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Sotheby’s Auction of Sacred Gemstones Found Next to Buddha’s Ashes is Halted as India Intervenes https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/sothebys-calls-last-minute-halt-to-sale-of-sacred-buddha-relics-after-india-intervenes…

Sotheby's Auction of Sacred Gemstones Found Next to Buddha’s Ashes is Halted as India Intervenes
India's foreign ministry said that the Peppé family had to right to sell the gem relics, since they were taken as a form of colonial plunder.

Rapid and accurate numerical evolution of linear cosmological perturbations with non-cold relics
Nanoom Lee, Jos\'e Luis Bernal, Sven G\"unther, Lingyuan Ji, Marc Kamionkowski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01956

Rapid and accurate numerical evolution of linear cosmological perturbations with non-cold relics
We describe the implementation of a new approach to the numerical evaluation of the effects of non-cold relics on the evolution of cosmological perturbations. The Boltzmann hierarchies used to compute the contributions of these relics to the stress-energy tensor are replaced with a set of integral equations. These integral equations take the form of convolutions and are solved iteratively with the rest of the system. We develop efficient algorithms for evaluating these convolutions using non-un…

PSZ2 G181.06 48.47 - X-Ray Exploration of / Radio Analysis of / Weak-lensing Analysis and Merging Scenario Reconstruction of a Low-mass Cluster with Exceptionally Distant Radio Relics: #GalaxyClusters on Course to Crash Again, NASA's Chandra Finds: https://chandra.si.edu/photo/2025/g181/ / https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/galaxy-clusters-on-course-to-crash-again-nasas-chandra-finds/

It’s not the mistakes that matter. Apple has made them before. The Newton, MobileMe, the butterfly keyboard. What matters is the posture. A company once defined by joyful provocation—by thinking different—is now defined by its defensiveness. Its leadership acts not like inventors but like stewards of a status quo. They protect margins like relics. They fear dilution. They optimize at the expense of surprise.

Apple’s Diet of Worms
On a crisp April morning in 1521, the twenty-one-year-old Emperor Charles V entered the Bishop’s Palace in Worms. The weight of a continent rested on his adolescent shoulders, and he carried it with the stiff dignity of someone raised to believe history itself had chosen him. He wore black

Early in my career my CIO, although not the title at the time, asked "Why would anyone want to connect two LANs together?" He also said "All computers will cost around $100 in about a year and you'll be able to get them at a grocery store."
His deputy report would say it is impossible to conduct commerce over HTTP.
These were relics of the mainframe world, and made these statements before the Internet went commercial. I knew they were absurd and wrong, and…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.03085 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

How probable is the Lyman-$α$ damping wing in the spectrum of the redshift z = 5.9896 quasar ULAS J0148+0600?
The shape of the Ly-$α$ transmission in the near zone of the redshift $z=5.9896$ quasar ULAS J0148$+$0600 (hereafter J0148) is consistent with a damping wing arising from an extended neutral hydrogen island in the diffuse intergalactic medium (IGM). Here we use simulations of late-ending reionisation from Sherwood-Relics to assess the expected incidence of quasars with Ly-$α$ and Ly-$β$ absorption similar to the observed J0148 spectrum. We find a late end to reionisation at $z=5.3$ is a nece…