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Scientists are teaching AI-powered robots to run lab experiments

Scientists are building autonomous robotic labs powered by artificial intelligence. The goal, they say, is for these robots to take over human researchers' most laborious, time-consuming tasks.

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Jun 5 • 5:00 AM EDT • Science • npr.org
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Hospitals Are Leading Efforts to Make Health Care More Affordable

Affordability is front and center in conversations across the country, as Americans feel pressure from the rising cost of living and policymakers search for solutions. Hospitals and health systems share their concerns because we see the impact of high costs every day on the patients and families we serve. Hospitals are not waiting to do their part. Across the nation, they are already implementing efforts to make healthcare more affordable and accessible, as well as providing solutions that could lower costs across the entire health care system.

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Jun 5 • 4:09 AM EDT • Health • aha.org
Legal battle over Trump's $1.8B 'anti-weaponization' fund rages on

'The Anti-Weaponization Fund presents a threat to our constitutional democracy,' Sens. Cory Booker and Bill Cassidy wrote in a court brief.

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Jun 5 • 3:01 AM EDT • Politics • usatoday.com
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L.A. Times insider: Austin Reaves wants max deal from Lakers

According to a Los Angeles Times insider, the Lakers may have no choice but to give Austin Reaves a max contract this summer if they want to keep him.

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Jun 5 • 12:39 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Healthy mom nearly died after dismissing sepsis symptoms as the flu

In 2015, Audrey Wiggins was a healthy 31-year-old when she thought she’d come down with the flu. Instead, her condition spiraled into a severe case of sepsis that left her in the ICU for 10 days, including five days in a medically induced coma.

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Mary Travis admits her husband Randy Travis' health crisis made their marriage 'stronger'

The singer's wife shared that "there was never any question" that they were gonna stay together.

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Jun 4 • 8:34 PM EDT • Health • foxnews.com
Latham & Watkins Advises Health Catalyst on Divestiture of Vitalware

Multidisciplinary team represents the healthcare intelligence company in the transaction to accelerate strategic transformation.

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Jun 4 • 8:29 PM EDT • Health • lw.com
Our Town: Waterloo bakery teaches students business skills alongside baking

A downtown Waterloo bakery is providing students with more than just a paycheck.

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Jun 4 • 8:07 PM EDT • Business • kcrg.com
Butler University breaks ground on 1,400-capacity entertainment venue
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Allen Greene is making a bet big on Pitt football and basketball. Will his gamble create a 'launching pad' for NIL growth?

Pitt athletic director Allen Greene has a strategy to boost NIL fundraising efforts: Bet big on the two sports that generate the most revenue. During a...

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Jun 4 • 6:25 PM EDT • Sports • post-gazette.com
Scott Forbes names game one starter for super regional

UNC baseball manager Scott Forbes has named Ryan Lynch the game one starter vs. USC.

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Jun 4 • 5:50 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Conflict over identity politics could lead to civil war in the long term, Kemi Badenoch says

In an interview for a BBC Radio 4 documentary, England's Identity Crisis, the Conservative leader warned of rising tensions as groups on the left and the right.

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Jun 4 • 5:48 PM EDT • Politics • bbc.com
Psst…Halle Berry would like to talk about your vaginal health

Halle Berry, an investor in NellaSpec, talks about a new speculum and why she'll keep speaking out about women's health.

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Jun 4 • 5:43 PM EDT • Health • usatoday.com
WATCH: Trump says Pulte isn't 'permanent' pick for national intelligence chief after GOP pushback
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Butler University breaks ground on 1,400-capacity entertainment venue
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A district attorney’s job Is justice, not politics

Washoe DA Hicks writes: This summer, I will begin my 25th year as a prosecutor serving my hometown.

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Jun 4 • 2:46 PM EDT • Politics • rgj.com
Arts and Entertainment Agenda, June 4-11

Hotel Jerome’s Twilight Tarot, June 4 Hotel Jerome’s new Twilight Tarot series will take place weekly at 8 p.m. Thursdays in the Garden Room starting June 4. A local expert tarot card reader will guide...

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Jun 4 • 12:06 PM EDT • Entertainment • aspentimes.com
Cam Heyward is still going strong as he closes in on the Steelers' record for longevity

If Cam Heyward keeps getting new contracts or years added to his deal, he will creep closer to a Steelers record not many players could ever sniff. Heyward’s...

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“The first time [in the NBA Finals] was really cool, …

“The first time [in the NBA Finals] was really cool, …

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Shohei Ohtani dazzles again on mound, at plate: 'He's from another planet'

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The Knicks’ grimy Game 1 win, plus a World Cup retrospective

The Pulse Newsletter 📣 | This is The Athletic’s daily sports newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Pulse directly in your inbox. Good morning! Embrace the grime today. Coming up: 🗽 New York’s moxie 🌬️ Sabalenka’s collapse 👨🏻‍🦲 Wildest World Cup moments One thought raced through my head every time I watched a New York Knicks possession in the fourth quarter last night: These dudes are grimy. I mean that as a huge compliment. There’s grit, and then there’s grime. Every bucket, every rebound, every screen oozed difficulty, as if each player was...

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Jun 4 • 6:15 AM EDT • Sports • nytimes.com
Bass has 'utterly failed' her constituents throughout political career, conservative commentator says

Conservative commentator Elisha Krauss and former California GOP Chairwoman Jessica Millan Patterson discuss California’s governor’s race and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’ advancement to a November runoff on ‘Fox News @ Night.’

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Jun 3 • 11:43 PM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
Knicks open NBA Finals on road with win over Spurs

SAN ANTONIO — The New York Knicks’ winning streak lives on, and they struck first in the NBA Finals. Jalen Brunson scored 30 points, Karl-Anthony Towns finished with 18 points and 12 rebounds, and the Knicks erased a 14-point second-half deficit to beat the San Antonio Spurs 105-95 in Game 1 of the finals on […]

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Jun 3 • 8:00 PM EDT • Sports • altoonamirror.com
Dan Bongino: I miss the good old fashioned political scandals

Fox News contributor Dan Bongino discusses Dr. Adam Hisham Hamawy’s New Jersey House primary victory and his past association with a top terrorist on ‘The Ingraham Angle.’

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Jun 3 • 7:54 PM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
Michigan high school sophomore uses journalism skills to promote mental health for student athletes
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Jun 3 • 6:56 PM EDT • Health • cbsnews.com
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Researchers decode hidden patterns in World Cup data

Northeastern’s Network Science Institute is using data to decode the 2026 World Cup, from passing networks to predictive models.

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Jun 3 • 3:45 PM EDT • Science • news.northeastern.edu
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UM-Health Sparrow moving to outsource nearly 400 employees

A union rep for the affected workers, who make about $16 to $25 an hour, said concerns about pay and benefits are abundant.

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Jun 3 • 2:40 PM EDT • Health • lansingstatejournal.com
VIDEO: Law enforcement seen at Upstate business

A law enforcement presence was seen at a business in Abbeville County, South Carolina, Wednesday afternoon.

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West Nile virus detected in south central Ottawa County, health officials confirm

West Nile virus has been detected in Ottawa County.

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Jun 3 • 12:14 PM EDT • Health • wwmt.com
These Are The 8 Shows Canceled By NBC In 2026 So Far

"Law & Order: Organized Crime" and more shows are not returning.

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Jun 3 • 11:39 AM EDT • Entertainment • huffpost.com
Still facing copyright lawsuits, AI music generator Suno raises another $400M

The prominent AI music generation startup is now valued at over $5.4 billion -- about seven months ago, it raised at a $2.45 billion valuation.

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Jun 3 • 11:31 AM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
EA SPORTS launch F1 25 2026 Season Pack worldwide

EA SPORTS have launched the 2026 Season Pack for F1 25, adding the latest regulations, cars, teams, driver line-ups, and the virtual Madring circuit.

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Jun 3 • 11:02 AM EDT • Sports • formula1.com
Kelp-powered planes, super El Niño and the science of sunburn

In this news roundup: climate crisis fuels hantavirus spread, extreme heat kills 3,400 Indians per day and countries endorse ICJ opinion

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Jun 3 • 10:58 AM EDT • Science • thinklandscape.globallandscapesforum.org
Kirk Herbstreit not back on EA Sports College Football 27 video game

ESPN's Kirk Herbstreit, who lent his voice for the video game when it rebooted two years ago, will not be on EA Sports College Football 27, per report

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Jun 3 • 9:26 AM EDT • Sports • usatoday.com
'Survivor 50' players name the best moment of the season

'Survivor 50' players name the best moment of the season, and while one clear winning answer emerges, get ready for a few twists in the replies.

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Jun 3 • 9:21 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
The Hartford to sell asset management business in deal valued at up to $1.9B

The Hartford is selling a Pennsylvania-based asset manager with about 400 employees.

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Amateur sleuth exposes basic blunder in scores of cancer studies

Scientists at Cambridge, Oxford, Stanford and other universities appear to have accidentally used the wrong ingredient in their experiments

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Jun 3 • 8:21 AM EDT • Science • thetimes.com
Michigan’s rural health investment must be built to scale

Michigan’s rural health investment should not simply fund isolated success stories. It should accelerate the movement of proven models from one community to the next.

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Jun 3 • 8:09 AM EDT • Health • detroitnews.com
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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Inspiring future innovators: 400+ middle, high school students explore career paths at App State STEAM Expo

Over 400 middle and high school students took part in App State’s STEAM Expo this spring, exploring science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics through hands-on learning and interactive engagement with App State faculty and students. The annual event helps students connect classroom concepts to future academic and career possibilities.

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Jun 3 • 7:33 AM EDT • Science • today.appstate.edu
Where to watch Phoenix Mercury vs Seattle Storm on June 3: TV channel, start time and streaming

Here's how to watch Wednesday's Seattle Storm vs Phoenix Mercury game, including start times, TV channels, scores and how to stream.

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Jun 3 • 6:14 AM EDT • Sports • usatoday.com
Texas Tech or Texas? Who will win Women's College World Series rematch

In a rematch of last season's NCAA Division I championship, Texas Tech will square off against Texas for the WCWS title. USA TODAY Sports picks a winner.

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Jun 3 • 6:07 AM EDT • Sports • usatoday.com
Chip prodigy returns to China, hybrid crop grown in desert: 7 science highlights

From the world’s first parallel processor to doubts over Elon Musk’s Starship, here are some highlights from SCMP’s recent science reporting.

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Jun 3 • 3:30 AM EDT • Science • scmp.com
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Fluorescent spider and armored cricket among incredible discoveries in Angola

Dozens of species unknown to science have been recorded by a survey of the Lisima plateau in Angola’s highlands.

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Iowa GOP Senate candidate Ashley Hinson says prolonged Iran war could become a "political liability"

Iowa GOP Senate candidate Rep. Ashley Hinson acknowledged the U.S.-Iran conflict could become a "political liability" if it stretches beyond the next few weeks, according to audio obtained by CBS News.

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Kyle Busch memorialized by family and friends in private service
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What's being built, bought and planned in Ascension Parish

Here are the latest property transactions, issued permits and upcoming business-related events in the parish. Issued permits A new construction permit for a 12,000-square-foot office and warehouse building on Copperhead Road in Geismar. The project is valued at $400,000 with RW Construction Inc. as the contractor. A demolition permit for the demo of the gym […]

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Caitlyn Jenner sounds alarm on ‘big problem’ in California politics

Fox News contributor Caitlyn Jenner voices a lack of faith in California's voting system on ‘The Story.’

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Cantwell-Cruz bipartisan college sports reform bill gets major Senate hearing on Wednesday

U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell and Sen. Ted Cruz rarely find themselves on the same side of major policy debates.

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Packers rookie kicker Trey Smack struggles at Tuesday's OTA practice

Packers rookie Trey Smack missed four field goal attempts during a windy OTA session on Tuesday.

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Jun 2 • 4:13 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Reality TV star Spencer Pratt tests LA voters' appetite for political outsider

Voters across Los Angeles share their thoughts on reality TV star Spencer Pratt entering the mayoral race and reveal the issues and leadership traits driving their decisions at the ballot box.

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Dr Oz says California owes $2B over health benefits for immigrants in US illegally

Dr. Oz argues states should not use federal funds for benefits that exceed national policy, citing California’s Medi-Cal program and costs to taxpayers nationwide.

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Jun 2 • 3:25 PM EDT • Health • foxnews.com
Orlando Health unveils details of new hospital plans for Viera

Orlando Health will build a 240-bed hospital in Viera with an emergency department opening in the fall of 2027.

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Jun 2 • 11:35 AM EDT • Health • floridatoday.com
Elvis Costello & the Imposters will perform in Lancaster this year

Singer-songwriter Elvis Costello will return to the stage to perform songs from the course of his four-decade-long music career.

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Jun 2 • 10:55 AM EDT • Entertainment • lancasteronline.com
How Nespresso Builds Sustainability Into Its Business Model | MIT Sloan Management Review

Nespresso North America’s CEO explains how responsible agricultural practices help ensure coffee quality.

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What Wise Leaders Understand About Business Ecosystems | MIT Sloan Management Review

Articles in MIT SMR’s summer 2026 issue highlight the value in taking a generous approach to sharing lessons with peers.

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Live Results: California midterm primaries

Two candidates for California governor will emerge from a massive field of 61 hopefuls in a state primary on Tuesday, when voters will also select U.S. House nominees using a new map they approved in a 2025 ballot measure.

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Jun 2 • 9:00 AM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
‘A rude awakening’: more doctors running for office in rebuke to Trump’s health policies

Medical professionals are entering the political arena as funding cuts, layoffs and RFK Jr’s vaccine skepticism spur them to action

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How one state’s medical meal program lowered health care costs

Medicaid work requirements, fast-tracked funding for experimental Ebola vaccines, and more health news from Morning Rounds

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This Tina Fey Comedy Is Just The Fun Escape You Need Right Now

This Netflix comedy is the perfect getaway from your real-world troubles.

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Rennes interested in €10m-rated Antoine Hainaut

Stade Rennais, after a two-year absence, will return to European football next season. With stability in the managerial and hierarchical positions, the club are already preparing for next season and, ...

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Health Alert: U.S. Embassy – June 2, 2026 – Thailand Enhanced Ebola Screening - U.S. Embassy & Consulate in Thailand

Health Alert: U.S. Embassy – June 2, 2026 – Thailand Enhanced Ebola Screening Ebola Screening Location: International Ports of Entry, Thailand Event: Thailand has implemented Ebola disease-related screening and quarantine measures for travelers who stayed in or transited through Ebola disease-affected countries, including the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. Effective May 27, 2026, travelers from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, or other neighboring countries with cross-border transmission will be screened by communicable disease control officers at the international port of entry in Thailand and could be subject to mandatory quarantine or self-isolation for at least 21 days. Failure to comply with quarantine or isolation orders may result in fines, imprisonment, or both under Thai law. Thailand currently has no confirmed Ebola cases but has implemented these measures following the World Health Organization’s Public Health Emergency declaration. For more information, contact Thailand’s Department of Disease Control hotline at 1422. Actions to Take: Follow directions from Thai authorities. Review Consular Information for Americans Regarding the Ebola Outbreak Stay up to date with the latest CDC Travel Health Notices Review the CDC’s Ebola Disease: Current Situationand Ebola Disease Basics Prepare or update your personal emergency plan. Review the Traveler’s Checklist. If at risk for Ebola disease, alert your healthcare provider if you are experiencing symptoms consistent with Ebola disease to receive guidance prior to presenting for care. Continue to take malaria prophylaxis if recommended, as the symptoms of malaria can mimic symptoms of Ebola disease, leading to preventable health scares. Monitor your health for 21 days following travel if you traveled to an area experiencing an Ebola disease outbreak. If you are a U.S. citizen or national planning to travel to the United States, contact your airline to confirm your flight and route. Enroll and update your information in the Smart Traveler Enrollment Program (STEP). Follow the Department of State on Facebook and X . Visit state.gov and the U.S. Embassy in Thailand website. Assistance: U.S. Embassy Bangkok Phone: +66 02-205-4000 Email: ACSBKK@state.gov https://th.usembassy.gov/ State Department – Consular Affairs 888-407-4747 or 202-501-4444 Thailand Country Information Enroll in Smart Traveler Enrollment Program (STEP) to receive security updates

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America 250 has become a political rally for ‘MAGA advocates’

An ‘All-Star panel’ debates partisanship in America’s 250th anniversary celebration.

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The Autism-Therapy Business Is Booming—and So Is the Billing Abuse

Insurers warn of fraud and exorbitant charges from providers, including one that stuck a parent with a surprise $911,400 bill.

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Seattle Mariners Manager Expands on Starting Pitcher's Career-Best Season
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Simon Cowell reveals the 'Got Talent' standout who did 'more good for our show than any other contestant'

Simon Cowell selects the 'Got Talent' competition series' MVP ahead of the new 'America's Got Talent' season.

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National Academy of Inventors Convenes Global Leaders in Science, Technology, and Innovation for Landmark 15th Annual Conference in Los Angeles

The Premier Convening of Inventors, Researchers, and Technology Leaders Examining the Future of Innovation, Commercialization, and Economic Competitiveness LOS ANGELES, June 01, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) will convene its landmark 15th Annual Conference from June 1 through June 4, 2026, in Los Angeles at a defining moment for American innovation, economic competitiveness, and global technological leadership. As nations around the world rapidly accelerate inv

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'A really, really critical juncture': Small businesses sound alarm on health insurance
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UW Bothell professor was finding sources of dangerous water and soil pollution

Melanie Malone led a research project to identify and study contamination sites in Washington state. Then the EPA canceled her grant.

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Summer travel can increase risk of illness, health experts warn
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Ole Miss star Kewan Lacy to make EA Sports' College Football 27 cover, per report

It might not be Trinidad Chambliss, but Ole Miss football is still represented on the cover of EA Sports College Football 27, per a report

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How The World Searches for Extraterrestrial Life May Be Holding Back Discoveries

Could scientists be overlooking life in space?

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Jun 1 • 4:09 PM EDT • Science • time.com
JOINT RELEASE: Bill to Create Jobs and Support New Small Businesses Becomes Law

DENVER, CO - Governor Jared Polis on May 29 signed a bill into law to expand eligibility for the successful CLIMBER (Colorado Loans to Increase Mainstreet Business Economic Recovery) program to better equip small businesses for success, create more good-paying jobs and support local economies.

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Flutter Entertainment updates total voting rights

Flutter Entertainment confirms 173,400,475 ordinary shares in issue, each with one vote, setting the official denominator for UK FCA disclosure calculations.

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Jun 1 • 11:30 AM EDT • Entertainment • stocktitan.net
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2026 L.A. County voter guide: Judges, healthcare tax, sheriff

Here are obscure but very important L.A. County races in the 2026 election. What you need to know about Superior Court judges, the County Sheriff race and healthcare tax measure.

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This Day In Sports: When Reggie and Spike really got after it
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A molecular path toward DNA health

UIC researchers identified a molecular pathway that supports healthy aging and cancer prevention.

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Patriots players offer honest take on A.J. Brown rumors

Wide receiver DeMario Douglas and running back Rhamondre Stevenson shared their thoughts on A.J. Brown potentially joining the Patriots.

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Apple's Smart Glasses Reportedly Delayed Until Late 2027

Still, the glasses are regarded by company leadership as a top priority, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman writes.

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Jun 1 • 8:39 AM EDT • Technology • cnet.com
Streets closed due to business fire

Bimbo Bakeries is located in the 1300 block of Adams Avenue.

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Construction snarls traffic, slows business between Indy and Carmel

Phase 3 of the ongoing Level Up 31 project has clogged up one of the most common corridors connecting Marion and Hamilton counties.

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I know what it’s like to be 80. We have reason to worry about Trump’s health

Physical and mental health aren’t easily separated, especially at our age. And the president is showing many concerning signs

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Jun 1 • 6:00 AM EDT • Health • theguardian.com
Boonsboro makes list of top 25 Maryland high school sports programs

A recent study conducted by Niche led to Boonsboro being ranked No. 22 in a list of top 25 best high schools in Maryland for athletes.

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NASCAR points standings, Cup Series points update after Nashville race

Tyler Reddick is the NASCAR Cup Series points leader after the Cracker Barrel 400 on May 31 at Nashville.

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Who won the NASCAR race today? Full results, standings from 2026 Cracker Barrel 400 in Nashville

Here's what you need to know about the final results from Sunday's race, the Cracker Barrel 400.

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May 31 • 8:49 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
AMD Announces Radeon RX 9070 GRE, Ryzen AI Max PRO 400 Series

AMD is kicking off the busy Computex 2026 week with some new product announcements.

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May 31 • 8:00 PM EDT • Technology • phoronix.com
Study reveals unexpected health benefits after 5 minutes of prayer

Adult patients experienced significant relief from pain and anxiety after just five minutes of in-person prayer, as found in a randomized controlled trial.

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A slow-motion execution of the West Bank health system

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May 31 • 5:36 PM EDT • Health • haaretz.com
Platner's wife calls reports about Senate candidate's explicit texts with women 'shameful'

Graham Platner’s wife called reports that her husband had previously exchanged sexually explicit text messages with several women “shameful" over the weekend, the latest controversy to hit the Maine Democrat’s whirlwind campaign.

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After Gaza, Israel is now causing the West Bank health system to collapse

Most Medications Are Missing From Public Pharmacies, and Many Patients Cannot Afford to Buy Them on the Private Market. Israel's Seizure of Customs Revenues Has Significantly Deepened the Palestinian Health Ministry's Debt, and It Warns: Soon We Will No Longer Be Able to Provide Essential Health Services

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Country Singer Flips Piano, Seemingly Out Of Rage

Morgan Wallen took out his frustrations on his piano.

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Warner Robins business grateful for community support after items, including an AC unit, were stolen
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Sturgeon's personal life and politics collide in BBC interview

BBC Scotland's political editor Glenn Campbell gives his take on Nicola Sturgeon's first media interview since her estranged husband admitted embezzling £400,000 from the SNP.

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Why Trump reversed course to fast-track psychedelic drugs for mental healthcare

President Donald Trump is trying to fast-track research into psychedelics as treatments, creating new opportunities and risks.

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'Rucking' Is The Walking Trend You Need To Try. Here's Why.

Bonus: You probably have the necessary gear in your closet right now.

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Appleton area high school sports results for Saturday, May 30

High school baseball teams were in action to close out the regular season.

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How to watch Jupiter and Venus as they join in the sky this week

You may have noticed two bright "stars" in the west after sunset. Those aren't stars but rather two planets: Jupiter and Venus. And they're on their way for a beautiful meet-up in the days ahead.

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‘This is our future’: Young Democrats urge youth involvement in politics

Democratic advocates at the high school and college level said they’re focused on issues they believe will shape their future.

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Graham Platner’s wife says she’s ‘deeply hurt’ by public revelations of her husband’s extramarital sexts

The wife of Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner said she was “deeply hurt” after details of her husband’s extramarital sexting became public Saturday, accusing a former campaign official and confidante of betraying her trust.

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New downtown business, Sanctuary Goods, excited for summer

Owner Stefan Bernardino said they’re especially looking forward to participating in the local arts scene, especially as the free shows at the Levitt At The Falls begin next week.

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