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Next week I'll be giving one of the "Imagined futures: Tales from tomorrow"-talk at #pint24! 🍺
https://pintofscience.co.uk/event/imagined-futures

Randomly thinking of the time when chicha said, 'Hippo-cracy ki bhi seema hoti hai' and I imagined the rule of hippos and its aquatic borders.

No clear evidence of a difference between individuals who self-report an absence of auditory imagery and typical imagers on auditory imagery tasks https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0300219

No clear evidence of a difference between individuals who self-report an absence of auditory imagery and typical imagers on auditory imagery tasks
Aphantasia is characterised by the inability to create mental images in one’s mind. Studies investigating impairments in imagery typically focus on the visual domain. However, it is possible to generate many different forms of imagery including imagined auditory, kinesthetic, tactile, motor, taste and other experiences. Recent studies show that individuals with aphantasia report a lack of imagery in modalities, other than vision, including audition. However, to date, no research has examined …

"A 20-year ‘mega-drought’ in Australia? Research suggests it’s happened before – and we should expect it again"
#Australia #Drought

A 20-year ‘mega-drought’ in Australia? Research suggests it’s happened before – and we should expect it again
Natural variability in Australian rainfall can produce “mega-droughts” lasting 20 years or more. Add in human-caused climate change, and future droughts may be far worse than imagined.

Republicans' imagined god has horns and is surrounded by fire.
:mastodon:

It's Even Worse Than We Imagined (Jay Kuo/The Status Kuo)
https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/its-even-worse-than-we-imagined
http://www.memeorandum.com/240221/p88#a240221p88

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.14380 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_grqc_…

The Possibility of Tachyons as Soliton Solutions in 3+1 Dimensions via k-field Models
Tachyons or hypothetical faster-than-light (FTL) particles would fail the principle of causality. Such particles may only be imagined when they have no energy and momentum and, thus, no observable interaction. In this paper, we show that the classical relativistic field theory with non-standard Lagrangian densities (k-field models) does not rule out the existence of FTL particle-like solutions (solitons) with zero energy and momentum in 3+1 dimensions. However, contrary to our expectation, we s…

I never imagined life would consist of so many 6 digit codes.

Das Set von Mars Kumari gestern war auch sehr fein, übrigens. #sound
[Überhaupt: Vier Sets um wohlfeile 25 US$, und es gab recht anregende Mezcalito-Cocktails an der Bar.]
https://marskumari.bandcamp.com/

mars kumari
When Jacques Derrida defined the lingering Marxism of late-Capitalist society as hauntological, mashing together the words haunting and ontology, he couldn’t have imagined what the era might sound like. Mars Kumari captures the grief and grit of loss we all feel now, haunted as we are by what was here and is now missing." -Roy Christopher Deadverse Bruiser Brigade

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.14380 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_grqc_…

The Possibility of Tachyons as Soliton Solutions in 3+1 Dimensions via k-field Models
Tachyons or hypothetical faster-than-light (FTL) particles would fail the principle of causality. Such particles may only be imagined when they have no energy and momentum and, thus, no observable interaction. In this paper, we show that the classical relativistic field theory with non-standard Lagrangian densities (k-field models) does not rule out the existence of FTL particle-like solutions (solitons) with zero energy and momentum in 3+1 dimensions. However, contrary to our expectation, we s…