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Letter from the House Democrats to the new interim #NASA administrator observing "a fringe, extremist ideology emanating from the White House Office of Management and Budget" and expressing "nothing but contempt for its goal of dismantling our nation’s space agency": https://democrats-science.house.gov/imo/media/doc/SST RM Lofgren and Foushee - Letter to Interim Administrator Duffy - FY 25 Impoundments - 7.16.25.pdf

WTF? Sheriffs now!
#Australia …

Inside the fringe groups fighting a 'quasi civil war' with self-styled sheriffs and their own court
Wary of being labelled a cult, this 'sovereign citizen' group has never spoken to mainstream media. It made an exception for Four Corners.

Hazel Brugger: erster Auftritt in Schweden
Die Schweizer Comedienne tritt beim Stockholm Fringe Festival erstmals mit ihrem Programm auf Englisch auf.
https://www.kabarett-news.de/News-vom-11.08.2025-hazel-brugger.htm
Fotografin @no_e_ll_e Guidon

Challenge: "Name 20 living female authors you admire, 1 per day"
Day 18: Kim Småge
Sorry, but you'll have to learn some Norwegian if you want to read this author, as she hasn't been translated into English yet - but that means you could read Ibsen too...
"Containerkvinnan" was a real knockout. The bodies of two women are found in a container in Trondheim's harbour, and from here proceeds the whodunnit. It's a whole series and I keep mean…

An analysis of 96K public ChatGPT transcripts finds 100 lengthy chats, of which dozens exhibited delusional traits where ChatGPT reinforced users' fringe ideas (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/i-feel-like…

Dark-fringe interferometer with dynamic phase control for M\"ossbauer science
Miriam Gerharz, Dominik Lentrodt, Lars Bocklage, Kai Schulze, Christian Ott, Ren\'e Steinbr\"ugge, Olaf Leupold, Ilya Sergeev, Gerhard G. Paulus, Christoph H. Keitel, Ralf R\"ohlsberger, Thomas Pfeifer, J\"org Evers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2…

Dark-fringe interferometer with dynamic phase control for Mössbauer science
Interference is a powerful tool for measuring and control. In Mössbauer science, interference effects are essential to most applications, due to the coherent scattering nature. However, Mössbauer interferometry remains challenging, due to stability requirements imposed by the short x-ray wavelength. Here, we put forward a ``dark fringe'' interferometer with vanishing transmission in the empty state, thereby facilitating sensitive measurements. The relative interferometer phase can dynamically…

VIRTUS-FPP: Virtual Sensor Modeling for Fringe Projection Profilometry in NVIDIA Isaac Sim
Adam Haroon, Anush Lakshman, Badrinath Balasubramaniam, Beiwen Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22685

VIRTUS-FPP: Virtual Sensor Modeling for Fringe Projection Profilometry in NVIDIA Isaac Sim
Fringe projection profilometry (FPP) has been established as a high-accuracy 3D reconstruction method capable of achieving sub-pixel accuracy. However, this technique faces significant constraints due to complex calibration requirements, bulky system footprint, and sensitivity to environmental conditions. To address these limitations, we present VIRTUS-FPP, the first comprehensive physics-based virtual sensor modeling framework for FPP built in NVIDIA Isaac Sim. By leveraging the physics-based …

Only two nights to go - if you're in Edinburgh, see us at the Fringe at Paradise in Augustines today or tomorrow at 19:05!
https://www.theater-u34.de/quartet/

Here's an editorial about DSA written by two who know it well, including a former board member:
https://archive.ph/ZGSib
Right now Americans are living the nightmare of what happens when one of its major parties gets captured by its lunatic fringe. The last thing we need is for the other major party t…

Sagnac and Mashhoon effects in graphene
Yu. V. Shtanov, T. -H. O. Pokalchuk, S. G. Sharapov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07718 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.077…

Sagnac and Mashhoon effects in graphene
We investigate the Sagnac and Mashhoon effects in graphene, taking into account both the pseudospin and intrinsic spin of electrons, within a simplified model of a rotating nanotube or infinitesimally narrow ring. Based on considerations of the relativistic phase of the wave function and employing the effective Larmor theorem, we demonstrate that the Sagnac fringe shift retains a form analogous to that for free electrons, governed by the electron's vacuum mass. In the case of a narrow ring, an …

Four takeaways from Wednesday, from offensive "ownership" to happy returns as they prepare for Cowboys https://www.panthers.com/news/four-takeaways-from-wednesday-from-offensive-owner…

Deep learning approach for flow visualization in background-oriented schlieren
Viren S. Ram, Tullio de Rubeis, Dario Ambrosini, Rajshekhar Gannavarpu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25201

Deep learning approach for flow visualization in background-oriented schlieren
Diffractive optical element based background oriented schlieren (BOS) is a popular technique for quantitative flow visualization. This technique relies on encoding spatial density variations of the test medium in the form of an optical fringe pattern; and hence, its accuracy is directly influenced by the quality of fringe pattern demodulation. We introduce a robust deep learning assisted subspace method which enables reliable fringe pattern demodulation even in the presence of severe noise and …

Both BBC and ITV now presenting faux investigative journalism with same aim: show that migrants cost the 'tax payer' lots of money.
It is material aid for the fascist and xenophobic fringe.
#MigrationMoralPanic
#BBCBias

Arrived in Edinburgh - hello Fringe!

Phase-adaptive cooling of fringe-trapped nanoparticles at room temperature in hollow-core photonic crystal fiber
Soumya Chakraborty, Gordon K. L. Wong, Pardeep Kumar, Hyunjun Nam, Claudiu Genes, Nicolas Y. Joly
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17601

Phase-adaptive cooling of fringe-trapped nanoparticles at room temperature in hollow-core photonic crystal fiber
Active feedback cooling of levitated dielectric particles is a pivotal technique for creating ultrasensitive sensors and probing fundamental physics. Here we demonstrate phase-adaptive feedback cooling of silica nanoparticles optically trapped in standing-wave potential formed by two co-linearly polarized counterpropagating diffraction-free guided modes in a hollow-core photonic crystal fiber at room temperature. Unlike standard laser intensity- or Coulomb force-based feedback, our approach mod…

Checking in on the politics of civility.
https://www.politics.co.uk/news/2025/09/29/labour-labelled-nasty-party-after-minister-calls-ed-davey-fat-bloke-in-wetsuit/

Labour branded ‘nasty party’ after minister calls Ed Davey ‘fat bloke in wetsuit’ - Politics.co.uk
A senior minister has referred to the Liberal Democrat leader, Ed Davey, as a “fat bloke in a wetsuit”. Torsten Bell, who serves jointly as a pensions and Treasury minister, delivered the remarks while speaking to a fringe event at Labour Party conference.  Bell said: “What Britain needs to tackle [Reform UK leader Nigel] Farage... Read more »

Challenge: "Name 20 female authors you admire, 1 per day"
Day 7:
Lauren Beukes ("rhymes with mucus" as she likes to say)
SciFi novellist, filmmaker, journalist and LGBTQ-ally from S.Africa.
I loved Zoo City, Moxyland and The Shining Girls and I need to catch up on her newer ones. It was fun to meet her at the Edinburgh Int'l Book Festival a few years ago.

Today in Edinburgh, talk at LFCS, then performance at Edinburgh Fringe.
https://informatics.ed.ac.uk/lfcs/lfcs-seminar-tuesday-5th-august-michael-sperber

Electrostatic toroidal bender and its fringe fields
Rick Baartman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21365 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.21365

Electrostatic toroidal bender and its fringe fields
I describe the COSY-Infinity code GES that we have developed and used in various forms in the past 30 years to calculate maps to third order through electrostatic bend elements. It has been a mystery that COSY's in-built procedures ES, ESP and ECL disagreed with our own code. This note is intended to clarify the issue.

Look-Up Table-Correction for Beam Hardening-Induced Signal of Clinical Dark-Field Chest Radiographs
Maximilian E. Lochschmidt (Chair of Biomedical Physics, Department of Physics, TUM School of Natural Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany), Theresa Urban (Chair of Biomedical Physics, Department of Physics, TUM School of Natural Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany), Lennard Kaster (Chair of Biomedical Physics, Department of Physics, TUM Scho…

Look-Up Table-Correction for Beam Hardening-Induced Signal of Clinical Dark-Field Chest Radiographs
Background: Material structures at the micrometer scale cause ultra-small-angle X-ray scattering, e.g., seen in lung tissue or plastic foams. In grating-based X-ray imaging, this causes a reduction of the fringe visibility, forming a dark-field signal. Polychromatic beam hardening also changes visibility, adding a false dark-field signal due to attenuation, even in homogeneous, non-scattering materials. Purpose: The objective of this study is to develop a fast, simple, and robust method to corr…

Our trip down Müller's play started over a decade ago, with rehearsals finally starting a year before the pandemic. The script has so many facets, it's imperative to give a production a unique focus. It took us until 2024 to find ours: Amidst all the brutality and perversion, it's a love story.
https://chao…

Cross-process interference in single-cycle electron emission from metal needle tips
Anne Herzig, Peter Hommelhoff, Eleftherios Goulielmakis, Thomas Fennel, Lennart Seiffert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01524

Cross-process interference in single-cycle electron emission from metal needle tips
Though interference from different emission channels enabled a deeper understanding of strong-field photoemission in atoms and molecules, it remained out of reach for solids. Here, we explore metal needle tips under single-cycle pulses via classical trajectories extended by quantum diffusion and interference and numerical solution of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation. We find interference of direct and backscattered electrons with fringe pattern encoding sub-cycle information on birth ti…

I'll be in Edinburgh next week, mainly for the Fringe, but I'll also give a talk at LFS/U Edinburgh on Tuesday:
https://informatics.ed.ac.uk/lfcs/lfcs-seminar-tuesday-5th-august-michael-sperber

Cowboys 53-man roster projection sees former 1st-round pick with fully guaranteed deal cut https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/07/20/cowboys-53-man-roster-sees-former-1st-ro…

"How much does it cost to restore a mangrove forest?"
#Mangrove #Forest #Trees #Environment
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How much does it cost to restore a mangrove forest?
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Mangroves, the amphibious forests that fringe tropical and subtropical coastlines, are ecological powerhouses. They buffer communities against storm surges, support fisheries, and sequester carbon at rates that rival their terrestrial counterparts. Yet despite growing recognition of their value, […]

Matching Optimization for TRIUMF's Rare Isotope Linac
O. Shelbaya, O. Hassan, R. Baartman, O. Kester, C. Pearce, T. Planche, L. Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20292 https:…

Matching Optimization for TRIUMF's Rare Isotope Linac
Fringe field effects are computed from simulated and measured quadrupole magnetic field gradients, enabling a more realistic modelling of the medium energy section optics in TRIUMF's RIB postaccelerator. Quantifying the fringe field optics using the method developed by Matsuda and Wollnik allows for the use of parallel modelling tune optimizations for machine operation, providing operators with an efficient means to re-tune the variable energy drift tube linac for RIB delivery.

One week to go until our Fringe premiere of Heiner Müller's "Quartet".
Join us in the bunker Aug 4-9 19:05 at Paradise in Augustines!
https://www.theater-u34.de/quartet/

A Bayesian dawn in linguistics: Trends, benefits and good practices
Natalia Levshina
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17161 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.17161

A Bayesian dawn in linguistics: Trends, benefits and good practices
In recent years, Bayesian statistics has gained traction across a wide range of scientific disciplines. This paper explores the growing application of Bayesian methods within the field of linguistics and considers their future potential. A survey of articles from different linguistics journals indicates that Bayesian regression has transitioned from fringe to fairly mainstream over the past five years. This paper discusses the main drivers of this shift, including the increased availability of …

Comparison of Magnetic Field Characteristics among 3 Tesla MRI Scanners: An Experimental Measurement Study
Francesco Girardello, Maria Antonietta D'Avanzo, Massimo Mattozzi, Victorian Michele Ferro, Giuseppe Acri, Valentina Hartwig
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20818

Comparison of Magnetic Field Characteristics among 3 Tesla MRI Scanners: An Experimental Measurement Study
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners have advanced significantly, with a growing use of highfield 3 T systems. This evolution gives rise to safety concerns for healthcare personnel working in proximity to MRI equipment. While manufacturers provide theoretical Gauss line projections, these are typically derived under ideal open-environment conditions and may not reflect real-world installations. For this reason, identical MRI models can produce markedly different fringe field distributions …