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I was late to pick my daughter up from camp because #NYCParks closed a huge portion of Corona-Meadows Flushing Park. Apparently for some kind of music festival. There was, of course, no bike detour. The area has highways running through it, and the bridges over the highways are cordoned off. How do you get to

I can't stop thinking of 'The Running Man' whenever I see articles about virtual (animal) fences:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj4229k744lo

Cambridge cows get GPS collars to stop them falling in river
A council says two to four fall into the water in a city centre during grazing season each year.

Meson mass spectrum in Ising Field Theory
Alexey Litvinov, Pavel Meshcheriakov, Egor Shestopalov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15766 https://

Meson mass spectrum in Ising Field Theory
We study the two-particle approximation of the Ising Field Theory (IFT), formulated in terms of the Bethe-Salpeter (BS) equation. Derived by Fonseca and Zamolodchikov as a systematic realization of the McCoy-Wu approach, this equation captures confinement by modeling ``mesons'' as bound states of two Majorana fermions (``quarks''), in a way analogous to the integral equation in the 't Hooft model. Despite its approximate nature, the BS equation provides remarkably accurate predictions for the m…

What’s Really Holding You Back from Making Art? (Hint: It’s Not Talent)
https://www.artiststrong.com/whats-holding-you-back-from-your-art/?utm_source=flipboard&am…

What’s Really Holding You Back from Making Art? (Hint: It’s Not Talent)
What’s Really Holding You Back from Making Art? (It’s Not Talent) Let’s be honest: making art can feel really hard sometimes. And if you’ve been avoiding your creative practice, it’s easy to jump t…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
The Ocean Blue:
🎵 The Office of a Busy Man
#TheOceanBlue
https://open.spotify.com/track/2Fwm6UsGgHxObmH5HKNBtl

Austria: you take a random bus to the outskirts of a medium-size city. You immediately see some signposted walking paths. You follow them. No fences. No fly-tipping.
Compare to Italy: All agricultural land is fenced off. Very few public footpaths, except in national parks and in very mountainous areas. Random piles of garbage here and there close to roads.
Sorry.

When Tukey meets Chauvenet: a new boxplot criterion for outlier detection
Hongmei Lin, Riquan Zhang, Tiejun Tong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06491 https://

When Tukey meets Chauvenet: a new boxplot criterion for outlier detection
The box-and-whisker plot, introduced by Tukey (1977), is one of the most popular graphical methods in descriptive statistics. On the other hand, however, Tukey's boxplot is free of sample size, yielding the so-called "one-size-fits-all" fences for outlier detection. Although improvements on the sample size adjusted boxplots do exist in the literature, most of them are either not easy to implement or lack justification. As another common rule for outlier detection, Chauvenet's criterion uses the…

Musician Alysha Brilla on trusting yourself as the first step
#creativity #musician

Musician Alysha Brilla on trusting yourself as the first step – The Creative Independent
Musician Alysha Brilla discusses listening deeply, remembering she's not alone, and bringing it back to nature.

Meta Tries to Bury a Tell-All Book https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext/careless-people-meta-mark-zuckerberg/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_content=muz4now/magazin…

Meta Tries to Bury a Tell-All Book
Mark Zuckerberg might be in his post-fact-checking-era. But that hasn’t stopped Meta from going after the author of Careless People.

MSPs back new powers supporting Gaelic and Scots https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyzll5m2j1o?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_content=muz4now/magazine/Signs of Hope&utm_medium=masto…

MSPs back new powers supporting Gaelic and Scots
The Scottish Languages Bill would see both recognised as official languages.