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celegans_metabolic: Metabolic network (C. elegans)
List of edges comprising the metabolic network of the nematode C. elegans.
This network has 453 nodes and 4596 edges.
Tags: Biological, Metabolic, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/celegans_metabolic

Analysis of collision shift assessments in ion-based clocks
M. D. Barrett, K. J. Arnold
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05474 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.05474 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.05474
arXiv:2512.05474v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We consider back-ground gas collision shifts in ion-based clocks. We give both a classical and quantum description of a collision between an ion and a polarizable particle with a simple hard-sphere repulsion. Both descriptions give consistent results, which shows that a collision shift bound is determined by the classical Langevin collision rate reduced by a readily calculated factor describing the decoupling of the clock laser from the ion due to the recoil motion. We also show that the result holds when using a more general Lennard-Jones potential to describe the interaction between the ion and its collision partner. This leads to a simple bound for the collision shift applicable to any single ion clock without resorting to large-scale Monte-Carlo simulations or determination of molecular potential energy curves describing the collision. It also provides a relatively straightforward means to measure the relevant collision rate.
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Trump's "Donroe Doctrine" sets U.S. on great-power collision course (Zachary Basu/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/08/trumps-donroe-doctrine-sets-us-on-great-power-collision-course
http://www.memeorandum.com/260108/p15#a260108p15

Raiders' Maxx Crosby isn't closing the door on interesting career change https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/raiders-maxx-crosby-isnt-closing-door-interesting-career-c…

The Dying Grove: A Novel Born from the Collision of Joyce and Mycorrhiza
Some books are written. Others are grown. "The Dying Grove" belongs to the second category, and that distinction is not metaphor but method. This novel, the first in a new series called Fractional Fiction, emerged from an experiment in literary hybridization: what happens when you take the formal architecture of modernist masters and seed it with contemporary scientific research? The result is…

The Dying Grove: A Novel Born from the Collision of Joyce and Mycorrhiza | David Boles, Blogs
Some books are written. Others are grown. “The Dying Grove” belongs to the second category, and that distinction is not metaphor but method. This novel, the first in a new series called…

Libraries scramble to find another print book provider after Baker & Taylor, once the largest US distributor of print books to public libraries, shuts down (NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/07/nx-s1-5668426/libraries-books-distributor-closing

This is good advice received from a local retrofit organisation. I'm always amazed by how many people don't appear to understand this simple fact.
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Did you know how much of a difference closing curtains and blinds can make ?
In summer leaving window coverings closed can reduce the heat input to prevent overheating and in the winter closing them before dark can keep heat from escaping and keep your home feeling cosy.

celegans_interactomes: C. elegans interactomes (2009)
Ten networks of protein-protein interactions in Caenorhabditis elegans (nematode), from yeast two-hybrid experiments, biological process maps, literature curation, orthologous interactions, and genetic interactions. The WI8 network combines WI2004, WI2007 and BPmaps, while the Integrated Network combines data from all sources.
This network has 759 nodes and 1593 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

Block Communications announces that The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette will cease publication May 3; the closure will not affect its sister newspaper, The Toledo Blade (Mark Walker/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/business/media/pittsburgh-po…

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Announces It Will Cease Operations
The family-owned company that operates the newspaper cited mounting losses and labor constraints. A final edition is expected on Sunday, May 3.

Ted Sarandos says Paramount's "move was entirely expected", but Netflix is "super confident" that it will get the WBD deal "across the line and finish" (Cynthia Littleton/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/biz/news/ted-

Netflix CEOs 'Super-Confident' of Closing Warner Bros. Discovery Deal
Netflix's co-CEOs projected confidence about closing Netflix's takeover of Warner Bros. and HBO Max despite Paramount's hostile bid for the studio.