Isaias Wakes Up Atlantic
Hurricane Isaias woke up the Atlantic on Wednesday evening by become the 2026 season's first hurricane.
OpenAI stuns mathematicians with 722 new papers
MathJax = { tex: {inlineMath: [['$', '$'], ['\\(', '\\)']] }, svg: {fontCache: 'global'}};Credit: WaveGenerics; AI-generated Introduction Anyone following recent developments in artificial…
How Pareto optimizations of distances relate to closed convex hulls
The distance preference relation is the preference relation over a metric space where points nearer to the ideal point are preferred. Suppose there are some agents with distance preference relations…
The dark side of the Moon revealed: The flight of Luna 3.
This terrible resolution photo was the first look of something humans had never seen before.
Artemis II Moon Flyby: Lunar Science Results Highlighted
More than 800 gigabytes of Artemis II lunar science data – some of it previously unreleased – was released today, posted to NASA’s Planetary Data System. Most of the images from the mission were…
Extreme Temperature Diary- Wednesday October 7th, 2026/Main Topic: Switzerland’s Largest Glacier Suffers Biggest-ever Melt After Record Heatwave
The main purpose of this ongoing blog will be to track planetary extreme, or record temperatures related to climate change. Any reports I see of ETs will be listed below the main topic of the day.…
Seattle Times Story on Skagit Flooding and Global Warming is Clearly Wrong
It happens again and again. The Seattle Times Climate Lab runs a story claiming global warming will create a dangerous situation. A story that is factually incorrect or grossly exaggerated. And it…
Edison’s 1879 light bulb experiments show graphene may have been an unintentional byproduct
There’s a Canadian connection to Edison’s 1879 light bulb, which I’ll get to later, but first, there’s graphene and the naked light bulb, from a January 23, 2026 news item on…
PUFA peroxidation byproduct and endotoxin/LPS drive ALS and are reliable predictors of its lethality
Yet another lethal condition, for which no known treatment exists or is even in the pharma drug...
Facts About the Arctic in October 2026
The Arctic sea ice refreeze has started with a bang, and JAXA/ViSHOP extent is currently 17th lowest for the date in the satellite era: A large area of the Beaufort Sea melted late and has now…
An estrogen-family receptor (ERRy) drives cancerization, age-related strength decline; blocking ERRy reverses at least the latter
The reintroduction of estrogen hormonal therapy (HRT) may go down in history as one of the biggest...
Open No More
I wrote the post below last week. That was a quaint and quiet time. Last night OpenAI released a treasure trove of 722 manuscripts solving 372 major open problems in mathematics including from…
NECKS FOR DAYS: THE LONG GAME OF GIRAFFE EVOLUTION
Tall, spotty, and just a little bit absurd—let’s talk about the giraffe, nature’s own high-rise browser with a flair for the dramatic.Meet Giraffa camelopardalis, the tallest land animal striding the…
Musings on White Dwarfs and Planetary Survival
A research team at the University of Warwick (UK) has turned up what may be a planet orbiting a white dwarf. That’s an interesting find given the lifetime of white dwarfs after the parent star has…
Do proponents know what “reliably controlled authorship testing” means? (Part 1)
In today’s blog post, I want to explore the question of whether current-day proponents of FC/S2C/RPM fully understand what researchers mean by “reliably controlled testing” and why it’s important in…
Paleoseismology at the upcoming INQUA Congress in India
The XXI INQUA Congress 2027 will take place in Lucknow, India, from 28 January to 3 February, 2027. A lot of paleoseismology and active tectonics will be present, mainly organized by INQUA’s…
Mitch’s Moon: Mare Crisium Through a Nikon P1100
N8XS shot the crescent moon with a Nikon P1100 braced on a mailbox. Claude identified Mare Crisium and checked its size against the photo.
A Fly to Eye
Volucella zonaria , the Hornet Mimic Hoverfly (info and image from Wikipedia )
Positive entropy for Standard Map by Open AI
The September 8 event in mathematics was the solution to a millenium problem. Even more brutal (for me at least) is the October 6 announcement of the solution of hundreds of open mathematics…
Daily Create: Flat Earth
via GIPHY The Daily Create asked us to consider Flat Earth, which led to me to a Flat Earth map site, and then I used Giphy to represent digging a hole in a Flat Earth. Peace (down and up),Kevin
US September “Heat” Was No Record…Many Records Set Decades Ago
“Not a Single Heat Record was Broken in September in the United States. Some Records Going Back to 1881. These Actual Facts Do Not Correlate With the Hottest Month Manipulated Averages the…
Derivative of a Function
In analysis, the derivative is a fundamental tool that is used to determine the rate of change of a function with respect to its independent variable. Along with limits and integrals, it is one of…
Climate data set: REMSS
Here graphs based on the REMSS dataset. Regular updates. Check date in graph.First graph is on the monthly anomalies plus a centered 10 year average. Then the yearly averages on the monthly…
Stop Playing with Hysteresis – pt. 2
In the previous part, we got to know the play hysteron and its cousin the stop hysteron. Today, we’ll take a deeper look on how they behave as a group, and where they can be taken from the…
The Totally Bonkers World of the Ig Nobel Prizes
This week marks the start of the 2026 Nobel Prize announcements for medicine, physics, chemistry, literature and peace. Inspired by all that rather serious prize-giving, I thought I would turn to a…
In Brief: Avi Loeb Says He's Helping the Government Find Recovered Dead Aliens
In an interview with Fox News Channel host Jesse Watters on Monday keyed to so-called UFO whistleblower David Grush's appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience last week, Harvard astronomer and UAP…
Sunflowers have math in them, wtf?
How to pack as many seeds as possible into a sunflower head: Fibonacci
23.7° Celsius
New high temperature record beating previous record of 22.4 degree in 1977.
Heatmapping the Dark Proteome: Visualizing Structural Correlations
The pg_bio autonomous protein swarm has been running silently in the background, mining the Dark Proteome. While the backend vector operations are incredibly fast, raw numerical distance logs aren’t…
A symmetric christmas card
There is something about symmetry that is pleasing in so many ways. Today, I came across an earlier post I wrote about palindromic squares, where I ended with a list of palindromic squares where the…
The Hidden Engineering of Pressure Regulators
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]If you have a fluid-filled system of pipes in your life, whether liquid or gas, (and who among us doesn’t?) there’s a very good…
An Alkalic Enigma
Here's an atomic-physics puzzle: you're given two unmarked vapor cells which are filled with potassium (K) and rubidium (Rb), respectively. How do you tell which is which, without resorting to…
An algorithm for Periodic Frequent Pattern Mining in Uncertain Databases (PPFP-Growth)
Today, I will talk about a recent article that I have participated to as co-author, which has been published in the Applied Intelligence journal a few days ago. I. Hamimid, F. Nouioua, S. Boutouhami,…
The Price of Being Wrong Has Risen
If Swain is tossing his hat in the ring, so am I: it now appears very likely we’ll see a significantly wetter than average 26/27 winter in California. In non-Swain speak: the price of being…
What the Flock is This?
Smile, you're being Flocked! The post What the Flock is This? appeared first on Chuck Zukowski UFO/Paranormal Investigations.
RH Saga Chapter 5.4: Perturbations
There are many situations in the literature in which two Dirichlet series arise which have identical Euler products except at a finite number of primes, where the Euler factors differ. Motivated by…
Why is the human body so crap except for the liver?
Because cancer. “Fragile kidneys are much the same. We could have kidneys that try harder to repair themselves. That’s probably biologically possible. But it would likely mean more kidney…
The Eastern Veil Nebula
I have photographed the Veil Nebula twice before, and it is one of those objects I keep coming back to. Not because it changes rapidly, but because every...
The Scope and Causes of Death During the COVID Pandemic and Its Aftermath
Also, What’s Up With People Still Wearing Masks? Most people who died with COVID (SARS-CoV-2) also had other conditions. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) noted that approximately…
How Autumn (Foliage) Is Measured
Yes, it's possible to measure autumn-ness. Sorta. It's pretty complicated.
Recruiting Participants For Study: Reading Equations With Low Vision
Recruiting volunteers for a study on reading statistics equations with low vision, conducted entirely via Zoom. George Mason University IRB-approved.
Tear mediators in dry eye disease
Cui, L., Jia, R., Yu, C., Xu, Z., Yao, Y., Guo, J. and Ren, X. (2026) Associations of tear mediators with ocular surface symptoms, signs, and corneal nerve morphology in...
Predatory Fungi: Sticky Nets, Choke Rings, and Worm Traps
Predatory fungi are species that attack and digest small animals, most often nematodes, which are tiny roundworms that live in soil and water. There are more than 700 species of nematode-eating…
Disjointness between Sets (6)
Continued to prove the claim (5.3) for Lemma A.2 of Paper S6 Ver. 1. Links: last post(9/28/26), 8/18/25, 8/11/25. Links for mobile devices
A donation of $34.5m for research projects to be determined by Simon Baron-Cohen
Following the cancellation of his Spectrum 10K project, Simon Baron-Cohen has a new research project for which the University of Cambridge has received $34.5m from the philanthropist Lisa Yang. I…
UPF SMC DSP Exercise Notes: E2 - Sinusoids and the DFT
This exercise covers the discrete Fourier transform (DFT). The DFT takes a sound in which several things are mixed together and finds which frequencies it contains and how much of each. Real…
Optogenetics Wins 2026 Nobel in Physiology or Medicine
The Nobel Prize is often awarded not to researchers who made a huge discovery about how the world works, but to those who have developed techniques that improve research itself. The downstream…
Optogenetics Wins 2026 Nobel in Physiology or Medicine
[[{“value”:”The Nobel Prize is often awarded not to researchers who made a huge discovery about how the world works, but to those who have developed techniques that improve research…
Chandrayaan 3’s rigorous Moon landing approach reminds us of the testing regime key to future global success in space
Moon Monday #295 and Indian Space Progress #44: The story of an automated lunar descent done right.
3 foot falls and other arbitrary cutoffs we use (Oishi 2026)
One reason that clinical judgement regularly beats decision rules is that decision rules (at least as they are currently designed) are forced to use arbitrary cut-offs. Imagine you develop a little…