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A new best-speller
https://apnews.com/article/scripps-national-spelling-bee-2025-champion-70f6767e4f30a29b52dfc3dfc77eb553

Faizan Zaki wins the Scripps National Spelling Bee
Faizan Zaki has seized the title of best speller in the English language at the Scripps National Spelling Bee. The 13-year-old from Allen, Texas, was runner-up last year after he lost in a lightning-round tiebreaker. He ousted eight other accomplished spellers to win the title on Thursday night, including two that he let back into the competition after his own careless flub. Told to take a deep breath before his final word, “eclaircissement,” he didn’t ask a single question before spellin…

My question about the PTSN switch-off campaign is: can BT not already *detect* (over the course of a year) which customers are using alarms or telecare devices likely to be impacted?
https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2025

Government Hails Start of National Campaign for UK Digital Phone Switch
The UK government has today hailed the start of a new national campaign, funded by broadband giants BT and Virgin Media, which aims to help support and encourag

Supporting DEI is eminently appropriate for the position of director of the National Portrait Gallery. Who wants to see imagery only of white people [mostly male, mostly rich]?
That's a rhetorical question, we know exactly the sort of person who wants to see imagery only of white people.
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High-precision Penning trap mass measurements of neutron-rich chlorine isotopes at the N=28 shell closure
H. Erington, G. Bollen, G. Dykstra, A. Hamaker, C. M. Ireland, C. R. Nicoloff, D. Puentes, R. Ringle, S. Schwarz, C. S. Sumithrarachchi, A. A. Valverde, I. T. Yandow
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18354

High-precision Penning trap mass measurements of neutron-rich chlorine isotopes at the N=28 shell closure
Although it is known that the $N=28$ spherical shell closure erodes, the strength of the closure with decreasing proton number $Z<20$ is an open question in nuclear structure. In this region of interest, direct high-precision mass measurements of neutron-rich $^{43-45}$Cl isotopes were performed at the Low Energy Beam and Ion Trap (LEBIT) when coupled to the National Superconducting Cyclotron Lab. The resulting mass excesses (MEs) are ME($^{43}$Cl) = -24114.4(1.7) keV, ME($^{44}$Cl) = -20450.8(…