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Too many new and exciting books these days.
This one promises to be rich.
Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser, and Evan Thompson. "The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Experience."

They came for Florida’s sun and sand. They got soaring costs and a culture war.
“One of the first signs Barb Carter’s move to Florida wasn’t the postcard life she’d envisioned was the armadillo infestation in her home that caused $9,000 in damages. Then came a hurricane, ever present feuding over politics, and an inability to find a doctor to remove a tumor from her liver. “

They came for Florida’s sun and sand. They got soaring costs and a culture war.
Florida has seen a population boom, but many longtime residents and recent transplants say rising costs and divisive politics have them fleeing.

[Thread] The Desert Sun NewsGuild says it has reached an agreement for its first contract with Gannett, and its strike is now set to end on March 3 (@tdsnewsguild)
https://twitter.com/tdsnewsguild/status/1764094653094314129

Desert Sun NewsGuild (@TDSNewsGuild) on X
BREAKING: The Desert Sun NewsGuild has reached an agreement for its first contract!!! We’re thrilled to have a deal with immediate, life-changing raises for many of our members, annual raises for every member, and crucial workplace protections. More details to come, but first:…

'Life Is Rushing by, and I Can't Tell You Why the Sun Sets and Clouds Disappear' @babylon13ua: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/14/life-is-rushing.html

[Thread] The Desert Sun NewsGuild says it has reached an agreement for its first contract with Gannett, and its strike is now set to end on March 3 (@tdsnewsguild)
https://twitter.com/tdsnewsguild/status/1764094653094314129

Desert Sun NewsGuild (@TDSNewsGuild) on X
BREAKING: The Desert Sun NewsGuild has reached an agreement for its first contract!!! We’re thrilled to have a deal with immediate, life-changing raises for many of our members, annual raises for every member, and crucial workplace protections. More details to come, but first:…

Friday Night’s All Right For Reading 🚀

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.08453 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

Asteroseismic Modelling of Fast Rotators and its Opportunities for Astrophysics
Rotation matters for the life of a star. It causes a multitude of dynamical phenomena in the stellar interior during a star's evolution and its effects accumulate until the star dies. All stars rotate at some level but those born with a mass above about 1.3 times the mass of the Sun rotate rapidly during more than 90% of their nuclear lifetime. Internal rotation guides the angular momentum and chemical element transport throughout the stellar interior. These transport processes change over time…

Recommender for Its Purpose: Repeat and Exploration in Food Delivery Recommendations
Jiayu Li, Aixin Sun, Weizhi Ma, Peijie Sun, Min Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14440

Recommender for Its Purpose: Repeat and Exploration in Food Delivery Recommendations
Recommender systems have been widely used for various scenarios, such as e-commerce, news, and music, providing online contents to help and enrich users' daily life. Different scenarios hold distinct and unique characteristics, calling for domain-specific investigations and corresponding designed recommender systems. Therefore, in this paper, we focus on food delivery recommendations to unveil unique features in this domain, where users order food online and enjoy their meals shortly after deli…

Unpacking ICT-supported Social Connections and Support of Late-life Migration: From the Lens of Social Convoys
Ying Lei, Shuai Ma, Yuling Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.10172

Unpacking ICT-supported Social Connections and Support of Late-life Migration: From the Lens of Social Convoys
Migration and aging-related dilemmas have limited the opportunities for late-life migrants to rebuild social connections and access support. While research on migrants has drawn increasing attention in HCI, limited attention has been paid to the increasing number of late-life migrants. This paper reports a qualitative study examining the social connections and support of late-life migrants. In particular, drawing on the social convoy model, we pay specific attention to the dynamic changes of la…

Ah, Sun Ra... Specifically, Sun-Ra and his Intergalactic Research Arkestra, "Planets of Life Or Death", Amiens '73. Feast your ears.
1: Enlightenment
2: Love in Outer Space
3: Lights on a Satellite
4: Discipline 24-II / What Planet
Is This
#Jazz

Both TBH https://mastodon.social/@3psboyd/112101095423201689

Friday Night’s All Right For Reading 🚀

The experience of totality is such a surreal experience. It's not just the sun being blocked out by the giant tortilla in the sky. It looked like the sun was setting/rising from every direction around. Starlings started chirping and geese started flying. Definitely worth seeing one in real life. No crappy cell phone picture could ever describe the 4 minute experience of the Great American Eclipse of 2024.
The Great American Traffic Jam of 2024 now follows.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.08453 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

Asteroseismic Modelling of Fast Rotators and its Opportunities for Astrophysics
Rotation matters for the life of a star. It causes a multitude of dynamical phenomena in the stellar interior during a star's evolution and its effects accumulate until the star dies. All stars rotate at some level but those born with a mass above about 1.3 times the mass of the Sun rotate rapidly during more than 90% of their nuclear lifetime. Internal rotation guides the angular momentum and chemical element transport throughout the stellar interior. These transport processes change over time…

Species Syzygy: Which Animal Has Seen the Most Total Solar Eclipses?
Mark Popinchalk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.20175 https://arxiv.o…

Species Syzygy: Which Animal Has Seen the Most Total Solar Eclipses?
A Total Solar Eclipse (TSE) is a shocking and sublime experience. In just a week hundreds of millions of Homo Sapiens will attempt to see the 2024 eclipse as it stretches across the North American continent. However, while Homo Sapiens may be uniquely positioned to understand and predict eclipses, they are not the only species capable of observing them. The precise alignment of the Moon, Earth and Sun all existed well before humans. In the same way we share this planet capable of hosting life, …

Stellar flares
Adam F. KowalskiUniversity of Colorado, National Solar Observatory, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.07885

Stellar flares
Magnetic storms on stars manifest as remarkable, randomly occurring changes of the luminosity over durations that are tiny in comparison to the normal evolution of stars. These stellar flares are bursts of electromagnetic radiation from X-ray to radio wavelengths, and they occur on most stars with outer convection zones. They are analogous to the events on the Sun known as solar flares, which impact our everyday life and modern technological society. Stellar flares, however, can attain much gre…