April 2026

Does culture shape how burdensome overtime work feels to workers? We exploit Switzerland’s linguistic border, the Röstigraben, where French- and German-speaking workers share the same labor laws but inherit different attitudes toward work and leisure. Using data from the Swiss Household Panel (1999–2023), we show that each extra hour beyond...

Suicide remains a critical global public health challenge, with over 700,000 deaths recorded annually worldwide (World Health Organization, 2021). The proliferation of digital communication platforms has provided researchers with unprecedented access to linguistically rich data through which suicidal ideation may be detected and studied. This paper presents a comprehensive analysis...

The Impact-Triggered Flash Cascade (ITFC) Model: A Quantum-Interpreted Background Framework for Light Propagation To address this question, we propose the Impact-Triggered Flash Cascade (ITFC) model, in which an unobservable background of degrees of freedom (U) supports localized excited states (U*) triggered by contact with a high-speed driver (P). The observable...

We propose that empty space is not a passive backdrop but a physical medium with a finite budget of quantum entanglement: the linking structure that allows parts of a quantum system to share state. Matter forms when some of that capacity becomes locked into stable, localized defects of the medium....