Russian ELVIS V brain implant for restoring vision https://elvis-tech.ru/elvisv_en "After implantation, patients undergo a rehabilitation course, which may last 6 months and include activities to teach the new 'vision' from simple to complex."
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Elvis Costello:
🎵 Waiting for the End of the World
#ElvisCostello
https://ryanallen.bandcamp.com/track/waiting-for-the-end-of-the-world-elvis-costello
https://open.spotify.com/track/3nSgRpyy7gujpUSIsdECvO
Strong progenitor age bias in supernova #cosmology – I. Robust and ubiquitous evidence from a larger sample of host galaxies in a broader redshift range / II. Alignment with DESI BAO and signs of a non-accelerating universe: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/538/4/3340/8098234 / https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/544/1/975/8281988 -> Universe's expansion 'is now slowing, not speeding up': https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/research-highlights/universes-expansion-now-slowing-not-speeding (this has been claimed by the group since at least 2023 - http://vietnam.in2p3.fr/2023/windows/transparencies/02_tuesday/Astro_5/01_Son.pdf - and is rejected by the SN cosmology community as https://bsky.app/profile/astromarc.bsky.social/post/3m4xmikwfds26 explains).
⏰ Fear of desynchronization: Why doesn’t Europe abolish daylight saving time?
https://english.elpais.com/society/2025-10-24/fear-of-desynchronization-why-doesnt-europe-abolish-daylight-saving-time.html
JWST-TST DREAMS - NIRSpec/PRISM Transmission Spectroscopy of the Habitable Zone Planet TRAPPIST-1 e & Secondary Atmosphere Constraints for the Habitable Zone Planet TRAPPIST-1 e / The Photochemical Plausibility of Warm Exo-Titans Orbiting M Dwarf Stars: #TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized, habitable-zone exoplanet: https://news.arizona.edu/news/new-look-trappist-1e-earth-sized-habitable-zone-exoplanet
🍌 Indigenous Guatemalans denounce exploitation on Mexican farms: ‘Bananas are worth more than us’
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-11-07/indigenous-guatemalans-denounce-exploita…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
Elvis Presley:
🎵 Tomorrow Is a Long Time
#ElvisPresley
https://open.spotify.com/track/79PoTBkb6jXtEigTpwzPod
💥 Cyclones, mines and a murder: The cursed story of the floating hotel that traveled the Pacific and ended up in North Korea
https://english.elpais.com/opinion/2025-11-…
UV-dark polar ovals on #Jupiter as tracers of magnetosphere–atmosphere connections: https://de.slideshare.net/slideshow/uv-dark-polar-ovals-on-jupiter-as-tracers-of-magnetosphere-atmosphere-connections/273806682 or https://researchportal.northumbria.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/176663394/tsubota_manuscript_revision1_complete.pdf (sorry, found these OA versions only now) -> Magnetic Tornado Is Stirring Up the Haze at Jupiter’s Poles: https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/news/magnetic-tornado-stirring-haze-jupiters-poles - unusual magnetically driven vortices may be generating Earth-size concentrations of hydrocarbon haze.
📉 Fossil fuel decline, though still nascent, is already hitting countries leading the electric vehicle boom like China and Norway
https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2025-09-20/batteries-bite-into-o…