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Expected value, to a point: Moral decision‐making under background uncertainty

Noûs, Volume 59, Issue 4, Page 1093-1125, December 2025.
Abstract Expected value maximization gives plausible guidance for moral decision‐making under uncertainty in many situations. But it has unappetizing implications in ‘Pascalian’ situations involving tiny probabilities of extreme outcomes. This paper shows, first, that under realistic levels of ‘background uncertainty’ about sources of value independent
Christian Tarsney
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The Flattest Infrared Extinction Curve in Four Isolated Dense Molecular Cloud Cores

The Astrophysical Journal Letters
The extinction curve of interstellar dust in the dense molecular cloud cores is crucial for understanding dust properties, particularly size distribution and composition.
Jun Li, Bingqiu Chen, Biwei Jiang, He Zhao, Botao Jiang, Xi Chen   +5 more
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Visionaries and Crackpots, Maniacs and Saints: Existential Risk and the Politics of Longtermism

Ratio, Volume 38, Issue 4, Page 268-278, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Despite advancing strong claims about our collective priorities, longtermism has received little attention in debates in political philosophy. I first provide an account of longtermism that highlights the way it departs from established work on intergenerational justice.
Alex McLaughlin
wiley   +1 more source

Interstellar extinction in the ultraviolet [PDF]

, 1972
Interstellar extinction curves over the region 3600-1100 A for 17 stars are presented. The observations were made by the two Wisconsin spectrometers onboard the OAO-2 with spectral resolutions of 10 A and 20 A.
Bless, R. C., Savage, B. D.
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JWST Imaging of the Closest Globular Clusters—VI. The Lowest‐Mass Objects in M 4 and the Galactic Bulge

Astronomische Nachrichten, Volume 346, Issue 9, November 2025.
ABSTRACT We present James Webb Space Telescope observations of M 4—the closest globular cluster—that probe the lower Main Sequence down to the hydrogen‐burning limit. The unveiled stellar sequence reaches much fainter luminosities than previously possible, revealing a few extremely red objects that are consistent with brown dwarfs as cool as Teff∼1000K$
L. R. Bedin, R. Gerasimov, A. Calamida, M. Libralato, M. Scalco, D. Nardiello, M. Griggio, D. Apai, J. Anderson, A. Bellini, A. Burgasser   +10 more
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Equivalent Width of the Interstellar Na i D1 and D2 Absorption Lines for Stars with E(B−V) < 0.15 [PDF]

New measurements of the equivalent width of the interstellar Na i D1 and D2 absorption lines for 62 bright B-type stars with E(B − V) < 0.15 are used to recalibrate the relation between these quantities in this low-reddening regime, and to quantify the ...
Maxted, Pierre F. L.
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Writing Against Fate: Climate Strategies and Subversions in Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the Future

Future Humanities, Volume 3, Issue 2, November 2025.
ABSTRACT Climate fiction's dominant futurist imaginaries trend towards resolved futures, particularly in apocalyptic and techno‐utopian representations of our climate futures. These closure‐driven narratives treat the future as a fated, distant event, limiting climate fiction's interrogation of human agency, responsibility, and potential action in the ...
Maryn Gardner
wiley   +1 more source

Investigation of ultraviolet interstellar extinction [PDF]

, 1973
Results concerning interstellar extinction in the ultraviolet are reported. These results were initially obtained by using data from main-sequence stars and were extended to include supergiants and emission stars. The principal finding of the analysis of
Payne, C., Haramundanis, K. L.
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An All-sky 3D Dust Map Based on Gaia and LAMOST

The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
We present a comprehensive 3D dust-reddening map covering the entire Milky Way, constructed by combining reddening estimates based on Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopy Telescope (LAMOST) low-resolution spectra ( E ( B  −  V ) _LAMOST ) with ...
Tao Wang, Haibo Yuan, Bingqiu Chen, Maosheng Xiang, Ruoyi Zhang, Bowen Huang, Hongrui Gu, Shuaicong Wang, Jiawei Li   +8 more
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Calibration of Electrically Short Antennas Using the l = 2 Spherical Harmonic Expansion Coefficients of the Radio Brightness Distribution on the Sky Between 0.5 and 6.8 MHz

Radio Science, Volume 60, Issue 8, August 2025.
Abstract A space‐borne radio‐frequency antenna is typically located in the vicinity of a conductive spacecraft body that influences its beam. Also, at wavelengths that greatly exceed the sizes of such an antenna and spacecraft, the antenna is expected to have the beam of an equivalent short dipole.
Brent Page, Alain Lecacheux, Marc Pulupa, Stuart D. Bale   +3 more
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