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‘Taking the Initiative’

Beatriz Cazho Garcia ’28 begs to differ with those who say young people aren’t engaged in politics.

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Aug 3 • 9:32 AM EDT • Politics • smith.edu
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Happy 30th anniversary to WSU’s resident science cat

WSU’s resident science cat, Dr. Universe, celebrates 30 years of answering children’s questions and connecting young people with science.

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Aug 3 • 9:00 AM EDT • Science • news.wsu.edu
School Smartphone Bans Show No Effect on Youth Mental Health

Following a decade of declining youth mental health, many states have attempted to limit children’s access to social media and the internet by banning smartphones in schools. In new research, Henry Saffer finds no evidence that in-school smartphone bans have any effect on the screentime or mental well-being of young Americans.

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Aug 3 • 6:00 AM EDT • Health • promarket.org
St. Edward High School

St. Edward High School, a Catholic school in the Holy Cross tradition, educates the hearts and minds of a diverse group of young men to have the competence to see and the courage to act as men of hope for the transformation of the world.

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Aug 3 • 5:00 AM EDT • Business • crainscleveland.com
DC youth take on mental health in new podcast

A group of D.C. students has been hard at work on a podcast about mental health and the many pressures that young people face. This new podcast is called “Behind the Smile: Teens and Mental Health in America.” The students who worked on it told News4 it’s really been a labor of love to help their peers who may be…

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Aug 3 • 12:17 AM EDT • Health • nbcwashington.com
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The genius narrative isn’t inspiring

Analysis of over 400 children's books finds ideas around early interest in science and innate ability could turn young readers away from science

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Aug 2 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • chemistryworld.com
Let’s do science: Share your wild turkey sightings

MAINE—All good wildlife management starts with science, and all good science starts with data. That’s where you come in. Maine’s Wild Turkey August Production Survey invites community scientists to play a direct role in monitoring our state’s wild turkey population. Whether you enjoy watching wildlife from your window, spend time hiking, hunting, or exploring the outdoors, or just need an excuse to get outside, you can help. Each summer, Maine’s wild turkey hens are busy raising the next generation of birds. By reporting your sightings and observations, you’ll help our biologists monitor annual reproduction rates, track population trends, and make informed management decisions that support healthy, sustainable turkey populations for generations to come. The information collected helps ensure there are abundant opportunities for both wildlife watchers and hunters to enjoy Maine’s wild turkeys. It’s easy to participate! Whenever you see wild turkeys anywhere in Maine during August, simply report: Date and location of your observation Number of adult females (hens) Number of adult males (gobblers) Number of poults (young turkeys) Estimated poult size relative to the adult hens Every observation counts, even if you don’t see poults. Together, these reports provide a clearer picture of turkey productivity across the state and are an important part of Maine’s wildlife management. Ready to help? Report your turkey sightings online using the Wild Turkey August Production Survey. Submit an Observation Subscribe Share Leave a comment

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Aug 2 • 4:11 PM EDT • Science • barharborstory.substack.com
Former 49ers DB finds new NFL home with Titans

The San Francisco 49ers moved on from a young defensive back last week, and now he's found a new home with the Tennessee Titans.

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Aug 2 • 10:43 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
📚 The Inoculation Project 8/2/2026: Science in Sacramento and Youngstown

This week, we’re helping a California fifth grade do a balloon car project, and an Ohio high school science class do a variety of cool labs. We hope that readers who support quality public school…

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Aug 2 • 10:00 AM EDT • Science • dailykos.com
Helping young women gain business and leadership skills
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Aug 2 • 8:16 AM EDT • Business • clickondetroit.com
Laboratory exposure and poor diet linked to health symptoms in young scientists

A research team has found that frequent exposure to laboratory chemicals and low consumption of antioxidant-rich foods are jointly associated with a greater likelihood of self-reported health symptoms among young scientists. Survey participants who frequently handled chemicals and consumed few antioxidant-rich foods had nearly three times the odds of reporting fatigue, headaches, pallor, or easy bruising compared with their less-exposed, better-nourished peers. The study also showed that stronge

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Aug 2 • 7:55 AM EDT • Health • newswise.com
Denver Broncos roster review: Tight end Adam Trautman

Veteran Adam Trautman enters the Denver Broncos training camp ready to show the young pups how to be a NFL tight end

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Aug 2 • 7:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
How this New Orleans prosthetics expert helps VA patients find the right fit

“The younger guys, if they have to wear a leg, they want it to be blinged out. All shiny. Silver showing. As fancy as possible,” Blake Robichaux said. Read more.

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Aug 2 • 5:00 AM EDT • Health • nola.com
Young Nigerian women want to go into politics – party rules and older men keep them out

It’s not lack of ambition that keeps young women out of politics.

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Aug 2 • 4:07 AM EDT • Politics • theconversation.com
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Bucks Co-Owner Explains the Giannis Antetokounmpo Trade

Milwaukee Bucks co-owner Jimmy Haslam explained why long-time franchise superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo was traded to the Miami Heat.After spending the first 13 seasons of his NBA career in Milwaukee, the Bucks traded Antetokounmpo to the Heat for a package of young players and draft picks in what was a franchise-altering move for a team that […] The post Bucks Co-Owner Explains the Giannis Antetokounmpo Trade appeared first on HEAVY.

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Aug 2 • 12:26 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Dodgers acquire Tarik Skubal from Tigers, per reports

The Dodgers’ quest for the first threepeat in Major League Baseball in a quarter-century saw them shop in the high end during the free agent market. Now they’ve acquired the best player available at the trade deadline, getting two-time Cy Young Award winner Tarik Skubal, per multiple reports. Heading to Detroit are pitcher River Ryan, […]

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Aug 1 • 11:46 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Dodgers acquire Tarik Skubal in blockbuster trade: Two-time Cy Young winner joins vaunted Los Angeles rotation

Skubal will head west as the Dodgers aim for a third straight World Series title

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Aug 1 • 11:36 PM EDT • Sports • cbssports.com
D.O.P.E Cider takes over amphitheater for YO-Nights Business Takeover

A busy weekend in Youngstown continues later into the night with the D.O.P.E. Takeover at Youngstown Foundation Amphitheatre.

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Aug 1 • 9:28 PM EDT • Business • wkbn.com
Senior performers in the Valley say they feel young on stage. Science backs that up

CLOVIS, Calif. — Mac McIntosh started singing when he was 8 years old. He’s 77 now, but his glory days are far from over.

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Aug 1 • 8:39 PM EDT • Science • hanfordsentinel.com
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Kids receive screenings, supplies and more at Asheville back-to-school health fair

In Asheville, Appalachian Mountain Health helped get young ones ready for school.

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Aug 1 • 7:43 PM EDT • Health • wlos.com
2026 New England Patriots: 2 Interesting Storylines To Follow

The 2026 New England Patriots are looking to duplicate their success from a season ago. There are two things I’m looking for in this upcoming season. Let’s dive deep into what they are. Drake Maye’s Play Against Better Competition The 2026 Patriots hope their young quarterback, Drake Maye, can pick up where he left off […] The post 2026 New England Patriots: 2 Interesting Storylines To Follow appeared first on Stadium Rant.

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Aug 1 • 4:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Why alcohol and drug use may be declining among young Americans

New federal data shows that alcohol, cigarette and some drug use is declining among American youth and young adults. Public health specialists explain why.

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Aug 1 • 5:02 AM EDT • Health • abcnews.com
Whitney M. Young Scholars showcase business, tech skills through UofL summer program

Tenth and 11th grade students in the Whitney M. Young Scholars program presented projects Friday during the fifth annual Digital Transformation Academy at UofL's Thornton's Academic Center.

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Jul 31 • 8:27 PM EDT • Business • wdrb.com
Q&A: Rufus Edmisten on how Watergate compares to today's politics, civility

At age 85, Rufus Edmisten has had one of the longest and most colorful careers of any living figure in North Carolina politics. As a young aide to U.S. Sen. Sam Ervin, he delivered the subpoena for the Nixon tapes in the Senate’s Watergate investigation. Then he came back to North Carolina and served as attorney general and secretary of state.

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Jul 31 • 4:30 PM EDT • Politics • wunc.org
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A bitter pill: are you wasting your money on supplements?

Will collagen make you look younger? Could magnesium help you sleep better? Or are the benefits overstated? A dietitian reveals which are worth taking

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Jul 31 • 10:00 AM EDT • Health • theguardian.com
‘Fluff Piece’: Sylvia Brindis (Creator/Star) on Making Entertainment that Inspires Kindness and Develops Critical Thinking in Young Viewers

We recently sat down with Stan Jantz to chat about The Chosen, the Come and See foundation, and an ambitious mission to translate the series into 600 languages and share the authentic Jesus with 1 billion people around the globe.

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Jul 31 • 9:42 AM EDT • Entertainment • thecollision.org
Connecting with the community to create technology-based health solutions

Adria Laborin has appreciated everything she’s learned in the classroom in her first year as a student in Arizona State University’s Master of Public Health program.But as a young woman who wants to make a difference in the world, there’s only so much a classroom can offer.

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Jul 31 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • news.asu.edu
It’s getting more dangerous for kids to play summer sports » Yale Climate Connections

As the climate warms, young athletes face growing risks of heat illness – especially in communities without air-conditioned practice spaces.

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Jul 31 • 7:00 AM EDT • Sports • yaleclimateconnections.org
Is Your Young Athlete Eating Enough? The Hidden Risks of Under-Fueling

Learn the signs of Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S), why young athletes are at risk, and when to seek care from URochester Medicine experts.

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Jul 31 • 6:15 AM EDT • Health • urmc.rochester.edu
Israelis worry about weakening connection with younger Jewish Americans

Israelis across political and religious lines are worried about the weakening connection with younger Jewish Americans

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Jul 31 • 2:27 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Teen hackers tell BBC how police are helping them use their skills for good

Cyber Prevent is targeting predominantly boys and young men at risk of being drawn to cyber criminality.

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Jul 30 • 8:42 PM EDT • Technology • bbc.com
ExxonMobil Honors Young Innovator at PM’s Science Award 2026

ExxonMobil Honors Young Innovator with Applied Science Excellence Award at the Prime Minister’s Science Award 2026.

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Jul 30 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • corporate.exxonmobil.com
Countries urged to strengthen breastfeeding support and health systems to give every child a healthy start in life

Too many mothers and families around the world still lack access to services and interventions that enable and support breastfeeding. Yet breastfeeding is one of the simplest and most powerful ways to protect a child’s health. It provides infants and young children with essential nutrition, increases immunity, helps protect against serious illness, and supports cognitive development.

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Jul 30 • 8:00 PM EDT • Health • who.int
Kate's Club gives metro Atlanta's young adults who have lost parent a healthy way to grieve

What starts as grief can turn into something bigger, so metro Atlanta's Kate's Club helps young adults get into the community and grieve in a healthy way.

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Jul 30 • 6:14 PM EDT • Health • cbsnews.com
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Supercharged millet could help children's gut health without usual supplement side effects

Every day in the urban slums of Mumbai, hundreds of young children were fed toddler-appropriate porridge, soft curry or fresh-baked goods. For some, these were made of ordinary pearl millet, an ancient ...

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Jul 30 • 5:00 PM EDT • Health • medicalxpress.com
💣Bombshell in LaLiga: Carlos Espí joins Real Madrid

Real Madrid have finalized the signing of Carlos Espí after paying the €25 million release clause to Levante UD. The young forward arrives at the Santiago Bernabéu to strengthen the squad for the ...

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Jul 30 • 4:20 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
What is a brand extension? 'Jeopardy!' attempts to answer TV's questionable future

"Jeopardy!" is TV's most-watched entertainment show — and its median viewer is 70. Inside Sony's push onto ESPN, Netflix and YouTube to find a younger audience.

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Jul 30 • 4:04 PM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com
Backrooms perfectly captures the lost art of '90s boredom

The hit thriller is making younger viewers unexpectedly nostalgic for an era they never actually experienced.

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Jul 30 • 3:28 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Carolina Panthers Over/Under Win Total: Can Bryce Young Take Another Leap?

Check out the 2026 O/U win total for the Panthers, who won 8 games last season and won the NFC South.

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Jul 30 • 1:09 PM EDT • Sports • foxsports.com
Weekend Entertainment

The Greater Youngstown Italian Fest will take over downtown this weekend. It will open Friday and run through Sunday.

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Jul 30 • 12:43 PM EDT • Entertainment • businessjournaldaily.com
Japanese politics is becoming less of a turn-off for the young

Social-media-savvy politicians are drawing them in

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Jul 30 • 9:02 AM EDT • Politics • economist.com
The US public is fed up with RFK Jr. To really ‘make America healthy again’, it should look to Europe

Americans are dying younger than Europeans, despite being the wealthiest people on the planet. Wellness fads won’t change that, says public health expert Devi Sridhar

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Jul 30 • 9:00 AM EDT • Health • theguardian.com
Empowering the Next Generation of Civic Leaders

Young Californians often feel disconnected from the political process. A recent event focused on inspiring civic engagement among California’s youth and highlighted the importance of civic education.

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Jul 30 • 8:00 AM EDT • Politics • ppic.org
Kevon Looney: "Having Nick Young as a cousin has been …

Kevon Looney: "Having Nick Young as a cousin has been …

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Jul 30 • 4:10 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Journal of Business announces 2026 Rising Stars

The Journal of Business has selected 10 Spokane-area young professionals to be honored as the 2026 Rising Stars. This year’s slate of honorees includes six women and four men. They mark the 13th class of Rising Stars to be spotlighted by the Journal.

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Jul 30 • 3:00 AM EDT • Business • spokanejournal.com
Rethinking How Babies Communicate

Explore UC Davis research on how infants communicate through signs and how young brains develop during early childhood, including in children with autism.

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Jul 30 • 12:18 AM EDT • Science • ucdavis.edu
Science Hill brings young, talented roster into 2026

The Hilltoppers are focused on gaining experience while getting desired results at the same time.

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Jul 29 • 10:07 PM EDT • Science • wcyb.com
Bay Area man leads program getting young students interested in STEM
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Jul 29 • 9:43 PM EDT • Science • cbsnews.com
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Political Science 101: Socialism vs. Communism

Now, either the President of the United States doesn’t understand the differences between democratic socialism, which is an economic philosophy that is gaining some momentum on the far left right now, particularly among younger voters, and communism; or Trump is merely slinging emotionally-charged rhetoric at people who also don’t understand the distinctions. There is a word for that technique; it’s called “propaganda.”

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Jul 29 • 7:58 PM EDT • Science • manchester.inklink.news
Oprah Winfrey is ending her girls’ school in South Africa after 20 years

Oprah Winfrey is ending her school for disadvantaged girls in South Africa after 20 years, but she will continue to invest in young women’s educations through an ‘expanded scholarship program.’

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Jul 29 • 7:14 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
NSF testing new Ph.D. model giving trainees academic and industry experience

Young life scientists have been increasingly abandoning academia, a seismic shift that has fueled calls for rethinking graduate education. On Wednesday,

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Jul 29 • 5:36 PM EDT • Science • statnews.com
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The Medical Minute: Back-to-sports season: Injury prevention tips for young athletes

Millions of young athletes get injured each year. Penn State Health sports medicine experts share practical tips to help prevent injuries and keep kids healthy, safe and in the game.

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Jul 29 • 2:49 PM EDT • Sports • pennstatehealthnews.org
Business journalism studies took her to the White House | UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media

The story by UNC Hussman alumni Brennan Doherty ’19 and video by John Roberts ’16 (M.A.) was originally published on unc.edu. This story is part of a four-part series on Carolina alumni working in Washington, D.C. Soon after her 2015 graduation from UNC-Chapel Hill, Megan Cassella was an intern for the Reuters news agency, eagerly awaiting and prepping for a special assignment. “Every now and then they needed an intern to run over to the White House last minute,” Cassella said. “You have to send your information the night before, so I started proactively sending my information to the White House every single night to be able to go the next day if they ever needed an intern.” Since then, she’s made many return trips to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. in a career that’s included roles at Reuters, Politico, Barron’s and now CNBC, where she works as an on-air Washington correspondent. A longtime newswriter, Cassella made the move to TV in 2024, appearing on broadcasts multiple times daily to report on the biggest political and business stories. But the keys to doing a good job — knowing how to research, asking insightful questions, building relationships and explaining complex topics to a broad audience — remain the same. Did you know: Outside of the state of North Carolina, the Washington region is home to the largest concentration of Tar Heel alumni in the country. Cassella’s time as a Tar Heel was crucial in sharpening those skills, both in the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media and through roles at student-run publications like The Daily Tar Heel. She excelled in Carolina’s business journalism program with former professor Chris Roush, which led to an internship at The Charlotte Observer and helped Cassella find her journalistic niche. A data journalism course with Associate Professor Ryan Thornburg taught her how to find stories in numbers, and former professor Paul O’Connor’s reporting class took Cassella to the North Carolina Capitol weekly, where she gained invaluable experience interviewing politicians. “Those hands-on experiences that Carolina gave me really kept my interest and have really benefited me since I’ve been up here in D.C.,” said Cassella. “I have UNC to thank for the fact that I even went into business journalism in the first place.” Megan Cassella ’15 “You’ve got to thrive on adrenaline in this job. You’ve got to do well with last-minute changes, with running by the seat of your pants.” Megan Cassella ’15 ‘There’s nothing else like it’ In recent months, Cassella has reported live from the G7 Summit in Geneva, covered the latest developments in the U.S.-Iran war and followed changes to trade policy, including tariffs. “Anything in this realm that influences Wall Street, I’ll be covering,” Cassella said. Her working hours are long and variable. After waking up, Cassella immediately checks her phone to see what news broke overnight. By 8:15 a.m., she usually learns which newscasts she’ll be on, and then she heads to the newsroom, White House or wherever her assignment is. “We want you in the 9 a.m. show and the 11, and then the 3 o’clock show wants you, too,” Cassella said, referring to a hypothetical day. If Cassella gets an exclusive or major news breaks, she might be told, “We want that on TV right now.” Within five minutes, she’d be expected to get to the camera, figure out what to say and deliver the news to a live audience. “It’s exciting. It’s nerve-wracking,” Cassella said. “But there’s nothing else like it.” A well-rounded education Cassella grew up in Maryland, the youngest of four kids. Her oldest brother, Brian Cassella ’05, attended Carolina, became a photojournalist and recently won a Pulitzer Prize. She remembers visiting campus as a young child and loving it. “I just always wanted to go,” she said, and that desire grew when she, like her brother, gravitated toward journalism. But it wasn’t just the journalism school that drew Cassella to Carolina. “It was also the whole liberal arts curriculum,” she said. “Even though I always wanted to be a journalist, I got to college, and I sort of felt I had to think about other things. I had to explore my options and see if that’s what I really wanted.” Did you know: In April UNC-Chapel Hill opened its Carolina in the Capital office in Washington. She combined her journalism schooling with a global studies major and a history minor. That broad range of academic experiences in Chapel Hill molded her, preparing Cassella for a career that’s taken her to the highest levels of political journalism and inside the Oval Office. “When you sit back and remember you’re actually sitting inside the White House and asking questions of the president, it’s a cool feeling,” Cassella said. “No matter who is in office, no matter what administration or party, it’s a privilege to be there.” Megan Cassella on… Being a Tar Heel in Washington: I run into Tar Heels all the time. My husband’s a Tar Heel. We actually met here in Washington, not at Carolina, even though we were the same class. Probably most of our friends are still Tar Heels. Even up here in D.C., we all get together for games and March Madness. And through work, there’s Tar Heels all over the place. It’s often used as a connection. Favorite Franklin Street spot: When we go back, our first stop is always IP3. That’s more my husband’s doing than mine. In college, I was a huge Spanky’s fan. Felt like it was a classic spot. May it rest in peace. Advice to journalism students: Reps, reps, reps! Nothing beats the experience you’ll gain by simply starting to do the work — asking the questions, reporting and writing the stories, doing the TV hits. When you can, go places in person. Talk to more people than you think you’ll need. Read as much as you can, from different sources and on different topics. If you’re not sure how to start your story, that usually means you need more reporting. When you’re not sure, ask.

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Young entrepreneurs turn sports card collecting into charitable business

Cards2Tuff founders plan charity livestreams benefiting Boys & Girls Clubs of Sarasota and DeSoto Counties

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Scientists find a simple way to stop cavities without drilling

A liquid brushed onto cavities in seconds may spare many young children from pain, infection, and surgery. A major U.S. trial found that silver diamine fluoride stopped decay in more than half of treated baby teeth. The treatment requires no drilling, shots, or sedation, although it does permanently darken the decayed area.

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Nike was once China's sneaker king. Here's why its sales have fallen 30%

China was once Nike's fastest-growing region but the company has lost relevance among young consumers and ceded market share to smaller, domestic brands.

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Jul 29 • 7:00 AM EDT • Business • cnbc.com
'We can't write his obituary immediately': R Ashwin on Vaibhav Sooryavanshi

Ravichandran Ashwin clarified his "serve drinks" comment about Vaibhav Sooryavanshi. He stated the remark aimed to highlight learning opportunities for the young batter. Sooryavanshi faced criticism after a poor series against England. He then performed well against Zimbabwe, earning Player of the Series. Ashwin urged patience, noting young players experience ups and downs.

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Jul 29 • 4:37 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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The Science Behind the AI Panic Is Shakier Than You Think

A column by Sascha Lobo Is AI making us dumb? So asked DER SPIEGEL on its cover a while ago. After a few weeks of recovery and a therapeutic intervention with the help of my AI, I feel able to respond. That’s a bit unfair, of course; the article itself is more nuanced than the loud cover, the image of a schoolkid with dull prompt questions, or the subtitle: “AI is conquering the schools, and educators fear a disaster.” The short answer to “Is AI making us dumb?” is: no. The long answer is more interesting, and even carries a preliminary glimmer of the spectacular. Unfortunately, it requires a detour into the sphere of artificial intelligence, into the mogul-field terrain of technology assessment, the attention economy, and the destructive virus of cultural pessimism. Along with narrowing the scope to AI’s effects on education and work rather than on intelligence. Because the honest version of the question would be: Does AI help us learn and work, or not? Generative AI, which set off the still-ongoing hype with ChatGPT, has only existed in relevant distribution since late 2022, early 2023. For a technology-driven transformation of people and society, that is extremely short. For that reason alone, research is still in its infancy. And technology assessment is not a fast discipline anyway. Prominent voices from Elizabeth Eisenstein to RAND to Tom Wheeler say we still cannot conclusively judge the consequences of the printing press. Its invention is a mere 580 years back, and some scholars would rather not circulate assessments that might have to be retracted in two or three hundred years. We’re Going Through Growing Pains A phenomenon that already caused upheaval in social media research makes serious assessment of AI’s consequences even harder: the “moving target” problem of LLM-ology, as the linguist Sean Trott called it in 2025. AI develops so quickly and so unpredictably that researchers often end up studying snapshots of the past. There are concepts, from morphological analysis to anticipatory governance, for keeping research, planning, and regulation halfway meaningful anyway. But even with those, universally valid statements are rare. DER SPIEGEL - The German View is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Subscribe We should therefore treat findings about the interplay between humans and AI as far more procedural and situational. Unfortunately, this challenge comes at the worst possible time. We are going through growing pains: AI’s everyday impact has grown very large very fast, and with it the longing for guidance. Annoyingly, the body of solid knowledge has not exploded along with it. Experts cannot be moved to broad consensus on even banal statements about AI. Sascha Lobo, born in 1975, is an author and strategy consultant focusing on the internet and digital technologies. Together with Jule Lobo, he explores the debates of the day in the podcast “Feel the News – Was Deutschland bewegt” (”What Moves Germany”). Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says software developers are dying out. Bill Gates considers coders one of only three professions that will survive the AI tsunami. Top tech economists find virtually irrefutable arguments both for and against an AI bubble. The same naturally applies to the structurally youth-hostile debate over whether AI is good or bad for young people. The gap between the demand for insight and the supply of solid knowledge creates an orientation vacuum. This vacuum of AI cluelessness is filled, as the attention economy described by Georg Franck in 1998 would have it, with half-knowledge (funnily enough, often AI-generated), marketing, and self-marketing. After all, infinite money is at stake, along with academia’s best current shot at global fame. But this iridescent froth of interpretation operates more by the algorithmic principles of the digital public sphere than by seriously earned insight. That is why dramatized, fear-feeding claims about AI are so promising. It tempts parts of academia into distorted drivel, and parts of the media then sensationalize the published drivel once more. Was the Research Aimed at a Desired Result? How badly this can influence academia and public perception is demonstrated by one of the most-discussed studies on AI’s effects: “Your Brain on ChatGPT.” The MIT study by Nataliya Kosmyna also gets plenty of space in the SPIEGEL cover story. What was measured and interpreted: lower brain activity in people who write with AI assistance, compared to people who only google or write without any tools. As is common with preprints, the study has not yet been peer-reviewed, and it contains substantial weaknesses that experts have sharply criticized. The first round had 54 participants in three groups, the second only 18, who reportedly also came from MIT’s own orbit. There was no preregistration (committing in advance to what you want to find out with which data). In their analysis, Stanković et al. even discovered an opposite effect that the study does not further explain. Some measurement data has not (yet) been published. And the EEG analysis method used is considered too imprecise to support such far-reaching conclusions. The biggest criticism, though, is the suspicion of an activism-driven study. In an interview with Time, lead author Kosmyna said she published the study immediately, rather than after full peer review, because she feared politicians might otherwise decide to put ChatGPT in kindergartens. She considers that absolutely harmful. It is legitimate to hold such a view. It just seems unscientific to approach a study with it, and then to design the setup so that the chance of a fitting desired result remains as high as possible. Ideologies Collide It is not easy to separate genuine AI insights from studies that trivialize and weaken well-founded AI criticism. The same goes for the opposing, AI-enthusiastic narratives, because the pro-AI side works against it with billions in resources. Ideologies collide, fed by egos, PR strategies, moral posturing, and once-in-a-lifetime opportunities. Doomsday marketing makes the search even harder: AI companies can profit from warnings about the dangers of AI, whether through the notoriety of apocalypse narratives or because, in some target groups, danger translates into power. Some seemingly negative findings are therefore quite welcome in the AI industry. If you try to get at the findings presumably less influenced by interest groups, the picture in education seems relatively clear: AI can improve educational outcomes when the right AI is used the right way, namely pedagogically. Simply dumping an AI chatbot into a classroom, by contrast, accomplishes little. Huge surprise. But something else is also obvious: whether they are allowed to or not, kids use AI for school, which is why the controlled integration of AI tools into education is, in the medium term, entirely without alternative. In the world of work, the landscape of findings is more complex and requires more differentiation. A series of serious studies points to an AI effect that suits neither the alarmists, regulation fetishists, and AI opponents, nor the trillion-dollar corporations with their armada of paid scientists, PR professionals, and ecosystems: working with AI helps the inexperienced (at least for now) considerably more than it helps the pros, in certain fields of work, and provided they know how to use it correctly. Missing Domain Knowledge Among the experienced, the professionals, and the high flyers, by contrast, despite frequent time savings, partially negative effects and new problems are emerging. Take the jagged frontier problem: AI solves task A brilliantly and fails completely at task B, even though both look similar even to professionals. Or the verification-cost problem, in which AI’s greater productivity gets eaten up by the enormous effort of checking its output. Or the illusion of competence, because AI makes new domains seem easily penetrable, until you painfully discover that deep domain knowledge is missing. Taken as a whole, the effects of working with AI do lean positive. But the promise that AI works as a turbocharger for everyone and boosts practically everything simply refuses to materialize. The AI magic the world has been feeling since ChatGPT arrived in late 2022 has so far barely shown up in most companies’ numbers. The consulting firm McKinsey has coined a term for this, the “gen AI paradox,” and believes that work processes and corporate structures would have to be rebuilt quite fundamentally to realize AI’s benefits at scale. Reuters just reported that only 3.3 percent of Microsoft’s customers have subscribed to the AI package Copilot. That may be down to the product; in other areas we continue to see soaring successes and new AI triumphs. But after the first quarter of 2026, disillusionment is the word for all too many AI projects at traditional companies: because the promised revolution of AI agents has so far failed to arrive or been postponed, and because of the leveling effect that many of the studies cited here suggest. Against Inequality The societal effects, on the other hand, appear rather encouraging. Many previous technologies operated on the Matthew principle, named for the Gospel verse about giving to those who already have: they tended to reward the more competent and more privileged. AI, however, seems more often to have an equalizing effect once a threshold of access and education is crossed. Some anecdotal insights point in this direction, for example, how an unemployed man in Leipzig successfully defended himself in court in 2025 against fraud accusations from Germany’s federal employment agency — without a lawyer, armed only with ChatGPT. The AI made mistakes and cited invented court rulings, but in the end the man walked away unpunished. And a key capability of artificial intelligence is its capacity to learn: set up correctly and fed with data, it can keep getting better. It is a question of time, or more precisely of AI innovations and training data, until even free AI chatbots write better legal briefs than law graduates with perfect exam scores. Whether that will make anyone dumb is something the world’s press will surely inform us of in due time. Subscribe Leave a comment

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