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🫁 Decades-old asthma theory challenged: Newly discovered molecules may be real drivers of disease
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10-decades-asthma-theory-newly-molecules.html

Decades-old asthma theory challenged: Newly discovered molecules may be real drivers of disease
For decades, scientists have thought they understood the biochemical machinery that causes asthma—inflammation in the lungs that constricts airways and makes it hard to breathe.

“Apple is now treating federal agents—who are public employees exercising government power—as if they’re a vulnerable minority group in need of protection from ‘discrimination.’ This isn’t just a misapplication of content policies; it’s a fundamental inversion of what those policies were designed to do.”

Apple Decides ICE Agents Are A Protected Class, Because Apparently Government Accountability Is Now “Hate Speech”
Just when you think corporate content moderation can’t get any more absurd, Apple has managed to redefine “protected class” in a way that would make Orwell proud. According to int…

"For decades, reading instruction in American schools has been rooted in a flawed theory about how reading works, a theory that was debunked decades ago by cognitive scientists, yet remains deeply embedded in teaching practices and curriculum materials."
https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2019/08/22/whats-wrong-how-schools-teach-reading
(via https://bsky.app/profile/sarahjeong.bsky.social/post/3m5eqpr2hns2z)

Observation of deuteron and antideuteron formation from resonance-decay #nucleons / „So entstehen leichte Atomkerne“: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09775-5 / https://www.weltderphysik.de/gebiet/teilchen/experimente/teilchenbeschleuniger/cern-lhc/alice-raetsel-der-teilchenphysik-geloest/ -> Decades-old mystery in particle physics solved: https://www.tum.de/en/news-and-events/all-news/press-releases/details/decades-old-mystery-in-particle-physics-solved

President Trump letting Nvidia sell advanced AI chips to China reverses decades of US tech restrictions on its adversaries, giving China a boost in the AI race (David E. Sanger/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/us/politics/trump-nvidia-ai-chip…

Trump’s Nvidia Chip Deal Reverses Decades of Technology Restrictions
President Trump’s decision to allow Nvidia to sell its chips to China has raised questions about whether he is prioritizing short-term economic gain over long-term American security interests.

LOL right-Ctl no longer exists on Windows laptops, that’s now the CoPilot key.
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7381341532349661184

Rant: Microsoft took away my right ctrl key and won't give it back. I don't know about you, but I work with typed text a lot. And over past decades I've developed habits. One of them is navigating… | Kuba Wojciak | 10 comments
Rant: Microsoft took away my right ctrl key and won't give it back. I don't know about you, but I work with typed text a lot. And over past decades I've developed habits. One of them is navigating over text with cursor keys while holding right ctrl key down. For those of you who don't do it: it skips over entire words. Now ALL of the Windows laptops you can buy come with a Copilot key replacing right ctrl. On a vanilla machine I end up getting Copilot popups all the time, as I habitually rea…

✊🏽 Nepal’s youth uprising explained: Decades of corruption reach a tipping point
https://globalvoices.org/2025/10/14/nepals-youth-uprising-explained-decades-of-corruption-reach-a-tipping-point/

Nepal’s youth uprising explained: Decades of corruption reach a tipping point
Will the protests launched in 2025 mark the beginning of a journey towards reform or simply be the latest chapter in Nepal’s long narrative of hope and disappointment?

from my link log —
The unlikely revival of nuclear batteries.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/nuclear-battery-revival
saved 2025-08-25

Nuclear Batteries: Energy Storage for Decades
Nuclear batteries that last decades are being developed to power drones, sensors, remote devices and medical implants. Energy storage at its extreme.

On the decimal digits of $1/p$
Kurt Girstmair
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07873 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.07873

On the decimal digits of $1/p$
Let $p$ be a prime $\equiv 3$ mod 4, $p>3$, and suppose that 10 has the order $(p-1)/2$ mod p. Then $1/p$ has a decimal period of length $(p-1)/2$. We express the frequency of each digit $0,\LD,9$ in this period in terms of the class numbers of two imaginary quadratic number fields. We also exhibit certain analogues of this result, so for the case that 10 is a primitive root mod $p$ and for octal digits of $1/p$.

Iran plans water cuts for Tehran amid worst drought in decades
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20251108-iran-plans-water-cuts-for-tehran-amid-worst-drought-in-decades