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@cdarwin@c.im
2025-12-12 19:12:37

14-year old Miles Wu just won $25,000 for a research project based on an origami fold called "Miura-ori", which is known for collapsing and expanding with precision.
"I've been folding origami as a hobby for more than six years, mostly of animals or insects," Wu told Business Insider.
"Recently I've been designing my own origami, too."
"A problem with current deployable structures and emergency structures is, for example,
ten…

14-Year-Old Wins Prize For Origami That Can Hold 10,000 Times Its Own Weight
While most 14-year-olds are folding paper airplanes, Miles Wu is folding origami patterns that he believes could one day improve disaster relief.

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-11-10 16:43:30

MonochromeEvolutionaryBioDigitalMultiCellularSymbiosisStruggle
(Selected stills from my infinitely evolving C-SCAPE project, 2022 - made with #MonochromeMonday

Abstract monochrome still image of a 1.5D multi-organism cellular automata simulation, almost 3D looking structures.
Abstract monochrome still image of a 1.5D multi-organism cellular automata simulation, with some parts showing almost geometric features vs others more organic-looking branching structures.
Abstract monochrome still image of a 1.5D multi-organism cellular automata simulation, showing the parallel evolution and fight between almost geometric features vs more organic-looking branching and noisy structures.
Abstract monochrome still image of a 1.5D multi-organism cellular automata simulation, showing the parallel evolution and fight between almost geometric features vs more organic-looking branching and noisy structures.
@HolgerSteinmann@norden.social
2025-11-13 14:48:22

Heute musste ich die Sonne wirklich suchen. Die Insel hat Warnstufe "Gelb" ausgerufen, wegen Wind und möglichen Gewittern.
Im Südwesten habe ich dann kurz mal Sonne gesehen und es gab einen guten Kaffee an der Flutmauer.

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-01-12 18:33:19

Today I have procrastinated by rearranging books. I have far too many for such a small house.
(Doing this reminded me of a piece by a #Palestinian academic I read recently. He has just started teaching again, but all his books have been lost or destroyed. To be without my books would be very hard for me)

Non work thinking books, a very miscallaneous collection. In front of them are a trans pride flag, my practice sword, and my longbow.
Books which are being evicted from my bedroom, roughly organised into loose piles on my bed.
The fiction bookshelf — an extraordinarily catholic collection, each volume of which I have some reason for keeping (not all of them are good!)
Mostly-work thinking books (there's also a collection of Scots politics books top right, which overflowed from somewhere else)
@usul@piaille.fr
2026-01-13 02:47:13

C'est quoi l'intérêt de cette page ?
Valérie Orsoni — Wikipédia
#wikipedia

@benb@osintua.eu
2026-01-11 18:59:34

Russia’s Oreshnik missile strike near EU border seen as signal to the West, spurring UN Security Council push and EU calls for air defenses and tougher sanctions: benborges.xyz/2026/01/11/russi

Tracking information about the Russian War against Ukraine — Modern art makes me want to rock out
A blog running on Micro.blog

@rasterweb@mastodon.social
2026-01-11 15:40:30

I’m still in a ton of pain but managed to make pizza…

Pizza
Pizza
Pizza
Pizza
@DrPlanktonguy@ecoevo.social
2025-12-13 14:32:59

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
Most cladocerans have a bivalve carapace, but one genus is very different. Leptodora is globally distributed in the north, large (~2 cm), elongated, and effectively transparent, leading it to be coined "ghost flea" by a colleague. It is a primitive genus and is the only cladoceran with a nauplius stage. Highly predaceous with a huge eye, it preys on juv…

image/jpeg a microscopic photograph of an almost completely transparent crustacean with long antennae extending to the sides, making it look like a winged insect. Source: https://cfb.unh.edu/cfbkey/html/Organisms/CCladocera/FLeptodoridae/GLeptodora/Leptodora_kindti/leptodorakindti.html
image/jpeg the head of a Leptodora kindti shows long antennae extending forward and the eye taking up most of the tiny head. A scale bar of 200 microns gives the size of the eyespot, and makes clear how large this organism is. Source: https://cfb.unh.edu/cfbkey/html/Organisms/CCladocera/FLeptodoridae/GLeptodora/Leptodora_kindti/leptodorakindti.html
@cdarwin@c.im
2026-01-11 16:30:48

Why Underachievers Dominate Secret Police Organizations: Evidence from Autocratic Argentina
-- Adam Scharpf & Christian Gläßel
giga-hamburg.de/en/publication

Why Underachievers Dominate Secret Police Organizations: Evidence from Autocratic Argentina

@cdarwin@c.im
2026-01-12 19:49:43

Weeks after the Trump administration lowered minimum wages for some temporary farmworkers,
the Trump Organization sought approval to hire 36 foreign workers for its Virginia winery at a pay rate nearly $2 an hour below what it previously offered
—highlighting the company’s continued reliance on overseas labor even as Donald Trump argues Americans are being pushed out of jobs

Trump Vineyard Seeks Foreign Workers At Lower Wages After Trump Administration Policy Shift
Records show the Trump Organization has requested over 2,000 foreign workers since 2008. Its latest request seeks a $13.90 hourly wage—the lowest the winery has offered since 2021.