidly. During the summer of 2024, Svalbard experienced a record-breaking heat wave that melted more of its glaciers than ever before.

Hey @… I was just listening to the great literary olfactoloy episode with @allylouks.bsky.social€, but I feel that the existence/role of human pheromones has been a bit misrepresented.
I have worked on mammalian pheromones for my PhD, and I have encountered (at least) two major definitions of the term "pheromone", one based on the function of a substance, and the other, which I personally prefer, on the information flow involved in it (https://doi.org/10.1159/000096511).
Based on the Sbarbati & Osculati definition, a pheromone would be a component that conveys information between individuals of the same species.
There is also quite a bit of research that argues for the existence of human pheromones (e.g. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.a.20125, https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.a.20125, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1198331)
However, the discussion on the existence of human pheromones is difficult, as it touches on the topic of free will as many reactions to odor are involuntary. During the International Symposium on Olfaction and Taste held in Iceland in 2024, there have been several session on human olfaction touching on sensitive aspects such as olfaction-mediated effects on mate choice and pregnancy, but none of the researchers dared utter the word pheromone, while colleagues working on other mammals where happily talking about pheromonal effects for very similar topics.
Long story short, I feel that saying there is no hard evidence for human pheromones is misrepresenting the current research.

Aidan Hutchinson's dominance at Lions training camp forces Detroit to implement 'Hutch Rule' in practice

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/aidan-h…

Fisher information for solutions of the Boltzmann equation
Cyril Imbert (DMA)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03045 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.03045

Fisher information for solutions of the Boltzmann equation
This note reviews a recent contribution about the Fisher information for the space-homogeneous Boltzmann equation by L. Silvestre, C. Villani and the author (arXiv, 2024). This classical functional from information theory is shown to be nonincreasing along the flow of the non-linear PDE for all physically relevant particle interactions. The proof consists in establishing a new functional inequality on the sphere of Log-Sobolev type. This new a priori estimate on solutions yields global-in-time …

Slomads Rising: Stay Length Shifts in Digital Nomad Travel, United States 2019-2024
Harrison Katz, Erica Savage
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21298 https://ar…

Slomads Rising: Stay Length Shifts in Digital Nomad Travel, United States 2019-2024
Using every U.S. Airbnb reservation created from 1 January 2019 through 31 December 2024, weighted by nights booked, we document a lasting shift toward longer stays after the COVID 19 shock. Mean nights per booking rose from 3.7 before the pandemic to a stable 4.1 to 4.4 after 2021; the median increased from two to three nights and the weighted standard deviation nearly doubled to seven nights, indicating a heavier tail. Negative binomial regression shows that, relative to the restriction perio…

Implementation and Basis Construction for Smooth Finite Element Spaces
Chunyu Chen, Long Chen, Tingyi Gao, Xuehai Huang, Huayi Wei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19732 https://

Implementation and Basis Construction for Smooth Finite Element Spaces
The construction of $C^m$ conforming finite elements on simplicial meshes has recently advanced through the groundbreaking work of Hu, Lin, and Wu (Found. Comput. Math. 24, 2024). Their framework characterizes smoothness via moments of normal derivatives over subsimplices, leading to explicit degrees of freedom and unisolvence, unifying earlier constructions. However, the absence of explicit basis functions has left these spaces largely inaccessible for practical computation. In parallel, multi…

Equality is Far Weaker than Constant-Cost Communication
Mika G\"o\"os, Nathaniel Harms, Artur Riazanov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11162 https://

Equality is Far Weaker than Constant-Cost Communication
We exhibit an $n$-bit communication problem with a constant-cost randomized protocol but which requires $n^{Ω(1)}$ deterministic (or even non-deterministic) queries to an Equality oracle. Therefore, even constant-cost randomized protocols cannot be efficiently "derandomized" using Equality oracles. This improves on several recent results and answers a question from the survey of Hatami and Hatami (SIGACT News 2024). It also gives a significantly simpler and quantitatively superior proof of the…

Paper Of Record delves into how unchecked global warming #climate chaos created catastrophic conditions for deadly #floods in #TX. The #GuadalupeRiver

As the World Warms, Extreme Rain Is Becoming Even More Extreme
Even in places, like Central Texas, with a long history of floods, human-caused warming is creating the conditions for more frequent and severe deluges.

#Demenz #Dementia #Alzheimer
Der 52-jährige Journalist Jo Failer erhielt 2024 Jahr die Diagnose Frühdemenz
#Alzheimer

Mit nur 51 Jahren dement: "Alzheimer-Erkrankte sind nicht einfach dumm"
Die Zahl der Menschen mit Demenz nimmt weiter zu – und das nicht erst im hohen Alter. Ein neuer Wirkstoff soll hier helfen. t-online spricht mit einem Betroffenen.