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Scotland *as a country* getting excellent coverage due to Trump's unwelcome visit:
(content warning: exceedingly funny)
https://youtu.be/FD7TEBvnkog?feature=shared

A Criterion for Magnetars Producing Giant Flares
Y. Meng, Q. -S. Zhang, J. Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24128 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

A Criterion for Magnetars Producing Giant Flares
In this work, the straight flux rope in the model of giant flares on magnetars (Meng et al. 2014) was replaced with a curved one and the equilibrium behavior of the flux rope was investigated. Two footpoints of the flux rope are anchored to the spherical surface of magnetar. The forces acting on the flux rope include magnetic tension, magnetic pressure, curvature force, gravity. The equilibrium in the flux rope, so as in the global configuration, is achieved as these forces offset each other. C…

If you're reading about Iceland's biometric abuse, it's not the country - it's the British supermarket chain.

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#GoodNews #GuteNachrichten
40 Meter in 5,6 Sekunden: Fiete ist Deutschlands schnellster Dackel.

Fiete und Frieda flitzen zum Titel: Schnellster Dackel Deutschlands kommt aus Schleswig-Holstein
Über 200 Vierbeiner sind bei der ersten Deutschen Meisterschaft im Dackelrennen in Magdeburg angetreten. Fiete und Frieda sprinteten schließlich zum Titel – in einem Finale, das trotz Fotofinish mehrmals wiederholt werden musste.

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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Faith Evans:
🎵 Soon as I Get Home
#FaithEvans
https://austinmillz.bandcamp.com/track/faith-evans-soon-as-i-get-home-austin-millz-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/6SkGfPa77E4giShVbk9N6R

According to google, the 2003 "live coding in laptop performance" journal article has passed 500 citations! That's quite a few books worth of papers that refer to it..
Unfortunately we published it in a closed access journal, but you can download a preprint here:

Observational Analysis of Multi-thermal Counter-streaming Flows in a Forming Filament and Their Relationship with Local Heating at Filament Footpoints
Hongrui Li, Hechao Chen, Chun Xia, Xiaoli Yan, Yongyuan Xiang, Jincheng Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12737

Observational Analysis of Multi-thermal Counter-streaming Flows in a Forming Filament and Their Relationship with Local Heating at Filament Footpoints
Utilizing high-resolution imaging and spectroscopic observations from the New Vacuum Solar Telescope (NVST), the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS), and the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), we investigated the nature and origin of counter-streaming flows within a forming active region filament. The ever-present counter-streaming flows observed within the filament are identified as interleaved unidirectional mass flows in opposing directions occurring in neighboring threads. Multi-wav…

From Photospheric Footpoint Motion to Plasmoid Ejection: A Two-Stage Reconnection Process in a Small-scale Chromospheric Jet
Zehao Tang, Yuandeng Shen, Chengrui Zhou, Surui Yao, Dongxu Liu, Xiaobo Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01896

From Photospheric Footpoint Motion to Plasmoid Ejection: A Two-Stage Reconnection Process in a Small-scale Chromospheric Jet
Using high spatiotemporal resolution, multi-wavelength observations from the New Vacuum Solar Telescope (NVST) and the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), we present a detailed analysis of a small-scale chromospheric jet driven by plasmoid-mediated magnetic reconnection. Our results reveal that the entire process is governed by the dynamic evolution of photospheric magnetic footpoints, which proceeds in two distinct stages. An initial separating motion of the footpoints corresponds to a mild reco…