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As food insecurity creeps up, data helps food banks cater to those in need - Route Fifty
https://www.route-fifty.com/management/2025/06/food-insecurity-creeps-data-helps-food-banks-cater-those-need/405891/

Load-Dependent Power-Law Exponent in Creep Rupture of Heterogeneous Materials
Chlo\'e Braux, Antoine B\'erut, Lo\"ic Vanel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06145

Load-Dependent Power-Law Exponent in Creep Rupture of Heterogeneous Materials
Creep tests on heterogeneous materials under subcritical loading typically show a power-law decaying strain rate before failure, with the exponent often considered material-dependent but independent of applied stress. By imposing successive small stress relaxations through a displacement feedback loop, we probe creep dynamics and show experimentally that this exponent varies with both applied load and loading direction. Simulations of a disordered fiber bundle model reproduce this load dependen…

Watching Control Freak with Kelly Marie Tran. Creepy and good. Lynchian almost.
#film #films

Control Freak (2025)
A motivational speaker, plagued by an uncontrollable itch on her head, becomes infected with a parasitic demon from her homeland.

Sometimes real images give you that creepy GenAI vibe: https://images.sanoma-sndp.fi/3e3768287b3149470df5c75f97472a8e/normal/1920.avif (from https://www.hs.fi/tiede/art-2000011153444.html)

Droughts are a ‘slow-moving global catastrophe,’ report finds https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/droughts-are-a-slow-moving-global-catastrophe-report-finds/

Droughts are a ‘slow-moving global catastrophe,’ report finds
“Drought is a silent killer. It creeps in, drains resources and devastates lives in slow motion,” said Ibrahim Thiaw, executive secretary of the U.N. Convention to Combat Desertification. “Its scars run deep.” A comprehensive new report released this week documents what experts call some of the most widespread and damaging droughts in recorded history, affecting […]

Zuckerberg’s new Meta AI app gets personal in a very creepy way
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/05/meta-ai-privacy/
(Or :

"The #Fascists, #Autocrats, and #Dictators Looking to #Ruin Our

Severe Plastic Deformation of Ceramics by High-Pressure Torsion: Review of Principles and Applications
Kaveh Edalati, Jacqueline Hidalgo-Jim\'enez, Thanh Tam Nguyen, Hadi Sena, Nariman Enikeev, Gerda Rogl, Valery I. Levitas, Zenji Horita, Michael J. Zehetbauer, Ruslan Z. Valiev, Terence G. Langdon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.…

Severe Plastic Deformation of Ceramics by High-Pressure Torsion: Review of Principles and Applications
Ceramics are typically brittle at ambient conditions due to their covalent or ionic bonding and limited dislocation activities. While plasticity, and occasionally superplasticity, can be achieved in ceramics at high temperatures through thermally activated phenomena, creep, and grain boundary sliding, their deformation at ambient temperature and pressure remains challenging. Processing under high pressure via the high-pressure torsion (HPT) method offers new pathways for severe plastic deformat…

Europe on high alert as surprise early heat wave creeps north https://phys.org/news/2025-07-europe-high-early-north.html
Satellite image shows Southern Europe's land and sea experiencing extreme heat

Europe on high alert as surprise early heat wave creeps north
Schools were partially shut in France, iconic monuments closed to tourists, and cities across Europe put on high alert as a record-breaking early summer heat wave spread across the continent Tuesday.

Effect of alloying additions on the lattice ordering of Ti$_2$AlNb intermetallic
Adilakshmi Chirumamilla, Gopalakrishnan Sai Gautam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03618

Effect of alloying additions on the lattice ordering of Ti$_2$AlNb intermetallic
Alloys based on the orthorhombic-Ti$_2$AlNb intermetallic phase (O-phase) are promising materials for high-temperature applications in jet engines, given that they can potentially replace Ni-based superalloys in some operating regions of the engines. However, the O-phase is prone to lattice disordering at high temperatures, primarily via anti-site defect formation across the Ti and Nb sites, which can reduce the material's creep resistance and high-temperature tensile properties, necessitating …