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Oil markets are spooked as Iran-Israel tensions escalate | Oil and Gas News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025/6/13/oil-markets-are-spooked-as-iran-israel-tensions-escalate?traffic_source=rss…

Oil markets are spooked as Iran-Israel tensions escalate
Israel’s strike on Iran, and Tehran’s subsequent retaliation fuel fears of Strait of Hormuz trade disruptions.

Sources: Tencent is in early talks to acquire Nexon, the South Korean gaming giant behind Dungeon & Fighter Mobile; Tencent pursued a Nexon acquisition in 2019 (Dong Cao/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Meanwhile, Trump shut down Voice of America.
The evidence sure looks like Trump is a Putin puppet, whether he realizes it or not.
https://journa.host/@timkmak/114846266513311439

Tim Mak (@timkmak@journa.host)
Attached: 1 image Russian propaganda is increasing in #Africa, says Ukrainian intel. Russian media broadcast in Africa is now in 40+ African countries in 6 languages. This comes as Russian mercenaries continue to operate on the continent and #Russia tries to increase their influence in the region. https://nv.ua/ukr/world/geopolitics/vpliv-v-africi-rosiya-naroshchuye-prisutnist-i-vpliv-50529458.html

"My mother didn't particularly like the look of me and my dad didn't like the sound of me": Pete Townshend and the lifelong search for answers
https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/interviews/pete-townshend-interview-2025

Kremlin: Russian-American dialogue to continue despite diplomatic tensions: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/14/kremlin-russianamerican-dialogue-to-continue.html

Voice of America’s Farsi-language broadcast,
dismantled under Trump and DOGE,
was abruptly reactivated today,
recalling dozens of staff from paid leave
as tensions between Israel and Iran escalated.
https://bsky.app/profile/altnps.bsky.social…

Beyond LambdaCDM: How the Hubble tension challenges early universe physics
Gawain Simpson, Krzysztof Bolejko, Stephen Walters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08479

Beyond LambdaCDM: How the Hubble tension challenges early universe physics
Differences in the values of the Hubble constant obtained from the local universe and the early universe have resulted in a significant tension. This tension signifies that our understanding of cosmology (physical processes and/or cosmological data) is incomplete. Some of the suggested solutions include physics of the early Universe. In this paper we aim to investigate common features of various early universe solutions to the Hubble constant tension. The physics of the early universe affects t…

America's Got Talent: Boston Dynamics lässt Spot-Roboter tanzen, Panne inklusive
Boston Dynamics beweist die besonderen Talente seiner Spot-Roboter bei der Talentshow "America's Got Talent" – auch wenn es eine Panne gab.

The mirror map and other natural tangent tensors
R. Albuquerque
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10881 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.10881

The mirror map and other natural tangent tensors
We review the intrinsic geometry of the tangent bundle of a differentiable manifold $M$, aside from any non-natural structures. We recall the properties of the mirror map $B\in\mathrm{End}(TTM)$, known also as the canonical endomorphism or the almost-tangent structure, solve some cohomological questions and raise other induced by the $\mathrm{d}_B$ operator.

Interpreting Hubble tension with a cascade decaying dark matter sector
Quan Zhou, Zixuan Xu, Sibo Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08687 https://

Interpreting Hubble tension with a cascade decaying dark matter sector
Hubble tension can be alleviated by altering either early- or late-time $Λ$CDM. So far, extensive studies have shown that only early dark energy or ad hoc combinations of those two-fold effects can reduce the tension to $3σ$ or lower. In this work, we improve the later solution by considering a cascade decaying dark matter sector, where a parent particle produces relativistic dark matter in the early Universe and the dark matter subsequently decays to neutrinos in the late-time Universe. We p…