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🐧 Dagger beaks and strong wings: New fossils rewrite the penguin story and affirm NZ as a cradle of their evolution
https://phys.org/news/2025-08-dagger-beaks-strong-wings-fossils.html

Dagger beaks and strong wings: New fossils rewrite the penguin story and affirm NZ as a cradle of their evolution
Remarkable new fossil discoveries in New Zealand are driving a significant reassessment of our understanding of the early evolution of penguins.

"We appreciate your continued understanding and partnership as we navigate the impacts of our new budgetary reality."
We'd rather tie ourselves in knots than acknowledge that someone - one or more living, breathing humans, not some faceless natural force - decided to cut the funds. Like, did we fall through a portal and find ourselves in a new budgetary reality???

Die neue Bundeswirtschaftsministerin Katherina Reiche (CDU) zeigt deutlich: #Klimaschutz bleibt auf der Strecke, wenn fossile Interessen dominieren. Statt Stromsteuer zu senken und Wärmepumpen zu fördern, wird fossiles Gas subventioniert – ein Rückschritt für Energiewende und Klimaziele. Schon der Wortbruch bei CDU/CSU lässt Zweifel an Verlässlichkeit wachsen.
Katherina Reiche: Die Fos…

Pourquoi les parkings de supermarchés se couvrent de laveries automatiques dans les zones rurales et périurbaines
https://www.lemonde.fr/m-perso/article/2…

Pourquoi les parkings de supermarchés se couvrent de laveries automatiques dans les zones rurales et périurbaines
Rapides et faciles d’accès, les kiosques laveries installés sur des parkings de supermarché ont trouvé leur public, répondant à des contraintes de temps, de mobilité ou de place.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
Los Idiotas:
🎵 La Pelea
#LosIdiotas
https://losidiotas.bandcamp.com/track/la-pelea
https://open.spotify.com/track/7F01h7Z2h12UAo4ylyyxSB

Traces of the oxygen isotope composition of ancient air in fossilized cosmic dust: #CosmicDust opens window on ancient atmosphere: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html?id=7871 - research team led by Göttingen University finds clues to early Earth’s air in fossilized micrometeorites.

I’m rambling, and struggling to figure out the heart of what I’m getting at.
It’s something about how maybe we should view the fecklessness of Democratic politicians the OP laments not as the •source• of the problem, but as the inevitable result of failing to form anti-fascist coalition, and to make that coalition into the other major political party in this country.
I feel like there’s something useful in there, something maybe strategically helpful that gives us a sense of agency. And man do I hate grand political cynicisms that rob us of our sense of agency.
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High-Speed Event Vision-Based Tactile Roller Sensor for Large Surface Measurements
Akram Khairi, Hussain Sajwani, Abdallah Mohammad Alkilany, Laith AbuAssi, Mohamad Halwani, Islam Mohamed Zaid, Ahmed Awadalla, Dewald Swart, Abdulla Ayyad, Yahya Zweiri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19914

High-Speed Event Vision-Based Tactile Roller Sensor for Large Surface Measurements
Inspecting large-scale industrial surfaces like aircraft fuselages for quality control requires capturing their precise 3D surface geometry at high resolution. Vision-based tactile sensors (VBTSs) offer high local resolution but require slow 'press-and-lift' measurements stitched for large areas. Approaches with sliding or roller/belt VBTS designs provide measurements continuity. However, they face significant challenges respectively: sliding struggles with friction/wear and both approaches are…