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Revealed: Trump allies' ties to indicted Biden impeachment witness - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/alexander-smirnov-2667511356/

Revealed: Trump allies' ties to indicted Biden impeachment witness
An American company that paid an indicted FBI informant who testified in the Joe Biden impeachment inquiry has ties to a British company owned by associates of Donald Trump in Dubai, according to a new report.The Guardian reported that business filings and court documents show Smirnov, who has been ...

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Data-driven Methods Applied to Soft Robot Modeling and Control: A Review
Soft robots show compliance and have infinite degrees of freedom. Thanks to these properties, such robots can be leveraged for surgery, rehabilitation, biomimetics, unstructured environment exploring, and industrial grippers. In this case, they attract scholars from a variety of areas. However, nonlinearity and hysteresis effects also bring a burden to robot modeling. Moreover, following their flexibility and adaptation, soft robot control is more challenging than rigid robot control. In order …

The effect of turbulence on the minimum thickness of a liquid film flowing down a vertical tube
David T. Hughes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06142 https://…

The effect of turbulence on the minimum thickness of a liquid film flowing down a vertical tube
When a liquid flows down a vertical tube at a low flowrate, it may not be able to completely cover the surface as a film, and the flow will comprise a number of rivulets separated by unwetted areas. Predictions of the minimum film thickness and corresponding minimum flowrate below which films cannot be sustained are needed in many industrial heat and mass transfer operations. In this paper a model is developed using the minimum energy method to calculate the minimum film thicknesses that can be…

"#Ireland's Deputy Premier Leo Varadkar has issued a stark warning to international leaders following explosive comments by Dominic Cummings, suggesting the British Government under Boris #Johnson had no intention of adhering to the

Varadkar Urges Caution in Deals with UK Government Amid Cummings' Brexit Revelations
Ireland's Deputy Premier Leo Varadkar raises concerns over UK's adherence to Brexit deal after Dominic Cummings' revelations. The EU seeks solutions.

Signatures of correlated defects in an ultra-clean Wigner crystal in the extreme quantum limit
P. T. Madathil, C. Wang, S. K. Singh, A. Gupta, K. A. Villegas Rosales, Y. J. Chung, K. W. West, K. W. Baldwin, L. N. Pfeiffer, L. W. Engel, M. Shayegan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07662

Signatures of correlated defects in an ultra-clean Wigner crystal in the extreme quantum limit
Low-disorder two-dimensional electron systems in the presence of a strong, perpendicular magnetic field terminate at very small Landau level filling factors in a Wigner crystal (WC), where the electrons form an ordered array to minimize the Coulomb repulsion. The nature of this exotic, many-body, quantum phase is yet to be fully understood and experimentally revealed. Here we probe one of WC's most fundamental parameters, namely the energy gap that determines its low-temperature conductivity, i…

Congressional offices are being flooded with calls from angry constituents following TikTok's push notification asking users to call their representatives (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2024/03/07/tiktok-ban-congress-phone-calls

Furious Congress plows forward with TikTok bill after user revolt
"So bad we turned phones off."

One thing I mention every so often; Robert Heinlein - one of the “big names” of science fiction wrote a story about the US falling into an Authoritarian dictatorial theocracy…
In 1940
“If this goes on…” which was later expanded out into “Revolt in 2100” (1953) was meant to criticize the authoritarian tendencies of protestant fundamentalism.
Don’t tell me people didn’t see it coming…

Raiders’ Feelings On Free Agent RB Josh Jacobs Revealed https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/raiders_feelings_on_free_agent_rb_josh_jacobs_revealed/s1_17150_40022538

Raiders’ Feelings On Free Agent RB Josh Jacobs Revealed
Las Vegas Raiders running back Josh Jacobs is getting set to hit free agency, and the Raiders apparently want him back. However, the Raiders only want to retain Jacobs at the right price and will not be placing a franchise tag on him, according to Adam Schefter of ESPN. Jacobs’ tag would be worth a tick over $14 million in 2024, which is evidently too costly for Las Vegas’ blood. Given Jacobs’ production this past season, that does not come as much of a surprise. Injuries limited Jacobs t…

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Simulation of time crystal behavior for a few boson chiral soliton model in a ring
We present numerical simulations for a chiral soliton model with N=2,3 bosons in a ring, this being a few-particle version of our previous mean-field model for a quantum time crystal. Following Syrwid, Kosior, and Sacha (SKS), the notion is that a precise position measurement of one particle can lead to spontaneous formation of a bright soliton that in a time crystal should rotate intact for at least a few revolutions around the ring. In their work SKS find spontaneous formation of a soliton du…