2026 set to be one of the 4 hottest years on record
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The year 2026 continues the protracted streak of exceptional global
temperatures, melting ice and rising sea levels, with a very strong El Niño
event set t...
All The Things You Ave Maria
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I was listening to the radio the other day and heard a version of the Ave
Maria, aka “Hail Mary”, sung as a concert aria by Sumi Jo who performs it
on this...
Social Media Bans Won't Improve Teen Mental Health
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Social Media Bans Won't Improve Teen Mental Health
The year 2026 has been an expensive one for social media platforms.
Since March, YouTube and Meta, the ...
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*The Drive for Survival in Autonomous Agents:*
*Self-Preservation and Continuation-Interest [image: UCIP arXiv preview]*
Detecting Intrinsic and Instrumen...
Holosplit
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Recently I had to update Mathematica on my laptop and after having solved
the challenges of the license manager that keeps looking different every
time ...
Scholarships for Ukrainian PhD students in Mainz
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The Cluster of Excellence PRISMA+ at the University of Mainz announces
scholarships for Ukrainian PhD students who have already started a PhD in
the field ...
Both g-2 anomalies
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Two months ago an experiment in Berkeley announced a new ultra-precise
measurement of the fine structure constant α using interferometry
techniques. This w...
The forgotten life of Einstein’s wife
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19 December was the 141th anniversary of the birth of Mileva Marić
Einstein. But who remembers this brilliant scientist? While her husband,
Albert Einstein...
Coaching Academics?
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A longtime reader and sometime correspondent of mine recently posed some
questions to share with FSP readers (if you are still out there). These
questions...
So Long and Thanks For All the Fish!
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This blog has moved. The new location is http://dabacon.org/pontiff. So
long and thanks for all the fish! Over the past three years I’ve had a good
time bl...