The fifth #AAS press conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dHXMm3pbWU about Asteroids, Low-Mass Stars, and a Mystery from History covered the papers Lightcurves, Rotation Periods, and Colors for Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s First Asteroid Discoveries (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae2a30 with https://rubinobservatory.org/news/rubin-record-breaking-asteroid-pre-survey and https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2601/ and https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2026-01-07-nsf-doe-vera-c-rubin-observatory-spots-record-breaking-asteroid-pre-survey), Dearth of Photosynthetically Active Radiation Suggests No Complex Life on Late M-Star Exoplanets (https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.02548 with https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LlyzaK1wTk0hnqNGRCEMNe8BZEaMMFde), A Plasma Torus around a Young Low-mass Star (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ade39a with https://carnegiescience.edu/naturally-occurring-space-weather-station-elucidates-new-way-study-habitability-planets-orbiting-m) and Barnard's mysterious star near Venus - a strange interloper noted during a satellite search (https://scicomm.xyz/@cosmos4u/115849624944298844).
Bombed Chornobyl shelter no longer blocks radiation and needs major repair – IAEA | Ukraine | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/06/chornobyl-disaster-shelter-no-longer-blocks-radiation-and-needs-major-repair-iaea?
I have owned my 2016 EV since 2020. (I like buying my cars four and a half years old because four years is the length of a typical lease and when supply goes up, price goes down). I like the fact that (because it's an EV), beyond tire rotations, it's only been in the shop once. That one time, was due to the fact that the start button got stuck in and wouldn't come out again. The car is nearing ten years old, and I think that I might need to take it to the shop for new tires. ...
20 ans sous l’emprise d’une communauté sectaire – #CCA
On nous avait exigé de ne pas prononcer le nom de l'accusé ni celui de l'OKC. En effet, les médias redoutent les dérives sectaires et les poursuites judiciaires visant Š les réduire au silence.
This one was disturbingly easy for Part 1, then got more fun on Part 2. The name of the game is rotations, and rotating the input was the key to getting it done without too much bother.
Solution: https://git.jamesthebard.net/jweatherly/advent-of-co…
Quando leio ingenuidades (sejamos bondosos) sobre ser-se "pela paz", apetece-me mandar imediatamente links para coisas como esta, para ver se o/a ingénuo/a percebe de uma vez por todas com o que estamos a lidar.
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/08
Untersuchungen zeigen, dass Klimaskeptiker das Thema durch Schwarz-Weiß-Denken interpretieren, wobei kognitive Binärdateien verwendet werden, um komplexe Systeme zu vereinfachen. https://mastodon.social/@DaveWhittle/115507264746175047
Solving the Mystery of the Electron Radiation Belt at #Uranus - Leveraging Knowledge of Earth's Radiation Belts in a Re-Examination of Voyager 2 Observations: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025GL119311 -> SwRI may have solved a mystery surrounding Uranus’ radiation belts: https://www.swri.org/newsroom/press-releases/swri-may-have-solved-mystery-surrounding-uranus-radiation-belts
Welcome to #TextModeTuesday! For the next few weeks I'll be posting some projects & experiments related to this just spontaneously made up hashtag. If you've got something related to interesting text-based art/experiments, patterns, ASCII-art, ANSI-art etc. please share — the more, the merrier...
To start with, here's an experiment from a few years ago to demonstrat…
This one took a smidge more thought as I can't abuse `zip` to rotate 2D sequences. However, just rewrote the rotation as a proc and used that. Instead of `reduce`, it was all `foldl`, and I fought with `char` vs `string` due to some of the processing operations between the normal and cephalopod problem processing.
Overall, definitely a fun solve.
Solution: