Galen

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Accessibility advocate, manga-reader, and indie game enthusiast. 💜🌱 gbergsten.github.io

A U.S. patent document with engineering sketches for the "pizza saver." Diagrams show a small plastic three-legged "table" maintaining space between food (pizza) and the lid of a cardboard box. The document includes a header with the date "Feb. 12, 1985."
"Defense Scheduled" in the Elden Ring font over a screenshot of a character standing in front of a gothic academy.
A comparison plot of recent estimates for the occurrence of Earth-sized habitable zone planets around M dwarfs and FGK stars. The left side of the figure compares results of recent studies for M dwarfs. Our new estimate is more uncertain than these previous works, sharing a 1-sigma upper bound of roughly 40% but now with a lower bound of roughly 1% (instead of previous bounds around 20%), and a median value of 14%. Text at the bottom reads that, for M dwarfs, this occurrence rate is less observationally constrained than previously believed. The right side of the figure includes comparisons to recent studies of Sun-like stars. While there is a range of plotted Sun-like estimates spanning from 5% to 85%, all of these values overlap with the new M dwarf estimate within 1 sigma. Text at the bottom restates that Kepler offers no evidence for higher Earth-sized habitable zone planet occurrence rates around M versus FGK stars.