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The article discusses the impact of the discovery of 'spin' by the Dutch physicists Samuel Goudsmit and George Uhlenbeck, who identified a crucial property of electrons a hundred years ago, and how this discovery is still of great importance for our understanding of physics and technological applications such as MRI scanners. #spin #natuurkunde #fysica (translated)

The article "How to lose money betting against Europe" discusses how even a good understanding of the political situation in Europe may not be sufficient to make a profit from speculations surrounding European government bonds, highlighting previous failures of investors. #EuropeseEconomie #SovereignDebt #PolitiekEnEconomie (translated)

The author suggested that the KNAW increasingly pushed the central value of truth-finding in science to the background, while the institution, according to the author, placed more emphasis on concepts such as honesty, transparency, and inclusion. The author encouraged readers who thought this was not the case to continue reading. (translated)

Roger Samuelsson criticizes the complexity and unpredictability of the Swedish tax system, which scares away entrepreneurs and investments, and calls for a more understandable and predictable system to promote entrepreneurship in Sweden. #skattesystem #entreprenörskap #utlandssvenskar (translated)

Joost Jansen wrote that he had Chat prepare a speech for Rob Jetten in response to serious riots in Amsterdam. The proposed text stated that violence against society was unacceptable, while demonstrating and expressing criticism were part of democracy. The speech proposed three measures: maintaining the rule of law, supporting victims and affected entrepreneurs, and investigating the causes of social tensions. The text also stated that researching those causes was no excuse for violence. The recovery of trust, according to the speech, would depend on consistent action and rules that applied to everyone. #Amsterdam #democratie #veiligheid (translated)

Mats Yxhäll wrote that he sometimes wondered how an independent television channel would investigate what he called nonsense. He asked how a person who, according to him, could not speak Swedish, despite having lived in the country for 23 years, could be elected to the parliament. He also wondered how Ali could be elected despite Ali, according to Yxhäll, not knowing what one does in parliament. Yxhäll wrote that SVT was considered independent by some, but that the channel that day instead featured a segment about AI-generated articles from Vietnam that were about Ali. #Sverige #Media #Demokrati (translated)

Simone Svensson wrote that the question should not need to be asked in a normal country, but she argued that Sweden was no longer such a place. She questioned whether it was too much to ask for a member of parliament, with a basic salary of 81,400 kronor a month and additional pay for work on the education committee, to be able to communicate in comprehensible Swedish after 23 years in the country. https://t.co/wP12scRP8e #Sverige #Riksdag #Språk (translated)

Dr. Tallinger questioned whether the country's leaders had sufficient knowledge of Swedish to understand and answer simple questions. The account stated that they seemed to be reading prepared talking points instead and accused the Green Party of making democracy ridiculous. #Sverige #Demokrati #Språk (translated)

Thierry Baudet stated that people who appealed to freedom, tolerance, the rule of law, and the open society, in his view undermined those principles. He wrote that the outcome of a won referendum was ignored and that the possibility of organizing new referendums was subsequently abolished. He also said that his political party was not involved in coalition formation, was not allowed to appear in the media, and was systematically demonized. According to Baudet, a draft law had also been prepared to ban the party. He added that the publishing house that released the critical book *The Coronabedrog* won the NS Publieksprijs, but that the prize was not awarded and the procedure was then adjusted. Furthermore, Baudet wrote that the license of a broadcasting organization he founded was revoked and that there were attempts to find ways to close a school he established or to make future similar schools impossible. He asked what the concepts of democracy, rule of law, tolerance, and open society were still worth according to him. #democratie #vrijheid #toleren (translated)

Ida Gabrielsson wrote that the Social Democrats' 28 percent, the party's lowest result ever according to her, should lead to greater humility towards the voters. She said she appreciated the industrial town mentality's emphasis on not putting oneself at the center. Gabrielsson stated that the Social Democrats had commented on her and Nooshi's maturity and said that they therefore could not become government ministers. She pointed out that she herself had not expressed interest in the position and said that there were more or less suitable people in all parties. She did not want to compile a list of politicians' maturity herself. She argued that the Left Party's demands for political influence concerned the party's electoral politics, not specific individuals, and asked why the Social Democrats' executive committee focused instead on individuals' maturity. According to Gabrielsson, the Social Democrats needed to accept the situation regardless of their own preferences. She wrote that the party's leadership risked making it difficult for Magdalena Andersson to be elected and that the Left Party only demanded a place in the government if its mandate was needed. The Social Democrats could seek other collaborations or accept sharing power with the Left Party, she wrote. #politiken #ödmjukhet #samarbete (translated)

Ledarsidorna.se wrote that when Sweden joined the EU in 1995, the country had three recently independent neighboring countries on the other side of the Baltic Sea, but that the social democratic government instead focused on Islam in Europe and the Mediterranean region. According to the site, a Swedish-funded conference the following year recommended that the dialogue between Europe and the Muslim world should have a secretariat in Sweden. The site linked this to the fact that all five Swedish social democrats in the European Parliament, according to the post, voted against a strategy against Islamist entryism 30 years later. It also claimed that the background made Margot Wallström's and Morgan Johansson's attitudes toward Israel understandable and described it as hate. Ledarsidorna.se announced that an article on the subject would be published the next morning around 6:00 AM. #svpol #EU #Sverige #politik (translated)

Ida Gabrielsson wrote that it was C, and not V, that excluded the other party. She objected to Anders Ygeman's description in Aktuellt of the situation as a mutual exclusion and argued that the portrayal of C and V as equally responsible did not clarify the government issue or facilitate a quick formation of government. Gabrielsson stated that V said yes to all parties needed to elect Magdalena Andersson, while C said no to V. According to her, this prevented Magdalena Andersson from gathering a majority. #svpol #politik #regering (translated)

Ida Gabrielsson argued that the government formation should be based on the fact that S, V, MP, and C had campaigned for a change of power and had Magdalena Andersson as a common candidate for prime minister. She wrote that C could not count in parties that did not support Andersson and at the same time demand influence based on their mandates. According to Gabrielsson, voters had given C 7 percent and V 8.4 percent, and V would not accept C pursuing right-wing policies with the support of V's mandate. Gabrielsson stated that C could seek support from Ulf Kristersson or try to get KD and L to switch sides. If that did not happen, C needed to negotiate with S, V, and MP to get a majority behind Andersson, according to her. She wrote that V was willing to compromise, but that the parties supporting a prime minister candidate must also be able to accept each other as a government basis. She criticized C’s growth proposals, including continued privatization of the Employment Service and permanent tax subsidies to cleaning companies and large restaurant chains. Gabrielsson claimed that the Economic Institute, the Fiscal Policy Council, and others had assessed the proposals as ineffective, expensive, and ineffective in creating jobs. She also wrote that the proposals would be financed through cuts to unemployment benefits and sick pay as well as cuts in welfare. Gabrielsson asserted that the most voters preferred a red-green government, followed by the Tidö alternative, while C's centrist alternative lagged far behind. She wrote that more people had voted for S, V, and MP than for the previous Alliance if SD was excluded. Finally, she urged C to first clarify its political direction and implied that the party needed to choose a side if it could not find a centrist solution. #Regering #Sverige #Politik (translated)

Jan Bennink wrote that his tweet had received 1.4 million views and 8.3 thousand likes and that this, according to him, must have been hard to take. He stated that the Dutch clearly did not want a war with Russia and actually understood the requests for clarification and the concerned reactions from the Russian embassy. #Nederland #Rusland #Oorlog (translated)

Ledarsidorna.se wrote that the French and German intelligence services seemed to have understood significantly more than Morgan Johansson and Magdalena Andersson. The writer compared the situation to 2022, when the Social Democrats and Andersson, according to the post, did not want to join NATO. Ledarsidorna.se added that Andersson had proclaimed herself the winner of the elections just over a month earlier, while Sweden still lacked a government, and urged readers to draw their own conclusions. #svpol #politik #Sverige #NATO (translated)

In his book Gender Identity. The Career of A Category, sociologist Rogers Brubaker offers an impartial and analytical history of the concept of gender identity and examines the social successes and the intense backlash it brings with it. #Genderidentiteit #Sociologie #Controverses (translated)