https://www.alojapan.com/1265958/japans-era-of-political-instability-is-just-getting-started/ Japan’s era of political instability is just getting started #Era #getting #instability #is #Japan #JapanNews #Japans #just #news #political #started Tobias Harris is the founder of Japan Foresight LLC. He is the author of “The Iconoclast: Shinzo Abe and the New Japan.” Japan’s Golden Week holidays have afforded Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and his government an opportunity to step back from the domestic fray and devote their energies…

#WarrenBuffett warned Saturday of the dire consequences of #Trump’s #tariffs while telling the thousands of #investors gathered at his annual meeting that “#trade should not be a #weapon” but “there’s no question that trade can be an act of #war.”

Buffett said Trump’s trade policies have raised the risk of #global #instability by angering the rest of the #world.
“It’s a big mistake…when you have 7.5B people who don’t like you…, & you have 300M who are crowing about how they have done,” he said.

“Legend”

Filmmaker Roman De Giuli returns to his roots with this short fluid-filled film inspired by the color gold. He combines paint, ink, powders, and particles in a mix of micro- and macroscale photography. As always, the results are a mesmerizing plethora of fluid phenomena: Marangoni flows, turbulence, vorticity, viscous fingering and so much more. (Video and image credit: R. De Giuli)

#fluidDynamics #fluidsAsArt #instability #physics #science #surfaceTension #turbulence

More context: Franzi studied #structure-#stability relations in #competition #networks, using #bryozoan assemblages as study systems. She could show that #hierarchy mitigates network #instability by keeping self-reinforcing #feedback relatively weak.

👉🏻 https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-023-05060-1

If you want a great documentary on the effect of tariffs with actual business holders in the computing / electronics space.
See how things are going and you as a consumer will be affected.

I highly recommend you boost / share, GN did a great job. Meet company founders, ceo's of small and big companies. Understand how they are dealing, with the current economy we are in, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W_mSOS1Qts

3 hours documentary.

#TheDeathOfAffordableComputing

#us #tariffs #taxes #instability #documentary #gamernexus #gamers #pc #business #economy #trump #america #china #europe #canada #mexico #taiwan #vietnam

Rising #prices, political #instability, global unrest — and now a creeping #recession that seems harder to ignore. Below are some recession-proof habits that can help you not just survive, but stay grounded and even thrive through tough times.

https://teachr.medium.com/recession-proof-habits-practical-tips-for-uncertain-times-fe5438923721

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .April 9th, 2025

https://bit.ly/stc040925

#virus #vector-based #T-cell #respiratory #moisture #temperature #instability #latent-heat #transient #temporal #singularities #acceleration #fuel-cell #PEM #fincantieri #decarbonization #1420MHz #redshift #88-108MHz #CubeSats

Twisting in the Flow

What happens to liquid crystals in a flow? In this video, researchers look at liquid crystals flowing through the narrow gap of a microfluidic device. Initially, all the crystals are oriented the same way, as if they are logs rolling down a river. But as the flow rate increases, narrow lines appear in the flow, followed by disordered regions, and, eventually, a new configuration: vertical bands streaking the left-to-right flow. The colors, in this case, indicate the orientation of the liquid crystals. As the researchers show, the crystals collectively twist to form the spontaneous bands. (Video and image credit: D. Jia and I. Bischofberger)

#2024gofm #flowVisualization #fluidDynamics #instability #liquidCrystals #physics #science

#Arctic #warming could pose a threat to America’s #security too: #Alaska may have new vulnerabilities to both #China & #Russia; changes in #ocean salinity & temp might interfere w/ #submarine detection systems; extremes of climate change, including #permafrost thaw in Russia, may drive #economic #instability, social #unrest, & territorial claims. [#Trump #Intelligence Agencies excluded #ClimateChange from the annual #ThreatAssessment report for the first time in decades — too *woke*]

#Greenland

“Visions in Ice”

The glittering blue interior of an ice cave sparkles in this award-winning image by photographer Yasmin Namini. The cave is underneath Iceland’s Vatnajokull Glacier. Notice the deep scallops carved into the lower wall. This shape is common in melting and dissolution processes. It is unavoidable for flat surfaces exposed to a melting/dissolving flow. (Image credit: Y. Namini/WNPA; via Colossal)

#erosion #fluidDynamics #fluidsAsArt #geology #geophysics #glacier #ice #instability #melting #physics #science

A Stellar Look at NGC 602

The young star cluster NGC 602 sits some 200,000 light years away in the Small Magellanic Cloud. Seen here in near- and mid-infrared, the cluster is a glowing cradle of star forming conditions similar to the early universe. A large nebula, made up of multicolored dust and gas, surrounds the star cluster. Its dusty finger-like pillars could be an example of Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities or plumes shaped by energetic stellar jets. (Image credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/JWST; via Colossal)

#astronomy #fluidDynamics #fluidsAsArt #instability #nebula #physics #science #stellarEvolution

Learned Helplessness
https://wp.me/p84YjG-4Nn
#helplessness #zsoltzsemba #indonesia #poverty #middleclass #instability #jobmarket #kerja #miskin #edukasi #community #zsoltzsemba

https://zsoltzsemba.com/2025/03/22/learned-helplessness/

“The Ballet of Colors”

Thomas Blanchard’s short film “The Ballet of Colors” plunges viewers into a warm spectrum of roiling oil and paint. Fluid dynamically speaking, it could be subtitled “the Plateau-Rayleigh instability” thanks to its focus on retracting paint ruptures and ligaments breaking into droplets. Unlike some other videos of this genre, Blanchard uses a high-speed camera here, filming the action at 1,000 frames per second, and the result is smooth, crisply focused, and absolutely delectable. (Video and image credit: T. Blanchard et al.)

#droplets #fluidDynamics #fluidsAsArt #instability #physics #PlateauRayleighInstability #science

Ultra-Soft Solids Flow By Turning Inside Out

Can a solid flow? What would that even look like? Researchers explored these questions with an ultra-soft gel (think 100,000 times softer than a gummy bear) pumped through a ring-shaped annular pipe. Despite its elasticity — that tendency to return to an original shape that distinguishes solids from fluids — the gel does flow. But after a short distance, furrows form and grow along the gel’s leading edge.

Since the gel alongside the pipe’s walls can’t slide due to friction, the gel flows by essentially turning itself inside out. Inner portions of the gel flow forward and then split off toward one of the walls as they reach the leading edge. This eversion builds up lots of internal stress in the gel, and furrowing — much like crumpling a sheet of paper — relieves that stress. (Image and research credit: J. Hwang et al.; via APS News)

#flowVisualization #fluidDynamics #instability #physics #pipeFlow #science #softMatter #solidMechanics #stress

The growing conviction that #Trump will stick by massive new #tariffs regardless of the economic fallout — amplified by Trump’s refusal to rule out a #recession on Sunday — fueled the drop across equity markets. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 890 points, 2%, while the S&P 500 fell 2.7% & the Nasdaq Composite plummeted 4%.

#economy #finance #TradeWar #instability #USpol #trumpcession

But #investors have been unsettled by #Trump’s willingness to impose #tariffs that go even beyond his sweeping campaign promises, w/hundreds of billions in new import duties already levied & trillions more poised to take effect on April 2. The federal govt could shut down this weekend, too, if #Congress doesn’t extend federal #funding.

#economy #finance #TradeWar #instability #USpol #trumpcession

#Trump’s senior advisers downplayed fresh economic turbulence Monday as the admin’s escalating #TradeWar deepened a sell-off on #WallStreet & renewed fears about the stability of the US #economy.

As all 3 major US #stock indexes slumped, Trump’s team projected confidence that the volatility would prove temporary & that an economic boom set off by tax cuts [for #corporations & the #wealthy] would follow later this year.

#tariffs #instability #finance #USpol #trumpcession
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/03/10/stocks-dow-fall-trump/

#Trump’s maneuverings have sent #stock #markets tumbling & sowed anxiety & confusion among industries that depend on trade w/ #Canada & #Mexico, which account for >¼ of #US imports & nearly ⅓ of US exports.

Trump signed #ExecutiveOrders authorizing the pause on the tariffs.

#economy #instability #geopolitics #USpol

Now he has rolled #Canada into the #Mexico pause without any explanation as to why. He paused the Mexico #tariffs after speaking to Mexico President #ClaudiaSheinbaum. Utter #chaos.

#Trump has played an inexplicable game of brinkmanship w/the North American #economy this week, as he levied stiff tariffs on Canada & Mexico, then suddenly rolling some back.

#instability #geopolitics