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South Heartland District Health Department wins Parks and Recreation Department’s 2026 scarecrow competition
HASTINGS - The South Heartland District Health Department won the Parks and Recreation Department's 2026 Hallo...
In brief: 'A Proud Family Wizmas' trailer and more
Zoo wee mama, indeed. There's a brand-new trailer for the upcoming Disney+ animated holiday comedy film Diary of a Wimpy Kid Christmas: The Getaway. Readers of Jeff Kinney’s bestselling book series can see the Heffley family come to life in this festive film that premieres on Dec. 4 ...Speaking of trailers for holiday specials, fans of The Proud Family can watch a brand-new look at the upcoming stop-motion holiday special A Proud Family Wizmas. It arrives on Disney+ Nov. 14. The special is filled with songs and follows Penny Proud as she accidentally destroys Christmas and sets out to make things right. Kyla Pratt returns to voice Penny while guest stars Anderson .Paak, Lil Rel Howery, JB Smoove and Gabrielle Union come along for the ride ... TNCMS.AdManager.render({region: 'fixed-big-ad-top-asset', slot: 1, fold: "above"}); Camila Mendes is back in character as Ana Santos. The actress once again stars as the character in the new sequel film Upgraded 2. Prime Video has announced cameras are up and rolling on the movie in Venice, Italy ...Copyright © 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved. Thank you for reading kmaland.comAt KMA, we attempt to be accurate in our reporting. If you see a typo or mistake in a story, please contact us by emailing kmaradio@kmaland.com.
‘ResearchED’: Building the Case for Learning Science, One Saturday a Time
It started with a single gathering in London in 2013. Thirteen years later, it finally reaches the American heartland.
Alaska Science Forum Time Capsule: Bats in the belfry
Note: Ned Rozell wrote this column on Oct. 25, 1994, his first as the new author of the Alaska Science Forum. I’m pleased to feature this time capsule, as it explores one of my favorite questions in biology: How do mammals survive in intensely cold temperatures? Additionally, Ned ended the story with, in my opinion, a perfectly silly final sentence. Ned published an update on Alaska’s little brown bats in 2019: https://bit.ly/bat-update. — Sara Wilbur
Henrico Business Watch: Business license filings Oct. 29–Nov. 4, 2026
Henrico County reported the following business license filings with start dates during the week. The filings are listed alphabetically by business or trade name, followed by a registered address and business industry classification. Aulden Salon LLC, 201 Towne Center West Boulevard, Henrico – Hairdressing services. Bita's Borough and Bean LLC,
Sphere Entertainment’s (NYSE:SPHR) Q3 CY2026 sales top estimates
Content production and distribution company Sphere Entertainment NYSE:SPHRreported calendar Q3 2026 (fiscal Q1 2027) results beating Wall Street’s revenue expectations, with revenue up 4.5% year on year to $274.3 million. Its GAAP loss of $4.84 per share was significantly below analysts’ consensus…
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time's 2026 Remake Looks Stunning Next To The Original N64 Game
What a difference, a few decades make.
Motorola Signature 27 gets Pixel’s Gemini Intelligence features with Rambler, Create My Widget
Motorola is adopting Google’s Gemini Intelligence features in the first major expansion beyond Pixel, with Gboard’s Rambler and more supported....
Medicare delays controversial RPM rule update
Despite widespread opposition, Medicare will finalize a controversial proposal that will prevent providers, such as hospitals, from using third parties to deliver remote patient monitoring services.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, IBM And AMD Launch New Co-Design Platform for Quantum Error Correction
IBM, Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Quantum Science Center and AMD unveiled a joint platform integrating quantum and HPC.
Entertainers have an obligation to be political
When we turn on the news, we expect to see discourse from politicians and elected officials about new government decisions and issues. But with such a politically active climate in the U.S, debate …
Motorola's new Signature 27 has it all if you can stomach the $1,600 price tag
It has all the bells and whistles (and cameras).
Six-Story Medical Office Building Tops Out At Broward Health North In Deerfield Beach
Florida YIMBY says "Yes In My Backyard" to positive new development in Florida.
Mineral separation facility coming to Eastman Business Park secures $54M; Aims to strengthen American supply chains
A rare earth mineral separation facility that's coming to Eastman Business Park has secured about $54.2 million.
RUNC: Elizabeth Jenkins El - College of Arts and Sciences
The chemistry major studies why postpartum depression is often misunderstood and misdiagnosed.
Las Vegas tattoo artist builds business by prioritizing art over price
The longtime Las Vegas tattoo artist says customer service, collaboration and a focus on artistic quality help his downtown shop compete with bargain-priced rivals.
How an FGCU class sparked a BBQ business breakthrough
Learn how an FGCU entrepreneurship class helped launch a Florida barbecue business success story
Motorola Signature 27 goes official with true flagship specs and a $1,599 price tag
Motorola is officially back in the flagship space, with its new Signature 27 phone available for pre-order starting today, but...
A YC startup is putting $1M behind five unsolved materials science problems for AI
Discovered Materials, a months-old YC startup that uses AI to find chip materials, is offering $200,000 for each solution to five open materials science problems.
Democrats’ blue wave beat Texas’ GOP gerrymanders. Did California even need Prop. 50?
California Democrats went all in on redistricting to fight GOP gerrymanders in Texas and Florida. But in light of the blue wave, was Prop. 50 even necessary?
Single-payer health care system proponents were thrown a big bone this election
Sen. Bernie Sanders is likely to lead the Senate’s health committee next year, which could grant him a chance to fundamentally alter how the FDA interacts with the companies it regulates. Read more:
Heichal HaTorah Talmidim Experiment in the Science Lab
This past week, Heichal HaTorah’s ninth-grade biology students learned how to use indicators to test the pH levels of common household solutions. Students observed a wide range of colors as natural plant-based pigments (anthocyanins) in red cabbage juice reacted with acids and bases in everyday substances. Students made predictions and determined whether a substance was […]
First time buying health insurance during open enrollment? Here’s what to know
Not many 22-year-olds share DJ Mikunda’s enthusiasm for health insurance coverage. “You know what sounds like a good Friday night? It’s looking at he
The Far Right in the West: From Moral Decline to Political Crisis
Following the Republicans' heavy defeat in the US midterm elections, far-right politics appears to be facing visible erosion and crisis.
1K views · 26 reactions | Many female politicians say open hostility...
Many female politicians say open hostility towards them is growing. Researchers say democracy could pay the price. #dwgermanpolitics
PENN Entertainment earnings beat by $0.15, revenue was in line with estimates
PENN Entertainment earnings beat by $0.15, revenue was in line with estimates
Memorial Health to close one of its Springfield facilities
"We are working with each of the residents and their families to create transition plans, including placements at other facilities if appropriate," said the statement.
MSUM Political Science Professor shares insight on Kupec, Peterson Minn. Senate race separated by four votes
MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) - DFL State Senator Rob Kupec of Moorhead has always been aware that his District 4 sea...
SAP Business One: 30 Years of Growing Together
For 30 years, SAP Business One has been growing alongside small- and medium-sized customers. Read to learn more about the solution.
UConn Gathering Connects the Science of Reading with Classrooms Worldwide
A student exchange with Hebrew University builds on Haskins’ history of discovery and its work with educators close to home and around the world
Scientists Bred Friendly Foxes for 70 Years. What They Found in Their Brains Could Help Explain How Wolves Became Dogs
Scientists studying unusually friendly foxes have uncovered a possible neurological clue to dog domestication.
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In this photo provided by Nintendo of America, fans line up to be among the first to buy The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for the Nintendo Switch 2
Almost 5.2 million Texans lack health insurance. Advocates say problem is bigger than new data shows
New Census data shows more than 16% of Texans didn’t have health insurance in 2025. Advocates warn the number could already be worse.
Keith Gaskin: Faith, politics and the trap of moral disqualification
Scroll through social media during any campaign season, and you won’t just see debates over tax rates, health care or foreign policy. You will see sweeping verdicts on souls.
Column: When politics is covered like sports, everything is fair game
When sports and politics collide: The Blue Wave in the midterms Tuesday was the political equivalent of the Chicago Bears 73-0 shellacking of Washington in the 1940 NFL championship game.
2026 iPad mini review: Maximizing the mini
It's more compelling than ever, but also more expensive.
How do octopuses remember? Scientists uncover a surprising secret
How do octopuses remember what they learn? A new study reveals a surprising “molecular switch” in the octopus brain that helps preserve memories by keeping connections between nerve cells strengthened over time, without the need to produce new proteins. The discovery sheds new light on one of nature’s greatest mysteries: how creatures with vastly different brains evolved remarkably sophisticated learning and memory abilities.
Mary Means Business: Quirky Audacious Goods opening this month
For Shannon Voges-Haupt, her latest entrepreneurial venture might seem niche at first glance, but she promises there is a little something for everyone.
Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM
Discord is moving its apps fully over to the Rust programming language.
NEED TO KNOW: Arts and culture news this week
What you need to know in arts and culture news this week.
Healthcare powers Democrats’ midterm rout: 4 takeaways
Voters sent a strong rebuke of the GOP health agenda on Tuesday night as Democrats took control of both chambers of Congress, rejecting Republicans who pushed sweeping healthcare cuts.
Fate/EXTRA Record characters trailer
Publisher Aniplex and developers Meteorise and TYPE-MOON have released a new trailer for Fate/EXTRA Record, introducing Lil’ Ronnie Faction characters Lil’ Ronnie and her Servant.
Award-winning Women in Natural Sciences program spins off from Academy of Natural Sciences and Drexel
The program led to a 100% high school graduation rate and more than 96% college attendance for Philadelphia students.
Columbia County students explore health care careers
EVANS, Ga (WJBF)- More than 400 high school students are getting a closer look at what a future in health care could look like. The Columbia County school district is connecting students with local…
Compass Box ends Hedonism series
Scotch whisky maker Compass Box has announced that the 2026 edition of Hedonism will be the final release in the annual series.
Vail Resorts facing a proxy fight over its board, business strategy
Oasis Management, which owns 10% of the resort operator’s stock, is calling for a strategic shift, saying “Vail Resorts has gone downhill”.
Six Flags Entertainment earnings missed by $5.57, revenue was in line with estimates
Six Flags Entertainment earnings missed by $5.57, revenue was in line with estimates
Kamala Harris urges Dems to 'be ruthless' with power after midterms, demands Trump accountability
Former Vice President Kamala Harris, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and former President Bill Clinton offered their thoughts on the heels of the midterm elections.
As she debuts on Broadway, Kailey Boyle praises Madison theater scene
Boyle, a Middleton High School grad, makes her debut in “Wanted” on Broadway this fall. The show opens officially Nov. 8 in New York.
Tennessee judge extends block on immigration checks in HIV/AIDS program
A Nashville judge continued to block the Tennessee Department of Health from demanding proof of citizenship from HIV-positive individuals.
Economic Development Director Announces Quarterly “Rochester Business Exchange” to Connect Business Owners with Local Government, Other Resources
Rochester Economic Development Director Michael Scala is pleased to announce “Rochester Business Exchange,” an informal discussion connecting municipal officials and staff, developers, and business owners and managers to share information, exchange ideas, discuss local issues, and strengthen relationships within Rochester’s business community. The purpose of the meetings is to share updates related to municipal government,...
The Bulletin welcomes 2026 editorial fellows
The Bulletin proudly welcomes its largest editorial fellow class yet. Fellows work closely with Bulletin editors to produce cutting-edge journalism focused on nuclear risk, climate change, disruptive technologies, or biosecurity. As part of a Bulletin initiative focused on uplifting the next generation of experts, our Editorial Fellows Program is possible because of readers and supporters alike.
How Big Pharma Shapes Medical Science, Influences Doctors, and Undermines Patient Care
This week, Mad in America explores three new articles around pharmaceutical industry corruption. The first examines industry’s hidden influence over Three new studies expose the pharmaceutical industry's hidden influence over medical research, the use of ghostwritten academic papers to advance commercial interests, and the normalization of industry influence among future physicians.
Vida Y Salud-Health Systems & Hampton Regional Medical Center Settle Data Breach Lawsuits
Settlements have been agreed to resolve class action data breach lawsuits against Vida Y Salud-Health Systems & Hampton Regional Medical Center. Vida Settlements have been agreed to resolve class action data breach lawsuits against Vida Y Salud-Health Systems & Hampton Regional Medical Center.
Dems inherit Texas colleges remade by GOP in conservative push
Universities were a political target of Texas Republicans. As Gina Hinojosa and other Democrats prepare for office, here’s a look at the turning point facing college campuses.
How Ron Nirenberg prepared to become Bexar County Judge
While Ron Nirenberg's job may be different, his approach will be the same. The former mayor will lean on collaboration in his new role.
Sharon Horgan says 'Youth' is her most personal project yet
Sharon Horgan stars in 'Youth' season 1. (Natalie Seery/HBO)
Opinion: Dartmouth Health urges investment in youth mental health in New Hampshire
Youth mental health outcomes improved in New Hampshire since 2021, though levels remain higher than a decade ago despite new service investments.
Healthcare powers Democrats’ midterm rout: 4 takeaways
Voters sent a strong rebuke of the GOP health agenda on Tuesday night as Democrats took control of both chambers of Congress, rejecting Republicans who pushed sweeping healthcare cuts. Here are f…
Parcel Health’s CEO wanted zero plastic. Growing a sustainable business meant changing course.
Melinda Su-En Lee traces her path from a Malaysian recycling center to building an award-winning startup in Pittsburgh
Pens Points: Bear Down
One last contest at PPG Paints Arena for the Pittsburgh Penguins before hopping on a plane and heading back out west for their annual California swing that begins on Saturday. Tonight the Boston Bruins come to town as leaders of the Atlantic division and owners of the fourth best record in the NHL at the […]
Broncos focused on taking care of business against Panthers
The Denver Broncos have a shot to be 7-2 before their bye week if they can topple the Carolina Panthers on Sunday.
Patrick’s Politics: Enjoy this moment of hope
There is good news in the United States today. After two years of one-party Republican rule, the people fought back.
Alchemy Theatre presents 'Guys and Dolls' for three weekends
HUNTINGTON — With an array of great songs written by composer Frank Loesser and a book written by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, the rollicking musical “Guys and Dolls” debuted
ProBerco Earns First Place in Non-Business Category at the 2026 King Frost Parade
ProBerco is proud to announce that its float, themed "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown," was awarded First Place in the Non-Business Category at the 2026 King Frost Parade in Hamburg.
Sony Group: Record Q2 performance lifted FY26 guidance, with entertainment growth offset by cost and market risks
Q2 sales, operating income and net income rose strongly, while FY26 guidance was raised across major measures. Entertainment platforms and hit content supported growth, with memory costs, market softness and cybersecurity among the risks.Based on Sony Group Corporation [6758] Q2 2027 Audio Transcri…
State Prize for VISTA Science Experience Center
The VISTA Science Experience Center was awarded the 2026 Austrian State Prize for Adult Education in the category “Science Education for Adults.” Federal Minister Eva-Maria Holzleitner presented the award on November 4 at the Haus der Begegnung in Vienna. The award recognizes the innovative concept
YouTube is giving its Android navigation bar a Liquid Glass-y makeover
YouTube is testing a new floating navigation bar with a Liquid Glass-like design on Android and user opinion on the new design is split.
Trump Administration Delays Awards Slated To Improve Rural America’s Health
State leaders who scrambled to win and begin spending their first-year shares of Republicans’ five-year, $50 billion fund are in the dark about how much they’ll receive in the Rural Health Transformation Program’s second year after a federal office notified states that more time is needed to make allocations.
Commentary: Why aren’t employers hiring right now?
The economy is growing strongly, so why is nobody hiring? The latest data show growth hit 3.4% in the third quarter of this year, faster than expected. Yet during that
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Playhouse at McConnellstown has launched its “Raise the Roof” Capital Campaign to raise $30,000 for repairs to the theater’s roof and gutter system. Donations of any amount are being accepted
Many Americans have lost faith in science, but we can win them back
In July 2014, a man sick with Ebola flew from Liberia into Lagos, Nigeria, one of Africa’s largest and busiest cities. One imported case in a place like that could
Health Care: Don’t Just Fix What They Broke
The new Congress must not only repair what Trump has wrought but focus on immediate relief for the already insured.
Midterm Voters Split on Abortion and Trans Healthcare Ballot Questions
The nationwide blue wave in the midterm election didn’t necessarily carry over to ballot measures on abortion and transgender issues.
How the blue wave almost tilted Louisiana’s Senate race — but Julia Letlow narrowly won
Jamie Davis almost pulled up a shocking upset in a red state. Here’s how Julia Letlow eked out a win.
JioStar's Alok Jain On Unscripted TV & The End Of 'Koffee With Karan'
JioStar entertainment boss Alok Jain talks reality TV competition, building Indian formats and the end of 'Koffee With Karan'.
Why Did Pfizer Stop Talking Up This Business?
For questions about this article or underlying research, email help@trefis.com.Pfizer (PFE) stock trades at 2.8 times sales, against 3.2 for the S&P 500. Even at that discount, shareholders need to understand exactly what they are buying, and the company's priorities have changed.
Brenda Lucas: Community news for Thursday, Nov. 5
Click for community news in the Huntington, West Virginia, and Tri-State area.
Political notes: Jawando transition, Black Caucus' new director, Blueprint rallying
Montgomery County Executive-elect Will Jawando unveils a talent-heavy transition team, the Legislative Black Caucus convenes, the same week it gets a new executive director, and advocates line up support for the Blueprint for Maryland's Future, in political notes.
As more doctors consult chatbots, health systems can block them
As hundreds of thousands of doctors consult AI chatbots to make care decisions, health systems see new risks to patients' health data.
What the midterms could mean for the future of health AI
The midterms highlighted the negative sentiment around AI across the U.S. How will those attitudes trickle down to legislating AI use in health care?
When papers become currency: a Chinese debate about trust in science
Last Saturday, 31 October, I went to the University of Hong Kong’s Beijing Centre for its Talent Forum. It was the fourth stop in the series this year, following events in Shanghai’s Zhangjiang, Shenzhen’s Qianhai, and on HKU’s main campus. The programme covered a remarkable distance in one afternoon. HKU’s Xiao-Jing Wang discussed computational neuroscience, intelligence, and the prefrontal cortex—before even delivering his inaugural public lecture to students back in Hong Kong. His colleague Bing Zhang took us from the Big Bang to artificial intelligence. Tsinghua’s Xue Lan asked how AI might reshape the institutional infrastructure underpinning higher education. There were lively panels featuring industry leaders from JD.com, Xiaomi, Haier—and Kaiser Y Kuo on the closing panel discussing innovation and international connections. I cannot pretend to have followed every detail of the brain models or the astrophysics. The talk that stayed with me was closer to something we have covered before: Zhou Zhonghe 周忠和 on papers, evaluation, and scientific trust. Zhou is a palaeontologist, an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and an international member of the US National Academy of Sciences. He is also editor-in-chief of The Intellectual (知识分子), China’s leading science commentary platform. His subject was uncomfortable enough for a room full of successful academics: what happens when the system for recognising good science starts rewarding something else? Part of my interest came from our sister newsletter, The East is Read, which covered the controversy around “Geng Tongxue” in May. A PhD dropout from Beihang University, Geng has publicly challenged papers by prominent researchers through detailed online allegations of manipulated images and fabricated data. At Tongji University, an investigation into a challenged Nature paper found academic misconduct, and the dean of its life sciences school was removed. The affair brought doubts about academic integrity well beyond laboratories and university committees. How could someone outside the established hierarchy spot problems in papers that had passed through prestigious journals and institutions? And what, exactly, had all that prestige guaranteed? Zhou approached these questions through two essays published in July by The Intellectual: one by Wang Xiaodong, director of the National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, and a response by Wang Liming, of Shanghai’s Shangsi Institute of Natural Sciences. Both began with the controversy over Geng. Their arguments deserve a wider audience, so I want to put parts of them alongside what Zhou said on Saturday. Wang Xiaodong’s starting point is evolution. A research system selects for the behaviour it rewards. Grants, jobs, journals, talent programmes, and prizes collectively determine which scientists prosper and which practices get passed down from advisors to students. “Whatever the system rewards is what it will evolve to produce,” he writes, citing the ancient Chinese saying: The King of Chu loved slender waists, and many in the palace starved to death. That is a more demanding diagnosis than saying there are dishonest people in science. Punishing a fraudster does not change the selective environment that made a particular kind of research profitable. His account also gives scientific success an awkward role in the story. As Zhou put it on Saturday, science became a victim of its own success. Once research became central to industry, national power, and economic growth, universities and laboratories expanded, and public money followed. That created an administrative need for rapid decisions: who should get the next grant, the next laboratory, the next appointment? The difficulty is that the true value of a discovery may take years or decades of testing and building to become clear. Resource allocation cannot wait that long. Publication counts, journal prestige, impact factors, and citations therefore become convenient ways to make an instant judgement. “The real problem is not that these indicators have no value,” Wang Xiaodong writes, “but that they are trying to answer a question that only time can answer.” Telling administrators simply to stop counting papers will never be enough. They still have budgets to distribute and appointments to make. Something has to replace the shortcut. Zhou described the consequences inside publishing. Papers acquire ever more requirements: a complete story, polished presentation, extensive datasets, and accessibility to readers beyond the immediate field. Individually, those demands sound reasonable. Together, he warned, they produce formulaic “eight-legged” papers 八股文 and rigid reviewing, while genuinely original or non-consensus work struggles to get past journal editors—some of whom wield immense gatekeeping power despite having limited laboratory experience themselves. Meanwhile, the demands for sprawling, “complete” narratives have fuelled a wider replication crisis. Wang Xiaodong uses a mahjong metaphor to describe the result: put the complex papers published by the exact same lab over several years side by side, and they often look like “Thirteen Orphans” (十三不靠)—every tile completely unrelated to the next, and none of them reproducible by outsiders. Zhou also spoke frankly as an editor who has trouble finding reviewers. Everyone wants someone else to review their work; qualified senior researchers have little time to return the favour. The labour is anonymous, unpaid, and brings almost no institutional recognition, so it increasingly gets passed down to postdocs and graduate students. And while anonymity protects reviewers from rank and personal favours, hyper-specialisation means an author’s most qualified reviewer is often a direct competitor, shielded from accountability. The protection and the problem coexist. Wang Liming takes the argument a step further. The decisive change, in his essay, is the instant conversion of academic honour into material resources. Once a paper can be cashed in for funding, a job, students, commercial investment, or even a company valuation, scientists are alienated from their work: they must keep minting this “research currency” to keep their teams alive. He is careful not to romanticise the past. The old world of gentleman scientists—financially independent figures like Boyle and Darwin who needed nothing from external funders—was also a closed club that excluded people without inherited wealth, women, and much of humanity outside the West. Professional science allowed ordinary people, himself included, to become researchers. Nobody should want to undo that. The problem, in his account, is an exchange system that becomes too uniform and too difficult to correct. His most pointed Chinese example is the “hat” (帽子): the prestigious talent designation that brings continuing access to money, laboratory space, students, and institutional influence. “If papers are the circulating currency of the research system, then a ‘hat’ is a bond that pays interest over the long term,” he writes. A paper at least requires another round of peer review. A title in the Chinese context can lock in a judgement made years ago and turn it into permanent status rent, regardless of whether its holder is still doing good science. Here, official institutions hire, organise, and evaluate scientists. Unlike honours awarded by autonomous academic communities in the West, a Chinese “hat” blends non-scientist administrative power with state authority. Once granted, it turns a past judgement into permanent status rent that is nearly impossible to revoke—because taking a hat off would imply that official authority erred in putting it on. Both Wangs see China as experiencing, at compressed speed, pressures present across global science. Research expansion, rising investment, publication growth, and elaborate evaluation metrics arrived in China within two or three decades rather than two or three centuries. Zhou agreed with that international framing—noting that recent US White House science policy documents and the new president of the US National Academy of Sciences, a fellow palaeontologist who recently visited Zhou’s institute in Beijing, have raised strikingly similar warnings about consensus-bound peer review, short-term project grants, and the replication crisis. Still, Zhou emphasised that China’s traditional hierarchy, personal networks (guanxi), and the ethos that “a good scholar becomes an official” (学而优则仕) amplify those pressures at home. So what would change things? Here Zhou’s tone differed from the call for a revolution in scientific trust in Wang Xiaodong’s essay. As an evolutionary biologist, Zhou favoured patchwork repair (修修补补). Living systems survive through accumulated adjustments; dramatic mutations are usually fatal. Science cannot return to a small, slow-moving pastoral era, especially after the successive accelerations of professionalisation after the Second World War, the internet, and now artificial intelligence. But it can alter the local environment in which researchers work. He pointed to domestic experiments designed to support unconventional research and diversify funding, including Tencent’s New Cornerstone Investigator Program, the Xplorer Prize, and the Future Science Prize. He also mentioned participating in reviews for “major non-consensus projects” under the National Natural Science Foundation of China. One guiding principle he recalled was wonderfully direct: “Failure is allowed; corruption is not” (允许失败，不允许腐败). That distinction would mean quite a lot if taken seriously. An honest attempt that fails should not have to disguise itself as a success to survive an assessment. Wang Liming’s essay adds a sharp caveat to the optimism about new domestic funders. Multiple organisations do not automatically produce multiple ways of judging science. If the same pool of senior domestic scientists makes the decisions through the same two-round review procedures, it is still “fake diversity.” He argues for three distinct kinds of money: broad baseline funding governed by fair procedures; patient funding for questions that take ten years; and non-consensus funding based on individual taste, deliberately empowering a few genuine experts to make biased, contrarian bets on eccentric ideas that would inevitably be averaged out by a committee. Replacing one monopoly with another achieves little; a healthy ecosystem needs variance. Zhou’s proposals for publishing were similarly concrete: strip papers of their resource-allocation burden and return them to recording discoveries and establishing priority; separate dissemination from evaluation, as eLife and Peer Community In do; adopt more modular “micro-publications” and real-name endorsements; recognize the labour of editors and reviewers; and give replication work proper credit rather than treating it as an unpublishable dead end. AI makes every part of this debate more urgent—and Zhou wove it throughout his talk. In his own preparation, he used AI to survey the declining influence of academic monographs, noting how tools are already changing how scholars gather information. More fundamentally, he placed AI as the latest great acceleration in scientific history: just as the internet sped up the pace of research and tightened external resource pressures, AI is compressing the cycle again. In the essays Zhou cited, AI cuts both ways. Wang Xiaodong expects large language models to erase much of the English-writing disadvantage long faced by Chinese scientists, further swelling the flood of papers coming out of Chinese labs. Wang Liming sees AI accelerating both ends of the trust crisis: it lowers the cost of paper mills and fabricated images just as quickly as it lowers the cost of automated image forensics, data auditing, and code reproduction. “Whoever builds the verification layer wins,” Wang Liming writes. His proposed alternative to the static, packaged “story paper” is a continuously versioned “unit of discovery” containing a falsifiable claim, raw data, analysis code, experimental parameters, and an ongoing log of independent checks—where negative results and failed replications are recorded rather than buried. Zhou ended his keynote by bringing AI back to the question of scientific honour and credit. Citing a recent Intellectual discussion on “What AI Means for Mathematics” featuring Fields Medalist Deng Yu 邓煜—at a moment when AI is already batch-solving mathematical conjectures, as HKU Vice-President Lin Chen noted in his opening remarks—Zhou agreed that human researchers must remain the principal agents: AI is a tool that frees scientists from tedious calculation to think about deeper, messier real-world problems. Yet that partnership creates a thorny new evaluation problem. When a breakthrough is made with AI, what is the human contribution and what is the machine’s? And since AI models distil centuries of accumulated human scholarship, is it right that the credit and value flow so heavily to the private AI companies building the tools? The old struggle over how to assign scientific honour is acquiring a whole new layer. What I took away was a serious discussion of how science can remain trustworthy as its scale, incentives, and tools change. These were scientists with real standing inside China’s system questioning how that standing is produced, and proposing changes that would affect their own institutions and peers. That made the afternoon at HKU’s Beijing Centre worthwhile. At the close, Wang Feng, Director of Communications and Public Affairs at HKU, said the value of the forum series—which heads to Hangzhou in December and cities like Chengdu early next year—would lie in the real cooperation it helped bring about. The university has plenty to celebrate: this week it topped the QS Asia rankings for a second consecutive year, alongside its 11th-place position in the QS World University Rankings 2027. For me, bringing this debate to an audience beyond the people who review papers and allocate grants was a useful contribution. 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Commentary: Shift the wildfire spending to damage prevention, not just reaction
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The spirit of AMG is alive via three axial flux electric motors.
Sunburn — The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics
Kick off your morning right where Florida’s political insiders begin theirs.
In Warren County, a reflection of rural healthcare's turmoil
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Japanese video-game maker Nintendo has reported an11% improvement in its net profit for April-September, although its sales declined during that period. Kyoto-based Nintendo said Thursday that its profit rose to
How Democrats’ Big Win Could Reshape Health Care
Democrats scored huge margins in Congress and made big gains at the state level. What does it mean for health policy in the final two years of the Trump administration and beyond?
Oregon to increase 2027 payments to care organizations for Health Plan members
Next year, Oregon will pay an average of nearly $630 per member every month to the organizations arranging providers for the vast majority of Oregon’s 1.4 million Medicaid members under
Dissecting Colorado’s Democratic sweep
Swoosh. Donald Trump came into his second term with a swoosh. He brought in Elon Musk and his tech bros with a swoosh. They swooshed out thousands of government employees across the nation. Then Trump’s ICE agents swooshed out thousands of recent immigrants, with some American citizens caught in the crossfire. Then Trump swooshed in […]
Powerball's massive $847M jackpot won by lucky ticket holder in New Jersey
A New Jersey ticket matched all six Powerball numbers to claim the $847 million jackpot on Wednesday, but the winner's identity remains a mystery.
Sacramento sign collection drive aims to turn politics into art
(FOX40.COM) — Sacramento Municipal Utility District board member Gregg Fishman is once again organizing a collection drive to turn corrugated plastic political yard signs into art. Fishman, who was…
Take-Two CEO Faces Bizarre Question Over Company's Lack of 'Enough Hits'
Strauss Zelnick, the CEO of Take-Two Interactive, faced an awkward interview, in which it was suggested the firm hasn't had 'enough hits'.
Baylor looks to take care of business in 100th homecoming game
Baylor is looking to rally its fanbase on homecoming with a win over Iowa State, who is coming off an upset over then-No. 24 Oklahoma State last week.
Houlihan Lokey Expands European Business Services Capabilities with Senior Hire
Houlihan Lokey, a global investment bank, added Adnan Choudhury as a managing director in its business services group. Based in London, Choudhury will focus
Biz Buzz: New owners rebrand Platteville pet food, grooming business; Peosta healthcare service plans expansion; gaming store opens location in Dubuque
Biz Buzz shares business tidbits from the tri-state area. This edition highlights businesses in Platteville, Wis.; Peosta, Iowa; and Dubuque.