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The cult of objectivity has broken consciousness science

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

Jun 3 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • iai.tv

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May 19 • 12:24 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

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May 18 • 8:14 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

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May 17 • 3:15 PM EDT • Technology • slashgear.com

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May 17 • 1:00 PM EDT • Technology • thedrive.com

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May 17 • 7:01 AM EDT • Science • thefulcrum.us

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May 16 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com

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May 15 • 5:00 PM EDT • Technology • motor1.com

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May 15 • 4:13 PM EDT • Entertainment • spectrumlocalnews.com

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May 15 • 4:13 PM EDT • Entertainment • spectrumlocalnews.com

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May 15 • 2:30 PM EDT • Technology • carbuzz.com

The Lancia 037 Tribute Just Got A 1,000 HP V8 From Koenigsegg

Kimera's K39 swaps the brand's twin-charged four-cylinder for a Koenigsegg-sourced twin-turbo V8 making 1,000 hp

May 15 • 2:00 PM EDT • Technology • carscoops.com

MINNEAPOLIMEDIA PRESENTS | This Weekend in the Twin Cities – Entertainment Guide: May 15–17, 2026 Edition

MinneapoliMedia’s May 15–17 entertainment guide highlights Art-A-Whirl, live theater, concerts, festivals, sports, comedy, and family events across the Twin Cities.

May 15 • 2:54 AM EDT • Entertainment • minneapolimedia.town.news

Twins with Batten disease benefit from UNC Health drug trial

Therapy designed to mask the girls’ affected genes helps Amelia and Makenzie Kahn deal with the rare neurological condition.

May 14 • 9:12 AM EDT • Health • unc.edu

In Thailand, Buddhism Is Twinned With Political Power

In Thailand, where it’s the state-sanctioned religion, practices have proved to be surprisingly mutable.

May 14 • 5:01 AM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com

Letters: Fatherhood is missing link in La.’s family health crisis

As a father of twins, one in heaven and one here on earth, this thought weighs on me often. After losing my daughter, I made a decision in my son’s

May 14 • 1:30 AM EDT • Health • nola.com

How the use of 'digital twins' may transform the way ALS is treated

The technology may help predict the way the unpredictable disease progresses in individual patients, Temple researchers say

May 13 • 5:01 AM EDT • Health • phillyvoice.com

Ludacris will get back to Minneapolis as Twins postgame entertainment

Grammy-winning Atlanta rapper Ludacris will be back in Minneapolis on June 26 to play a postgame show at Target Field.

May 11 • 11:38 AM EDT • Entertainment • kstp.com

Game 41: Twins at Guardians

Book Club recommendation

May 10 • 1:10 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Guardians Drop Game 2 to the Twins 2-1

That was a really tough loss for the Guardians. They had so many opportunities to win that game and they just could not do it. I look back at the bottom of the 10th, Chase DeLauter had a lineout with an expected batting average of .520. Then Daniel Schneeman lined out with an expected batting […]

May 10 • 12:01 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Gigabyte GeForce buyer gets Radeon cooler, five months ago another user got the opposite

GeForce Radeon card found (again) Gigabyte RTX 5060 Ti with Radeon shroud could finally meet its Radeon twin with GeForce cooler. A Reddit user who bought

May 9 • 8:00 PM EDT • Technology • videocardz.com

Game 40: Twins at Guardians

First Pitch: 1:10 pm CDTTV: Twins.TVRadio: TIBN / WCCO 830 / The Wolf 102.9 FM / Audacy Forty games of baseball is probably “enough” games of baseball to feel like you have a sense of the team you’re watching. After 40 games, my sense is roughly the same as it was after 34 games, when I remarked that […]

May 9 • 5:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Last-place Twins put top pitcher Taj Bradley on injured list with right pectoral inflammation

May 9 • 4:32 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

MINNEAPOLIMEDIA PRESENTS | This Weekend in the Twin Cities – Entertainment Guide: Mother’s Day Weekend Edition, May 9–10, 2026

Twin Cities Mother’s Day weekend brings concerts, theater, festivals, sports, food events, and family activities across Minneapolis, St. Paul, and surrounding suburbs.

May 9 • 1:44 AM EDT • Entertainment • minneapolimedia.town.news

Our Universe Has an Evil Twin. Scientists Say It’s the Reason Matter Exists.

A mirror universe may preserve laws of physics that appear violated.

May 8 • 2:00 PM EDT • Science • yahoo.com

Our Universe Has an Evil Twin. Scientists Say It’s the Reason Matter Exists.

A mirror universe may have formed alongside ours, preserving laws of physics that appear violated.

May 8 • 2:00 PM EDT • Science • popularmechanics.com

Big weekend for baseball, basketball and volleyball across Twin Cities

Hundreds of teams at the AAU, club and high school level will compete in marquee events at various venues this weekend.

May 8 • 1:29 PM EDT • Sports • varsity.startribune.com

Sanford Health, Twin Cities-based North Memorial Health agree to merge

Sanford Health has reached an agreement to merge with Minnesota-based North Memorial Health, marking a new move into the Twin Cities market for the Sioux Falls-based health system.

May 8 • 12:10 PM EDT • Health • siouxfalls.business

Sanford Health merging with North Memorial as hospital deals keep coming

South Dakota-based health system would finally break into the Twin Cities market, more than a decade after it first proposed a merger with a health system in Minnesota.

May 8 • 12:00 PM EDT • Health • startribune.com

University of Minnesota breaks ground on new Community-University Health Care Center

Twice the size of the current clinic, the new, state-of-the-art building will expand patient access, enhance care delivery and strengthen the University's health professional training programs.

May 8 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • twin-cities.umn.edu

Downtown bars win better business amid Wild and Wolves playoff runs

After a rough winter, establishments are benefiting from excited fan bases in both Twin Cities.

May 7 • 7:17 AM EDT • Business • startribune.com

Busting five myths about mental health with University of Minnesota experts

University of Minnesota experts are setting the record straight with evidence-based research, new treatments and workforce innovations that are changing how mental health conditions are understood and treated.

May 6 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • twin-cities.umn.edu

Political row as report calls for sweeping cuts to French public broadcasting

Inquiry set up by rightwing politician recommends merging major channels and slashing TV entertainment budgets by 75%

May 5 • 12:44 PM EDT • Politics • theguardian.com

Students use GIS to compete in ‘the science of where’

Students competing for the U-Spatial Prize use maps, data and more to tell highly engaging stories about their research.

May 5 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • twin-cities.umn.edu

Minnesota Twins' Byron Buxton Wins AL Player of the Week

Twins star Byron Buxton received an honor for his impressive week.

May 4 • 7:08 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Central Europe is a laboratory for political trends

Letter: Dr Sean Hanley responds to an editorial on the collapse of social democratic parties as rightwing nationalism flourishes

May 4 • 11:54 AM EDT • Politics • theguardian.com

The weird rise of people who are their own twin | BBC Science Focus Magazine

A condition that leaves people with two sets of DNA may be on the rise – and it’s posing thorny questions for families and forensic science.

May 3 • 11:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencefocus.com

Rally kicks off Mental Health Awareness Month

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and Twin Falls residents wanted to remind people that help is available.

May 3 • 12:53 AM EDT • Health • kmvt.com

Toronto Blue Jays Dodge Bullet With Latest Injury Concern

Blue Jays slugger George Springer has avoided another serious injury after an early exit from a game against the Minnesota Twins on Saturday

May 2 • 8:14 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

How, where to bet on the Kentucky Derby 2026: See $1,000 in bonuses for TwinSpires, FanDuel Racing, DK Horse

Kentucky Derby betting is in full swing. See exclusive Kentucky Derby promo codes for sites like TwinSpires, FanDuel Racing and 1/ST BET

May 2 • 5:29 PM EDT • Sports • cbssports.com

Game 34: Blue Jays at Twins

First Pitch: 1:10 pm CDTTV: Twins.TVRadio: TIBN / WCCO 830 / The Wolf 102.9 FM / Audacy This week, I had free tickets to my first two Target Field games of the year, the deflating Tuesday night loss against the Seattle Mariners, and the series-opening victory against these very same Toronto Blue Jays. I wish I could say […]

May 2 • 1:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

How, where to bet on the Kentucky Derby 2026: Get $1,000 in bonuses for TwinSpires, FanDuel Racing, DK Horse

Kentucky Derby betting is in full swing. See exclusive Kentucky Derby promo codes for sites like TwinSpires, FanDuel Racing and 1/ST BET

May 2 • 8:53 AM EDT • Sports • cbssports.com

MINNEAPOLIMEDIA ENTERTAINMENT | This Weekend in the Twin Cities – Entertainment Guide: May 2 ~ May 3, 2026

Twin Cities weekend packs festivals, concerts, theater, and playoff sports into a high-density lineup, with timing and location shaping the overall experience

May 1 • 11:38 PM EDT • Entertainment • minneapolimedia.town.news

Okamoto Homers Twice, Jays Beat Twins

Jays 7 Twins 3 Kazuma Okamoto had a slow start to the season, but he’s picked things up lately. Today he had 2 home runs, a walk, 3 runs and 3 RBI. 31 games into his MLB career he has 7 home runs, and 18 RBI. And, unlike yesterday, the pitching was good and the […]

May 1 • 10:57 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

'Korean Messiah': Book details how North Korea historically intertwined politics and faith

Christianity was so dominant in Pyongyang that the city was known as the "Jerusalem of the East."

Apr 29 • 8:02 AM EDT • Politics • wbur.org

Biosphere 2 poised to become a launchpad for landscape terraformation science

"From Early Earth to Mars" explores how life can transform planets in an effort to make Mars habitable while keeping Earth livable. At Biosphere 2, the LEO Survey's massive hillslopes allow researchers to monitor how bare rock gradually evolves into biologically active terrain in real time and virtually via a digital twin model.

Apr 29 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • research.arizona.edu

Mariners relieved of Joe Ryan, blow out Twins late

Three’s a charm

Apr 29 • 12:14 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

FBI raids Somali business in fraud investigation | FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul

The FBI is conducting raids at Somali-owned businesses across the Twin Cities metro on Tuesday.

Apr 28 • 12:24 PM EDT • Business • fox9.com

Fraud in MN: FBI conducts new raids in Minneapolis on Medicaid providers

The FBI is conducting new raids on Medicaid providers in the Twin Cities on Tuesday amid an ongoing fraud investigations.

Apr 28 • 8:54 AM EDT • Business • fox9.com

Twins 11, Mariners 4: Give ‘em some Prielipp

Kody Clemens hates me personally but I’ll take that if it means a Twins win.

Apr 27 • 10:47 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Game 29: Mariners at Twins

If Connor Prielipp averages 9 pitches per inning then we probably don’t have to see the bullpen today. Positives.

Apr 27 • 6:40 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Game 28: Twins at Rays

The King of Pop gets a musical biopic

Apr 26 • 1:10 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

MINNEAPOLIMEDIA ENTERTAINMENT | This Weekend in the Twin Cities – Entertainment Guide: April 25 ~ April 26, 2026

Twin Cities weekend guide highlights packed April 25–26 lineup with sports, festivals, theater, and concerts across Minneapolis and St. Paul

Apr 24 • 10:34 PM EDT • Entertainment • minneapolimedia.town.news

Three University of Minnesota professors elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The prestigious honor recognizes scholars for advancing their fields and serving the public good.

Apr 23 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • twin-cities.umn.edu

Gran Turismo 7 April 2026 Update: Renault Twingo, Porsche 964 Turbo S, Yangwang U9

Kazunori Yamauchi has pulled the covers off the three cars coming to Gran Turismo 7 in next week's update, and two of them are not quite what we were expecting. The series creator took to social media to reveal the Renault Twingo, Porsche 964 Turbo S, and Yangwang U9 (yes, U9, not the Xtreme) as the

Apr 22 • 1:05 AM EDT • Technology • gtplanet.net

Quarter of a million people could lose job by middle of 2027 as UK ‘flirts with recession’, analysis says

Twin reports from top accounting firms underline scale of economic threat as Iran war shatters business confidence

Apr 20 • 1:00 AM EDT • Business • theguardian.com

Reds 7, Twins 4 (F/10): The Red(s) Scare

Swept by Cincy

Apr 19 • 5:33 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Rosalind Franklin, chemist: “Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated”

A pioneering DNA scientist reflects on science, faith and purpose, offering a grounded view of how discovery and everyday life intertwine

Apr 18 • 1:04 PM EDT • Science • en.as.com

MINNEAPOLIMEDIA ENTERTAINMENT | This Weekend in the Twin Cities - Entertainment Guide: April 18 ~ April 19, 2026

Twin Cities weekend features major festivals, live music, sports, and community events, with MSPIFF and St. Paul Art Crawl anchoring a high-volume, multi-venue lineup.

Apr 17 • 3:33 PM EDT • Entertainment • minneapolimedia.town.news

Today on OTM: The American League is upside down

Play the lottery tonight if you had the Rays, Twins, and Athletics as your division winners.

Apr 17 • 9:51 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com