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John Grant:
🎵 Pale Green Ghosts
#NowPlaying #JohnGrant
https://johngrantmusic.bandcamp.com/album/pale-green-ghosts
https://open.spotify.com/track/3shc9OgNJggFfyS0TdHheA

Today, 4 August 2025, is the 300th birthday of John Newton, author, Anglican, anti-slavery campaigner, writer of many poems and hymns including #AmazingGrace #JohnNewton #Olney

How Green Was My Valley is a 1941 American drama film directed by John Ford, adapted by Philip Dunne from the 1939 novel of the same title by Richard Llewellyn. It stars Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee, Donald Crisp, and a young Roddy McDowall.
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Compressed Ultrafast Photography of Plasmas Formed from Laser Breakdown of Dense Gases Reveals that Internal Processes Dominate Evolution at Early Times
Peng Wang, Yogeshwar Nath Mishra, Seth Pree, Lihong V. Wang, Dag Hanstorp, John P. Koulakis, Daniels Krimans, Seth Putterman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04608

Compressed Ultrafast Photography of Plasmas Formed from Laser Breakdown of Dense Gases Reveals that Internal Processes Dominate Evolution at Early Times
Compressed ultrafast photography (CUP) is applied to laser breakdown in argon and xenon under pressures up to 40atm to obtain 2D images of the plasma dynamics of single events with a spatial resolution of 250x100 pixels and an equivalent frame rate of 500 GHz. Light emission as a function of position and time is measured through red, green, blue, and broad-band filters. The spatially encoded and temporally sheared image normally used in CUP is now enhanced by the introduction of a constraint gi…

The Predicament by William Boyd was a fun read, perhaps not all that I was expecting. Here is my #review:
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/3c643486-ac02-4467-b0c5-72…

Review by andrewspink - The Predicament
I am a huge fan of John le Carré, and so the problem with reading a book like this is that com...

Moisture-driven CO2 direct air capture and delivery for cultivating cyanobacteria
Justin Flory, Shuqin Li, Samantha Taylor, Sunil Tiwari, Garrett Cole, Marlene Velazco Medel, Amory Lowe, Jordan Monroe, Sara Sarbaz, Nick Lowery, Joel Eliston, Heidi P. Feigenbaum, Heather Emady, Jason C. Quinn, Matthew Green, John McGowen, Klaus Lackner, Wim Vermaas
https://

Moisture-driven CO2 direct air capture and delivery for cultivating cyanobacteria
A moisture-driven air capture system was developed and demonstrated for cultivating cyanobacteria and microalgae at the flask (50 mL), bench (12 L) and small pilot (840 L) scale. Purolite A501 anion exchange resin beads were found to be biocompatible and rapidly deliver air-captured CO2 when immersed directly in an alkaline cultivation medium containing cyanobacteria or microalgae. Flask-scale cultivation trials showed A501 could sustain rapid growth (190 mg/L/d) of the cyanobacterium Synechocy…

"Everything is Tuberculosis" by John Green is a 2025 non-fiction book everyone should read.
Tuberculosis kills more people each year, once again, than any other disease. Now that
John was a chaplain at a children's hospital before he became famous, after he and his brother Hank Green invented vlogging. This is his second non-fiction book. Everything he writes is GREAT.
#BookRecommendations

Using Faded Changing-Look Quasars to Unveil the Spectral Energy Distribution Evolution of Low-Luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei
Olivier Gilbert, John J. Ruan, Laura Duffy, Michael Eracleous, Scott F. Anderson, Paul J. Green, Daryl Haggard, Richard M. Plotkin, Jessie C. Runnoe, Malgorzata Sobolewska
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01933

Using Faded Changing-Look Quasars to Unveil the Spectral Energy Distribution Evolution of Low-Luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei
The structure of accretion flows in low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (AGN) at low Eddington ratios (~10^-2 to 10^-3) are poorly-understood, and can be probed using the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of faded changing-look (CL) quasars. Previous results using single-epoch X-ray and rest-frame UV observations of samples of faded CL quasars suggest that their SED properties at low Eddington ratios display similarities to X-ray binaries fading from outburst. However, more robust tests de…

Latest release of Cabinet Office and Prime Ministers’ papers https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/cabinet-office-records-released/

Latest release of Cabinet Office and Prime Ministers' papers - The National Archives
We have digitised 200 files which have been released by the Cabinet Office. This release includes previously retained files from the Prime Minister’s Office covering Tony Blair’s administration. It also includes records from the administrations of Margaret Thatcher and John Major. The files will be available to search in due course via our online catalogue […]

Did the Raiders Make the Right Decision? https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/news/josh-jacobs-green-bay-packers-ashton-jeanty-matt-lafleur-jordan-love-john-spytek

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens
John Grant:
🎵 Pale Green Ghosts
#JohnGrant
https://johngrantmusic.bandcamp.com/album/pale-green-ghosts
https://open.spotify.com/track/3shc9OgNJggFfyS0TdHheA

Lyft co-founders Logan Green and John Zimmer step down as board chair and vice chair, convert their Class B stock to Class A, completing the succession plan (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/bu…

Peter Catapodi "A fortunate life?"
https://open.substack.com/pub/anneyoungau/p/a-fortunate-life

A fortunate life?
Here’s some more about Catapodi the forger, who I mentioned in my recent posts about John Roberts, alias Colin Reculist, forger and Sarah Best transported for stealing a cotton counterpane value 5 shillings. ‘Colourful character’ doesn’t begin to describe him.

A nice day for a bit of outdoor reading. About to dig into John Fowles’ The Collector while Robocrop mows the grass.

Design and demonstration of a direct air capture system with moisture-driven CO2 delivery into aqueous medium
Justin Flory, Samantha Taylor, Shuqin Li, Sunil Tiwari, Garrett Cole, Amory Lowe, Lindsey Hamblin, Samuel Piorkowski, Matthew Ryan, Thiago Stangherlin Barbosa, Jason Kmon, Nick Lowery, Joel Eliston, Jason C. Quinn, John McGowen, Matthew D. Green, Klaus Lackner, Wim Vermaas

Design and demonstration of a direct air capture system with moisture-driven CO2 delivery into aqueous medium
A moisture-driven air capture (DAC) system was designed and demonstrated. A laboratory-scale system delivering ~1 g CO2 per day was demonstrated in a laminar flow hood and a small pilot-scale system that could deliver ~100 g CO2 daily was operated outdoors in a 4.2 m2 (areal surface area) raceway pond. Elongated mesh tube packets were designed to contain AER beads with high surface area for contacting the air and were found to reduce drying and CO2 loading time ~4-fold over larger mesh bags. Wh…

3D models help visually impaired students dive into history https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/3d-models-help-visually-impaired-students-dive-into-history/

3D models help visually impaired students dive into history - The National Archives
A new workshop created using cutting edge optacartography – a technique for transforming flat documents into 3D models – is launched today by The National Archives for students who are blind and visually impaired.It includes three-dimensional versions of historic documents from our collection, including a medieval map and a wage slip for Tudor courtier John Blanke. They are designed to be touched, with raised surfaces that can reproduce features such as churches, houses and moorland on a ma…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
James Oswald, Ingrid Seifert, Richard Gwilt, Charles Medlam & John Toll:
🎵 Variations on 'Polwart on the Green' (A Sonata of Scots Tunes)
#JamesOswald #IngridSeifert #RichardGwilt #CharlesMedlam #JohnToll