Daily Kos’s own Wizard of Wit Bill in Portland Maine lets me repeat the results of his research. He arrayed the following items in his popular Who Won the Week? poll in Friday’s Cheers and Jeers. About 3,000 people voted in that poll. Please enjoy Bill’s on-point analysis and wit, vote in his poll, Rec his diaries, get on his bandwagon, send him a donation, and earn his blessing.
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The millions of peaceful americans putting their lives on the line to calm the vicious rioting by trump's jackbooted thugs won the week. Whom would you vote for for runner-up?
- Ella Jones, who becomes the first black candidate and first woman to be elected mayor of Ferguson, Missouri
- The hundreds of Facebook employees who staged a virtual walkout to protest Mark Zuckerberg's idiotic refusal to remove posts by President Bunker Boy glorifying and promoting violence
- NASA, SpaceX, and astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken, for heralding a new era of manned space flight from Cape Canaveral with the successful launch of the Crew Dragon
- Justice, as charges against George Floyd's killer are upped to 2nd-degree murder, and 3 other officers are charged with aiding and abetting 2nd-degree murder
- Joe Biden, for his eloquent, presidential speech in Philadelphia, and polls across the board showing him trouncing Trump in November
- The G-7 nations, led by Germany and Canada, for mulling over Trump's tantrum-fueled demand to let Russia back into the group…and telling him to go F himself
- Rahul Dubey, the guy who sheltered 60+ people in his D.C. home at curfew, preventing them from being attacked by Trump's Gestapo who had trapped them
- Karma, as Congress's #1 racist, Steve King (R-IA) finally meets his political end with a landslide primary defeat in Iowa's 4th District
- The Portland Press Herald: Maine's largest newspaper pens a letter to Trump that opens: "We’re sorry that you decided to come to Maine, but since you are here, could you do us a favor? Resign."
- The thousands of people in Hong Kong who defied a police ban to honor the victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre
Spoiler Alert … Top Results of Bill’s poll —
- Rahul Dubey, the guy who sheltered 60+ people in his D.C. home at curfew, preventing them from being attacked by Trump's Gestapo who had trapped them — 23%
- Justice, as charges against George Floyd's killer are upped to 2nd-degree murder, and 3 other officers are charged with aiding and abetting 2nd-degree murder — 19%
- Joe Biden, for his eloquent, presidential speech in Philadelphia, and polls across the board showing him trouncing Trump in November — 16%\
That 74% of Americans view George Floyd's death as an underlying racial injustice problem is a major demographic shift. Three out of four Americans support the Black Lives Matter movement.
Democratic voter registrations, volunteer activity, and donations surge
“Voter registrations, volunteer activity and donations for groups linked to Democratic causes are surging in the midst of protests following the death of George Floyd, according to voting advocacy groups”:
A Little Science
One-of-a-kind microscope enables breakthrough in quantum science
"We have developed an electron microscope that produces what is in many respects, the best near- field optical microscopy in the world. Using our microscope, we can change the color and angle of light that illuminates any sample of nano materials and map their interactions with electrons, as we demonstrated with photonic crystals," explained Prof. Kaminer. "This is the first time we can actually see the dynamics of light while it is trapped in nano materials, rather than relying on computer simulations," added Dr. Kangpeng Wang, a postdoc in the group and first author on the paper. "We have developed an electron microscope that produces, what is in many respects, the best near- field optical microscopy in the world. Using our microscope, we can change the color and angle of light that illuminates any sample of nano materials and map their interactions with electrons, as we demonstrated with photonic crystals," explained Prof. Kaminer. "This is the first time we can actually see the dynamics of light while it is trapped in nano materials, rather than relying on computer simulations," added Dr. Kangpeng Wang, a postdoc in the group and first author on the paper. ✂
At the heart of the breakthrough lies the fact that advances in the research of ultrafast free-electron-light interactions have introduced a new kind of quantum matter—quantum free-electron "wavepackets." In the past, quantum electrodynamics (QED) studied the interaction of quantum matter with cavity modes of light which has been crucial in the development of the underlying physics that constitutes the infrastructure of quantum technologies. However, all experiments to date have only focused on light interacting with bound-electron systems—such as atoms, quantum dots, and quantum circuits—which are significantly limited in their fixed energy states, spectral range, and selection rules. Quantum free-electron wavepackets, however, have no such limits. Despite multiple theoretical predictions of exciting new cavity effects with free electrons, no photonic cavity effect has previously been observed for free electrons, due to fundamental limits on the strength and duration of the interaction.
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