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'Living, breathing, legacy:' Sneak peek into the new Obama Presidential Center in Chicago (Associated Press)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/obama-presidential-center-museum-chicago-open-rcna348427
http://www.memeorandum.com/260604/p40#a260604p40

Air pollution slows lung growth during childhood, UK study shows https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/29/air-pollution-slows-lung-growth-childhood-uk-study

The trick is to keep breathing.

My dad, brother, mom, and me at the US bicentennial. I vaguely remember this was some celebration at Valley Forge National Park in PA. We were living in NJ at the time, so we're posed in front of the NJ wagon.
As a kid who was not allowed to have internet, I didn't know much about the world back then. but I'm quite sure the world is a better place today, despite all the fuckery going on right now.
I mean, we were breathing leaded gasoline, among other things.

Six Hundred Million Breaths
The first inhale, the last exhale, and the enormous unexamined middle. A human being spends nine months underwater and then, in a single violent second, becomes an air-breathing animal....
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/08/01/six-hundred-million-…

Six Hundred Million Breaths | David Boles, Blogs
The first inhale, the last exhale, and the enormous unexamined middle. A human being spends nine months underwater and then, in a single violent second, becomes an air-breathing animal. We tend to …

Just depressing for amateur bassmen like me: B.B. Kings cover version of "Summer in the City". Focus on how bass and drums are interacting here - they're breathing groove while poor tiny mortals like me are just stumbling through the songs. Sigh.
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Did you realize all of the adverse impacts have on health? We keep discovering more, as this report shows:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/29/air-pollution-slows-lung-growth-childhood-uk-study?CMP=shar…

Did you realize all of the adverse impacts have on health? We keep discovering more, as this report shows:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/29/air-pollution-slows-lung-growth-childhood-uk-study?CMP=shar…

Two senators are out in the Capitol when one of them - Mitch McConnell - collapses. He doesn't seem to be breathing and his eyes are glazed. The other guy whips out his phone and calls the emergency services. He gasps, "I think Mitch McConnell is dead! What can I do?" The operator says, "Calm down. I can help. First, let's make sure he's dead." There is a long silence; then the other senator says "OK, I should be able to say by the 4th August".

Today's bike ride to work sucked. Wearing a respirator for 30 minutes isn't very comfortable. I had to adjust it a few times and it was much worse breathing in the wildfire smoke so respirator it is.
I can only assume our climate will get worse as time goes on so I figured I might want to get used to this.
#BikeTooter

Conditional Normalizing Flow for Gas-Surface Scattering from Thermal to Hypersonic Velocities
Miklas Sch\"utte, Stephen Hocker, Hansj\"org Lipp, Johannes Roth, Stefanos Fasoulas, Marcel Pfeiffer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.31928 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.31928 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.31928
arXiv:2606.31928v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Accurate aerodynamic modeling of satellites in very low Earth orbit (VLEO) requires gas-surface interaction (GSI) models that capture the full velocity spectrum from thermal to orbital speeds. Atmospheric particles initially strike spacecraft surfaces at hypersonic velocities of 6 000 - 10 000 m/s. Due to surface roughness and complex geometries, especially within air-breathing electric propulsion (ABEP) intake systems, multiple collisions occur, progressively reducing the particle velocities. A recent machine learning framework for deriving scattering kernels from molecular dynamics (MD) simulations has shown promise, but remains limited to high-velocity single impacts and possibly violates fundamental equilibrium principles such as detailed balance. This work extends this machine learning based scattering kernel to cover the complete velocity range using conditional normalizing flows trained with physics-informed constraints, enabling accurate modeling of multi-bounce scenarios in realistic VLEO applications. We train a conditional Real-valued Non-Volume Preserving (cRealNVP) model on expanded molecular dynamics simulations covering velocities from thermal to hypersonic speeds, incorporating a detailed balance loss term. The resulting model demonstrates improved accuracy compared to previous approaches even in the original high-velocity regime, while successfully capturing thermal-velocity scattering. Quantitative assessment shows that thermalization is approximated within acceptable tolerances. This framework provides essential capabilities for accurate ABEP intake optimization and VLEO mission planning while offering a general methodology applicable to broader rarefied gas dynamics problems requiring thermodynamic consistency.
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Tens of thousands of people in southeast Los Angeles County
have been engulfed in a dense cloud of smoke for nearly a week
as a fire continues to tear through a massive refrigerated warehouse in Boyle Heights.
Toxic air has covered the San Gabriel Valley and beyond at times,
as the fire continues to burn and the wind shifts the pall in different directions.
People have reason to be concerned about their loved ones breathing in the plume, experts say.
“The…

@…
"Climate change bites again - and a long way from the fire. Particulate concentrations rise 2000km away both indoors and outdoors (but are not noticed by people breathing them), and impacts are not just on asthma/ VCOPD, but on admissions with pulmonary emboli, heart attacks and strokes."
(from clinician Prof Hugh Montgomery on Linke…

"Air pollution slows lung growth during childhood, UK study shows"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Pollution #AirPollution

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Jasper HŸiby's 3 Elements:
🎵 Breathing
#JasperHøibys3Elements

Lazing on a sunny afternoon (channeling Ray Davies) #dogs #dogsofmastodon

About one in eight people globally have some form of sleep apnea.
Sleep apnea causes breathing to stop and start several times during sleep.
This happens because either your airway is blocked, known as obstructive sleep apnea,
or you brain isn’t controlling your breathing as it should, known as central sleep apnea. 
For decades, the main form of treatment for this population has been the continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine, which helps keep a person’s a…

Beyond CPAP: The future of sleep apnea treatment
In a Q&A, sleep medicine specialist Klar Yaggi discusses the future of sleep apnea treatment, from medication to artificial intelligence.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #EasternEchoes
Orchidae:
🎵 Mouth Breathing Fire
#Orchidae
https://open.spotify.com/track/1eL37Rfp0IDRYYswhIqIT5

Southern Ontario is having smoke roll through from wildfires in the north-west of Ontario. It's incredibly bad here in the Kitchener. Can't stand outside for a prolonged time without having difficulty breathing.

“But AC contributes to climate change!”
Heating does so a thousand times more (most ways of heating are very inefficient and directly produce CO2), yet no one is asking people to just not heat in winter.
Also stop breathing, that also contributes to climate change.