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#PrintingPress #Press #Machine #Ink #Mechanism #YouTube #Video #Historical #History #Printer #PrintingMachine #Machine #Machines #Technology What a fantastic machine, and in many respects it’s one of the most important ever created…
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Since Doctor Who's mini playfield is getting its spa day, here's the 3rd level mechanism. The 3 Daleks are flyaway targets, a relative of drop targets except they get hang off something and turn horizontally when hit. Not that common mechanism, I think Bally's Speak Easy had bunch of these.
They have a small metal flap to keep them in the "dropped" state once you whack them with a ball. There's a unified release mechanism for all 3 at the side, which is actuated by a roller just below the playfield.
The game has to take the whole mini playfield down one level to reset these, which is why after each jackpot collect it seems to go down and then back up for no apparent reason. The game doesn't know their status, there's a normal micro switch elsewhere and these are purely ornamental, you can score the jackpot even if they were all missing.
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The Borrowed Saint: The Book That Watched Me Back
I have been thinking about mirrors for forty-eight years. The thinking started in a dressing room at a community playhouse in Lincoln, Nebraska, where a row of mirrors lined the wall above a counter cluttered with spirit gum and cold cream and the residue of faces that had been built and removed hundreds of times. I was thirteen years old and I was watching an actor apply a prosthetic nose, and the thing that struck me was the moment when his own face disappeared under the new architecture. His eyes changed. The man in the mirror stopped being the person I had been talking to thirty seconds earlier and became someone whose bone structure carried a different social signal, a different set of expectations, a different gravitational field. Same eyes. Different face. Different world.
That image has been sitting in my head for nearly five decades, paying rent in the form of a question I could not discharge: what is the relationship between the face and the person behind it? Is the face a window or a wall? If it is a window, what passes through it, and in which direction? If it is a wall, who built it, and what is it defending?
The Borrowed Saint: A Horror in Five Skins is now available from David Boles Books Writing and Publishing as a Kindle ebook and a trade paperback. It is the answer to that question, and the answer is worse than I expected.
The Mechanism
Asa Greer is five years old when he stands in a bathroom in Decker, Ohio and watches his reflection change. His cheekbones soften. His jaw loses its angles. For three seconds, he is wearing the face of the boy next door on his own skull. Then the face collapses, his features rush back, and the bathroom is loud again.
Asa can copy any face he sees. He can build composites from dozens of sources. He can walk through a room wearing the face that room requires, and the room will respond to the face without checking whether anything exists behind it. Each transformation extracts a sensory capacity he will never recover. Over fifty years, the ledger of things he can no longer smell, taste, feel, or hear grows longer than the ledger of things he retains.
I wanted the horror to be specific. Each loss is granular and irreplaceable: the smell of his own skin, the texture of his winter coat, the taste of tap water, his heartbeat’s internal sensation, the tonal distinctions that give melody its emotional contour. These are the small, unremarkable anchors that tether a person to the life they are living as opposed to any other life, and Asa severs them one by one and replaces them with borrowed faces that connect him to other people’s responses and sever him from his own existence.
The mechanism is supernatural. The cost is not.
The Kindness Problem
At twenty-eight, Asa discovers that performed goodness is the most powerful face he can build. Competence generates compliance. Charisma generates admiration. Authority generates obedience. Goodness generates worship. A room that witnesses an act of apparent compassion will defend the person who performed it against any attack, because the attack threatens the room’s belief that compassion exists.
Asa builds a kindness persona. He deploys it across a career that ascends from political consulting to the corridors of institutional power. The warmth that other people’s trust generates in his body is narcotic. His body is allergic to it. Every deployment produces an inflammatory response that begins at the jaw hinge and spreads through the muscles the performance recruits. The threshold contracts with each use. By his fifties, the margin between the face the world needs and the face his body can sustain is measured in minutes.
Writing this section of the book required me to think carefully about something I have observed across thirty years in theatre, publishing, and public life: the distance between a person’s performed concern and their actual capacity for being affected by another human being. Asa is an extreme case. The condition is not extreme. Every public figure, every institutional spokesperson, every person who has stood at a podium and projected the appearance of caring about something they were hired to manage rather than moved to address, operates on the same spectrum. Asa sits at the far end. The spectrum itself is ordinary.
Harlan Moeck and the Ditch
Every book needs a counter-argument, and this book’s counter-argument is a boy named Harlan Moeck who sits in the front row of Asa’s second-grade classroom and performs no performance at all. Harlan is kind because Harlan is kind, the way a heart beats because a heart beats. Asa can see it. He can catalog it. He cannot replicate it. He tries. The result is a window painted on a wall. Every measurement is precise. Light does not pass through.
Harlan appears three times across fifty years. Each appearance finds him doing invisible work: maintaining water systems, testing samples, keeping the infrastructure alive that the public consumes without awareness of the labor that produced it. The dedication reads: For the good men who dig the ditches. The water flows. No one applauds.
I have known Harlan Moecks. Every writer has. They are the people who do the work that makes the visible work possible, whose names appear in no coverage, whose labor sustains the systems that the public credits to the faces standing in front of cameras. I wrote Harlan because the book needed someone whose goodness was structural rather than performed, and because the horror of Asa’s condition is legible only when measured against a person for whom goodness is a condition of being alive rather than an overlay applied to a composite.
Cordelia’s Secret
Asa’s mother, Cordelia Greer, runs the household with efficiency and without affection. Touching her son only when logistics require it. Pushing his hair from his forehead with the heel of her hand. Washing a glass that is already clean, alone, in the dark, in the middle of the night, while the rest of the house sleeps.
The book’s final section, On the Lability, includes a clinical appendix: case notes of uncertain provenance describing Asa’s condition in medical language. Filed separately, an addendum describes a woman who presented at a clinic in 1987 asking whether the condition could be passed to a child. She said her father had possessed the ability to move his face and that it had eaten him from inside. She had spent her life holding still so it would not start.
That woman is Cordelia. The reader connects the dates and the details without being told. Every scene of emotional distance, every closed face, every hand that withdrew, is retroactively reframed. Cordelia was containing the same condition that consumed her son. The holding still was an act of will maintained across an entire lifetime. The coldness was a firewall.
I am proudest of this element of the book. The revelation arrives in a clinical register that has no capacity for grief, which is exactly why the grief hits as hard as it does. The driest language in the book carries the heaviest weight. If the mechanism works, the reader finishes the appendix and then sits for a moment and thinks about Cordelia washing the glass.
The Mirror on the Back Cover
One design detail I want to mention. On the paperback’s back cover, the title of the book appears reversed, as a mirror image. Letters flipped. Name reading backward. Below the reversed title, two amber eyes stare out, the same eyes that appear in the dissolving face on the front cover. Asa Greer is five years old in the first scene, standing in a bathroom, looking at a mirror. Turn the book over, and the mirror looks back.
The Borrowed Saint: A Horror in Five Skins is available now from David Boles Books Writing and Publishing at BolesBooks.com. Kindle eBook and paperback.
David Boles is a writer, dramatist, editor, and publisher. A member of the Dramatists Guild since 1984 and a graduate of the Oscar Hammerstein II Center for Theatre Studies at Columbia University, he has published novels, nonfiction, and dramatic works through David Boles Books Writing and Publishing since 1975. He lives in New York City.
#audiobook #charisma #columbiaUniversity #face #fiction #hiding #horror #kindness #literature #lying #mechanism #novel #psychiatry #shapeshifter #success #tech -
The Borrowed Saint: The Book That Watched Me Back
I have been thinking about mirrors for forty-eight years. The thinking started in a dressing room at a community playhouse in Lincoln, Nebraska, where a row of mirrors lined the wall above a counter cluttered with spirit gum and cold cream and the residue of faces that had been built and removed hundreds of times. I was thirteen years old and I was watching an actor apply a prosthetic nose, and the thing that struck me was the moment when his own face disappeared under the new architecture. His eyes changed. The man in the mirror stopped being the person I had been talking to thirty seconds earlier and became someone whose bone structure carried a different social signal, a different set of expectations, a different gravitational field. Same eyes. Different face. Different world.
That image has been sitting in my head for nearly five decades, paying rent in the form of a question I could not discharge: what is the relationship between the face and the person behind it? Is the face a window or a wall? If it is a window, what passes through it, and in which direction? If it is a wall, who built it, and what is it defending?
The Borrowed Saint: A Horror in Five Skins is now available from David Boles Books Writing and Publishing as a Kindle ebook and a trade paperback. It is the answer to that question, and the answer is worse than I expected.
The Mechanism
Asa Greer is five years old when he stands in a bathroom in Decker, Ohio and watches his reflection change. His cheekbones soften. His jaw loses its angles. For three seconds, he is wearing the face of the boy next door on his own skull. Then the face collapses, his features rush back, and the bathroom is loud again.
Asa can copy any face he sees. He can build composites from dozens of sources. He can walk through a room wearing the face that room requires, and the room will respond to the face without checking whether anything exists behind it. Each transformation extracts a sensory capacity he will never recover. Over fifty years, the ledger of things he can no longer smell, taste, feel, or hear grows longer than the ledger of things he retains.
I wanted the horror to be specific. Each loss is granular and irreplaceable: the smell of his own skin, the texture of his winter coat, the taste of tap water, his heartbeat’s internal sensation, the tonal distinctions that give melody its emotional contour. These are the small, unremarkable anchors that tether a person to the life they are living as opposed to any other life, and Asa severs them one by one and replaces them with borrowed faces that connect him to other people’s responses and sever him from his own existence.
The mechanism is supernatural. The cost is not.
The Kindness Problem
At twenty-eight, Asa discovers that performed goodness is the most powerful face he can build. Competence generates compliance. Charisma generates admiration. Authority generates obedience. Goodness generates worship. A room that witnesses an act of apparent compassion will defend the person who performed it against any attack, because the attack threatens the room’s belief that compassion exists.
Asa builds a kindness persona. He deploys it across a career that ascends from political consulting to the corridors of institutional power. The warmth that other people’s trust generates in his body is narcotic. His body is allergic to it. Every deployment produces an inflammatory response that begins at the jaw hinge and spreads through the muscles the performance recruits. The threshold contracts with each use. By his fifties, the margin between the face the world needs and the face his body can sustain is measured in minutes.
Writing this section of the book required me to think carefully about something I have observed across thirty years in theatre, publishing, and public life: the distance between a person’s performed concern and their actual capacity for being affected by another human being. Asa is an extreme case. The condition is not extreme. Every public figure, every institutional spokesperson, every person who has stood at a podium and projected the appearance of caring about something they were hired to manage rather than moved to address, operates on the same spectrum. Asa sits at the far end. The spectrum itself is ordinary.
Harlan Moeck and the Ditch
Every book needs a counter-argument, and this book’s counter-argument is a boy named Harlan Moeck who sits in the front row of Asa’s second-grade classroom and performs no performance at all. Harlan is kind because Harlan is kind, the way a heart beats because a heart beats. Asa can see it. He can catalog it. He cannot replicate it. He tries. The result is a window painted on a wall. Every measurement is precise. Light does not pass through.
Harlan appears three times across fifty years. Each appearance finds him doing invisible work: maintaining water systems, testing samples, keeping the infrastructure alive that the public consumes without awareness of the labor that produced it. The dedication reads: For the good men who dig the ditches. The water flows. No one applauds.
I have known Harlan Moecks. Every writer has. They are the people who do the work that makes the visible work possible, whose names appear in no coverage, whose labor sustains the systems that the public credits to the faces standing in front of cameras. I wrote Harlan because the book needed someone whose goodness was structural rather than performed, and because the horror of Asa’s condition is legible only when measured against a person for whom goodness is a condition of being alive rather than an overlay applied to a composite.
Cordelia’s Secret
Asa’s mother, Cordelia Greer, runs the household with efficiency and without affection. Touching her son only when logistics require it. Pushing his hair from his forehead with the heel of her hand. Washing a glass that is already clean, alone, in the dark, in the middle of the night, while the rest of the house sleeps.
The book’s final section, On the Lability, includes a clinical appendix: case notes of uncertain provenance describing Asa’s condition in medical language. Filed separately, an addendum describes a woman who presented at a clinic in 1987 asking whether the condition could be passed to a child. She said her father had possessed the ability to move his face and that it had eaten him from inside. She had spent her life holding still so it would not start.
That woman is Cordelia. The reader connects the dates and the details without being told. Every scene of emotional distance, every closed face, every hand that withdrew, is retroactively reframed. Cordelia was containing the same condition that consumed her son. The holding still was an act of will maintained across an entire lifetime. The coldness was a firewall.
I am proudest of this element of the book. The revelation arrives in a clinical register that has no capacity for grief, which is exactly why the grief hits as hard as it does. The driest language in the book carries the heaviest weight. If the mechanism works, the reader finishes the appendix and then sits for a moment and thinks about Cordelia washing the glass.
The Mirror on the Back Cover
One design detail I want to mention. On the paperback’s back cover, the title of the book appears reversed, as a mirror image. Letters flipped. Name reading backward. Below the reversed title, two amber eyes stare out, the same eyes that appear in the dissolving face on the front cover. Asa Greer is five years old in the first scene, standing in a bathroom, looking at a mirror. Turn the book over, and the mirror looks back.
The Borrowed Saint: A Horror in Five Skins is available now from David Boles Books Writing and Publishing at BolesBooks.com. Kindle eBook and paperback.
David Boles is a writer, dramatist, editor, and publisher. A member of the Dramatists Guild since 1984 and a graduate of the Oscar Hammerstein II Center for Theatre Studies at Columbia University, he has published novels, nonfiction, and dramatic works through David Boles Books Writing and Publishing since 1975. He lives in New York City.
#audiobook #charisma #columbiaUniversity #face #fiction #hiding #horror #kindness #literature #lying #mechanism #novel #psychiatry #shapeshifter #success #tech -
🍄 Friendly #fungi hijack #plant regulator to promote #symbiosis - study uncovers #mechanism that helps fungi to colonize plant #roots
👉 nature.com/articles/s41477-026-02247-2
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https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2026/03/11/pilze-kapern-pflanzenregulator-um-symbiose-zu-foerdern -
🍄 Friendly #fungi hijack #plant regulator to promote #symbiosis - study uncovers #mechanism that helps fungi to colonize plant #roots
👉 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-026-02247-2
@an-pocheng.bsky.social @carogutj.bsky.social @manishahaag.bsky.social
https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2026/03/11/friendly-fungi-hijack-plant-regulator-to-promote-symbiosis -
https://www.europesays.com/ie/365769/ OEA may boost Akkermansia levels and improve gut barrier function ##transport #3D #Axon #Cargo #Carrier #Cell #Clinical #Delivery #dissolve #Éire #Future #Health #IE #injectable #Ireland #mechanism #microscopic #Molecular #Nerve #neural #Neuron #payload #release #rupture #structure #system #targeted #Therapeutic #therapy #tissue #treatment
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The mathematical theory of linkages was once found beautiful, but is now comparatively unknown.
One of its highlights was what Florian Cajori (1859–1930) called the ‘beautiful discovery’ of the Peaucellier–Lipkin linkage (found independently in 1864 and 1871), a simple mechanism that transforms circular motion into linear motion (see attached image).
The importance of such a mechanism is that it can produce straight-line motion without using guide-rails and thus reducing friction. Previous linkages such as James Watt's (1736–1819) only *approximated* straight-line motion.
J.J. Sylvester, (1814–97) (who characterized his mathematical work as ‘the worship of the True & Beautiful’) admired a pump based on the linkage for ‘[i]ts elegance, and the frictionless ease with which it can be worked (beauty as usual the stamp and seal of perfection)’.
When the physicist William Thomson (later Baron Kelvin; 1824–1907) was able to work a model of the linkage, he was reluctant to hand it back, saying: ‘No! I have not had nearly enough of it — it is the most beautiful thing I have seen in my life’.
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#linkage #mechanism #mechanics #Kelvin #Sylvester #MathematicalBeauty
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The mathematical theory of linkages was once found beautiful, but is now comparatively unknown.
One of its highlights was what Florian Cajori (1859–1930) called the ‘beautiful discovery’ of the Peaucellier–Lipkin linkage (found independently in 1864 and 1871), a simple mechanism that transforms circular motion into linear motion (see attached image).
The importance of such a mechanism is that it can produce straight-line motion without using guide-rails and thus reducing friction. Previous linkages such as James Watt's (1736–1819) only *approximated* straight-line motion.
J.J. Sylvester, (1814–97) (who characterized his mathematical work as ‘the worship of the True & Beautiful’) admired a pump based on the linkage for ‘[i]ts elegance, and the frictionless ease with which it can be worked (beauty as usual the stamp and seal of perfection)’.
When the physicist William Thomson (later Baron Kelvin; 1824–1907) was able to work a model of the linkage, he was reluctant to hand it back, saying: ‘No! I have not had nearly enough of it — it is the most beautiful thing I have seen in my life’.
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#linkage #mechanism #mechanics #Kelvin #Sylvester #MathematicalBeauty
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The mathematical theory of linkages was once found beautiful, but is now comparatively unknown.
One of its highlights was what Florian Cajori (1859–1930) called the ‘beautiful discovery’ of the Peaucellier–Lipkin linkage (found independently in 1864 and 1871), a simple mechanism that transforms circular motion into linear motion (see attached image).
The importance of such a mechanism is that it can produce straight-line motion without using guide-rails and thus reducing friction. Previous linkages such as James Watt's (1736–1819) only *approximated* straight-line motion.
J.J. Sylvester, (1814–97) (who characterized his mathematical work as ‘the worship of the True & Beautiful’) admired a pump based on the linkage for ‘[i]ts elegance, and the frictionless ease with which it can be worked (beauty as usual the stamp and seal of perfection)’.
When the physicist William Thomson (later Baron Kelvin; 1824–1907) was able to work a model of the linkage, he was reluctant to hand it back, saying: ‘No! I have not had nearly enough of it — it is the most beautiful thing I have seen in my life’.
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#linkage #mechanism #mechanics #Kelvin #Sylvester #MathematicalBeauty
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The mathematical theory of linkages was once found beautiful, but is now comparatively unknown.
One of its highlights was what Florian Cajori (1859–1930) called the ‘beautiful discovery’ of the Peaucellier–Lipkin linkage (found independently in 1864 and 1871), a simple mechanism that transforms circular motion into linear motion (see attached image).
The importance of such a mechanism is that it can produce straight-line motion without using guide-rails and thus reducing friction. Previous linkages such as James Watt's (1736–1819) only *approximated* straight-line motion.
J.J. Sylvester, (1814–97) (who characterized his mathematical work as ‘the worship of the True & Beautiful’) admired a pump based on the linkage for ‘[i]ts elegance, and the frictionless ease with which it can be worked (beauty as usual the stamp and seal of perfection)’.
When the physicist William Thomson (later Baron Kelvin; 1824–1907) was able to work a model of the linkage, he was reluctant to hand it back, saying: ‘No! I have not had nearly enough of it — it is the most beautiful thing I have seen in my life’.
1/3
#linkage #mechanism #mechanics #Kelvin #Sylvester #MathematicalBeauty
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The mathematical theory of linkages was once found beautiful, but is now comparatively unknown.
One of its highlights was what Florian Cajori (1859–1930) called the ‘beautiful discovery’ of the Peaucellier–Lipkin linkage (found independently in 1864 and 1871), a simple mechanism that transforms circular motion into linear motion (see attached image).
The importance of such a mechanism is that it can produce straight-line motion without using guide-rails and thus reducing friction. Previous linkages such as James Watt's (1736–1819) only *approximated* straight-line motion.
J.J. Sylvester, (1814–97) (who characterized his mathematical work as ‘the worship of the True & Beautiful’) admired a pump based on the linkage for ‘[i]ts elegance, and the frictionless ease with which it can be worked (beauty as usual the stamp and seal of perfection)’.
When the physicist William Thomson (later Baron Kelvin; 1824–1907) was able to work a model of the linkage, he was reluctant to hand it back, saying: ‘No! I have not had nearly enough of it — it is the most beautiful thing I have seen in my life’.
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#linkage #mechanism #mechanics #Kelvin #Sylvester #MathematicalBeauty
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What are the effects of the presence of polyethylene glycol in macromolecular crystals? #PolyethyleneGlycol #Mechanism #Crystallization https://doi.org/10.1107/S2053230X2501043X
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Watch at: https://youtu.be/ffSu_r2VAao
Play at: https://tic80.com/play?cart=4521#youtube #youtuber #youtubechannel #mechanism #mechanics #scotchyoke #animation #animated #animator #art #artist #artistsonmastodon #animation2d #2d #2danimation #lua #program #programming #programmer #code #coding #creative #creativity #creativecoding #creativecodingart #computer #computerScience #pixelart #pixelartist #retro #arcade #nerd #geek
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Watch at: https://youtu.be/ffSu_r2VAao
Play at: https://tic80.com/play?cart=4521#youtube #youtuber #youtubechannel #mechanism #mechanics #scotchyoke #animation #animated #animator #art #artist #artistsonmastodon #animation2d #2d #2danimation #lua #program #programming #programmer #code #coding #creative #creativity #creativecoding #creativecodingart #computer #computerScience #pixelart #pixelartist #retro #arcade #nerd #geek
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Watch at: https://youtu.be/ffSu_r2VAao
Play at: https://tic80.com/play?cart=4521#youtube #youtuber #youtubechannel #mechanism #mechanics #scotchyoke #animation #animated #animator #art #artist #artistsonmastodon #animation2d #2d #2danimation #lua #program #programming #programmer #code #coding #creative #creativity #creativecoding #creativecodingart #computer #computerScience #pixelart #pixelartist #retro #arcade #nerd #geek
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Watch at: https://youtu.be/ffSu_r2VAao
Play at: https://tic80.com/play?cart=4521#youtube #youtuber #youtubechannel #mechanism #mechanics #scotchyoke #animation #animated #animator #art #artist #artistsonmastodon #animation2d #2d #2danimation #lua #program #programming #programmer #code #coding #creative #creativity #creativecoding #creativecodingart #computer #computerScience #pixelart #pixelartist #retro #arcade #nerd #geek
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Watch at: https://youtu.be/ffSu_r2VAao
Play at: https://tic80.com/play?cart=4521#youtube #youtuber #youtubechannel #mechanism #mechanics #scotchyoke #animation #animated #animator #art #artist #artistsonmastodon #animation2d #2d #2danimation #lua #program #programming #programmer #code #coding #creative #creativity #creativecoding #creativecodingart #computer #computerScience #pixelart #pixelartist #retro #arcade #nerd #geek
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I've seen neat practical tricks in pinball over the years, but I swear nothing has ever topped my reaction to Bram Stoker's Dracula and its Mist multiball start. When started, the game will float a ball across the playfield like magic, while you have another ball in play. If you manage to knock the floating ball off whatever magical force causes it to move, you'll get them both in play. Miss, and it's gone!
As you probably have guessed by now, it's magnets. There's a huge self-reversing screw across the playfield, on which a carriage with an electromagnet moves back and forth. On top of the playfield there's gates on each end, so if the ball is not hit, the gate is closed behind, locking the ball until the next attempt.
As you can see in the video, this mechanism takes a huge chunk of the playfield's underside and basically the game's wiring look detours around this thing.
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..In a world of noise, #Resonance is where quantum vibration meets mythic vibration—where the #soul learns to listen, attune, and amplify... resonance isn’t just a metaphor—it’s a #mechanism. A way to align with the frequencies that shape reality, relationships, and revelation. a.co/d/9FsgdYw
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Low Sinuosity Meandering Rivers Before Vascular Plants - Cambrian Tapeats Formation, Arizona, USA
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https://doi.org/10.1130/B38336.1 <-- shared paper
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#water #hydrology #Arizona #bars #braided #streams #Cambrian #channels #clastic #conglomerate #floodplains #fluvial #hydromorphology #sedimentation #landscape #LowerCambrian #meander #mechanism #migration #mudstone #Paleozoic #Plantae #pointbar #rivers #sandstone #sedimentary #Silurian #sinuosity #UnitedStates #USA #TapeatsFormation
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Low Sinuosity Meandering Rivers Before Vascular Plants - Cambrian Tapeats Formation, Arizona, USA
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https://doi.org/10.1130/B38336.1 <-- shared paper
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#water #hydrology #Arizona #bars #braided #streams #Cambrian #channels #clastic #conglomerate #floodplains #fluvial #hydromorphology #sedimentation #landscape #LowerCambrian #meander #mechanism #migration #mudstone #Paleozoic #Plantae #pointbar #rivers #sandstone #sedimentary #Silurian #sinuosity #UnitedStates #USA #TapeatsFormation
@GSA -
Low Sinuosity Meandering Rivers Before Vascular Plants - Cambrian Tapeats Formation, Arizona, USA
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https://doi.org/10.1130/B38336.1 <-- shared paper
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#water #hydrology #Arizona #bars #braided #streams #Cambrian #channels #clastic #conglomerate #floodplains #fluvial #hydromorphology #sedimentation #landscape #LowerCambrian #meander #mechanism #migration #mudstone #Paleozoic #Plantae #pointbar #rivers #sandstone #sedimentary #Silurian #sinuosity #UnitedStates #USA #TapeatsFormation
@GSA -
Low Sinuosity Meandering Rivers Before Vascular Plants - Cambrian Tapeats Formation, Arizona, USA
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https://doi.org/10.1130/B38336.1 <-- shared paper
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#water #hydrology #Arizona #bars #braided #streams #Cambrian #channels #clastic #conglomerate #floodplains #fluvial #hydromorphology #sedimentation #landscape #LowerCambrian #meander #mechanism #migration #mudstone #Paleozoic #Plantae #pointbar #rivers #sandstone #sedimentary #Silurian #sinuosity #UnitedStates #USA #TapeatsFormation
@GSA -
Low Sinuosity Meandering Rivers Before Vascular Plants - Cambrian Tapeats Formation, Arizona, USA
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https://doi.org/10.1130/B38336.1 <-- shared paper
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#water #hydrology #Arizona #bars #braided #streams #Cambrian #channels #clastic #conglomerate #floodplains #fluvial #hydromorphology #sedimentation #landscape #LowerCambrian #meander #mechanism #migration #mudstone #Paleozoic #Plantae #pointbar #rivers #sandstone #sedimentary #Silurian #sinuosity #UnitedStates #USA #TapeatsFormation
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#Covid causes what we in the biz call "#cardiovascular events," among its other nasty effects. #Heart attack, #stroke, pulmonary #embolism, deep vein #thrombosis. All things you should try to avoid.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-49634-x
The covid #vaccine—any of the currently approved vaccines—helps protect against such events. A #mechanism isn't yet clear: the obvious hypothesis is that it works by reducing the incidence and sincerity of covid, and therefore reduces the effects of the disease. Say it with me now: further research is needed. Send me a pile of cash and I'll be happy to get on that, BTW.
(It also helps protect against #cancer, by an entirely different mechanism. I can natter about that if anyone wants.)
But the effect itself is clear. Has been from the start of the #mRNA vaccine era, really. Now a very large-scale study has confirmed it. There will be more studies, as there should be. They will show the same result. I'd bet my fortune on that, if I had a fortune, because then I'd have an even bigger fortune. Have I mentioned lately that #scientists need to eat?
As it is, all I have to pledge is my life and my sacred honor. I take both of those pretty seriously.
Of course this runs directly counter to the #antivax narrative. Based on a transitory and maybe illusory increase in clotting risk from an early vaccine that's no longer on the market (Johnson & Johnson) they've built an entire mythology about "the #clot shot." Lately they've added "#turbo cancer," which is not a thing that exists, to the canon.
So when dedicated antivaxers see any of the large and ever-growing number of studies showing protective effects against more than the #infection itself, especially against the exact same problems they claim the vaccine causes, they react with mockery and/or rage. It's all they know how to do.
Years of bitter experience have taught me there's no point in trying to reason with them. I still hold out hope that at least some antivax sentiment isn't that dedicated, that a lot of people are scared of getting vaccinated out of the general unease brought on by ignorance.
Oh yeah: the Methods section in the linked article provides details on data collection and analysis. It looks good to me, and I have a whole lot of experience in study design. Note that no vaccine manufacturers provided #funding. For a full list of funding sources, see the Acknowledgements.
I don't suppose I have many if any antivaxers left in my audience. If I do, well, I guess there's a reason you're still here. And if you like me or trust me or respect me at all, please pay attention to my words.
For everyone else, if what I've written here is useful, please do with it what you can.
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AI predicts antibiotic's IBD mechanism–scientists later confirm
#HackerNews #AI #Antibiotics #IBD #Mechanism #Healthcare #Innovation #Science #News
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Hackaday: 3D Printed “Book” Demonstrates Mechanical Actions. “A book of mechanical actions is a wondrous thing — mechanically inclined children have lost collective decades pouring over them over the generations. What could possibly be better? Why, if the mechanisms in the book were present, and moved! That’s exactly what [AxelMadeIt] produced for a recent video.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/27/hackaday-3d-printed-book-demonstrates-mechanical-actions/
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3D Printed “Book” Demonstrates Mechanical Actions https://hackaday.com/2025/09/24/3d-printed-book-demonstrates-mechanical-actions/ #mechanicalengineering #3Dprintedgears #mechanism #Art
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3D Printed “Book” Demonstrates Mechanical Actions - A book of mechanical actions is a wondrous thing — mechanically inclined children ... - https://hackaday.com/2025/09/24/3d-printed-book-demonstrates-mechanical-actions/ #mechanicalengineering #3dprintedgears #mechanism #art
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New video comes up on Tuesday!
#robot #legs #walkingmachine #machine #cnc #3dprinted #testing #mechanism
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MOF: MyKad, E-Wallets, Fuel Apps Considered For RON95 Subsidy Delivery #mechanism #ministryoffinance #news #ron95 #subsidy
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#Karakurist figured out the mechanism for Light Yagami's watch!!!
Video is in Japanese but has English subs available:
https://youtu.be/fJt4nqPApU4#DeathNote #LightYagami #WatchMaking #3dPrinting #Mechanism #Engineering
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#Karakurist figured out the mechanism for Light Yagami's watch!!!
Video is in Japanese but has English subs available:
https://youtu.be/fJt4nqPApU4#DeathNote #LightYagami #WatchMaking #3dPrinting #Mechanism #Engineering
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#Karakurist figured out the mechanism for Light Yagami's watch!!!
Video is in Japanese but has English subs available:
https://youtu.be/fJt4nqPApU4#DeathNote #LightYagami #WatchMaking #3dPrinting #Mechanism #Engineering
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#Karakurist figured out the mechanism for Light Yagami's watch!!!
Video is in Japanese but has English subs available:
https://youtu.be/fJt4nqPApU4#DeathNote #LightYagami #WatchMaking #3dPrinting #Mechanism #Engineering
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#Karakurist figured out the mechanism for Light Yagami's watch!!!
Video is in Japanese but has English subs available:
https://youtu.be/fJt4nqPApU4#DeathNote #LightYagami #WatchMaking #3dPrinting #Mechanism #Engineering
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Japonya'nın Tek Karakuri Bebek Ustası. 300 Yıllık Mükemmel Mekanik Sanat.
#mechanic #mechanism #mechanisms #MechanicArt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU-kqpkZWjc&list=PLK2SeKwythXhypnqO8WB2kNdRk1fvXEz4&index=14
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A two-step #mechanism for RIG-I #activation by #influenza virus mini viral #RNAs, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2025/02/a-two-step-mechanism-for-rig-i.html
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Finland to devise new subsidy to encourage nuclear power build-up https://www.byteseu.com/656435/ #balance #batteries #Climate #consumption #double #electricity #Energy #environement #facility #Finland #Finnish #Finns #flexibility #Government #Grid #guarantee #InPrinciple #KaiMykkänen #large #Loan #mechanism #Minister #Nuclear #permit #plant #Policy #power #price #regulating #Solutions #stabilise #Subsidy #support #Wind
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the nanobots built a music box but only they can hear it
#Nanobots #MusicBox #Intricate #Metallic #Colorful #Cube #MacrophotographyStyle #Surreal #Mechanism
#Img2img #AiArt #AiArtists #AiArtCommunity #StableDiffusionwant? have: https://aieris.art/featured/the-nanobots-built-a-music-box-but-only-they-can-hear-it-eris-and-ai.html
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https://www.evshift.com/312744/how-to-use-stabiliser-with-disconnection-mechanism-sdm-i-toyota-new-generation-land-cruiser-250/ How to use Stabiliser with Disconnection Mechanism (SDM) I Toyota New Generation Land Cruiser 250 #cruiser #Disconnection #ElectricCars #ElectricVehicles #Europe #EV #generation #Land #Mechanism #motor #SDM #Stabiliser #Toyota #ToyotaEurope
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As dilettante #neuroscience student, nowadays it is incredible to have #OpenAccess to @thetransmitter #journalism by contributors & editors divulgative style written pieces, with included opinionated voices from global #BrainScience researchers, on broader #NeuroNews & current #HotTopics
Fav Top 3 Reads
1 #Mechanism wtf?
Lauren N Ross & Dani S Bassett, ea:
https://doi.org/10.53053/YPDW95742 #MoodDisorder wtf?
@NicoleCRust ea:
https://doi.org/10.53053/MHCS4874 -
Preliminary Observations of the 5 April 2024 Mw 4.8 New Jersey Earthquake
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https://doi.org/10.1785/0320240024 <-- shared paper
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https://doi.org/10.1785/0320240020 <-- shared paper
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https://doi.org/10.1177/87552930231215428 <-- shared paper
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[This is ‘unusual’ seismic activity and shaking patterns for this part of the USA, on an ‘unmapped’ fault, and seemingly challenging existing models of earthquake risk in the region; while a 4.8 is not big, it must have been quite a surprise for the people in this heavily populated U.S. Northeast not used to such things (per the paper, the USGS estimated it was felt by some 42 million people.]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #earthquake #risk #hazard #spatialanalysis #model #modeling #NewJersey #USA #geology #engineeringgeology #seismic #USGS #seismology #fault #faulting #Tewksbury #DidYouFeelIt #geotechnical #NIST #remotesensing #InSAR #strikeslip #mechanism #thrust -
Earthquake Focal Mechanisms – Life’s A Beach(Ball) [USGS]
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https://www.usgs.gov/observatories/yvo/news/earthquake-focal-mechanisms-lifes-a-beachball <-- shared technical link
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2003JB002675 <-- shared paper
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#geology #faulting #risk #hazard #spatialanalysis #spatial #GIS #mapping #earthquake #beachball #beachballdiagram #slip #orientation #slipdirection #focalmechanism #focalsphere #structuralgeology #seismic #waves #compression #tension #mechanism #geomorphometry
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New Explanation For Siberia’s Permafrost Craters
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https://news.agu.org/press-release/new-yamal-craters-explanation/ <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL108987 <-- shared paper
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"KEY POINTS
• Surface ice-melt water can migrate downward driven by the osmotic pressure associated with a cryopeg, a lens of salty water below
• Overpressure can cause the frozen soil to crack resulting in mechanical explosion.."
#permafrost #hydrates # Russia #YamalPeninsula #BatagaikaCrater #Siberia #climatechange #geomorphology #mechanism #process #climatechange #methane #thawing #frozen #soil #Yamal #Taymyr #cryopeg #ice #water #hydrology #infiltration #osmotic #pumping #explosion #greehousegas -
New Explanation For Siberia’s Permafrost Craters
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https://news.agu.org/press-release/new-yamal-craters-explanation/ <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL108987 <-- shared paper
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"KEY POINTS
• Surface ice-melt water can migrate downward driven by the osmotic pressure associated with a cryopeg, a lens of salty water below
• Overpressure can cause the frozen soil to crack resulting in mechanical explosion.."
#permafrost #hydrates # Russia #YamalPeninsula #BatagaikaCrater #Siberia #climatechange #geomorphology #mechanism #process #climatechange #methane #thawing #frozen #soil #Yamal #Taymyr #cryopeg #ice #water #hydrology #infiltration #osmotic #pumping #explosion #greehousegas -
New Explanation For Siberia’s Permafrost Craters
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https://news.agu.org/press-release/new-yamal-craters-explanation/ <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL108987 <-- shared paper
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"KEY POINTS
• Surface ice-melt water can migrate downward driven by the osmotic pressure associated with a cryopeg, a lens of salty water below
• Overpressure can cause the frozen soil to crack resulting in mechanical explosion.."
#permafrost #hydrates # Russia #YamalPeninsula #BatagaikaCrater #Siberia #climatechange #geomorphology #mechanism #process #climatechange #methane #thawing #frozen #soil #Yamal #Taymyr #cryopeg #ice #water #hydrology #infiltration #osmotic #pumping #explosion #greehousegas -
New Explanation For Siberia’s Permafrost Craters
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https://news.agu.org/press-release/new-yamal-craters-explanation/ <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL108987 <-- shared paper
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"KEY POINTS
• Surface ice-melt water can migrate downward driven by the osmotic pressure associated with a cryopeg, a lens of salty water below
• Overpressure can cause the frozen soil to crack resulting in mechanical explosion.."
#permafrost #hydrates # Russia #YamalPeninsula #BatagaikaCrater #Siberia #climatechange #geomorphology #mechanism #process #climatechange #methane #thawing #frozen #soil #Yamal #Taymyr #cryopeg #ice #water #hydrology #infiltration #osmotic #pumping #explosion #greehousegas