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Pirro announces two 17-year-olds arrested in case of killed intern Eric Tarpinian-Jachym (David Zimmermann/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/3795232/pirro-two-17-year-olds-arrested-killed-intern-eric-tarpinian-jachym/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250905/p78#a250905p78

The oldest Milky Way stars: New constraints on the age of the Universe and the Hubble constant
Elena Tomasetti, Cristina Chiappini, Samir Nepal, Michele Moresco, Carmela Lardo, Andrea Cimatti, Friedrich Anders, Anna B. A. Queiroz, Guilherme Limberg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02692

The oldest Milky Way stars: New constraints on the age of the Universe and the Hubble constant
We exploit the most robust, old, and cosmology-independent age estimates of individual stars from Gaia DR3 to place a lower bound on the age of the Universe, $t_U$. These constraints can serve as an anchor point for any cosmological model, providing an upper limit to the Hubble constant $H_0$. We consider the stellar age catalog of arXiv:2402.00561, selecting 3,000 of the oldest and most robustly measured main sequence turn-off (MSTO) and subgiant branch (SGB) stars, with ages $>12.5$ Gyr and a…

An 11,000-year-old settlement in Canada is challenging the idea that early Indigenous people were nomadic.
The newly uncovered village site of Âsowanânihk, which means "a place to cross" in the Cree language,
is one of the oldest archaeological sites found on the continent
and suggests that an organized society existed in central Canada far earlier than experts previously thought.

11,000-year-old settlement in Canada could rewrite history of Indigenous civilizations in North America
The discovery of an 11,000-year-old village in Saskatchewan could rewrite Indigenous history in central Canada.

Fewer than half of the 8- and 9-year-olds have gone down a grocery-store aisle alone; more than a quarter aren’t allowed to play unsupervised even in their own front yard.
https://www.

One Way Parents Can Fight the Phone-Based Childhood
Children who were raised on screens need more freedom out in the real world.

Researchers tested 200 toddlers — 96 chemicals were lurking in their bodies #UnitedStates

Researchers tested 200 toddlers — 96 chemicals were lurking in their bodies
Researchers testing urine from 2- to 4-year-olds in four U.S. states uncovered 96 different chemicals, many of them unmonitored and linked to hormone and brain disruption. Legacy toxins like triclosan are slowly declining, yet replacements such as DINCH plasticizer and modern pesticides are rising. Toddlers—especially the youngest, later-born, and those from minority groups—often carried higher levels than their own mothers. Scientists urge expanded biomonitoring and stricter regulations be…

📉 Ancient trees are dying faster than expected in Eastern Oregon
#trees

Ancient trees are dying faster than expected in Eastern Oregon
Eastern Oregon's Malheur National Forest boasts some of the state's oldest trees, including pine and larch that live more than 500 years. But many of those ancient trees are dying at an alarming rate, a new analysis shows.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Billy Preston:
🎵 Will It Go Round in Circles
#BillyPreston
https://oldschoolscoundrels.bandcamp.com/track/billy-preston-will-it-go-round-in-circles-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/0iifjjuozo6r5fh2GWI6Pq

The Maximum Likelihood Degree of Toric Models is Monotonic
Carlos Am\'endola, Janike Oldekop, Maximilian Wiesmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02719 http…

The Maximum Likelihood Degree of Toric Models is Monotonic
We settle a conjecture by Coons and Sullivant stating that the maximum likelihood (ML) degree of a facial submodel of a toric model is at most the ML degree of the model itself. We discuss the impact on the ML degree from observing zeros in the data. Moreover, we connect this problem to tropical likelihood degenerations, and show how the results can be applied to discrete graphical and quasi-independence models.

Gemini also asserts my oldest emails are from April 2003 but produces incorrect info when asked for details. Gmail didn't even exist until April 2004 and regular search finds nothing before then. (It does find a lot of Jira spam starting April 8 2004, some things never change.)

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Anita Baker:
🎵 Angel
#AnitaBaker
https://platinummars.bandcamp.com/track/anita-baker-angel-jungle-flip
https://open.spotify.com/track/36o3La4dQ9E6gKb2x8upJS