I donated again to Partners in Health
https://www.pih.org/our-mission
"By establishing long-term relationships with sister organizations based in settings of poverty, Partners In Health strives to achieve two overarching goals: to bring the benefits of modern medical science to those most in n…
Geopolitics getting interesting. Ukraine reaching beyond the Black Sea and now attacking Russia's support network in the Caspian Sea.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyj7yl0xndo
Revisiting Safe Temperature for Environmental Accelerated Aging of Additively Manufactured Polymers
Keven Alkhoury, Nikash Long, Justin Moustouka, Nour Mousbah, Irine Chenwi, James LeBlanc, Vikas Srivastava
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12288 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.12288 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.12288
arXiv:2608.12288v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Accelerated aging is widely used to study the long-term behavior of materials within laboratory time scales, particularly for materials exposed to solvent environments over extended periods. This is especially important for additively manufactured (AM) polymers, whose increasing use in naval and commercial undersea applications requires reliable methodologies for assessing durability under in-service conditions. A common approach relies on elevating the temperature below the glass transition or melting temperature to accelerate degradation. However, the temperature limits for accelerated aging of AM polymers remain poorly understood, particularly because temperatures beyond a threshold may activate deformation and degradation mechanisms that are absent under service conditions. To address this gap, this paper investigates fused deposition modeling (FDM) Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS) exposed to saltwater and deionized (DI) water to establish a temperature threshold for accelerated aging in aqueous environments and propose a methodology for determining such thresholds. Controlled geometries and varying print directions were employed to explicitly probe the underlying mechanisms. We show that samples exposed to temperatures above the threshold exhibit pronounced shrinkage and warping along the printing direction due to the relaxation of process-induced internal stresses. These observations establish an accelerated-aging temperature threshold of 50$^\circ$C for ABS, beyond which additional mechanisms absent under service conditions become active. Additionally, the resulting geometric distortions are masked in thick geometries but become highly pronounced in thin structures. Moreover, solvent ionic content strongly influences water uptake, with saltwater reaching saturation in 1 day, whereas DI water did not reach saturation even after 30 days and exhibited greater mass uptake.
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Released version 0.0.3 of my AI Harness along with a short blog post https://choria.io/blog/post/2026/07/25/fisk-ai-0_0_3/
Also a 15 minute video discussing this release, agent harnesses in general and project goals.
Replaced article(s) found for astro-ph.GA. https://arxiv.org/list/astro-ph.GA/new
[1/3]:
- CO Observations of Early-mid Stage Major Mergers in the MaNGA Survey
Yu, Fang, Xu, Feng, Feng, Gao, Jiang, Lisenfeld
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.18999 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_astrophGA_bot/112364597912941989
- A first systematic study of [OIII] 88$\mu$m at $z>8$: two luminous oxygen lines and a powerful io...
Hiddo S. B. Algera, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.14486 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_astrophGA_bot/115734347184965000
- Electron temperature relations and the direct N, O, Ne, S and Ar abundances of 49959 star-forming...
D. Scholte, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.02463 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_astrophGA_bot/115852861581257007
- The Role of Inner Halo Angular Momentum (Spin) in Shaping Dark Matter Bars in Milky Way Analogs
Shouvik Ghosh, Sandeep Kumar Kataria
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14420 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_astrophGA_bot/115938036617000433
- GA-NIFS: Dissecting The Alchemised: JWST reveals turbulent metal-poor gas fuelling a co-spatial s...
Robert G. Pascalau, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.00232 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_astrophGA_bot/116164296791419745
- The Star Formation History of WLM from Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars and The Discovery of a Candi...
Abigail J. Lee, Daniel R. Weisz, Andrew E. Dolphin, Alessandro Savino
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.00243 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_astrophGA_bot/116164584608441374
- Two Exciting High-redshift Galaxy Candidates Turn Out to Be Two Exciting Ultra-cool Brown Dwarfs
Maru\v{s}a Brada\v{c}, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.23668 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_astrophGA_bot/116481375281380996
- PEARLS: JWST Counterparts of Micro-Jy Radio Sources in the NEP Time Domain Field. II. All Four Sp...
S. P. Willner, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17040 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_astrophGA_bot/116600246884579228
- Eppur non si trovano Vol. 3: Phoebe -- a Mirage of a Primordial Black Hole
Andrzej Udalski, Przemek Mr\'oz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.19442 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_astrophGA_bot/116775643602203820
- LEGGOS I: The JWST LEGGOS Survey -- LEnsing and Galaxy Growth: Observing Substructures -- Unpacks...
Gourav Khullar, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.20845 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_astrophGA_bot/116798485365000724
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RE: https://glammr.us/@overholt/117049333496122205
Back in 1999 or so, I was on the team that helped Minnesota Public Radio choose a long-term storage format for their (extensive and valuable!!) audio archives, which they were about to digitize.
The conclusion we came to was that there was •no• storage medium that met their long-term preservation goals — true then, and almost certainly still true today. The best approach is perpetual and redundant forward copying of the data, from one physical storage device to another.
An archive isn’t a physical thing; it's a process.