Daniel S Helman, PhD

Dem leadership continuing to support this is a good example of why the French brutally, harshly punished the Vichy alongside the nazis.

Home Office ban of Palestine Action ruled unlawful The High Court ruling comes after more than 2,000 protesters were arrested since the ban on the group in July

Excellent news!
www.thetimes.com/article/cccd...

Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses

Meta's plan for launching glasses that people can use to secretly identify strangers on the street is to do it "during a dynamic political environment" when people who care about why that's bad are "focused on other concerns."

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

Environmental organisations under authoritarianism - Civil Society Forum Despite the growing repressions on opposition, civil society and media representatives in Russia since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, not all civil society structures, in...

Check out this article on environmentalism in Russia during the war—It's a good read!

csf-ev.org/environmenta...

Picture of a green cargo ship with the headline "China starts sea trials for largest electric powered containership"

You can't prove received wisdom wrong if you don't try... and you've got to give China credit for not being afraid to try. A step on the way to serious reduction of shipping emissions by 2050? Or an expensive experiment with niche coastal uses? Time will tell!

maritime-executive.com/article/chin...

Salty, Oily Drinking Water Left Sores in Their Mouths. Oklahoma Refused to Find Out Why. State regulators discovered strong signs of oil pollution, including high levels of salt and toxic metals, in one family’s drinking water. But for two years, they repeatedly delayed basic tests to fin...

"Injection wells are supposed [to only allow] wastewater to be emitted deep in the earth. But... the well was missing a layer of cement... testing showed her well with dissolved salts & chemicals 72 times more concentrated than recommended for drinking water."

www.propublica.org/article/okla...

Massie: "Here is an email that was sent by the victims' lawyers to the DOJ. It was a list of names not to release. What did the DOJ do with this email? They released it! Literally the worst thing you could do the survivors you did."

Wave energy conversion by floating and submerged piezoelectric bimorph plates Gaining insight into the interaction between flexible piezoelectric structures and ocean waves can inform the development of compact, high-efficiency wave-energy converters that harvest renewable ener...

Check out this new preprint by Wegert et al. on harvesting wave energy with piezoelectric materials. Interesting treatment!

arxiv.org/abs/2512.17965

Today to celebrate Black History Month & the international day of girls and women in science my students made mini posters of black or women scientists- no repeats allowed.
We taped them up on the wall outside our classroom.

In Teaching little lessons can make a big impact.
🧪🧬🍎⚒️

YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News SHOCK MOMENT: Ted Lieu Accuses Bondi Of Lying Under Oath To Her Face Leading To All-Out Clash

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ5O...

Israel has killed 581 Palestinians since a U.S.-brokered ceasefire was supposed to have taken effect last October.

Hey Black folks that make ice cream: let me give you a coupon code for my ice cream recipes! Message me! Happy Black History Month! ❤️

If this isn’t you, please share and repost so it can find the folks it’s meant for! Thanks!

Just want to point out...

After everything we have learned about the people in our government and what they are doing, the inhuman horrors they are currently enacting

revolution has not started.

Meaning that a majority of Americans may not like it, but don't care enough to do anything about it.

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

Need to scale, stretch or smear one spectrogram so that it fits over another—so that you can then look at non-trivial differences? Check out the new Python package diffpy.morph with a write-up just published on ArXiV.

arxiv.org/html/2602.06...

Report: U.S. added nearly $700 billion to national debt in four months - NewsBreak (The Center Square) – The U.S. government added $696 billion to the national debt over the past four months, borrowing $94 billion in the month of January

STEALING OUR MONEY!

tRumpstein ADDED $696 BILLION TO THE NATIONAL DEBT OVER THE PAST FOUR MONTHS ...

Borrowing $94 billion in January alone!!!

100% of Gross Domestic Product! The HIGHEST PERCENTAGE THE NATIONAL DEBT HAS EVER MADE UP OF GDP WAS 106%, and that was immediately following World War II

China sold 11 million electric vehicles in one year, leaving less room for the oil it used to buy from Venezuela But there is a basic question lurking behind the headlines. Who will actually need that oil in the years ahead? For years, China has been one of Venezuela’s

More than half of the world’s new electric cars are now plugging into Chinese sockets instead of lining up at gas stations. By 2024, it is estimated that China’s EV sales were growing about 40% year on year, even as some Western markets stumbled.

www.ecoticias.com/en/china-sol...

🚨Buckle up!🚨
Poland is investigating potential connections between Jeffrey Epstein and Polish victims, as well as possible involvement of Russian intelligence in his activities. The Polish government has set up a special task force.

A group of Buddhist monks has finally reached Washington, D.C., on foot, completing a 15-week trek for peace from Texas apnews.com/article/budd...

Mathematicians disagree on the essential structure of the complex numbers I discuss several commonly held perspectives on the complex numbers and explore how their differences engage with several aspects of structuralism in the philosophy of mathematics.

Mathematicians disagree on the essential structure of the complex numbers | Discussion

Lady Charlotte Hugonin Murchison died on 9 February 1869 at the age of 80.
An avid fossil collector, she introduced her husband Sir Roderick Impey Murchison to the world of geology & later edited and illustrated his work
...

Great new paper by Cui et al. on the bioavailability of phosphorus on early earth and the role of phyllosilicates (e.g. mica) in holding onto it. Makes a great complement to Helen Hansma's "life between the sheets" mica hypothesis about the origin of life.

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

As others have aptly pointed out, police forces have been murdering people for a long time, especially POC. This terrorism from ICE is only a continuation and newest version of what we have been seeing for a long time.

Bad Bunny’s closing messages during his Super Bowl performance:

“The only thing more powerful than hate is love”
“Together, we are America”

Congress has the power to subpoena witnesses, hold public hearings, and establish an independent commission to review the Epstein files.

What remains unclear is whether lawmakers have the political will to use those tools.

Benito carrying a football with musicians carrying flags behind him

Iconic moment as he says "God Bless América" and then names every country in South, Central, and North america in order

For the rest of the hemisphere, América doesn't mean the U.S.

It means evveeerrybody

Cool map. Don’t forget that alcohol prohibition was a proxy war against domestic violence. Early 20th century women tired of getting hit and raped by their drunk husbands, and no way to stop them with marriage laws.

I knew a french man who worked for the World Food Programme and traveled all over Africa for it. (He was my grandpa's friend from WWII)

... and who was wildly racist.
So, uh. Yeah. Not surprised.

I will be acquiring this book.

Congratulations!!

That's "super cool," as the French would say!

Wooot!! Woooot!!!

Congratulations.
You worked so hard for this!!

Luck for your next milestone, but...
in the meantime, celebrate!!!

Dancing, good food, family time, read a book for fun, movies, exercise you like, concerts, etc.

Way to go!