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"Economic instability has many causes. Of late, the UK has endured banking crises, energy shocks, Brexit, supply chain disruption and pandemics. None of these arose because government borrowing was too high." — @…
I had some hopes. John Healey has shattered them

I had some hopes. John Healey has shattered them
John Healey’s appointment as Chancellor surprised many people, me included. The biggest reason for surprise was that he has no record as an economic thinker. As I noted on Monday evening, he might have spent time in the Treasury under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, but since then he has shown...

My colleague John "Spike" Hughes just retired. To celebrate, the visual computing group did a "reverse lecture": others each presented a favorite result of his, and he commented. Lots of fun, and a very accessible look at some great graphics/HCI results.
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British Prime Minister tenures (normalized)
Kier Starmer: 1 Starmer
Rishi Sunak: 0.87 St
Liz Truss: 0.07 St
Boris Johnson: 1.53 St
Theresa May: 1.53 St
David Cameron: 3.07 St
Gordon Brown: 1.40 St
Tony Blair: 5.07 St
John Major: 3.20 St

Justice Jackson slams Supreme Court's handling of rush appeal in Louisiana redistricting case (John Fritze/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/18/politics/ketanji-brown-jackson-supreme-court-louisiana-redistricting-case
http://www.memeorandum.com/260519/p55#a260519p55

"John Ashby, ... raped a Sikh woman in her own home in the Midlands on the misapprehension that his victim was Muslim."
No mobs trying to evict white residents in Wandsworth.
As in other cases of assault and murder.
Only if a perpetrator is black or brown do the far right (Farage, Lennon, Musk) incite the mob.
The far right turns crime into culture war | Morning Star

Had a PhD student visiting today, the brilliant Sam Frohlich. Walked her around campus and took her to the wonderful John Carter Brown Library to see the 1776 exhibit, labeled "Foundations of Revolution". Then realized she's from the UK…so quietly led her right back out. (-:

Dual-Platform Precision Measurement of the $3^2D_{5/2}$ to $4^2S_{1/2}$ $g$-Factor Ratio in $^{40}\text{Ca}^ $
Brian J. McMahon, Vikram S. Sandhu, John M. Gray, Creston D. Herold, Kenton R. Brown, Brian C. Sawyer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.07929

The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). II. A Catalog of Galaxies in the Virgo Cluster
Laura Ferrarese, Patrick Cote, Lauren A. MacArthur, Joel C. Roediger, John P. Blakeslee, Michele Cantiello, Jean-Charles Cuillandre, Puragra Guhathakurta, Stephen Gwyn, Max M. Kurzner, Eric W. Peng, Matthew Santos, Eleanore B. Todd, Elisa Toloba, Pierre-Alain Duc, Patrick R. Durrell, Nicholas Fantin, Yuting Feng, Ariane Lancon, Sungsoon Lim, Chengze Liu, Deborah Lokhorst, Alessia Longobardi, Simona Mei, J. Christopher Mihos, Sanjaya Paudel, Thomas H. Puzia, Anand Raichoor, Ruben Sanchez-Janssen, Kaixiang Wang, Hongxin Zhang, Alessandro Boselli, Michael L. Balogh, Samuel Boissier, Eric Emsellem, J. J. Kavelaars, Alan W. McConnachie, Cameron R. Morgan, Chelsea Spengler, James E. Taylor, Matthew A. Taylor, Toby Brown, Sebastien Fabbro, Raphael Gavazzi, Hendrik Hildebrandt, Rashi Jain, Andres Jordan, Rory Smith, Solveig Thompson, Haruka Yoshino, Wim van Driel, Ludovic van Waerbeke, Tyrone E. Woods, Jade Yeung
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.18414 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.18414 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.18414
arXiv:2607.18414v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS) is a deep, high resolution imaging campaign that used the 1 deg$^2$ MegaCam instrument on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope to carry out a comprehensive optical survey of the Virgo cluster, from its core to its virial radius. The NGVS covers a contiguous area of 104 deg$^2$ (8.63 Mpc$^2$ at the 16.5 Mpc distance of Virgo) in the $u^*$-,$g$-,$i$-, and $z$-band, with additional limited coverage in $r$. In this paper, we present the final catalog of Virgo galaxies across the entire NGVS area. The catalog includes 3680 galaxies considered to be $bona~fide$ members of the cluster, spanning a factor of 2.5 million in luminosity, from $g = 8.42$ mag to $g = 24.41$ mag ($M_g = -22.67$ mag to $M_g = -6.68$ mag). With 2100 previously uncataloged galaxies, the NGVS catalog augments the number of known Virgo members by a factor 2.3. The catalog is complete down to $g = 18.6$ mag ($M_g=-12.5$ mag, corresponding to a stellar mass $M_* \sim 1.6\times10^7~M_{\odot}$ for an old stellar population) and 50% complete at $g = 22.0$ mag ($M_g=-9.1$ mag, $M_* \sim 6.2\times10^5~M_{\odot}$), three magnitudes deeper than the venerable Virgo Cluster Catalog (VCC), which for over 40 years has served as the reference standard for Virgo. Photometric and structural parameters are derived for all NGVS galaxies and presented in a series of tables, alongside nuclear and morphological classification, as well as stellar masses and, when available, radial velocities.
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