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Javonte Williams injury update provided after physical Cowboys win https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/javonte-williams-injury-update-provided-physical-dallas-cowboys-win

Can star Miami edge rusher Rueben Bain Jr. overcome physical limitations?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2026-nfl-combine-miami-edge-rusher-rueben-bain-jr-…

Montreal-based Vention raised a $110M Series D to scale its physical AI platform into manufacturing plants worldwide, taking its total raised to ~$216M (Madison McLauchlan/BetaKit)
https://betakit.com/montreal-industrial-ai-scaleup-vention-raises-1…

Montréal industrial AI scaleup Vention raises $110-million USD Series D
Company says it crossed $100-million CAD annual run rate as it looks to expand in Europe.

genetic_multiplex: Multiplex genetic interactions (2014)
Multiplex networks representing different types of genetic interactions, for different organisms. Layers represent (i) physical, (ii) association, (iii) co-localization, (iv) direct, and (v) suppressive, (vi) additive or synthetic genetic interaction. Edge direction (i,j) indicates gene i interacting with gene j.
This network has 7747 nodes and 19843 edges.
Tags: Biological, Gene regulation, Protein interactions, Unwe…

Wanted this deluxe physical version of Resident Evil: Requiem for Switch 2. Been looking for any kind of (legit) preroder anywhere for it for weeks. It comes out tomorrow, and it's never been anywhere available for preorder that I've seen. Everyone snapped it up or they blew it with the preorders? Anyway. I have no idea. To hell with it, I guess 😂 If anyone runs across someone selling one at RETAIL price, lmk. (I'm not paying a dollar over retail.)

Trying to bring up IPC between the CPU1 and CPU2 subsystems on STM32MP2.
Doing shared memory compute between a 32 and 64 bit processor that need to share pointers (the physical address spaces overlap and are zero extended on the 64 bit side) makes things... interesting.

Ahhh. I've 'downgraded' to a (dell) laptop with physical touchpad buttons and dedicated pgup/pgdn keys, and it's sooooo much nicer.
When I finally need to upgrade from this laptop (a latitude 5410 which was originally released in 2020), hopefully lenovo will have continued their trend of going back to non-soldered ram in their t14 laptops.

The six-car ICE convoy came to a stop and instantly dozens of people swarmed it,
cellphones in hand,
while others ran out of nearby houses
—I saw a woman in gym shorts in the 20-degree weather
—and began surrounding the masked and heavily armed agents who had spilled out of their black SUVs.
The fury in the crowd felt almost like a physical force,
as real as the cacophony of whistles and honking cars and angry chants:
“ICE out! Fuck you! Go home!”

The Minneapolis Uprising
In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, something profound is happening.

When people say "Thank god!" I often answer "You're welcome".
(There are situations, to be avoided, in which such an answer might invite a physical confrontation.)
(Although there have been times when I looked like Moses - long beard and hair - and stood on the beach in Santa Monica with a wooden staff trying to command the Catalina channel to part, I hew to the position that if there were to be a god it would be in each individual creature, not in some bu…

It's #meme day! (Memedays are days that end in y).
#KidsintheHall #meme

"Century-old corals reveal the Pacific Northwest is acidifying faster than expected"
#Climate #ClimateChange #CoralReef

Century-old corals reveal the Pacific Northwest is acidifying faster than expected
In 1888, researchers aboard the R/V Albatross began the world’s first concentrated marine research expeditions off California’s Pacific coast. The team collected untold plant and animal specimens, including orange cup corals, which they carefully preserved and stored in collections at the Smithsonian Institution. These specimens have now become rare physical evidence of ongoing changes in […]

Amazon plans to close all 57 Fresh and 15 Go locations in the US, as it pivots its physical retail strategy to focus exclusively on Whole Foods (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/amazon-closing-all-am…

genetic_multiplex: Multiplex genetic interactions (2014)
Multiplex networks representing different types of genetic interactions, for different organisms. Layers represent (i) physical, (ii) association, (iii) co-localization, (iv) direct, and (v) suppressive, (vi) additive or synthetic genetic interaction. Edge direction (i,j) indicates gene i interacting with gene j.
This network has 7747 nodes and 19843 edges.
Tags: Biological, Gene regulation, Protein interactions, Unwe…

"We're just going to run a physical simulation of a human brain to achieve AGI"
"Won't the brain die instantly if it's without a body and oxygen supply etc?"
"Well, we'll just also simulate a body."
"Won't the body die instantly if it's in a vacuum?
"Fine, we'll just simulate an atmosphere too."
"Won't the body die if it's without food and light and gravity and stimulation?"
"Fine, we'll just simulate all the physical processes on the Earth."
"Won't the Earth just freeze instantly without the Sun being there?"
"Fine, we'll just simulate the sun, too."
"Will the solar system work properly if there's only the sun? What about gravitational influences of other mass in the galaxy, what about cosmic rays?"
"Fine, we'll just simulate the whole universe, too."

good christmas so far for this alone, couldnt find a physical copy of this in every single library system ive ever had access to so i tricked my family into getting me shit they'd never if they actually looked into it

My #silentsunday... Do you know that? You're lazy but you also know that you want some physical activity?
The weather wasn't motivating either. But I finally did one of my standard loops. It was indeed silent as there were almost no people out today.
No more than an occasional "hi". Besides that, no talking, nothing but a fox 🦊 in the distance on a field.

These students from Cornell Physical Intelligence told me-as-a-🦊 that this drone works together with a rover on the ground
#photo

this ai shit is so bad that i see more and more physical ada with ai pictures.... i wanna puke....
ive even seen a fucking bus with ai ads 😩

Unclear to me that DPA applies to intangibles like software.
“Goods” strikes me as an awfully PHYSICAL word. @… https://

Andrea (@valkyrie.hacker.gf)
Provisions of the Defense Production Act: (it's nationalization of meaningful control without nationalization of ownership that might concern the 5th amendment) [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Record low sea levels in the Baltic Sea could reshape sea's physical conditions #Baltic

Record low sea levels in the Baltic Sea could reshape sea's physical conditions
Since the beginning of January, an unusually long period of easterly winds has caused the average water level in the Baltic Sea to fall to a historic low. Measurements at the Swedish Landsort-Norra gauge show values that are the lowest since records began in 1886. Researchers at the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW) are currently monitoring this development very closely, as it represents a rare oceanographic situation that could lead to a large inflow of saltwater from…

For some time I thought that it would be nice to have a kinda library software that I can use to keep track of all the books I have, especially in different formats (physical, audio, e-book, library available)
And with a Raspi I wanted to try a self-hosted version
What I found is booklore: https://booklore.org/docs/installation

copenhagen: Copenhagen Networks Study
A network of social interactions among university students within the Copenhagen Networks Study, over a period of four weeks, sampled every 5 minutes. Interactions include physical proximity (undirected), phone calls (directed, weighted), text messages (directed), and information about Facebook friendships (undirected). Nodes include some metadata, including gender.
This network has 568 nodes and 24333 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unwe…

New Cowboys 2026 Mock Draft Lands Physical Leader on Defense https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/new-cowboys-2026-mock-draft-lands-physical-leader-on-defense

Titans cut starting C Cushenberry, safety Woods https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48036390/titans-cut-starting-c-lloyd-cushenberry-safety-xavier-woods

From synthetic turbulence to true solutions: A deep diffusion model for discovering periodic orbits in the Navier-Stokes equations
Jeremy P Parker, Tobias M Schneider
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.23181 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.23181 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.23181
arXiv:2602.23181v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Generative artificial intelligence has shown remarkable success in synthesizing data that mimic complex real-world systems, but its potential role in the discovery of mathematically meaningful structures in physical models remains underexplored. In this work, we demonstrate how a generative diffusion model can be used to uncover previously unknown solutions of a nonlinear partial differential equation: the two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations in a turbulent regime. Trained on data from a direct numerical simulation of turbulence, the model learns to generate time series that resemble physically plausible trajectories. By carefully modifying the temporal structure of the model and enforcing the symmetries of the governing equations, we produce synthetic trajectories that are periodic in time, despite the fact that the training data did not contain periodic trajectories. These synthetic trajectories are then refined into true solutions using an iterative solver, yielding 111 new periodic orbits (POs) with very short periods. Our results reveal a previously unobserved richness in the PO structure of this system and suggest a broader role for generative AI: not as replacements for simulation and existing solvers, but as a complementary tool for navigating the complex solution spaces of nonlinear dynamical systems.
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copenhagen: Copenhagen Networks Study
A network of social interactions among university students within the Copenhagen Networks Study, over a period of four weeks, sampled every 5 minutes. Interactions include physical proximity (undirected), phone calls (directed, weighted), text messages (directed), and information about Facebook friendships (undirected). Nodes include some metadata, including gender.
This network has 568 nodes and 24333 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unwe…

“How many people does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
The answer – in SAPN’s case study – is an electrician, a plumber and software techs, who now all need to work together to ensure the home management system can control the proverbial lights.”
https://

Play it again, Uncle Sam, but now about Trump.
"Republicans in the House of Representatives launched investigations asserting that Biden’s closest advisers covered up a physical and mental decline during his presidency. The Senate started a series of hearings focused on his mental fitness."

‘The invisible man’: Joe Biden has disappeared in almost every way – except in Trump’s daily commentary
The 46th president largely exists as Trump’s foil, with his successor blaming him for the country’s woes

@… thanks!
It didn't bug me personally (virtual hardware). I can't recall where I first saw a discussion, but it would have been users of NVIDIA on physical hardware.
Maybe something should be noted under <

New Cowboys 2026 Mock Draft Lands Physical Leader on Defense https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/new-cowboys-2026-mock-draft-lands-physical-leader-on-defense

I guess we can look forward to physical fitness tests for marriage in the US.
https://bsky.app/profile/jaywillis.net/post/3ma7hbtosu22x
I expect the straight, white, and employed checks will come in other channels.

Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net)
Here's Trump judicial nominee Justin Olson today, admitting than in 2015, he gave a sermon in which he said that “marriage was not intended for all people,” including “our handicapped friends or our persons with physical disabilities that might prevent the robust marriage that we’re called to.”

ZaiNar, a developer of a GPS alternative that uses Wi-Fi and 5G to provide location data, raised $10M at a $1B valuation, bringing its total funding to $100M (Katie Roof/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/st

Startup Developing GPS Alternative for Physical AI Earns $1 Billion-Valuation
Over the last two years, investors and researchers have flocked to startups helping bring AI into the physical world, from developing robot hands to the AI models that train robots to software to train self-driving cars.Now one startup says it can solve a perennial problem for robots and other ...

Officially got my CE license in my pocket (exam was last week, now I have the physical doohickey). \o/

For the last year, the nation has witnessed Trump’s rapid physical and mental decline.
The 79-year-old president has repeatedly lost track of his thoughts, his whereabouts, and even his grasp on the English language.
The New Republic’s breaking news team has put together a list of the president’s most senile moments in his first year in office

Cognitive Decline? These Were Trump’s 11 Most Senile Moments This Year
When Donald Trump wasn’t busy falling asleep in front of the cameras, he spent his first year in office struggling to form coherent thoughts.

If I can't be sure that the recipe website I just found isn't filled with AI production that may or may not work well for human taste buds, ... maybe I will have to go back to referencing physical cook books.
That were printed 2025 or earlier.
#ai #recipe

"In summary, #AGI, as commonly conceived, will not happen because it ignores the physical constraints of computation, the exponential costs of linear progress, and the fundamental limits we are already encountering. Superintelligence is a fantasy because it assumes that intelligence can recursively self-improve without bound, ignoring the physical and economic realities that constrain all systems. …

Polar Bears are in Better Physical Shape than 25 Years Ago, Despite Sea Ice Losses https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/polar-bears-are-in-better-physical-shape-than-25-years-ago-despite-sea-ice-losses/

Polar Bears are in Better Physical Shape than 25 Years Ago, Despite Sea Ice Losses
Polar bears are healthier, with more fat reserves, than they were 25 years ago, despite a decrease in Arctic sea ice around Svalbard islands.

I took a weekend today after pushing myself pretty hard the last 3 and especially yesterday. I now regret that. I slept well, felt fine when I woke up, didn't go do physical labor, and was bored, frustrated, and hungry all day.
People like me don't need breaks, we just need to work until we physically and mentally collapse, then recuperate. High speed, low drag, tailspin, crash, and phoenix.

Acoustic Signatures of Pinch-Off Cavities During Water-Entry
Zirui Liu, Tongtong Ding, Mingyue Kuang, Zimeng Li, Junyi Zhao, A-Man Zhang, Shuai Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.22761 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.22761 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.22761
arXiv:2602.22761v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This study experimentally, numerically, and theoretically investigates the cavity/bubble dynamics and radiated acoustics during the water entry of a centimeter-scale cylindrical projectile with a conical nose. Experiments were conducted in a laboratory tank, employing synchronized high-speed imaging and hydrophone measurements to characterize the cavity closure modes and their resultant acoustic signatures across a range of Froude numbers. The acoustic signal features a weak radiated signal upon impact, followed by significant pressure oscillations spanning more than 20 cycles in the flow field after cavity elongation and pinch-off. A numerical model based on the Finite Volume Method (FVM) successfully captures these physical processes. Subsequently, a semi-theoretical model that incorporates the projectile's boundary effect is developed from potential flow theory. The model not only yields a dominant cavity oscillation frequency that agrees well with experimental data, but also reveals that the boundary effect leads to a cavity oscillation frequency markedly higher than the Minnaert frequency of an equivalent-volume ellipsoidal bubble containing an internal rigid core. The dominant cavity frequency falls nearly linearly with Fr, governed by nose geometry and projectile inertia. This study clarifies the underlying physics connecting cavity dynamics during water entry to underwater acoustic radiation.
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UrbanFM: Scaling Urban Spatio-Temporal Foundation Models
Wei Chen, Yuqian Wu, Junle Chen, Xiaofang Zhou, Yuxuan Liang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20677 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.20677 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.20677
arXiv:2602.20677v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Urban systems, as dynamic complex systems, continuously generate spatio-temporal data streams that encode the fundamental laws of human mobility and city evolution. While AI for Science has witnessed the transformative power of foundation models in disciplines like genomics and meteorology, urban computing remains fragmented due to "scenario-specific" models, which are overfitted to specific regions or tasks, hindering their generalizability. To bridge this gap and advance spatio-temporal foundation models for urban systems, we adopt scaling as the central perspective and systematically investigate two key questions: what to scale and how to scale. Grounded in first-principles analysis, we identify three critical dimensions: heterogeneity, correlation, and dynamics, aligning these principles with the fundamental scientific properties of urban spatio-temporal data. Specifically, to address heterogeneity through data scaling, we construct WorldST. This billion-scale corpus standardizes diverse physical signals, such as traffic flow and speed, from over 100 global cities into a unified data format. To enable computation scaling for modeling correlations, we introduce the MiniST unit, a novel split mechanism that discretizes continuous spatio-temporal fields into learnable computational units to unify representations of grid-based and sensor-based observations. Finally, addressing dynamics via architecture scaling, we propose UrbanFM, a minimalist self-attention architecture designed with limited inductive biases to autonomously learn dynamic spatio-temporal dependencies from massive data. Furthermore, we establish EvalST, the largest-scale urban spatio-temporal benchmark to date. Extensive experiments demonstrate that UrbanFM achieves remarkable zero-shot generalization across unseen cities and tasks, marking a pivotal first step toward large-scale urban spatio-temporal foundation models.
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"Record low sea levels in the Baltic Sea could reshape sea's physical conditions"
#BalticSea #Oceans
https://…

Record low sea levels in the Baltic Sea could reshape sea's physical conditions
Since the beginning of January, an unusually long period of easterly winds has caused the average water level in the Baltic Sea to fall to a historic low. Measurements at the Swedish Landsort-Norra gauge show values that are the lowest since records began in 1886. Researchers at the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW) are currently monitoring this development very closely, as it represents a rare oceanographic situation that could lead to a large inflow of saltwater from…

Ukraine update: Whatever you try to call it, war is war.
Physical aggression translates into bureaucratic administration and politics while the people suffer the effects.
Support Ukraine and journalism by sharing the friend link to bypass the paywall:
https://

A War Denied
Live from Ukraine 🇺🇦

Christian Parker's Blueprint: A Bigger, More Physical 26' Cowboys Defense https://insidethestar.com/christian-parkers-blueprint-a-bigger-more-physical-26-cowboys-defense

"I think when you're just counting on your voice, you actually need double the energy. I find myself acting out the scenes and being very physical while I'm recording because I think you can tell when someone is just sitting on a stool."
—Judy Greer
#acting #coaching …

I’m seeing more uses of the spongecase (alternating intra-word capitalization) lately to mock bad takes.
This is ableist (even if unintentional), being directly based on the character in the animated show mocking people with physical disabilities.
It will hurt people with speech and facial physical disabilities way more to see your post than any of the people that you’re mocking.

Although the power outages in Caracas on January 2 were widely proclaimed in press reports to be the result of a "precision" cyberattack, the truth is that cyber was only a minor component – experts say massive kinetic attacks on three substations were likely the primary cause of sustained blackouts during the operation to capture Venezuelan president Nicolšs Maduro.
Check out my latest CyberScoop piece on how press reports failed to mention this critical component of Opera…

Dear Divorce Diary - With Daz & Jop
When a relationship ends, it can feel like the world is breaking apart — legally, emotionally and practically...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/dear-divorce-diary/

Bloomberg News: «There is still a very real gap in the current value, or stock, of all the investments that the US and China have out in the world. At the end of 2024, the total value of US companies' long-term physical investments overseas was some $6.8 trillion», 5 more than China.
https://archive.is/WR8NN…

As readers of my post will know, I have little interest in sport.
But fwiw, 2 observations on the Winter sports on TV so much now.
1) Curling is incomprehensible and very inelegant.
2) The women's figure skating is an amazing display of artistry, physical prowess, joy and comradeship between competitors.

Lands of the Lost: A Field Guide to Dinosaur Parks Physical, Fictional, and for the Future https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/09/lands-of-the-lost-a-field-guide-to-dinosaur-parks-physical-fictional…

New pre-print out: "Types, equations, dimensions and the Pi theorem".
We formalized the covariance principle (physical laws must be independent of units) as a homomorphism between the algebra of physical quantities and real numbers.
While the Pi Theorem from Dimensional Analysis (DA) is non-constructive, we introduce a constructive method for applying it. This could enable DA-driven program derivation where the type checker helps identify valid physical laws.
📝 Bl…

Spadaro: Vic Fangio previews showdown with physical Chargers offense https://www.philadelphiaeagles.com/news/vic-fangio-previews-showdown-with-physical-chargers-offense

The Weight of the Digital Attic
Sorting through a box of family photos in Nebraska last year, the physical weight of them stopped me. It wasn't just the heavy cardboard. It was the specific gravity of each print. I held a single, fading photograph of folks I did not know, captured on their wedding day. Just one. It wasn't one of twenty-seven burst-mode variations kept "just in case."

The Weight of the Digital Attic | David Boles, Blogs
Sorting through a box of family photos in Nebraska last year, the physical weight of them stopped me. It wasn’t just the heavy cardboard. It was the specific gravity of each print. I held a s…

Large eddy simulation of turbulent swirl-stabilized flames using the front propagation formulation: impact of the resolved flame thickness
Ruochen Guo, Yunde Su, Yuewen Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21940 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.21940 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.21940
arXiv:2602.21940v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This work extends the front propagation formulation (FPF) combustion model to large eddy simulation (LES) of swirl-stabilized turbulent premixed flames and investigates the effects of resolved flame thickness on the predicted flame dynamics. The FPF method is designed to mitigate the spurious propagation of under-resolved flames while preserving the reaction characteristics of filtered flame fronts. In this study, the model is extended to account for non-adiabatic effects and is coupled with an improved sub-filter flame speed estimation that resolves the inconsistency arising from heat-release effects on local sub-filter turbulence. The performance of the extended FPF method is validated by LES of the TECFLAM swirl-stabilized burner, where the results agree well with experimental measurements. The simulations reveal that the stretching of vortical structures in the outer shear layer leads to the formation of trapped flame pockets, which are identified as the physical mechanism responsible for the secondary temperature peaks observed in the experiment. The prediction of this phenomenon is shown to be strongly dependent on the resolved flame thickness, when the filter size is used for modeling sub-filter flame wrinklings. Without proper modeling of the chemical steepening effects, the thickness of the resolved flame brush is over-predicted, causing the flame consumption rate to be under-estimated. Consequently, the flame brush detaches from the outer shear layer, resulting in a failure to capture the flame pockets and the associated secondary temperature peaks.
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These are two REALLY gross flicks. Loved em. Some of the best, nastiest horror I've seen in a while. Sometimes you like something so much you need to buy physical copies. I try to be kinda picky and only keep physical copies of things I like a lot and might actually rewatch.
#horror #bluray

Century-old corals reveal the Pacific Northwest is acidifying faster than expected https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/century-old-corals-reveal-the-pacific-northwest-is-acidifying-faster-than-expected/

Century-old corals reveal the Pacific Northwest is acidifying faster than expected
In 1888, researchers aboard the R/V Albatross began the world’s first concentrated marine research expeditions off California’s Pacific coast. The team collected untold plant and animal specimens, including orange cup corals, which they carefully preserved and stored in collections at the Smithsonian Institution. These specimens have now become rare physical evidence of ongoing changes in […]

📒 We built a museum exhibit about a 1990s game hint line, with a physical binder
#games

We Pitched a Museum a 1993 Game Hint Line (And They Actually Said Yes) | Yarn Spinner
We pitched ACMI a 1993 game hint line simulator with a 300-page physical binder. They said yes.

AI robotics startup Physical Intelligence claims vision-language-action models learn to align human videos and robot data as pre-training is scaled up (Physical Intelligence)
https://www.physicalintelligence.company/research/human_to_robot

Emergence of Human to Robot Transfer in Vision-Language-Action Models
Exploring how transfer from human videos to robotic tasks emerges in robotic foundation models as they scale.

Gifts to the US President are generally considered to be the property of the United States rather than of the president as a person or the president as an office.
So it seems to me that the US National Archives is now the proud owner of a the physical object of a Nobel Peace Prize.
(Of course, el cheato will try to retain physical possession and we will have to pry it from his cold dead fingers, a task that , I suspect, many of us would find rather appealing.)

tree-of-life: Protein interactomes across the tree of life (2019)
Protein-protein iteraction networks ("interactome") for 1,840 species. An interactome captures all physical protein-protein interactions within one species, from direct biophysical protein-protein interactions to regulatory protein-DNA and metabolic interactions. .
This network has 624 nodes and 1992 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions

A minimal wake-vortex model explains formation flight of flapping birds
Olivia Pomerenk, Kenneth S. Breuer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.22043 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.22043 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.22043
arXiv:2602.22043v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Collective patterns of motion emerge across biological taxa: insects swarm, fish school, and birds flock. In particular, large migratory birds form strikingly ordered V-shaped formations, which experiments and direct numerical simulations have demonstrated provide substantial energetic benefits during long-distance flight. However, the precise aerodynamic and morphological mechanisms underlying these benefits remain unclear. In this work, we develop a reduced-order model of the wake-vortex interactions between two flapping birds flying in tandem. The model retains essential unsteady flapping dynamics while remaining computationally tractable. By optimizing over a six-dimensional state space, which comprises the follower's three-dimensional relative position and three independent flapping parameters, we identify the energetically optimal leader-follower configuration of northern bald ibises. The predicted optimum agrees quantitatively with live-bird measurements. Because of its simplicity, the model allows for direct interrogation of the physical mechanisms responsible for this optimum. In particular, it isolates precisely how the follower's wing kinematics interact with the leader's wake to enhance aerodynamic efficiency. The model predicts an 11% reduction in total mechanical power for a follower in formation flight -- consistent with experimental estimates -- and shows that this saving arises from reductions in both induced and profile power, dominated by decreased profile power enabled primarily through reduced flapping amplitude and, secondarily, reduced upstroke flexion. These results provide a mechanistic explanation for the structure of V-formations and offer new insight into the aerodynamic principles governing collective flight.
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Steelers WR DK Metcalf's two-game suspension upheld upon appeal https://www.nfl.com/news/steelers-wr-dk-metcalf-two-game-suspension-upheld-upon-appeal

genetic_multiplex: Multiplex genetic interactions (2014)
Multiplex networks representing different types of genetic interactions, for different organisms. Layers represent (i) physical, (ii) association, (iii) co-localization, (iv) direct, and (v) suppressive, (vi) additive or synthetic genetic interaction. Edge direction (i,j) indicates gene i interacting with gene j.
This network has 6980 nodes and 18655 edges.
Tags: Biological, Gene regulation, Protein interactions, Unwe…

Samsung will add Perplexity to Galaxy AI on the upcoming S26 series; users can launch the Perplexity agent by saying "Hey Plex" or with a physical helper button (Cheyenne MacDonald/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/ai/samsung-is-add

Samsung is adding Perplexity to Galaxy AI for its upcoming S26 series
Samsung says Perplexity's AI agent will be integrated with Galaxy AI in its upcoming flagships.

Lands of the Lost: A Field Guide to Dinosaur Parks Physical, Fictional, and for the Future https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/09/lands-of-the-lost-a-field-guide-to-dinosaur-parks-physical-fictional…

I don't do many preorders of anything, but I love the hell out of shooting games of all kinds- sometimes I gotta jump. Dezatopia came out in 2020 and I've had it on both my Switch and Steam wishlists digitally since then, it's supposed to be great. It's actually the very FIRST thing on my Switch wishlist from all those years ago! So when I heard it was coming out physical with Mecharitz, it was a no brainer. Sure, it took a long time to get here (I preordered in July and just…

Frequency-Dependent Magnetic modulation of deposition morphology
S. K. Saroj, P. K. Panigrahi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21789 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.21789 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.21789
arXiv:2602.21789v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This paper presents a novel approach for magnetic modulation of deposition morphology in an evaporating ferrofluid droplet. The magnetic field strength and ferrofluid concentration are kept unchanged, while the actuation frequencies are varied from 0.016 Hz to 5 Hz. In the absence of a magnetic field, a coffee-ring formation is observed and consistent with previous studies\cite{deegan1997capillary,deegan2000contact,saroj2019drying}. The application of a time-dependent magnetic field significantly modifies the deposition morphology. The periodic magnetic field induces the formation of multiple concentric rings during evaporation. The number of rings initially increases with increasing actuation frequency of the electromagnet. However, beyond a critical actuation frequency ($f_c = 0.2\,\text{Hz}$), the number of rings decreases. At higher actuation frequencies, magnetic particles preferentially deposit in the central region of the droplet, resulting in suppression of the coffee-ring effect. Additionally, the thickness of the inner rings and the ring spacing decrease with increasing actuation frequency up to critical actuation frequency. The transition from multi-ring formation to coffee-ring suppression is governed by the competition among magnetic forcing, capillary flow, and particle diffusion. The underlying physical mechanisms responsible for droplet dynamics and deposition morphology under periodic magnetic fields are evaluated using scaling arguments. The results demonstrate that diffusive particle transport plays a dominant role in determining the deposition pattern. A non-dimensional magnetic switching number, based on the magnetic perturbation timescale, is introduced as a control parameter to characterize the frequency-dependent deposition behavior.
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Hackers are sending snail mail letters to Trezor and Ledger wallet owners
https://coinpedia.org/news/ledger-and-trezor-scam-alert-fake-letters-target-wallet-users/

Ledger and Trezor Scam Alert: Fake Letters Target Wallet Users
In 2026, crypto scams are no longer limited to emails, fake airdrops, or malicious apps. Scammers have taken things a step further by sending physical

Stop speaking on Venezuela like they got cold hands clasped together in new child rape clubs as Deep State Siri lists potential 0.0001% profit gains off their oil. Its not financially justifiable at the current oil price or even a slightly higher one to go get that oil. None of these execs have anything close to the brainpower it takes to deliberately orchestrate American financial dominance. Elon wouldnt be a trillionaire if there were still firm consequences beyond base physical revolt. It…

A large banner featuring Donald Trump’s face was hung on the exterior of justice department headquarters on Thursday
in a physical display of the president’s efforts to exert power over the law enforcement agency that once investigated him.
While Trump banners have been hung outside other agencies across Washington,
the decision to place one on the storied justice department building amounted to a striking symbol of the erosion of the department’s tradition of independence …

LiveKit, which offers tools for building voice, video, and physical AI models, including for ChatGPT's voice mode, raised a $100M Series C at a $1B valuation (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…

tree-of-life: Protein interactomes across the tree of life (2019)
Protein-protein iteraction networks ("interactome") for 1,840 species. An interactome captures all physical protein-protein interactions within one species, from direct biophysical protein-protein interactions to regulatory protein-DNA and metabolic interactions. .
This network has 516 nodes and 2241 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions

Steelers WR DK Metcalf suspended two games for physically confronting fan in win over Lions https://www.nfl.com/news/steelers-wr-dk-metcalf-suspended-two-games-for-physically-confronting-fan-in-win-over-lions

Disruptive Mobilities: Unsettling Law, Space, and Identities through Movement
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Disruptive Mobilities: Unsettling Law, Space, and Identities through Movement
The onset of the pandemic generated a powerful, universal newfound currency for mobility. Around the world, many yearned to exercise their freedom of movement, even those who had long settled into sedentary lives. In this context, this seminar series asks: what does mobility mean in today’s times?While the practice of mobility has been normalised as the physical movement across space, its conceptual understanding reveals a more complex relationship between the body, agency, and the State. At …

"How plant “touch” boosts resilience: new research reveals surprising stress response"
#Plants #Nature #Environment

How plant “touch” boosts resilience: new research reveals surprising stress response | The Optimist Daily
When plant leaves touch, they become more resilient to light stress. A new study shows how physical contact may form a natural stress warning system.

genetic_multiplex: Multiplex genetic interactions (2014)
Multiplex networks representing different types of genetic interactions, for different organisms. Layers represent (i) physical, (ii) association, (iii) co-localization, (iv) direct, and (v) suppressive, (vi) additive or synthetic genetic interaction. Edge direction (i,j) indicates gene i interacting with gene j.
This network has 155 nodes and 188 edges.
Tags: Biological, Gene regulation, Protein interactions, Unweigh…

copenhagen: Copenhagen Networks Study
A network of social interactions among university students within the Copenhagen Networks Study, over a period of four weeks, sampled every 5 minutes. Interactions include physical proximity (undirected), phone calls (directed, weighted), text messages (directed), and information about Facebook friendships (undirected). Nodes include some metadata, including gender.
This network has 568 nodes and 24333 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unwe…

Frank Ragnow fails physical, will not rejoin Lions after attempting to end retirement https://www.nfl.com/news/frank-ragnow-fails-physical-will-not-rejoin-lions-after-attempting-to-end-retirement

Human Rights groups warn an immigration detention camp at Fort Bliss has reached a “breaking point”
Human rights experts are sounding the alarm about living conditions at the immigration detention camp that houses hundreds of people.
“Fort Bliss is a human and civil rights disaster,”
said Eunice Cho Senior Counsel for the American Civil Liberty Union’s prison program.
The ACLU and other organizations allege physical abuse,
unsanitary conditions and medical negle…

Human Rights groups warn immigration detention camp at Fort Bliss reaching “breaking point”
Human Rights groups are calling the immigration detention camp at Fort Bliss a human and civil rights disaster. They demand the federal government shut down the tent facility and warn living conditions are putting hundreds of people held there at risk.

Inside Physical Intelligence, a startup co-founded by Stripe veteran Lachy Groom that is building general-purpose robotic foundation models and has raised $1B (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/30/phys…

A peek inside Physical Intelligence, the startup building Silicon Valley's buzziest robot brains | TechCrunch
If co-founder Lachy Groom has any doubts, he doesn’t show it. He’s working with people who've been working on this problem for decades and who believe the timing is finally right, which is all he needs to know.

Greg Roman on the Offense's Production Against Dallas https://www.chargers.com/video/greg-roman-press-conference-tuesday-week-17-2025

Ragnow fails physical, won't join Lions this season https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47138093/center-frank-ragnow-fails-physical-not-rejoin-lions

Excelsior Sciences, which aims to use AI and robots for small-molecule drug discovery and development, raised a $70M Series A from Khosla Ventures and others (Aayushi Pratap/Chemical & Engineering News)
https://cen.acs.org/physical-chemistry

New York AI chemistry start-up raises $95 million 
Excelsior Sciences cofounders say the company will make new molecules using robots and artificial intelligence

Donald Trump is worried that Republicans aren’t as afraid of him as they used to be.
Despite his self-billing as a dealmaker,
the president has only ever had one tool to control his party: fear.
GOP politicians have been afraid of career damage and literal physical harm if they crossed him.
Trump is not above reminding elected officials that he has unhinged followers who are known to be violent.
But as his approval ratings fall and the 2026 midterm elections …

Republicans are quiet quitting on Trump
The White House chief of staff says the president has “an alcoholic’s personality”

Sources: China broadens its probe into Temu owner PDD, dispatching 100 investigators to its Shanghai HQ, after staff exchanged physical blows with regulators (John Liu/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01…

Mailbag: Can physicality, discipline be coached? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-can-physicality-discipline-be-coached

copenhagen: Copenhagen Networks Study
A network of social interactions among university students within the Copenhagen Networks Study, over a period of four weeks, sampled every 5 minutes. Interactions include physical proximity (undirected), phone calls (directed, weighted), text messages (directed), and information about Facebook friendships (undirected). Nodes include some metadata, including gender.
This network has 536 nodes and 3600 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unwei…

Lions center Frank Ragnow fails physical, won't come out of retirement to rejoin team https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6847495/2025/11/29/frank-ragnow-lions-failed-physical-retirement-comeback/

Mailbag: Can physicality, discipline be coached? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-can-physicality-discipline-be-coached

tree-of-life: Protein interactomes across the tree of life (2019)
Protein-protein iteraction networks ("interactome") for 1,840 species. An interactome captures all physical protein-protein interactions within one species, from direct biophysical protein-protein interactions to regulatory protein-DNA and metabolic interactions. .
This network has 975 nodes and 3928 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions

Cowboys fans will love Dak Prescott's quote about physical Lions matchup https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-fans-will-love-dak-prescotts-quote-about-physical-li…

Arm creates a "Physical AI" unit to focus on robotics and automotive sectors, as part of a reorganization that includes "Cloud and AI" and "Edge" business units (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-tra

New Cowboys Mock Draft Lands Physical Anomaly at EDGE, Polished LB https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/new-cowboys-mock-draft-lands-physical-anomaly-at-edge-polished-lb

tree-of-life: Protein interactomes across the tree of life (2019)
Protein-protein iteraction networks ("interactome") for 1,840 species. An interactome captures all physical protein-protein interactions within one species, from direct biophysical protein-protein interactions to regulatory protein-DNA and metabolic interactions. .
This network has 327 nodes and 458 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions

Bengaluru-based Stable Money, whose app lets users invest in fixed deposits and corporate bonds, raised $25M at a $175M valuation, taking total funding to $65M (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.…

Stable Money secures $25 million in fresh equity from Peak XV Partners and others
The startup plans to grow its overall business five times by the end of this year, enter new cities through physical expansion and new product areas around real estate investments. Cofounder Saurabh Jain said his company has helped book around Rs 5,000 crore in fixed deposits and distributed around Rs 1,600 crore in corporate bonds.

genetic_multiplex: Multiplex genetic interactions (2014)
Multiplex networks representing different types of genetic interactions, for different organisms. Layers represent (i) physical, (ii) association, (iii) co-localization, (iv) direct, and (v) suppressive, (vi) additive or synthetic genetic interaction. Edge direction (i,j) indicates gene i interacting with gene j.
This network has 155 nodes and 188 edges.
Tags: Biological, Gene regulation, Protein interactions, Unweigh…

Google's Android XR design docs and developer tools hint at the XR glasses' details, including mandatory physical buttons and "Glimmer" UI design language (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/02/16/android-xr-glasses-ui/

Here’s how you’ll control and navigate Android XR glasses
Android XR glasses are coming in 2026. Here’s what you can expect from the user interface and experience...

tree-of-life: Protein interactomes across the tree of life (2019)
Protein-protein iteraction networks ("interactome") for 1,840 species. An interactome captures all physical protein-protein interactions within one species, from direct biophysical protein-protein interactions to regulatory protein-DNA and metabolic interactions. .
This network has 464 nodes and 1321 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions

genetic_multiplex: Multiplex genetic interactions (2014)
Multiplex networks representing different types of genetic interactions, for different organisms. Layers represent (i) physical, (ii) association, (iii) co-localization, (iv) direct, and (v) suppressive, (vi) additive or synthetic genetic interaction. Edge direction (i,j) indicates gene i interacting with gene j.
This network has 105 nodes and 137 edges.
Tags: Biological, Gene regulation, Protein interactions, Unweigh…

copenhagen: Copenhagen Networks Study
A network of social interactions among university students within the Copenhagen Networks Study, over a period of four weeks, sampled every 5 minutes. Interactions include physical proximity (undirected), phone calls (directed, weighted), text messages (directed), and information about Facebook friendships (undirected). Nodes include some metadata, including gender.
This network has 536 nodes and 3600 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unwei…