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Holiday events entice New Haveners to shop at small businesses

Downtown New Haven and Union Station featured two celebrations of the city’s small businesses on Saturday.

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Dec 2, 2025 • 1:51 AM EST • Business • yaledailynews.com
Lions vs. Cowboys Injury Report

See who's in and who's out for the Week 14 matchup between the Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys on December 4, 2025.

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Dec 1, 2025 • 11:44 PM EST • Sports • foxsports.com
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Here's a list of the 15 must-see high school basketball games of the season

The list starts with a Catholic League showdown Friday

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Champions League Power Rankings: Who is stopping red-hot Arsenal?

The Gunners won a key match against Bayern Munich and may just be UCL favorites

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Dec 1, 2025 • 8:25 PM EST • Sports • cbssports.com
S.F. Mayor Lurie takes another political gamble with latest Sunset supervisor pick

Alan Wong, who Lurie swore into office Monday as the Sunset’s new representative on the Board of Supervisors, has for years backed a variety of progressive politicians and policies.

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Dec 1, 2025 • 7:15 PM EST • Politics • sfchronicle.com
WHO provides emergency funds to scale up health response in cyclone-hit Sri Lanka

As Sri Lanka faces rapidly worsening conditions triggered by a cyclonic storm, the World Health Organization today provided US$ 175 000 as emergency funds to support essential health services, while continuing to work with national authorities and humanitarian partners to reach life-saving interventions to the millions of affected people across the country.

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Dec 1, 2025 • 7:00 PM EST • Health • who.int
Entertainment and more in the Mid-Ohio Valley

PARKERSBURG – The Artsbridge calendar for the week ahead: TODAY * Anything Goes: Wild Things, all member exhibition of the West Virginia Watercolor Society, Parkersburg Art Center * Belpre Holiday Lights, Civitan Park, Belpre * Festival of Trees Display, Blennerhassett Hotel and Spa * Shannon Hammer, naturalist photography display, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., WesBanco, […]

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Dec 1, 2025 • 7:00 PM EST • Entertainment • newsandsentinel.com
'There’s a lot of harassment' | Madisonville business owner looking for solutions after safety issues

Liz Field of The Cheesecakery told us the harassment and issues have gotten worse within the last year, and now she’s at her wits' end and doesn’t know what to do.

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Dec 1, 2025 • 5:54 PM EST • Business • wcpo.com
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After a recall and a resignation, SF mayor finally appoints new supervisor

Alan Wong, a former city college board member, was appointed Sunset supervisor.

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Dec 1, 2025 • 5:43 PM EST • Politics • sfgate.com
Trump’s quest for political retribution is impeding the Justice Department : The NPR Politics Podcast

President Trump has vowed to seek retribution from his perceived political enemies and to reward his political allies. We discuss how that focus is playing out at the Justice Department, where career prosecutors and other civil servants are no longer calling the shots. How does this partisan shift affect major court cases, from redistricting in Texas to James Comey’s prosecution?This episode: senior White House correspondent Tamara Keith, justice correspondent Carrie Johnson, and senior national political correspondent Mara Liasson.This podcast was produced by Casey Morell and Bria Suggs, and edited by Rachel Baye.Our executive producer is Muthoni Muturi.Listen to every episode of the NPR Politics Podcast sponsor-free, unlock access to bonus episodes with more from the NPR Politics team, and support public media when you sign up for The NPR Politics Podcast+ at plus.npr.org/politics.For handpicked podcast recommendations every week, subscribe to NPR’s Pod Club newsletter at npr.org/podclub.

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Dec 1, 2025 • 4:28 PM EST • Politics • npr.org
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Hochul signs bill into law to build first New York state Holocaust memorial

Public officials and the Capital District Jewish Holocaust Memorial are trying to bring it to Albany.

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Netflix Won't Let You Cast Shows From Your Phone to Your TV Anymore

The streaming giant quietly removed the feature that lets you control content on your TV screen using a mobile device. The company says the feature was not widely used.

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Dec 1, 2025 • 4:15 PM EST • Technology • wired.com
Top 5 Entertainment News: From Samantha Ruth Prabhu's wedding with Raj Nidimoru to Delhi HC directing CBFC to consider Major Mohit Sharma's parents' concerns about 'Dhurandhar' | Hindi Movie News - The Times of India

In a recent interview, Kamal Haasan put to rest any speculation about his retirement, emphasizing that it is ultimately his fans who will determine hi

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Dec 1, 2025 • 2:36 PM EST • Entertainment • timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Trump says 'whole world is watching' Tennessee race as GOP works to avert disaster

President Trump told Tennesseans "the whole world is watching" as Republicans work to avert a disaster in a closely watched special election.

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Dec 1, 2025 • 1:59 PM EST • Politics • usatoday.com
SmartTube YouTube app for Android TV breached to push malicious update

The popular open-source SmartTube YouTube client for Android TV was compromised after an attacker gained access to the developer's signing keys, leading to a malicious update being pushed to users.

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Dec 1, 2025 • 1:56 PM EST • Technology • bleepingcomputer.com
QB recruit Huhn following Franklin to Va. Tech

QB Troy Huhn, a former Penn State pledge and ESPN's No. 10 pocket passer in the 2026 cycle, announced his commitment to Virginia Tech, reuniting with coach James Franklin.

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Dec 1, 2025 • 1:45 PM EST • Sports • espn.com
Woman shot multiple times at Athens business, 74-year-old arrested

Athens-Clarke County police are investigating a shooting that injured a woman inside a business early Monday.

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Why AMC Entertainment Stock Got Mashed on Monday

Key PointsThe Thanksgiving weekend period didn't compare favorably to the 2024 version.

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Dec 1, 2025 • 12:00 PM EST • Entertainment • nasdaq.com
Best performances from 49ers' convincing road win vs. Browns

The 49ers stayed hot, winning their third straight. A look at San Francisco's best performers in its win at the Cleveland Browns.

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Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame Elects Little Rock Volleyball Coach Van Compton

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – One of the most decorated coaches in Little Rock Athletics history is adding another major honor to her résumé. The Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame announced Sunday that Trojan head volleyball coach Van Compton has been elected for induction into the 2026 Class. Compton will be formally inducted on April 10, at Oaklawn in Hot Springs.

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Dec 1, 2025 • 10:29 AM EST • Sports • lrtrojans.com
The most powerful news photos of the year

The most powerful news photos taken by Getty Images photographers in 2025 captured political unrest, natural disasters, and other major news events.

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Dec 1, 2025 • 8:37 AM EST • Business • businessinsider.com
Understanding tea's health benefits and risks

The review confirms that tea, particularly green tea, plays a crucial role in preventing cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), obesity, diabetes, and certain types of cancer.

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Dec 1, 2025 • 7:54 AM EST • Health • news-medical.net
Ruby Is Not a Serious Programming Language

Ruby survives on affection, not utility. Let's move on.

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Dec 1, 2025 • 7:00 AM EST • Technology • wired.com
What to expect from AMD, NVIDIA and Intel at CES 2026

CES 2026: What we know and what we expect CES 2026 runs from January 6 to 9 in Las Vegas and is once again the main global show for consumer tech hardware, unlike developer or pro-focused events such as COMPUTEX, GTC, GDC, or Hot Chips, which often center on infrastructure, servers, and roadmaps rather than […]

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Dec 1, 2025 • 7:00 AM EST • Technology • videocardz.com
Science must move from materialism to mystery

Theoretical physicist and neuroscientist Àlex Gómez-Marín argues that modern science has become trapped in a framework that mistakes matter for the whole of reality. In this wide-ranging interview, Gómez-Marín challenges the foundations of materialism, defends the scientific study of near-death experiences, and calls for a new type of science grounded in mystery and a renewed sense of the sacred. He suggests that abandoning materialism could open the door to a deeper understanding of consciousness, death, and the purpose of human existence. Simon Custer: You are both a theoretical physicist and a neuroscientist, and you have also been fiercely critical of materialist theories of mind and consciousness. What do you think the ultimate nature of reality is?Àlex Gómez-Marín: I don't know what the ultimate nature of reality is, but what I try to first assess is whether the stories that they [mainstream science] have told us about it are right, or maybe whether there are other alternatives. That's why I've been a fierce critic of materialism. As a scientist, I realized that they had sold us this idea that to be a good scientist you also had to subscribe to many other -isms, like materialism, reductionism, and even secularism. And so first I think one needs to unmount these -isms, and then, as is happening today in consciousness studies, we have a huge landscape where there isn't only one game in town, the idea that matter is the only thing that really exists. But because we are studying the hard problem of consciousness, it may be the case that other views of reality, like idealism, or even dualism, or other theories like dual aspect monism... these are philosophical ideas that now, I think, have room in science to be taken seriously. How does something like materialism relate to dualism or idealism? What is materialism in the first place?Well, materialism is the philosophical position that matter is the only really ‘real’ thing in the universe. And I think that worked kind of well because science started 400 years ago and Galileo made that split, I call it the foundational wound. It was a great business move.He said, let's start doing science on that portion of reality that lends itself more easily to mathematization and measurement. So, for some reason, the solidity of this table or the movement of planets lend themselves very well to this foundational idea of science. But as time went on, 400 years later, we realized that we had forgotten the other side, which is what really matters.What really matters is pain, is love, is feelings, sensation, consciousness, which is very hard to define, but very intimate. We all know what it is. It's that thing that disappears when we go into deep sleep and comes back in the morning. SUGGESTED VIEWING On the edges of knowledge With Michael Shermer, Rupert Sheldrake, Güneş Taylor It's what it is like to be, as Nagel said. It's the feeling of being alive. So, materialism is good to study certain things, but then when it ossifies into this ideology and then is dressed like science, now it's preventing us from understanding these key questions that are really that everybody wants to know.Why are we here? Why do we feel reality? Where do we go when we die? And so we need other ways. We need pluralism. I'm only asking for having more options on the table and taking them seriously. Why does materialism fail to explain consciousness? For example, if you were to lobotomize me, I would not be a functional human being. What do you say to someone who might think that materialism adequately explains the mind?Well, here we could speak about different things. We could talk about physics or about neuroscience. I happen to have training with both.For instance, for neuroscientists, 99% of them, I'm not included in that portion, believe that the brain can only be a productive organ. It's an organ that somehow, somewhere, consciousness emerges. It's like a lamp. And then something happens, magic happens, and then consciousness emerges.That's the position you need to be if you're a materialist because if the only really ‘real’ thing is matter, then you need to say, just give us some more time and money and we'll figure out how mind emerges or is produced from matter. There are many philosophically sophisticated ways of criticizing this.Now there's another option, which is the brain as a permissive organ. This was said by William James more than 100 years ago.Now then the brain wouldn't be like this machine, like for instance, a heat engine whose smoke is consciousness, which is what we would have in the first big model, the productive model. But in the permissive model, the brain would be a kind of a filter. And so the brain would still have a very important role in consciousness, but it wouldn't be a productive role.It would be permissive, much like a filter or much like a prism which would receive light. And - I'm speaking metaphorically - it would receive the light of the mind and then it could reflect it and refract it.Now, with these two big options on the table, I think we can make progress into what I call the edges of consciousness, which are all these experiences, weird experiences that many people have, but we don't talk about enough, like near-death experiences, precognitive dreams, synchronicities. These experiences are very important for humans and they have a place in the permissive hypothesis and they are literally impossible in the productive hypothesis. So that's yet one more reason to explore alternatives to materialism. There may be anecdotal evidence for near-death experiences, but is there robust evidence that would be accepted by the majority of scientists who subscribe to the scientific method?Sure. And the plural of anecdotes, someone said, is data.And there's a lot of data. Actually, this year is the 50th anniversary, half a century, since Dr. Raymond Moody realized that we have two ears and one mouth and started listening to what his patients had to say about their experiences while they were clinically dead.The heart had stopped, breathing had stopped in these patients. These patients would come back and tell him these amazing stories that some people may say are hallucinations, but for the patients were hyper-real, like seeing light at the end of the tunnels, seeing deceased family members waiting for them, feeling bliss.___I would say the evidence suggests that the mind can survive the death of activity of the brain.___And so he and others started taking them seriously and writing their accounts down. And then you can do a science based on that material of experience that people have. Now, on the more objective side, more recently people have started to measure what's going on in the brain when people are clinically dead and brought back. This has opened a proper field of study, which is near-death studies.Evidence is a difficult word, because sometimes people think that when you say evidence, this is just the final proof. Evidence is like in a jury. You bring testimony, you bring pieces of data that point in one direction or another.I would say the evidence suggests that the mind can survive the death of activity of the brain. When brains are broken or shut off, there can still be mind going on. And that's revolutionary.That would entail that when we die, it's not game over, which, by the way, is the thesis of materialism. If consciousness survives, materialism dies. It's game over for materialism if something of us continues after we die. Do you think that there is mental continuity after death?Well, I think so, and I believe so, and I could also say I may have experienced it myself, because four years ago I had a near-death experience. I was in the hospital, I lost a lot of blood, and I saw those beings at the end of the tunnel, three beings, and there was yellow light. I was in a well, I was looking upwards, and I hadn't read about NDEs by then, but when I came back from this experience, I decided I would try to integrate this also in my professional life. Not just my personal life, of course, but my professional life as a physicist and as a neuroscientist. So I may have had the experience of glimpses of what an afterlife would be, and I'm not ashamed to say it in this way, and then one can do science of it, and then one can do philosophy of it.One can think about what -isms we were discussing, what views on reality would allow those experiences to be really ‘real,’ as opposed to, well, poor guy, the brain was kind of broken, it must have been a hallucination. Do you have a view about whether individuality or “the ego” persists after death, or whether we sort of merge into some sort of cosmic consciousness instead?I don't know, but my view would be along those lines you're suggesting. I think we could speak about a kind of universal mind, and then the problem is not how we emerge from matter, but how we fragment from a more holistic consciousness into these individual eddies and then when we die, this kind of dissipates.But I'm not sure. For instance, idealism would promote that view, but then what would survive of us after these eddies just vanish and become again the big Consciousness, I'm not sure what that would be. I don't know for sure, but I would tell you I believe something of us survives.And there are other lines of research, not just near-death experience, that can address this really hard question of survival. For instance, there are children who remember previous lives. This was studied by Ian Stevenson at the University of Virginia for more than 50 years.___Research takes place within a selection mechanism that also sometimes reinforces things that are not very scientific.___It's amazing research. He went all over the world, especially in the East, and collected all these case studies, all these stories. In plural, these were data of kids, very young age, who would describe up to 40 items that then he could go and verify.There was no internet. There was really no way the kid could know. Why would the kid say that when I was living in this other body and I was a woman and that's how my house would look like or that's how I would die, right? Again, there is evidence, not proof, but there's evidence not only that something weird and interesting is happening as we cross the threshold, but also when we come back to this life.Scientists should not be afraid of studying this, but they are because there's stigma. There's usually stigma upon the enigma, and this is so unfortunate. And one of the reasons is because of the ideology of materialism, because those things cannot be possible. What is wrong with the politics of science such that they have generated this stigma?So many things. Science is a human activity to begin with.So it falls prey to all our passions and ego and greed. That's one thing. Science is a job for the good and for the bad.You need to get a salary. You need to get grants. Research takes place within a selection mechanism that also sometimes reinforces things that are not very scientific.And then, we didn't have time to unpack this, but science for many years become entangled, as I was suggesting before, to other -isms, materialism, secularism. So anything that smells like the afterlife, people may think has to do with God, and then they freak out.Anything that suggests that there's something about the mind that may not need a physical material substrate to exist, it smells like non-materialism. So, all these -isms are ideologically blocking that kind of research, and then there are all these sociopolitical constraints as to what should be studied and what shouldn't be studied.I call it the backstage of science. Sometimes we scientists or science communicators seem to speak as if the data is the only thing that matters. We say, well, data and theory.But then there's a third leg of this stool, which is all the politics that goes behind the scenes. And we often don't speak about this, and it's quite vicious and petty, and it's very real. Why is materialism so attractive to most scientists?Well, an easy answer is because we've grown up with it.It's what the educational system promotes, and that's what you hear when you go to university. So it's like growing in a culture. It feels like the air in which you breathe.So it's very hard to begin with to detect, well, maybe there's another alternative. Maybe there are other ways of doing science, other environments in which one could do science. That's one reason.And other reasons maybe are more profound, and I'm not qualified to explain them, but I could say, looking at this 400-year history of science, since it started around 1623 with Galileo's book The Assayer, that science went and coupled with all what's going on in the West.And so the fall of religion, you could say, and science presented us this new alternative that then could be coupled very well with other -isms, and this idea of growth, and then science losing its good twin brother, which was philosophy. There's a whole natural history of science starting as philosophy, kind of emancipating or breaking out from philosophy, and then marrying technology, and then marrying other social systems.From that point of view, materialism is a very convenient idea to propose. There were attempts, like the German idealists tried to do a more romantic science. But no, the idea prevailed, like Francis Bacon said: You should pursue nature through all her corners, he said, and make her spill her secrets.Our attitude towards nature in the science that dominates is very much reflecting how we treat nature in our society, in our culture, like a resource to extract secrets by force and then dominate it. How is materialism related to the notions of growth and progress? What's wrong with having a productive citizenry?This is another very interesting and very difficult question to answer.But there's this recent book coming out by Paul Kingsnorth. In it, he explains this idea of the machine and this idea of progress. And this, again, this conflation of more is better, of we need to go forward always, and convincing us that the way to do that is to continually extract more from nature. But because we don't have the religious context anymore, because God is dead, then what do we have? We have what we can do as humans with our own gadgets.It's kind of the story of the Promethean fire. We will just build anything to make ourselves God.A good example today is transhumanism. Transhumanism is this pseudo-religion dressed in technoscientific language whose goal is very religious. They promise immortality, they promise redemption, they promise transformation of the entire natural world, but it's done by human means through technology. Are you suggesting that we can't have ethics without religion?Well, we should have ethics with or without religion. That's another pruning that has happened in science. We say, forget about aesthetics, although some physicists still think that beautiful means probably true, and forget about politics. We pretend there's no backstage of science, and even let's forget about ethics.___Science needs to be in the service of mankind.___Scientists, when they become more like engineers, they're just thinking how to make things work so that they can go to the moon, go to Mars, make machines that think, but they don't think whether that's a good idea.And also consider metaphysics. Many scientists for a long time pretended, and maybe that comes from the stream of positivisms, that really one doesn't need metaphysics at all, except that materialism is always the metaphysics running the system.You see, it's not just ethics. It's the pruning of all of these, you could say, five main legs of philosophy that just makes a kind of unconscious science, a science that doesn't really know what it's doing. It's doing it very well locally, but it just doesn't know what it's doing globally. Do you think science has to have an ultimate vision and purpose behind it for it to be effective or for it to be meaningful and transformative?Yes, a way I would say that is that science needs to be in the service of mankind. And it hasn't been that. And we can see it through, you know, when we discovered the secrets of the atom, and all of a sudden, the Manhattan Project, and then we create nuclear weapons.And now we're trying to crack how machines may think, and now we're creating this mess, right? So science needs to be in service of mankind, not in service of a few ideas that maybe want to make more money or just dominate upon nature. What about planes, trains, automobiles, and modern medicine? Hasn't science served mankind by helping us develop those technologies?Yes and no. I see where you're going, and it's fair.I came here by plane, and it's a blessing. When I almost died, the surgeons did their job, and they saved my life. But these two forced choices between Luddites and Silicon Valley types, I think, of course, it's a false dichotomy.Progress, in a way, it's good, but we often don't speak about the dark side of the moon. We say the great things that progress has brought, and we don't speak about the disasters, the side effects that it has come with, and the same when we promise new technologies. We tend to think that any technology is great, that email is going to save us so much time because we don't need to write letters and send them anymore.Is that true? I spend so many hours a week writing emails. Let's just say there are great things about it and bad things about it. People like Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker, for example, argue that we've made moral progress over time because of the Enlightenment. Do you think that's totally wrong-headed?I think he's emphasizing a side of the moon, and he does that very well, and you can find tons of plots where there's a slope going up and say it's great. But I think he should also tell the not-so-friendly story.But if your ideology is just to resist and continue to explain that the Enlightenment is the best thing ever and reason is the best thing ever… this feels to me like you're worshipping these abstractions.I'm very critical of it and also of these, again, science communicators and scientists that say, Oh, science says, in the name of science, experts say. It's like, come on, let's be careful because we can shoot ourselves in the foot by putting forth to the people an image of science that we know is not really true. Recently there's been a resurgence of spirituality and of people who say that they're spiritual but not religious, especially in the United States. If materialism is going away, what is going to fill that gap? Are we going to return to traditional religion? Do you see that being connected with the rise of the political right?I'm not a fortune teller, so I don't know what's going to happen. But, yeah, we could say we're in this post-materialist age and even post-secular age. One cannot come back to the past, but maybe just to contact with the roots is a good idea.What do I mean by that? I think we need to do a science 2.0, a science that says thank you to Galileo and thank you to materialism, but we need to reinvent even a new kind of scientific method. We need to do so in a culture where we realize humans cannot thrive in a vacuum where there's this idea that the sacred has to be removed.Now, how do we do that without bringing in back all the vices of religion? I don't know. I'm from a Catholic country.Here we are in England, so there are differences and interreligious dialogue has always been a challenge. But I think maybe a way of putting it is: after all these conflicts and branchings I was quickly alluding to, science from philosophy and then also from religion, now there's a time of reconciliation perhaps and maybe debates in the proper sense, like exchange of ideas in service of learning and getting into something higher than both poles. We need science to talk to religious people and it's interesting when people say they're spiritual and not religious.I think this is just a way of saying, no, I don't want to go back, I want to go forward. But at the end of the day, religions have offered us practices and grounding that we now desperately need. Everybody can and should just meditate or pray or do whatever they want, but we're in a crisis and it's time for reconciliation. What do you say to critics that say you are merely projecting our need for meaning onto a fundamentally indifferent universe?Yeah, I know that the typical science communicator says something like this. But we're not projecting. Human beings feed on meaning.It's the other way around. If you're a materialist, because the only thing that there is is matter, all that comes next, free will, consciousness, meaning, this is a kind of illusion that we need to explain.They're just craving for meaning, but there isn't really for them. I would also like to remind my materialist friends that for decades, if not centuries, they've said in the name of science, we know that this and this and this doesn't really exist. I think now they sense they're forced to say, well, actually, we don't know. We've been saying, for instance, that there's nothing after you die, and now probably they need to admit that they don't know the answer.___We need to do a science 2.0, a science that says thank you to Galileo and thank you to materialism, but we need to reinvent even a new kind of scientific method.___So it's a moment to open up possibilities and also to gently but fiercely critique these claims that I think harm society. If you say in the name of science, get on with it, when your father dies, you'll never see him again. Well, what the F do you know about it? You haven't studied the literature, you haven't had any of those experiences, and basically what you're doing is you're just doing marketing on ideology. This needs to stop. Do you think that it's scarier for some people to entertain the thought that there might be life after death, compared to a materialist worldview where you just die, given that there might be consequences for unsavory behaviour?Well, death and dying is scary. It's maybe the ultimate ending. It's a limit on life, and when we're in this conquest mode, we don't like limits.And it also has, there's a shockwave backwards, so I think if you change your notion of what death is or may be, you live differently. It also has consequences, as you're saying, for the future because this is not our only goal here and we come back in whatever form. And again, different religions would say different things. I the East, they are more happy with the idea of reincarnation, and here in the West, there are other preferences. But in any case, it changes how we live, and that's really what matters.It's not about just projecting or imagining what we'll be after, but how we live now and also how we treat those who are dying. So it goes from the individual to the families, to the hospitals.Now in the near-death research I do, this has ramifications at all these levels, all the way to society.But our society is thanatophobic. It has a phobia of death. We don't want to hear about death, and this is another thing we need to put on the table and be willing to talk about it. Do you think that we might get closer to answering ultimate questions like why is there anything at all if we jettison materialism?That’s an excellent question, Simon. Two things: we should stop treating reality, I believe, as a great sudoku, as an enigma, as something that with intelligence, money, and time that we will crack and instead treat reality more like a mystery. And what you do for in front of a mystery is not to be the clever guy in a class and say “I’ll solve you” but more like “I will bow and you will transform me.”I know this sounds a bit like a scientist speaking like a mystic. But I think this reorientation is needed. In the end, we won’t crack the big questions, but they will transform us. If we free ourselves from this prison of materialism, the way we will explore these questions will be freer, more creative, and in service of mankind. Do you think exploring mystery is the reason why we are here?I think we are here because, and this pseudo-theological argument I’m making off the cuff, But the One, the Absolute, if there is such a thing, had everything except limitation. We are that absolute experiencing that contingency. It’s like an act of divine proprioception. It’s a wonderful adventure, it’s just incredible to be alive. Perhaps we have forgotten why we are here and the whole point is to experience the flesh.Let me end by saying this. I criticize materialism harshly. I bang on this dead horse, because I think it’s dead. But matter is a great mystery. So maybe my invitation is as follows: hey materialist friends, come here, let’s work on materialism 2.0! Consciousness is a mystery, but matter is also a mystery. The fact that we can have an intersubjective experience consensus, the fact that we can apply mathematics, that we can measure things... the physical world we take for granted, but it is a great mystery too.Maybe that’s related to your last question: why are we here? Why did spirit decide to incarnate? Being in the flesh may be a great thing if spirit decided to do so.Àlex Gómez-Marín, thank you very much.My pleasure.

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National Health Organizations: Flu Shots Critical for Individuals with Diabetes, Heart, and Lung Disease

During National Influenza Vaccination Week, experts encourage everyone age 6 months and older to get vaccinated to reduce risk of severe illness and hospitalization

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Dec 1, 2025 • 6:13 AM EST • Health • nfid.org
Who the Hell Is Actually Using Facebook Dating?

With 21 million users, Facebook Dating is a secret hit, including among Gen Zers who use it for clout and content as much as for finding love.

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Dec 1, 2025 • 6:00 AM EST • Technology • wired.com
How the Sports Stadium Went Luxe

Is the race to create ever more lavish spectator offerings in America’s largest venues changing the fan experience?

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Dec 1, 2025 • 6:00 AM EST • Sports • newyorker.com
When Participating in Politics Puts Your Life at Risk

During the Trump era, political violence has become an increasingly urgent problem. Elected officials from both parties are struggling to respond.

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Dec 1, 2025 • 6:00 AM EST • Politics • newyorker.com
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This Week in Navy Sports

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Dec 1, 2025 • 5:12 AM EST • Sports • navysports.com
Adamstown welcomes holiday season with Christmas tree lighting [photos]

Adamstown held its tree lighting Sunday night at the Adamstown Grove, 340 W. Main St. The event included a performance from musicians at Cocalico High School, as well as plenty

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Dec 1, 2025 • 5:00 AM EST • Entertainment • lancasteronline.com
The 145 Very Best Cyber Monday Deals on Gear We Loved Testing

We've searched far and wide for the absolute best Cyber Monday deals on gear we've tested ourselves.

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Dec 1, 2025 • 4:07 AM EST • Technology • wired.com
These Are The Best TV Deals This Cyber Monday

Here are the best deals on screens from Hisense, TCL, Samsung, Sony, and more this shopping holiday.

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Dec 1, 2025 • 3:39 AM EST • Technology • wired.com
Stairmaster vs walking: Which cardio is best for long-term health, reveals fitness coach - The Times of India

Fitness experts advocate for walking over intense Stairmaster workouts for sustainable fat loss. While the Stairmaster offers immediate calorie burn,

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Dec 1, 2025 • 3:00 AM EST • Health • timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Harnessing Emerging Technologies to Power Your Business

Nearly every area of our lives has been transformed by artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. For small business owners, AI is no longer a

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Dec 1, 2025 • 2:00 AM EST • Business • mississippitoday.org
Old Dominion partners with Caesars Entertainment to launch its newest album in Las Vegas

The band performs ‘Barbara’ in its entirety at Planet Hollywood on Dec. 5-6.

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Dec 1, 2025 • 1:00 AM EST • Entertainment • lasvegasmagazine.com
5 morning habits that reduce cancer risk and promote long-term health | - The Times of India

Your morning routine significantly impacts long-term health and cancer risk. Simple daily habits like morning exercise, a plant-based breakfast, sunli

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Dec 1, 2025 • 1:00 AM EST • Health • timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Grosse Pointe shop shares its formula for lasting success and longevity
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Nov 30, 2025 • 10:47 PM EST • Business • cbsnews.com
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Trump says pause on asylum decisions will last 'a long time'

President Donald Trump has previously vowed to halt migration from all "Third World Countries" after two National Guard members were shot in D.C.

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Nov 30, 2025 • 10:46 PM EST • Politics • usatoday.com
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Lane Kiffin, Thanksgiving and CFB conference champs: A busy weekend at the sportsbooks

How sportsbooks are evaluating Ole Miss and the College Football Playoff race, plus more on NFL underdogs winning big on Thanksgiving.

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Nov 30, 2025 • 10:04 PM EST • Sports • espn.com
NFL announces historic first for Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show

Charlie Puth, Brandi Carlile and Coco Jones are among the Super Bowl LX pregame performers that are set to hit the Levi’s Stadium field on Feb. 8.

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Nov 30, 2025 • 9:56 PM EST • Entertainment • sfchronicle.com
Why winter worsens autoimmune symptoms, and how to prevent it - The Times of India

Winter exacerbates autoimmune symptoms due to declining Vitamin D, disrupted melatonin, increased viral infections, and dietary/lifestyle changes. Spe

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Nov 30, 2025 • 9:34 PM EST • Health • timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Can fibre improve heart health naturally? Cardiologist reveals how it lowers cholesterol and protects your arteries | - The Times of India

Beyond gut health, fibre significantly bolsters your heart. Cardiologist Dr. Dmitry Yaranov reveals it lowers bad cholesterol, stabilizes blood pressu

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Nov 30, 2025 • 9:30 PM EST • Health • timesofindia.indiatimes.com
India vs Japan at ITTF Mixed Team World Cup: Indian Sports LIVE, December 1

Follow all the updates from Indian sports on December 1, 2025.

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Nov 30, 2025 • 9:30 PM EST • Sports • espn.com
Who is National Guard shooting suspect Rahmanullah Lakanwal?

The Afghan man who allegedly shot two National Guard members in Washington, DC, last week went from being a US partner in Afghanistan to spending the last few years in Washington state with his family, where, according to reports and sources who spoke to CNN, he had a hard time assimilating and dealt with lingering PTSD.

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Nov 30, 2025 • 6:27 PM EST • Politics • cnn.com
'Reconcile our resentment': Boy band Verivery faces its fears and 'han' after yearslong hiatus

During their two-and-a-half-year hiatus — practically an eternity in the K-pop world — the members of boy band Verivery kept busy, from acting in plays and musicals to one member even placing ninth in Mnet’s “Boys II Planet” audition program.

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Nov 30, 2025 • 6:00 PM EST • Entertainment • koreajoongangdaily.joins.com
From an Eagle’s Egg, an Eagle, and Other Mysteries

Pavel Florenskij, a Russian physicist and theologian (1882-1937), imagined a field on the surfaces of icons that portray sacred images.

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Nov 30, 2025 • 5:48 PM EST • Science • scienceandculture.com
Appreciation: An Appreciation: Tom Stoppard reinvigorated the comedy of ideas

An appreciation of playwright Tom Stoppard, known for such plays as "Rosencrants and Guildenstern are Dead," "Travesties," "The Real Thing" and the trilogy "The Coast of Utopia"

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Nov 30, 2025 • 4:11 PM EST • Entertainment • latimes.com
Small Business Saturday brings community together in downtown Kalispell

Downtown Kalispell celebrates Small Business Saturday with community support for local shops like Big Sky Bricks and Modern Pastime

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Nov 30, 2025 • 3:52 PM EST • Business • kpax.com
'Zootopia 2' roars to record-setting global box office with $556M opening

"Zootopia 2" broke box office records with a massive Thanksgiving weekend opening. The Disney sequel earned $96 million in North America over the weekend and $156 million over the five-day...

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Nov 30, 2025 • 2:07 PM EST • Entertainment • sfchronicle.com
Trump's Mar-a-Lago photo sparks health concerns, comparisons drawn to Biden's Nantucket spotting: ‘Release MRI results’

President Donald Trump was photographed at Mar-a-Lago and a picture of him sitting by the window has sparked health concerns.

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Nov 30, 2025 • 2:03 PM EST • Health • hindustantimes.com
Holiday gatherings can spread germs. Here are a few tips to stay healthy

The holidays bring family and fun — but also a higher risk of illness. A pediatrician shares simple tips to stay healthy, from washing hands to getting your flu shot.

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Nov 30, 2025 • 2:02 PM EST • Health • news4jax.com
Fortnite fans are saying "no to AI slop" after spotting what they believe are AI-generated images in-game

Fortnite fans are saying "no to AI slop" after some believe they've discovered AI-generated images in Epic's tentpole b…

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Nov 30, 2025 • 1:59 PM EST • Technology • eurogamer.net
ALL ABUZZ WITH BEES: Former science teacher and her team host do-it-yourself workshops for beekeeping and other pursuits

For Lauren Anderson, what began as a love for teaching and science has blossomed into a movement of sustainability and connection. The Arkansas native founded Calm+Confidence, a co-op that turns beekeeping into a tool for community growth -- supporting local businesses and inspiring others to see how small bee hives can make a big difference.

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Nov 30, 2025 • 1:00 PM EST • Science • arkansasonline.com
Here's What You Need to Know About the Nintendo Switch 2 Cyber Monday Deals

While the Switch 2 itself isn't on sale, you can still find good prices on bundles and accessories.

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Nov 30, 2025 • 12:58 PM EST • Technology • wired.com
Best Cyber Monday deals to jumpstart your 2026 health goals

Make health and wellness your priority for the year ahead with these Cyber Monday deals on everything you need to get in shape and feel like your best self.

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Nov 30, 2025 • 12:30 PM EST • Health • sfgate.com
Savannah shoppers support local stores on Small Business Saturday

Downtown leaders urge year-round support as shoppers pack local stores for Small Business Saturday.

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Nov 30, 2025 • 12:18 PM EST • Business • wjcl.com
‘One size fits all’ does not work in politics

David Cottam says we need to be more tolerant, nonjudgmental and understanding of the cultural backgrounds and stages of development of different nations.

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Nov 30, 2025 • 11:21 AM EST • Politics • chinadailyhk.com
These Are The Best TV Deals This Black Friday Weekend

Here are the best deals on screens from Hisense, TCL, Samsung, Sony, and more this shopping holiday.

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Nov 30, 2025 • 10:58 AM EST • Technology • wired.com
Long-lost Rubens painting depicting crucifixion sells for $2.7M

A long-lost painting by Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens has sold for $2.7 million at an auction on Sunday. The painting depicting the crucifixion of Jesus Christ was recently found in a private...

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Nov 30, 2025 • 10:56 AM EST • Entertainment • sfchronicle.com
WV lawmaker: National Guardsman shot in ambush is ‘fighting for his life’
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Nov 30, 2025 • 10:43 AM EST • Politics • cnn.com
2026's hottest real estate markets are reaping the benefits of RTO

Real estate experts said in a survey that the Northeast is area to watch for real estate in 2026, largely thanks to return to office mandates.

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Nov 30, 2025 • 10:31 AM EST • Business • businessinsider.com
Scientists mapped the shape of a supernova for the first time ever – and it's not what we expected: Space photo of the week

Astronomers using data from the Very Large Telescope (VLT) have revealed that the initial "breakout" phase of a supernova is elongated, not perfectly spherical.

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Nov 30, 2025 • 6:00 AM EST • Science • livescience.com
Being hot is now a job requirement

The beauty tax for getting ahead at work is getting more expensive: 'I have to reverse age to stay here.'

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Nov 30, 2025 • 4:08 AM EST • Technology • businessinsider.com
Things you believe cause cancer but actually DON’T: What science really says about common cancer myths | - The Times of India

Many common fears about cancer triggers are unfounded, according to a UK survey. While smoking and being overweight are proven risks, myths like stres

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Nov 29, 2025 • 11:40 PM EST • Science • timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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A $120 price drop on the newly released Apple Watch Ultra 3 has driven the cost down to $679 for Cyber Monday.

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Nov 29, 2025 • 10:47 PM EST • Technology • appleinsider.com
What are the new map and weapon lootpool changes in Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 1

Surfin' U.S.A

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Nov 29, 2025 • 9:21 PM EST • Technology • polygon.com
The Science Of Magic: Find Out More In Issue 41 Of CURIOUS

Does imagination decline as we age? Are there plants that can photosynthesize by moonlight? All this and more exclusively in the latest issue of our e-magazine.

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Nov 29, 2025 • 7:01 PM EST • Science • iflscience.com