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"Secretary of Measlesland":
Dr. Paul Offit Slams RFK Jr.'s Handling of Deadly Measles Outbreak
2026 is already the deadliest year for measles in the United States since the virus was declared eliminated in 2000.
Four people died over the last month in Pennsylvania amid an ongoing outbreak in the state,
which had not seen a measles-related death in at least 35 years.
All four victims, including two infants, were unvaccinated (children do not receiv…

“Secretary of Measlesland”: Dr. Paul Offit Slams RFK Jr.’s Handling of Deadly Measles Outbreak
2026 is already the deadliest year for measles in the United States since the virus was declared eliminated in 2000. Four people died over the last month in Pennsylvania amid an ongoing outbreak in the state, which had not seen a measles-related death in at least 35 years. All four victims, including two infants, were unvaccinated (children do not receive their first dose of the measles vaccine until they have reached a year old). The deaths come as President Trump and Health and Human Services…

Oh - and it's #mountainmonday !
This is from a summit that I did mid may. I was about to leave the summit when I turned around and saw those flowers - and I thought they could make a good photo.
Well what you can't see there is that the majority of the summit is just rocks and just some little patches of earth and grass - but this bit of earth was enough for those lit…

Kenyan entomologist Dino Martins believes humanity's long war on parasites may be doing more harm than good.
In his new book, he argues that stripping the body of these organisms entirely could weaken, rather than protect, human immunity,
challenging decades of public health messaging built around eliminating parasites at all costs.
Martins has built his career studying the creatures most people overlook or actively avoid.
He grew up in biodiversity-rich western K…

Wiping Out Parasites Entirely Could Harm Human Immunity, Warns Scientist Fighting Our 'Clean Living' Obsession
Dino Martins' new book argues that parasites may strengthen human immunity, challenging traditional public health views. He highlights the ecological role of parasites and their potential benefits.

A High-Order Flux Reconstruction Actuator-Line Framework for Rotating-Blade Aerodynamics on Fixed Cartesian Grids
Abdullah Al Imran, Meilin Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20347 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.20347 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.20347
arXiv:2607.20347v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This work couples a high-order flux reconstruction/correction procedure via reconstruction (FR/CPR) solver with a rotating actuator-line model (ALM) to simulate rotating-blade aerodynamics on fixed Cartesian grids. Blade loading is represented by volumetric body force source terms projected through an isotropic Gaussian kernel in a blade-attached frame, eliminating the need to resolve blade geometry. Vertical-axis wind turbines (VAWTs) serve as the demonstration configuration, with a modified Boeing-Vertol dynamic stall model incorporated to capture unsteady lift and drag. A mesh-resolution criterion for the Gaussian projection kernel on reasonably coarse meshes is derived. It shows that cost-effective coarse meshes can operate in a mesh-controlled regime with negligible induction feedback, motivating a Double Multiple Streamtube (DMST) correction to recover the physical inflow. Simulations are carried out over a range of tip-speed ratios at a chord-based Reynolds number of Re_c ~ 3.6 x 10^5. The framework is validated against experimental near-wake measurements and previously reported LES-ALM results, and the mean wake profile shows good agreement. The predicted power-coefficient curve matches high-fidelity three-dimensional LES-ALM data to within 6% around the optimal VAWT operation conditions. The framework also captures the regime-dependent influence of dynamic stall, azimuthal blade loading, lift hysteresis, and characteristic wake structures. These results demonstrate that the FR/CPR-ALM framework provides an accurate and computationally efficient geometry-free approach for VAWT analysis, making it well suited for parametric studies and large-scale wind energy applications.
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Okay so "Blood of Dawnwalker" seems pretty much up my alley. BUT before buying it I need to know if there are "aiming" elements, and if so, does it support gyro aiming? The list of accessibility options on the game's page (PS5) says that it is "playable without motion controls", which is the exact opposite of what I want to know.
I mean if that's how it's phrased they can just not bother implementing it and check the box. Useless list.
An…

Donald Trump's ability to avoid accountability for the many previously inconceivable actions he's taken as president often seemed premised on two essential elements:
First, his every scandal was in the open for the world to see;
if the coverup is always worse than the crime, don't bother covering anything up,
which fed the second premise:
Create so many scandals such that the public couldn't keep up with any one egregious abuse of the system.
Ne…

A Trump scandal finally has the teeth to put him in real danger
Donald Trump's ability to avoid accountability for the many previously inconceivable actions he's taken as president often seemed premised on two essential elements: First, his every scandal was in the open for the world to see; if the coverup is always worse than the crime, don't bother covering an...

Automatic Field-of-View Adjustment for a View-Expansive Microscope via LSTM-Based Gaze and Pipette Motion Interpretation
Kenta Yokoe, Takuya Hara, Tadayoshi Aoyama
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10401 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.10401 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.10401
arXiv:2608.10401v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) operators frequently adjust the field-of-view (FOV) during procedures, which interrupts workflow and increases procedure time. Conventional microscopes require manual objective lens switching and illumination adjustments to achieve different FOV sizes. We propose an AI-based automatic FOV adjustment method integrated with a view-expansive microscope. This microscope enables the simultaneous acquisition of a large FOV and high-resolution images using a single objective lens through multiview imaging with galvanometer mirrors and high-speed vision, thereby eliminating the need for physical lens exchanges. Our method utilizes a long short-term memory (LSTM) model to predict the appropriate FOV size based on real-time analysis of the pipette's position and velocity, combined with the operator's gaze position. The AI model is trained using ICSI procedure data from an expert with over five years of micromanipulation experience. Experimental evaluation with novice operators reveals that the proposed automatic FOV adjustment system significantly improves the ICSI procedure speed, reducing the average task completion time from 60.5 to 48.0 s (p < 0.001). The experiments also demonstrate that this improvement enables novice operators to achieve ICSI working speeds equivalent to those of expert operators.
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✅ Weekly errands done (our trailer was quite packed this time)
✅ Physical exercise after an office day
✅ Avoided afterwork traffic jams
✅ Fresh air
✅ Saved fuel / car cost
✅ Got some Interested looks from ppl around 😀
If you wonder if buying such a trailer pays off. I would say: absolutely!
Especially the exercise is priceless!
#cycling

The artwork "Blue" was completed in 2019, the same year the Kennedy Center opened its $250 million addition known as the Reach.
Plans to remove the sculpture were met with anger from local activists protesting Trump’s politicization of the Kennedy Center,
which have included installing his name over President Kennedy’s on the building’s facade.
A federal judge ordered Mr. Trump’s name removedthis year, and the president has been fighting ever since to restore it.…

Kennedy Center Removes ‘Blue’ Sculpture That Was an Artist’s Gift
The towering artwork, added to the campus in 2019, was targeted for elimination after President Trump’s takeover of the center.

As Ortega vows to abolish elections, Nicaraguans living ‘in a state of terror’ and hope for U.S. pressure
President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua is the longest-serving leader in the Americas,
having abolished term limits shortly after taking office nearly two decades ago.
The former guerrilla fighter has violently crushed protests and closed churches, universities, nonprofits and newsrooms.
Ahead of the most recent presidential vote, in 2021, he eliminated the compet…

As Ortega bans elections, some Nicaraguans hope for U.S. intervention
Secretary of State Marco Rubio strongly condemned Ortega's election decree, but there is little evidence the White House is ready to intervene in Nicaragua.