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VS voorspelt ondergang van Europa, maar experts draaien het om: ‘Zij zijn afhankelijk van ons’
https://www.ad.nl/binnenland/vs-voorspelt-ondergang-van-europa-maar-experts-draaien-het-om-zij-zijn-afhankelijk-van-ons~ac2e08ec/
„De realiteit is net het omgekeerde. Vanuit de EU exporteren we meer naar de VS dan omgekeerd. Omdat die Europese spullen blijkbaar goedkoop zijn, efficiënt gemaakt en van betere kwaliteit. Ik denk dat wij dat zelf niet beseffen.”
'Sociaal gezien ligt Europa er veel evenwichtiger bij dan de VS. „Daar kennen ze echt hevige armoede, naast extreme, zeer extreme rijkdom.”'

"En Belgique, les éditorialistes étaient tous favorables au droit au blasphème et Š la liberté d’expression. Mais la crèche de la Grand-Place Š tout changé: ils sont devenus plus catholiques que le pape."
Formidable Nicolas De Decker !

VS voorspelt ondergang van Europa, maar experts draaien het om: ‘Zij zijn afhankelijk van ons’ | Binnenland | AD.nl
https://www.ad.nl/binnenland/vs-voorspelt-ondergang-van-europa-maar-experts-draaien-het-om-zij-zijn-afhankelijk-van-ons~ac2e08ec/
Het grote gelijk van Geert Mak....
Trump helpt ons een beetje: door een oud verdrag zijn wij razend populair bij Amerikanen met ondernemingszin. Met een investering vanaf €4500 kunnen ze in ons land terecht dankzij die deal uit 1956. Veel Amerikanen zien dat meer zitten dan in de VS blijven onder Trump.

"[...] O conto é ficção científica, chama-se no original O Jogo dos Deuses, foi publicado no Em œrbita hš jš uma carrada de anos, em espanhol ficou, claro, El Juego de los Dioses, vem ilustrado com a imagem que veem ali em cima [...]"
#lampadamagica #ficçãoCientífica

E mais um continho em ingl... não, espera... em espanhol, agora é em espanhol
Para quem anda a escrever tão pouco (ha! pouco, diz ele, quando devia dizer nada), até tenho publicado bastante, e sempre fora de portas. De...

A look at French indie game studio Sandfall Interactive, whose critically-acclaimed Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 sold 5M copies with a budget of less than $10M (Zachary Small/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11…

How Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Became a Gaming Tour de Force
Without a blockbuster budget or much experience, the creators of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 astounded the industry with an emotional narrative and old-school design.

Equivariant Eilenberg-Watts theorem for module coalgebras
Taiki Shibata (Okayama University of Science), Kenichi Shimizu (Shibaura Institute of Technology)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07969

Equivariant Eilenberg-Watts theorem for module coalgebras
For coalgebras $C$ and $D$, Takeuchi proved that the category of linear functors from $\mathfrak{M}^C$ to $\mathfrak{M}^D$ preserving small coproducts is equivalent to the category of $C$-$D$-bicomodules, where $\mathfrak{M}^C$ for a coalgebra $C$ means the category of right $C$-comodules. We formulate and prove an equivariant version of this result for module coalgebras over a bialgebra. As an application, for a bialgebra $H$, we establish an equivalence of the 2-category of a particular class…

The WGA, which routinely opposes media mergers, says the Netflix-WBD deal must be blocked, and the Producers and Directors guilds express concern over the deal (Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/wga-opposes-netflix-warner-b…

WGA Opposes Netflix-Warner Bros. Deal: 'This Merger Must Be Blocked'
The Writers Guild of America has joined other industry guilds in opposing Netflix's proposed blockbuster deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery's studios and streaming business.

Atomic and molecular systems for radiation thermometry
Stephen P. Eckel, Eric B. Norrgard, Christopher Holloway, Nikunjkumar Prajapati, Noah Schlossberger, Matthew Simons
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.08668 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.08668 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.08668
arXiv:2512.08668v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Atoms and simple molecules are excellent candidates for new standards and sensors because they are both all identical and their properties are determined by the immutable laws of quantum physics. Here, we introduce the concept of building a standard and sensor of radiative temperature using atoms and molecules. Such standards are based on precise measurement of the rate at which blackbody radiation (BBR) either excites or stimulates emission for a given atomic transition. We summarize the recent results of two experiments while detailing the rate equation models required for their interpretation. The cold atom thermometer (CAT) uses a gas of laser cooled $^{85}$Rb Rydberg atoms to probe the BBR spectrum near 130~GHz. This primary, {\it i.e.}, not traceable to a measurement of like kind, temperature measurement currently has a total uncertainty of approximately 1~\%, with clear paths toward improvement. The compact blackbody radiation atomic sensor (CoBRAS) uses a vapour of $^{85}$Rb and monitors fluorescence from states that are either populated by BBR or populated by spontaneous emission to measure the blackbody spectrum near 24.5~THz. The CoBRAS has an excellent relative precision of $u(T)\approx 0.13$~K, with a clear path toward implementing a primary
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After the 2020 Alameda fire that that destroyed thousands of homes and businesses in southern Oregon, locals, Tribal leaders, and restoration experts uncovered—and revived—a network of hidden springs.
From The Oregonian
via Sightline
https://sig…

Oregon’s Miracle Mile: How a devastating wildfire led to environmental restoration
A wildfire burned away invasive blackberry bushes and revealed 16 streams that benefit wildlife.

"Dr. Charles Misner, who passed away in 2023 at the age of 91, was a professor of physics at the University of Maryland from 1963 to 2000, and a renowned expert in General Relativity. He was the recipient of the Albert Einstein medal in 2015, and was the co-author of “Gravitation”, one of the best-selling books in the subject of General Relativity, featuring none other than Kip Thorne on the cover."

Charles Misner & Patrick Cooney
Given the pervasiveness and versatility of computers in our world of 2025 it is easy to ignore that 80 years ago they were initially conceived as what we would call today a calculator, specifically created to solve tedious mathematical problems. Of course, users of TikTok, Call of Duty, YouTube, Visual Studio Code, or even readers of this website through some web browser like Firefox are usually (and blissfully) unaware of the gazillion computations per second that it takes to produce everythin…