Vaishali just after defeating Lagno

Vaishali beats Lagno and wins the tournament outright to face Ju Wenjun later this year. Her younger brother had a tougher run in the open event

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

Guardian article on the new paper: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

www.iap-kborn.de/aktuelles/na...

That was resolved with the standard model, with six quarks, six leptons, their antiparticles and some bosons. Now everything is quite simple again, and theory and reality agree very well.

But then the elementary particles started to multiply, and in the 1960s people people spoke of a zoo of particles, with history repeating itself. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particl...

Nature didn't care for his wishes and we now know > 100 chemical elements. But a little more than a hundred years later it was discovered that atoms are not indivisible, as their name implies, but consist of electrons, protons and neutrons, so there we have just three parts, nice and simple.

Final words of the scientific article "Undersökning af en svart tung Stenart ifrån Ytterby Stenbrott i Roslagen" by Johan Gadolin: "[…] ock emedan jag håler före at Vetenskapen skulle ske en större tjenst, om de flere, i senare åren af Chemici beskrifne nya jordarter kunde uplösas i enklare bestånds delar, än at de enklas antal än vidare ökas."

Johan Gadolin: "[…] because I'm of the opinion that science would be served better, if the multiple, in recent years by chemists discovered new elements could be resolved into simpler parts, than by increasing even more the number of elements." (my translation)

One of those Sigma Euro antennas?

There are some more in a similar spirit, A053873 and A053169: oeis.org/wiki/Index_t...

Probably due to absorption in the D layer, though I'm not 100% sure how it affects really long waves that travel mostly by ground wave. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionosph...

Honestly, the great crisis of our society is the unwillingness of institutions to inflict consequences.

Impeach the president, fire the sex pests, expel cheating students, excommunicate an unrepentant heretic, prosecute the war criminals.

Believe in your institution enough to enforce its rules.

Auf Openstreetmap kann man die Grenze zwischen den Stadtbezirken Altstadt I und Menden-Holthausen auch noch sehen.

I could add a Thunderbolt PCIe Expansion Chassis, if the need arises.

"Using energy crisis as catalyst for dramatic transport policy change not unprecedented
Bike-friendliness of cities like CPH & Amsterdam can be attributed in part to '73 oil crisis, which derailed cities’ plans to widen streets, remove bike lanes & build expansive highways"

@sarahholder.bsky.social

Condensing some unstructured mass of data into a small amount of information and then let humans verify and write it up seems quite sensible.

In Python:
>>> 854.3 + 0.3 + 0.3 + 0.3
855.1999999999998
#floating-point #math

Probably a hash collision, they have the same 10-bit hash code.

Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It. 40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.

This is a great list of techniques for getting real information out of a Google search and avoiding AI slop and paid results.
(One thing not included is that if you add "-ai" to a search, you block the AI summary) cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

Socialist Emmanuel Grégoire elected Paris mayor, as National Rally fails to take key cities City hall veteran beats rightwinger Rachida Dati in French capital, while far-right RN fails to win Marseille and Toulon in French local elections

At least in Paris that anti-cycling propaganda didn't catch on. Reducing the number of cars improves the quality of life for everybody. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

www.povelramelsallskapet.se/index.php?ac...

Somehow through that disturbed ionosphere a wormhole opened and I got my first contact with Australia, 5W FT8 on 20m with a λ/4 vertical. #hamradio #ft8 #spaceweather

Ukraine led the “red team” during NATO’s REPMUS/Dynamic Messenger naval exercise off the coast of Portugal, where Magura V7 sea drones simulated the sinking of an allied frigate during a convoy attack scenario. The Ukrainian-led force won all five exercise scenarios against NATO naval units #Ukraine

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

Media & police commonly report that “speed wasn’t a factor in a crash.” What they mean is the driver wasn’t technically breaking the speed limit, or at least not too much.

But speed is ALWAYS a factor, in how much distance is needed to stop, how well crash victims can be seen, and whether they die.

At the peak of the Cold War, one woman mounted her bicycle in Ireland and headed for India via Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. She emerged knowing “that for all the horrible chaos of [politics] this world is full of kindness” www.themarginalian.org/2026/03/07/d...

Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.

State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.

www.wired.com/story/gramma...

Weltgipfel für Kernenergie in Paris: Von der Leyen nennt Abkehr von Atomkraft einen "strategischen Fehler" Die EU-Kommissionspräsidentin hat Investitionen in Atomtechnologien angekündigt und den geplanten Atomausstieg kritisiert. Emmanuel Macron plant, Atomenergie auszubauen.

Es gibt genau einen einzigen Grund, warum Atomkraftwerke Sinn machen können: wenn man Atomwaffen herstellen möchte. Die reine Stromerzeugung ist völlig unwirtschaftlich, und das weiß auch von der Leyen.
www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...

Noch eine Bombe im Duisburger Hauptbahnhof! Bahnstrecke und A59 werden gesperrt Eine Bombenentschärfung legt am Mittwoch erneut den Hauptbahnhof in Duisburg lahm. Auch die A59 wird gesperrt. 6600 Anwohner sind betroffen. Wir berichten live.

And another one at Duisburg central station (a major rail hub BTW). This time it's a 500kg bomb that will be defused by controlled explosion, evacuation radius is 600m. www.waz.de/lokales/duis...