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ONLINE SEMINAR: Nature and Boundaries: Water, Space, and the Sensory Experience of the Rus'-Steppe Frontier (1050s–1100s) https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20135270/online-seminar-nature-and-boundaries-water-spac…

We each have different needs, different boundaries, and different ways of thinking about what's important to us.
I once dated someone who wouldn't kiss anyone other than her husband, and had random sex with strangers. Kissing for her was extremely intimate, but safe sex was like candy.
I spent more than 10 years thinking about what I wanted in a tattoo, and what it meant to have that permanently inked into my skin. A friend had a childhood cartoon character tattooed on h…

I’ve worked over the past year to reduce the amount of noise in my consciousness on a daily basis.
By that I mean - information noise, not literal sounds “noise”. (That problem was solved long ago by some good earplugs and noise canceling earphones.)
I’ve gotten used to spending less time on social media, regularly blocking most apps on my devices (anything with a feed news, most work communication apps, etc.), putting my phone and other devices aside for extended periods of time. Often go to work places with my iPad explicitly having its WiFi turned off and selecting cafes that don’t offer WiFi at all.
Negotiated better boundaries at work and in personal life where I exchange messages with people less often but try to make those interactions more meaningful, and people rarely expect me to respond to requests in less than 24 hours. Spent a lot of time setting up custom notification settings on all apps that would allow it, so I get fewer pings. With software, choosing fewer cloud-based options and using tools that are simple and require as few interruptions as possible.
Accustomed myself to lower-tech versions of doing things I like to do: reading on paper, writing by hand, drawing in physical sketchbooks, got a typewriter for typing without a screen. Choosing to call people on audio more, trying to make more of an effort to see people in person. Going to museums to look at art instead of browsing Pinterest. Defaulting to the library when looking for information.
I’m commenting on this now for two reasons:
1. I am pretty proud of myself for how much I’ve actually managed to reduce the constant stream of modern life esp. as a remote worker in tech!
2. Now that I’ve reached a breaking point of reducing enough noise that it’s NOTICEABLE - I am struck by the silence. I don’t know what to do with it. I don’t know how to navigate it and fill it. I made this space to be able to read and write and think more deeply - for now I feel stuck in limbo where I’m just reacquainting myself with the concept of having any space in my mind at all.

ONLINE SEMINAR: Nature and Boundaries: Water, Space, and the Sensory Experience of the Rus'-Steppe Frontier (1050s–1100s)
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Old article, but I just came across it. Wonderful surrealist photographs.
A House Is Not a Home: the self-portraits of Brooke DiDonato – in pictures | Art and design | The Guardian
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Spatial and Temporal Boundaries in Difference-in-Differences: A Framework from Navier-Stokes Equation
Tatsuru Kikuchi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11013 https://

Spatial and Temporal Boundaries in Difference-in-Differences: A Framework from Navier-Stokes Equation
This paper develops a unified framework for identifying spatial and temporal boundaries of treatment effects in difference-in-differences designs. Starting from fundamental fluid dynamics equations (Navier-Stokes), we derive conditions under which treatment effects decay exponentially in space and time, enabling researchers to calculate explicit boundaries beyond which effects become undetectable. The framework encompasses both linear (pure diffusion) and nonlinear (advection-diffusion with che…

There hasn't been nearly enough coverage of this.
Seven of nine planetary boundaries now breached – ocean acidification joins the danger zone — Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/…

"If any of the work, that any of us do, contributes to the stretching of culture, the stretching of boundaries of empathy that’s expected of an audience… that’s the holy grail."
—Riz Ahmed
#acting #coaching

Resolving the Structural Duality of Graphene Grain Boundaries
Haojie Guo, Emiliano Ventura-Mac\'ias, Mariano D. Jim\'enez-S\'anchez, Nicoleta Nicoara, Pierre Mallet, Jean-Yves Veuillen, Vincent T. Renard, Antonio J. Mart\'inez-Galera, Pablo Pou, Julio G\'omez-Herrero, Rub\'en P\'erez, Iv\'an Brihuega
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Resolving the Structural Duality of Graphene Grain Boundaries
Grain boundaries (GBs) are ubiquitous in large-scale graphene samples, playing a crucial role in their overall performance. Due to their complexity, they are usually investigated as model structures, under the assumption of a fully relaxed interface. Here, we present cantilever-based non-contact atomic force microscopy (ncAFM) as a suitable technique to resolve, atom by atom, the complete structure of these linear defects. Our experimental findings reveal a richer scenario than expected, with t…