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https://theonion.com/bezos-wedding-guests-given-monogrammed-plastic-bottles-to-urinate-in-during-ceremony/

Bezos Wedding Guests Given Monogrammed Plastic Bottles To Urinate In During Ceremony
VENICE, ITALY—In a welcome bag filled with favors such as local chocolates, artisanal soaps, and scented candles, guests arriving for the wedding of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez this week were reportedly given monogrammed plastic bottles in which to urinate during the ceremony. “Because guests will be strictly prohibited from leaving the room […]

Okay. This is my current top candidate for the most absurd, cool, and fascinating experiment/article of 2025.
Can you use candles as a clock signal for a CPU? Surprisingly, the answer is yes.
https://cpldcpu.com/2025/08/13/candle-flame-oscillations-as-a-clock/

Candle Flame Oscillations as a Clock
Todays candles have been optimized for millenia not to flicker. But it turns out when we bundle three of them together, we can undo all of these optimizations and the resulting triplet will start t…

I've moved on from re-binging "The Last Kingdom" to re-binging "Vikings."
I love historical fiction movies but at some point the forever-burning torches and ubiquitous candles start to bother me. The trouble is that cold darkness doesn't film well.

Empirically Predicted Absolute Magnitudes for Red Clump Stars in Mephisto and CSST Filters
Zheng Yu, Bing-Qiu Chen, Xiao-Wei Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20078

Empirically Predicted Absolute Magnitudes for Red Clump Stars in Mephisto and CSST Filters
Red clump (RC) stars are reliable standard candles for studying the structure and evolution of the Milky Way. In this study, we present empirical calibrations of RC absolute magnitudes in the Mephisto (v, g, r, i) and CSST (g, r, i) photometric systems using a high-purity sample of 25,059 RC stars cross-matched between APOGEE and Gaia DR3 XP spectra. Through synthetic photometry and polynomial fitting, we find that RC absolute magnitudes exhibit strong dependencies on effective temperature and …

"Gas stations are America's accidental museums-fluorescent-lit shrines to kitsch, camp, and chaotic consumerism. Exploring gas station merchandise through art becomes a way to examine the surreal poetry of the roadside: airbrushed wolves on velvet, rhinestone trucker hats, Jesus candles, lottery tickets, and beef jerky side by side like some late capitalist still life. These one-stop culture convergence points are where regional identity, mass production, nostalgia, and irony collid…

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#Birthday #cake is the key to #happiness 😊

Reconstruction of X-Ray Afterglow Light Curves of GRBs and its implication for constraining Cosmological Parameters
Yu-Qi Zhou, Shuang-Xi Yi, Yu-Peng Yang, Jia-Lun Li, Jian-Ping Hu, Yan-Kun Qu, Fa-Yin Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14467

Reconstruction of X-Ray Afterglow Light Curves of GRBs and its implication for constraining Cosmological Parameters
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) serve as important cosmological probes, whose X-ray afterglow light curves (LCs) may exhibit a plateau phase (with temporal slope $α$ between 0 and 0.5) that may originate from magnetar energy injection. Similar to Type Ia Supernovae, GRBs with a common physical origin can be used as standardizable candles for cosmological studies. However, observational gaps in GRB light curves introduce significant uncertainties in plateau parameter estimation, thereby affecting cosmo…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
Alex Reece:
🎵 Candles
#AlexReece
https://drumbassbox.bandcamp.com/track/candles-dj-pulse-mix
https://open.spotify.com/track/7JG89hBwLyL72ubbqWWCbp

Last night 8 of us got together for Call of Cthulhu. First RPG for one of us, and a couple of us with decades of experience gaming together. Went off without a hitch. Other than my reporter getting killed by a swarm of vermin (one of two deaths).

"My experiences of connection with God and others in the church have kept me coming back. I am hoping against hope that the 21st century church can be an experiential community for the future, a place that more and more people can turn to for a mysterious experience of eternal resonance."
—S. Slade Hogan ’22 S.T.M. writing in the new issue of Reflections, which asks whether Christianity is losing its religion.

The Lady Chapel, Wells Cathedral, Somerset, April 2025
#photography #photooftheday #heritagephotography #documentingplaces

Trans-Fe elements from Type Ia Supernovae. I. Heavy element nucleosynthesis during the formation of near-Chandrasekhar white dwarfs
Umberto Battino, James Keegans, Megan Allen, Friedrich R\"opke R\"opke, Falk Herwig, Andreas Best, Raphael Hirschi, Luciano Piersanti, Oscar Straniero, Stuart Sim, Claudia Travaglio, Pavel Denissenkov
https://

Trans-Fe elements from Type Ia Supernovae. I. Heavy element nucleosynthesis during the formation of near-Chandrasekhar white dwarfs
Type Ia supernovae (SNIa) are thermonuclear explosions of white dwarfs in binary systems. They are central to galactic chemical evolution and serve as standardizable candles in cosmology, yet their progenitors remain uncertain. In this work, we present a grid of five models detailing the evolution and nucleosynthesis of slowly merging carbon-oxygen white dwarfs approaching the Chandrasekhar mass. These models test a variety of physics input settings, including accretion rates, nuclear reaction …

🇺🇦 Auf #radioeins läuft...
Men I Trust:
🎵 All My Candles
#NowPlaying #MenITrust
#radioeins gespielten Titel als #Spotify Playliste: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hdH98B6uyXilhcWxCA6nv

Interior, Wells Cathedral, Somerset, April 2025
#photography #digitalphotography #heritagephotography #documentingplaces

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04333 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

Uncalibrated Cosmic Standards as a Robust Test on Late-Time Cosmological Models
We present a minimally model-dependent framework for testing late-time cosmological models using Uncalibrated Cosmic Standards (UCS), including standard rulers and standard candles, without relying on absolute calibrations. The method exploits a tight, model-insensitive correlation between the sound horizons at recombination and the drag epoch. By avoiding dependence on pre-recombination physics and the amplitude of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) power spectra, the UCS framework reduces …

Model selection using the HII galaxy Hubble diagram
Jun-Jie Wei, Fulvio Melia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04819 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Model selection using the HII galaxy Hubble diagram
The proposal to use HII galaxies (HIIGx) and giant extragalactic HII regions (GEHR) as standard candles to construct the Hubble diagram at redshifts beyond the current reach of Type Ia supernovae has gained considerable support recently with the addition of five new HIIGx discovered by JWST. The updated sample of 231 sources now extends the redshift range of these objects to $z\sim 7.5$, mapping the Universe's expansion over $95\%$ of its current age. In this {\it Letter} we use these sources f…

Characterising the Standardisation Properties of Type Ia Supernovae in the z band with Hierarchical Bayesian Modelling
Erin E. Hayes, Suhail Dhawan, Kaisey S. Mandel, David O. Jones, Ryan J. Foley, Stephen Thorp, Matthew Grayling, Sam M. Ward, Aaron Do, Danial Langeroodi, Nicholas Earl, Kaylee M. de Soto, Gautham Narayan, Katie Auchettl, Thomas de Boer, Kenneth C. Chambers, David A. Coulter, Christa Gall, Hua Gao, Luca Izzo, Chien-Cheng Lin, Eugene A. Magnier, Armin Rest, Qinan Wang

Characterising the Standardisation Properties of Type Ia Supernovae in the z band with Hierarchical Bayesian Modelling
Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are standardisable candles: their peak magnitudes can be corrected for correlations between light curve properties and their luminosities to precisely estimate distances. Understanding SN Ia standardisation across wavelength improves methods for correcting SN Ia magnitudes. Using 150 SNe Ia from the Foundation Supernova Survey and Young Supernova Experiment, we present the first study focusing on SN Ia standardisation properties in the z band. Straddling the optical …

Uncalibrated Cosmic Standards as a Robust Test on Late-Time Cosmological Models
Yihao Wang, Weikang Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04333 https://

Uncalibrated Cosmic Standards as a Robust Test on Late-Time Cosmological Models
We present a minimally model-dependent framework for testing late-time cosmological models using Uncalibrated Cosmic Standards (UCS), including standard rulers and standard candles, without relying on absolute calibrations. The method exploits a tight, model-insensitive correlation between the sound horizons at recombination and the drag epoch. By avoiding dependence on pre-recombination physics and the amplitude of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) power spectra, the UCS framework reduces …