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A big question will be how to regulate national scale things. Like our central bank, the Federal Reserve, or our military. We have (or had) a reasonable system over those, and those systems should be retained.
I think the idea that states cover disasters in other states is going to need to be revisited. Some states, like California, are recognizing and beginning to self-address things like earthquakes and fires - For instance my home insurance has increased several fold. But why sh…

Back in 1964, microbiologist Tom Brock received a grant from the National Science Foundation to study how life works at high temperatures,
a question that took him to Yellowstone’s hot springs in search of extremophiles.
There, he and his student discovered a bacteria they called Thermus aquaticus,
which had enzymes that could work at incredibly high temperatures.
Two decades later, this discovery paved the way for the development of a technique called polymerase ch…

What It Would Mean To Lose The National Science Foundation
In a companion piece to our previous article on the NIH, we discuss the importance of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and how the agency is currently being affected by political interference.

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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🌡️ Simple yogurt production tweak cuts bacterial culture costs and extends shelf life
#yogurt

Simple yogurt production tweak cuts bacterial culture costs and extends shelf life
A new method for producing yogurt has been developed by a research team at the DTU National Food Institute, and it all began with a straightforward question.

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(…

Distributed Interview Selection for Stable Matching in Large Random Markets
Richard Cole, Pranav Jangir
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19345 https://

Distributed Interview Selection for Stable Matching in Large Random Markets
In real-world settings of the Deferred Acceptance stable matching algorithm, such as the American medical residency match (NRMP), school choice programs, and various national university entrance systems, candidates need to decide which programs to list. In many of these settings there is an initial phase of interviews or information gathering which affect the preferences on one or both sides. We ask: which interviews should candidates seek? We study this question in a model, introduced by Lee (…