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The cult of objectivity has broken consciousness science

With 22 competing theories and no consensus in sight, the science of consciousness is lost. In this exclusive IAI interview, Berkeley psychedelics researcher and bestselling author of a new book on consciousness Michael Pollan insists that even though consciousness lies beyond traditional forms of scientific investigation, we should resist becoming dualists who see it as something radically different from ordinary stuff in the world. Instead, he makes the case for reimagining science itself: it must stop reaching for objective descriptions of physical reality, and instead embrace subjectivity as the indispensable core of all inquiry. Alasdair Craig: How did your experiences with psychedelics get you interested in consciousness?Michael Pollan: One of the things that happens on psychedelics is that they foreground consciousness. What formerly seemed perfectly transparent and ever present—and yet, non-existent, as water is to fish—suddenly you see it. The metaphor I use in the book is that psychedelics sponge the windscreen. Suddenly you realize: wow, there’s a windscreen, there is this phenomenon that’s mediating my relationship to reality. This is not an unusual realization on psychedelics. I think a lot of people are called to think about consciousness after psychedelic experiences. So that was the proximate inspiration for A World Appears: A Journey Into Consciousness (2026).And then there was a more specific way in which psychedelics influence the book. That was a particular experience I had on psilocybin. I had the sensation that the plants in my garden were conscious and returning my gaze, with their own point of view and agency, and I got curious as to how to evaluate an insight like that. I mean, what’s the truth quotient of insights you have on psychedelics? And I was reading William James—who, of course, wrote beautifully about mystical experience—and he said, we can’t judge the metaphysics here, but we should pay attention to two criteria: (1) How useful is it to think this is true? He was a pragmatist, of course. And (2) can we subject it to other ways of knowing to validate it? Because maybe we should treat these insights as hypotheses. And that’s kind of how I approach psychedelics, as a great generator of hypotheses, but they need to be tested against other ways of knowing. And so that led me down this long path exploring the science of plant intelligence and plant sentience.AC: I love your phrase, “smudging the windowpane of conscious experience.” So do you now start to think, actually, even when I’m not on psychedelics, I’m just seeing a screen all the time, which is not reality, but rather is my conscious experience, behind which reality is hidden?MP: Well, you know, not when I’m brushing my teeth and making breakfast! But yes, in meditation, certainly. I mean, one of the things you realize is that my experience happens to be this way now, but it could be another way. And many things can affect it. My morning coffee changes the screen in various ways, sharpens certain things.___The only tool we have to understand consciousness is consciousness.___There’s this wonderful metaphor in Aldous Huxley’s book, The Doors of Perception, where he thinks we channel consciousness, and that what the brain does is edit it, and there’s a reducing valve. And psychedelics open the reducing valve wider. I don’t know that I’m ready to buy into the idea that consciousness exists outside brains, but I do love that metaphor because there are times when you are more conscious than others. I know I’ve switched from window pane to valve, but you know, a camera aperture can open wider or narrower. And I do have a sense of that. I have a sense of when I’m being less conscious, and when I’m being more conscious, by which I mean, you know, more present, taking in more sensory information. So when you start thinking about consciousness as a matter of degree, that changes things also.I think when we scroll on social media, obviously, we’re conscious. But minimally so, because we don’t have to generate our own thoughts. We’re basically taking these little hits from other people and thinking their thoughts.The process of writing this book made me kind of relativize everyday consciousness as just one type, which is exactly what William James said. Normal consciousness is one type, separated by the flimsiest of screens from the other types.AC: If we stick with the metaphor of the smudge on the window that you get when you take psychedelics, it seems like we’re saying that consciousness has become like an object that you’re looking at, right? You’re looking at the smudge and that just is consciousness. But sometimes we’ll talk about consciousness as a state that you’re in, rather than an object you can perceive. You’re either conscious or you’re not conscious. So it’s difficult to really know what sort of thing we’re talking about when we talk about consciousness, right?MP: Yeah. When you say that consciousness is an object, what’s the subject? Consciousness also? The only tool we have to understand consciousness is consciousness. So we’re in a closed loop and when we get a perspective on consciousness, we’re not achieving any distance from it. That’s one of the problems with studying consciousness. Science is predicated on an objective, God’s eye view of things, and you never get that. There’s no such thing. SUGGESTED VIEWING The brain filters consciousness With Àlex Gómez-Marín But, yeah, there is this sense, I think, that consciousness is something you can approach. Certainly, when you’re writing and trying to recreate a conscious experience, it’s a fiction, but you’re standing back from it, and looking at it. But there’s no real subject-object distinction.AC: That’s so interesting, because when philosophers start talking about consciousness, they often talk about what they call “qualia”, which is their word for the felt experience of, say, the color red. And I think that way of speaking often makes us think of the qualia as an object, which you can see out there: the redness of red. But, as you say, we also want to collapse the subject-object distinction when we talk about consciousness. So there’s something strange going on here…MP: Oh, yeah, there are many strange things going on! *AC: Let’s talk about the varieties of consciousness. Apart from perceptions, there are, pains, emotions, thoughts, and so on. What is it that holds all this diversity together so that they all count as instances of consciousness? What is it that they all have in common?MP: Yeah, that’s a really good question. I mean, there is sensory information, right? Which we perceive coming from the world outside ourselves. And then there’s internal information, which is what’s called interoception. And this is very important too. This is where feelings come from—what are sometimes called homeostatic feelings—that are intended to get the brain to keep us in these narrow ranges of temperature and glucose and so on. That’s a very important part of consciousness. And according to some researchers, who I think are probably right, this is where consciousness begins, with these very primal feelings, like hunger and thirst and warmth and itch, and things like that. And then there’s this third thing, which is our thinking about thinking.And what holds all this together is, I think, the sense of self. Consciousness generates a self: it is probably an organizing principle. All this stuff is happening to the self. It’s a construct, I think, but it is very useful. It can connect all these different streams of consciousness to a single being or a place, metaphorically speaking.* AC: The first half of your book is about the science of consciousness. Is consciousness just another thing, like black holes or the origin of life, which we don’t yet understand, but which we should have every hope that science will one day get to the bottom of, or is there something special about consciousness that makes this unlikely?MP: It depends how you define science. As we define science now, it’s going be very difficult. Science since Galileo has had a set of rules or assumptions, which is that the proper remit of science is to deal with the objective, quantifiable, third-person world. And the physical sciences have done amazing work under that set of limitations. Galileo—for tactical reasons, not for philosophical reasons—said science should not deal with the soul, which at the time was what consciousness was considered to be. So what is subjective, what is qualitative, what is first person, we’re going to leave to the church, he said. And this was a good agreement, and it probably kept many scientists from getting burned at the stake. But it leaves science in an awkward spot, now that it wants to venture into that territory of qualities, of first-person experience. And I don’t think it has the proper tools. I think it will have to add to its toolkit in some way, and find a way to bring in phenomenology, or lived experience and introspection, which science is usually dismissive of.The challenge—we alluded to it earlier—is that the only tool you have to study consciousness with is consciousness. And what I mean by that is, the whole scientific enterprise is a manifestation of consciousness. As much as scientists like to flatter themselves with this idea that they attain a godlike perspective on what they study, when it comes to consciousness, there’s no such thing. And it’s fine for all the things you can step outside of and study from that perspective. But two areas it won’t work are consciousness and cosmology.___It could be that we live in this anomaly of not believing nature is conscious. And maybe psychedelics are teaching us something we’ve forgotten.___With cosmology, too, you have to study the universe from inside the universe. It’s not that cosmologists haven’t made progress. We know a lot about the age of the universe and expansion and things like that. But we can’t penetrate what happened before the Big Bang. We just don’t have the tools because we can’t stand outside.The fact that there are 22 full-scale theories of consciousness tells you all you need to know: we’re kind of lost. And I was surprised to find that we are more lost than I thought we were when I started this. I thought that there’d be leading theories, or that we had experiments that we could conduct that would nail some of this down. And the fact is, we don’t.So, I don’t know if science can solve it. But, of course, we can change the rules of science. A really influential book for me was a book called The Blind Spot, by two physicists, Marcello Gleiser and Adam Frank, and a philosopher, Evan Thompson. It’s a reminder that science is a social practice. It’s organized in a certain way and it can be organized in a different way. But it has this huge blind spot at the center of it, which is its failure to recognize that it is a form of consciousness itself, and it doesn’t have a good way of taking account of lived experience.AC: On the one hand, I think you want to resist traditional dualism, which would say that consciousness is something magical, something supernatural, right? But on the other hand, you’re accepting that there is this division in reality between the stuff that you can investigate objectively and measure, and so on—the stuff that science has been good at finding out about—and consciousness, which, for some reason, you can’t objectively measure. Some would take this to suggest that the dualism is actually right. Is there a way of reconciling these two strands of your thinking?MP: To call it magical is full of value judgement. I mean, you could just say immaterial. The interesting thing is, I think, that intuitively we’re all dualists. And I don’t know whether that’s because we’re children of Descartes and other cultures are less dualist than we are. Or it may be because that’s how consciousness feels. It feels different than the body. It feels separate from the body. But I don’t think we should trust that intuition.AC: So let’s think about ways that science might be changed to get at consciousness. I suppose the starting point would be the way that you begin the second half of your book. You have this nice line from William James, where he says, “We now begin our study of the mind from within.” Could you give us some sense of the ways of studying the mind from within? What does this involve?MP: I don’t know what that science looks like. But one of the points I’m making is that it depends on the humanities. I found that I learned as much, if not more, about consciousness, from reading novels and poetry. There is a sense of the fullness and complexity of consciousness that you don’t get in any scientific account. I interviewed this stream-of-consciousness writer and I approached her as an expert on consciousness, and she is. So I think that dialogue is really important.I’m reading Ben Lerner’s new novel, Transcription. Just read the first page of this novel: it’s a man falling asleep on a train, going to conduct an interview, and there is the experience of being in the train, facing backwards, there’s the view outside, but there’s a reflection of himself through which he’s seeing outside. There’s the memory of dropping his kids off at school. All this is going on in one moment of consciousness. Scientists aren’t going anywhere near that. But I think it’s useful for them to think about. That’s where we’re trying to go: like, how does such a layered experience happen? You know, it also makes you wonder, could a computer ever do this? And it gives you some doubt.*AC: Before we get to computers, perhaps we could talk briefly about plants. How did you come to feel that they are sentient?MP: Well, it was a psychedelic experience, and it’s not unusual on psychedelics. In fact, there’ve been studies about how people become animists during psychedelic experience. Their belief in animism arises after a single psychedelic experience.You know, most scientists would say this is all a myth. But we have only 400 years of the age of enlightenment and science. Before that, we were animists, and if you go around the world, most indigenous cultures are still animists, and children are animists, by and large, until they go to school. So it could be that we live in this anomaly of not believing nature is conscious. And maybe psychedelics are teaching us something we’ve forgotten.As I said, I wanted to test this idea, and see whether there was conventional scientific evidence for it. And there’s fascinating work going on in a field that calls itself—in a rather cheeky way—plant neurobiology. These are people who fully realize there are no neurons in plants, but they’re trolling conventional botanists! And they’re doing experiments that are demonstrating that plants can learn and remember, which is kind of amazing: how do you store a memory without neurons? They’re finding plants that can solve problems, that can hear and see. In fact, they have 20 senses to our five or six. For example, a bean plant looking for something to twine, and given a pole within eight inches or so of it, knows where that pole is and will aim its spiraling reach at that pole. What is that about? Is it bouncing signals off of it?One of the spookiest things is the fact that the same anesthetics that put us out put plants out. You might think that plants are already out, but they’re not. They’re just slow. If you take a plant with a fast behavior, like a Venus flytrap, and give it an anesthetic, it will stop reacting. So you have to ask yourself, what is lost when the plant is anaesthetized? Some state of alertness, of awareness, of its environment, of reactivity. I’m not prepared to call that consciousness, but maybe it’s sentience—which is a simpler form of consciousness, and involves the ability to sense what’s going on in your environment and assess what’s good and bad for you and act appropriately. That may be a universal quality of life.AC: Let’s turn from plants to AI. You point out that LLMs are trained on the internet rather than direct interactions with reality. You put this really nicely when you say the internet is not the world so much as a shadow cast by the world. So LLMs are living in this kind of shadow world, or in Plato’s cave, as you put it. What’s the significance of this for AI consciousness and moral consideration? And, to recall the beginning of our conversation, if we’re stuck behind a veil or screen of consciousness, are we also stuck in a kind of shadow world?MP: I don’t think they’re the same shadow worlds because our world includes nature and other people. And even if it’s mediated in some ways... There is a reality out there, and we are in relation to it, through consciousness. There’s friction with it. What’s missing from the LLMs is that friction with the real world. There’s more to the world than human representation, which is what they’re dealing with. And that means that so far, AI is a cultural technology for combining thoughts we’ve already had. SUGGESTED VIEWING Cracking the code for thought With Roger Penrose, Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski, Max Tegmark, Güneş Taylor Genuine creativity is more than collage. A lot of what AI does now is tantamount to collage, putting this with that and you know, that’s part of art, certainly. But there are also genuinely new ideas that come into the world that don’t come in through manipulating the representations we already have. So it remains to be seen whether AIs can be truly creative in that more radical sense.But my arguments against AI becoming conscious have to do with the fact that the idea of AI consciousness is based on this faulty metaphor that the brain is a computer. There are dimensions in which the brain is like a computer—it certainly does its share of computation. But computers have this sharp distinction between hardware and software, and brains don’t. In a brain, hardware and software are identical. Every memory is a physical change to the brain. Brains are not interchangeable in the way computers are. So this idea that you could take the consciousness out and somehow run it on another substrate, a silicon substrate, seems foolhardy.Anyway, it’s a more extended argument, and I may be wrong. And when we move to computers that aren’t based on silicon—neuromorphic computers and things like that—all bets may be off.AC: Regarding your point about LLMs being stuck in the world of our representations—the internet or whatever—and not being able to interact with reality, are these representations, the world of the internet, themselves part of reality? We’ve created the internet, but it’s still a real thing that exists. And so while the LLMs may be trapped within that part of reality, they’re nevertheless within reality and interacting with it and so on. So it’s not obvious that there’s a barrier there to them becoming conscious and being creative.MP: Yeah, I mean, if our consciousness is built out of human culture, which is what we’re talking about with all those representations. But I tend to think consciousness comes a bit more out of nature and friction with the natural world, but...AC: So there’s a fundamental divide between the natural world and human artefacts?MP: And we lose track of that, and especially people in this computer world. You know, the people who are creating these AI systems, my guess is they’ve been into video games since the age of three, and they didn’t go outside a lot. And their own contact with nature is somewhat limited. I could be wrong, it’d be a very interesting thing to ask, all the wizards of AI, whether they like to go fishing and hiking and do things like that. Or were they on computers from a very early age? I interviewed Blake Lemoine, the Google engineer who came to believe that LaMDA, the Google LLM out at the time, was conscious and deserved personhood. It was very clear that he didn’t see a distinction between this bubble in which he lived and the real world. And I think we’ve all been distanced from the natural world, and this is taking us even further away. But it’s still there, you know, and we still have bodies, and we’re still mortal, and we don’t live in a simulation.AC: I think that’s a great place to finish. Michael Pollan, thank you very much!

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Amazon shuts down AI leaderboard after employee 'tokenmaxxing'

Amazon nixed an employee-created AI leaderboard called "KiroRank" after concerns it encouraged excessive AI spending.

May 29 • 12:10 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com

Palidye Holdings Initiates PENN Entertainment Position, According to Recent SEC Filing

PENN Entertainment pairs regional casinos with a digital wagering business now centered on iCasino and theScore Bet. The stock becomes much more interesting if digital keeps improving without weighing on the casino's cash-flow base.

May 29 • 11:12 AM EDT • Entertainment • fool.com

Inside 'The End of Oak Street': How Anne Hathaway ended up fighting dinosaurs in suburbia

'The End of Oak Street' combines prehistoric spectacle and grounded family drama, says director David Robert Mitchell, who called upon his childhood love of dinosaurs to craft the original sci-fi adventure.

May 29 • 9:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com

Pam Bondi will face a closed-door questioning from House lawmakers over the Epstein files

The transcribed Bondi interview will give lawmakers a chance to dig for information on the Trump administration's handling of the Epstein files and other related matters, including the prison sentence of Epstein's former girlfriend and confidant, Ghislaine Maxwell.

May 29 • 8:53 AM EDT • Politics • pbs.org

Northwestern researchers pitch ideas with environmental and health impact

Interdisciplinary teams compete for $200,000 in seed funding

May 29 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • news.northwestern.edu

First Look at iPhone 18 Pro Color Options Revealed by Dummy Models

Leaker Sonny Dickson today shared images of iPhone 18 Pro dummy models in the device's four rumored colors, offering the first real-world look at what to expect from the lineup visually. Corroborating previous rumors, the dummies show the iPhone 18 Pro Max in Light Blue, Black, Silver, and Dark Cherry. Dickson said "Cherry will probably be the next hit, orange did very well". Cosmic Orange was the signature color of the iPhone 17 Pro and proved popular with customers.

May 29 • 7:50 AM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com

iPhone 18 Pro's Camera Upgrade Will Cost Apple 50% More

The iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max's all-new variable aperture lens will cost Apple 50% more than the camera unit used in current models, according to supply chain analyst a href="https://x.com/mingchikuo/status/2060241890117857624?s=20">Ming-Chi Kuo. Variable aperture has been one of the most persistent iPhone camera rumors of the past few years.

May 29 • 6:44 AM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com

Key things to know ahead of Pam Bondi’s interview with House committee about her handling of the Epstein files

Former Attorney General Pam Bondi is set to give a closed-door interview Friday over her handling of the federal government’s investigation into the late, convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell.

May 28 • 6:31 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org

Public Health briefs Soldiers on mold prevention at Barracks Stakeholder Meeting

The Fort Bragg Department of Public Health briefed Soldiers living in the barracks on mold prevention during the May barracks stakeholder meeting recent...

May 28 • 6:01 PM EDT • Health • army.mil

'Everybody Loves Raymond' star Patricia Heaton fires back at critics of her gray hair

'Everybody Loves Raymond' star Patricia Heaton fired back at critics of her gray hair: 'The people in my life love me no matter what color my hair is.'

May 28 • 3:32 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com

Six Flags bans influencer from all parks 'for life' over safety violation video (exclusive)

Six Flags has banned influencer Allen Ferrell from all of its parks 'for life' after he shared a video sneaking chicken nuggets onto Cedar Point's Millennium Force roller coaster.

May 28 • 12:58 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com

Missouri Regulators Prepare For Final Marijuana Equity Business License Lottery

“Generally, the changes needed to happen so that we could bring the focus back to the intention of the program.” By Rebecca Rivas, Missouri Independent Lesley Turek is planning for a busy June traveling the state to educate people about the final lottery for 77 microbusiness marijuana licenses. Turek, the chief equity officer for the […]

May 28 • 8:40 AM EDT • Business • marijuanamoment.net

FIFA's World Cup Ticket Strategy Is Extreme Version of Wider Approach

FIFA's World Cup ticket strategy has drawn criticism. It's a more extreme version of a profit-maximization approach that is becoming common in sports.

May 28 • 7:55 AM EDT • Sports • sportico.com

Jimmy Kimmel chokes up, calls 'Man Show' cohost Adam Carolla 'Laverne to my Shirley' at Walk of Fame ceremony

Jimmy Kimmel got choked up paying tribute to his 'Man Show' cohost Adam Carolla at the latter's Walk of Fame ceremony: 'The Laverne to my Shirley.'

May 27 • 5:14 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com

Susan Boyle reveals jaw-dropping transformation before 'new era' for reclusive star

Singer Susan Boyle has revealed a shocking transformation ahead of a 'new era' for the recently reclusive singer and 'Britain's Got Talent' breakout star.

May 27 • 4:27 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com

/dev: Augmentmaxxing ARAM: Mayhem

More Mayhem ensues starting in 26.12!

May 27 • 4:00 PM EDT • Technology • leagueoflegends.com

Microsoft is Rolling Out Windows 11 Performance Boosting Update

If readers recall, Microsoft was preparing a "Low Latency Profile" feature as part of the Windows K2 effort, which boosts the system's CPU to its maximum frequency for 1-3 seconds to ensure smoother app launches. Today, Microsoft is gradually rolling out this feature as part of the KB5089573 update ...

May 27 • 2:12 PM EDT • Technology • techpowerup.com

La Union uses Business Community Ownership Fund to build community with their commercial space

As interior designers, Sonia-Lynn Abenojar and Sergio Max Legon-Talmoni know what it takes to turn an idea into a reality. “Our role as designers is taking the big idea from the client, any inspiration they have from aesthetics to function, and putting them into drawing form so the City can review and approve it. Then […]

May 27 • 1:21 PM EDT • Business • bottomline.seattle.gov

'The Vampire Lestat': All the gory details about 'Interview With the Vampire's third season

Sam Reid's Lestat de Lioncourt is a rock god in the third season of 'Interview With the Vampire,' now titled 'The Vampire Lestat.' Get all the gory details (and watch its latest trailer) ahead of the season's debut next month.

May 27 • 12:57 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com

Inside Bruce Willis’ Health Journey: What to Know About the Actor’s Frontotemporal Dementia

Bruce Willis has been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, prompting his retirement from acting. Here’s everything to know about Bruce Willis’ health journey since his diagnosis.

May 27 • 11:59 AM EDT • Health • people.com

'Emily in Paris' star Pierre Deny dies at 69 after ‘sudden’ ALS battle

Pierre Deny, who starred on 'Emily in Paris' as fashion boss Louis de Léon and father to Nicholas de Léon, has died. He was 69.

May 27 • 10:50 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com

Jennifer Lopez reacts to 'Selena' reunion with Edward James Olmos: 'Love you so much'

Jennifer Lopez reunited with her 'Selena' dad Edward James Olmos in a powerful red carpet moment at the 'Office Romance' premiere: 'I love you so much.'

May 27 • 8:52 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com

Mindy Kaling Says Her Weight Loss Was Motivated by Wanting to Be Healthy and ‘Look Hot’: 'Both Can Be True'

During a recent appearance on 'The View,' Mindy Kaling addressed public reactions to her weight loss, saying it’s been a personal goal since childhood.

May 27 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • people.com

Sports Roundup: Former Aggie on World Cup roster

Former UC Davis men's soccer standout Max Arfsten was named to the United States Men's National Team's 26-man roster for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, the U.S. Soccer Federation announced

May 26 • 11:56 PM EDT • Sports • davisenterprise.com

Neal McDonough says Luke Perry took him in after he was blackballed by Hollywood

Neal McDonough claims the late Luke Perry let his family live with him after he was fired for refusing to kiss a costar on screen.

May 26 • 12:31 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com

Alyssa Farah Griffin calls Donald Trump Jr.'s wedding his 'funeral' in shocking on-air slip

'The View' star Alyssa Farah Griffin shocks audience, mistakenly calls Donald Trump Jr.'s wedding his 'funeral' live on the air.

May 26 • 12:17 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com

Jimmy Kimmel rips into RFK Jr. after he says comedian 'made himself a priest': 'Get back to spreading polio'

Jimmel Kimmel called out RFK Jr. after the latter shared a social media post mocking Stephen Colbert's final 'Late Show' broadcast.

May 26 • 11:39 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com

iPhone 18 Pro Launching Later This Year With These 10 New Features

While the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max are not launching until September, there are already plenty of rumors about the devices. It was initially reported that the iPhone 18 Pro models would have fully under-screen Face ID, with only a front camera visible in the top-left corner of the screen. However, the latest rumors indicate that only one Face ID component will be moved under the screen on the devices, which will result in merely a smaller Dynamic Island.

May 26 • 9:32 AM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com

Myths, Facts, and What’s at Stake When It Comes to Federal Maternal and Child Health Policy

Since January 2025, the Trump administration and Congress have advanced a series of policies that are wreaking havoc on our health care systems, and will

May 26 • 9:25 AM EDT • Health • tcf.org

Forever Forward Season Guide: Mega Mewtwo, GO Fest 2026, Dynamax Pokémon and Bonuses

The Forever Forward Season brings Mega Mewtwo X and Y, GO Fest 2026, new Dynamax Pokémon, Daily Discoveries, GO Pass rewards, Egg hatches, Community Days, and more to Pokémon GO.

May 26 • 9:00 AM EDT • Technology • pokemongohub.net

Public Health Command Europe Hosts 71st International Military Veterinary Exchange

Garmisch- Partenkirchen, Germany --- Public Health Command Europe recently hosted the 71st International Military Veterinary Exchange, bringing together...

May 26 • 5:23 AM EDT • Health • army.mil

A battery-powered Starlink Mini is likely on the way

Maximum portability from Starlink’s tiniest dish.

May 26 • 4:55 AM EDT • Technology • theverge.com

7 things patients should know about VO2 max

This episode of the "Health vs. Hype" AMA podcast introduces listeners to what a VO2 max measurement is and why their score could be important to know.

May 26 • 3:00 AM EDT • Health • ama-assn.org

The best and worst moments from the 2026 American Music Awards

Check out the highs (and a few lows) from the 2026 American Music Awards, including a couple of Queen Latifah sing-alongs and a Black Eyed Peas reunion.

May 25 • 11:14 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com

Maple Leafs say Max Domi out ‘indefinitely’ after surgery complications

The team said Monday the 31-year-old experienced complications following the procedure after playing through the injury during the 2025-26 season.

May 25 • 6:39 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Apple To Quietly Steal Samsung’s Galaxy S26 Ultra Privacy Display Trick For The M6 Pro & M6 Max MacBook Pro, Three Years Ahead Of Schedule

Apple might adopt Samsung's OLED panels as well as the Galaxy S26 Ultra's Privacy Display tech for its M6 Pro and M6 Max MacBook Pro.

May 25 • 6:01 PM EDT • Technology • wccftech.com

Dodgers activate Kiké Hernández for season debut, avoid putting Max Muncy on injured list

May 25 • 4:47 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

'Mandalorian and Grogu' makes unfortunate 'Star Wars' box office history while 'Michael' moonwalks towards $800 million

'Mandalorian and Grogu' just broke an unfortunate 'Star Wars' box office record after debuting to $100 million over the holiday weekend.

May 25 • 3:33 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com

Trump Set to Visit Walter Reed Hospital for Third Health Checkup in 13 Months

President Donald Trump will see his doctors at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Tuesday, May 26, for his third scheduled health checkup in just over a year.

May 25 • 3:23 PM EDT • Health • people.com

'Euphoria' creator Sam Levinson defends 'horrific' character death: 'Consequences are real'

'Euphoria' creator Sam Levinson is explaining why he killed off [SPOILER] in such a 'horrific and anxiety-inducing' way.

May 25 • 12:02 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com

Alfred Hitchcock biography sheds new light on ‘The Birds’ most controversial scene (exclusive)

'A Century of Hitchcock: The Man, the Myths, the Legacy' sheds light on 'The Birds' controversial scene in which the film's star, Tippi Hedren, was attacked by real birds. Read an exclusive excerpt

May 25 • 11:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com

Soap vet Darin Brooks returning to 'The Bold and the Beautiful,' teases 'surprise special guest'

Darin Brooks is officially returning to 'The Bold and the Beautiful' after a two-and-a-half year hiatus. The soap vet tells EW what fans can expect from Wyatt Spencer, and teases a 'special guest' he's bringing along.

May 25 • 10:30 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com

America's 250th brings exclusive merchandise to area retailer

South Dakota's America250 flag is selling fast – and there's only one place to buy it.

May 25 • 10:00 AM EDT • Business • siouxfalls.business

Olivia Newton-John book explores ‘tension’ during 'Grease' rehearsals

An Olivia Newton-John book by Matthew Hild explores the 'tension' on the set of 'Grease' during rehearsals.

May 25 • 10:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com

'The Vampire Lestat' star Sam Reid fought to sing live on the show

'The Vampire Lestat' star Sam Reid shares why it was so important for him to sing live on the show.

May 25 • 9:30 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com

7 Things in Your Home You Should Be Swapping Out Regularly To Protect Your Health

There's more to staying healthy than just exercising and eating right. Sometimes protecting your health also means keeping your environment safe.

May 25 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • health.com

Jamie-Lynn Sigler reveals the James Gandolfini story she regrets once telling on 'The Tonight Show'

'Sopranos' star Jamie-Lynn Sigler shares her regret over a story she told about costar James Gandolfini on Jay Leno's talk show: 'As soon as the words came out of my mouth, I wanted to take them back'

May 25 • 8:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com

Sixers' Tyrese Maxey named to All-NBA third team

Tyrese Maxey was awarded for his impressive numbers throughout the season.

May 24 • 7:35 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Stephen Colbert's 'Late Show' time slot replacement is 'not trying to replace' him: 'Not everybody's gonna love me'

'Comics Unleashed' creator Byron Allen says he is not trying to 'replace' Stephen Colbert or his 'Late Show,' after taking over the late night series' time slot on CBS.

May 24 • 7:33 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com

Better Health Care ETF: Fidelity's FHLC vs. State Street's XLV

Expense ratios match, but portfolio breadth, yield, and stock concentration set these two healthcare ETFs apart for investors seeking sector exposure.

May 24 • 6:19 PM EDT • Health • fool.com

Allegri: ‘Nobody expected Milan defeat, but players gave everything’

Max Allegri admits ‘nobody expected’ Milan to lose at home to Cagliari and miss out on the Champions League, but insists his players ‘did everything they could.’The Rossoneri were in the stron...

May 24 • 5:55 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Outlet apologizes for misquoting 'Outlander' star Caitríona Balfe, reporting she called Scotland town 'an armpit'

'Outlander' star Caitríona Balfe has had her name cleared after an outlet mistakenly reported that she called a small Scottish town an 'armpit' in an interview.

May 24 • 3:46 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com