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Utah Senate President J. Stuart Adams, who championed a huge data center beside the Great Salt Lake, lost his Republican primary on Tuesday after voter backlash (Jack Healy/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/u…

Utah Senate President Loses Republican Primary After Data Center Backlash
The upset of J. Stuart Adams represented one of the strongest examples of how the data center issue has affected elections.

Die #Hitzewelle in #Frankreich drosselt die #Atomstrom-Produktion, weil zu warmes Flusswasser Umweltauflagen auslöst.
Dadurch sanken die

Auswirkungen auch im EU-Ausland spürbar: Weniger Atomstrom in Frankreich wegen Hitzewelle
Wegen der Hitzewelle in Frankreich hat der Betreiber EDF die Stromproduktion seiner Atomkraftwerke deutlich gedrosselt.

Add some swag to your ggplots, with fontawesome symbols and colors: #rstats

Adding social media icons to charts with {ggplot2} – Nicola Rennie
Adding social media icons to your data visualisation is a great, concise way to put your name on your work, and make it easy for people to find your profile from your work. This blog post explains how to add social media icons to {ggplot2} charts.

Rams QB Ty Simpson: 'It's a big advantage for me' to learn from Matthew Stafford, Davante Adams https://www.nfl.com/news/rams-ty-simpson-big-advantage-for-me-to-learn-from-matthew-stafford-davante-adams

UK-based B2B tech publisher The Stack buys Tom Krazit's Runtime newsletter, which has 20K subscribers, and names Krazit EIC of The Stack (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/newsletters/b2b-tech-title-the-st…

B2B tech title The Stack boosts newsletter audience with acquisition
UK tech title The Stack is almost tripling its newsletter audience and through its purchase of US tech newsletter Runtime.

Atmosphere as a steam engine
Anastassia Makarieva, Andrei Nefiodov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.23875 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.23875 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.23875
arXiv:2605.23875v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Earth's atmosphere operates a steam cycle in which water vapor evaporates from the surface, expands, condenses, and returns as precipitation. The Clausius-Clapeyron law relates the incremental expansion work of saturated water vapor to latent heat converted at a Carnot efficiency corresponding to the temperature difference between evaporation and condensation. We generalize this relation to an atmospheric column with condensation occurring over a range of heights and derive the expansion work per mole of precipitated water. This includes the gravitational work associated with lifting moist air to the mean condensation height, the expansion work generated by condensation, and a correction for incomplete condensation. Using GPCP v3.3 precipitation and observational constraints on condensation height, we estimate the global steam-engine power as $W_v=4.4\pm0.9$ W/m2, close to an independent estimate of total atmospheric power, $W=W_P W_K\simeq4.3\pm0.6$ W/m2, obtained from the gravitational power of precipitation and kinetic energy generation by horizontal pressure gradients diagnosed from MERRA-2. Kinetic energy generation is $W_K\simeq3.2\pm0.3$ W/m2, of which at least two thirds is generated in the lower atmosphere. The smaller upper-atmospheric contribution, dominated by temperature-related pressure gradients, is comparable to Lorenz available potential energy generation. The agreement between steam-engine and atmospheric power is linked to condensation and precipitation fallout. By removing water from the atmospheric gas phase and enabling column-mass redistribution, precipitation maintains surface pressure gradients that drive cross-isobaric flow in the frictional lower atmosphere. The steam-engine framework thus provides a thermodynamic basis for condensation-induced atmospheric dynamics and identifies a major lower-atmospheric power pathway associated with water phase transitions.
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fullerene_structures: Fullerene molecular structures
Fifteen networks of carbon atoms and the atomic bonds that connect them within molecules of fullerenes, from 60 atoms up to 6000 atoms. A bond is defined to exist whenever the distance of two atoms is less than 1.5 angstrom.
This network has 500 nodes and 750 edges.
Tags: Biological, Chemical, Unweighted, Spatial

Missing Link: Vor 40 Jahren explodierte der Reaktor in Tschernobyl
Die Crew im Atomkraftwerk wollte testen, wie sich der Reaktor bei einem Stromausfall verhält. Damit löste sie den bis dahin folgenschwersten Atomunfall aus.

Missing Link: 40. Jahrestag der Reaktorkatastrophe in Tschernobyl
Die Crew im Atomkraftwerk wollte testen, wie sich der Reaktor bei einem Stromausfall verhält. Damit löste sie den bis dahin folgenschwersten Atomunfall aus.

DOJ: By Its Own Admission, Yale Med School Illegally Discriminates Against White, Asian Applicants (The Federalist)
https://thefederalist.com/2026/05/25/doj-by-its-own-admission-yale-med-school-illegally-discriminates-against-white-asian-applicants/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260526/p40#a260526p40

Cowboys’ Next Move Could Be Adding Potential Long-Term QB https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/next-move-adding-long-term-qb/