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Matthew Yglesias on Abundance and the Politics of Energy - Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University SIPA

Hear in-depth conversations with the world’s top energy and climate leaders from government, business, academia, and civil society.

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Aug 18 • 11:14 AM EDT • Politics • energypolicy.columbia.edu
Can the existence of an afterlife be proven? The scientists looking for God

There are doctors, neuroscientists and physicists who believe science can prove life after death, although for most this remains a matter of faith rather than laboratory work

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Aug 18 • 10:58 AM EDT • Science • english.elpais.com
Politics & Power: How one primary could reshape the midterm map

John Truscott, a political analyst and CEO of Truscott Rossman, joins News4JAX anchor Bruce Hamilton for this week’s episode of “Politics & Power” to discuss the key issues about data centers and why it matters for the midterms.

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Aug 18 • 9:51 AM EDT • Politics • news4jax.com
ONC increases funding to expand TEFCA

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has awarded The Sequoia Project funding for the next year under its existing five-year contract to act as the Recognized Coordinating Entity implementing the nationwide Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement.WHY IT MATTERSThe Sequoia Project also received a 15% increase in funding for the next contract year, the non-profit organization said on Monday.

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Aug 18 • 9:07 AM EDT • Health • healthcareitnews.com
ICE gives detention centers high marks for health under Trump even as deaths climb, report finds

Immigrant detention centers are receiving high marks for health and safety under the Trump administration, according to a new investigation by the Project on Government Oversight.

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Aug 18 • 9:00 AM EDT • Health • calmatters.org
How California's midterm election could shape national political conflicts

In some congressional races and key battles over ballot issues, California Democrats' left-leaning wing and its more centrist forces are clashing.

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Aug 18 • 8:00 AM EDT • Politics • calmatters.org
Dear Abby: Toxic Relationship Affects Woman’s Health

Seeking advice on matters of life, family or protocol? Jeanne Phillips and the staff of Dear Abby are here to help.

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Aug 18 • 1:30 AM EDT • Health • dallasnews.com
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Phillies news: Don Mattingly breaks down Philly's new offensive identity

The Phillies, after being a home run-or-nothing team, have turned to small ball over the last few weeks. How did that happen?

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Aug 18 • 12:39 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Hometown Hero: Evan Benson, Chepachet

SMITHFIELD, RI (WPRI) — This week’s Cardi’s Furniture & Mattresses Hometown Sports Hero is Evan Benson. The 14-year-old Chepachet native found the sport of Disc Golf in 2023 and just completed his first Professional Disc Golf Association season, where he racked up nine rated rounds over 1,000 and 13 wins. That success helping to make him the […]

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Aug 17 • 10:58 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Arkansas Money & Politics 2026 Arkansas Elite Executives

The continued humming along of economic development in Arkansas — or anywhere else for that matter — is not guaranteed.

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Aug 17 • 3:39 PM EDT • Politics • armoneyandpolitics.com
Mattel Wants To Succeed In Games Where Hasbro Is Failing

Mattel is looking to succeed where Hasbro failed

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Aug 17 • 11:00 AM EDT • Technology • kotaku.com
Steelers Predicted to Make Surprising Cut at Running Back

Steelers Depot's Matthew Marczi predicted Mike McCarthy and the Pittsburgh Steelers to release 2025 third-round running back Kaleb Johnson. The post Steelers Predicted to Make Surprising Cut at Running Back appeared first on HEAVY.

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Aug 17 • 10:19 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
‘There is nothing else’: Californians face eviction as insurer cancels assisted living benefit

Thousands of California families are facing abrupt cancellations of coverage for assisted living as insurer Health Net adjusts the benefits it provides.

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Aug 17 • 7:59 AM EDT • Health • calmatters.org
A decade after settlement, medical care still falls short at Baltimore jail

A decade-old settlement requiring the state to improve medical care at a Baltimore jail was extended for the third time this June after the federal court found the state remained partially or fully noncompliant with several requirements.

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Aug 17 • 4:56 AM EDT • Health • marylandmatters.org
Chiefs’ Andy Reid Reveals What Must Change Before Week 1

The Kansas City Chiefs opened up their 2026 preseason schedule on Saturday against the Los Angeles Rams. When all was said and done, Andy Reid and company lost by a final score of 20-12.At the end of the day, wins and losses don’t matter in preseason action. What really matters is the team getting up […] The post Chiefs’ Andy Reid Reveals What Must Change Before Week 1 appeared first on HEAVY.

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Aug 17 • 4:12 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Wigglitz lands its first entertainment license with Winx Club

ZB Designs, the Utah based 3D printed toy company behind the Wigglitz collectible line, has signed its first entertainment licensing deal, bringing characters from Rainbow S.p.A.’s Winx Club animated series into the Wigglitz lineup. The companies agreed to the license after a call on June 5, and ZB Designs had physical Wigglitz Winx Club figures …

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Aug 17 • 3:40 AM EDT • Entertainment • voxelmatters.com
America and the politics of respect

Issues won’t matter in the midterms as much as whether voters feel valued

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Aug 17 • 12:00 AM EDT • Politics • ft.com
After Half A Century, Physicists Find The Strongest Evidence Yet For An Exotic 'Glueball' Particle

An "unprecedented form of matter".

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Aug 16 • 11:28 PM EDT • Science • sciencealert.com
Drive evens series with ‘Burgers with Sunday win

SPARTANBURG, S.C. — In Sunday’s Salute to the Negro Leagues game between Greenville and Hub City, the teams wore Spartanburg Sluggers and Greenville Black Spinners jerseys. The Drive (24-24, 50-61) took an early lead over the Spartanburgers (18-29, 52-61) and held on the whole way for a 10-5 win. Starting pitchers Enrique Segura (L, 1-5) and Matt Duffy both […]

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Aug 16 • 10:59 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Trump administration demands hospitals share emergency room records

The CPSC, which protects the public from injuries caused by lawn mowers and strollers, is demanding that some of the nation’s biggest health systems turn over detailed, personally identifiable medical records of patients who seek emergency room help.

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Aug 16 • 9:12 PM EDT • Health • marylandmatters.org
Hong Kong firm bets on Chinese open-weight models to rival CoreWeave

‘Neo-cloud’ provider Antimatter is helping businesses shift away from the US’ frontier AI models, promising lower costs and greater data sovereignty.

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Aug 16 • 9:00 PM EDT • Business • scmp.com
Poor genetic health threatens many species

Four experts explain what genetic health is and why it matters for our most vulnerable wildlife.

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Aug 16 • 4:06 PM EDT • Health • theconversation.com
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Packers’ HC Matt LaFleur Teases Major Tucker Kraft Injury Development

Tucker Kraft is continuing to work his way back to full health for the Green Bay Packers, and Matt LaFleur seemingly indicated he's about to take a big step in his injury rehab. The post Packers’ HC Matt LaFleur Teases Major Tucker Kraft Injury Development appeared first on HEAVY.

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Aug 16 • 3:17 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Drea de Matteo Says Starting an OnlyFans Was a 'Political Statement'

'The Sopranos' star Drea de Matteo says starting an Onlyfans was a 'political statement.'

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Aug 16 • 2:12 PM EDT • Politics • variety.com
Georgia Southern professor named 2026-2027 Fulbright US Scholar to study health innovations in Brazil

Matthew Flynn, a professor at Georgia Southern University, has been awarded a 2026-27 Fulbright U.S. Scholar grant to study health innovations in Brazil.

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Aug 16 • 12:05 PM EDT • Health • griceconnect.com
Green apples vs. red apples and whether one is better than the other

Many wonder whether green and red apples actually differ nutritionally – or if choosing one over the other really matters.

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Aug 16 • 7:00 AM EDT • Health • usatoday.com
BCG's consultants are getting more technical as AI reshapes the firm

BCG wants consultants with strong AI skills, but says critical thinking and judgment matter more than ever.

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Aug 16 • 5:33 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
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Voices: Paul Jaglowski, Partner, Experience Management, Relias

This article is sponsored by Relias. Experience data only matters when organizations can act on it. For behavioral health, ABA, and IDD providers,

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Aug 16 • 1:00 AM EDT • Health • bhbusiness.com
Physicists discover a hidden gluon structure inside protons that could rewrite textbooks

Physicists may have uncovered a hidden feature inside protons that helps preserve one of matter’s most fundamental properties. RHIC collision data suggest baryon number is carried not simply by three quarks, but by a Y-shaped junction of the gluons connecting them. The finding challenges a decades-old textbook picture and could deepen our understanding of why protons—and ultimately matter itself—remain stable.

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Aug 15 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
Saber CEO Apologizes To Lead Writer Replaced With ChatGPT

Hopefully putting a fork in this embarrassing stitch, Matt Karch delivered a private apology to the lead Rideshare "Simulator" writer subjected to his stinky, snarky rant

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Aug 15 • 7:54 PM EDT • Technology • kotaku.com
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Djokovic feels the heat in Cincinnati opening defeat

Novak Djokovic suffered in the second set from punishing heat and humidity on Saturday but made a match of it before falling 2-6, 6-4, 6-4 to Argentine Thiago Tirante in what could be the Serb's last appearance at the ATP-WTA Cincinnati Masters. Martin Landaluce beat Matteo Arnaldi 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 to reach a third-round clash against Tirante.

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Aug 15 • 6:05 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Why Matthew McConaughey quit smoking weed because of a Janet Jackson song: ‘Still like the tune’

Matthew McConaughey said that a Janet Jackson song is ‘the reason I quit smoking weed’: ‘What a cool, groovy little tune.’

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Aug 15 • 2:50 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
St. Louis Cardinals vs Chicago Cubs Saturday Game Discussion

It’s game 2 of the weekend series as the St. Louis Cardinals battle the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field. Cardinals will give the ball to Michael McGreevy while the Chicago Cubs will start Matthew Boyd. It’s also the Major League debut for Joshua Baez. First pitch is set for 1:20pm central time with the game […]

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Aug 15 • 2:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Early-universe plasma may have stopped dark photons from heating cosmos

A new paper published in Physical Review Letters reveals that a leading dark matter candidate—the hypothetical "dark photon"—would not have heated the early universe as previously thought. The finding ...

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Aug 15 • 12:40 PM EDT • Technology • phys.org
Matthew Rhys felt ‘enlivened’ and ‘crappy’ after losing buzzy biopic role to Edward Norton

Matthew Rhys recently auditioned for a role that ultimately went to Edward Norton and eventually landed the ‘Fight Club’ star an Oscar nomination.

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Aug 15 • 11:26 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Matthew McConaughey teases political ambitions after meeting the Pope

Matthew McConaughey tells USA TODAY about his recent meeting with the Pope and whether that changed his perspective on running for political office.

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Aug 15 • 10:01 AM EDT • Politics • usatoday.com
Science Hill graduate summits Switzerland's Matterhorn

Science Hill graduate Christian Nutter, a University of Tennessee sophomore, recently climbed Switzerland's 14,692-foot Matterhorn after six to eight months of preparation, saying the dangerous ascent challenged him physically and mentally while allowing him to represent Johnson City during his travels abroad.

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Aug 15 • 4:00 AM EDT • Science • timesnews.net
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Large-Scale Pokémon Eviction Looms With Pokémon Bank Server Shutdown

After the Nintendo 3DS handheld console saw most its online services including the online store (eShop) taken offline not too long ago, it was only a matter of time before the demise of even the re…

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Aug 14 • 10:00 PM EDT • Technology • hackaday.com
Matthew McConaughey teases political ambitions after meeting the Pope

NEW YORK – For Matthew McConaughey, meeting the Pope was a bit like going to the Oscars.

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Aug 14 • 7:52 PM EDT • Entertainment • centraloregondaily.com
EXCLUSIVE FTC probes health records giant Epic Systems, sources say

Epic Systems, a healthcare database company ‌that holds the medical records of hundreds of millions of Americans, is facing an antitrust investigation by the ​U.S. Federal Trade Commission, two sources familiar with ​the matter told Reuters.

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Aug 14 • 3:53 PM EDT • Health • reuters.com
Matthew McConaughey Says This 2003 Movie Still Brings Him The Best ‘Mailbox Money’

He added that it’s “probably my favorite rom-com that I’ve ever done.”

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Aug 14 • 3:03 PM EDT • Entertainment • huffpost.com
Luigi Mangione to appear in court for expected guilty plea in killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO

Luigi Mangione is scheduled to be in federal court Friday for a hearing at which he's expected to plead guilty in connection with the 2024 killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, according to a person familiar with the matter.

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Aug 14 • 11:07 AM EDT • Health • pbs.org
Greens take on data centers, a literal hat trick by Kagan, Tablada retires, in political notes

The Green Party adds a prominent data center opponent as a campaign adviser, Sen. Cheryl Kagan literally pulls questions out of a hat for a quiz of election officials and longtime state and county environment official Horacio Tablada retires, in political notes.

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Aug 14 • 4:37 AM EDT • Politics • marylandmatters.org
Packers’ Matt LaFleur Sounds Off on Kicker Situation

The Green Bay Packers kicked off their preseason schedule on Thursday night against the Pittsburgh Steelers. When all was said and done, the team suffered a 28-9 defeat.While the games don’t matter, it’s important for a team to see what they have in both the starters they choose to play, but especially young players and […] The post Packers’ Matt LaFleur Sounds Off on Kicker Situation appeared first on HEAVY.

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Aug 14 • 4:23 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Sporting Lisbon Makes Luis Suarez Decision Amid Newcastle Transfer Links

Newcastle United continues to be linked with attacking reinforcements as Matthias Jaissle shapes his squad for the new Premier League season. One of the Magpies’ previously reported targets, Sporting Lisbon striker Luis Suarez, has resurfaced amid uncertainty in Portugal. Following some worrying developments surrounding his situation in the Iberian club, Portuguese outlet A Bola reports […]

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Aug 14 • 3:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Matt LaFleur Sends Cold Message to Packers Legend

There was plenty of talk before the Green Bay Packers preseason opener against the Pittsburgh Steelers about the reunions of coaches and quarterbacks. Head coach Matt LaFleur would see his old quarterback, Aaron Rodgers, who was now playing under former Packers head coach Mike McCarthy. While the story was fun from a fan perspective, LaFleur […] The post Matt LaFleur Sends Cold Message to Packers Legend appeared first on HEAVY.

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Aug 14 • 2:42 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics

Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in the world of politics. The fruits of these labors are hundreds of cartoons that entertain and enrage readers of all political stripes. Here's an offering of the best of this week's crop, picked fresh off the Toonosphere. Edited by Matt Wuerker.

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Aug 14 • 1:00 AM EDT • Politics • politico.com
Matthew Whitaker invites audiences into his Birchmere debut

The Grammy-winning musician brings a quintet and new music

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Aug 14 • 12:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • fairfaxtimes.com
Matthew McConaughey's got buzz with 'The Rivals of Amziah King'

Love movies? Live for TV? USA TODAY's Watch Party newsletter has all the best recommendations, delivered right to your inbox. Sign up now and be one of the cool kids.

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Aug 13 • 7:52 PM EDT • Entertainment • centraloregondaily.com
Matthew McConaughey's got buzz

The last time we saw Matthew McConaughey, he was driving a school bus into an inferno. This time? Costarring with bees.

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Business and labor groups both backed Golden in 2024. Now they’re split over LePage v. Dunlap

With U.S. Rep. Jared Golden on his way out of Congress, the business and labor groups that united behind him are once again at odds in the 2nd District. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce endorsed Republican Paul LePage in the race Thursday. In contrast, Democrat Matt Dunlap has the backing of several major unions. It’s […]

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Aug 13 • 5:29 PM EDT • Business • mainemorningstar.com
Matthew McConaughey Confirms He Nearly Played Pedro Pascal’s Role in ‘The Last of Us’: ‘Wasn’t for Me’

Matthew McConaughey almost fought off clickers in "The Last of Us," confirming he almost took on the role made famous by Pedro Pascal.

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Aug 13 • 5:23 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
‘The Rivals of Amziah King’ Review: There’s No Business Like Bee Business

Matthew McConaughey stars as an Oklahoma honeymaker in a perplexing film that also features Kurt Russell and Angelina LookingGlass.

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Aug 13 • 3:42 PM EDT • Business • wsj.com
After 50 Years, Physicists Find Strong Evidence For What Really Holds Matter Together

A discovery half a century in the making.

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Aug 13 • 2:00 PM EDT • Technology • sciencealert.com
After 50 Years, Physicists Find Strong Evidence For What Really Holds Matter Together

A discovery half a century in the making.

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AI needs science’s search history

“Actually, that’s where the gold is,” said Alasdair Russell, my graduate school friend who leads a pre-clinical genome editing group at Cambridge. He was talking about the winding road of science that is omitted from published papers. “When you’re discussing how to do the experiment, and why this way is better than another way, and what does the data really mean? I know what it shows, but what does it mean?” At RAAIS 2026, he described how his group has begun logging the twisting path of discovery as it happens, recording the verbal and written exchanges that normally disappear. Ideas become nodes in a living graph: they branch when a meeting produces two plausible experiments, merge when separate lines of evidence converge, and go dark when someone quietly stops pursuing them. In his implementation, one agent scores novelty, while another tries to learn “how scientists think and how they navigate through a complex world of data,” so that high-potential nodes can trigger deeper investigation. As frontier AI labs deploy agents toward scientific discovery, giving AI authentic scientific taste remains a trillion-dollar dilemma. The bottleneck is that the record we have kept for centuries of science might be insufficient to get us there. The experiments that never make the paper Peter Medawar, 1960 Nobel laureate and “father of transplantation,” asked in 1963 whether the scientific paper was a fraud, and answered yes: the form of the paper misrepresents the thinking that produced it. Sixty years on, the diagnosis is unchanged. A paper presents a clean progression from hypothesis to result to conclusion. Lost along the way are the unconventional theories, the abandoned or unaffordable methods, and the underwhelming and inconclusive data. It reads like a browser history with every dead end deleted: the ten open tabs, the four rephrased queries, the wrong turn down a subforum. All scrubbed, leaving one clean path from question to answer as the canonical path. What has changed since then is that the discarded material is now worth something. No high-impact journal wants these artifacts, but raw trial and error is the most likely source of the training data required to develop scientific intuition, or what researchers call taste. Earlier attempts to capture the discards were motivated by scientific integrity. The Journal of Negative Results in Biomedicine launched in 2002 to publish rigorous studies that disputed established models or exposed ineffective treatments. Its archive preserved negative conclusions after they had become papers, rather than the live alternatives and arguments that produced them. BioMed Central closed it in 2017, saying the mission had been served now that other journals publish null results. A less generous reading is that in fifteen years it published around 200 papers because almost nobody wants to read a negative result, let alone write one up when it will not count toward academic tenure. AI models are different. Even an uninteresting negative result can be useful, provided it is labeled. Earlier this year, Anthropic put a version of this to the test. The company pulled 129 decision points from real Claude Code sessions between January and March 2026, showed models the work up to a human detour, and asked what should happen next. Claude Mythos Preview beat the human choice 64% of the time, while Opus 4.5 managed 51%. The comparison was tilted toward the models because Anthropic deliberately chose moments where the human decision had room for improvement. On 127 further scenarios where the human action was already strong, the models improved on it only about 20% of the time. The study was possible because Anthropic’s researchers work inside a tool that logs by default. The reasoning, detours and outcome are produced in the same working environment. Biology has no equivalent. Its reasoning happens in hallways, at benches, in Slack threads and on whiteboards, while the outcome arrives weeks later somewhere else. The record has to emerge from the work itself. Ask scientists to reconstruct it afterwards and we’ll create another polished account. Subscribe A log is not a label Before any of this becomes training data, a negative result has to say what failed. The first paper published in the Journal of Negative Results in Biomedicine examined 234 negative studies across five leading medical journals. Only 30% discussed statistical power, and half clearly defined a primary outcome. Tell a model an experiment failed, without telling it whether the assay was underpowered, a reagent had degraded, or the hypothesis was simply wrong, and it will learn noise with confidence. Decision histories have a second missing label too. When a lab considers five experiments and runs one, only the chosen branch returns an outcome. The other four are experimental counterfactuals. Researchers call this the selective labels problem: the data reveal results only for the actions someone chose to take. Such a record can teach a model to imitate a lab’s taste, but it cannot establish that the taste was good. It also smuggles local constraints into general lessons. A lab that never ran cryo-EM because it did not own a microscope teaches a model that cryo-EM is rarely the right call. Alasdair’s nodes preserve the candidate set, which is the necessary first step. To be useful, each decision record needs six fields: The evidence available at that moment, and nothing that arrived later. The candidates considered, including the ones dismissed in a sentence. For each candidate: the expected result, the confidence attached to it, and the cost in time and money. The route chosen, and the reason. What happened next. How the evidence changed the scientist’s view. These must be timestamped before the outcome, because hindsight turns uncertainty into inevitability. Disagreement also has to survive. Averaging three scientists into one clean rationale reproduces exactly the information loss we are trying to fix. But there is an obvious failure mode here. Once decisions are logged and scored, people log for the record post-facto. Anyone who has watched an electronic lab notebook fill up with retrospective tidying knows how quickly a research tool becomes a compliance exercise. A record that costs a scientist ten minutes of honest reflection per decision is worth far more than one that costs an hour of performance. A publication initiative called Registered Reports offers a useful starting point. Here, researchers submit their rationale, methods and analysis plan for peer review before the data exist, and the journal commits in principle to publish if they follow the approved plan. Nature has now expanded the format across every field it covers. This approach to paper writing timestamps intent before the outcome, but it freezes one plan. A useful search history must also preserve how the plan changed, which alternatives were rejected, when, and on what evidence. Subscribe Run the runner-up Autonomous labs show what happens when decisions and outcomes are connected in a loop. Liverpool’s mobile robotic chemist ran 688 experiments over eight days in a ten-variable formulation space. A batched Bayesian search used each result to choose the next experiments and found photocatalyst mixtures six times more active than the starting formulations. Every completed experiment changed what the system did next. The robot optimized within a goal and search space that humans had already chosen. It did not decide which scientific question mattered. So what this work demonstrates is narrower, but still useful: a search history pays off when the options return standardized outcomes quickly. Open-ended biology is harder because branches can take weeks and the discarded alternatives may never be run. Some exploration therefore has to be bought. Where two branches are plausible and the stakes justify the cost, a lab should sometimes run the runner-up. Otherwise the record captures what today’s scientists usually chose and stays silent on what they systematically overlooked. A funder could ring-fence a small fraction of a grant for the branch not taken, provided that the decision record and the outcome are both deposited. That costs money, but so does having every lab rediscover the same abandoned path. Test whether taste transfers When it comes time to evaluate if our new AI system exhibits taste, the comparison should run across laboratories and fields. At selected decision points in a live research campaign, we should freeze the six fields: the evidence, the candidates, expected results, confidence, costs and the choice made. Experts then rank the options before the outcomes are known, and those outcomes are checked independently later. We could give models one of two diets - papers alone, or papers plus decision histories - and ask them to rank the next experiment on unfamiliar projects. Then, we score information gained per dollar and week, calibration, and how quickly weak branches are abandoned. If histories improve choices only inside the lab that produced them, they amount to useful organizational memory. If they improve choices on unfamiliar problems elsewhere, Alasdair’s group will have captured something science has never managed to write down: a transferable record of taste. Until that happens, a scientific search history is a promising record, not yet a training set.

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Aug 13 • 11:16 AM EDT • Science • press.airstreet.com
Matthew McConaughey prompts priceless reaction from Ella Langley after Oscar winner covers ‘Choosin’ Texas’

Matthew McConaughey grabbed a mandolin to perform a bluegrass cover of Ella Langley's "Choosin' Texas" on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon."

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Aug 13 • 10:48 AM EDT • Entertainment • foxnews.com
How San Francisco's ridiculous housing prices are defining the race to replace Pelosi

As San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan and Sen. Scott Wiener fight to succeed former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, their track records on affordable housing could be decisive in the tight race for Congress.

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Aug 13 • 8:30 AM EDT • Politics • calmatters.org
How money actually works in American elections

The midterms are flooded with cash, but donors don’t always get what they want. A political scientist explains where the money matters most.

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Aug 13 • 7:00 AM EDT • Politics • vox.com
Back-To-School Bargains Or Scams? Better Business Bureau Helps Missouri Families Spot The Difference (LISTEN)

Back-to-school shopping can put a strain on family budgets, and scammers know it. Matt Pilger talked with Khesha Duncan of the Better Business Bureau in Columbia about finding real deals and avoiding costly scams. Share this:

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Aug 13 • 6:57 AM EDT • Business • missourinet.com
What patients actually think about ‘minimally invasive’ brain implants

A new study polled people with treatment-resistant depression about what matters to them when it comes to brain implants for mental health.

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Aug 13 • 4:30 AM EDT • Health • statnews.com
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Saber CEO Makes Rideshare's Undisclosed AI Mess Even Worse

Matt Karch said a missing Steam disclosure will be added eventually

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Aug 13 • 12:42 AM EDT • Technology • kotaku.com
Matthew McConaughey on his sweet return to the big screen

Matthew McConaughey had plenty of reasons to select "The Rivals of Amziah King," a honey-themed thriller set in the American Southwest, for his return to the big screen after more than five years away...

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Aug 12 • 9:12 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Saber Interactive's CEO Matt Karch Can Get In The Bin

'I would frankly in retrospect have been happy to replace her with AI'

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Aug 12 • 8:51 PM EDT • Technology • aftermath.site
Asia-Pacific parliamentarians urge bolder action for universal health coverage, climate resilience and responsible AI

Parliamentarians representing 16 countries from across the Asia-Pacific region concluded the Ninth Meeting of the Asia-Pacific Parliamentarian Forum on Global Health (APPFGH) today, reaffirming their key role in advancing universal health coverage (UHC) amid the risks and opportunities posed by AI and climate change. In adopting the Phnom Penh Communiqué, parliamentarians urged fellow legislators regionwide to strengthen sustainable financing for UHC to widen access to health for all, including the most vulnerable populations; promote responsible governance of AI amid ethical concerns over this fast-evolving technology; and build climate-resilient health systems to anticipate and respond to mounting pressures ranging from rising sea levels in coastal areas to air pollution and other environmental degradation.The National Assembly of Cambodia, with support from Cambodia’s Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization (WHO), hosted the Forum in Phnom Penh from 11 to 13 August 2026 – the first time the Forum has convened in a Mekong country.Parliamentarians urge action to close gaps in accessIn the Communiqué, parliamentarians recognized that at-risk and marginalized groups are the ones most severely affected by gaps in access to health services. These groups include people living in poverty, women and children, persons with disabilities, older people, migrants, refugees, and those in rural, remote or island communities. The Communiqué urges fellow parliamentarians and policy-makers to advocate for laws and policies that support sustainable financing to protect people from financial hardship, with a focus on primary health care, prevention and equity. "The Communiqué is a call to action. It sets out ambitious, concrete measures that deliver meaningful impact on the ground. We are all accountable for advancing universal health coverage and translating our commitments into tangible results. Cambodia is fully committed to advancing UHC, including the promotion of ‘healthy people, prosperous country’ campaign,” said Samdech Maha Rathsapheathika Thipadei Khuon Sudary, President of the National Assembly of the Kingdom of Cambodia.His Excellency Professor Chheang Ra, Minister of Health of the Kingdom of Cambodia, highlighted the need for collaboration beyond the health sector. “Universal health coverage cannot be achieved by the Ministry of Health alone. It requires support, particularly from parliamentarians, across political, legislative, financial, social protection, education, infrastructure, and environmental domains. While each country follows its own path, one factor is universally critical for success: strong governance and leadership. We all believe in this principle, and in our respective political roles, we remain committed to strengthening these key success factors to ensure that no one is left behind.”Promoting responsible AI adoption Parliamentarians acknowledged that, while AI has already demonstrated its ability to improve access to health services and support delivery, careful and ethical governance is necessary to safeguard quality, safety, privacy and public trust. This underscores the importance of parliamentarians in promoting legal and regulatory frameworks addressing liability, records ownership and data governance, while embracing innovation that protects ethical practice.“Without strong governance, safeguards for privacy and data security, sustainable financing, and attention to those most at risk of exclusion, new technologies may widen existing gaps instead of closing them. This is why parliamentarians matter. We pass laws. We approve budgets. We scrutinize government action. We represent communities. We can ask whether health services are reaching rural, remote, ageing, poor, and marginalized populations. We can ask whether innovation is being guided by equity, evidence, and ethics,” said Hon. Man Hee Lee, President of the Asia-Pacific Parliamentarian Forum on Global Health.Building climate-resilient health systemsParliamentarians also reiterated that the climate crisis is a direct threat to people’s health and to achieving UHC more broadly, deepening the same gaps in access already faced by at-risk and marginalized communities. They recognized the need for WHO Member States to ensure sufficient national appropriations and oversight, and for parliamentarians to raise awareness in their constituencies and mobilize local action in building climate-resilient and sustainable health systems.“Universal health coverage, climate change and AI cannot be addressed in isolation. The same communities struggling to access health services today are often the ones most exposed to climate shocks, and most in need of the opportunities AI can offer if this technology is governed responsibly,” said Dr Saia Ma’u Piukala, WHO Regional Director for the Western Pacific. “Having served previously in this Forum myself as a parliamentarian from Tonga, I recognize how the Phnom Penh Communiqué reflects the shared resolve of legislators across the Asia-Pacific region: the laws parliamentarians pass and the budgets they approve help ensure this progress reaches the people who need it most.”As the Forum drew to a close, delegates reflected on what they would carry back to their own parliaments and constituencies.“I wish to share three points here worth carrying home from Phnom Penh: we need to invest in primary health care as the foundation of coverage; we need to remove the barriers that keep people from care, whether financial, geographic or social; and we need to build systems that are inclusive by design, protecting those most at risk of being left behind,” added Hon. Ouch Borith, First Vice-President of the Senate of the Kingdom of Cambodia.###Notes for editors:The Asia-Pacific Parliamentarian Forum on Global Health (APPFGH) is a platform for parliamentarians to exchange ideas, build political will, strengthen capacity and foster collaboration towards sustainable health action. This was the ninth meeting of the APPFGH, with the theme “Universal Health Coverage in the era of Climate Change and Artificial Intelligence”. Target 3.8 of the Sustainable Development Goals calls on countries to achieve universal health coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health services, and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all. In the Western Pacific, UHC service coverage index (SDG 3.8.1) rose from 63 in 2000 to 81 in 2023 (figures include Indonesia), and roughly one in four people in the Western Pacific have experienced financial hardship (SDG 3.8.2). Progress towards UHC in the Asia-Pacific region remains uneven, with hundreds of millions of people still lacking access to essential health services or facing financial hardship due to health-related expenses. Strengthening the role of parliaments – through legislation, financing and oversight – is central to closing this gap and accelerating progress towards UHC across the region.Parliamentarians participating in APPFGH in Cambodia this week include: Hon. Pehin Dato Adanan YUSOF, Brunei Darussalam; Hon. Rosmawatty ABDUL MUMIN, Brunei Darussalam; Hon. LORK Kheng, Kingdom of Cambodia; Hon. YOS Phanita, Kingdom of Cambodia; Hon. KHOUN Khundy, Kingdom of Cambodia; Hon. HENG Halim, Kingdom of Cambodia; Hon. KHOENG Noupheap, Kingdom of Cambodia; Hon. SENG Nhak, Kingdom of Cambodia; Hon. LY Sukry, Kingdom of Cambodia; Hon. NHOEURN Raden, Kingdom of Cambodia; Hon. Dr Ratu Atonio LALABALAVU, Republic of Fiji; Hon. Vijay NATH, Republic of Fiji; Hon. Man Hee LEE, Republic of Korea; Hon. Dr Jiho CHA, Republic of Korea; Hon. Jonghun BAEK, Republic of Korea; Hon. Youngsuk SEO, Republic of Korea; Hon. Dr Phayvanh KEOPASEUTH, Lao People’s Democratic Republic; Hon. Suhaizan Bin KAIAT, Malaysia; Hon. Dr Perpetua KONMAN, Federated States of Micronesia; Hon. Ganmaa DAVAASAMBUU, Mongolia; Hon. Charmaine SCOTTY, Republic of Naoero; Hon. Vincent Ambance KUMURA, Papua New Guinea; Hon. Dr Edwin CRUZADO, Republic of the Philippines; Hon. AUUAPAAU Mulipola Aloitafua Mulipola, Samoa; Hon. ASIATA TAVUI Tafu Salevao, Samoa; Hon. Dr Alani Petelo TANGITAU, Tonga; Hon. Paul PAOLO, Republic of Vanuatu; Hon. Franklyn Ezra WILLIAM, Republic of Vanuatu.For more information, contact: WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific: wprocom@who.int National Assembly of the Kingdom of Cambodia (International Relations Department): ir.nacambodia@gmail.com

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Pirate Problems: Bucs Facing old Friend Sean McVay

New coordinator Zac Robinson faces his mentor in a high-stakes showdown, leveraging intimate knowledge of Sean McVay’s system to neutralize Matthew Stafford’s explosive Rams offense.

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Matthew Stafford facing major off-field issue before Rams season

Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford and his wife reportedly face an active California tax lien worth more than $534,000 just weeks before Los Angeles opens its 2026 season.

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Matthew Stafford expresses confidence in Rams 3rd-round rookie

Matthew Stafford expressed confidence in Keagen Trost after he got a chance to play with the first-team offense on Tuesday.

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Food businesses: Learn how to avoid common mistakes made during inspections

Join Hawaiʻi Commercial Kitchens from 1 to 4 p.m. Aug. 13 for a free workshop with guest speaker retired Hawaiʻi Department of Health inspector John Nakashima to walk you through what a strong plan actually requires, including recordkeeping and monitoring habits that matter most when an inspector shows up.

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Google’s Pixel 11 phone preorders come with up to $350 in gift cards

We’ve got the details on how to preorder the new phones.

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No Solution in Sight for Patriots and Corner Christian Gonzalez

Where do the New England Patriots and Christian Gonzalez go from here? With all the on-field business being handled with the Indianapolis Colts on Tuesday, the off-field matter – that is, Christian Gonzalez not participating – took center stage for the Patriots. Gonzalez tweaked his ankle late in Monday’s team session, but head coach Mike Vrabel made no mention of his status before the two teams took the field on Tuesday.

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Google-made Pixel 11 cases and Pixelsnap accessories get fresh hues [Gallery]

The Pixel 11, no matter which model you look at, ranges from bright and loud to quiet and stealthy colorways....

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Aug 12 • 10:03 AM EDT • Technology • 9to5google.com
Shoulder-fired missile threat prompted Trump’s plane ruse, source says

A specific threat to Air Force One by a shoulder-fired missile emerged on the final day of last month’s NATO summit in Turkey, according to a person familiar with the matter, prompting the scramble among US officials to devise the furtive plan to sneak President Donald Trump out of the country on an alternate jet.

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3 main takeaways from Cowboys’ joint practice with Rams

The Dallas Cowboys got their first opportunity to test themselves against team during Tuesday’s joint practice with the Los Angeles Rams, and there was plenty to like — especially on defense. Facing reigning MVP Matthew Stafford and a Rams team off a trip to the NFC Championship Game provided Dallas with a strong measuring stick before preseason action. The Cowboys defense answered the challenge, creating turnovers and consistently disrupting Los Angeles’ offense.

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How California's primary election reflects the perils facing the national Democratic Party

Low turnout among young and non-white voters in California signals that Democrats should focus on organizing to beat Republicans nationally.

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Aug 12 • 8:00 AM EDT • Politics • calmatters.org
Phillies May Already Have Their Don Mattingly Replacement
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Chicago Cubs history unpacked

Happy Birthday, Matt Clement!

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Post-Primary Recap: All Politics Is (Still) Local

Last night's primary results were a reminder that candidate and campaign quality matter – a lot.

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GUARDIANS NEWS: NOBODY HAS EVER BEEN LESS CLUTCH

No group of humans has ever been less clutch than the 2026 Guardians. Matt Underwood and Chris Gimenez are the dumbest humans to ever share a big league broadcast booth, but even they noticed that Guardian hitters refuse to take any pitches when there is a runner in scoring position. These hitters have a coach. […]

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HSBC global insurance business head Moncreiffe to leave, sources say

HSBC's global chief executive for insurance ‌business, Edward Moncreiffe, is set to leave the bank after two decades with the lender, according to two people with direct knowledge ​of the matter.

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Myles Lewis-Skelly transfer news: Chelsea and Man Utd turn down intermediary offer to sign Arsenal teenager

Latest transfer news and headlines as Newcastle are exploring a move for Benfica right-back Amar Dedic; Aston Villa have reached a verbal agreement to sign Matteo Ruggeri from Atletico Madrid; Kyle Walker is a target for Everton; Paul Pogba is set to leave Monaco

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We're lifting our price target on Cardinal Health after issuing rosy profit guidance

The quarter wasn't totally clean, but strong profitability matters the most.

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Aug 11 • 3:58 PM EDT • Health • cnbc.com
It’s Kyler Murray’s Team Now, for Better or Worse

The Vikings have finally announced the results of the team’s contentious quarterback competition, and according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, Kyler Murray has been named the Week 1 starting quarterback for the 2026 season, putting an end to the much-talked-about position battle and handing the keys to the Vikings offense to the former Cardinals veteran. After an open battle to start camp got going, Murray put distance between himself and now-backup quarterback J.J. McCarthy over the past few weeks, and while there were some recent struggles that might have put into question Murray’s lead in the QB race, it ultimately didn’t matter to the Vikings brass, who felt they needed to make a decision before the Vikings’ preseason opener against the Giants this Saturday.

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Packers Training Camp Recap: Pass-catchers return to practice

WRs Matthew Golden and Jayden Reed returned to practice for the Green Bay Packers, as did TE Josh Whyle

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Healthcare matters to Georgians in governor's race, study finds. Bottoms and Jackson have different plans

A poll conducted by the Georgia Health Initiative in partnership with UGA's Public and International Affairs Survey Research Center finds that Georgia voters see healthcare as a top priority for the next governor.

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Dodge's CEO Says The Best Is Yet To Come: 'We're Going To Go Faster'

Matt McAlear discusses the 600-hp Charger Super Bee, the upcoming GLH, and what’s next for the SRT brand.

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Why GameStop’s bold $56-billion play for eBay is suddenly in doubt

(Bloomberg) -- GameStop Corp., led by Chief Executive Officer Ryan Cohen, is considering withdrawing its $56 billion bid for eBay Inc., according to people familiar with the matter.

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Trump pretends he has credibility on medicine, science and public health. He doesn’t.

Not to put too fine a point on this, but on scientific matters, the president is about as reliable a source as a Magic 8 ball.

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Why joint practices matter, explained by Patriots players

The Patriots will host two sets of joint practices this summer.

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Aug 11 • 8:53 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Victor Wembanyama's Hall of Fame Hype Isn't Premature

Victor Wembanyama hasn't been in the NBA nearly long enough to warrant serious Hall of Fame discussions, but if he stays anywhere close to the same trajectory he's on, it's only a matter of time.

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Jenna Ortega Won't Stop Taking Risks, No Matter How Big Wednesday Gets

At twenty-three, Ortega already has a resume a mile long. A sci-fi gamble could vault her to another level entirely.

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Medical systems, health agencies get $80 million from feds to boost rural health

Dozens of projects from county health departments, healthcare systems and Maryland hospitals will share $80 million in new federal funding to improve access to healthcare in Maryland’s rural communities, the Moore administration announced Monday.

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Aug 11 • 5:00 AM EDT • Health • marylandmatters.org
Cardinal Commerce Notes: Lynchburg-based BWXT to sell medical business

Plus: Virtual hiring fair upcoming, new nuclear simulator report, Lynchburg’s airport gets a $5.3 million grant and USDA designates Virginia localities as drought disaster areas.

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Business owners reflect on anniversary of fire that destroyed historic restaurant

On the night of August 11th, 2025, a crippling problem erupted.It tested the spirit of endurance of Jason LeCates and Matt Crandall, business partners at The Bo

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Prestigious educational pedigree matters much in the hiring and retention of academic surgeons. Should it?

Surgeons who not only operate on patients but also conduct impactful research and educate new surgeons tend to have something in common: They began their careers by graduating from a top-ranked medical school—and then stayed inside that rarified healthcare stratum for good.

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Aug 10 • 11:15 PM EDT • Health • healthexec.com
Walking is one of the best exercises for heart health — but experts say strength training matters too

Heart health is closely tied to everyday energy and resilience. A trainer explains what actually makes the biggest difference — and where most people get it wrong.

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Aug 10 • 6:00 PM EDT • Health • creators.yahoo.com
Flowers Foods seeks to divest Tastykake baked goods business, sources say

Packaged food company Flowers Foods is seeking to divest its baked goods business ​Tastykake, according to people familiar with the matter.

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Saber's newest game trailer takes a shot at Gearbox's CEO, if you look closely

The first hint that something might be up with the recent debut trailer for Saber Interactive’s Rideshare Stimulator is an unusual choice of words—aside from that second one in the game’s title. “Don’t take your passengers too seriously,” the trailer’s narrator says, as he describes this upcoming game. It a car game about the gig work of driving eccentric people to their destinations, a riff on Crazy Taxi. And then, he says: “When I think I’ve met the randiest of passengers, someone even stranger gets in.” “Randiest”? That suggests “randy,” which usually means having strong sexual desire. Yet none of the oddball backseat occupants featured in the trailer seem particularly lustful. One is an old man who considers his grandson a failure, another shares the theory that birds might control traffic lights, another says he’s banned from an aquarium. A little later, there’s a license plate, shown 63 seconds into the trailer, on the front of an SUV: USB DRV It’s a Texas plate. The symbol between those letters is a cog wheel. If you know, you know. That’s a reference to Texas-based Borderlands game development studio Gearbox Software (their logo features a cog wheel). More specifically, it’s a reference to Gearbox’s CEO Randy Pitchford, who in 2018 found himself explaining the nature of video he’d saved on a USB drive that was found at a Medieval Times restaurant before being returned to the studio: “It was ‘barely legal’ porn. This girl’s handle was ‘Only 18.’” The “girl” in the video had committed a solo sex act that Pitchford, an avid practitioner of magic, found remarkable. “I realized, this is not a sex worker…This is a fucking magician.” Back then, the USB drive was central to competing lawsuits against Gearbox by the studio’s former lawyer and by Gearbox against him. A settlement in late 2019 “exonerated” Pitchford, per the Hollywood Reporter. The USB story has resurfaced at times, now in a trailer from a company that not long ago was corporate brethren with Gearbox. Saber vs. Gearbox The head of Saber told Game File that the reference is payback. “The dig is because Randy took shots at Embracer in Borderlands 4,” Saber CEO Matt Karch told me when I asked him about the license plate. “Without Embracer, Randy is performing magic tricks at birthday parties for a living.” Having interviewed Karch during a cross-country flight in late 2024, I can confirm that Karch was unimpressed with Pitchford during their time both working in the Embracer group. I’d approached him not out of surprise that there was animosity but that it was manifesting publicly now. Gearbox was founded in 1999, worked on a port of Halo early on, and developed hit series such as the loot-based sci-fi shooter Borderlands before it was purchased by The Embracer Group in early 2021 for $363 million (with a possible earn-out of over $1 billion, if certain targets were hit by 2027). Saber was founded in 2001, worked on a remaster of Halo early on, had a big hit with zombie shooter World War Z and was purchased by Embracer in early 2020 for $150 million, with a potential earn-out of up to $375 million. For a few years, the Embracer group was a voracious acquirer of game studios. Then, as investment dried up, it choked. In March 2024, Embracer sold Saber to an investment company controlled by Saber CEO Matt Karch, and it sold Gearbox in an all-stock deal to long-time Borderlands publisher Take Two Interactive. Other studios were shut down. Hundreds of developers were laid off. Gearbox didn’t say much about their Embracer experience, nothing too direct, at least. In the summer 2024, Pitchford told reporter and occasional Game File contributor Nicole Carpenter that Borderlands 4’s story was in some way thematically connected to Gearbox’s experience at Embracer: “There’s this cultural and emotional shift in me, personally, and at the studio. What does it mean to trade some autonomy for organization?” When Borderlands 4 came out, there was something stranger: the matter of “Embracer’s Bluff,” a location in the game featuring an AI-powered toilet and a large trash dump, according to a detailed Kotaku account of the place. Gearbox never commented on it; Take Two never got back to me about it when I asked them last year. By contrast, since Saber exited Embracer, Karch has been one of Embracer’s biggest defenders, casting their management as well-meaning and supportive despite the layoffs and studio closures that resulted from their excessive expansion. Like others, Saber’s Karch saw Embracer’s as a shot. With Rideshare Stimulator’s trailer, he’s returned fire. “It’s amazing to me how fast people forget those who went above and beyond for them,” Karch told Game File. A rep for Gearbox did not comment by press time. Game File is a reader-supported publication. Your backing makes my reporting—including any coverage of trailer-based beefs—possible. Good news! I’m currently running Game File’s first big sale of 2026. You can get a one-year subscription for 23% off. Click here to take advantage of the limited-time offer. And thank you for your support! Item 2: In brief… 🚫 Wal-Mart has laid off the staff of Restart, a games media outlet launched in 2024, Aftermath reports. 🟥 A GTA VI preview is on the way, at last, via an “extended look” that will premiere, unusually, on Netflix at 3pm ET on August 27, then officially go live elsewhere six hours later. Last week, Game File noted that Take Two label Rockstar Games is overdue for showing off GTA VI, based on the timing of the initial hands-off previews of GTA V and Red Dead Redemption 2. During a call with investors, Take Two CEO Strauss Zelnick said pre-orders for GTA VI were “unprecedented and astonishing,” but added the company can’t predict how many of those pre-orders represent bonus sales vs. sales that otherwise would have been made at launch. During the same call, Zelnick was noticeably bullish on the future of playing games over streaming cloud connections (predicting wider adoption in three or so years). He sounded unbothered by Sony’s plans to stop making discs for new games (he said the business is 90% digital already and predicted that there could still be limited edition physical editions of games “in the same way there’s still vinyl in the recorded music business.”) 👀 Take Two wrote off $43 million in their spring quarter after deciding “not to proceed with further development of an unannounced title in its pipeline from a third-party developer.” 🤔 Some rare age-demographics from a big publisher: Capcom recently told investors that “users in their 20s account for approximately half of the users of both Pragamata and Resident Evil Requiem.” Item 3: The week ahead Tuesday, August 11 Game releases: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered (Switch 2; already out for PC, PS5, Xbox) continues the Bethesda strategy of putting Elder Scrolls games on everything; Royalty Free-For-All is a Smash Bros.-style fighting game featuring public domain characters such as Mother Goose brawling with Oliver Twist in a stage based on the original Little Shop of Horrors movie. Wednesday, August 12 Game release: Pro Jank Footy (PC, console) is an arcade-style Australian Rules Football game with increasingly ridiculous rules, the more you play (I enjoyed the Steam demo) Thursday, August 13 Game release: Super Mario Sunshine (Switch 2, originally released in 2002 on the GameCube) is released for Switch 2’s Nintendo Switch Online service. This game is the black sheep of 3D Mario games. It’s the successor to the breakthrough Super Mario 64 and the rare Mario game built around a single (vacation resort) theme. Mario’s got a water-spraying backpack, a Yoshi pal and a lot of blue coins to collect.

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2026 NFL Odds: Every QB's Over/Under Passing Yards Total

Following a 2025 MVP campaign, Matthew Stafford enters 2026 with an over/under pass yards total of 3,949.5. See the other top NFL QB betting lines.

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Scientists Release Biggest 2D Map of the Universe

Key Takeaways The DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys combined more than 263,000 telescope exposures to make the largest 2D map of the universe in visible and near-infrared light. Astronomers can pair the Legacy Surveys map with their own observations to explore our universe and search for rare phenomena. The 2D map serves as the foundation for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument survey to measure the universe in 3D and investigate dark energy. Hold on to your telescopes: the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys team has released the largest-ever 2D color map of the universe. The 5.6-trillion-pixel map contains nearly 4 billion celestial objects, primarily stars and galaxies. The data is available for all to use and publicly viewable through the Legacy Survey Sky Viewer. Astronomers and citizen scientists can explore the map or combine it with their own observations to better understand our universe. Researchers can search for rare phenomena like gravitational lenses, observe fleeting events like supernovae, and investigate two of physics’ biggest mysteries: dark matter, the invisible substance that accounts for most of the mass in our universe, and dark energy, the force driving our universe’s accelerating expansion. The new map builds on earlier versions from the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys that have already proved invaluable. To date, more than 1,800 science papers that reference the Legacy Surveys data have been published. “It’s part of the fabric of astronomy research now,” said David Schlegel, a co-lead of the Legacy Surveys and scientist at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). “When you’re working with astronomical objects today, you often start by pulling up the Legacy Imaging Viewer to see what you’re looking at.” Covering roughly 75% of the sky in visible and near-infrared light, the updated map provides a deep view of the extragalactic universe not blocked by the dust and stars of our own Milky Way. Researchers expect it will remain the most comprehensive 2D map of our universe for years to come. More than 160 scientists contributed to data collection for the project, and a team of 20 produced the final dataset released today. It was built by combining 263,407 telescope exposures from three ground-based sky surveys: the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey (DECaLS) at NSF Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, the Mayall z-band Legacy Survey (MzLS) at NSF Kitt Peak National Observatory, and the Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey (BASS) at the University of Arizona’s Steward Observatory. That was supplemented by years of data from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) satellite mission and additional public data. “For our team, these data are fundamental to our investigation of the expansion history of the universe and the formation of our galaxy,” said Arjun Dey, co-lead of the Legacy Surveys and an astronomer at NSF NOIRLab. “But the skies belong to everyone, and this survey gives everyone the chance to explore the sky and marvel at its wonders.” Here be galaxies The DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys were originally conducted to prepare for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey. The Legacy Surveys’ 2D map is essentially a deep photograph of the sky; it records where galaxies and stars appear and how bright they appear. This crucial step enables DESI to select objects and measure their light in different wavelengths to determine their distances, building the largest high-resolution 3D map ever made. Scientists study the way galaxies have clustered at different ages of the universe to track dark energy over time. In April 2026, DESI completed its original five-year survey ahead of schedule and with vastly more objects than expected. The early results have shown surprising hints that dark energy’s impact may be weakening over time — a paradigm shift that could potentially shape the predicted fate of our universe. DESI expects to publish improved results using their first five years of data in 2027 and is continuing observations into 2028. DESI was so efficient at observing galaxies, the Legacy Surveys map needed to expand. Early on, “it became clear we might run out of galaxies to look at and run out of sky, and we better start doing something about that,” said Schlegel, who also works on DESI. The new Legacy Surveys map has been used to select DESI targets since June 2026 and will guide the telescope’s operations over the coming years. Computing the cosmos Merging hundreds of thousands of images taken on 2,285 nights, each with unique atmospheric and telescope conditions, was a massive computational effort. It took about a year to develop the computer code and eight weeks to process all the images at the Perlmutter supercomputer at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Berkeley Lab. Beyond supporting DESI, the Legacy Surveys will be a foundational reference for the next generation of telescopes. As new observatories like the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory (jointly funded by NSF and DOE’s Office of Science) and NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope come online, researchers can compare their observations with one of the deepest and most comprehensive views of the sky ever assembled. The Legacy Surveys data will also help scientists train artificial intelligence tools to analyze petabytes of astronomical data and accelerate new discoveries. It will be among the datasets used in an astrophysics pilot project within the American Science Cloud, part of the DOE’s Genesis Mission. The DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys are supported by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of High Energy Physics; the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, a DOE Office of Science user facility; the U.S. National Science Foundation, Division of Astronomical Sciences; and the partner institutions. DESI is supported by the DOE Office of Science and NERSC. Additional support for DESI is provided by the NSF; the Science and Technology Facilities Council of the United Kingdom; the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; the Heising-Simons Foundation; the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA); the Secretariat of Science, Humanities, Technology and Innovation (SECIHTI) of Mexico; the Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain; and by the DESI member institutions. ### Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is committed to groundbreaking research focused on discovery science and solutions for abundant and reliable energy supplies. The lab’s expertise spans materials, chemistry, physics, biology, earth and environmental science, mathematics, and computing. Researchers from around the world rely on the lab’s world-class scientific facilities for their own pioneering research. Founded in 1931 on the belief that the biggest problems are best addressed by teams, Berkeley Lab and its scientists have been recognized with 17 Nobel Prizes. Berkeley Lab is a multiprogram national laboratory managed by the University of California for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science. DOE’s Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States, and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit energy.gov/science.

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