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Eight arrested as Europe cracks down on lucrative eel smuggling syndicates https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/eight-arrested-as-europe-cracks-down-on-lucrative-eel-smuggling-syndicates/

Eight arrested as Europe cracks down on lucrative eel smuggling syndicates
Authorities in France and Spain have arrested six French nationals and two Spaniards who were allegedly part of a transnational syndicate that were trafficking critically endangered European eels. The suspects are accused of smuggling more than 7 million eels worth 600,000 euros ($693,000) over two years. The joint investigation began a year ago. In March […]

from my link log —
No semicolons needed: a survey of programming language syntaxes.
https://terts.dev/blog/no-semicolons-needed/#lua
saved 2026-03-19

This is the most detailed picture of a human cell ever made 🧪
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DX1CGIZMKJs/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ

Sam Bousaba on Instagram: "This is a single human cell. The white filament-like structures are microtubules, and the small colored particles are ribosomes. Your body contains on the order of ~37 trillion cells. Each cell functions like a highly organized, self-regulating factory operating continuously. There is no central “supervisor”—yet thousands of processes run in parallel with remarkable coordination. Every ribosome is constantly building proteins by linking amino acids together. In eukaryotic (human) cells, a ribosome typically adds about 5–10 amino acids per second (not ~20). Since a single cell can contain millions of ribosomes, protein production is massive—resulting in millions to tens of millions of peptide bonds formed per second per cell. The microtubules act as an internal transport network. Motor proteins such as kinesin move along these tracks, carrying cellular cargo. They “walk” step by step using ATP, at speeds of roughly 500–1000 nanometers per second. Each cell contains a dense network of these filaments, with many motor proteins moving simultaneously. Just beneath the cell membrane lies the actin cortex, a dynamic meshwork that helps maintain cell shape and resist mechanical stress. This structure is continuously remodeled—assembled and disassembled—allowing the cell to adapt to its environment. Now scale this up. Across ~37 trillion cells, each containing millions of ribosomes and hundreds to thousands of mitochondria, your body is constantly producing energy in the form of ATP. Total ATP turnover is enormous—roughly equivalent to your body weight in ATP recycled every day. The DNA in a single human cell, if stretched out, measures about 2 meters. Across all your cells, this would span distances comparable to traveling from Earth to the Sun and back many times (the exact multiple depends on assumptions about cell count and DNA packing). None of these processes are under conscious control. They began when you were a single cell and have continued uninterrupted ever since."
62K likes, 2,387 comments - scienceoftheuniverse on May 2, 2026: "This is a single human cell. The white filament-like structures are microtubules, and the small colored particles are ribosomes. Your body contains on the order of ~37 trillion cells. Each cell functions like a highly organized, self-regulating factory operating continuously. There is no central “supervisor”—yet thousands of processes run in parallel with remarkable coordination. Every ribosome is constantly building prot…

What’s not to like about Nick Singleton for Raiders on day 3 of draft? https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/04/19/whats-not-to-like-about-nick-singleton-for-raiders-on-d…

The single patient record (SPR) will be a national digital record that brings together patients’ health and social care data into a single system, but there's a long history of failed attempts to centralise health data (care.data, GPDPR) - and let's hope #palantir aren't involved.

NHS moves to national patient record system with mandatory data sharing
The government has announced plans to roll out a Single Patient Record (SPR) as part of the NHS Modernisation Bill set out in the King’s ...

small update
When given an Invalid URL, the page now show a error message instead of just hanging there like an idiot.
https://kingu.mrpetovan.com/NowPlaying/songlink.html

Universal Music Link Generator - Song.link Interface
Transform platform-specific music links into universal links that work everywhere. Convert YouTube and Spotify links to song.link URLs with QR codes and custom templates.

Self-focusing of helicity drives finite-time singularities in inviscid flows
Mokhtar Adda-Bedia, Sergio Rica
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17569 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.17569 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.17569
arXiv:2605.17569v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This paper deals with the longstanding quest of the possible existence of finite-time singularities in the equations governing the dynamics of inviscid fluids, namely, Euler equations. Here, two contributions are brought for the case of perfect fluids with finite initial energy. First, a self-similar velocity field inspired by Leray Ansatz is proposed which allows for a separation of variables that transforms the original partial differential Euler equations to a nonlinear system of ordinary differential equations. This system can be solved semi-analytically and allows a continuum set of solutions parametrised by a self-similar exponent, $\nu$. Second, we use the conservation laws of Euler equations to select the possible finite-time singular solutions and the related self-similar exponents. We find that the helicity is the driving mechanism of the blow-up through a self-focusing mechanism. The flow near the singularity separates into two phases. A first phase is within a tubular region that shrinks as a power-law $(t_c-t)^\nu$, with $t_c$ the blow-up time, where the helicity is focused. This region is separated by a sharp interface from an outer region where the vorticity, and thus helicity, is identically zero. We found that the finite-time singularity may be either point-like or line-like depending on the dynamics of the tubular region along its axis of symmetry. Incidentally for a point-like singularity we recover the Leray scaling $\nu=1/2$ paving the way to a generalisation of this approach for the Navier-Stokes equations. Finally, we conjecture that if the helicity vanishes initially, no finite-time singularity would be possible, since in this case the singularity occurs at infinite time from the initial condition.
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Thanks to @… I'm working on the next improvement to my Single-Paddle Morse code key. I thought that adding the stabilizer bar to the bottom had solved the problem of accidentally keying by squeezing the body of the key too firmly, …

In a town hall, PlayStation studio business CEO Hermen Hulst told staff that the company's narrative single-player games will now be PlayStation exclusive (Jason Schreier/@jasonschreier.bsky.social)
https://bsky.app/profile/jasonschreier.bsky.social/post/3mm5jzsls5s…

Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier.bsky.social)
SCOOP: PlayStation studio business CEO Hermen Hulst told staff in a town hall Monday morning that the company's narrative single-player games will now be PlayStation exclusive, confirming Bloomberg's reporting from earlier this year. Original story from March: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-04/sony-pulls-back-from-playstation-games-on-pc?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc3OTEyOTk3MiwiZXhwIjoxNzc5NzM0Nzcy…

Can neurons speak? Semantic narration of vision at single-cell resolution https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.18667

Can neurons speak? Semantic narration of vision at single-cell resolution
Identifying what individual neurons encode in higher-order visual cortex is an open problem. Responses resist intuitive parameterization, and the deep-network embeddings used in their place are black boxes. Here, we introduce NEURRATOR, a framework that decodes spiking activity into free-form natural-language narration of the viewed scene at single-neuron resolution. A learned encoder maps spike trains from arbitrary subsets of simultaneously-recorded neurons into the patch-embedding space of a…