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baseball physics

A number of papers have been written on the physics of baseball, cricket and football (soccer) ..  I'm surprised in-flight measurements on baseball are fairly new. Here's a paper for people with an interest. 

 

emotion reading ai

It's phrenology, but Zoom is considering it.

 

russian struggles

Jim points to a piece on logistical and structural problems in the Russian Army

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About 25% of the Russian military's million troops are conscripts, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies -- though many experts believe that figure may be misleading, suspecting some of the non-conscript troops are either coerced or tricked into enlisting.

Russia's conscripts tend to serve one-year stints, occupy the lower ranks, and fill many of the positions in the logistics chain, including vehicle maintenance.
"You can't really learn anything in a year about maintaining military systems," Telenko says.

Conscripts also have little motivation as they know their time in the job is so limited, he says.

A senior US defense official said Wednesday said Washington is seeing morale problems among Russia's conscripts, who make up "almost half" of its forces in Ukraine.

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can there be progress on climate in the us?

Andy Revkin recently hosted a discussion on the subject.  He also offers some commentary and excerpts for those who don't want to watch the full piece,

I'm not as optimistic as the R's seem to be completely into obstruction and sabotage.

 

 

the fox news arm of the russian government

Fox News is an important feature of their misinformation campaign.

 

text messages of three traitors

Working together to overthrow an election.

 

 

convicted republican pedophiles

Of course Trump is probably one - but he hasn't joined the list yet..

 

 

on amazon

Not the most worker friendly company around,..

 

on the sinking of the moskva

An export sorts out what it might mean.

 

 

two years and three months too late

We're past the point where we can get to zero Covid.  China is trying to hold back the sea with a dike that is bound to burst.

And the public may not be in sync.