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Nielsen plans to give panelists wearable devices that capture audio to better count viewers in bars, hotels, and offices, starting with the Super Bowl (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/nielsen-super-bowl-measurement-…

Nielsen Will Use Super Bowl to Test New Measurement of Live Crowds
Nielsen Will Use Super Bowl to Test New Measurement of Live Crowds That Could Boost Sports, News, Specials

The first detection of cosmic-ray excited H2 in #interstellar space: https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20168 -> Cosmic Radiation Brought to Light: https://www.uni-due.de/2026-02-03-first-time-measurement-of-ionisation-in-dark-cloud

So according to initial measurements, this month so far I've generated... five percent of my total house/lab energy demand (I'm 100% electric, no gas) from solar lol.
That's honestly not half bad considering it's winter with the sun low in the sky the few hours it's up at all, and we've had pretty much 100% cloud cover. I actually got up to 47% of my instantaneous usage from the array at peak.
Far from grid independent but it's a step in the right dire…

Yes, this is exactly what it looks like. RJ45 probe fixture -> ThunderScope -> ngscopeclient -> eye measurements and protocol decodes -> Wireshark.
At >80% of real time, and we're closing in on the last few bottlenecks rapidly.

Thanksgiving NFL games averaged nearly 45M viewers each, up from 34.5M in 2024, driven by enhanced Nielsen measurement; streaming averaged 2.2M viewers, up 58% (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/04/nfl-games-chiefs-cowboys-thanksgiving-record

NFL shatters Thanksgiving Day viewership records
The nail-biter between the Dallas Cowboys and the Kansas City Chiefs is now the most-watched regular season game of all time.

Analyses of the Ancient Chinese Report on the Total #SolarEclipse in 709 BCE - Implications for the Contemporaneous Earth’s Rotation Speed and Solar Cycles: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae0461 -> Humanity’s earliest datable record for a total solar eclipse allows scientists to derive accurate measurements of Earth’s ancient rotation speed and provides independent validation of solar cycle reconstruction in the 8th century BCE: https://en.nagoya-u.ac.jp/news/articles/historical-geography-helps-researchers-solve-2700-year-old-eclipse-mystery/

If you're interested in how I quantified natural #CO2 emissions from "mofettes" near #Tübingen with a low-cost sensor network, and want to join my PhD defense tomorrow at 10:00, DM me here and i might send you the link (if I don't forget it 😅).
I'll be mostly talking about …

Quantification of natural CO2 emissions from mofettes using a low-cost sensor network at the Starzach site in South-West Germany
We present a top-down method to derive CO2 emissions from mofettes, using only point measurement time series at irregular locations. Notably, no wind vector information is needed, as gas transport is derived from cross-correlations between sensor stations and subsequently integrated using Gauss’ divergence theorem. The method is applied to an existing low-cost sensor network at the Starzach site near the Black Forest in Germany, for which no comprehensive estimate of the total emissions exist…

New pre-print out: "Types, equations, dimensions and the Pi theorem".
We formalized the covariance principle (physical laws must be independent of units) as a homomorphism between the algebra of physical quantities and real numbers.
While the Pi Theorem from Dimensional Analysis (DA) is non-constructive, we introduce a constructive method for applying it. This could enable DA-driven program derivation where the type checker helps identify valid physical laws.
📝 Bl…

IAB announces a tool that lets device manufacturers confirm that ad impressions are associated with real devices; Google, Apple, and Amazon have signed on (Anthony Vargas/AdExchanger)
https://www.adexchanger.com/tv/ctv-manufacturers-have-a-new-t…

CTV Manufacturers Have A New Tool For Catching Spoofed Devices
The Open Measurement SDK now provides a scaled way for original device manufacturers to confirm that ad impressions are associated with real devices.

The first four episodes of Stranger Things 5 were the second-biggest premiere for any Netflix original series, behind only the second season of Squid Game (Rick Porter/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-new…

‘Stranger Things 5’ Scores Netflix’s Second Biggest Premiere Week Ever for a Series
Only season two of ‘Squid Game’ has had a better opening in the streamer’s internal measurement.