Tootfinder

I love the term LignoSat: satellites made of wood (lignum in Latin).
https://www.fastcompany.com/91039069/this-small-wooden-cube-is-actually-a-satellite-thats-being-sent-to-space

This small wooden cube is actually a satellite that’s being sent to space
Aluminum satellites may pose a serious risk to the ozone layer. Japanese researchers want to make them out of wood instead.

Penny's been with me since May 2006. She stayed with me when I was sleeping rough. She's been my most constant and most loyal companion for eighteen years. She's now unable to walk, unable to keep herself clean, in pain and incontinent. I am going to take her to the vets today to be put down. It's a hard decision.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#DramaOn3
- Under Milk Woods
For the 70th anniversary of Under Milk Wood, five short drama portraits of Wales in 2024.
Relisten now 👇

BBC Radio 3 - Drama on 3, Under Milk Woods
For the 70th anniversary of Under Milk Wood, five short drama portraits of Wales in 2024.

My Grandma Neufeld, born in a Mennonite colony east of Melitopol in the south of Zhaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine would have been 100 today 🎉! This was our last visit with her in 2016. She passed in 2018.❤️ 🇺🇦
She was very very kind. Spent her life caring for her large family while living on a farm in Ontario. Later in life she liked McDonald's, and her great grand children. 😊
Miss you Oma!

"Listening T.O.": new podcast from my colleague at UofT Steve Penfold and PhD candidate Louis Reed-Wood on the history of Toronto. @…
https://open.spotify.com/show/17O…

Listening T.O. History
Listen to Listening T.O. History on Spotify. The podcast all about the histories that made Toronto! Hosted by Steve Penfold and Louis Reed-Wood.

From #Raccoon Hourly...

The difference between identical twins and almost identical twins is wood shop.

UPDATE: 7:42 p.m.: Protesters have spent the past hour or so gathered at the site of the police barricade at the intersection of Plaza Avenue and LK Wood Boulevard. As they were chanting, a U-Haul truck parked across the street. The occupants exited the vehicle and rolled up the vehicle’s rear door to reveal… a drum set.
Yes, the members of Arcata punk band Gooseneck have arrived at Cal Poly Humboldt and plan to bring the noise for the demonstrators. They are setting up now, but seem to be having trouble with their generator.. We will update when their shredding is commences.
— Andrew Goff
https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2024/apr/27/cal-poly-humboldt-issues-hard-closure-campus-law-e/

As always with 3D printing, it's important to get the 1st layer right for the success of the print. Printing a stack in beech wood this time. #3Dprint #3Dprinting #3Ddruck

🪵 Three dimensional printing of wood
#materials

We watched this week’s episode of Shogun, it was mixed. There are so many great actors. And then there is Cosmo Jarvis, who has all the emotional range of a block of wood. How did they cast him for this role? How?

All The Dirt Gardening, Sustainability And Food
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

All The Dirt | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: All The Dirt Gardening, Sustainability And Food Hosts: Steve Wood and Deryn Thorpe Category: Leisure Sub-Category: Climate & Sustainability, Food & Drink, Home & Garden First Episode: 2017…

The season of hosted classes started at #LambethPalaceLibrary this week.
#MedievalManuscripts & Documents for #University_College_London

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #OwainWynEvans
Amii Stewart:
🎵 Knock On Wood
#AmiiStewart
https://open.spotify.com/track/0OUYuErgyc097NzSRff8UI
https://vjsilver.bandcamp.com/track/amii-stewart-knock-on-wood-rmx

Chromatic defect, Wood's theorem, and higher real $K$-theories
Christian Carrick
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17519 https://arxiv.o…

Chromatic defect, Wood's theorem, and higher real $K$-theories
Let $\mathrm{X(n)}$ be Ravenel's Thom spectrum over $Ω\mathrm{SU}(n)$. We say a spectrum $E$ has chromatic defect $n$ if $n$ is the smallest positive integer such that $E\otimes \mathrm{X(n)}$ is complex orientable. We compute the chromatic defect of various examples of interest: finite spectra, the Real Johnson--Wilson theories $\mathrm{ER(n)}$, the fixed points $\mathrm{EO}_n(G)$ of Morava $E$-theories with respect to a finite subgroup $G$ of the Morava stabilizer group, and the connective i…

And now onto joinery. I'm guessing this would be hard to do in wood but in plastic it's easy. And strong. #woodworking #furniture #3DPrinting

Black Mission Figs and Night Shirt.
#TealLensman

UK cities LEZ don't touch this problem.
How one German village exemplifies the cancer risk from wood burning | Environment | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/22/how-one-g…

"Which? testing finds some bamboo toilet paper actually made with wood"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Study #ToiletRoll

Which? testing finds some bamboo toilet paper actually made with wood
We tested bamboo toilet roll to see what it was really made of. While some tissue samples lived up to their claims, others contained as little as 3% bamboo fibres

A good friend of mine told me about this city-building video game set in a drought-ridden, post-apocalyptic world... but humans have died out and you are on the side of the beavers: "Timberborn"
Looks cute and cool as hell!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/106

Good morning #Fediverse and happy Tuesday to all of you!
It's a new day with new things on the agenda, so let's discuss what the plans are for the day.
It's work stuff here as usual with only one meeting instead of two since my boss is on vacation this week.
After the work stuff, it'll likely just be time playing Horizon Forbidden West on PC.

From #Raccoon Hourly...

The great Oregon indie bookshop Powell's Books is now selling a perfume that smells like old books.
"Powell's By Powell's" is a unisex fragrance with notes of wood, violet, and "biblichor" (old book smell).
It's $24.99 for a one ounce bottle.

Powell's Books is now selling perfume that smells like old books
The great Oregon indie bookshop Powell's Books is now selling a perfume that smells like old books. "Powell's By Powell's" is a unisex fragrance with notes of wood, violet, and…

Symmetric functions and the explicit moment problem for abelian groups
Roger Van Peski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16625 https://arxiv…

Symmetric functions and the explicit moment problem for abelian groups
Recently, Sawin and Wood (arXiv:math/2210.06279) proved a formula for the distribution of a random abelian group $G$ in terms of its $H$-moments $\mathbb{E} [\#\operatorname{Sur}(G,H)]$. We show that properties of Macdonald polynomials yield an alternate proof.

Cooperation and Control in Delegation Games
Oliver Sourbut, Lewis Hammond, Harriet Wood
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15821 https://arxi…

Cooperation and Control in Delegation Games
Many settings of interest involving humans and machines -- from virtual personal assistants to autonomous vehicles -- can naturally be modelled as principals (humans) delegating to agents (machines), which then interact with each other on their principals' behalf. We refer to these multi-principal, multi-agent scenarios as delegation games. In such games, there are two important failure modes: problems of control (where an agent fails to act in line their principal's preferences) and problems o…

All The Dirt Gardening, Sustainability And Food
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

All The Dirt | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: All The Dirt Gardening, Sustainability And Food Hosts: Steve Wood and Deryn Thorpe Category: Leisure Sub-Category: Climate & Sustainability, Food & Drink, Home & Garden First Episode: 2017…

Cafe Okawari #goodParklet - open design, seating still available when business is closed

🦴 Scientists try out Stone Age tools to understand how they were used
#science

Scientists try out Stone Age tools to understand how they were used
Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University crafted replica Stone Age tools and used them for a range of tasks to see how different activities create traces on the edge. They found that a combination of macroscopic and microscopic traces can tell us how stone edges were used. Their criteria help separate tools used for wood-felling from other activities. In addition, dated stone edges may be used to identify when timber use began for early humans.

Sign captures my mood

I’m in Farmville, Virginia this morning and found a popular route: the High Bridge Trail. It’s a successful rails-to-trails project that was totally worth extending my usual distance to see the bridge. Wow! #Running

SNL Shames Terrified Republicans for Surrendering to Trump (Jennifer M. Wood/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/snl-shames-terrified-republicans-for-surrendering-to-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/240225/p1#a240225p1

They got me with this one 😂

Lions president says Cameron Sutton was in facility the day team learned about arrest warrant https://theathletic.com/5367981/2024/03/25/lions-president-cam-sutton-arrest-warrant-release/

Lions president says Cameron Sutton was in facility the day team learned about arrest warrant
Wood said he was on a call with league officials when he learned about Sutton's warrant, and that the team suggested Sutton seek counsel.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/14/wood-burning-stoves-cancel-out-fall-particulate-pollution-uk-roads

🔊 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Eddie Floyd:
🎵 Knock on Wood
#EddieFloyd
https://open.spotify.com/track/3YJx77Xx8JSwEoxqrkQO5c
https://rickreinhartmusic.bandcamp.com/track/eddie-floyd-knock-on-wood-at-wattsstax

James Wood: Scratched due to hit wrist
#MLB #Baseball #Rotowire

Been out all day... found some beautifully ornate wood.

Working on a complaint latch for a cable organizer project. Printed in normal PLA and designed in #OpenSCAD. I need to adjust the parameters for size and thickness but the test works first-try.
#3dPrinting

🚀 Third book in the Tales of the Incorrigible series is off to the beta readers‼️
I settled on the title: *Tales of the Incorrigible: A Song of Wood and Meat*.
It's full of surprises, danger, intrigue, and junk foods of the future! You like aliens? The book is crawling with them! More alien species than most sci-fi series in this one book!
Why? Because I'm all about value, baby! All about value. The book even includes a bonus chapter consisting of an epic poem!…

I have a #making problem. I'm trying to #DIY some replacement wood game pieces, and I haven't figured out how to replicated embossed red lettering on wood without embossing tools... Any ideas out there?

A pleasure to have presented our paper in progress on the financing networks of private foundations supporting girls' and women's education initiatives in Asia at the targeted symposium in Porto.
The symposium was on 'Non-state Actors, Governance, and Education in the #Global South', with a particular focus on philanthropy.
A unique experience of workshopping very few selec…

I still adore these.
They're so ridiculously expensive these days, tho--& they rarely go on sale. ARGH.
#OldSchool #DrScholls @ExerSandals

"Tasmania's tall #eucalypt forests will be wiped out by #HeatWaves unless we step in to help them"
"But climate change is making it harder for these forests to remove carbon from the atmosphere and store it in wood. During heat waves, they stop removing carbon altogether …

Tasmania's tall eucalypt forests will be wiped out by heat waves unless we step in to help them
Tasmania's tall eucalypt forests are globally significant. They accumulate carbon faster than any other natural forest ecosystem in the world.

When there are deer, the fences grow exponentially taller. 😂 🦌 It is around @…'s garden :)
#garden #PortAlberni

From STAND.earth
BBC just dropped a bombshell – exposing coal-behemoth-turned-'sustainable' energy company, Drax, for logging rare and irreplaceable old growth forests in British Columbia to burn for electricity.
Subsidies meant for real climate solutions are going to Drax, having received millions from the Canadian government and a shocking $7.6 billion USD in UK green subsidies to help it burn the world’s most precious forests.
🧵1/7

Getting grounded in the opto-neural lobby... Time to take a few deep breaths and admire the wood grain.

Sign captures my mood

I have spent most of the day fixing the electrics on my tractor. They are now fixed, and, in fact, significantly better than they ever have been – even a real fuse box.
Having fixed it, I hauled one log out of the wood and ran it out of diesel.
Bother.

On Neighbourhood Cross Validation
Simon N. Wood
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16490 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.16490

On Neighbourhood Cross Validation
It is shown how to efficiently and accurately compute and optimize a range of cross validation criteria for a wide range of models estimated by minimizing a quadratically penalized smooth loss. Example models include generalized additive models for location scale and shape and smooth additive quantile regression. Example losses include negative log likelihoods and smooth quantile losses. Example cross validation criteria include leave-out-neighbourhood cross validation for dealing with un-model…

Living the city life now and looking at all of your pictures, I am coining a new Mastodon day:
#FOMOFriday
At least, I have plenty of memories and unreleased photos. One of them is attached to this post. It was taken about a year ago, in one of the fjords I went to most often.
#Iceland

Spent the evening at a music show by the Elliot Freedman Group.
It was hosted by Notional Space, a gift economy run venue that is a unique private home in my neighbourhood.
I love what Mark & Yumi are doing with the space. We need more like this.
#Vancouver #EastVan

Very nice yet somewhat unsatisfying weekend. I marked all the wood joints for a new bed platform for the best person in the world on Friday but never found the time to actually cut them over the last days. So the whole project has to wait until next weekend. Sigh.

Lossless and Near-Lossless Compression for Foundation Models
Moshik Hershcovitch, Leshem Choshen, Andrew Wood, Ilias Enmouri, Peter Chin, Swaminathan Sundararaman, Danny Harnik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15198

Lossless and Near-Lossless Compression for Foundation Models
With the growth of model sizes and scale of their deployment, their sheer size burdens the infrastructure requiring more network and more storage to accommodate these. While there is a vast literature about reducing model sizes, we investigate a more traditional type of compression -- one that compresses the model to a smaller form and is coupled with a decompression algorithm that returns it to its original size -- namely lossless compression. Somewhat surprisingly, we show that such lossless …

Emittance preservation in a plasma-wakefield accelerator
C. A. Lindstr{\o}m, J. Beinortait\.e, J. Bj\"orklund Svensson, L. Boulton, J. Chappell, S. Diederichs, B. Foster, J. M. Garland, P. Gonz\'alez Caminal, G. Loisch, F. Pe\~na, S. Schr\"oder, M. Th\'evenet, S. Wesch, M. Wing, J. C. Wood, R. D'Arcy, J. Osterhoff
https://

Emittance preservation in a plasma-wakefield accelerator
Radio-frequency particle accelerators are engines of discovery, powering high-energy physics and photon science, but are also large and expensive due to their limited accelerating fields. Plasma-wakefield accelerators (PWFAs) provide orders-of-magnitude stronger fields in the charge-density wave behind a particle bunch travelling in a plasma, promising particle accelerators of greatly reduced size and cost. However, PWFAs can easily degrade the beam quality of the bunches they accelerate. Emitt…

"Factcheck: 18 misleading myths about heat pumps"
#HeatPumps #Energy
https://www.

Factcheck: 18 misleading myths about heat pumps - Carbon Brief
Heat pumps are an alternative to gas boilers and wood stoves for indoor heating. They...

"Can you take a look at my bike? My chain was skipping almost all the way home."
"Sure. The drivetrain's pretty old, it's probably time.." *looks* "What the fuck?? How did..?!"
#BikeTooter #CatBikeMechanicsOfMastodon…

Something historical today.
"""
This is Casimir the Great.
He found Poland in wood, but left it in brick and mortar. He built, instead of destroying.
Casimir was Great.
Be Great.
Be like Casimir.
"""
Sieradz, 2016.

East Notes: Phillies, Wood, Means
#MLB #Baseball #MLBTradeRumors

The stream and waterfall went silent for a bit today. 🤫 💦 Gave the ponds a full spring cleaning. I am surprised by how low-maintenace they have been. I clean the filter and grab detritus out of the bottom twice a year, spring and fall. Today I rescued one of the 7 goldifsh in the bttom pond from the filter box. We noticed it was missing about 3 weeks ago so he's been in fishy prison all that time! 🐟 😆 Seems no worse for wear. There are 4 in the top pond.

I've never been to #Europapark on regular opening days, but I think it already looks very chic at #CloudFest!

Calling criticism of #China "yellow journalism" and then writing an article full of unabashed #China praise and zero mention of #Uyghur forced labor (a key component of cheap solar)...is something.
Reali…

Yellow journalism and China - Climate and Capital Media
China added more solar panels last year than the U.S. has in its entire history

Resolving Red Giant Winds with the Hubble Space Telescope
Brian E. Wood, Graham M. Harper, Hans-Reinhard Mueller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15086 https://<…

Resolving Red Giant Winds with the Hubble Space Telescope
We describe recent spectroscopic observations of red giant stars made by the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) instrument on board the Hubble Space Telescope, which have provided spatially resolved observations of the warm chromospheric winds that predominate for early K to mid-M giants. The H I Lyman-alpha lines of a set of 11 red giants observed with the STIS/E140M echelle grating are first analyzed to ascertain wind H I column densities and total wind mass-loss rates. The M giants …

I won't be surprised if this ends up being burning wood pellets again once I get to the bottom of which power station(s) it is though.
https://hostux.social/@bitfolk/111955777058318343

This is something I completely agree with!
https://worldkey.io/@PhilGastwirth/111980879040550803
Remember, your admins/co-admins work hard to do many things for you have an enjoyable place to call home. Donating just a couple of dollars a month goes a long w…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.05586 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Milnor-Wood inequality for klt varieties of general type and uniformization
We generalize the definition of the Toledo invariant for representations of fundamental groups of smooth varieties of general type due to Koziarz and Maubon to the context of singular klt varieties, where the natural fundamental groups to consider are those of smooth loci. Assuming that the rank of the target Lie group is not greater than two, we show that the Toledo invariant satisfies a Milnor-Wood type inequality and we characterize the corresponding maximal representations.

Find The Warmest Spots
Happy Caturday!
It’s a cold winter day. If you want to find the warmest spots in the house, look for the cats. Badger prefers to sit in the warmest place in the house, right at the top of the logpile next to the woodstove. She is the kindest and most caring, gentlest of all, always wearing this look of sincere concern. Read about them all on the post here:

Find The Warmest Spots - Ellie Kennard
It’s a cold winter day. If you want to find the warmest spots in the house, look for the cats. Badger prefers to sit in the warmest place in the house, right at the top of the logpile next to the woodstove. She is the kindest and most caring, gentlest of all, always wearing this […]

Chinatown KL w/ hip book store in an old cinema.
#streetphotography #photography #malaysia

Object permanence in newborn chicks is robust against opposing evidence
Justin N. Wood, Tomer D. Ullman, Brian W. Wood, Elizabeth S. Spelke, Samantha M. W. Wood
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14641

Object permanence in newborn chicks is robust against opposing evidence
Newborn animals have advanced perceptual skills at birth, but the nature of this initial knowledge is unknown. Is initial knowledge flexible, continuously adapting to the statistics of experience? Or can initial knowledge be rigid and robust to change, even in the face of opposing evidence? We address this question through controlled-rearing experiments on newborn chicks. First, we reared chicks in an impoverished virtual world, where objects never occluded one another, and found that chicks st…

Lenovo plans to release the Legion Tab, an 8.8" Android gaming tablet currently available in China, in EMEA and other Asian markets this month, starting at €599 (Dashiell Wood/TechRadar)
https://www.techradar.com/gaming/the-leno…

The Lenovo Legion Tab gaming tablet is going to be available outside of China for the first time
It's set to arrive in March

Vacation: am I doing it right?

No spam here... knocks on wood

3-person #Gaslands with a budget.
Me with ram, turreted machine gun, loose grenades (orange car). PJ got a car & motorcycle. Eric with two motorcycles and a turreted dune buggy.
Out of the gate he made a measuring error and killed one of his two motorcycles on the side of my car.
Chain reaction of collisions, explosions, gunfire behind my car, with only one of each of their moto…

it’s always amusing to struggle describing an object of which I don’t know the English name, only to find out that I already knew the name, just in a different context.
Today was “bracket”, as in:
> a piece of metal, wood, or plastic, usually L-shaped, that is fastened to a wall and used to support something such as a shelf

There is a wood pigeon cooing outside my kitchen.
Insistently.
I should tell it that its call is used as shorthand for the tranquility of the natural world.
It is doing brand damage.

Modeling wood product carbon flows in southern us pine plantations: implications for carbon storage
https://cbmjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13021-024-00254-4

Modeling wood product carbon flows in southern us pine plantations: implications for carbon storage - Carbon Balance and Management
Background Wood products continue to store carbon sequestered in forests after harvest and therefore play an important role in the total carbon storage associated with the forest sector. Trade-offs between carbon sequestration/storage in wood product pools and managed forest systems exist, and in order for forest sector carbon modeling to be meaningful, it must link wood product carbon with the specific forest system from which the products originate and have the ability to incorporate in situ …

Spent the evening at a music show by the Elliot Freedman Group.
It was hosted by Notional Space, a gift economy run venue that is a unique private home in my neighbourhood.
I love what Mark & Yumi are doing with the space. We need more like this.
#Vancouver #EastVan

Great Moments in Parenting
On vacation. Have spent a half hour in a damp courtyard among several cottages, trying to get damp wood to stay alight in the shared fire pit for s'mores.
The child, already, uh, less than helpful, emerges from our cottage and shouts across the courtyard
"Dad! Mom says you're incapable!"
And of course, the fire goes completely out immediately.
"You know, that sentence makes none of us look good, kid."

Modeling wood product carbon flows in southern us pine plantations: implications for carbon storage
https://cbmjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13021-024-00254-4

Modeling wood product carbon flows in southern us pine plantations: implications for carbon storage - Carbon Balance and Management
Background Wood products continue to store carbon sequestered in forests after harvest and therefore play an important role in the total carbon storage associated with the forest sector. Trade-offs between carbon sequestration/storage in wood product pools and managed forest systems exist, and in order for forest sector carbon modeling to be meaningful, it must link wood product carbon with the specific forest system from which the products originate and have the ability to incorporate in situ …

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood -
I took the one that led to a saloon,
And that has made all the difference.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to undo sanctions against several #lawyers allied with Donald Trump for filing a #meritless lawsuit challenging Michigan’s 2020 presidential election results. 
Lawyers Sidney #Powell, Lin

Supreme Court declines to undo sanctions on pro-Trump 2020 campaign lawyers
The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to undo sanctions against several lawyers allied with former President Trump for filing a meritless lawsuit challenging Michigan’s 2020 presidential election results.  Lawyers Sidney Powell, Lin Wood and others brought the lawsuit against Michigan state officials and Detroit in November 2020, one of dozens of suits filed in an…

Defective and Clustered Colouring of Graphs with Given Girth
Marcin Bria\'nski, Robert Hickingbotham, David R. Wood
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14940 ht…

Defective and Clustered Colouring of Graphs with Given Girth
The defective chromatic number of a graph class $\mathcal{G}$ is the minimum integer $k$ such that for some integer $d$, every graph in $\mathcal{G}$ is $k$-colourable such that each monochromatic component has maximum degree at most $d$. Similarly, the clustered chromatic number of a graph class $\mathcal{G}$ is the minimum integer $k$ such that for some integer $c$, every graph in $\mathcal{G}$ is $k$-colourable such that each monochromatic component has at most $c$ vertices. This paper deter…

He had discovered a lot of things he liked about cats after having one around for months but one of his favorites was that you didn’t have to bend over to put one down. All the dogs he had known in his life were like spastic sacks of potatoes and if you tossed one down they were just as likely to land tits up as paws down. He liked an animal that could take care of itself. Well worth the occasional hairball on one’s pillow.
from A Song of Wood and Meat, by Kevin Bowersox

SO CUTE
#jupiter #catsodon #CatsOfMastodon

"Loggers have ‘grabbed’ around 1m hectares of Indigenous land in DRC"
#Trees #Wood #Logging

Loggers have 'grabbed' around 1m hectares of Indigenous land in DRC - Carbon Brief
Large swathes of land in the global south are managed by local communities and Indigenous people, but their land rights are under threat

Stripling Follows Wood to Oakland in Bay Area Swap
#MLB #Baseball #Fangraphs

Good morning and happy Tuesday #Fediverse
How are we all doing today? Tell me about your plans for the day today or what you've already done today.
Usual work stuff for me, with a meeting at 12pm as is the case every Tuesday. After that, not much else planned other than to rest and relax and just enjoy the evening.

Avian flu outbreak raises a disturbing question:
Is our food system built on poop?
If it’s true that you are what you eat, then most beef-eating Americans consist of a smattering of poultry feathers, urine, feces, wood chips and chicken saliva, among other food items.
As epidemiologists scramble to figure out how dairy cows throughout the Midwest became infected with a strain of highly pathogenic avian flu
— a disease that has decimated hundreds of millions of wild a…

As avian flu spreads, a disturbing question: Is our food system built on poop?
News that Midwestern dairy cows may have become infected with avian flu by eating poultry waste has many asking: What are American farm animals being fed? And should we be concerned?

🌳 Seeing the wood for the trees: How archaeologists use hazelnuts to reconstruct ancient woodlands
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-wood-trees-archaeologists-hazelnuts-reconstruct.html

Seeing the wood for the trees: How archaeologists use hazelnuts to reconstruct ancient woodlands
If we could stand in a landscape that our Mesolithic ancestors called home, what would we see around us? Scientists have devised a method of analyzing preserved hazelnut shells to tell us whether the microhabitats around archaeological sites were heavily forested or open and pasture-like. This could help us understand not only what a local environment looked like thousands of years ago, but how humans have impacted their habitats over time.

Grid Minors and Products
Vida Dujmovi\'c, Pat Morin, David Wood, David Worley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14181 https://arxiv.org/…

Grid Minors and Products
Motivated by recent developments regarding the product structure of planar graphs, we study relationships between treewidth, grid minors, and graph products. We show that the Cartesian product of any two connected $n$-vertex graphs contains an $Ω(\sqrt{n})\timesΩ(\sqrt{n})$ grid minor. This result is tight: The lexicographic product (which includes the Cartesian product as a subgraph) of a star and any $n$-vertex tree has no $ω(\sqrt{n})\timesω(\sqrt{n})$ grid minor.

Who wood play with it?
#Drums #DrumKit

Good morning #Fediverse
How is everyone doing today and how was the weekend?
It's a new week, a new Monday, so let's talk about what the day has in store for us as well as the week ahead.
For me, it's work stuff and of course there is a meeting at 12pm EST, but it should be a good one so nothing to stress over.
I have a work assignment due by end of da…