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Inspiring #TNC24 Opening Keynote this morning from Paul Iske (Maastricht University, Institute of Brilliant Failures).
“Failing is not only inevitable, but also an essential learning process. Why do projects fail? Are there underlying patterns? The Institute of Brilliant Failures recognised a method involving 16 archetypes and tools to extract lessons learned and allow us to develop ‘Failure In…

CONNECT Interview with Professor Paul Iske, Maastricht University | GÉANT CONNECT Online
Brilliant Failures: fostering creativity and pushing boundaries We met with Professor Paul Iske who will be giving the opening keynote at TNC24. Professor at the School of Business and Economics at Maastricht University, Paul works on service and social innovation and his mission is to make organisations smarter and more innovative. He is also a

Bund will nun auch Bahnstrecke Flensburg-Hamburg generalsanieren
40 Hauptstrecken will die Deutsche Bahn bis 2030 grundlegend überholen, darunter ist aus Schleswig-Holstein bisher nur die Trasse Lübeck-Hamburg. Nun soll als Nummer 41 auch die Strecke Flensburg-Hamburg hinzukommen – aus guten Gründen etwas später als die anderen.

Bund will nun auch Bahnstrecke Flensburg-Hamburg generalsanieren
40 Strecken will die DB bis 2030 generalsanieren, darunter war bisher nur eine aus SH. Nun kommt auch noch die Trasse Flensburg-Hamburg hinzu.

I've long been fond of the phrase, "the bottom falling out of the bucket" as a reference in #Zen to a kind of irreversible awakening experience. It's used in the 12th c. *Blue Cliff Record.* This story appears to be from a century later, but it's nice (from Paul Reps' *Zen Flesh, Zen Bones*):

The writer Mark Slouka counsels against filling our time with work:
#idleness is not only a psychological necessity, requisite for the construction of a complete human being;
#Idleness constitutes a kind of political space, a space as necessary for the workings of an actual democracy as, say, a free press.<…

Doing Nothing Has Never Been More Important | The Walrus
How the under-appreciated art of idleness can transform the world

[[Forms of life, forms of mind]] | [[Michael Levin]] on [[Baba is you]]
https://thoughtforms.life/a-most-profound-video-game-a-good-cognitive-aid-for-research-at-the-frontier-of-life-and-mind/

Forms of life, forms of mind | Dr. Michael Levin | A most profound video game: a good cognitive aid for research at the frontier of life and mind
Baba Is You is a philosophical video game that facilitates the kind of thinking needed for frontier topics in the sciences of life and mind.

Hidden symmetries and Dehn surgery on tetrahedral links
Priyadip Mondal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.08456 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.0…

Hidden symmetries and Dehn surgery on tetrahedral links
Motivated by a question of Neumann and Reid, we study whether Dehn fillings on all but one cusp of a hyperbolic link complement can produce infinite families of knot complements with hidden symmetries which geometrically converge to the original link complement. We prove several results relating the existence of such an infinite family of knot complements with hidden symmetries to the existence of certain symmetries of the horoball packings associated to the original link. Using these results, …

Insulator-to-Metal Transition and Anomalously Slow Hot Carrier Cooling in a Photo-doped Mott Insulator
Usama Choudhry, Jin Zhang, Kewen Huang, Emma Low, Yujie Quan, Basamat Shaheen, Ryan Gnabasik, Jiaqiang Yan, Angel Rubio, Kenneth S. Burch, Bolin Liao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.07355

Insulator-to-Metal Transition and Anomalously Slow Hot Carrier Cooling in a Photo-doped Mott Insulator
Photo-doped Mott insulators can exhibit novel photocarrier transport and relaxation dynamics and non-equilibrium phases. However, time-resolved real-space imaging of these processes are still lacking. Here, we use scanning ultrafast electron microscopy (SUEM) to directly visualize the spatial-temporal evolution of photoexcited species in a spin-orbit assisted Mott insulator α-RuCl3. At low optical fluences, we observe extremely long hot photocarrier transport time over one nanosecond, almost a…