Owen Maresh

(aside: the Goon show and Bobobo-Bo Bo-Bobo evoke similar feelings of bewilderment)

Nighttime picture of a human-established watering hole in the Namib Desert. It's round, apparently concrete, with a small concrete "island" in the center, and there is an owl at the edge, which we see from behind. The owl's wings are folded against its body in a manner that suggests a short jacket; its legs look like the owl is wearing white stockings, and its head is turned to the left; we can see one eye (shining in the watering hole's low light), and a very little bit of its beak.

ok but why does this owl at a watering hole in the Namib desert (which I saw via the watering hole's webcam) look like a little old English lady-owl on an evening walk who kicked off her shoes but left her stockings on to cool her feet in a pond on the outskirts of the village?

YouTube video by Simons Foundation Scott Sheffield: Random Geometry and Yang-Mills Gauge Theory (February 18, 2026)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xCh...

As you slide an osculating circle amongst some curve, something interesting should happen to Apollonian tab-completions (Anosov-esque)

Analogue of the theta group $Γ_θ$ In this paper, we introduce higher level versions of the theta group $Γ_θ.$ In particular, we treat level 3 and 4 versions of the theta group, $Γ_{θ,3}$ and $Γ_{θ,4}$ and prove that $\displaystyle F(τ...

arxiv.org/abs/2602.22471
/[22] arXiv:2602.22471 [pdf, html, other]
Analogue of the theta group Γ_θ/
Kazuhide Matsuda

Volumes of ideal hyperbolic drums Milnor computed the volumes of ideal hyperbolic prisms as part of an effort to construct 3-manifolds whose volumes are finite rational sums of the Lobachevsky function evaluated at rational multiples ...

arxiv.org/abs/2602.22389
/Volumes of ideal hyperbolic drums/
Eric Chesebro, Justin Lanier, Emma N. McQuire, James Morgan, Jessica S. Purcell, Henry Segerman

Mathematical Models of Quantum Chaos by Jens Marklof YouTube video by International Centre for Theoretical Sciences

www.youtube.com/live/HxvuJfv...

YouTube video by Gresham College The Shape of Shells - Professor Alain Goriely

youtu.be/Z332liVw9Jo?...

pastebin.com/V6GH2LVJ
is adjacent, and can be used to generate things like this...

YouTube video by Simons Foundation Peter Lax - Impressions of Paul Erdös and Kakutani

youtu.be/SDz2ltxwKsk?...

New taxa of Mesophotic Asteroidea from Ashmore Reef, Western Australia | Megataxa We report on 27 asteroid specimens collected by the RV

New paper alert!

During the 2021 Australian Mesophotic Coral Examination expedition to the Ashmore Reef Marine Park, researchers collected 10 new species of sea stars, 9 of which are described in the paper by @echinoblog.bsky.social et al., published in Megataxa in early January.

Molecular and phenotypic blueprint of human #hematopoiesis links proliferation stress to #StemCell #aging. From Emanuele Lettera et al. @dimiccolab.bsky.social: rupress.org/jem/article/...

📘 In Hematopoiesis and #Myeloid Cells collection: rupress.org/jem/collecti...

#KSMyeloid26 #KSHemato26

#Dysadherin drives #ColorectalCancer adaptation to acidic #TumorMicroenvironments by activating integrin–FAK–STAT3 signaling to upregulate CA9, promoting survival, metabolic reprogramming, and progression.

#OpenAccess in #STTT: doi.org/10.1038/s413...

Expanded genomic diversity of Asgard archaea.

Oxygen metabolism in descendants of the archaeal-eukaryotic ancestor🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Asgard archaeal genomic diversity suggests bioenergetic factors influenced eukaryogenesis and constitutes valuable resource for investigations into the origins and evolution of cellular complexity.

Temporal order of activations and interactions during arithmetic calculations measured by intracranial electrophysiological recordings in the human brain - Scientific Reports Arithmetic requires complex and fast processes orchestrated within a large-scale network spanning multiple brain regions. However, reports on the network’s temporal dynamics are scarce. Here, we prese...

Temporal order of activations and interactions during arithmetic calculations measured by intracranial electrophysiological recordings in the human brain

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

YouTube video by WRWTFWW Records Takashi Kokubo & Andrea Esperti - Music For A Cosmic Garden (Full album)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHMR...

Froude numbers
Frowd numbers (something Doozers care about
Frood numbers (something Ford Prefect might know about)

Distributions of unramified extensions of global fields Given a finite group $Γ$, we prove results on the distribution of the prime to $q|Γ|$-part of fundamental groups of $Γ$-covers of the projective line $\mathbb P^1_{\mathbb F_q}$ over a finite field $\...

arxiv.org/abs/2602.21032
/Distributions of unramified extensions of global fields/
Will Sawin, Melanie Matchett Wood

Wild knots embedded in the Menger Sponge In this paper, we prove that there exist infinitely many non-equivalent wild knots embedded in the Menger sponge, each with its set of wild points being a subset of a tame Cantor set. Even more, any w...

arxiv.org/abs/2602.20384
/Wild knots embedded in the Menger Sponge/
Gabriela Hinojosa, Ulises Morales-Fuentes, Rogelio Valdez, Alberto Verjovsky

with Farey-sequence marked unit circle onions...

spooky ↻ at a distance

YouTube video by Institute for Advanced Study List Decoding: Algebraic and Combinatorial - Shashank Srivastava

youtu.be/3o_pfehwovw?...

principle of least ↻