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Sir Mark Tully has died

telegraph.co.uk

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and the Earth's orbital diameter is 10^3 light seconds

so the Earth's orbital velocity is 10^-4 c

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Windows 11 seems to feign forgetting your PIN password to force a restart.

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A long-form critique of Suno by a musician/producer:

Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future | Adam Neely

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dcFhF0Dlk

A detailed philosophical discussion of his point=of-view:

AI Music is Not Music - Adam Neely | Alex O'Connor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sbv0iX_EyLM

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Consumption taxes and sin taxes.

Consumption tax is sales/VAT tax excluding some necessities and capital goods. Yes, there are some awkward edge cases: in the UK the exclusions were food and children's clothes, which leads to battles over prepared cold food (e.g. sandwich), takeaway and restaurant dining.

Sin taxes are obviously things society might want to discourage, mainly for health reasons, like alcohol and smoking, but also gambling and externalities, like pollution. Some might stretch that to all carbon emissions to moderate climate change.

Don't tax things you want: working / income and investment / capital gains.

Inheritance tax is doubly wrong because the wealth is already taxed, and death is unavoidable (but emigration is possible, which might help in some countries).

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Also The Shock of the New with Robert Hughes.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_galaxy

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Obituary at The Telegraph:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2026/03/23/sir-tony-h...

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Typo?

I like the idea of a noun collider. Then we could smash apples and oranges.

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Maybe they're original, found buried in some obscure monastery in the mountains of Umbria.

Perhaps Leonardo invented the LHC!

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Here is the BBC's own commentary on their much respected Indian correspondent:

Sir Mark Tully, the BBC's 'voice of India', dies aged 90

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4nnp4d064do

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Yes - notice, observe, focus, consider, judge, refine ... repeat ...

- Photography, not to take better photos, but to see the world more continuously and deeply.

- Architecture, not to build anything, but to be more aware of urban context, visual design, practical use and emotional response in the built environment.

- Music, not to read a score or play an instrument, but to really hear the structure of music, appreciate melody, pattern, balance, pace, production, individual virtuosity and harmonious combination.

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It's not too difficult to know or calculate inches in a mile:

    12 * 3 * 1760 = 12 * 5280 = 63,360

A few Americans may know how many cubic inches in a US gallon:

But I don't believe anyone (apart from rainman/prodigy circus performers) can do this in their head:

    63360^3 / 231 = 1,101,117,147,428.571

Estimate yes; calculate no.

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Live out of a suitcase, travel the world, hang out with a wide selection of excellent mathematicians, write joint papers with many of them, when you get bored or stuck, pack the suitcase and keep moving - for your whole life.

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Presumably this reduces the beam footprint on the ground, hence increases the bandwidth available to individual users in dense urban environments (reduced sharing).

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China is the world's second largest producer of silver, after Mexico and ahead of Peru.

It is introducing licensing for export of silver starting on 1 January 2026.

There is speculation that the new regulations will favor a few large companies, slow the flow of exports, and provide a mechanism for the government to impose explicit 'critical mineral' export controls on silver in the future.

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Geoneutrino surveys show the Tibetan plateau and western China are full of uranium and thorium:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoneutrino

Economic recoverable reserves are another matter, but there's plenty there.

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For peat's sake!

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The lowest value coin still in use is the Uzbek Tiyin (0.01 UZS).

So 1,200,000 Tiyins to the USD.

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Khara Khoto appears to be on or near the extension of the 'Gobi Wall' into present day China, presumably as part of the same system.

https://cms.interestingengineering.com/wp-content/uploads/20...

The name 'Gobi Wall' seems to refer to the section of the wall within Mongolia. Its garrisons and forts are numbered from G01 at the western end of the section, where the wall crosses the border.

https://cdn.grid.id/crop/0x0:0x0/700x0/photo/2025/05/31/land...

Khara Khoto is about 100 km WSW of G01.

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Note Abu Musa, Greater & Lesser Tunb islands are attributed to the Emirates. These were occupied by Iran at the formation of the UAE and remain contested.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seizure_of_Abu_Musa_and_the_Gr...