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'A Statement' Review: Tom McCarthy's Talky Climate Crisis Seriocomedy

Tom McCarthy opens a window onto a climate crisis meeting in 1980 Florida in his new comedy-drama, 'A Statement.' Review.

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Oct 3 • 8:15 PM EDT • Entertainment • indiewire.com
Whittaker survives late scare to hold on for points win

British light-heavyweight Ben Whittaker survives a dramatic late onslaught from Conor Wallace to move a step closer to a world-title shot with a points victory in Birmingham.

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Oct 3 • 7:07 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Zach Bryan defies Gillette Stadium's Macklemore ban with politically charged shirt

Country singer Zach Bryan’s latest political fashion statement might add more fuel to the ongoing Ed Sheeran-Macklemore tour drama.

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Oct 3 • 3:02 PM EDT • Entertainment • centraloregondaily.com
Scientists find evidence for several Earth axis shifts during the age of dinosaurs

Sea-level changes offer an independent record of dramatic Jurassic and Cretaceous episodes when the solid Earth may have reoriented.

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Oct 3 • 2:07 PM EDT • Science • thebrighterside.news
TST Best Bets: October 3, 2026

Mississippi State gets a chance to show how far it has come Saturday, welcoming No. 7 Alabama to Starkville for a matchup of unbeaten SEC teams. Kamario Taylor has helped turn the No. 16 Bulldogs into an early surprise, but keeping up with the Crimson Tide will be their biggest test yet.Over in the Big Ten, No. 14 Iowa returns home after its dramatic win at Michigan to face No. 6 Ohio State. The Hawkeyes will lean on their defense again, this time trying to slow down Julian Sayin and Jeremiah Sm

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Oct 3 • 11:52 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Beloved Philadelphia Science Museum Closes After 198 Years

Generations of Philadelphia families walked through the Academy of Natural Sciences to see dinosaurs, dioramas, and specimens collected from around the world. After nearly 200 years, those museum door...

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Oct 3 • 10:00 AM EDT • Science • yahoo.com
ESA’s Juice just used Earth as a slingshot to Jupiter

ESA’s Juice spacecraft raced past Earth on September 28, using our planet’s gravity to dramatically reshape its path toward Jupiter without burning much fuel. The flyby changed its direction by 20 degrees and increased its speed by 3.5 km/s, while also giving scientists a rare chance to test its instruments on Earth and the Moon.

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Oct 3 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
Purplish: ‘The Great Colorado Ballot-O-Rama’ Part II

In the second half of the Purplish live event, the temperature rises on reporters in the host seat as they try to make the many ballot questions more digestible.

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Oct 3 • 8:00 AM EDT • Politics • kunc.org
‘Brave from the beginning’: 20 years of Friday Night Lights – the sports drama that dared to be different

It launched the careers of Jesse Plemons and Michael B Drama, and let its stars improvise in a way that was fresh and new. This show about smalltown US football was confident, trailblazing – and wonderful

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Oct 3 • 7:00 AM EDT • Sports • theguardian.com
'Godzilla Minus Zero' review: The epic monster melodrama fans have been roaring for

Now with R-rated mayhem!

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Oct 3 • 5:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • mashable.com
'Gold Rush': Rick Ness Reveals Dangerous Health Issue in Dramatic Season 17 Premiere

Plus, Parker Schnabel finds himself on Tony Beets' property line while a new face joins the treasure hunt.

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Oct 2 • 10:00 PM EDT • Health • tvinsider.com
Mars’ North Polar Ice Is Much Cleaner Than Scientists Thought

Beneath the dusty surface of Mars’ north pole, scientists have uncovered surprisingly clean layers of ice that may preserve a hidden record of the planet’s dramatic climate history. Earth maintains a relatively steady posture in space thanks to the gravitational anchor of a massive moon. Mars lacks that stability. Tugged only by two tiny moons,

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Oct 2 • 3:06 PM EDT • Science • scitechdaily.com
Nico Williams sends message of support to Cristiano Ronaldo

Athletic Club star Nico Williams has on Friday become the latest high-profile football figure to make public his backing for Real Madrid legend Cristiano Ronaldo.This of course comes amid a drama-fill...

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Oct 2 • 2:25 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Bishop’s computer science chair says AI is eliminating ‘grunt work’ and reshaping digital jobs

Dr. Russell Butler, chair of Bishop’s University’s Department of Computer Science, says artificial intelligence is increasingly taking over routine digital “grunt work,” changing the skills students and workers may need in the years ahead. Photo courtesy of Bishop’s University. Click here to read our platform! Get local news like this every morning. Subscribe free below. Subscribe Pulse Newsroom Artificial intelligence is already taking over some of the routine digital work once performed by entry-level employees, according to Bishop’s University Computer Science chair Dr. Russell Butler — a shift he believes will make expertise, judgement and the ability to evaluate AI-generated work increasingly important. Butler described the change as automation reaching what he calls the “bottom of the cognitive pyramid” during an interview with The Pulse about AI, university education and the future of digital work. His argument is not that humans are disappearing from the workplace. Instead, he sees their role changing as AI becomes capable of handling more of the repetitive tasks involved in computer-based work. “Everything’s converging on just AI basically doing all the grunt work,” Butler said. The bottom of the cognitive pyramid Butler is from Lennoxville, completed his undergraduate studies at Bishop’s and later earned his PhD at the Université de Sherbrooke. He joined Bishop’s in 2019 and now chairs its Department of Computer Science. He uses AI in research, teaching and other creative work, and said the technology is increasingly capable of handling routine digital tasks that once required substantial human time. “You’ve got the grunt work, like moving things around in Excel, doing basic programming tasks,” Butler said. “That’s like the bottom grunt work that the entry-level worker would have done two or three years ago.” Butler went further, saying in his view that much of this type of work has already been absorbed by AI tools. He connected that change to a shift he sees taking place in computer science, where entry-level roles have declined while experienced workers can use AI to increase what they can produce. “A senior developer now has access to essentially an unlimited amount of junior developers on demand,” Butler said. He was describing AI systems metaphorically, not literal employees. His point was that one experienced developer can now ask AI tools to produce code or other technical work that might previously have been assigned to more junior workers. That raises a broader question for universities and employers. If some of the simpler work traditionally given to newcomers can now be done by machines, how do people gain the experience needed to become senior workers themselves? Students doing work that once required years of programming Butler said he is already seeing the change inside his classroom. He created a Bishop’s course called CS208, Coding in Plain English, to show students — including those without traditional programming backgrounds — what they can accomplish using AI. Some come from disciplines such as psychology or neuroscience with no previous programming experience. “What I’m finding is that students who have zero programming experience, they come in from another discipline like psychology or neuroscience or something, they are now able to get up and running with real data sets,” Butler said. Butler’s own doctoral work involved neuroimaging, and he said he has assigned students work he considers comparable to the kinds of analysis he performed during his PhD. He described giving students a real dataset, an expected result and instructions to use AI to complete the analysis. Butler said those students have been able to carry out work at a level he associates with tasks he once performed after years of programming experience. That does not mean a student using AI instantly acquires the same knowledge as an experienced computer scientist. But Butler sees it as evidence that AI can dramatically lower the technical barrier between having a problem to solve and producing a working result. The role of the person using the system then changes. They need to know what to ask for, understand enough about the subject to judge the answer and take responsibility for what is ultimately produced. What about AI hallucinations? One persistent concern surrounding generative AI is hallucination — when a system produces information that sounds convincing but is false or unsupported. Butler said that problem has improved substantially in newer systems and is not as severe as it was with earlier models. He pointed in particular to newer AI systems’ ability to search the web, consult scientific databases and return source links rather than simply generating a citation from their internal model. Butler nevertheless said users should verify what AI produces. “You should verify,” he said while discussing citations generated with AI. His position is that hallucinations have become less common in the systems he uses, not that incorrect AI output is impossible. Human checking remains part of the process. Hours of work compressed Butler offered another example from his administrative work at Bishop’s. The university has been comparing CEGEP courses with first-year Bishop’s courses to determine where students may qualify for advanced standing. Traditionally, Butler said, that means reviewing two sets of course descriptions and manually matching one institution’s courses with another’s. As department chair, that could require hours of reading and comparison. He said AI can now be given both sets of material and asked to generate an initial mapping automatically. “It saves me hours and hours of work,” Butler said. Butler said the AI-generated mapping can also produce a better result than he would produce himself. He sees similar opportunities in businesses. A company may receive specifications, drawings, emails or other digital material from customers and then have employees convert that information into an internal format before anything can be manufactured or delivered. AI can increasingly perform parts of that intermediate processing. In Butler’s view, the employee does not necessarily disappear. Instead, the job becomes more about checking the result. “The human is still there,” he said. Judgement could become more valuable That change is central to Butler’s view of where digital work may be headed. If AI can produce a first draft, write basic code, compare documents or process large amounts of information, he argues that knowledge and judgement become increasingly important. “The real scarce resource going forward is going to be domain knowledge, expertise, and… credentials, authority, the ability to work with other people,” Butler said. He is therefore encouraging students not only to learn AI tools but also to broaden their education. He mentioned acting, fine art and photography as examples of courses that can help develop what he described as taste and intuition — the ability to recognize what is good, what is not and what should be changed. “And that’s the skill that they need now because the grunt work has been automated and now it’s about evaluating what the AI produces and telling it how to improve or expand the output,” Butler said. That does not remove the need for technical knowledge. Butler’s argument is that the emphasis may shift away from manually completing every step of a task and toward directing, checking and improving work produced with AI assistance. He also stressed that humans remain responsible for final decisions. “At the end of the day, the human has to make the final call,” Butler said, pointing to the question of accountability. Physical work may be different Butler draws a distinction between digital work and jobs requiring people to manipulate the physical world. He expects AI to continue advancing quickly in tasks performed almost entirely on computers. He is more cautious about claims that humanoid robots will soon be able to replace workers such as plumbers or electricians. Butler said those trades would not be replaced “anytime soon” in his view and described some current robotics demonstrations as overhyped. He described the situation as counterintuitive. “It’s almost like we solved the highest level first,” he said, contrasting advances in digital AI with the harder problem of building robots capable of operating reliably in the physical world. Butler’s argument is that some digital occupations could face automation sooner than trades requiring complex physical work. The wider AI shift in the Townships Butler’s comments come as local institutions are increasingly grappling with how AI should be used. The federal government recently announced up to $162 million over five years for 10,000 AI-related placements through Mitacs. The Université de Sherbrooke told The Pulse that the number of its collaborative research and innovation projects supported through Mitacs has approximately doubled since 2018-19, while the number of placements has approximately tripled. UdeS also said it already has projects involving both AI adoption and the application of AI to other fields. At Bishop’s, Butler said part of his role involves building the Computer Science department’s local presence, connecting students with regional partners and strengthening relationships with the Sherbrooke technology ecosystem. Those developments put universities in a difficult position. They have to prepare students to use the tools employers increasingly have available while also making sure graduates understand enough to recognize when those tools are wrong, incomplete or being applied to the wrong problem. The risk of losing human skills Butler does not see AI as risk-free. Later in the interview, he raised a separate concern: as AI becomes better at reading, writing, programming and other cognitive tasks, people could lose some of the underlying skills that historically helped produce new ideas. “The other danger is that we’re going to lose the human skills,” Butler said. He specifically mentioned reading and writing and argued that people could lose some of the lower-level understanding that contributes to breakthroughs. Butler said AI systems are based on existing human knowledge and argued that they become much more powerful when paired with a capable person. That tension runs through his view of the technology. AI can remove hours of routine work. It can allow beginners to perform tasks that once required substantial technical training. It can give experienced workers significant leverage. But the more capable the technology becomes, the more important it may be for people to develop the judgement needed to decide what should be done in the first place. For Butler, that is where education may have to change. Students still need to understand their field. They still need to know when something is wrong. And they still need to be able to make the final decision. But if AI increasingly handles the bottom of the cognitive pyramid, the value of a worker may depend less on how quickly they can perform the grunt work and more on whether they understand what the work is supposed to accomplish. Don’t miss the next story that affects your community. Join thousands of readers getting The Pulse every morning—plus breaking news alerts when it matters most. If you value this kind of local journalism, consider supporting it. Subscribe, share and like! Subscribe Share

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Oct 2 • 1:57 PM EDT • Science • publisherpt.substack.com
AP report: Senate Republicans move cash from North Carolina to Kansas as battle for majority shifts

The moves offer a stark sign of how dramatically the Senate map has shifted just a month before midterm elections that will determine control of Congress.

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Oct 2 • 1:28 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
11 Philadelphia business owners accused of defrauding WIC program of nearly $1M

Eleven Philadelphia business owners were charged in connection with a fraud scheme involving the WIC program, according to the attorney general.

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Oct 2 • 1:22 PM EDT • Business • nbcphiladelphia.com
Tom Cruise's latest risky business

Tom Cruise doesn't play things safe. Yes, obviously, I'm referring to him hanging off assorted aircraft and other insane things he does in his cinematic stunt-o-ramas.

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Oct 2 • 9:58 AM EDT • Entertainment • centraloregondaily.com
Tom Cruise's latest risky business

Tom Cruise doesn't play things safe. Yes, obviously, I'm referring to him hanging off assorted aircraft and other insane things he does in his cinematic stunt-o-ramas. But in his 45-year history in Hollywood, Cruise has done a lot of different roles and navigated through various reinventions.

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Oct 2 • 9:58 AM EDT • Business • sanluisobispo.com
Shemar Moore says his daughter 'saved my life' after he was in a 'dark place'

NEW YORK – As Shemar Moore's run continues on "S.W.A.T. Exiles," the spinoff of the CBS drama "S.W.A.T.," he says art has imitated life.

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Oct 2 • 9:01 AM EDT • Entertainment • kansas.com
AI-generated Fallout: New York browser game full of utterly cursed faces slapped with Bethesda cease and desist, its slop prompter claims

Bethesda have seemingly slapped an AI-generated Fallout: New York browser game with cease and desist order.

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Oct 2 • 7:45 AM EDT • Technology • rockpapershotgun.com
Pedro Neto and Portugal keep rolling amid Cristiano Ronaldo drama

Thursday internationals

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Oct 2 • 2:30 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Are The Browns For Real? 3 Takeaways From Browns' Dramatic Win vs. Steelers

The Browns are now in first place in the AFC North after their win over the Steelers. Here are three takeaways from Thursday's game.

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Oct 1 • 11:28 PM EDT • Sports • foxsports.com
Guide to New Orleans theater shows in October 2026

From uplifting musicals like "Come From Away" to compelling dramas like "Something Cloudy, Something Clear," the New Orleans and northshore stages are set for a diverse and captivating fall season!

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Oct 1 • 12:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • nola.com
Bass lawyers help influencers file complaint against Raman campaign

Two influencers have accused Nithya Raman's mayoral campaign of paying social media influencers who improperly disclosed the payments. The legal fees for their complaint are being covered by Mayor Karen Bass' mayoral campaign.

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Oct 1 • 6:00 AM EDT • Politics • latimes.com
Rafael Leão given Portugal's number 7 shirt after Ronaldo exit

It's been a dramatic few days for Portuguese football with Cristiano Ronaldo's exit from the national team. However, there is a new number 7: Rafael Leão.The revised squad list for Portugal ahead of ...

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Oct 1 • 5:35 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Today’s Papers: FIGC drama, Bianchedi resigns, Spalletti pressure

La Gazzetta dello SportInter talk Romano An idea for the futureThere’s a plan to land the Cagliari talent (and if Calha doesn’t renew ,,,)Pio and Tonali: Eight days, three games, Mancio keeps the...

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Oct 1 • 3:55 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Memorial Healthcare System Announces Leadership Promotions at Two Hospitals

Memorial Healthcare System has announced two leadership promotions, naming Felicia Turnley CEO of Memorial Hospital Miramar and Stephen Demers CEO of Memorial Hospital West. Turnley currently serves as CEO of Memorial Hospital Pembroke, while Demers has served as CEO of Memorial Hospital Miramar since 2023. Both leaders bring extensive healthcare leadership experience and a strong […]

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Oct 1 • 1:01 AM EDT • Health • southfloridahospitalnews.com
Braves News: Game 3 drama, Tyler Mahle, more

Atlanta Braves news and notes from Wednesday

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Oct 1 • 12:01 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
IndieWire’s Future of Filmmaking Summit to Feature Microdrama Panel with Execs from Issa Rae’s HOORAE Media

The team that helped turn "Screen Time" into a viral hit will break down the emerging format at IndieWire's Los Angeles event on October 17.

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Sep 30 • 7:25 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Trump cuts to climate science leave us all vulnerable

The Island always feels vulnerable when extreme weather conditions like last weekend’s early-season nor’easter start heading our way. This time was no different, especially as forecasts became more and more dramatic and television meteorologists breathlessly updated viewers from windblown shorelines, reciting scripts filled with dire warnings about heavy rain, high winds, and coastal flooding. The […]

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Sep 30 • 5:21 PM EDT • Science • mvtimes.com
Helene flooding reshaped River Arts District; leaders say recovery is far from over

The River Arts District looks dramatically different two years after Helene, but local business owners and community leaders say rebuilding is far from over.

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Sep 30 • 4:37 PM EDT • Business • wlos.com
🚨 Fresh twist: CR7 skips Portugal training!

The psychodrama continues.A new episode this Wednesday evening in the crisis that has pitted Cristiano Ronaldo against the Portugal national team for several days!Although his coach Jorge Jesus had an...

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Sep 30 • 1:08 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
🚨 New twist: CR7 skips Portugal training!

The psychodrama continues.Another episode this Wednesday evening in the crisis that has seemingly pitted Cristiano Ronaldo against the Portugal national team for several days now!Although his coach Jo...

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Sep 30 • 1:08 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Ken Griffin’s $3B Carnegie Mellon plan turbocharges Miami transformation

Since leaving Chicago in 2022, Griffin has taken dramatic steps to make his presence felt in Miami.

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Sep 30 • 12:08 PM EDT • Business • chicagobusiness.com
Paula Patton’s Acclaimed Thriller TV Show Returns Today on Paramount+ After 5 Year Wait

Paula Patton returns to streaming today with the long-awaited second season of her legal drama. Sacrifice Season 2 premieres on Paramount+ on September 30, nearly five years after the first season pre...

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Sep 30 • 11:46 AM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
$300 bats, bleacher gossip and 'the drip': 4 baseball moms reality-check 'Team Moms: Baseball'

We asked four baseball moms to watch Kim Kardashian's "Team Moms: Baseball." The sideline drama felt familiar. The moms toting Chanel bags and boys wearing Balenciaga sandals? Not so much.

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Sep 30 • 11:44 AM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Pocket Entertainment: Interview With Co-Founder And CEO Rohan Nayak About AI-Powered Storytelling And The Single-Person Studio

Pocket Entertainment is building an entertainment ecosystem that connects storytelling, creation, production, distribution, localization, and audience engagement. The company operates Pocket FM, its flagship serialized audio drama platform, and has expanded into short-form visual entertainment through Pocket Saga while developing AI tools such as Sherpa that helps creators develop ideas and build characters, worlds, story arcs and episodes. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Pocket Entertainment Co-Founder and CEO Rohan Nayak to learn more about the company’s origins, its evolution beyond audio entertainment, and how AI could enable individual creators to build global entertainment franchises.

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Sep 30 • 8:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • pulse2.com
Deborah Sathe to lead new drama indie, CliffEdge Entertainment

BBC Studios is launching a new scripted production label, CliffEdge Entertainment.

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Sep 30 • 6:35 AM EDT • Entertainment • televisual.com
Can Great Drama Series Change the World, Iberseries 2026 Panel Asks

Creatives behind the likes of 'Borgen,' 'The Best Immigrant,' eco-thriller 'After Us,' sexual aggression drama 'Pubertat,' and historical HIV drama 'Henki' shared their motivations and goals at Iberseries.

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Sep 30 • 4:35 AM EDT • Politics • hollywoodreporter.com
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Los Angeles Mayoral Candidates Vie for Undecided Voters

Mayor Karen Bass and her onetime ally, Nithya Raman, made their case to voters with just five weeks left until the election.

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Sep 30 • 12:42 AM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
A Microbiologist Dissects the Science of Infection in Movies

An infection control scientist binge-watches decades of outbreaks, pathogens, and pandemic drama to find out which shows and films hit the mark with infections.

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Sep 30 • 12:00 AM EDT • Science • the-scientist.com
MLB On FOX Delivers Dramatic Viewership Increases For 2026

MLB on FOX saw significant viewership gains for the 2026 regular season, All-Star Game, and World Baseball Classic. Here's the details.

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Sep 29 • 6:10 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Tahoma High School Biomedical Science and Intro to Acting  : VOICE of the Valley

Two very different THS classes — Biomedical Science and Intro to Acting — collaborated last week on a unique, hands-on assignment! Students in this senior-level biomedical class are learning how to triage patients in emergency situations. So, students in the drama class acted as car crash victims — some with injuries, some dead. It was […]

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Sep 29 • 3:02 PM EDT • Science • voiceofthevalley.com
Washington’s 2026 Season Is Built on Poor Decisions

What makes Washington’s mediocre start to the 2026 campaign so frustrating is the core issue: poor decision-making. But that was bound to be the story of the season, wasn’t it? Between quarterback Demond Williams’ offseason drama and head coach Jedd Fisch’s overall approach, the Huskies were doomed from the beginning. Days removed from Washington’s loss […]

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Sep 29 • 2:22 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Mario Hezonja Explains Dramatic Body Transformation Before Cavaliers Return

Mario Hezonja says he has grown from a 190-pound rookie into a 260-pound forward, giving the Cavaliers more versatility in his NBA return.

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Sep 29 • 12:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Aramark Sports + Entertainment Turns up the Heat for the 2026-27 Arena Season With Locally Inspired, Personalized Fan Experiences

PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep 29, 2026--

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Sep 29 • 7:32 AM EDT • Entertainment • newspressnow.com
Ao Tanaka helps Japan complete Venezuela comeback

Ao Tanaka helped Japan complete a dramatic comeback as Ayase Ueda’s stoppage-time winner secured a 2-1 victory over Venezuela in Hiroshima.The Leeds United midfielder was introduced at half-time at ...

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Sep 29 • 7:19 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Inside the drama dogging Corgi, the $5 billion insurance startup

Corgi reached a $5 billion valuation. Internal messages and documents reveal the drama dogging the insurance startup.

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Sep 29 • 5:41 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
“School Girls” Broadway review: The African teen comedy subverts the genre

Pageant drama comes to Ghana.

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Sep 28 • 9:30 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
The ice blasting from Saturn's moon Enceladus is stranger than scientists realized

Enceladus may naturally separate and concentrate chemicals from its hidden ocean as droplets slowly freeze and shatter on their way into space. The process could explain Cassini’s puzzling ice-grain chemistry while giving future spacecraft a powerful advantage in searching for organic compounds and clues to life.

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Sep 28 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
Broadcast To Hit A Double, Peacock Going Deep In NBC Sports Coverage Of MLB Wild Card Playoffs

Sports fans of a certain age can readily recall NBC’s coverage of the Major League Baseball playoffs regularly pre-empting the network’s “Must-See TV” primetime lineup in the 1990s. While today’s ratings and programming landscape has changed dramatically in the intervening decades, this year’s playoffs (starting Tuesday) are shaping up as a back-to-the-future milestone for NBC …

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Sep 28 • 7:19 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Risk Of Death, Major Disease High Following Type 2 Diabetes Diagnosis

By Dennis Thompson HealthDay ReporterMONDAY, Sept 28, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Type 2 diabetes dramatically increases a person’s short-term risk of death or life-threatening illness, a new study says. Within five years of their diagnosis, patients with type 2 diabetes have a 33% increased risk of ...

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Sep 28 • 9:16 AM EDT • Health • usnews.com
BMW M2 Gets A Dramatic 3.0 CSL Makeover

Riverti Automobili reshapes the G87 BMW M2 with 3.0 CSL-inspired bodywork, while key specs like power and production remain under wraps.

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Sep 28 • 7:32 AM EDT • Technology • motor1.com
Magyar becomes first sitting PM to lose immunity

A nightclub altercation and a phone dropped into the Danube is latest political drama in Hungary

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Sep 28 • 6:37 AM EDT • Politics • euractiv.com
How do Ohio Indian Americans feel about Vivek Ramaswamy?

Ohio's Indian American community is weighing what Vivek Ramaswamy's historic governor bid could mean for representation and politics.

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Sep 28 • 6:07 AM EDT • Politics • dispatch.com
Colts Edge Texans in Dramatic 19-17 Victory

The Indianapolis Colts finally got back into the win column Sunday, defeating the Houston Texans 19-17 in a thrilling AFC South battle at Lucas Oil Stadium. The victory snapped Indianapolis’ nine-game losing streak and gave the Colts their first win of the 2026 season. Shrader Comes Through The Colts leaned heavily on kicker Spencer Shrader…

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Sep 27 • 6:38 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Teyana Taylor’s Transparent 2026 VMAs Look Featured a Plunging Neckline and Dramatic Details

Teyana Taylor turned heads on the 2026 MTV VMAs red carpet in a transparent black look with a plunging neckline. See photos here.

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Sep 27 • 6:21 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
‘Heart of the Beast’: A profound survival drama

Few films have so persuasively conveyed the bond between man and dog

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Sep 27 • 9:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • davisenterprise.com
Your old GPU could be worth more than you think

Your old GPU could be a goldmine thanks to the RAMaggedon.

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Sep 26 • 7:45 PM EDT • Technology • engadget.com
How Steph Curry gave Warriors edge without any contract drama

If you know Steph Curry, you know his priority is finding joy. He doesn’t like drama. He’s not interested in distractions. He’s single-mindedly focused on feeling the thrill of his...

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Sep 26 • 5:10 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Scientists burned their own scrolls to unlock a 2,000-year-old mystery

Scientists discovered that tiny amounts of lead in ancient ink can make writing inside burned papyrus scrolls stand out dramatically in X-ray scans. The technique could help unlock lost Greek and Roman texts preserved by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago.

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Sep 26 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
Purplish: ‘The Great Colorado Ballot-O-Rama’ Part I

This year’s ballot is lengthy, very lengthy, and packed with thorny topics.

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Sep 26 • 8:00 AM EDT • Politics • kunc.org
'Paper Tiger' review: Adam Driver, Miles Teller, and Scarlett Johansson enter a heart-wrenching love triangle

Writer/director James Gray delivers an unusual mafia drama.

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Sep 26 • 5:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • mashable.com
Stephen Curry’s $20 Million Warriors Decision Could Have Massive Payoff

Stephen Curry left roughly $20 million on the table, a decision that could dramatically reshape Golden State Warriors’ future. The post Stephen Curry’s $20 Million Warriors Decision Could Have Massive Payoff appeared first on HEAVY.

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Sep 26 • 1:45 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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“One Tree Hill” star’s most embarrassing moment on set involves getting glass stuck ‘3 or 4 inches’ into his butt

The CW drama, which costarred Chad Michael Murray and James Lafferty, ran from 2003 to 2012.

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Sep 25 • 9:03 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Science in action: Grand Teton Council invites community to annual STEM-A-RAMA event

IDAHO FALLS — The Grand Teton Council of Scouting America (formerly the Boy Scouts of America) invites community members to a free annual event to see science in action and get hands-on with STEM careers this Saturday. Since 2019, the annual STEM-A-RAMA event has brought numerous organizations together in one location, allowing local youth to […]

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Sep 25 • 7:28 PM EDT • Science • eastidahonews.com
‘Survivor 51,’ ‘Line of Fire,’ and Robert Pattinson in ‘Primetime’ top this week’s Must List

See EW’s top pop culture picks for the week, including ‘Survivor 51,’ new family drama ‘Line of Fire,’ and Robert Pattinson as Chris Hansen in ‘Primetime.’

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HBO’s Billionaire Divorce Drama War Doesn’t Know What It’s Trying to Say

The glossy series has all the elements of prestige TV but no perspective on the world it's depicting

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'War' review: HBO's delicious legal drama is your next TV obsession

Dominic West and Sienna Miller star in this tale of divorce and betrayal.

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Sep 25 • 10:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • mashable.com
‘War’ review: HBO legal drama is a delicious dive into the muck

The eight-episode series, premiering Oct. 1 on HBO Max, focuses on the tense legal battle behind an extremely high-profile and nasty divorce.

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Sep 25 • 10:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • yakimaherald.com
Press play: 5 celeb-creator interviews the internet loved this week (Sept. 25)

From Maitreyi Ramakrishnan on "Royal Court" to Willem Dafoe on "Hot Ones".

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Sep 25 • 7:56 AM EDT • Entertainment • mashable.com
Los Angeles Lakers season preview: Lineup, roster and prediction

After a drama-filled offseason sparked by a surprise sale and another Buss family power struggle, a new-look Lakers roster looks to find their place in the Western Conference.

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Sep 25 • 5:50 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Intelligence from Chinese groups aiding in Iran’s increasingly effective targeting of US sites, sources say

Satellite imagery and intelligence support provided by Chinese groups has helped Iran threaten ships in the Strait of Hormuz and launch precision strikes on US military bases in the Middle East, part of a dramatic improvement in Iranian targeting capabilities over the past several months, according to a series of recent American intelligence assessments described to CNN by four sources.

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Sep 25 • 12:01 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
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Who was the Unabomber? The true story behind Netflix's new Ted Kaczynski movie.

The crime drama stars Jacob Tremblay as the Unabomber, whose bombing campaign killed three people and injured 23.

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Sep 24 • 10:03 AM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Commentary: Assessed value increases hitting businesses, too

Indiana businesses are experiencing what many homeowners have seen in recent years: dramatic jumps in the assessed values of their real property.

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Sep 24 • 5:00 AM EDT • Business • indianacapitalchronicle.com
‘America’s Got Talent’ reveals season 21 winner — see who won the $1 million prize

‘America’s Got Talent’ reveals the winner of season 21 after a night filled with guest performers and dramatic announcements of the results.

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Sep 24 • 12:37 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies VR Announced For Meta VR Glasses & Quest

A new VR release in Capcom's visual novel adventure series brings courtroom drama to Meta VR Glasses and Quest in 2027.

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Sep 23 • 7:52 PM EDT • Technology • uploadvr.com
Trump SBA to Extend Comment Period After Ranking Member Markey Leads Effort to Rescind SBA Policy that Reclassifies Billion-Dollar Businesses as “Small Businesses”

Trump admin policy would reclassify 114,000 larger businesses as “small” to access small business resources and win federal contracts meant for small businesses Letter (PDF) (Washington, September 23) – This week, the Small Business Administration (SBA) announced its plans to extend the deadline to submit comments on its controversial proposed rule regarding small business size standards until November 20. The Trump SBA’s announcement came shortly after Ranking Member Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), alongside 12 of his Senate colleagues, sent a letter to Administrator Kelly Loeffler demanding that the Trump SBA rescind a harmful policy that would dramatically redefine what a small business is. The Administration’s proposed policy would change the small business size standard to designate 114,000 larger companies some with annual revenue above $1 billion—as small businesses, giving these businesses access to small business resources and federal contracts typically set aside for actual small businesses. In the letter, Ranking Member Markey and the lawmakers emphasized that small businesses will be shut out of the federal contracting space as government agencies award contracts to larger businesses, causing small businesses to lose revenue, lay off workers, or close their businesses entirely. “For more than 70 years, SBA’s mission has been clear: promote and protect the interests and viability of small businesses. By proceeding with this proposed methodology and rule, SBA moves further away from its mission of facilitating healthy small business participation in the U.S. economy. We urge SBA to rescind these proposals, meet in earnest with small businesses across the country, and discuss the proposal and methodology with congressional committees of jurisdiction. SBA must be committed to developing measured increases to the size standards that do not reward large, billion-dollar companies but instead helps our small businesses survive, grow, and thrive.” The lawmakers highlighted the following points in their letter: Under the Trump SBA’s new size standards, the highest receipts-based standard would exceed $1 billion in annual revenue—more than 20 times the current $47 million maximum—and the highest employee-based standard would reach 3,600 employees—more than twice the current 1,500 employee maximum. Specific increases include an increase in size of nearly 492% for banks, 1,500% for law firms, and more than 2,051% for private equity firms. Of the 114,000 businesses that would be newly classified as small, more than 37,000 of these businesses have collectively won more than 100,000 federal contracts worth approximately $71 billion in Fiscal Year 2025 alone without a small business designation. If SBA included the awards won by these 37,000 businesses in its Fiscal Year 2025 analysis, small business contracts would have accounted for 38% of all federal contracts, instead of the 27% that SBA announced this summer. The letter was co-signed by Senators Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Christopher Coons (D-Dela.), Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Mark Warner (D-Va.), and Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.). Ranking Member Markey is fighting to protect small businesses in Massachusetts and across the country from the Trump SBA’s harmful policies that put big businesses and billionaires over American small businesses, workers, and families. In August, Ranking Member Markey slammed the Trump SBA’s proposal to overhaul its small business size standards to benefit big businesses over small businesses. In July, Ranking Member Markey and House Small Business Committee Ranking Member Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY-7) introduced a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to rescind the Trump administration’s policy that bans green card holders from accessing essential Small Business Administration (SBA) loans to start and grow their businesses. Also in July, Ranking Member Markey and Senator Hirono submitted a comment letter to the Small Business Administration (SBA) opposing a proposed rule change by Trump’s SBA to the 8(a) Business Development Program that would harm underserved small business owners and entrepreneurs. In June, Ranking Member Markey released a new report highlighting Trump’s drastic reduction in federal contracting dollars awarded to American small businesses. ###

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Inside Dolly Parton's estate drama and family legal battle, explained

Dolly Parton's estate, valued at an estimated $450 million, is embroiled in a legal battle involving her nephew, Bryan Seaver, and manager, Danny Nozell.

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AL West Race Comes Down to the Wire!

The American League West is turning into one of baseball’s most dramatic division races, and it could come down to the final game of the regular season. The Houston Astros and Texas Rangers are tied at 78-79 with just five games remaining. Houston currently holds the tiebreaker after winning the season series against Texas, giving…

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This year, with shifting political winds, Canada gets more of the spotlight on the UN's stage

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — For years, Canada was a trouper in the drama of international affairs. An adept and experienced contributor, it didn't often draw the spotlight when world leaders gathered at the U.N. each September.

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YouTube is leaning into the micro-drama craze with new features

YouTube rolled out a few features to promote micro-drama watching and shared data showing their consumption is soaring on the platform.

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International Emmy Nominations: United Kingdom Leads This Year’s Tally; Canada’s ‘Heated Rivalry’ Doesn’t Make the Cut

The United Kingdom led all territories in nominations at this year’s International Emmys, landing 14 nods total — including Disney+’s “A Thousand Blows” in drama and Netflix’s “Man vs. Baby” in comedy...

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Sep 23 • 4:23 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
‘Primetime’ review: Robert Pattinson dazzles in ‘To Catch a Predator’ drama

“Primetime” not only frequently falls prey to its limitations, but it seems nervous to push against them, writes our reviewer.

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‘Politics means caring for people’ says city council candidate Dina Ramaha

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. – A recent voice in city council public comment, Dina Ramaha announced her campaign during the Fourth of July parade. Ramaha, who owns Three Pines Coffee and Conscious Mind Therapy, says...

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Stephen Curry says he wants 'no drama' during season over unresolved extension talks with Warriors
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Robert Pattinson is an unhinged delight in gonzo 'Primetime'

Starring an unhinged Robert Pattinson, the drama “Primetime” exposes the ickiness and discomfiting qualities of reality TV.

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“Survivor 51 ”cast deliver super dramatic exit lines after being blindsided (exclusive)

Who’s got the most epic send-off?

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When treachery abounds, entertainment resounds - The Voice of San Francisco

Betrayal is disheartening and debilitating, unless it’s happening to someone in a movie. Then, it’s diverting. For example, The Weight is a tension-loaded drama that follows a criminal expedition into the wilds of the Pacific Northwest in the 1930s and hinges on shady people depending on each other in extreme circumstances. As for The Musical, […]

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Coffee doesn’t have to keep you awake to disrupt your sleep

Caffeine may make sleep less restorative even when you fall asleep normally and stay in bed for eight hours, with EEG recordings revealing fewer of the slow brain waves associated with deep sleep. Individual sensitivity varies dramatically, meaning even caffeine consumed earlier in the day could affect nighttime recovery for some people.

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Is 50 the new 60?

Subscribe TL;DR: Younger generations are showing signs of worse health compared to earlier-born cohorts at the same age This backward “drift” is showing up both in mortality risk and chronic disease Worsening trends in obesity and diabetes are the most consistent signals Taking the long view, we’ve made astonishing gains in health and life expectancy in the last century. Global average life expectancy has more than doubled from 32 years in 1900 to 73 years in 2024. (But don’t forget, there were still old people when life expectancy was 32). As people lived longer, they also generally lived healthier along the way. It turns out that avoiding things that can kill you early, like malnutrition and lots of childhood infections, also keeps you healthier later in life. In a classic 2004 paper, Finch and Crimmins proposed that cohorts of children who benefited from fewer early life infections had less lifetime exposure to inflammation and cardiovascular disease later in life, accelerating mortality improvements at older ages. Poor nutrition in the womb has also been linked to a higher risk of later chronic disease. The upshot is that improvements in childhood health can pay dividends many decades later. The combination of better living conditions (nutrition, sanitation) and medical advances (antibiotics, vaccines, blood pressure meds, etc) meant that people’s healthy lifespan generally expanded, even as they lived longer. Aging researchers call this best-case scenario “compression of morbidity”—meaning we delay the onset of disease and disability even faster than the years of life we are adding. During my 20+ year research career, we could generally bank on the idea that younger generations would not only live longer but also keep getting healthier along the way. “60 is the new 50” as they say… Enter “Generational Health Drift” Sadly, this expectation of steady progress may be changing. You’ve probably heard that US life expectancy gains have slowed to a crawl in the past couple of decades. Mortality improvements are also slowing (though less dramatically) in many other high-income countries (you can read more about that in a review paper I wrote here). Mortality is a very blunt health measure, but it is often a good barometer for the broader population health trends happening underneath. And we are now seeing that younger generations may be in worse health at similar ages compared to earlier born cohorts. My collaborator Prof. George Ploubidis at University College London coined this worsening health in more recently born cohorts “generational health drift.” “Generational health drift” is bad news on multiple fronts. Most obviously, we don’t want our health progress to go backward. But the timing is also bad, since our populations are aging. In demographic terms, “population aging” means that the proportion of the population at older ages (i.e >65 years) is increasing. Fun demography fact: Current population aging is not due to the recent declines in the birth rates making the news, but declines in fertility decades ago, after the “baby boom.” As baby boomers reach older ages, the smaller cohorts behind them mean the percentage of older adults will increase. For example, the share of the population age 65 and older in the US increased from 12.4% in 2004 to 18.0% in 2024. This story of population aging was written long ago. Many worry that population aging will put pressure on health care and pension systems. But if people reach older ages in better health than in years past, those fiscal pressures would be less dire than projected. Healthy older people can also continue to contribute to society in many valuable ways, including paid work, caregiving, community service….even high political office 🤷. On the flip side, if younger generations reach retirement age in worse health and with more disabling conditions, this could magnify the societal challenge of population aging. Evidence for worsening generational health A recent paper that I LOVED in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Dr. Leah Abrams and colleagues examined which birth cohorts (aka generations) were behind worsening US mortality. Behold the Lexis diagram (cue swooning demographers). Calendar time is on the x-axis, age on the y-axis. Birth cohorts can be followed over time as they age on the diagonal lines moving up and to the right. This figure plots the year-on-year % change in all-cause mortality at a given age. Green shading indicates mortality improvements over time, white is stagnation, and gray shading indicates worsening mortality. Following the diagonal line for those born in 1950, you can see a noticeable shift from green to gray that follows this cohort for most of their lives. This gray shading shows generally worsening mortality for the 1950 to 1959 birth cohorts compared to their predecessors across all ages. Concerningly for my GenX and elder millennial peeps, there was also a deterioration in mortality for birth cohorts born in the 1970s and 1980s, visible as dark gray areas at ages 30 to 45 during the 2010s. While some of these mortality changes reflect specific shocks such as the opioid epidemic, most deaths still occur from major causes of death such as cardiovascular disease and cancer. For cancer, the gray in the top left corner of the figure below reflects the legacies of smoking for older cohorts, followed by a period of green with improvements in cancer mortality as smoking rates declined. But the white/gray shading in the bottom right corner highlights a stagnation and reversal of the cancer trends, with cohorts born around 1970 to 1985 experiencing worsening cancer mortality. This deterioration was most noticeable for colon cancer mortality, possibly linked to obesity or dietary factors. Not just dying more, but less healthy along the way. A recent paper by Dr. Laura Gimeno of University College London (of which I am a co-author), found evidence that more recently born cohorts in Great Britain have stagnating or worsening health. A stylized picture of what“generational health drift” might look like: The review paper found: Rates of childhood overweight and obesity were highest among Gen Z. Rates of diabetes in the 40s almost doubled from 3.1% among the Baby Boomers to 5.9% in Generation X. Gen Z reported higher rates of poor mental health in adolescence compared to earlier-born groups. These UK results are consistent with studies showing worsening health across generations in the US as well. A 2021 US study found that more recently born cohorts had worse biological markers (like blood pressure and blood sugar) than earlier generations at the same age. A separate 2022 study of Americans aged 50 and over found that more recently born generations had a higher number of chronic diseases, with younger age of disease onset. A 2024 Lancet paper found that in the US, women born in 1945 had 33% obesity prevalence at age 50, rising to 48.2% for women born in 1970 turning 50. So what’s going on, and can we turn it around? We don’t have a definitive answer for what’s causing the deteriorating health of younger cohorts, but circumstantial evidence points to worsening trends in obesity and diabetes in both the US and UK. Remember that cohort trends reflect lagged effects of early environments, and younger generations have faced both earlier onset and more severe obesity across their lifetimes. Despite these very concerning trends, the future is not set in stone. We’ve reversed poor generational health trends before: drops in smoking are a major reason cancer and heart disease deaths fell so dramatically in recent decades. GLP-1 drugs may finally turn the tide against rising rates of obesity and diabetes, though it is still early days. But things could also get worse…for example from a return to higher levels of childhood infectious diseases that can have a lasting impact on health. See for example: [ ](https://jenndowd.substack.com/p/dont-you-forget-about-measles-the) [ Don’t You Forget About Me(asles): The Virus That Erases Immune Memory ](https://jenndowd.substack.com/p/dont-you-forget-about-measles-the) Jenn Dowd, PhD · March 24, 2025 [ Read full story ](https://jenndowd.substack.com/p/dont-you-forget-about-measles-the) Even as an optimist, emerging data on the “generational health drift” has my full attention. For most of my research career, we took it for granted that each generation would be healthier than the last. But if present trends continue, **50 could be the new 60….**and Gen Z celebrities will soon look older than Paul Rudd :). Stay well, Jenn Share the Health! If you found this post useful, please share it with a friend. Share

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How lip-syncing to AI let Forced Entertainment ‘play the game of theatre’

Today we have a fascinating piece by long-time Forced Entertainment fan Ben Kulvichit, speaking to Tim Etchells about their latest show Cold Sweat, how they are integrating lip-sync and AI voices into their work, the question of ‘authenticity’ on stage, and how lip-sync has even opened the door for them to make “something a little bit like drama”. This piece is a paid partnership with the Southbank Centre, where you can see Cold Sweat next month – we’re very grateful to the Southbank Centre for their ongoing support for Exeunt. Holly Williams ‘It was immediately interesting and uncanny’ **By Ben Kulvichit** “Is the microphone on?” So goes one of the opening lines of Signal to Noise, delivered by a human performer lip-syncing to an AI-generated voice. The voice is American, cheery but sluggish, slowed down into a gelatinous drawl. It repeats ad infinitum in a farce of stuckness; an answer never materialises. I find myself asking the same question as I hop on a Google Meet call with Tim Etchells, the artistic director of Forced Entertainment. We spend five or ten minutes frowning at each other, muting and unmuting, me gesticulating in semaphore into my webcam, checking if I am coming through now, restarting the laptop. To Etchells, I appear exaggeratedly mouthing words, my voice missing. In this gloopy purgatory of broken communication, life imitates art imitates life imitates art. We try a Zoom instead. Forced Entertainment, the pioneering British theatre company who have been at the avant-garde of performance since the 1980s, turned an interesting artistic corner with Signal to Noise, created on the occasion of their 40th anniversary. The whole performance employed this lip-sync technique to AI voices; on the face of it a left-field move from a company whose identity has long been grounded in the earthy, immediate presences of its performers and its unassuming, low-tech approach to theatricality. The technique, however, turned out to provide the company with a “rich new seam” of artistic enquiry, and has now spawned a trilogy of works. The second instalment, Cold Sweat, plays at Sheffield Theatres, Southbank Centre, and Lancaster Arts in October, while the third part, Everything Must Go, has been touring in Europe and is slated to come to the UK in 2027. As is often the case with Forced Entertainment shows, the main conceit for this work didn’t arrive until quite late. They were “four or five weeks into rehearsals for Signal to Noise,” Etchells recalls, and getting nowhere. Away from rehearsals, he had been playing around with feeding “weird texts” to AI voices to see how they would cope with them – “basically for my own amusement” – and was compelled by the uniformly “serviceable, benign, good-natured” tone they would read in, no matter how poetic, fractured or experimental the writing. On a hunch, he brought some examples into rehearsals and the performers gave lip-syncing a go. “It was immediately interesting and uncanny,” he recalls, with the performers having to deal in the moment with the problem of mapping themselves onto another artificial ‘performer,’ which itself was dealing with the problem of a very human text. “Almost all the writing for these projects would be useless to us unless it was done in this way,” says Etchells. “We wouldn’t know what to do with it. It’s too poetic. It’s too fictional. It’s too tangled.” But exploring lip-syncing along to the text has opened “an enormous reservoir of ways of thinking about writing and performing.” Subscribe to Exeunt, and get two in-depth pieces on theatre a week, direct to your inbox Subscribe Forced Entertainment have long been sifting through the detritus of popular culture, from daytime TV to end-of-the-pier vaudeville, magic acts and clown shows, to find frameworks for their own unusual entertainments. Lip-syncing, then, makes sense for them to experiment with. As a mode of performance, it’s wired into popular consciousness through pop stars trying to convince stadium audiences of their liveness, or those same voices as channeled through the made-up lips of contestants on RuPaul’s Drag Race, or movie dialogue spreading virally through the host bodies of TikTok users. For Etchells, lip-syncing is often about “approaching real voices and trying to take on their aura,” subsuming that original human presence into yours. “There’s a very basic, elemental sort of theatre magic to it, produced in this very easy way.” This broad approach resonates with instances of lip-syncing within contemporary performance, too. In works like Re-Member Me and Showmanism, performance artist Dickie Beau acts as a kind of spirit medium for archival recordings (this process of re-membering – as in, giving corporeal form to voices – relies on his masterfully precise actor’s technique), while Frankie Thompson is similarly possessed by a host of characters ranging from a nine-year-old Jacob Rees-Mogg to Cliff Richards, all of whom she finds compellingly nauseating, in the exorcism ritual that is her latest show, Horrible Things. What’s different about Forced Entertainment’s use of lip-syncing is that here, there is no original presence to be channeled. The performers are instead taking on what Etchells describes as “the voices of nobody,” or rather the “phantasmic, aggregated echoes” of the many many voices on whose data the AI has been trained, and which are now conjuring into existence words they never actually said. There is a sort of mournful, empty quality to these voices, having “washed up” far away from the people they originally belonged to, to find themselves in stranger’s mouths listing objects, wondering if anyone can hear them and glitching in interminable loops. There is a cold, sad anonymity to it all. Etchells remarks that occasionally the software company he used has notified him that particular people are withdrawing their voices from the platform, instructing him to cease use of those voices. Using these technologies in performance certainly brings up ethical questions around digital rights, consent, identity and ownership, although in the grand scheme of things, Etchells is fairly blasé about it: of all the purposes someone’s voice might be put to without their knowledge, “an avant-garde performance is probably the least of their worries.” [ ](https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/frankie-thompson-horrible-things-essay-mental-health-compulsive-behaviours-pleasance-courtyard-soho-theatre) [ Frankie Thompson: How I manage my own ‘horrible things’ at the Edinburgh Fringe ](https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/frankie-thompson-horrible-things-essay-mental-health-compulsive-behaviours-pleasance-courtyard-soho-theatre) Exeunt · Aug 25 [ Read full story ](https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/frankie-thompson-horrible-things-essay-mental-health-compulsive-behaviours-pleasance-courtyard-soho-theatre) For the performers, though, lip-syncing to these strange, artificial voices is an odd task, requiring them to bend their live, human presence into the shapes produced by machines. Politically, it mirrors processes that are already at play in the continued computational automation of human life. Etchells brings up James Bridle’s writings on new technologies as a reference point: one example Bridle gives is of “chaotic storage”, a logistics technique employed by Amazon fulfilment centres whereby items are stored not according to traditional methods of categorisation or alphabetisation, but in a way that an algorithm determines to produce the most efficient routes for ‘picking’ based on customer purchase patterns. This appears completely random and incomprehensible to humans, with paddling pools sitting next to USB sticks sitting next to blowtorches, and so for the warehouse workers, the process of picking items becomes completely reliant on technology which tells them where to go. Our world is increasingly being designed not with humans in mind, but rather machines. As Etchells puts it, “technology malforms the space, and then you end up having to live in it.” Initially, Forced Entertainment tried their best to live in the world of machines: “I was in the it’s-got-to-be-perfect school of lip-sync,” says Etchells. But with their aesthetic being so tied to the failing act, the slipping mask, the shoddy costume, “it’s no surprise really that that didn’t last.” Instead, the performers got to enjoy being late for a line, or playing games with each other, “stealing” each other’s voices. Etchells compares it to the principles of ventriloquism, in which a free-floating voice unattached to a body is fundamentally discomforting and “sort of traumatic”. That discomfort is equally as alluring to Forced Entertainment as the satisfaction of precision, the pretence of authenticity only interesting if shown to be a pretence. Lip-sync has also opened up new avenues for the company. Having been allergic all their lives to Plays-with-a-capital-P, with Cold Sweat Forced Entertainment find themselves approaching something a little bit like drama. Rather than the presentational arena of Signal to Noise’s open white stage, Cold Sweat places us more decisively in a “fictional locale”: what appears to be “the aftermath of some disastrous party or backyard drinking binge” where three figures – family members, or neighbours, perhaps – are the last ones standing. “It’s all quite acrimonious and accusatory, everyone’s talking over each other.” For Etchells, this more fictional mode is “a door that we’ve never been able to open. We’ve just never really gone there.” Perhaps it is the technique of lip-syncing, an extra buffer of mediation, that allows them to venture away from the here-and-now without feeling that they have to commit to the “psychological claptrap” that comes along with acting; to be able to “play the game of theatre, without getting one’s hands too dirty.” As I wonder how else the impulses behind Forced Entertainment’s work have changed over time, it occurs to me that over the last ten years of new creations, with the exception of If All Else Fails, the company’s performers haven’t ever spoken on stage: there were two shows without any language at all, Out of Order and Under Bright Light, and then this trilogy of lip-sync works. Etchells agrees it’s a shift away from earlier productions, that were so often about “the actual voices of the performers and their actual presences. We had a lot of money, in some ways, on an authentic approach to what it might mean to speak on the stage.” But this sense of authentic presence itself had a fakeness to it; these days, Etchells can’t stand that mode of being onstage where performers “are here to be cheeky and witty versions of themselves. I don’t want to be charmed.” Pulling back into a more anonymous space has resulted in works that feel slightly sharper-edged, more brutal in a way. “All of these shows are post-Brexit, post-Trump, post-truth, post-everything,” Etchells notes. Speech, charisma, authenticity – these things feel politically loaded, and perhaps warmth and openness just don’t feel like the right tools to reflect the world we’re living in. “It feels like the space is closing down, and we’re trying to deal with the fact that the system, the structure that you’re in, is more oppressive and more powerful. It probably always was, but I think we’re just more tuned to it now.” Yet even without their voices, the performers’ distinctive presences – ones that many audiences have followed around for years, if not decades – still, inevitably, shine through as they physically navigate whatever unending task the system of the piece has set for them. They’re still trying to keep up with the onslaught of text, still running about, changing costumes, moving stuff around. The human is always stuck in the teeth of the machine, jamming the smooth, frictionless cheeriness of the not-real, gesticulating silently, trying desperately to communicate. Cold Sweat is at Sheffield Theatres, 2 to 3 October; Southbank Centre, London, 9 to 10 October; Lancaster Arts, 14 October [ ](https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/exeunt-recommends-the-best-autumn-theatre-2026-lives-of-others-standard-of-living-our-friends-in-the-north-lanny-) [ Exeunt recommends... the best autumn theatre ](https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/exeunt-recommends-the-best-autumn-theatre-2026-lives-of-others-standard-of-living-our-friends-in-the-north-lanny-) Exeunt · Sep 16 [ Read full story ](https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/exeunt-recommends-the-best-autumn-theatre-2026-lives-of-others-standard-of-living-our-friends-in-the-north-lanny-) This piece was paid for by the Southbank Centre. Such support helps Exeunt to keep publishing the most interesting writing, about the most exciting theatre. Interested in partnering with Exeunt? 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Ohio governor’s race is a battle over Covid, health costs, and trust in science

The race between Amy Acton and Vivek Ramaswamy could be the election’s most direct test of where the heartland stands on health care and the pandemic.

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The race between Amy Acton and Vivek Ramaswamy could be the election’s most direct test of where the heartland stands on health care and the pandemic.

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Sep 22 • 4:30 AM EDT • Health • statnews.com
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Kylian Mbappé responds to Madrid Derby referee drama

Real Madrid star Kylian Mbappé has on Monday spoken publicly for the first time regarding the fallout from yesterday’s Madrid Derby. This of course comes as chatter surrounding the matchup continue...

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Sep 21 • 4:45 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Prince Harry steps out in London without Meghan amid royal drama

LONDON – Prince Harry is stepping out, under a cloud of royal drama.

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Sep 21 • 2:35 PM EDT • Entertainment • centraloregondaily.com
Laver Cup 2026 format, points-scoring system explained

Team World hit back in San Francisco after their dramatic loss to Team Europe in the 2025 Laver Cup. Will it be repeat or revenge in London?

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Sep 21 • 2:19 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 introduce a new Theater Mode setting

Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 include a new Health Sensing System that dramatically improves heart rate data. The...

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Sep 21 • 12:49 PM EDT • Technology • 9to5mac.com
Bergen New Bridge, Ramapo College partner to bolster state’s health care workforce

Bergen New Bridge Medical Center and Ramapo College are expanding their partnership to bring more students into real-world clinical settings.

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Sep 21 • 11:08 AM EDT • Health • roi-nj.com
Iran YouTube Stories: How Rash Decisions Have Plagued Iranian Politics

In an interview with Sobhan Yahyaei on the Panorama website, Morad Saghafi, a political science researcher and civic activist, argued th ...

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Sep 21 • 10:06 AM EDT • Politics • iranwire.com