QuoteA 'sadistic' wife forced her husband to live in squalor with sixty chihuahuas, making him clean up their faeces barefoot and locking him in their kennel during a year-long campaign of torture, a Belgian court has heard.

The court was shown shocking images documenting what the prosecutor described as the husband's descent from 'a healthy partner at the beginning of the relationship to a burned skeleton'.

The abuse only ended on March 18, when the victim managed to flee the home and desperately banged on neighbours' doors for help.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15349029/Sadistic-wife-tortured-husband-year-forcing-clean-SIXTY-Chihuahuas-round-clock-locking-kennel.html

QuoteWalshe, 50, viewed on his laptop a video about a "cheating wife" on Dec. 27, Massachusetts State Police Trooper Nicholas Guarino testified Tuesday, according to a report by CNN.

The explicit clip was allegedly viewed three days before Ana, Walshe's wife and the mother of their three boys, disappeared forever around New Year's Day 2023.

https://nypost.com/2025/12/02/us-news/brian-walshe-allegedly-watched-kinky-cuckold-porn-days-before-suspected-cheating-wifes-death-jury-hears/

QuoteIn ancient Athens, the agora was a public forum where citizens could gather to deliberate, disagree and decide together. It was governed by deep-rooted social principles that ensured lively, inclusive, healthy debate.

In Athens, isegoria referred to the right to speak, but it did not stop at mere entitlement or access. It signaled a shared responsibility, a commitment to fairness, and the idea that public life should not be governed by the powerful alone.

The term parrhesia can be defined as boldness or freedom in speaking. Again, there is nuance; parrhesia is not reckless candor, but ethical courage. It referred to the duty to speak truthfully, even when that truth provoked discomfort or danger.

https://phys.org/news/2025-12-ancient-athens-debate-dissent-social.html

QuoteSome relationships end loudly, most end quietly. There is no dramatic fight or sudden revelation. Instead, partners gradually stop showing up for each other in small, everyday ways.

The legal divorce, if it comes at all, is simply the final step in a separation that happened long before. "Quiet divorcing," the term given to this slow, mostly invisible retreat from a long-term relationship, has recently gone viral.

Borrowing from the term "quiet quitting," it has caught fire because it names an experience many people recognize but rarely articulate.

https://phys.org/news/2025-12-quiet-divorcing-problem-erosion-intimacy.html

QuoteQuantum communication follows a similar idea, but individual photons act as the information carriers. A zero or one is encoded through the direction of the photon's polarization (i.e., their orientation in the horizontal and vertical directions or in a superposition of both states). Because photons behave according to quantum mechanics, their polarization cannot be measured without leaving detectable traces. Any attempt to intercept the message would be exposed.

Teleportation requires the photons to be nearly identical in properties such as timing and color. Producing such photons is hard because they come from separate sources.

At the University of Stuttgart, the researchers successfully teleported the polarization state of a photon from one quantum dot to a photon produced by a second quantum dot. One dot emits a single photon and the other generates an entangled photon pair. "Entangled" means the two photons share a single quantum state even when physically apart. One photon from the pair travels to the second quantum dot and interacts with its photon. When the two overlap, their superposition transfers the information from the original photon to the far-away partner of the entangled pair.

A key element of this achievement was the use of "quantum frequency converters," devices that adjust small frequency mismatches between photons.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/11/251129044516.htm