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It’s fitting RFK is maliciously conforming to a promise he made to a Republican senator / doctor in order to get his confirmation vote.
https://archive.is/aEILc#selection-589.0-595.236:~:text=The updated,website,-.
Liar’s gonna lie and t…

Extended k-u Fading Model in mmWave Communication: Statistical Properties and Performance Evaluations
Jiahuan Wu, Xinchun Yu, Xiao-Ping Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15681 ht…

Extended k-u Fading Model in mmWave Communication: Statistical Properties and Performance Evaluations
This study proposes a small-scale fading model, named the extended k-u model, which incorporates the imbalance of multipath clusters by adding a new parameter based on the original k-u model. The extended k-u model outperforms the k-u model in characterizing small-scale fading in the millimeter-wave (mmWave) band and has more accurate modeling capability than the extended n-u model in scenarios with line-of-sight (LoS) paths. And it is mathematically more tractable than the a-k-n-u model. Exper…

🦫 California learns from its beaver reintroductions
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/10/california-learns-from-its-beaver-reintroductions/

California learns from its beaver reintroductions
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Tásmam Koyóm, a high Sierra meadow in California, U.S. returned to the Mountain Maidu people in 2019, is once again wet where once it had been dry. Rivulets now snake through hip-high grasses and willow thickets, feeding a […]

Very good take on this topic. I was about to say nuanced, but it's not really. It’s pretty plain, just not a POV you hear all that much.
Also, props to @… for the boost. I absolutely would not have seen this toot without the boost from Allison, and I’m so glad I did.

Characterizing Temperatures of Flares on the M Dwarf Wolf 359 from Simultaneous Multiband Optical Observations
Chia-Lung Lin, Li-Ching Huang, Wei-Jie Hou, Hsiang-Yao Hsiao, Wing-Huen Ip
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21505

Characterizing Temperatures of Flares on the M Dwarf Wolf 359 from Simultaneous Multiband Optical Observations
We present a flare temperature study of the highly active M~dwarf Wolf~359 using simultaneous multiband ($u$, $g$, $r$, $i$, and $z$) photometric observations from the Lulin 1-m and 41-cm telescopes. Twelve flares were detected over five nights, with significant brightness increases in the $u$, $g$, and $r$~bands; only three were seen in $i$, and none in $z$. From broadband SED fitting and $g$/$r$ color ratio, we derive an average flare temperature of $5500 \pm 1600$~K, significantly cooler tha…

On the Quantization of the Electromagnetic Field with Magnetic Monopoles
Kanan Anwar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17284 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.17284

On the Quantization of the Electromagnetic Field with Magnetic Monopoles
We present a covariant framework for the quantization of the electromagnetic field in the presence of magnetic monopoles. Building on the two-potential formalism of Cabibbo and Ferrari, which treats electric and magnetic sources on equal footing and reveals a $U(1) \times U(1)$ gauge symmetry, we extend the theory into the quantum domain. Using the Gupta-Bleuler procedure in the Feynman-'t Hooft gauge, we construct the physical Hilbert space and eliminate negative-norm states. The resulting the…

Good Morning #Canada
While the excitement and disappointment of the #BlueJays season is fading a little, we can still take pride in the fact that we invented the game of baseball. You read that correctly - Canada was the birthplace of North American baseball as we know it today. From Wikipedia:
"... the first official baseball game with a documented score card took place not in the U.S., but in Canada in 1838. While Canada invented the version of baseball we know today, innovations made by New York City clubs became the basis for the modern game, far removed from its English ancestor, but extremely similar to the Canadian version".
It turns out that the earliest, detailed, reputable account of baseball being played in North America came out of a game in Beachville, Ontario on, June 4, 1838. And there are decades of records detailing Ontario teams regularly beating American competitors in league play or matches.
#CanadaIsAwesome ##SportsHistory
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/canadians-in-baseball-the-lost-tribe-feature

"California learns from its beaver reintroductions"
#US #USA #America #California

California learns from its beaver reintroductions
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Tásmam Koyóm, a high Sierra meadow in California, U.S. returned to the Mountain Maidu people in 2019, is once again wet where once it had been dry. Rivulets now snake through hip-high grasses and willow thickets, feeding a […]