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Allan Greer on historians and the recent and impending changes at Library and Archives Canada. @…
LAC's "Vision 2030 expresses eagerness to attract more uninitiated users, but it has little to say about how they will 'connect with their history and culture.' It is as though archival materials were unproblematic and transparent and as though …

In #LosAngeles hat eine Studie gezeigt, dass das Pflanzen von Bäumen und die Erhöhung der #Albedo von Oberflächen die hitzebedingten #Notaufnahmebesuche signifikant reduzieren können. In ve…

Increasing tree cover and high-albedo surfaces reduces heat-related ER visits in Los Angeles, CA - International Journal of Biometeorology
There is an urgent need for strategies to reduce the negative impacts of a warming climate on human health. Cooling urban neighborhoods by planting trees and vegetation and increasing albedo of roofs, pavements, and walls can mitigate urban heat. We used synoptic climatology to examine how different tree cover and albedo scenarios would affect heat-related morbidity in Los Angeles, CA, USA, as measured by emergency room (ER) visits. We classified daily meteorological data for historical summer …

OpenTRV Archive Material and Sources - Archival collection of OpenTRV history, events, links, discussion, and related material. #OpenTRV #heating #cutCarbon -

I’m not sure how effective this from @… would be on legal grounds, but it’s certainly a way to damage Reddit’s asset value (the asset in question being your contributions):
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The Luddite (@theluddite@assemblag.es)
Reddit signed a deal with Google to use its data to train LLMs. To celebrate, we made a firefox extension that lets you replace all your comments with any text of your choosing. All we ask is that you not choose something copyrighted. The New York Times is currently suing OpenAI for training ChatGPT on its copyrighted material, and we wouldn't want Reddit's uniquely valuable data to become hopelessly intermingled with that of litigious copyright-holders. https://theluddite.org/#!post/reddit-ex…

By making a series of cuts and folds in a sheet of paper, Baker found she could produce two planes connected by a complex set of thin strips. Without the need for any adhesive like glue or tape, this pattern created a surface that was thick but lightweight. Baker named her creation Spin-Valence. Structural tests later showed that an individual tile made this way, and rendered in steel, can bear more than a thousand times its own weight.

This architect is cutting up materials to make them stronger and lighter
Emily Baker hopes her designs can make it cheaper and easier to build stuff in disaster zones or outer space.

Electrical Degradation in Dielectric and Piezoelectric Oxides: Review of Defect Chemistry and Associated Characterization Techniques
Pedram Yousefian, Betul Akkopru-Akgun, Clive A. Randall, Susan Trolier-McKinstry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06359

Electrical Degradation in Dielectric and Piezoelectric Oxides: Review of Defect Chemistry and Associated Characterization Techniques
The properties of dielectric and piezoelectric oxides are determined by their processing history, crystal structure, chemical composition, microstructure, dopants (or defect) distribution, and defect kinetics. These materials are essential in a diverse range of applications including aerospace, medical, military, transportation, power engineering, and communication, where they are used as ceramic discs, thick and thin films, multilayer devices, etc. Significant advances in understanding the mat…

And that's it, the last of the History of Africana Philosophy podcasts.
https://historyofphilosophy.net/final-chat-chike
An extraordinary body of work as philosophical history, even just scratching the surface of the material they're covering.
Going…

**In the Clouds? Situating the Digital**
(Lecture Series at IfEE / HU Berlin)
Rather than floating in the clouds, digital technologies are imagined, produced, and materialized in concrete settings. What are the practices and localities, actors, infrastructures, and histories that lie behind notions such as digital progress and disruption?
"In the Clouds?" assembles multiple perspectives that situate “the digital” in genealogies of statistics and cybernetics, in the…

OpenTRV Archive Material and Sources - Archival collection of OpenTRV history, events, links, discussion, and related material. #OpenTRV #heating #cutCarbon -

Electrical Degradation in Dielectric and Piezoelectric Oxides: Review of Defect Chemistry and Associated Characterization Techniques
Pedram Yousefian, Betul Akkopru-Akgun, Clive A. Randall, Susan Trolier-McKinstry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06359

Electrical Degradation in Dielectric and Piezoelectric Oxides: Review of Defect Chemistry and Associated Characterization Techniques
The properties of dielectric and piezoelectric oxides are determined by their processing history, crystal structure, chemical composition, microstructure, dopants (or defect) distribution, and defect kinetics. These materials are essential in a diverse range of applications including aerospace, medical, military, transportation, power engineering, and communication, where they are used as ceramic discs, thick and thin films, multilayer devices, etc. Significant advances in understanding the mat…