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Hundreds of TESS Exoplanets Might Be Larger than We Thought: #exoplanets may be larger than realized: https://news.uci.edu/2025/07/14/uc-irvine-astronomers-discover-scores-of-exoplanets-may-be-larger-than-realized/

Known as “white” asbestos,
chrysotile asbestos is banned in more than 50 countries
for its link to lung cancer and mesothelioma,
a cancer that forms in the lining of internal organs.
White asbestos, however, has been imported for use in the United States for roofing materials, textiles and cement as well as gaskets, clutches, brake pads and other automotive parts.
It is also used in chlorine manufacturing.
Last year the Environmental Protection Agency, u…

E.P.A. Plans to Reconsider a Ban on Cancer-Causing Asbestos
The Trump administration’s move sets back a decades-long effort to end the use of the material, which is widely banned in other countries.

This story is cute: A malicious "Solidity" (that's the smart contract language Ethereum and other blockchains use) extension for Cursor, the Vibe-Coding Editor included code that steals your tokens/coins.
I find it funny for two reasons:
- Blockchainers love talking about how you need to verify things you interact with but someone wasn't checking if they have the right extension
- Programming smart contracts is hard because it's a massively hostile envir…

Code highlighting with Cursor AI for $500,000
Kaspersky GReAT experts uncover malicious extensions for Cursor AI that download the Quasar backdoor and a crypto stealer.

How Pete Carroll and his philosophy impacted a trio of NFL head coaches https://www.raiders.com/news/pete-carroll-coaching-tree-dan-quinn-dave-canales-brian-schottenheimer

Propagation of Galactic cosmic rays: the influence of anisotropic diffusion
Ala'a AL-Zetoun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13314 https://

Propagation of Galactic cosmic rays: the influence of anisotropic diffusion
We investigate the anisotropic diffusion of cosmic rays in the large-scale Galactic magnetic field, where diffusion occurs at different rates along and across the magnetic field lines. To model this process, we use stochastic differential equations to describe cosmic ray propagation and solve them numerically. The Galactic magnetic field is modeled using the Jansson-Farrar prescription. In this study, we focus on the impact of perpendicular diffusion on the residence time of cosmic rays in the …

50 years ago today, at 16:09 UTC on 17 July 1975, the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project culminated in the first docking of the spacecraft - but afterwards an interesting experiment took place: after they separated again Apollo (the final one; no number) occulted the Sun from the point of view of Soyuz 19. Images obtained show mostly outgassing from Apollo forward-scattering light from the hidden Sun but allegedly there is also some outer corona in the images of which #eclipse experiment was described in the mission press kit https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/static/history/astp/documents/astp press kit (us).pdf on PDF pages 37-39 and the outcome is discussed in the didactical NASA brochure https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19780019206/downloads/19780019206.pdf on PDF pages 20-27; there is apparently also a more technical paper in a mission science report but I couldn't find that one online.

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So, deciding on a possible domain for my new home for my articles and blogging.
My main site is https://www.davidaugust.com/
And I own davidaugust.net
But maybe that gets confusing, so not great.
Maybe a subdomain?
I think ghost.davidaugust.com would be highlighting the tech runnin…

How Pete Carroll and his philosophy impacted a trio of NFL head coaches https://www.raiders.com/news/pete-carroll-coaching-tree-dan-quinn-dave-canales-brian-schottenheimer

A young gas giant and hidden substructures in a #protoplanetary disk: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02576-w -> Astronomers find a giant hiding in the ‘fog’ around a young star: https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/astronomers-find-a-giant-hiding-in-the-fog-around-a-young-star