Wrote glowing summaries for my interns. It was pretty fun, hopefully for them too. They mostly spent those three weeks getting maths lessons only for me to say "Oh, geez, look at the time!", but I doubt anyone thinks this time was wasted. And they did help me with a project that's been on the back burner for almost five years now. I offered to help them extend this stuff and get it published, but don't expect to hear back until October/November. Can't blame them; summer's precious even if you have to work through it. And the weather has been super-mild so far, so that's even less incentive to stay inside and do maths.

Xenonauts 2 went out, and I'm in this in-between state of liking the new thing yet longing for all the mods that were left behind. The devs and community are cool, though, and I hope there won't be too much of a learning curve to port/write my stuff. Wouldn't mind a real modding API or something, so that people aren't learning through word of mouth or by dissecting the thing composed of loosely associated XML(?) files.

There's been some buzz recently about this thing. Apart from the usual "wait until it's replicated," or people bringing up recent retractions or hoaxes, I'd like to simply say that any paper on (a breakthrough in) superconductivity that doesn't include temperature-resistance curve is essentially worthless. Sure, you can go "doesn't resistance relate to Debye temperature, Bloch-Gruneisen model go brrr?," but one is an inferred quantity while the other is measured directly. Go with direct measurements, especially when they're as bloody standard as resistance.