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The Club has received an allocation of 2285 tickets, including 12 wheelchair bays and a number of tickets for ambulant fans.The wheelchair section is located in the home section of the Red Bull Arena....

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Oct 5 • 6:35 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Northwest Arkansas growing pains, national concerns top issues at Springdale political gathering

Rain and overcast skies didn’t dampen the mood at the annual Chickin, Peelin’ & Politickin’ event Thursday at Springdale’s Shiloh Square as residents, business owners and elected officials networked over plates of fried chicken and shrimp.

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Oct 5 • 6:00 AM EDT • Politics • arkansasadvocate.com
Apple and a Hacker’s Future

I was happy for years in Apple’s walled garden; with AI, however, their protections feel like limitations.

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Oct 5 • 6:00 AM EDT • Technology • stratechery.com
To Make More Money, Rolls-Royce Is Aiming Higher on Price, Not Production

The luxury carmaker is expanding its factory in Britain to focus on rarefied custom cars. First up is a $3.5 million-plus electric roadster.

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Oct 5 • 5:00 AM EDT • Technology • nytimes.com
Yankees news: Feeling like home

Yankees train at George Steinbrenner Field, Game 2 is a "must win," ALDS "far from over," Wells explains blunder

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Oct 5 • 5:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Colts-Steelers opening odds:  Steal one in the Steel City

The Colts could put the league on notice with a win.

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Oct 5 • 4:45 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Stages SB200 Indoor Smartbike In-Depth Review: Redemption?

In this review I cover whether the SB200 is a worthwhile upgrade over the existing SB20, as well as everything you need to know from ride feel to accuracy.

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Oct 5 • 3:20 AM EDT • Technology • dcrainmaker.com
Warning Signs of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM)

Fainting or nearly fainting when you exert yourself are key warning signs of HCM. Learn the red flags to look out for and when to seek medical care.

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Oct 5 • 12:02 AM EDT • Health • health.clevelandclinic.org
Inside Iowa Politics: the five-day flurry that led to $1.5 billion taxpayer commitment for proposed $15 billion Iowa steel plant

The five days that led to $1.5 billion commitment by Iowa taxpayers for new steel plant in Lee County.

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Oct 4 • 9:40 PM EDT • Politics • ktiv.com
APTOPIX Brazil Election

Supporters of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who is running for reelection, kiss as they react to partial presidential election results in Rio de Janeiro, Sunday, Oct. 4, 2026.

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Oct 4 • 7:58 PM EDT • Business • telegraphherald.com
Liam McNeeley Says Confidence, Aggressiveness Have Grown Entering Year 2

Liam McNeeley says Summer League and a full NBA season helped build his confidence as he enters Year 2 with the Charlotte Hornets.

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Oct 4 • 5:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Cruz-Vance Feud Ramps Up As Cruz Says VP Is 'Feeling Insecure'
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Should Bill Belichick Remain as North Carolina's Head Coach?

Should Bill Belichick stay with the North Carolina Tar Heels moving forward?

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Oct 4 • 3:52 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Who is David Robinson, the OpenAI safety leader who quit the company?

David Robinson said he quit as OpenAI's safety lead because he feels the company "is failing to achieve the level of care I believe is needed."

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Oct 4 • 3:36 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Despair fuels political anxiety for college students

Many college students today are feeling anxious about their future.

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Oct 4 • 3:30 PM EDT • Politics • latimes.com
Can Alabama Star Keelon Russell Win Heisman Trophy This Season?

Alabama star quarterback Keelon Russell has pushed himself into the Heisman Trophy conversation this season.

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Oct 4 • 12:42 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
College Football Sunday Summary; Product Testing

We are five weeks through the college football season, and the folks at College Football Sunday Summary feel like it all just started. We know this…we have seen and heard things over the weekend that seem to require some product testing. College Football Sunday Summary Headache Guy The jokes were too good to ignore this …

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Oct 4 • 12:13 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Louisiana’s John Kennedy says he’s considering presidential run: ‘Why not me on a rainy day?’

“On my side of the aisle, If a bunch of goobers run, and I think they’re goobers and one of the goobers might win, and I think I can do a better job, I would consider running,” he said. “But right now I’m running for reelection.”

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Oct 4 • 12:00 PM EDT • Politics • nola.com
Column: More than just a phase: The real science behind why teens feel everything so intensely

When a minor inconvenience feels like the end of the world, take a deep breath. Remember you’re navigating the complex reality of a growing mind.

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Oct 4 • 11:00 AM EDT • Science • highschool.latimes.com
John Goodman says acting at 74 still feels 'fresh' and exciting

Here’s a fun fact about John Goodman: He's a big London guy.

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Oct 4 • 9:15 AM EDT • Entertainment • centraloregondaily.com
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Steelers LB fined for play vs. Bengals

Holcomb is the second Steelers player to be fined this season.

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Oct 4 • 7:39 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Despair over future fuels political anxiety for college students on the cusp of adulthood

Many college students today are feeling anxious about their future.

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Oct 4 • 7:35 AM EDT • Politics • news4jax.com
Despair over future fuels political anxiety for college students on the cusp of adulthood

Many college students today are feeling anxious about their future. They have concerns about their job prospects, homeownership and impending adulthood. Michigan State University student Frankie...

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Oct 4 • 7:35 AM EDT • Politics • newstimes.com
Meet moms who make it their business to keep university students feeling right at home

From Alabama to Auburn to universities around the country, concierge services that cater to college students are finding success.

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Oct 4 • 7:07 AM EDT • Business • al.com
The Business of Youth Baseball is Booming. So is the Cost | The 10-Point for October 4

Plus, truckers feel the burn of rising diesel costs, and we bring you inside 24 hours under fire in Kyiv.

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Oct 4 • 7:02 AM EDT • Business • wsj.com
The children’s show putting mental health on screen

‘Lulubug’s Garden’ is teaching kids how to talk about big feelings long before they encounter any mental health challenges

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Oct 4 • 6:00 AM EDT • Health • deseret.com
After a month with the Galaxy Z Fold 8, every other Android phone feels wrong

I've used the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 for a month, and switching to any other Android phone now feels wrong.

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Oct 4 • 5:00 AM EDT • Technology • androidauthority.com
New Orleans' Eiffel Tower building on St. Charles is on the market. Could it be demolished?

The quirky steel structure was built a restaurant that was removed from the Eiffel Tower in Paris and shipped to New Orleans in the 1980s.

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Oct 4 • 5:00 AM EDT • Business • nola.com
Scully calls debut goal 'one of the best feelings'

Anthony Scully says his debut goal for Exeter City is one of the greatest moments in his career.

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Oct 4 • 2:52 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Arts District reeling after deadly First Friday shooting; some business owners say event should end

One dead and two injured after gunfire during First Friday anniversary

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Oct 3 • 11:23 PM EDT • Business • fox5vegas.com
As midterms near, Justice Alito shares his feelings about retirement

Speaking to CBS News, Alito described the calculation as a natural one that comes with age. At 76, Alito is the second-oldest justice on the court.

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Oct 3 • 8:41 PM EDT • Politics • seattletimes.com
Steelers work out veteran LB after loss to Browns

Steelers hosted nine players following Week 4 game; two practice squad spots open.

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Oct 3 • 7:09 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
How would you grade the Steelers’ Joey Porter Jr. trade?

Steelers news and notes for Saturday, Oct. 3.

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Oct 3 • 6:32 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Sarah Trone Garriott Puts Politics Over Good Paying Jobs

Sarah Trone Garriott just showed Iowans exactly where her priorities lie by voting against the largest steel mill project in American history. The $15 billion steel mill planned for Lee County is expected to create at least 1,750 permanent, good-paying jobs, bring billions of dollars in investment to Iowa, and expand American steel manufacturing. Instead of supporting a […]

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Oct 3 • 6:05 PM EDT • Politics • nrcc.org
Domantas Sabonis Makes a Clear Statement on Kings Trade Rumors

Sacramento Kings center Domantas Sabonis makes his feelings clear on the trade rumors surrounding him this offseason.

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Oct 3 • 4:10 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Notre Dame dominated the trenches to take down UNC

The Heels hung around with one of the best teams in the country, but ultimately the Irish came away with the W.

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Oct 3 • 3:41 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Republicans tried to punt health care cuts until after the midterms. It didn’t work.

While most GOP-enacted cuts to Medicaid and other safety net programs won’t happen until 2027, Democrats are speaking to the voters already feeling the squeeze.

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Oct 3 • 2:00 PM EDT • Health • politico.com
ADP Warns of Cooling Labor Market While Its Own Business Feels the Chill

ADP publishes the jobs data Wall Street watches every month, but its own payroll counts now tell a different story about where the labor market is actually heading.

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Oct 3 • 12:15 PM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com
'It’s a mess': New Bedford businesses reel as ICE detentions escalate

The presence of federal agents on the streets have kept people away from going out and patronizing local businesses in the city.

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Oct 3 • 9:58 AM EDT • Business • bostonglobe.com
Jose Alvarado Assures He Always Wanted to Return to Knicks

Jose Alvarado feels that the Knicks are his home.

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Oct 3 • 9:45 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Leela Gray gets a fourth ratings shift and a $1.4M quarter. The last two Democrats to poll this well against Anna Paulina Luna lost by 9 points

Four ratings shifts in nine days. Luna's polling history cuts the other way.

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Oct 3 • 9:05 AM EDT • Politics • floridapolitics.com
UNC vs. Notre Dame: Who you got?

Can the Heels pull off the upset?

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Oct 3 • 9:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Yankees’ Rays matchup feels a little too familiar

The Yankees swept Boston, and Aaron Boone deserves credit for getting them through that round. I still don’t love what […]

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Oct 3 • 8:45 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Three Last-Minute North Carolina vs. Notre Dame Predictions

The North Carolina Tar Heels face a juggernaut in Kenan Stadium.

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Oct 3 • 7:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Browns beat Steelers, and Verse wants another shot at them

Jared Verse energized the Browns' 27-24 win over the Steelers with relentless trash talk and aggressive play, vowing to continue the rivalry when the teams meet again in Pittsburgh.

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Oct 3 • 5:02 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
As beef prices climb, Texas A&M’s meat science program feels the pinch

Demand for beef hasn’t slowed down.

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Oct 2 • 11:26 PM EDT • Science • kbtx.com
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EAST TEXAS POLITICS: U.S. Rep. Nathaniel Moran talks AI guardrails, affordability and reelection bid

U.S. Rep. Nathaniel Moran, R-Tyler, joins Blake Holland on this week’s edition of East Texas Politics on East Texas Now.

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Oct 2 • 10:41 PM EDT • Politics • kltv.com
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ETX Politics: U.S. Rep. Nathaniel Moran talks AI guardrails, affordability and reelection bid

U.S. Rep. Nathaniel Moran, R-Tyler, who represents Texas’ 1st Congressional District, joins Blake Holland on this week’s edition of East Texas Politics on East Texas Now. Moran discusses artificial intelligence guardrails, shipbuilding, his bid for reelection and the issue of affordability.

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In Alabama, Trump Relives His Glory Days (This Time With Some Empty Seats)

The Deep South was the birthplace of the mega MAGA rally. How do people on the Gulf feel about President Trump now?

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Oct 2 • 10:29 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Steelers Try Out Two Super Bowl Linebackers

The Pittsburgh Steelers tried out a pair of veteran linebackers at UPMC Rooney Sports Complex on Friday, according to the […]

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Oct 2 • 9:28 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Good Sports: Buchanan freshman with Down syndrome defying the odds on the field and in pool

With his cleats in the grass, Buchanan freshman Wyatt Perkins feels right at home.

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Oct 2 • 8:37 PM EDT • Sports • abc30.com
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Alabama, Keelon Russell Given Strong Prediction vs Mississippi State

The Alabama Crimson Tide and quarterback Keelon Russell have been given a nice prediction before the game against Mississippi State.

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Oct 2 • 8:17 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Notre Dame Has One Weakness That North Carolina Can Exploit

The North Carolina Tar Heels have one area that they can exploit against Notre Dame this weekend.

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Oct 2 • 7:25 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Steelers Host Former Bengals Edge Rusher for Visit

The Pittsburgh Steelers hosted veteran edge rusher Cam Sample for a free agent visit to UPMC Rooney Sports Complex on […]

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Oct 2 • 7:23 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Steelers Should Trade For AFC North WR To Bolster Offense

The Pittsburgh Steelers could benefit from adding a rival wide receiver from the AFC North.

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Oct 2 • 7:03 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
J.J. McCarthy feels 'blessed' after Giants trade, loves the Harbaughs

J.J. McCarthy calls his Vikings-to-New York Giants trade a shock and an opportunity, says he feels blessed, and praises the Harbaughs.

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Oct 2 • 7:01 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Scientists Discover a Genius Use For Leftover Steel Waste – And It Could Save Lives

Win-win-win.

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Oct 2 • 6:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencealert.com
Steelers frustrated by another Thursday night loss in Cleveland

To say the Steelers had a dejected locker room after their 27-24 loss to the Browns Thursday night was an absolute understatement.

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Oct 2 • 4:56 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Steelers head coach Mike McCarthy regrets altercation with Aaron Rodgers

Mike McCarthy regrets verbal altercation with Aaron Rodgers.

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Oct 2 • 4:43 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Studying Science in an Anti-Scientific Time

This Chronicle Review Deep Cut was first published in 2025. By Julianne Werlin Thanks for reading The Chronicle Review! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Subscribe The last two decades have not been kind to science studies. Already bruised and battered by the “science wars” of the 1990s, by the 2000s sociologists of science — who had long argued that science had to be understood in its human context — were encountering the funhouse-mirror version of their own views in right-wing critiques of climate scientists. It was enough to give some prominent scholars pause. “Was I wrong to participate in the invention of this field known as science studies?” asked Bruno Latour, the most famous sociologist of science in the world, in 2003. “Should we apologize for having been wrong all along? Or should we rather bring the sword of criticism to criticism itself and do a bit of soul-searching here: What were we really after when we were so intent on showing the social construction of scientific facts?” In response, Latour proposed a change of method and attitude. Science studies, now chastened and contrite, would no longer seek to strip facts of their authority, but to enrich and enhance them. What this meant in practice was never fully clear. But his diagnosis of problems resonated, even if his solutions did not. Latour’s exercise in public hand-wringing signaled a shift in mood. By 2016, with the first election of Donald Trump, the idea that skepticism of science was a right-wing position, not a left-wing one, had become a commonplace, discussed eagerly in The New York Times. For liberals, vaccine denial during the Covid era and Trump’s second-term attacks on the funding of scientific research, covered extensively in these pages, added a new urgency to the defense of science on both practical and principled grounds. There was little appetite for a sociology or philosophy of science that emphasized the messiness and missteps of the scientific process rather than its integrity and triumphs. The distinguished historian of science Peter Dear’s new book, The World as We Know It: From Natural Philosophy to Modern Science (Princeton University Press, 2025), which seeks to tell the story of 18th- and 19th-century science for a general public, may seem comfortably remote from these bitter contests. In its 16 short chapters, Dear draws swift, sure sketches of major discoveries from Newton to Einstein, ably guiding the reader through debates on stellar nebulae, animal taxonomy, atomic chemistry, evolution, and other flashpoints in the history of science. But though a work of history, Dear’s book must still negotiate our polarized present. In a blurb on its back cover, the historian of biology Lynn K. Nyhart alludes to the “present moment, when scientific knowledge is being swamped by misinformation and its institutions are under siege.” Dear himself, in his conclusion, refers to the “yard signs” and “bumper stickers” that proclaim “Science Is Real.” One antidote to both anti-science propaganda and to reductive slogans in science’s defense is a robust history and philosophy of science: exactly what Dear’s scholarship has long offered. But his new book illustrates how difficult such work has become. Dear, an emeritus professor of history at Cornell University, is best known as a creative and philosophically minded historian of the Scientific Revolution. His edited volume The Literary Structure of Scientific Argument (1991) analyzed the rhetoric of Galileo’s thought experiments to brilliant effect. Discipline and Experience: The Mathematical Way in the Scientific Revolution (1995) was a major contribution to the analysis of scientific experiments in early modern Europe and beyond, while Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge in Transition, 1500-1700 (2001), now in its third edition, remains one of the best overviews of the profound epistemological upheavals of 16th- and 17th-century science. But Dear has also ventured into later periods. Nearly two decades ago, in The Intelligibility of Nature: How Science Makes Sense of the World (2006), he turned to the 18th and 19th centuries to sketch a history and theory of scientific knowledge. Aimed at a generalist audience, Dear’s simple prose belied serious philosophical ambitions. Science, Dear argued, has two aspects: “natural philosophy,” the quest to understand the true nature of the universe, and “instrumentality,” the applied skills and technologies that allow us to manipulate the world for human advantage. Both strands are ancient, but the innovation of the phenomenon we call “science” was to yoke them together. As Francis Bacon wrote, “Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known, the effect cannot be produced,” an insight typically abridged to “knowledge is power.” Or, in Bertrand Russell’s characteristically blunt phrase, science has two functions, “1. to enable us to know things, and 2., to enable us to do things.” So far, so conventional. But Dear took issue with this familiar story in one respect. Bacon’s formula implied that theory and practice could be fused in a single method. In fact, Dear argued, the quest to understand nature and the desire to manipulate it were coupled only loosely. They could come together, but they could also pull apart. Focusing on natural philosophy, the “knowing” half of the scientific circle, he used a series of case studies from cosmology, taxonomy, chemistry, electromagnetism, and quantum theory to show how theories changed over time, in dialogue with practice, but never reducible to it. Take the case of matter, the basic substrate of the physical world. In the 18th and 19th centuries, scientists not only disagreed about what it was, but also about how well it could be known. In 1789, the chemist Antoine Lavoisier dismissed speculation about the atomic composition of chemicals as “discussions entirely of a metaphysical nature,” as he sought to orient chemistry away from philosophical abstraction and toward laboratory results. But in the 19th century, atoms returned with a vengeance in the atomic chemistry of John Dalton, who wanted to explain the underlying structure of nature. It was not just that Dalton and Lavoisier had a different set of experimental results, or even a different theory, Dear showed. What counted as an explanation had changed. In arguing that scientific theories depended on their intelligibility to human beings with complex arrays of beliefs and commitments, Dear was in sympathy with science studies. Key figures such as the sociologist Steven Shapin emphasized the importance of psychological mechanisms like trust in the formation and acceptance of scientific ideas. But in focusing on the scientific pursuit of knowledge, not its politics or economics, Dear resisted the more cynical perspective of some of his colleagues. The Intelligibility of Nature strikes a very different note than Shapin’s collection of a few years later, Never Pure: Historical Studies of Science as If It Was Produced by People With Bodies, Situated in Time, Space, Culture, and Society, and Struggling for Credibility and Authority (2010), to name just one example. Walking a very fine line, Dear depicted science as driven at once by complex social dynamics and by the intellectual power of real discoveries. It was a testament not only to his own acumen but also to the vitality of the field that he was able to do so. Nearly two decades later, The World as We Know It returns to the questions broached in The Intelligibility of Nature. Like Dear’s earlier study, it begins with the Newtonian cosmos and ends with debates between Einstein and Bohr on quantum physics. Beyond its terminal figures, many of the same characters appear in both studies, including the naturalists John Ray and the Comte de Buffon; the chemists Étienne François Geoffroy, Antoine Lavoisier, and John Dalton; as well as Charles Darwin and Michael Faraday, among others. Its subject is nearly identical: As in The Intelligibility of Nature, The World as We Know It considers natural philosophy as opposed to instrumentality, here defined as the “desire to create a picture of what the world is really like — the world as God knows it — rather than simply having instrumental or operational control over it.” The two books also overlap in insights — and sometimes even in language. The reader who has learned in The Intelligibility of Nature that Buffon’s method of classifying animals “reflected his belief in the importance of the senses and empiricism in learning about nature (a doctrine associated with Newton and the philosopher John Locke)” will experience a sense of déjà vu on reading, in The World as We Know It, that the classification “reflects Buffon’s commitment to the epistemological stance of Newton and his philosophical underlaborer John Locke, who stressed the role of the senses in creating natural knowledge.” Later in the passage, we read that, “because of its stress on understanding the ways of life of animals in their environments, Buffon’s approach could almost be labeled (anachronistically) as ‘ecological.’” And again, “an anachronistic way of putting it would be to say that Buffon recommends an ecological mode of understanding.” Likewise, in The Intelligibility of Nature we read of Dalton that he was initially drawn to meteorology, and that: He did a bit of experimental work on these things, especially having to do with the water-holding capacity of gases, but his real interest lay in understanding what, at an underlying natural-philosophical level, was really going on physically.” Whereas, in The World as We Know It: He did experimental work on these things, especially concerning the water-holding capacity of gases — although not at a very refined level quantitatively — but he was continually trying to develop a theoretical conception of what was happening physically. The final full chapter of each book closes on the same resigned note. Intelligibility: These days, most serious work on the natural philosophical underpinnings and implications of quantum mechanics is performed not by physicists but by philosophers of science. Among scientific practitioners themselves, Bohr’s attempt to use instrumentality as sufficient grounds for a respectable science has met with a high degree of success. And again, in The World as We Know It: Bohr’s and Einstein’s concerns are now questions that are mostly discussed by philosophers of science rather than by physicists themselves. The marginalization of these sorts of questions amounts to the demise of natural philosophy, at least in physics, in the 20th century. Quantum mechanics “works,” and that’s good enough for most scientists who encounter it. Examples could be multiplied. When handling the same subject matter, some echoes are inevitable. Scholars should not feel that because they have written “Isaac Newton died in 1727” in one book, in the next they must describe him as perishing, expiring, or meeting his maker. But the repetitions of language and arguments (not to mention six reproduced images) threaded throughout The World as We Know It are more extensive than that. They should have been caught by Princeton University Press or its reviewers, and revised. Because the two books have so much in common, it is easy to see where they diverge. The World as We Know It is a less theoretical work than its predecessor. The sociology of knowledge that organized The Intelligibility of Nature has been reduced in scale and folded into readings and examples. The taut interplay between history and theory, which gave the earlier study so much interest, is there, but it is subtle. In the earlier book, the case studies demonstrated theoretical claims about the character and development of science. In the later work, each narrative of discovery is an end in itself. Insights emerge from the history, but they do not control the organization of the study. With the theory muted, it can be hard to understand the logic uniting Dear’s sprawling history of more than two centuries of scientific knowledge. The 16 brisk chapters cover an enormous amount of material. But the closer the volume edges to comprehensiveness, the more obvious the missing elements become. A chapter on “Institutions and Pedagogy,” describing the birth of the research university, illustrates the problem. Inserted roughly halfway through the book, the unnumbered chapter is designed as an “entr’acte,” in acknowledgement that it does not fit the study’s organization around scientific discoveries. Yet as Dear is well aware, no general history of the development of modern science can bracket its 19th-century institutionalization and professionalization. It was the 19th-century university, after all, that gave us the “scientist,” a term coined by the Cambridge philosopher William Whewell. Dear’s history of scientific discoveries implies a wider social and institutional history, but it remains largely subterranean, only occasionally extruded under the pressure of the narrative. It must be said that the balance is not all on the side of the earlier study. There are some advantages to the more historical, less theoretical organization of The World as We Know It. Dear’s accounts of paradigm shifts are remarkably lucid, no small accomplishment given that they span fields and centuries. He makes excellent use of the wealth of new scholarship on Darwin and his influences, to which he has himself contributed. It is satisfying to see puzzle pieces from Buffon’s natural history, Georges Cuvier’s animal taxonomy, Thomas Robert Malthus’s demography, and Charles Lyell’s geology recombined seamlessly in the Darwinian jigsaw. Likewise, Dear’s discussion of stellar nebulae, divided between chapters two and 15, shows vividly how Newton, Kant, Herschel, and Hubble reimagined insights and observations as they sought to discover whether the diffuse light that filtered through early telescopes was a glowing, gaseous substance or discrete but distant stars. Yet despite such pleasures, the book remains a more modest work than The Intelligibility of Nature. Dear has clearly not changed his views about the history of science. But in the two decades that have elapsed, the discipline and the world around it have changed, making it harder to write a sociologically and philosophically ambitious history of science for the general reader. That is a shame, because in the age of Silicon Valley and biotechnology, both the reciprocity and the tensions Dear identified between the epistemological and instrumental ambitions of science are more evident than ever. In recent years, some of the most exciting new books on the history of science in early modernity have focused precisely on this pressure point. Important studies such as Pamela H. Smith’s From Lived Experience to the Written Word (2022), James Poskett’s Horizons: The Global Origins of Modern Science (2022), and Vera Keller’s The Interlopers: Early Stuart Projects and the Undisciplining of Knowledge (2023) all shed new light on how early modern science negotiated the relationship between its instrumental and epistemological ambitions, or in Russell’s phrase, knowing and doing. There is every opportunity for a philosophically informed approach to draw new insights from this wealth of material. Dear, unfortunately, has not done so in The World as We Know It. But for future scholars of the history of science, his body of work over nearly four decades may provide just the model. Julianne Werlin is an associate professor of English at Duke University. 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Jaren Jackson Jr. Knows What Comes After a Jazz Breakthrough

Memphis star Jaren Jackson Jr. warns a rising Utah core that sustained success demands an even-keeled temperament as the pressure of expectations replaces the freedom of rebuilding.

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Jennifer Lawrence Gets Her 'One Month Mark' Director In Gene Stupnitsky

Jennifer Lawrence will reunite with her No Hard Feelings director Gene Stupnitsky for the new romantic comedy One Month Mark.

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Klick Health Named MM+M Market Access Gold Agency of the Year

NEW YORK & TORONTO, October 02, 2026--Klick Health took center stage throughout the evening at last night’s Medical Marketing + Media (MM+M) Awards, receiving the Market Access Gold Agency of the Year title plus nine campaign accolades, including five Gold trophies for "867-5309" (Cancer Support Community), "Project Inchstone" (Nestlé Compleat), and "MODDEN 26" (The Derek Sheely Foundation).

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Oct 2 • 12:54 PM EDT • Health • finance.yahoo.com
Neto: ‘Juventus changed a lot, positive Spalletti impact’

Neto admits Juventus has ‘changed a lot’ since he last played there in 2017, but he is feeling a ‘very positive impact’ with coach Luciano Spalletti.The goalkeeper was snapped up as a free age...

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Oct 2 • 12:40 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Christian Science practitioner to present Oct. 11

Ann Kneeland, practitioner of Christian Science healing and international speaker, will present her talk, "Healing with joy: Discovering the power of Love," on Sunday, Oct. 11.

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Oct 2 • 12:30 PM EDT • Science • goldmountaincanews.com
Feeling Off Despite Normal Lab Results? One Woman’s Health Transformation Story
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Oct 2 • 12:20 PM EDT • Health • fox11online.com
Nick Nurse Reveals LeBron James' Role in 76ers' Offense

Nick Nurse feels LeBron James is going to be huge for the team offensively. But, his impact will matter more as the season goes on.

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Oct 2 • 11:54 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Batteries on wheels: Oregon pushes businesses to switch heavy-duty fleets to electric vehicles
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Oct 2 • 11:54 AM EDT • Business • kgw.com
Steelers Defense Struggles Again in Week 4 Loss to Browns

The Pittsburgh Steelers defense, after being the star of the show in Week 1 against the Atlanta Falcons, has regressed significantly and is clearly now the liability. Head coach Mike McCarthy has figured out the offensive issues, and the Steelers have averaged 27 points in their last two games. That's not to say the offense …

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Oct 2 • 11:27 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Sophie Cunningham’s playoff presence draws attention beyond the court

Sophie Cunningham turned heads before the WNBA playoffs with a striking all-white look featuring a mini dress, dark sunglasses and strappy heels. The Indiana Fever guard’s fashion statement added another memorable moment to her growing reputation for standout pregame tunnel style.

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Oct 2 • 10:45 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Notre Dame vs North Carolina Game Predictions

The Fighting Irish risk their winning streak against a stingy Tar Heel defense. Our analysts break down whether Notre Dame’s elite unit can stifle North Carolina at home.

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Oct 2 • 9:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Susan Collins turning mundane part of job into a reelection pitch

Susan Collins is relentless in promoting money she's steered to Maine — for community colleges and hospital expansions or hyperlocal examples like a program to control the spruce budworm, a threat to the state's forests and timber industry.

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Oct 2 • 8:57 AM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
Steelers stock report after Thursday night loss to Browns

Steelers stock report after Week 4 loss to Browns.

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Oct 2 • 8:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Jalen Ramsey on Joey Porter Jr. Trade: 'Business Is Business'
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Oct 2 • 8:00 AM EDT • Business • sports.yahoo.com
Gears of War: E-Day is missing iconic features like chainsaw duels and meat shields, but The Coalition says we shouldn't worry - they're "not gone from the franchise"

The Coalition knows how you feel about "Meat Shields, Chainsaw Duels, select weapons from the franchise’s past".

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Oct 2 • 6:56 AM EDT • Technology • eurogamer.net
With a steel mill and campaign cash, Trump and GOP leaders launch an Iowa rescue mission

Republicans are on a rescue mission in Iowa, touting new plans for a $15 billion steel mill as President Donald Trump and the state’s GOP leaders rush to blunt the political impact of a battered economy and prevent the governor’s office, a Senate seat and three House seats from slipping into Democratic hands in November.

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Oct 2 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Browns Get Bad News on Mason Graham After Beating Steelers

The Cleveland Browns got bad news on Mason Graham after he exited early against the Pittsburgh Steelers with an injury. The post Browns Get Bad News on Mason Graham After Beating Steelers appeared first on HEAVY.

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Oct 2 • 3:19 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Deshaun Watson solid in divisional win

Deshaun Watson threw for 268 yards and a touchdown in a Week 4 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers, though he did turn the ball over twice.

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Oct 2 • 2:59 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Browns survive late comeback to defeat Steelers

Andre Szmyt kicks a match-winning 56-yard field goal with 10 seconds remaining as the Cleveland Browns survive a Pittsburgh Steelers comeback.

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Oct 2 • 2:56 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Pittsburgh Steelers 24-27 Cleveland Browns: Deshaun Watson leads game-winning drive to set up field goal in final seconds

Deshaun Watson led another game-winning drive while Andre Szmyt landed a career-long field goal in the last 10 seconds for the Cleveland Browns to beat the Pittsburgh Steelers 27-24; Aaron Rodgers Rodgers completed 22 of 40 passes for 299 yards with three touchdowns and two interceptions

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Oct 2 • 2:38 AM EDT • Sports • skysports.com
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Denzel Boston leads Browns in receiving

Rookie Denzel Boston paced the team on Thursday night with 89 yards on four receptions as Cleveland topped the Steelers.

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Oct 2 • 1:58 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Steelers' Derrick Harmon Carted Off With Foot Injury Against Browns

Pittsburgh Steelers defensive tackle Derrick Harmon was carted off with a foot injury against the Cleveland Browns.

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Oct 2 • 1:38 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Mike McCarthy Opens Up on Heated Exchange with Aaron Rodgers

CLEVELAND — The brotherly relationship between Aaron Rodgers and Mike McCarthy is showing through. During the Pittsburgh Steelers’ initial drive […]

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Oct 2 • 12:47 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Browns win battle with Steelers but are losing war with Deshaun Watson

The Browns are surprisingly in first place in the AFC North. That should be good news, but let's fast forward a bit, writes columnist Nate Davis.

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Oct 2 • 12:03 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Are The Browns For Real? 3 Takeaways From Browns' Dramatic Win vs. Steelers

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

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Oct 1 • 11:28 PM EDT • Sports • foxsports.com
Phillies' season ends with the pain of another early postseason knockout

Aaron Nola and Zack Wheeler gave up a combined five runs on two homers. Atlanta advances to the Division Series. The Phillies go home.

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Oct 1 • 11:07 PM EDT • Sports • nbcsportsphiladelphia.com
Former Steelers Linebacker Calls Out Patrick Queen: ‘Making Business Decisions’

Former Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker Vince Williams did not hold back on Patrick Queen. Williams thinks Queen is making some business […]

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Oct 1 • 10:26 PM EDT • Business • sports.yahoo.com
Steelers DE Derrick Harmon carted with foot injury
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Oct 1 • 9:28 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Steelers may have found what they need to stay competitive

The Pittsburgh Steelers may have found exactly what they need to win.

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Oct 1 • 8:46 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Mason Graham leaves Browns vs Steelers game with knee injury

The second year defensive tackle was pushed backward by Steelers center Zach Frazier.

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Oct 1 • 8:38 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Steelers-Browns alternate game thread

A no-ledges game thread for Week 4.

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Oct 1 • 8:03 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Who plays tonight in Thursday Night Football? Steelers vs Browns

What time is kickoff for Thursday Night Football? Here's how to watch Steelers vs. Browns.

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Oct 1 • 7:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Week 4 inactives for Steelers

Steelers have declared six players inactive for Week 4

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Oct 1 • 6:59 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Fan Favorite Headlines Steelers Inactives vs. Browns

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Ahead of Thursday night’s road game against the Cleveland Browns, the Pittsburgh Steelers announced their inactives, headlined […]

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Oct 1 • 6:53 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
TNF expert picks, predictions: Steelers at Browns

Check out our NFL Week 4 expert picks for Browns vs. Steelers on “Thursday Night Football.”

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Oct 1 • 6:30 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Cleveland Browns Week 4 discussion

The Cleveland Browns take on the Pittsburgh Steelers in Week 4.

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Oct 1 • 6:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
World Business Chicago skips City Council ethics hearing about videos featuring Mayor Brandon Johnson

In four videos , the mayor narrates investments on the city’s South, West, Southwest and Northwest sides. To critics, the videos amount to campaign-style promotions rather than an effort to attract global businesses.

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Oct 1 • 5:37 PM EDT • Business • chicagotribune.com
Joey Porter Jr. felt "disrespected" and "underappreciated" by Steelers
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Oct 1 • 5:13 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
No, No, No—Don't Peel the Nano-Texture Layer off the iPhone Duo's Inner Screen

Don't be the idiot who breaks their $2,000 foldable iPhone because they listened to some 'experts' on social media.

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Oct 1 • 4:40 PM EDT • Technology • gizmodo.com
USA TODAY Sports Top IX flag football players of Week 6

These high school flag football stars redefined high-reel material in Week 6.

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Oct 1 • 4:36 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com