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Library is Rescuing Historical Treasures Trapped on Old Floppy Disks from the ‘Digital Dark Ages’ https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/library-is-rescuing-historical-treasures-trapped-on-old-floppy-disks-from-the-digital-d…

Library is Rescuing Historical Treasures Trapped on Old Floppy Disks from the ‘Digital Dark Ages’
Iron oxide on the surface of the plastic may corrode material away, or it may lose its magnetism, preventing it from begin read at all.

Kennt ihr eigentlich den Pocast des Archivradios? Das sind originale Tondokumente aus unterschiedlichen Epochen der deutschen Geschichte. Die letzten paar veröffentlichten Episoden ist Material aus den Nürnberger Prozessen. Ihr wisst schon: Weltkrieg, Nazis, Kriegsverbrechen. Unbedingte Subscribe- und Hörempfehlung! Rundfunkbeitrag bei der Arbeit. #podcast

Archivradio – Geschichte im Original
Historische Aufnahmen und Radioberichte von den ersten Tonaufzeichnungen bis (fast) heute. Das Archivradio der ARD macht Geschichte hör- und die Stimmung vergangener Jahrzehnte fühlbar. Präsentiert von: Gábor Paál, Lukas Meyer-Blankenburg, Maximilian Schönherr und Christoph König. Ein Podcast von SWR, BR, HR, MDR und WDR. https://archivradio.de | Übersicht über alle Beiträge: http://x.swr.de/s/archivradiokatalog

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

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

Spontaneous Twirls and Structural Frustration in Moir\'e Materials
Jingtian Shi, Gaurav Chaudhary, Allan H. MacDonald, Ivar Martin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10907 https://

Spontaneous Twirls and Structural Frustration in Moiré Materials
Structural twirls form spontaneously in the domain wall networks of some moiré materials. We show that in heterobilayers, neighboring twirl chiralities tend to anti-align, forming staggered patterns that are well described by antiferromagnetic lattice $ϕ^4$ theories. In moiré systems with triangular domains, this leads to frustration in the chirality configuration of the structural twirls and to hysteresis with respect to variation of the average twist angle and possibly other control parame…

#Censorship of national park.service information is starting to kick in. See https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/climate/trump-park-service-slavery…

ICDAR 2025 Competition on FEw-Shot Text line segmentation of ancient handwritten documents (FEST)
Silvia Zottin, Axel De Nardin, Giuseppe Branca, Claudio Piciarelli, Gian Luca Foresti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12965

ICDAR 2025 Competition on FEw-Shot Text line segmentation of ancient handwritten documents (FEST)
Text line segmentation is a critical step in handwritten document image analysis. Segmenting text lines in historical handwritten documents, however, presents unique challenges due to irregular handwriting, faded ink, and complex layouts with overlapping lines and non-linear text flow. Furthermore, the scarcity of large annotated datasets renders fully supervised learning approaches impractical for such materials. To address these challenges, we introduce the Few-Shot Text Line Segmentation of …

SDSS-V Local Volume Mapper (LVM): Revealing the Structure of the Rosette Nebula
M\'onica A. Villa-Durango, Jorge Barrera-Ballesteros, Carlos G. Rom\'an-Z\'u\~niga, Emma R. Moran, Jason E. Ybarra, J. Eduardo M\'endez-Delgado, Niv Drory, Kathryn Kreckel, Hector Ibarra-Medel, S. F. S\'anchez, Evelyn J. Johnston, A. Roman-Lopes, Jes\'us Hernandez, Jos\'e G. Fern\'andez-Trincado, Amelia M. Stutz, William J. Henney, A. Ghosh, Sumit K. Sarbadhicary, A. Z. Lugo-…

SDSS-V Local Volume Mapper (LVM): Revealing the Structure of the Rosette Nebula
The Rosette Nebula is a well-known H II region shaped by the interaction of gas with the OB stars of the NGC 2244 stellar association. Located within the remnant of a giant molecular cloud, it exhibits a complex structure of ionized gas, molecular material, dust, and embedded clusters. In October 2023, the region was observed as part of the SDSS-V Local Volume Mapper (LVM) integral field spectroscopy survey. Covering a radius of approximately 1 degree, the dataset comprises 33,326 spectra with …

I’ve seen posts about how Democratic politicians have to be “punished” and then they’ll shape up — even one horrifying post basically arguing that we need a couple more years for fascism to fully materialize in order to reform our political system.
My dude…this “people will wake up when it’s bad enough” trope doesn’t work. It’s never worked. It’s been failing spectacularly my whole life — and if one Trump term didn’t do it…what will? And how many people’s lives will be destroyed along the way?
That thinking will kill us all.
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The Rapid Arrival of Josiah Willard Gibbs's Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics in European University Libraries
Hector Giacomini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10732

The Rapid Arrival of Josiah Willard Gibbs's Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics in European University Libraries
This note offers an overview of how Josiah Willard Gibbs's Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics, published simultaneously in London and New York in 1902, spread through European university libraries. Contrary to the received idea that the circulation of this text was slow, information gathered through direct contacts with numerous academic libraries, together with an examination of Yale University's archives, reveals an unexpectedly rapid material diffusion beginning on 15 March 1902.…

Robust reset control design for piezo-actuated nano-positioner in presence of hysteresis nonlinearity
Ashkan Sebghati, S. Hassan HosseinNia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09445 http…

Robust reset control design for piezo-actuated nano-positioner in presence of hysteresis nonlinearity
In this paper, a robust nonlinear control scheme is designed for the motion control of a class of piezo-actuated nano-positioning systems using frequency-domain analysis. The hysteresis, the nonlinearity in the piezoelectric material, degrades the precision in tracking references with high frequency contents and different travel ranges. The hysteresis compensation by the inverse model, as the state-of-the-art solution, is not reliable alone. Therefore, a control framework with robustness agains…