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Across France, Spain, Germany and Poland this week, control room operators are watching two graphs at once: the air temperature outside, and the temperature of the river water flowing past their nuclear plants.
A Silicon Canals Mind piece on the behavioural lessons many people practised in the 1960s and 1970s, from waiting and repair to attention, privacy, and local obligation.
On August 15, 1977, Ohio State's Big Ear radio telescope recorded a 72-second narrow-band signal from Sagittarius that was 30 times louder than background noise — sitting almost exactly on the hydrogen line where SETI researchers had been listening since 1959. Jerry Ehman circled it in red ballpoint days later. It has never been heard again.
The Netherlands has dispatched its trade minister to Washington in an unusual lobbying push against US legislation that would sharply tighten semiconductor export controls on China.
Acevedo, Aron, Fisher, and Brown's fMRI study suggests that, for some long-term couples, romantic reward can persist alongside attachment and lower obsession.
A 50-year personality study by Damian, Spengler, Sutu, and Roberts suggests that many people show measurable maturation from adolescence into later adulthood.
A large founder-age study from Azoulay, Jones, Kim, and Miranda complicates the young-founder myth by linking high-growth outcomes with middle-aged founders and prior industry experience.
Consider two people at the end of a difficult meeting.
Blue-space research suggests that water settings may support mood and attention, but the evidence is best read carefully rather than as a universal cure.
There is a version of the "Artificial" story that is an ordinary Hollywood development story.
For many adults, the radio playing softly in an empty kitchen isn't about company at all. It's a quiet act of nervous system maintenance, rooted in a childhood where background sound meant the house was still safe.
The future of liver disease treatment may arrive not on a surgical table, but through a syringe.
