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In honor of Thomas Paine and other Founders & Immigrants. In memory of my daddy Horst Bingel and my mom Irma Bingel

Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Announcement

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I will be visiting Beijing on Fri. 5/15 and Sat. 5/16.  I expect to resume blogging on Sunday 5/17.

Do scientists hit their creative peak at a relatively young age in their careers?

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Food for thought! "Can old scientists learn new tricks? Famed polymath Sir Isaac Newton did much of his work developing calculus in th...

Neanderthal used stone drills to treat tooth cavities nearly 60,000 years ago, ancient molar suggests

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Amazing stuff! "Neanderthals had the know-how to identify a tooth infection and the motor skills to drill out the damage, according to ...

Your brain on anesthesia, a special state of neural activity with distinct patterns unique to anesthesia

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Amazing stuff! "... anesthesia. It’s great for eliminating the perception of pain—but with brain activity significantly suppressed ... ...

The obsession with school smartphone policies coninoues and it is narrowly focused on distraction. How stupid!

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Here is another such study! How relevant is it how often a student checks his/her smartphone! It is high time to integrate smartphones into...

AntAngelMed: The Largest Open-Source Medical LLM — 103B Parameters, Only 6.1B Active

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Good news! Does this model also cover traditional Chinese medicine? 😊 Note only a fraction of all parameters are active! "A team of Ch...

‘In Real Life They Would Have Been Dead’: Ukrainian Drone Teams ‘Destroy’ Swedish Forces in NATO Drill

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Good news! Ukrainians are training NATO forces in latest drone warfare! "Ukrainian drone operators “destroyed” Swedish troops during a ...

On AI Co-Mathematician: Accelerating Mathematicians with Agentic AI

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This sounds promising! I bet ML & AI will revolutise how we do math! This is only the beginning! I wish I had a co-mathematician in high...

Chart of the day

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Saudi Arabia envy! Iran take note! Putin the Terrible fumes! 😊  "The shale boom and wars in Ukraine and Iran have transformed the U.S...

US Vice President JD Vance has delivered an ultimatum to all states: Fully comply with antifraud statutes or risk losing federal Medicaid funding

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Good news! When American generosity and philanthropy is exploited and abused for too long! Over the years, there have been plenty of news re...

Hantavirus, COVID, norovirus, legionnaires’: why are cruise ships so prone to disease outbreaks?

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It has been known at least since the 1970s that cruise ships are prone to infectious/contagious disease outbreaks among passengers almost ev...

English for trippers: At best a second best

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A contest in bestiality? Maybe not! 😊 What about the rest?

The anti corruption campaign in the Ukraine is making further progress

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Good news!  " Andriy Yermak , Zelensky’s former chief of staff and widely regarded as one of Ukraine’s political kingpins before his re...

Europe’s Green Deal Is Unraveling. Good riddance!

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Recommendable! What took so long! The Iron Curtain fell and socialism spread all over Europe! The many socialists of the EU united and clea...

Kabinett bringt neue Gaskraftwerke auf den Weg – Neue Umlage für Stromkunden

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Neues zu Klimawahn und Energiewende der Bananenrepublik D! Wenn man z.B. laufende Atomkraftwerke mutwillig und ohne Verstand abschaltet. Kab...

Disclaimer

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Since end of February, I  am blogging from behind the Great Firewall of China. My Internet service in China is very spotty. Thus, I am not a...

Ukraine’s battlefield integration surpasses US military’s, US Army secretary says

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Amazing stuff! You never step in the same war twice! "Ukraine has linked its military drones, sensors and weapons systems into a unifie...
Tuesday, May 12, 2026

Der Brummton ist amtlich Windräder eines Windparks müssen wegen Lärmbelästigung ausgebremst werden

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Gute Nachrichten! Neues zum Klimawahn in der Bananenrepublik D! Nicht nur verschandeln diese Windmühlen die Natur, sie töten auch massenweis...

The expectations regarding the President Trump and General Secretary Xi Jinping summit in Beijing are high!

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Will it be a watershed historic event? Hope and pray! I will be myself in Beijing on Friday 5/15 to attend to an appointment at the German e...

New York Judge Says There Is No Tort of ‘Misgendering’

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Hopefully, this will be the end of such obviously frivolous lawsuits with respect to human fads and manias! Preferred pronouns ! Laughable! ...

China-US trade talks kick off in Seoul ahead of high-profile leaders’ summit of President Trump and Xi Jinping in China

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Good news! Auspicious! Hope and pray for a breakthrough! "Senior officials from China and the United States have started a new round of...

Golden Dome-style missile shield could cost up to $1.2T over 20 years to develop, deploy, and operate, CBO estimates

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That is only $60 billion per year! Not too bad! More concerning is how outdated it might be in the age of hypersonic missiles and drone war...

Amazon launches 30-minute delivery across the US

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Good news! But Amazon is only catching up with the already very fast delivery widely available in China for almost everything. I recently b...

Iran's very dubious claim of sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz

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It seems to be an outrageous claim by the fanatic theocratic dictatorship and major global state sponsor of terrorism! What about the the st...

Three Japanese megabanks to gain access to Anthropic's powerful AI model Mythos thanks to US Treasury Secretary Bessent

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Good news! What will these banks do with Mythos? How much die Prime Minister Takaichi influence this decision while Bessent visited Japan? ...

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang joins Trump’s trip to China

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Good news! This promises to be a very interesting summit! Expectations are rising! "...  Seventeen American CEOs were on the original l...

Pentametallic nanoparticles self-assemble for ammonia decomposition catalyst in a simple synthesis

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Amazing stuff! This seems to be a very promising approach! "A counterintuitive technique developed by researchers ... allows pentametal...

Ranking Arizona: Top 10 Arizona casinos for 2026. Really!

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There are only a total of about 26 casinos in operation in Arizona! Most of them, if not all run by native Americans. Ranking Arizona: Top 1...

Gaza’s Lost History on Display in a major international exhibition in Turin

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This could be an interesting exhibition! However, from the article below I get the impression this is a pro Palestine (PLO/PNA) political st...

Garlic compound kills mosquitoes by halting mating and blocking egg-laying

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Good news! I love garlic! Scientists were looking for an aphrodisiac and found the anaphrodisiac! "... In fact, a new Yale study finds ...

English for trippers: An ally allays in an alley

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Rally quickly!

Pakistan Thinks It’s Playing Trump, the Opposite May Be True by Michael Rubin

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Recommendable! A brief synopsis of US-Pakistan foreign relations since 1947. Pakistan Thinks It’s Playing Trump, the Opposite May Be True | ...

Adam Smith's Legacy in Alberdi's Argentina

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Recommendable! How much is Javier Milei influenced by Juan Bautista Alberdi? "... However, one of the deepest and most successful appli...
Monday, May 11, 2026

Panama Canal oil shipments soar 70% as Asian buyers turn to US crude

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In times of war, there always winners and loosers! How much crude oil is coming from Venezuela? "Crude oil and petroleum products trave...

The hidden structure behind a widely used class of materials: Relaxor ferroelectrics

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Amazing stuff! "Materials called relaxor ferroelectrics have been used for decades in technologies like ultrasounds, microphones, and ...

From Brain Drain To Brain Gain to brain circulation: About High-Skilled tech migration between India and the US since the 1990s

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Food for thought! "How did high-skilled immigrants from India both support America's 2000s tech boom and spark India's transfor...

Earthquake-sensing fiber cables can also pick up speech from other, nearby fiber cables

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Amazing stuff! What is the definition of serendipity ? " Fiber optic cables used to detect earthquakes may also be able to eavesdrop o...

Image of the day/Bild des Tages

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Die Last mit lebenslangen Berufspolitikern! Wer nichts wird, wird Berufspolitiker (Wirte wurden zu lange ungerechtfertigter Weise beleidigt)...

Putin the Terrible Warns Armenia Over EU Ambitions, Citing ‘Ukrainian Scenario’

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What else to expect from this megalomaniac and warmonger! When will the apathetic and lethargic Russian people/Slav(e)s finally get rid of ...

Photonics advance could enable compact, high-performance lidar sensors with no moving parts

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Good news! "... A new study from ... researchers could help to enable next-generation lidar sensors that are compact, durable, and hav...

How Anthropic aligns its models to be more ethically responsible

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Good news! "Anthropic allays blackmail problems, outlines alignment strategy Anthropic published research on how it eliminated the age...
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