Good news! Impressive!
When will the apathetic and lethargic Russians finally get rid of Putin the Terrible!
Thursday, November 05, 2026
Ukraine Knocks Out 15 Russian Refineries, $23 Billion in Damage
Greenland lawmakers back security pact with US, Denmark following Trump’s pressure
Greenland is in the news again! The island will be part of of President Trump's legacy!
Remember Greenland was called green land by the Vikings, because it was not as snow and ice covered as today during the Medieval Warm Period (Global warming/climate change happens all the time).
"Greenlandic lawmakers on Tuesday [11/3/2026] voted to approve an agreement between the Arctic island, Denmark and the United States to strengthen security in the Arctic and North Atlantic after months of pressure by U.S. President Donald Trump seeking to control the semiautonomous territory of a NATO ally.
The trilateral deal paves the way for more U.S. bases in Greenland and eases tensions over Trump’s repeated calls for the vast island to become part of the United States. The agreement’s goal is to bolster the U.S. military presence on Greenland but keep the self-governing island under Danish control. It would still apply if Greenland eventually chooses independence. ..."
For Most of History, Pigeons Were Beloved. What Happened?
An interesting history!
"It was once a god—or at least it was associated with the divine. It served as a symbol of valor, fertility, and peace. We welcomed it into our homes, before we booted it out.
Today, people love to hate pigeons. In recent decades, they’ve been derided as flying rodents that defecate on sidewalks and bring disease to cities. ...
From there, the use of the pigeon as a messenger went worldwide. Ancient Egyptians used pigeons to send messages about rising flood levels and ascending pharaohs. The Greeks used the birds to relay the results of Olympic games. Julius Caesar sent news of his military conquests in Gaul back to Rome by pigeon. Word of Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo made its way to London on the back of the bird.
Perhaps history’s most famous carrier pigeon is the feathered World War I hero named Cher Ami. In 1918, a battalion of Allied troops was pinned behind enemy lines. Bombarded by their own side, the troops attached a note requesting a reprieve to the bird’s leg. Despite being shot in the chest and leg, Cher Ami—French for “dear friend”—arrived back to its loft 25 miles away in time to save 194 lives. The cherished bird was nursed back to health and awarded the French Croix de Guerre. ...
As pigeons filled cities, health officials increasingly—and often incorrectly—attributed illnesses to the birds.
In 1945, authorities in Philadelphia claimed hundreds of pigeons were infected with psittacosis, a disease that can spread to humans through bird droppings.
In 1945, authorities in Philadelphia claimed hundreds of pigeons were infected with psittacosis, a disease that can spread to humans through bird droppings.
In 1963, a New York health official attributed two deaths from cryptococcal meningitis to pigeons. Signs popped up in Queens saying: “Do Not Feed Pigeons. Pigeons Are the Greatest Disease Carriers.”
“They were easy scapegoats,” ...
But the biggest blow to the bird’s reputation came in 1966. With New York in economic decline, city officials launched a campaign to revitalize Bryant Park. ...
But authorities saved some of their sharpest vitriol for “our most persistent vandal.” Officials told The New York Times the park’s 500 resident rock doves destroyed vegetation and presented “a health menace.” Thomas Hoving, the park commissioner, called the pigeon “a rat with wings”—likely the first recorded instance of an epithet that would tail the bird for the next half-century. ..."
Gina Hinojosa, the next governor of Texas
The wheelchair bound (since age 26) Texas governor Greg Abbott (age 68) became too old, too boring for the job! He was 12 years long in office! "As of 2026, Abbott is the longest-serving incumbent governor in the United States." (Wikipedia). The attorney can go back to private practice again now!
Her record indicates that she is pro open borders and LGBTQ friendly!
She is apparently an opponent of data centers. As governor will she make Texas less friendly and open for technology and innovation?
Gina Hinojosa: the first Democratic Governor of Texas in 36 years. (Source)
The first Democrat elected to the US Senate from the Kansas since 1932, a megachurch pastor
How much were the midterm elections 2026 influenced by religion? This time in favor of the Dimocratic Party!
Besides the Master of Divinity James Talarico from Texas:
In Kansas, Democrat Adam Hamilton, a Methodist megachurch pastor and first-time candidate, unseated Sen. Roger Marshall, becoming the first Democrat elected to the Senate from the state since 1932.
Will we hear some sermons in the US Senate going forward?
Adam Hamilton (Source)
Seaweeds switch to asexual reproduction when there are no mates nearby
This was announced by PLOS via email today!
Makes sense! 😊
"Experiments with wild and lab-grown kelp reveal a flexible reproductive strategy. Kelp switch between sexual and asexual reproduction depending on whether there are potential mates nearby, according to a study by Daniel Liesner at the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen, Germany, and colleagues, published November 12th in the open access journal PLOS Biology. ..."
The next Governor of Georgia, a black woman (D)
Congratulations!
Georgia elected Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms governor, flipping the office after more than two decades of Republican control. The former Atlanta mayor is the first Black woman elected governor of any state.
That she served the senile, demented and pathological liar 46th President in two different capacities is not a good sign.
"Keisha Lance Bottoms, the former Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, is a visionary leader who has dedicated her life to bringing equitable outcomes [???] to the forefront of government and commerce.
Keisha now serves as a political commentator for CNN, in addition to serving on the President's Export Council for the President of the United States, Joe Biden. Previously, she served as a Senior Advisor to President Biden for Public Engagement. ..." (Keisha Lance Bottoms website)
$2 Billion From 20 Top Donors Fuels a Hugely Expensive Midterms with total donations estimated at almost $12 billion
Elon Musk was by far not the only rich person donating large sums to influence the midterm elections.
Both parties have rich donors in the past and in the present!
Unfortunately, Elon Musk's super large donation drowned out the other donations by rich individuals.
Here are the top five donors, sorted by total amount
Unfortunately, the data is not inflation adjusted. (Source: OpenSecrets)
At least six US states flipped to trifecta control by the Dimocratic Party
Maybe this fact has not been reported very well!
Trifecta means one party controls the governor and legislature.
These are the states:
Arizona
Michigan
Minnesota
Nevada
Pennsylvania
Wisconsin
Wednesday, November 04, 2026
Aida Garifullina : "Les filles de Cadix" / /Leo Delibes
Enjoy! This lady has quite an incredible voice! Here she is singing with Putin the Terrible in the audience.
I guess, if your first name is Aida you must become an opera singer. Aida, a tragic opera by Giuseppe Verdi.
Aida Garifullina - O Mio Babbino Caro (Gianni Schicchi by Giacomo Puccini)
Enjoy!
I guess, if your first name is Aida you must become an opera singer. Aida, a tragic opera by Giuseppe Verdi.
India Approves Rs 2,814 Crore domestic Processing Scheme for critical minerals
Good news! This is huge!
P.S. It is so annoying when Indian news casts use crores!
Saudi Arabia Strikes Yemen's Biggest Houthi-Held Port
The Saudis are getting more serious! For once, bombs instead of bribes?
Parkinson's: Brain and gut
Recommendable! The video addresses two causes of Parkinson's.
Alaska Has a Hidden methane Leak
Lot's of alarmism and hysteria! This positive feedback loop has yet to be incorporated into climate models claim the scientists involved in this video!
E.g. how many negative feedback loops are not included?
Can the Blue Wave Buoy Medicare for All?
Hope and pray it does not! Medicare should be privatized! Medicare was one of the worst socialist mistakes in US history!
"Sweeping Democratic victories in the U.S. Senate and House midterms will put health policy on lawmakers’ agenda in 2027, including the restoration of health spending cut by Republicans. The blue wave also brings a surge of momentum to universal health coverage advocates ..."
Hakeem Jeffries is poised to become the first Black House Speaker. Really!
What else qualifies him for this office other than his skin color?
"... Jeffries distinguishes himself from democratic socialists, and considers himself "a Black progressive Democrat concerned with addressing racial and social and economic injustice with the fierce urgency of now" ..." (Source)
He is the author of following illustrated book (Source)
Containing illustrations like this one
Agatha Christie (1890-1976) is still the Queen of Crime. Really!
How many contemporary/current female crime novel writers have been out there since Agatha Christie? Is this not a minority?
Czech defense minister confirms four more Rafael Spyder defense systems procurement
Good news! Once more, Israel's war tested weapons are in high demand!
Spyder air defense system
Politische Gewalt auf Demonstrationen geht von "erlebnisorientierten Jugendlichen und Heranwachsenden" aus
Neue deutsche Spracheskapaden? Wieviele Polizisten wurden verletzt? Etwa über 150!
Frankfurts Polizeipräsident Stefan Müller sollt wohl sofort entlassen werden!
"... Gefahr ausgehen könnte auch von „erlebnisorientierten Jugendlichen“ ohne politische Botschaft, ergänzt der Frankfurter Polizeipräsident Stefan Müller. ..."
Wasserwerfer und SEK: Frankfurt rüstet sich für GenZ-Demos am Samstag "Die Polizei erwartet etwa 80 Linksextreme und erlebnisorientierte Jugendliche unter den Demonstrierenden in Frankfurt am Samstag, 31. Oktober."
Was erwartet Frankfurt am bundesweiten Protesttag? "Bleibt die Demo am Samstag friedlich oder wird sie von Extremisten unterwandert? Die Wasserwerfer stehen bereit."
Seit dem 25. Juli 2022 ist Stefan Müller Polizeipräsident des Polizeipräsidiums Frankfurt am Main und verantwortlich für rund 3.700 Mitarbeitende. (Quelle)
EU Commission takes new steps to prepare Europeans for growing crisis risks incl. 72 hours of household emergency supplies
What is going on? Is this just a usual update of these emergency recommendations or is it response to recent cyber attacks on retail businesses or the Russo-Ukraine War?
It appears dozens of countries around the world recently issued similar recommendations.
"As Europe faces increasingly frequent and complex crises, the European Commission is stepping up efforts to strengthen preparedness across the EU. From helping citizens protect themselves during emergencies to ensuring that national civil protection systems can keep operating when disaster strikes, the EU is delivering concrete measures to make Europe more resilient.
Today, at the European Civil Protection Forum, Commissioner for Equality, Preparedness and Crisis Management Hadja Lahbib presented new guidelines to help people and communities prepare for emergencies, including during the first 72 hours of a crisis. She also announced plans for an annual EU Preparedness Day, with the first edition planned in October 2027. These initiatives build on a recently adopted Commission Recommendation on operational continuity and stress-testing to strengthen the resilience of national civil protection contact points across Europe.
Together, they mark further progress in delivering the EU Preparedness Union Strategy, turning Europe's preparedness ambitions into practical action.
New guidelines to strengthen population preparedness
From packing essentials in an emergency bag to knowing how to react when disaster strikes, preparedness starts with practical steps. The Commission's new guidelines will help authorities give people the knowledge and tools they need to protect themselves and others in a crisis.
They cover four key areas:
- 72-hour self-sufficiency: helping people meet their essential needs during the first three days of an emergency, while public assistance is being mobilised, including through essential emergency supplies and emergency grab bags.
..."
LHCb finds evidence of one-in-ten-billion particle decay showing the beauty particle
About the zeptoverse and the beauty particle!
It appears that machine learning & AI also played a major role in this discovery!
Unfortunately, I (using Google search) could not find an image showing the detection of the beauty particle published by CERN.
"They say good things come to those who wait, and the LHCb Collaboration’s latest result marks a major milestone in a decades-long search. As announced in a seminar held at CERN today [11/3/2026], the Collaboration has found evidence of a one-in-ten-billion decay of a beauty particle, becoming the first to do so using data from a single experiment.
The decay is that of a particle containing a beauty quark and a down antiquark, known as Bd, into a pair of muons (μ+μ–). Consistent with theoretical predictions, the new result places limits on possible new particles beyond the Standard Model.
Quantum physics describes how particle decays are influenced by other particles. Measuring this beauty-quark decay precisely could therefore reveal signs of new particles that are too heavy to be directly produced in LHC collisions.
In general, the more unlikely a decay, the more sensitive it is to the influence of new particles.
Bd → μ+μ– is part of a subset of decays that are so rare they have long been regarded as ‘golden channels’ in the search for new physics.
In these decays a beauty quark and an oppositely charged antiquark annihilate, releasing energy that becomes a muon – a particle similar to an electron, but heavier – and its antiparticle.
In 2015, a joint analysis by the LHCb and CMS Collaborations resulted in the first observation of Bs → μ+μ– and a claim for the first evidence of Bd → μ+μ–. However, in subsequent updates using data collected up until 2018, the evidence for Bd → μ+μ– was not confirmed. The Bs → μ+μ– decay occurs only around three times in every billion beauty-particle decays, but Bd → μ+μ– is even rarer, with a predicted rate about thirty times lower.
In 2024, a major upgrade of the LHCb experiment allowed data to be collected at five times the rate achieved between 2010 and 2018. This upgrade also enhanced the ability of the detector to distinguish between different types of particle. These improvements, in combination with the application of machine-learning techniques, allowed the LHCb team to suppress the vast background of processes that would have otherwise swamped the signals from these rare beauty-particle decays. ..."
In the first stage of the analysis LHCb physicists reconstructed Bs0 mesons using three decay modes, Bs0→Ds–π+, Bs0→J/ψφ and Bs0→ Ds–π+π+π–. The selected Bs0 mesons are then combined with π0 mesons reconstructed from the π0→γγ decay, requiring the two photons to be identified as two separate clusters in the electromagnetic calorimeter. A peaking structure is consistently observed across all three individual Bs0 decay modes at the mass 5698.9±1.5±0.6±0.1 MeV/c2 and with the width smaller than 9.8 (11.8) MeV at 90% (95%) confidence level. The Bs0π0 invariant-mass spectrum, summed over all three decay channels, is shown in the image above. (Source)
Texans voted for a Master of Divinity and English teacher to be their next US Senator in mid-term elections
The resume of this 37 year, old, unmarried, boyish looking man is very thin except for his religious accomplishments!
Is some kind of a repeat or it reminds of young John F. Kennedy? An American weakness for young leaders?
Was his opponent, AG Ken Paxton, such a bad choice by the GOP?
James Talarico and [his girlfriend] Brianna Menard at Gus Garcia Recreation Center in Austin on Oct. 23, 2026. (Source)
Are the similarities not amazing! (Source)
Abdul El-Sayed (D-MI) wins US Senate seat in mid-term elections
I guess, we will find out how this will turn out!
If he truly is a Muslim that could very well mean he brings also some conservative values to the US Senate.
It may also portend greater positive US recognition in the Arab/Muslim world! The Great Satan is now ruled by a Muslim (caution: satire)!
"Abdul El-Sayed of Michigan became the first Muslim elected to the U.S. Senate and is one of several Democrats who won after making their faith central to their campaigns. ..." (Source)
Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed looks to his wife, Sarah Jukaku, as he speaks at an election night event, early Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2026, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Castration gives even older adult male mice longer lives. Really!
Is here the AAAS suggesting that older men can benefit from castration?
Is this research part of or in support of LGBTQ ideology? Ask the researchers involved in this study!
This study also confirms the well and very long known effect of feminization in eunuchs.
"Studies have found that removing the testicles extends male life span across many mammalian species, including humans. But a research team exploring this effect has now found the surgical procedure doesn’t have to be performed early in life to boost longevity, as scientists had assumed, upending prevailing ideas of how the testes influence aging. ...
However, the oldest mice that were neutered gained the most: The procedure stretched their lives by about 33%, compared with 19% and 26% increases, respectively, for the animals fixed before or after puberty. In fact, none of the older mice died for more than a year after the procedure. ..."
From the abstract:
"Men live shorter lives than women across nearly all human populations, a disadvantage that extends across most biological causes of death and that cannot be fully explained by behavioral or environmental differences.
This suggests that fundamental biological mechanisms contribute to elevated male mortality.
Our previous work implicated testicular factors as a major contributor, showing that prepubertal castration extends male lifespan to that of females in UM-HET3 mice, a genetically heterogeneous stock.
However, it remains unknown when testicular factors begin to exert their detrimental effects on mortality.
Here, we castrated UM-HET3 males before puberty (20 days), after puberty (60 days), or immediately before the typical rise in male mortality (240 days). Castration at all three ages prevented the early male mortality and increased median lifespan by 19.3%, 25.8%, and 32.9%, respectively.
The comparable survival benefits of prepubertal and postpubertal castration indicate that exposure to the pubertal surge in testicular factors, including male sex hormones, is not responsible for establishing the male longevity disadvantage. Remarkably, castration at 240 days not only preserved the survival benefit of earlier castration but produced significantly greater survival than earlier castration, suggesting that testicular exposure before 240 days is actually beneficial.
The immediate prevention of excess male mortality following castration at 240 days also indicates that the responsible testicular factors act rapidly and that their continued presence is necessary to sustain elevated male mortality.
Longitudinal body-composition measurements further revealed that castration shifted males toward a female-like phenotype, characterized by reduced lean mass and continued fat accumulation into later life.
Our findings reveal opposing age-dependent effects of testicular factors on survival and narrow the potential therapeutic window to later adulthood."
Castration extends life span, but in a surprising way, mouse study suggests "Scientists say work could help identify “castration mimetics” that boost longevity"
Beneficial early, harmful later: age-dependent effects of testicular factors on male mortality (preprint, open access)
English for trippers: Merely barely
We are mere mortals, who sometimes barely escape death.
Simply versus almost!
Merely bare!
Dare to be bare!
Merely merrily!
About half of alcohol drinkers on weight loss GLP-1s say they imbibed less
Good news! What a positive side effect!
Background: "Just 3 percent to 5 percent of those with a past alcohol abuse disorder reported using the [anti-abuse] drugs in a recent national survey, and only 10 percent of those seeking treatment have received the approved drugs."
"Nearly half of drinkers who take GLP-1 medications have reported declines in consumption, with the effect higher among those at risk of unhealthy alcohol use, a new Harvard study shows. ..."
"Approximately 178 000 US residents die from excessive alcohol use each year,1 and public health messaging increasingly emphasizes that any amount of drinking increases health risks.
Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs) are US Food and Drug Administration–approved for type 2 diabetes and obesity, and their use has grown dramatically in recent years.
Emerging evidence, including early-phase randomized trials, suggests that GLP-1 RAs may also reduce alcohol use, likely through effects on brain pathways involved in craving and reward processing. However, patient perspectives on the impact of GLP-1 RAs on alcohol use have not, to our knowledge, been captured systematically.
Through a nationally representative survey of US adults, we estimated the population prevalence of patient-reported reductions in alcohol use following GLP-1 RA initiation and assessed public awareness of the potential impact of GLP-1 RAs on alcohol use."
Training Foundation Models with a Single Algorithm
This could be an interesting, new research paper by Ruslan Salakhutdinov and J. Andrew Bagnell!
From the abstract:
"Foundation models are typically trained in stages: pretraining, midtraining, supervised fine-tuning (SFT), and reinforcement learning (RL), with changes in both data and learning algorithms. We show that this algorithmic separation is not fundamental.
By deriving suitable RL objectives as maximum-likelihood fitting to model-generated target distributions, we place all of these stages under a single likelihood-based training algorithm, unified training.
This perspective turns the foundation-model training lifecycle into a problem of choosing which data to train on, in what proportions, and when, with conventional staged training as a special case.
We instantiate this framework in a unified training system that mixes static data and RL generations within a single trainer.
Across controlled and real-world experiments, unified training improves the accuracy-compute tradeoff and task coverage while preserving broader capabilities, and provides a stronger starting point for continual learning.
This work lays the groundwork for a unified science of foundation-model training, connecting mathematical principles, training infrastructure, and the development of model capabilities."
What a mid-term election defeat for the GOP
Why was the Dimocratic Party so successful in these midterm elections?
It is my perhaps mistaken perception that the GOP representatives in the US Congress did not do a great job in the past two years or so.
"Midterm madness is still dominating the headlines as America continues to enjoy – or endure – the most significant congressional changes in decades. Historians are divided as to whether 2026 is the biggest upheaval since 1994 (Bill Clinton) or 1974 (Watergate) ..." (Source)
12 Milliarden Euro für Reservekraftwerke
Neues aus der Bananenrepublik D!
"... Die Bundesnetzagentur unter ihrem noch von Robert Habeck eingesetzten grünen Chef Klaus Müller hat am Dienstag erstmals elf Kraftwerksprojekten sogenannte Förderzuschläge erteilt. Damit erhalten die Betreiber künftig 15 Jahre lang Geld dafür, dass sie jederzeit elektrische Leistung bereitstellen können. Allein die erste Ausschreibungsrunde steht rechnerisch für rund zwölf Milliarden Euro. ...
Bemerkenswert ist eine zusätzliche technische Anforderung: Größere geförderte Anlagen müssen auch im Stillstand sogenannte Momentanreserve zur Stabilisierung des Stromnetzes bereitstellen können. Die Kinder des Wahnsinns haben ebenfalls bemerkt, dass der Stromfluss stabil sein muss. Das können weder Windrad noch Photozellen. ...
Die neuen Kraftwerke sollen zunächst überwiegend Erdgas verbrennen, heißt es. Kunststück: Außer Kohle gibt es bei uns nichts anderes. Erdgas allerdings wird immer rarer und damit teurer. Aber: sie sollen dermaleinst mit Wasserstoff betrieben werden. ..."
Proving and Improving the Platonic Representation Hypothesis with JEPAs
This could be an interesting, new research paper by Yann LeCun, who continues his series of papers on JEPA!!
From the abstract:
"Whether models trained on different modalities converge to the same representation of the world is central to AI.
The Platonic Representation Hypothesis (PRH) conjectures that they do as they scale, but without a proof it offers neither a guarantee nor a recipe.
We turn the hypothesis into a theorem.
First, we prove a Platonic Representation Theorem: Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPAs) trained separately on any number of modalities learn the same representation up to one rotation whenever their positive pairs are two observations of one scene -- good views -- and their misalignment is bounded otherwise.
Second, we show that next-token prediction is a JEPA with bad views, parts of a single document, which explains why language models align with vision only through scale.
Third, we validate the theory from 145k captions to the texts of 940M web images, and uncover a scaling law of alignment that predicts unseen runs within seed noise.
Good views need 42 times fewer training samples than next-token prediction on the same corpus to reach the same alignment, and a 109M-parameter text JEPA aligns with DINOv2 and CLIP's image encoders better than every language model we evaluated, up to 72B parameters, and than CLIP's text encoder: next-token prediction is a remarkably inefficient route to platonic representations.
As a showcase, one rotation turns separately trained encoders into an image captioner (CIDEr .838 on COCO). Even that rotation needs no pair: on the latest pair-free benchmark, our text JEPA beats every zero-shot accuracy reported with language models up to 8B parameters, e.g., 64% against at most 56% top-5 on ImageNet-100.
Positive views, and not scale alone, are thus the lever to build platonic representations."
Tuesday, November 03, 2026
Reading the Enemy’s Mind: Espionage in World War I
Very recommendable! The beginnings of modern espionage!
The first mid-term election results are coming in! It does not look good for the GOP!
If confirmed, the US Senate and Governors race in Texas a win for the Dimocratic Party! Hopefully, Texas is an exception!
Pakistan's Deadly War Against Polio vaccination with Palki Sharma
Bad news! Medical staff and police officers get killed while trying to reach little children to be vaccinated.
'20 Iranian Crew Rescued': India Navy Overpowers Somali Pirates In Horn Raid with Alyson Le Grange
Good news, but unusual! Will the Indian navy do more such interventions in the future?
Trump’s historic midterm surge: $450 million, 29 rallies, 40 tele-rallies and 500 surrogate visits
How much energy and drive would you have after three major assassination attempts?
What is the definition of indefatigable?
Anthropic announces that it's very close to RSI capability, aka self-building AI
Good news! Is this just a preemptive, prospective warning or some advertisement in financial disclosure documents or is it real?
"While much attention has focused on the updated financials Anthropic revealed in its revised S-1/A on Monday ..., the AI lab dropped another little bombshell in the fine print.
The filing seems to warn that the company is on the cusp of creating a model capable of recursive self-improvement (RSI).
RSI is the point at which AI grows so good at training itself that it spawns a dramatic acceleration of AI capabilities. ..."
When AI builds itself (undated Anthropic article, earliest possible date July/August 2026)
Merkel will aus der CDU austreten wenn CDU mit AfD koaliert. Wirklich!
Seit wann ist die SED Kanzlerin Merkel ein CDU Mitglied?
Vielleicht war sie mal ein CDU Mitglied damit „mein Mädchen“ von Helmut Kohl entdeckt werden konnte.
"An der Frage der Zusammenarbeit mit der AfD scheiden sich die Geister in der CDU. Die Gräben sind tief. Befürworter und Gegner der sogenannten „Brandmauer“ stehen sich unversöhnlich gegenüber, die Nerven liegen blank. In dieser Lage warnt der CDU-Vorsitzende Friedrich Merz – so erfuhr es NIUS – seine Parteifreunde in kleiner Runde davor, dass Alt-Kanzlerin Merkel die Partei verlassen werde, wenn es zu einer Zusammenarbeit mit der AfD käme. ..."
Friedrich Merz und Angela Merkel
Trump to cut off all foreign/military aid to Israel (currently $4 billion) by year's end
Update of 11/4/2026: Did this announcement just before the midterm elections also contribute to the severe defeat of the GOP? In hindsight, was this announcement even necessary at this point? Trump may have lost some of the Jewish votes.
Breaking news! Good news! Bravo! Was this not very long overdue? Finally, a US president is serious about it! Will it be permanent?
"... Speaking to Fox News, Trump said that Israel no longer needs American funding. ..."
Special nanoparticles for delivering personalized cancer vaccines
Good news! Cancer is history (soon)!
"... The backbone of the vaccine is a modified, harmless bacteriophage called M13, which forms a nanofiber that can be coated with cancer antigens. By precisely controlling the density of those cancer proteins, the researchers found that they could create a vaccine that prevents the development of colon tumors in mice.
This type of delivery particle could be adapted to carry many different antigens, allowing for the creation of personalized vaccines to treat individual patients’ tumors, the researchers say. ..."
From the abstract:
"Nanovaccines have been engineered to co-deliver antigens and adjuvants for robust immune responses. While extensive studies have examined the effect of nanovaccine size, shape, surface charge, and targeting on vaccine efficacy, the impact of antigen density remains underexplored.
Here, we systematically optimize the anti-tumor CD8+ T cell response by modulating the antigen density on an M13 phage-based nanovaccine.
By fine-tuning the antigen ratio from ∼6.0% to ∼70.4% on the phage capsid, the anti-tumor CD8+ T cell response was enhanced. Further investigation demonstrated that the antigen density affected not only antigen presentation efficacy but also dendritic cell uptake.
Applying this strategy to a neoantigen in the MC-38 colorectal cancer model, we achieved up to a ∼7-fold increase in the neoantigen-specific CD8+ T cell frequency, resulting in significant tumor suppression.
These findings underscore the critical role of antigen density in nanovaccine design and establish M13 bacteriophage as a universal platform for personalized cancer vaccine applications."
Fig. 1 Nanovaccine immune response modulation by tuning the antigen density using the M13 bacteriophage platform.
5 cm pro Jahr: Wenn das Meer schneller steigt, als wir Deiche bauen können. Wirklich!
Unglaublich was für einen Schwachsinn der Verein Deutscher Ingenieure publiziert!
Solche Computermodell Prognosen bis zu 100 oder mehr Jahre in die Zukunft sind reine Makulatur! Wir können nicht mal das Wetter mehr als 24 Stunden genau prognostizieren
Researchers control the magnetic core of a single atom
Amazing stuff!
"Researchers ... have succeeded in controlling the magnetism in the nucleus of a single atom with radio waves. This came as a surprise: until now, physicists believed that this nuclear spin could not be manipulated directly. ..."
From the abstract:
"Atomic nuclear spins are promising candidates in the development of quantum information technologies on a wide variety of physical platforms. Thanks to the high degree of isolation from their environment, nuclear spins show long-lived spin states, but this also poses challenges on their control and readability.
Detailed characterization and control over the atomic-scale environment of the nuclear spin become of great importance for their efficient control.
In this work, using scanning tunnelling microscopy, we reveal nuclear magnetic resonance on a single on-surface atom.
We employ an electron-nuclear double resonance measurement scheme and resolve nuclear spin transitions of a single 47Ti isotope with a nuclear spin of I = 5/2. Our measurements and numerical analysis reveal the nature of hyperfine and quadrupole couplings of the studied system.
We also show our ability to address the nuclear spin in the limit of weak hybridization with the electron spin, a requirement for direct control of the nuclear spin in the long-lifetime regime.
This investigation of an atomic nuclear spin in a platform with atomic-scale control is a valuable development for other platforms deploying nuclear spins."
Delft researchers control the magnetic core of a single atom, against expectations (original news release) "Researchers at Delft University of Technology have succeeded in controlling the magnetism in the nucleus of a single atom with radio waves. This came as a surprise: until now, physicists believed that this nuclear spin could not be manipulated directly. The discovery could open up new possibilities for storing and reading quantum information. ..."
Weizmann Institute, Institute for Advanced Study and Max Planck Establish New International Research Institution in Berlin
Good news! This seems to be very promising!
"Three leading research organizations have joined forces to establish a new institution dedicated to fundamental, curiosity-driven research and scholarly collaboration across geographic and disciplinary boundaries. ..."
The inaugural directors are Irit Dinur (Institute for Advanced Study), Nicole Dubilier (Max Planck Society), and Ziv Reich (Weizmann Institute of Science).
The historic Otto Warburg House in Berlin’s Dahlem neighborhood. The former research center of the 1931 Nobel laureate will now serve as the principal home for ARC’s research programs
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