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Diamondbacks host the Nationals in first of 3-game series
The Arizona Diamondbacks open a three-game series at home against the Washington Nationals on Friday
France lose to Ivory Coast
With a week to go until the start of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, France with FC Bayern duo Dayot Upamecano and Michael Olise in the starting line-up suffered a friendly defeat against Ivory Coast on Th...
Norway's crown princess placed on listed for lung transplant, palace says
Norway's Crown Princess Mette-Marit has been placed on a waiting list for a lung transplant after a further deterioration of her health, the royal household said in a statement on Friday.
🥐 Florentino unleashed, Casillas and Del Bosque... 5️⃣ for Friday
The football world is experiencing a day of institutional upheaval and hot seats on the bench just before the World Cup. The electoral race for the Real Madrid presidency has exploded completely, brin...
Newark Nite is Friday; city announces entertainment schedule
Newark officials have released the entertainment schedule for Newark Nite.
African Media Entertainment's (JSE:AME) Conservative Accounting Might Explain Soft Earnings
Shareholders appeared unconcerned with African Media Entertainment Limited's ( JSE:AME ) lackluster earnings report...
Pope Leo's visiting Europe's migration hot spots. Catholics hope he'll ease political tensions
Pope Leo XIV will visit two flashpoints of migration from Africa to Europe over less than a month starting on June 11. He will go first to Spain’s Canary Islands in the Atlantic and then Italy’s Lampedusa island in the Mediterranean. These remote outposts of Europe have struggled with the arrival...
India vs Tajikistan FIFA friendly; Hariharan-Arjun in Indonesia Open QF: Indian Sports LIVE, June 5
Here are all the updates from Indian sports on June 5, 2026.
The Cold Front: This is how Ben & Jerry's ice cream in Israel defeated BDS
Avi Singer was a student in New York when he met Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, the Jewish owners of the Ben & Jerry's ice cream empire: their acquaintance developed into friendship and a business partnership, until politics and BDS got in the way
Cubs' Edward Cabrera: Expected to start Friday
Cubs' Edward Cabrera: Expected to start Friday
Lars Nootbaar’s Return Gives Cardinals Something Stats Can’t Track
We now know that the St. Louis Cardinals will finally have Lars Nootbaar back in the Major League lineup as he’s being activated for the homestand versus the Cincinnati Reds starting Friday night. There’s been a lot of discussion about what that will mean for the roster moving forward, but I’d like to focus on […]
Urban Waste Management, Air Quality, and Public Health: Assessing the Health Burden of Rapid Urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa
China CDC Weekly, first published in 2019 by China CDC, is an authoritative, trusted resource for public and global health research.
Word on the Street: Election-night parties prove politics cures the loneliness epidemic
Watch parties, campaign friends and the ritual 8:45 p.m. vote drop create a rare sense of belonging in an increasingly disconnected age.
Businesses face strict World Cup trademark rules. Here are the guidelines
A Fort Worth small business owner faced trademark infringement issues due to a World Cup hashtag. We look at how to avoid such problems.
Air quality health advisory for ozone in effect Frida
An air quality health advisory for ground-level ozone will be in effect Friday from 11 a.m.
Harris County Public Health launches Ebola dashboard to keep Houston-area residents informed
Harris County Public Health, in coordination with local agencies, has launched a public Ebola dashboard to inform residents as enhanced airport screenings begin in Houston due to an ongoing outbreak in Central Africa.
Food, entertainment, games | Taste of Lititz returns on Friday
Taste of Lititz will return to East Main Street in Lititz, Lancaster County, Friday evening, offering food, entertainment, and games in a block party-style event.
Rockford summer entertainment series ‘Music on the Mall’ returns to Edgebrook
From 6:30p.m. to 8:30, Friday, June 5, the summer concert series returns to Edgebrook’s Center Court where it will run every Friday through August 28.
Science is HERE All Summer at The Tech Interactive
San Jose’s Science Center Announces Packed Lineup Headlined by Summer Camp, Tech Topple, DOME Series, Workshops, and Tech at Nite The Tech Interactive is bringing a summer full of hands-on science experiences to downtown San Jose, featuring STEM camps, immersive dome shows, interactive exhibits, workshops, and family-friendly activities designed for visitors of all ages. Learn more at https://www.thetech.org San Jose, CA, June 04, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Summer is HERE at The Tech Interactive,
Circus Circus Las Vegas Offers Iconic Family Fun, Entertainment and Unforgettable Summer Memories
Circus Circus Las Vegas, the iconic Las Vegas Strip resort and the city's premier family-friendly destination, is welcoming in guests this summer to experience the Las Vegas that started it all: coin-operated slots, paper bingo cards, mesquite-grilled steaks, circus acts, carnival midway, and a five-acre indoor theme park all under one roof.
‘He hated women’: Explosive abuse, new Nazi tattoo allegations from exes rock Platner's campaign
Graham Platner's ex-girlfriends allege rape fantasies, violent episodes and heavy drinking in new report as Maine Democrat faces mounting scandals.
Dodgers on Deck: Friday, June 5 vs. Angels
The Dodgers are back home ever so briefly, with a single-series homestand this weekend against the Angels at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. Back in Anaheim from May 15-17, the Dodgers had their way with the Angels in a three-game sweep, outscoring the Halos 31-3. The Angels come to Los Angeles having lost 29 of […]
France vs Ivory Coast Highlights
Check out the full match highlights from the international friendly between France and Ivory Coast.
Great River Children’s Museum Teams With Science Museum of Minnesota for “Forces in Motion”
(KNSI) - Kids ready to push, pull, roll, and race will have a place to burn that energy Friday as the Great Ri...
2026 Memorial Tournament Friday tee times: Round 2 pairings
Full 2026 Memorial Tournament tee times for Friday's second round at Muirfield Village, featuring Jordan Spieth, Rory McIlroy and more.
How I Photograph The Northern Lights With My Phone
With “strong” and even “severe” northern lights forecast for North America on Thursday and Friday, here’s how to photograph aurora with a smartphone.
No excuses as Wilkinson insists Wales will be ready
Head coach Rhian Wilkinson says Wales cannot let travel chaos affect their performance in Friday's Women's World Cup qualifier in Montenegro.
‘Packers Family Night, presented by UW Health Kids,’ set for Friday, Aug. 7
Family Night serves as annual highlight of Packers Training Camp, with practice schedule to be announced soon
Arts and Entertainment
Chicago Teen Edition June 5-14 Curtain 440 and director Angela Miloro-Hansen will present “Chicago Teen Edition” with a group of talented singers and dancers from several area high schools. Performances will be Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 3 p.m. at the historic Geauga Theater on 101 Water St. in Chardon. Tickets
Entertainment this week: Maker Show, Art Walk, Food and Wine Faire and more
Friday, June 5 2026 Music at Ski Beach – 4-7 p.m., Fridays at Ski Beach in Incline Village – IVGID passes required For more information, visit https://business.ivcba.org/event-calendar/Details/2026-music-at-ski-beach-1745156?sourceTypeId=Hub. First Fridays – 5:30-8 p.m., Historic Downtown. Type...
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(This revised version corrects the date of Highland Summer Theatre's production “Freaky Friday.”)
Asking Eric: I don’t want to argue about politics with my longtime friend
In today's Asking Eric column, R. Eric Thomas responds to someone who is considering ending a longtime friendship with someone who won't stop talking about politics.
'Priority to keep my place in the team'
Northern Ireland defender Ruairi McConville says the friendlies against Guinea and France are a chance "to impress Michael O'Neill and show him what you can do".
Pio on the scoresheet for Italy
Another night of international football with Inter involvement. Two Nerazzurri players took to the pitch for their national teams in Wednesday's friendlies: Pio Esposito and Piotr Zielinski.Italy, coa...
Is the ‘Charlotte Way’ cracking? Business leaders worry about new direction
For decades, the so-called Charlotte Way has meant collegial government, deference to business leaders and a shared belief that growth is good for a world-class city. Now, after several less business-friendly votes by a new City Council, some leaders worry the Charlotte Way is cracking. Tony Mecia of the Charlotte Ledger joined WFAE Executive Editor Ely Portillo for our weekly segment BizWorthy.
South Africa: 2026 World Cup Squad, Fixtures and Schedule
South Africa head into the 2026 FIFA World Cup with momentum after securing qualification and returning to the tournament for the first time since 2010.South Africa earned their place by finishing top...
Exploring the night sky with author Craig Childs
On July 31 we'll discuss Childs's book, "The Wild Dark," his adventure in the desert, and why darkness matters.
Danielle Fishel and Will Friedle open up about 'sad' rift with 'Boy Meets World' costar Ben Savage
Danielle Fishel and Will Friedle are opening up about their falling out with 'Boy Meets World' costar Ben Savage, whom they say declined to cohost their rewatch podcast in 2022, and has since gone silent.
43rd annual Taste of Buffalo announces wide-ranging, talent-packed entertainment lineup
The Taste of Buffalo presented by Tops Friendly Markets announced more than 20 local artists performing as part of this year's entertainment lineup for the 43rd celebration of the annual food festival. The event will be held along Delaware Avenue and Niagara Square on July 11-12.
REV launches new communications platform for businesses
REV Fiber for Business has launched a cloud-based communications platform designed to help employees collaborate and stay connected with customers through a single mobile and desktop application. “As workplace communication needs evolve from traditional offices to hybrid and remote environments, our business customers need platforms that remove friction,” Tressy Leindecker, REV’s executive vice president of […]
Google's new open source Gemma 4 12B analyzes audio, video — and runs entirely locally on a typical 16GB enterprise laptop
For enterprise leaders aiming to decentralize their AI workloads, Gemma 4 12B offers a rare combination of edge-friendly efficiency and frontier-class reasoning.
Reds recall Noelvi Marte, option TJ Friedl to AAA Louisville
A major outfield overhaul by the Cincinnati Reds.
Reds recall Marte from Triple-A Louisville, send down Friedl
The Reds recalled Noelvi Marte just days after adding Edwin Arroyo, both from the Triple-A Louisville Bats.
Why ocean science is still one of the worst-funded scientific fields worldwide
For a planet that is 71% ocean, humanity spends a surprisingly small amount of time (and money) trying to understand it. Ocean science sits in a strange place in the research ecosystem. It underpin…
Jennifer Aniston and Lisa Kudrow tear up over “Friends” and“ The Comeback” connection: 'S---!'
The real-life friends reunited on June 3 for the season 24 premiere of the "Variety" interview series Actors on Actors.
Ontario Science Centre Celebrates National Indigenous History Month with Free Family-Friendly Event June 6
The Ontario Science Centre is proud to honour National Indigenous History Month with a free, family-friendly, event Indigenous Celebration 2026. Developed in collaboration with Indigenous artists, knowledge keepers and organizations, the community-led event will take place on Saturday, June 6 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Evergreen Brick Works.
Deloitte taps CSO to lead sustainability for new EMEA business
Company veteran Smruti Naik-Jones — most recently CSO for Deloitte UK and North and South Europe — will lead sustainability strategy for the firm’s Europe, Middle East and Africa business.
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!
Inter Milan move to beat Premier League clubs to Palestra
Inter Milan have made their move to beat Premier League teams to the signing of Marco Palestra.The right-back is Inter’s top target to replace Denzel Dumfries, who is closing in on a transfer to Rea...
Yankees Rivalry Roundup: Rays blanked by Tigers
Detroit, and an old friend, ensured the Yankees didn’t lose any ground in the AL East on Tuesday.
A Psychedelics Revival Is Overdue
R. Gordon Wasson was a Manhattan banker who fancied himself a mycologist. In 1955, after decades studying the mushrooms of ancient cultures, he traveled to the remote mountains of southern Mexico to partake of what locals called the “flesh of the gods.” Wasson chronicled the experience in Life magazine — the first widely published account of psychedelic mushrooms since Spanish friars condemned their use in the early 17th century.
Charles Leclerc: Ferrari driver signs two-year contact extension until 2028 with team ahead of home Monaco Grand Prix
Ferrari announce contract renewal with Charles Leclerc ahead of his home race in Monaco; Sky Sports News understands previous deal was set to expire at the end of this year; watch every session of the Monaco GP from Friday, live on Sky Sports F1
South African rand slips on renewed Gulf hostilities, sour business PMI
The South African rand weakened in early trading on Wednesday as renewed tensions in the Gulf rattled sentiment after U.S.-Iran talks stalled, while domestic investors also digested a business survey pointing to a contraction in activity.
Germany’s itinerary ahead of USMNT friendly
Germany arrived in Chicago on Tuesday evening ahead of Saturday’s final warm-up friendly against the USMNT. As reported by Kicker, the German national team arrived at their Waldorf Astoria hotel at ...
🗞️ Dumfries, Julián... signings and rumours hit today's headlines
The transfer market ahead of the new season is red-hot on the front pages of Spain and Italy’s leading sports newspapers. With the World Cup on the horizon, Europe’s biggest clubs are moving quick...
Amazon launches Prime in South Africa with unlimited free delivery, savings, and entertainment benefits
For the first time ever, Amazon Prime members in South Africa will be able to shop Prime Day.
Orange County Health says odors may occur as GKN Aerospace chemical tank cleanup continues
Under the oversight of the OC Health Care Agency, South Coast AQMD, and GKN Aerospace, MMA from the tank is scheduled to be pumped out and removed between Thursday and Friday.
5 biggest names on Broncos' roster bubble with OTAs underway
An early look at some fringe roster players for the Denver Broncos with the team starting OTAs.
The IX Sports Podcast | USWNT prepares for physical Brazil friendlies and Mallory Swanson returns
Today on the podcast the host talks USWNT roster and updates listeners on where NWSL teams stand ahead of the summer break.
Bush focuses on making Maine more business-friendly on the campaign trail
Republican candidate for governor Jonathan Bush is visiting businesses as part of his campaign and talking about the need to cut red tape to make Maine more business-friendly.
Blue Jays' Max Scherzer: Making next rehab start Friday
Blue Jays' Max Scherzer: Making next rehab start Friday
Oregonian exposed to hantavirus returns home, goes into quarantine
An Oregonian is home and in quarantine following exposure to a deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship.
Late Koumas goal earns Wales draw with Ghana
Lewis Koumas heads in an equaliser in time added on to earn Wales a 1-1 friendly draw at home to World Cup-bound Ghana.
Disney reveals new entertainment offering for Oogie Boogie Bash amid ‘Coco’ construction
Disneyland is making changes to its entertainment lineup for Oogie Boogie Bash. Madame Leota’s Swinging Wake, a new entertainment offering, will replace the popular Frightfully Fun Parade this year…
DR Congo friendly with Chile cancelled by Spanish city after health concerns over Ebola outbreak in the African nation.
DR Congo's international friendly against Chile in Spain next week is cancelled after authorities raise health concerns over the Ebola outbreak in the African nation.
Entry list: Henry Ford Health 200 at Michigan International Speedway
Check out the full entry list for Friday evening's ARCA Menards Series Henry Ford Health 200 at Michigan International Speedway.
Disneyland construction forces Oogie Boogie Bash to replace Frightfully Fun parade
The new Madame Leota’s Swinging Wake street party joins the 2026 Halloween after-hours event at Disney California Adventure.
Clarinha eyes Finland friendly and relishes senior call-up
Clarinha after the Women’s Under-20 National Team training session in PortugalCredits: Luciana Vermell/CBFThis Tuesday (2), the Women’s Under-20 National Team wrapped up its preparation for the fr...
Moved my family to 2 different countries; difficult parts surprised me
Our family moved abroad twice to different countries. We were surprised the biggest challenges involved housing and healthcare, not making friends.
Behind the Business: Two Fat Friends
Two Fat Friends is located at 1950 Highway 49 in Wiggins.
With ‘Star Fox,’ Nintendo Finally Has a Reason to Use the Switch 2’s GameChat
Don your VTuber furry suit and whine at your friends as Slippy Toad. Come on, you know you’ve always wanted to.
Great success for Foundation at eleventh annual Golf Day
Celtic FC Foundation’s annual Golf Day returned last Friday as Renfrew Golf Club played host to the event for an 11th time. A magnificent net total in the region of £15,000 was raised, with the mai...
'Leeds want to become that established Premier League team'
Leeds' Daniel James says it has been "really big" for him to play the minutes he has in what was a "brilliant season" for the Whites. Despite missing two months with a hamstring problem, the 28-year-old made 19 appearances in the Premier League as Daniel Farke's side finished 14th in their top-flight return. "It's been a brilliant season," said James before Wales' summer friendlies against Ghana and Romania.
Why interviewing Anthony Joshua made me uncomfortable
COMMENT: Six months after the ex-heavyweight champion survived a car crash that killed two of his friends, he spoke to Alex Pattle and others about how he is coping – whether he wanted to or not
Contacts are underway for friendlies with Brighton and Barcelona
Roma continues to finalize the program that will guide the team toward the 2026/2027 season. With the return to the Champions League and the centenary year just around the corner, the Giallorossi are ...
South Africa Business Mood Slips as Iran War Upends Rate Outlook
South African business sentiment weakened in the second quarter as consumers faced fresh pressures from the Iran war that’s clouded the outlook for inflation and interest rates.
'Surging enthusiasm': Byron Donalds' campaign through May raises upward of $81 million
More than 35,000 individual donors have now givien to his Friends of Byron Donalds committee.
Online care is caught in the crossfire as states crack down on corporate medicine
Growing legislative scrutiny across multiple states targets the corporate structure underlying most direct-to-consumer telehealth businesses.
Online care is caught in the crossfire as states crack down on corporate medicine
Growing legislative scrutiny across multiple states targets the corporate structure underlying most direct-to-consumer telehealth businesses.
Senegal’s Faye Names Cabinet Excluding Pastef as Political Rift Widens
Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye appointed a new cabinet that his estranged ally Ousmane Sonko vowed to boycott, deepening a political rift in the West African country as it navigates a debt crisis.
Canada vs Uzbekistan Extended Highlights
Check out the full match highlights between Canada and Uzbekistan in this international friendly.
Local sports loses ‘heart, soul, voice’ and a friend
Old-timers called him the “heart, soul and voice” of Hazleton-area sports, and they weren’t wrong. I called Ron Marchetti my friend. Separated by a generation but bonded by an unabashed, unwavering love of faith, family, friends, com…
As Ebola Spreads, Scientists Race to Find Vaccines and Treatments
The Bundibugyo virus, a little known type, previously had caused just two small outbreaks. Now it’s at the center of a rapidly widening epidemic in Africa.
Towards a responsive health system and equitable access to quality RMNCAH services
Indonesia’s vast geography and sociocultural diversity shape the delivery of reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health (RMNCAH) services in ways that are both enabling and challenging. Across provinces, significant variation has been observed in how services are planned, resourced, and delivered. These variations in service standards and quality are felt daily in the lives of women, newborns and adolescents. Despite these challenges, progress is visible. National estimates show a drop in maternal mortality ratio, from 331 to 140 per 100 000 live births since 2000, signaling improvements in care quality and access. Fertility has stabilised and contraceptive use has grown, yet unmet reproductive health needs persist, and adolescent pregnancies continue to reflect early marriage and limited access to youth-friendly services.To better understand how Indonesia’s health system has evolved under decentralisation, the Ministry of Health, supported by World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), IPAS and the Asian Development Bank (ADB), conducted a joint external review of RMNCAH programmes. This review draws on multiple sources of evidence, including existing literature, policy documents, national health system data, as well as field visits to six selected provinces to represent Indonesia’s geographic and administrative diversity. During the field visits, review teams observed service delivery in health facilities, spoke with health workers and local leaders and met mothers and families to understand how RMNCAH policies are operationalised. One of the challenges identified was the management of low birthweight (LBW) infants, a major contributor to neonatal deaths, under resource constraints. One midwife described a severe case of extremely LBW twins, one stillborn and the other died after three days of care. She recalled how the surviving infant struggled to swallow and may not have received breast milk, while simultaneous emergencies required the team’s attention, affecting the care provided to the infant.A subsequent review of the case by the district health office revealed insufficient antenatal care, fragmented maternal medical history due to population mobility, referral delays, limited provider capacity in neonatal intravenous access and a heavy workload that constrained proper newborn monitoring. These insights informed recommendations to strengthen both system-wide and service-level responses. Since the early 2000s, Indonesia’s decentralisation initiative has given much of the responsibility for funding, staffing and managing health services to regional governments. While the Ministry of Health sets national clinical standards, daily management of public health facilities falls under regional authorities through the Ministry of Internal Affairs. While this arrangement allows services to be tailored to local needs, it also depends heavily on local capacity for planning, budgeting and management. Health facilities and district health offices are better positioned to translate national priorities into local action when they have access to consistent technical support, helping health workers manage resource constraints and infrastructure gaps.The complexity of Indonesia’s health system governance is no easy feat to navigate. Understanding these dynamics is essential to strengthening policy, improving coordination and ensuring more equitable access to services across Indonesia. Under the leadership of Ministry of Health, recommendations from this exercise will be key in guiding the nation’s roadmap to an equitable and quality health system for RMNCAH.Written by Edit Oktavia Manuama, National Professional Officer (Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health), and Jessie Yunus, National Professional Officer (Gender, Rights, Equity, and Disability Inclusion)
Planetary Health Diet May Lower Obesity Risk at Menopause
The planetary health and low-insulinemic diets — rich in plants and whole grains and low in red and processed meats and fried foods — can aid weight management during menopause, a recent study shows.
President Trump to visit Wisconsin on Friday to support farmers
As Dairy Month kicks off, he’ll visit Chippewa County.
Trump administration says it will comply with court order that temporarily paused $1.8 billion compensation fund
The announcement from the Justice Department comes in response to a Friday court ruling by a federal judge in Virginia who ordered plans for the fund halted pending additional arguments later this month.
Celebrity art auction to raise money for Lake County mental health, recovery programs
The Friends of Lake ADAMHS Celebrity Art Auction will feature local artists and leaders supporting mental health and recovery programs
AP report: U.S. to drastically slash the number of embassies in Africa that can process visas
The almost 50 U.S. embassies and consulates that are processing visa applications in Africa will be reduced to 20 “hubs” in the coming weeks, according to three U.S. officials and an internal memo obtained by The Associated Press.
From The Sports Desk: Knicks-Spurs prepare for 1999 NBA Finals reboot
Plus, the US men’s national team beat Senegal in a friendly match yesterday, and our World Cup player spotlight today is Morocco’s Brahim Díaz.
Jamie Dimon calls Coinbase CEO 'full of s--t,' vows to fight crypto-friendly bill in Congress
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon slams Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong and vows an all-out industry fight against the crypto-friendly CLARITY Act in Congress.
Black Friday Expands Beyond Retail into Media, AI Commerce, Advertising, and Entertainment Opportunities
MIAMI, Fla., June 1, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Black Friday, one of the most recognized names in global commerce, is continuing its evolution beyond traditional retail into a broader media,
Black Friday Expands Beyond Retail into Media, AI Commerce, Advertising, and Entertainment Opportunities
MIAMI, Fla., June 1, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Black Friday, one of the most recognized names in global commerce, is continuing its evolution beyond traditional retail into a broader media,
Sand Bass Festival underway in Madill
The National Sand Bass Festival in Madill, Oklahoma, is a highlight event featuring food vendors, carnival rides, and family-friendly activities all week. The festival takes place in Marshall County on the Madill square, which is closed to regular traffic to accommodate the festivities.
Roundup: Harvard Business School / Nvidia / Benny’s
Recognition: The Harvard Business School on Friday announced the recipients of its 2026 Alumni Achievement Awards, described as “the school’s highest honor.” One of the recipients, Jennifer Eplett Reilly, is a familiar name in Baton Rouge. Reilly received her MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1990 and chaired the Baton Rouge Area Foundation from […]
Borderlands Boss Shares Photos Of Unreleased Pixel Watch 5
The Borderlands boss shared photos of an unannounced Google Pixel device that was found by a friend of his while scuba diving
Exclusive: Barrick Mining weighs London listing as it negotiates Africa business sale, sources say
Barrick Mining , one of the world's leading gold miners, is weighing a possible London listing for its African business, with a potential all-share transaction with UK-listed Endeavour Mining seen as one option under consideration, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.