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NFL winners and losers: Nick Sirianni sucks

The Eagles are in trouble, and one man is to blame.

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Oct 5 • 7:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
25 Years of Business Income Insurance Coverage Claims Since the Attacks of Sept. 11, 2001

The 9/11 attacks reshaped business income insurance, spurring decades of litigation over loss calculations, restoration periods, expert evidence, and terrorism coverage. These disputes continue to influence claims and policyholder protections after major catastrophes.

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Oct 5 • 7:00 AM EDT • Business • law.com
Jobs in health care. Jobs for women. The US labour market is segmenting. Chernobyl’s radiation and Lenin’s love of literature.

Thank you for opening your Chartbook email. Elmer Bischoff, Two Figures at the Seashore, 1957 The only really dynamic job-creator in the US economy is health care: The largest crunch has come in Federal government, which has shed 2.7 m jobs. Source: tchouvkov on Twitter Tech is struggling. [ Joey Politano 🏳️‍🌈@JosephPolitano The US tech sector continues bleeding jobs in official data released today—overall, employment decreased by 17k last month and is down 69k over the last year That's nearly as bad as the worst of the 2024 tech-cession, and much worse than the 2022 boom or even pre-2020 norms 12:42 PM · Oct 2, 2026 · 15.2K Views 15 Replies · 47 Reposts · 390 Likes ](https://x.com/JosephPolitano/status/2106001807847940232?s=20) The new jobs are all for women. [ Justin Wolfers@JustinWolfers I'm not sure who saw this coming, but so far nearly all the jobs created during the second Trump administration have gone to women. 1:09 PM · Oct 2, 2026 · 33K Views 70 Replies · 146 Reposts · 644 Likes ](https://x.com/JustinWolfers/status/2106008723533533601?s=20) Meanwhile, real wages are being eaten up by modest over-target inflation. [ Heather Long@byHeatherLong The financial pain is real: Wage growth fell to 3% (y/y) in September. That's the lowest in 5 years. Wage growth: 3% Inflation: ~3.4% Inflation has eaten up all wage gains for the average worker since April. Many people are having to make hard choices about what to buy and what … 1:24 PM · Oct 2, 2026 · 37K Views 24 Replies · 275 Reposts · 533 Likes ](https://x.com/byHeatherLong/status/2106012367712620728?s=20) HEY READERS, THANK YOU for opening the Chartbook email. I hope it brightens your day. I enjoy putting out the newsletter, but tbh, what keeps this flow going is the generosity of those readers who clicked the subscription button. If you are persuaded to click, please consider the annual subscription of $60. It is both better value for you and a much better deal for me, as it involves only one credit card charge. Why feed the payments companies if we don’t have to. Subscribe Elmer Bischoff, Bathers, 1960 Americans are disillusioned with higher ed. For contributing subscribers only. Subscribe Where the Chernobyl radiation went. h/t Simon Kuestenmacher aka simongerman600 How Lenin’s love of literature shaped the Russian Revolution - Tariq Ali This, then, was the intellectual atmosphere in which Lenin came of age. His father, a highly cultured conservative, was the chief inspector of schools in his region and much respected as an educationalist. At home, Shakespeare, Goethe and Pushkin, among others, were read aloud on Sunday afternoons. It was impossible for the Ulyanov family – “Lenin” was a pseudonym adopted to outwit the tsarist secret police – to escape high culture. At high school, Lenin fell in love with Latin. His headteacher had high hopes that he might become a philologist and Latin scholar. History willed otherwise, but Lenin’s passion for Latin, and taste for the classics, never left him. He read Virgil, Ovid, Horace and Juvenal in the original, as well as Roman senatorial orations. He devoured Goethe during his two decades in exile, reading and rereading Faust many times. Lenin put his knowledge of the classics to good use in the time leading up to the October revolution of 1917. In April of that year, he broke with Russian social-democratic orthodoxy and, in a set of radical theses, called for a socialist revolution in Russia. A number of his own close comrades denounced him. In a sharp riposte, Lenin quoted Mephistopheles from Goethe’s masterwork: “Theory, my friend, is grey, but green is the eternal tree of life.” Source: The Guardian Elmer Bischoff, The River, 1953 If you’ve scrolled this far, you know you want to click: Subscribe

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Oct 5 • 6:47 AM EDT • Health • adamtooze.substack.com
Why the Trump administration is reluctant to call the ongoing conflict with Iran a 'war'

Trump administration officials have attempted to distance themselves from the word 'war' when discussing the ongoing conflict in Iran.

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Oct 5 • 6:00 AM EDT • Politics • latimes.com
‘An agenda of…’ – Joe Burrow’s ex-teammate drops a ‘politics’ accusation on Chargers’ Mike McDaniel

Mike McDaniel is being blamed for the Los Angeles Chargers’ terrible start to the 2026-27 NFL season. Week 4 of the NFL season didn’t go as planned for the Los Angeles Chargers, as the organization was handed its fourth defeat of the year.

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Oct 5 • 4:03 AM EDT • Politics • sports.yahoo.com
Euro zone business growth hits over 3-1/2-year high despite inflation worries, PMI shows

BENGALURU, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Euro zone business activity expanded at its fastest pace in nearly 3-1/2 years in September as demand remained strong despite inflation worries stemming from the Middle East war, according to a private survey which also showed resurgent price pressures.

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Oct 5 • 4:02 AM EDT • Business • miamiherald.com
Euro zone business growth hits over 3-1/2-year high despite inflation worries, PMI shows

By Indradip Ghosh BENGALURU, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Euro zone business activity expanded at its fastest pace in nearly 3-1/2 years in September as demand remained strong despite inflation worries stemming from the Middle East war, according to a private ​su...

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Oct 5 • 4:02 AM EDT • Business • wtvbam.com
Today’s Papers – Triple Italy challenge, Roma lead Endrick race

La Gazzetta dello SportLet’s not stop anymoreWin (and confirm ourselves) to look for the quarter-finals. Mancini with Scamacca: ‘Let’s end well.’The last conflictBuonfiglio case: His son works...

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Oct 5 • 3:25 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Disappointing night for Jahmyr Gibbs

Facing the NFL's last-ranked run defense, Jahmyr Gibbs managed just 46 yards on 15 carries in a Week 4 loss to the Panthers.

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Oct 5 • 12:24 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
‘They misunderstand science’: Research attempting to tie autism to changes in the gut microbiome comes under fire

besity, liver disease, diabetes, and cancer are all chronic diseases that inflict misery across millions of patients. Imagine if bacteria could be to

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Oct 5 • 12:01 AM EDT • Science • geneticliteracyproject.org
Between The Lines: Vikings 15, Dolphins 10

Vikings Entertainment Network's Tatum Everett was joined by Ben Leber to break down the Minnesota Vikings 15-10 win over the Miami Dolphins during Week 4 of the 2026 season.

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Oct 4 • 10:02 PM EDT • Entertainment • vikings.com
Amidst Conflict in the Gulf, Oman's Duqm Drydock Sees Business Boom

The Asyad Group’s Drydock subsidiary, which operates a substantial facility within the inner harbor at Duqm in Oman, has seen a massive expansion of i...

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Oct 4 • 9:05 PM EDT • Business • maritime-executive.com
Jalon Daniels Shows Promise in First NFL Start Despite Loss

Jalon Daniels Shows Promise in First NFL Start Despite Loss

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Oct 4 • 7:58 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Patriots’ HC Raves About Drake Maye Compared to Josh Allen

The New England Patriots needed a response after a lopsided loss. Head coach Mike Vrabel received one from his quarterback against a division heavyweight. New England stunned the previously unbeaten Buffalo Bills 29-26 on Sunday, Oct. 4, and Vrabel placed Drake Maye in the same conversation as reigning NFL MVP Josh Allen afterward. “Gets us […] The post Patriots’ HC Raves About Drake Maye Compared to Josh Allen appeared first on HEAVY.

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Oct 4 • 7:44 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
The Breakdown: Ravens’ Home Victory Takes Heavy Toll on Health

The mounting injuries will test the Ravens’ next-man-up mentality. The Ravens need to clean up penalties and more but won’t apologize for winning.

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Oct 4 • 7:35 PM EDT • Health • baltimoreravens.com
Jalon Daniels Makes Plays, Mistakes and Loses First NFL Start

The undrafted rookie flashed his ability, but also made some mistakes as Tampa comes up just short in Daniels’ first NFL start.

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Oct 4 • 6:23 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Tom Brady owns up to awkward FOX Sports mistake during Eagles-Rams broadcast

During a FOX Sports NFL broadcast, Tom Brady accidentally muted his own headset by dropping a research board on his talkback button, causing a brief communication disruption in the booth.

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Oct 4 • 5:22 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Packers Reveal Brutal Edgerrin Cooper Update After Big Win

The Green Bay Packers entered Week 4 NFL action badly needing a win on the road against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. When all was said and done, they were able to get that win by a final score of 17-14. Once again, nothing looked pretty for the Packers. They struggled at times on both sides […] The post Packers Reveal Brutal Edgerrin Cooper Update After Big Win appeared first on Gridiron Heroics.

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Oct 4 • 5:09 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Kevin O'Connell Speaks With FOX Sports' Allison Williams

Hear from Head Coach Kevin O'Connell after the first quarter of Sunday's game vs. Miami...

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Oct 4 • 4:50 PM EDT • Sports • vikings.com
Professor Renée Marlin-Bennett Receives International Studies Association (ISA) Award

Professor Renée Marlin-Bennett has received the 2027 Distinguished Scholar Award from the Science, Technology, and Art in International Relations (STAIR) section of the International Studies Association (ISA). The award celebrates scholars whose work and academic engagement have been highly influential in the study of science, technology, and art in International Relations and International Political Economy....

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Oct 4 • 4:20 PM EDT • Science • politicalscience.jhu.edu
Jalon Daniels comes up short in first NFL start

TAMPA, FL (KSNT) – Jalon Daniels comes up short in his first NFL start. Daniels and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers moved to 0-4 on the season, losing to the Green Bay Packers 17-14. The former Kansas star was 19-for-27 for 148 yards with a touchdown and two interceptions. He added eight carries for 55 yards […]

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Oct 4 • 4:06 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
RB Cam Skattebo: 'We came out here and handled business'

Running back Cam Skattebo addresses the media following the Giants' Week 4 win over the Arizona Cardinals.

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Oct 4 • 4:05 PM EDT • Business • giants.com
Maala: The ESG engine quietly rewiring Israeli corporate culture

Maala’s influence is quiet, but structural. It is shaping expectations in boardrooms, guiding investor scrutiny, and setting the standards by which corporate leadership is increasingly judged

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Oct 4 • 2:38 PM EDT • Business • jpost.com
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The Supply Side: Consumers want fewer digital distractions in stores

A new report from JLL Design reveals that 60% of consumers say a store’s atmosphere influences whether they would recommend it, even if they did not make a purchase. At...

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Oct 4 • 2:24 PM EDT • Business • talkbusiness.net
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Colts top Commanders in NFL London game

Indianapolis running back Jonathan Taylor ran for two touchdowns as the Colts defeated the injury-hit Washington Commanders 30-13 on Sunday in the NFL's latest foray in London.

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Oct 4 • 1:42 PM EDT • Business • starcitytv.com
Chicago vs NY Jets: Bears starting quarterback, streaming, live updates

Live updates for the Bears-Jets game in Week 3 of the NFL season.

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Oct 4 • 12:45 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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This Is Where Colts-Commanders Game Is Being Played Today

The Indianapolis Colts and Washington Commanders are a long way from home on Sunday. It’s Week 4 of the 2026 NFL season, but the Colts and Commanders aren’t playing in Indy or in the nation’s capital. Instead, they’ve crossed the Atlantic Ocean for a game that kicks off in the middle of the morning back […] The post This Is Where Colts-Commanders Game Is Being Played Today appeared first on HEAVY.

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Oct 4 • 11:53 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Detroit Lions Week 4 rooting guide: Best possible outcomes

A look at best possible outcomes for the Detroit Lions in our Week 4 NFL rooting guide.

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Oct 4 • 11:30 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Hassett defends Trump economy despite voter concerns on inflation
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Oct 4 • 11:07 AM EDT • Business • cnn.com
NFL Week 4 games: Eagles rooting guide

Handy dandy reference material.

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Oct 4 • 10:14 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Vega Ioane to start at center

Vega Ioane to make first NFL start at center versus Tennessee

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Oct 4 • 9:58 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
NFL Week 4 TV coverage maps

There are 15 games remaining on the Week 4 NFL schedule. Here is when and where you can watch them.

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Oct 4 • 9:27 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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NFL Week 4 expert picks, score predictions: Lions at Panthers

Detroit Lions vs. Carolina Panthers NFL Week 4 expert picks from the Pride of Detroit staff.

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Oct 4 • 9:15 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Buccaneers make NFL history in week 3 loss to Vikings

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers managed to make NFL history in their 23-16 loss to the Minnesota Vikings.

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Oct 4 • 9:01 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Where to live stream Buccaneers vs Packers for free: NFL, TV channel

The Green Bay Packers and Tampa Bay Buccaneers meet in Week 4 with both teams needing a victory after difficult starts to the season. Green Bay has dropped two of its first three games, while Tampa Bay is trying to…

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Oct 4 • 9:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
How Americans’ Financial Health Is Faring In The “K-Shaped” Economy

Hey all, Jason here. Money20/20 is still two weeks away, but I’ve already started packing (not procrastinating for once!). My calendar is already filling up with various sessions I want to catch, meetings, and of course happy hours, dinners, and other side events. If you’ll be in Vegas and want to catch up, let me know by replying to this email, and we can try to find a time amidst the chaos of the Venetian. A big if not totally unexpected piece of news dropped on Friday: the Independent Community Bankers of America, a trade group that represents smaller U.S. banks, filed a lawsuit against the OCC and Comptroller Jonathan Gould, arguing that the regulator’s move to grant trust bank charters to firms seeking to use them to conduct substantial non-fiduciary activities exceeds the authorities granted to the OCC by Congress. I haven’t had time to fully digest the legal filing or speak to folks in my network about it, but you can expect to see coverage and analysis on it in next week’s newsletter. Subscribe or Support by Upgrading The NerdCon agenda just dropped. It’s stacked. Partner content: Nubank built an AI-first bank. Chime built its own banking core. Figure and Valon are rebuilding the mortgage stack. At NerdCon, you’ll hear from the people behind those bets: what they chose, what they learned, and what they’re still figuring out. The agenda is live, with leaders from Nubank, Chime, OpenAI, Remitly, Mercury, Figure, Valon and more. Follow the mainstage conversations, bring the problem your team is wrestling with to a hands-on workshop, or pull up a chair at a roundtable. Pick your quests. Meet us in San Diego, November 18–20. Fintech Business Weekly readers save 20% with code FBW20. Explore the Agenda Things To Know & Other Good Reads Federal Reserve Board finalizes changes to enhance the transparency and public accountability of its stress test and reduce volatility in its stress test-related capital requirements (Federal Reserve Board of Governors) FDIC Announces Conclusion of Independent Monitorship (FDIC) Modernizing Financial Regulation: Initial Observations from eSLR (Fed Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman) The Data Version of Godzilla versus Kong: FRED Takes on AI (Fed Governor Christopher Waller) Financing the AI buildout (Brookings) Q3’26: Rules for Banks but Not for Crypto (Fintech Takes Banking) The Inevitability of Local Stablecoins (Lombard Notes) Delusions of AI Governance: The Human-in-the-Loop Comfort Blanket (Fintech Snark Tank) Stripe agrees to acquire Parafin to expand revenue opportunities for platforms and help small businesses grow (Stripe) Listen: Fighting Fraud in the Age of AI, with SEON’s Tamas Kadar (Fintech Business Weekly) How Americans’ Financial Health Is Faring In The “K-Shaped” Economy If there is one overarching theme across the economy and politics in the U.S. at the moment, it’s “affordability.” The term is vague enough to encompass a panoply of factors shaping Americans’ day-to-day lives: rising costs for the hallmarks of being “middle class,” including healthcare, housing, childcare, and education, inflation and rising interest rates, and a job market with the specter of AI hovering over it. At the same time, policy shifts under the Trump administration have resulted in reduced subsidies to those who get health insurance under the Affordable Care Act and new restrictions on qualifying for Medicaid and SNAP, the impacts of which have yet to be fully felt. These factors are contributing to declining consumer confidence and general dissatisfaction with the economy, despite continuing GDP growth and stock market records. This divergence is encapsulated in the idea of the “K-shaped” economy, in which a small proportion of Americans have seen their wealth balloon, while the majority of American households struggle to preserve the lifestyle they have. Perhaps the greatest determinant of which branch of the “K” a household is on is whether their wealth and income are primarily derived from employment vs. from assets. Nearly two decades of low interest rates and, more recently, elevated rates of inflation have benefited asset owners, while those whose income is primarily or solely derived from labor have largely seen real purchasing power stagnate or decline. This is reflected in recent Bureau of Labor Statistics data showing that labor share of U.S. GDP — the fraction of economic output that accrues to workers as compensation in exchange for their labor — dropped to just 52.8% in Q2 2026, the lowest since the BLS began keeping records. In 1947, approximately 2/3rds of economic output accrued to workers; even as recently as 2001, labor’s share of GDP was 64.1%. Against this backdrop, we’ve seen the rise of more credit and credit-like products: cash advance apps, “no-fee” overdraft, earned wage access, and buy now pay later, which are often used as small-dollar short-term borrowing mechanisms to meet immediate consumption needs or pay other bills (eg utilities, cell phone, other debt payments). With the markers of a middle class existence and, increasingly, basic financial stability seemingly out of reach for many, it should be no surprise there’s been an increase in “financial nihilism,” something industry peers like Alex Johnson and Frank Rotman have discussed and analyzed the roots of. The explosion of gambling and gambling-adjacent products and services — often marketed under the guise of being an “investment” — is inextricably intertwined with the rise of financial nihilism. Crypto, sports betting, and, more recently, prediction markets offer an escape or even hope of sorts, like a contemporary, digital version of a scratch-off lottery ticket, while leaving the overwhelming number of people who use such products worse off. Share of Households That Are Financially “Vulnerable” Ticks Up The Financial Health Network’s 2026 Financial Health Pulse® report adds context on how American households are faring. (I linked to this report in last week’s newsletter, but wanted to take time to further unpack the data in the report this week.) The Financial Health Network publishes the report annually, providing insight into how Americans’ financial circumstances are changing over time. The 2026 report is derived from a survey fielded in April and May 2026. The report leverages survey responses to assess indicators of financial health across spending, saving, borrowing, and planning/protecting and to determine a zero to 100 “FinHealth” score. Those with scores between 0 and 39 are considered “Financially Vulnerable,” consumers with scores ranging between 40 and 79 are defined as “Financially Coping,” and those with scores of 80 to 100 are “Financially Healthy.” The report found that moderate improvements in 2025 were reversed, with the share of respondents considered financially “vulnerable” rebounding to 17%. The longitudinal data reflect the impact of pandemic-era programs, like expanded unemployment, cash stimulus payments, and pauses of federal student loan payments. The positive impacts of those programs, as reflected in the Financial Health Pulse reports, had largely disappeared by 2023. While pandemic-era inflation — to be fair, in part caused by the various support and stimulus measures — had come down from as high as 9% in 2022, it has rebounded since the start of Trump’s second term, with tariffs and energy market disruptions owing to the war in Iran pushing prices back up. Specific indicators in the survey that deteriorated from 2025 to 2026 include the share of respondents spending less than their income over the past 12 months, the share paying all bills on time over the past 12 months, the share that have a manageable amount or no debt, the share that are “moderately” or “very” confident their insurance is adequate to cover them in an emergency, and the share that “somewhat” or “strongly” agree that their household plans ahead financially. Unsurprisingly, lower- and moderate-income households are more likely to struggle to pay their bills on time and have any funds leftover to save. The share of low-income households whose income exceeded their spending dropped from 35% in 2025 to 31% in 2026, while the share of upper-income households whose income exceeded expenses remained unchanged at 63%. Households with student loans or revolving credit card debt reported having “a bit more” or “far more” debt than was manageable at rates far higher than those not carrying these types of debts. The share of those with student loan debt indicating their debt load was too high to manage increased from 50% in 2025 to 55% in 2026, while the share of those with revolving credit card debt saying the same ticked up from 51% in 2025 to 54% in 2026. Households that had student loans were markedly more likely to be financially “coping” or “vulnerable” vs. those without student loans. In 2026, 27% of households with student loans were considered financially vulnerable, a jump of 6% points vs. 2025. Households without student loans saw just a 1% point increase (not statistically significant) in those considered financially vulnerable. Households’ perception of the affordability of categories of goods and services paints a stark picture, with less than one-fourth considering higher education affordable, about a third deeming childcare affordable, and less than half viewing healthcare as affordable. Fintech Business Weekly is made possible by the generous support of paying subscribers — bringing you independent analysis of banking, fintech, and crypto without fear or favor. You can support my work by becoming a paying subscriber if you aren’t already. Paying subscribers enjoy: access to the entire archive of nearly six years of newsletters extended versions of the weekly newsletter, with additional content and analysis and (for founding member tier) quarterly personal 1:1 fintech Q&A / strategy calls with me, tapping into my unparalleled knowledge of the intersection of banking and fintech and experience working in the sector, including helping to launch Goldman Sachs’ retail bank Marcus Support Fintech Business Weekly You can also support Fintech Business Weekly by sponsoring a newsletter or podcast, putting you in front of 93,000+ of the most influential decision makers in banking, fintech, and crypto. Learn more about sponsor opportunities or request a media kit by dropping me an email. Democratic Senate Report Highlights How Iran Uses Tether to Evade U.S. Sanctions Iran uses stablecoins, specifically Tether, to evade sanctions, fund regional proxies, and to purchase military drones, a report released last week by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations says. The report was authored by committee ranking member Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and the minority staff. Crypto and stablecoin proponents will often push back on criticism that criminals make use of these assets by arguing that, on an absolute dollar basis, far more illicit funds flow through traditional banking systems and payment rails than via crypto and stablecoins. And while that is likely true, it elides the reality presented in news story after news story: whether state actors — Russia, Iran, North Korea — or criminal groups, those looking to engage in illicit transactions increasingly favor stablecoins and, specifically, Tether (USDT). The report from the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations released last week adds context to how Iran uses Tether has a lynchpin in its shadow banking system. The report analyzed 846 wallets that have been sanctioned or targeted for seizure, finding that 84% of them transacted exclusively or primarily in Tether. The ability to create near limitless, anonymous wallets and to move funds effectively instantaneously and irreversibly have made crypto a favored financial mechanism for bad actors. Stablecoins solved key drawbacks of bitcoin, namely, the original cryptocurrency’s highly volatile value in dollars. And while Tether (the company) has the technical ability to “freeze” or destroy funds, the company is often limited and reactive in its approach to doing so, the Senate report argues. Tether, which is nominally based in crypto-friendly El Salvador, “has stated that its compliance with OFAC sanctions is ‘voluntary’ and that it follows ‘OFAC guidelines,’” the Senate report says. Owing to these favorable attributes, Tether “became a primary cryptocurrency for Iran, Hamas, Hizballah, and the Houthis beginning in 2023 and has expanded in scale since,” according to the report. Tether’s role in Iran’s shadow banking system, the report says, is enhanced by crypto exchanges like Bybit, Kyrrex, OKX, Gate, and Binance, and through “over the counter” exchanges and hawala networks. The consequences of these financial flows aren’t hypothetical. The Senate report links Tether as a funds transfer mechanism to Iranian proxies in the region, including Hizballah, the Houthis, and Hamas. Tether has also been used to make payments to secure components necessary to manufacture drones, the report says. The report concludes by arguing that “[s]tablecoin issuers with a significant nexus to the United States, particularly those that offer dollar-denominated stablecoins, should be subject to American sanctions law rather than being allowed to hide behind foreign jurisdictions.” Stablecoin issuers like Tether must be held accountable for repeated failures to prevent illicit finance and sanctions violations by law enforcement, the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and OFAC, the report argues. [Paying Subscriber Exclusive] OUSD Goes Live, Make Your Own Neobank, U.S. Sanctions Russia’s A7 Network As “Transnational Criminal Organization” OpenUSD, the stablecoin issued by the Open Standard consortium that includes Stripe, Visa, Mastercard, core providers, crypto firms, and numerous banks, went live last week. Social commerce platform Whop raised eyebrows in fintech by offering creators on its platform the ability to launch their own neobanks, which the company describes as “great businesses that are easy to run,” in just 15 minutes. And OFAC and FinCEN target Russia’s “shadow banking” A7 Network — more on these stories after the paywall.

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Oct 4 • 8:59 AM EDT • Health • fintechbusinessweekly.substack.com
Who do Titans fans want in the 2027 NFL Draft?

Here we are talking about the NFL Draft in October for the third straight year. Mike Borgonzi and the Tennessee Titans have to find a way to buck that trend this offseason. The NFL is set up for teams to reload quickly. The Titans just haven’t been able to do that. It sucks. This week, […]

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Where to watch NFL games: Commanders vs Colts in London

Clear your couch — NFL Week 4 is here! Here's how to watch every game this Sunday.

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Oct 4 • 8:15 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Jalen Coker Injury Update: Panthers WR’s Week 4 Status Revealed

Jalen Coker has been one of the bright spots for the Carolina Panthers through the first three weeks of the season, but the team may have to make due without him in Week 4. Originally entering the league as an undrafted free agent after the 2023 NFL Draft, the Holy Cross product quickly outplayed his …

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Oct 4 • 7:55 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
NFL Predictions, Week 4 Picks: Expert Best Bets for Sunday

If you want more Action Network content, be sure to add us as a preferred source on Google. Our football staff is focused on eight of Sunday’s biggest

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Oct 4 • 7:45 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Zay Flowers Injury Update: Ravens WR’s Week 4 Status Revealed

Zay Flowers spent the past week battling a hamstring injury in practice, but the Baltimore Ravens star wide receiver should suit up for Week 4's battle against the Tennessee Titans. A first-round pick in the 2023 NFL Draft, the Boston College product immediately established a rapport with quarterback Lamar Jackson. Back in 2023, the rookie …

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Oct 4 • 7:33 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Mike Evans Injury Update: 49ers WR’s Week 4 Status Revealed

Mike Evans suffered a rib injury midway through Week 3's shootout against the Arizona Cardinals, but it might not keep him from suiting up in Week 4. Originally entering the league as a first-round pick in the 2014 NFL Draft, Evans spent most of his career with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and established himself as …

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Oct 4 • 7:22 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
TV maps for Week 4 of 2026 NFL games

There's a full slate of NFL action Sunday on CBS and FOX. Here's a look at the Week 4 TV coverage maps.

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Oct 4 • 7:15 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
TV and streaming viewing picks for October 4, 2026: How to watch MLB Postseason, NFL Week 4 and WNBA Semifinals

All Times Eastern College Field Hockey Stanford at Louisville — ACC Network/ESPN Unlimited, noon College Football ACC Huddle: Final Score — ACC Network, 8 a.m. SEC Football Final — SEC Network, 8 a.m. The Final Drive — Big Ten Network, 10 a.m. Inside College Football — CBS Sports Network, 11 a.m. College Football Final —…

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Oct 4 • 7:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
NFL Week 4 expert picks, predictions: Moneyline, against the spread

A full slate of NFL Week 4 expert picks: moneyline and against the spread.

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Oct 4 • 7:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Jacksonville Jaguars vs. Cincinnati Bengals: How to watch, start time, where to stream and more

Find out how to watch the Bengals vs. Jaguars NFL game this week.

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Oct 4 • 6:50 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
What channel is the Commanders vs Colts London game today? Start time, schedule, streaming

The Colts and Commanders battle in London today. Marking the third of nine NFL International games this year. Here's how you can watch the Week 4 action.

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TST Best Bets: October 4, 2026

Week 4 of the NFL season has arrived, and this column is due for a bounce-back after back-to-back weeks under .500 followed a strong Week 1 debut.Let’s get straight to it as we pick every game on Sunday’s slate, starting with the Lock of the Week.For all of your NFL betting picks, here are today’s TST Best Bets, brought to you by BetOnline.ag. Click here to join. All new players receive a 50% welcome bonus and up to $250 in free bets.

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Daily Norseman Staff NFL Picks, Week 4

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Where to watch 49ers vs. Broncos today: Channel, live stream, time, TV schedule for Week 4 NFL game

Here is everything you need to know to watch 49ers vs. Broncos, including TV and streaming options for the game.

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OPINION | OTHERS SAY: Put an end to resentment politics

American politics is being hijacked not by one ideology, one party or one faith but by influential voices who have discovered that resentment attracts attention, outrage builds audiences and division produces political power.

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Polls open in Bosnia and Herzegovina as pro-Russian politician looms large over race

Bosnians are heading to the polls Sunday in elections that ​could impact their European Union membership bid and the influence that Russia seeks over the small Balkan nation. Bosnia and Herzegovina,…

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Where to watch Texans vs. Cowboys today: Channel, live stream, time, TV schedule for Week 4 NFL game

All you need to know to watch the Texans host the Cowboys in Week 4, including TV channel and live streaming info.

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Where to watch Eagles vs. Rams today: Channel, live stream, time, TV schedule for Week 4 NFL game

Here is everything you need to know about Eagles vs. Rams, including TV and streaming options for the game.

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Who will be Brazil’s next president?

The election could also serve as a bellwether of Donald Trump's influence in Latin America

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Eagles rookie storylines for the Rams game

Keeping an eye on Philadelphia’s 2026 NFL Draft picks.

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Former Browns defender part of NFL's biggest disappointments

This former Cleveland Browns defender was named among the leagues biggest disappointments to start the year.

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Mack Hollins fined twice on the same play, losing $34,441

The NFL fined Patriots receiver Mack Hollins $34,441 for his actions on the same play against the Jaguars.

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Zay Flowers has become one of NFL’s most efficient receivers

Zay Flowers leads qualified NFL receivers in four efficiency categories entering Baltimore’s Week 4 matchup

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Food and entertainment combine for Octoberfest fun

Food, face painting, live music, inflatables and yard games combined for a family-friendly atmosphere Saturday during Octoberfest at Meineke Park in Schaumburg. The Mackenzie O'Brien kicked off the li...

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Seahawks place rookie RB Jadarian Price on Injured Reserve

A brutal setback for Seattle's top pick from the 2026 NFL draft

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Bills elevate two defensive backs for Week 4 vs. Patriots

DB Te'Cory Couch and CB Kani Walker elevated from practice squad for Week 4

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Malik lifts Cedar Grove boys soccer over Newark Data Science

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Houston Texans vs. Dallas Cowboys: NFL Week 4 predictions from Houston Chronicle sports staff

Can the Texans avoid an 0-4 start as they face the Cowboys at home? The Houston Chronicle staff makes its predictions.

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Opinion: Voting rights for young Americans remain unfinished business

Broadening democratic participation should be a national priority, including in the newly proposed Youth Voting Rights Act

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Giants-Cards wagers to consider as you fill out your tickets.

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Ex-Philadelphia Eagles Star Named NFL’s Top Trade Candidate

Ex-Philadelphia Eagles star and Super Bowl champion named NFL's top trade candidate by ESPN. The post Ex-Philadelphia Eagles Star Named NFL’s Top Trade Candidate appeared first on HEAVY.

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Clemson Tigers Star Lands Jarring NFL Draft Ranking

This Clemson Tigers star has landed a jarring ranking for the 2027 NFL Draft.

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Iran knows US 'is winning' as Operation Economic Outcast inflicts damage, Treasury official says

A top Treasury official told FOX Business that the "absolute isolation" campaign the Treasury is imposing on the Iranian regime has been "really effective."

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How your gut microbiome may affect your health

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Bucs Rookie Deemed One of NFL Draft’s Best Values

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NFL predictions: Broncos vs. 49ers score predictions for Week 4

The Denver Broncos are coming off an historic back-to-back comeback wins where they would overcome two score deficits in both games to climb to 2-1 before heading west to take on the undefeated San Francisco 49ers. They are underdogs and the 49ers look pretty good to start the season. This one will put Denver to […]

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When is the right time to compare US politics to the Nazi era? This expert on Christian nationalism says: now

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An invisible force could be changing your lifespan, study suggests

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Puka Nacua expected back Sunday for Rams, Aaron Donald out

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This protective enzyme could help stop fatty liver disease from getting worse

Scientists have identified an enzyme that may act as a natural defense against the worsening of fatty liver disease, which affects an estimated 100 million Americans. The enzyme, called UBE2N, helps liver cells clear away damaged mitochondria and break down fat, potentially preventing the inflammation, scarring, and cell damage associated with the more dangerous condition MASH.

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Week in Politics: Inflation pressure; war in Iran and effect on midterm elections

We look at how some concerning economic indicators as well as the ongoing war in Iran might affect the midterm elections.

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Notre Dame Nabs Six Spots on Early NFL Draft Board

For decades, major football programs such as the Notre Dame Fighting Irish have spent heavily on training centers and experienced coaching staffs. Those resources help high school recruits become stronger and more prepared early in their college careers. Top universities now run football programs that work much like professional teams. Scouts follow talented college players […] The post Notre Dame Nabs Six Spots on Early NFL Draft Board appeared first on Gridiron Heroics.

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Top Rutgers Health officials shielded from NJ conflict of interest law

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Fixing NFL headsets isn't rocket science. The Lions still needed Josh Dobbs

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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies

President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of interest.

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Editorial: Both parties must reject the politics of resentment

American politics is being hijacked not by one ideology, one party or one faith but by influential voices who have discovered that resentment attracts attention, outrage builds audiences and division produces political power.

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What a can of Chef Boyardee taught me about politics...

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$7.5B plan for California science agency free from Trump’s influence will go to voters

California could create its own multi-billion-dollar science and health research agency under a bill signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

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NFL fines Quinn Meinerz $14,926 for a celebratory dice roll
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NFL predictions: Chargers vs. Seahawks face intriguing Week 4 matchup

The Los Angeles Chargers are getting ready to face off against the Seattle Seahawks.

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Dasha Smith, one of the highest-ranking female executives in sports, is leaving NFL

Smith was the only woman of color in the NFL’s C-suite.

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4 Running Backs Who Could Be Traded Soon

With the NFL trade deadline not too far off, several crowded backfields could create opportunities for deals. Injuries around the league could also push contenders to search for proven depth. Several running backs who could be traded already find themselves fighting for touches. Here are four situations that are worth watching.

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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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$7.5B plan for California science agency free from Trump's influence will go to voters

California could create a multi-billion-dollar science and health research agency under a new bill signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

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Victor Wembanyama Slams Door On Sports Betting As LeBron James, Kevin Durant Cash In

Victor Wembanyama is entering a different part of his NBA career now. Wembanyama's spotlight has grown, and his influence has expanded well beyond the basketball court after three seasons with the San Antonio Spurs. Victor Wembanyama Slams Door On Sports Betting As LeBron James, Kevin Durant Cash In At 22, Wembanyama already has a Defensive …

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NFL Analyst Drops Honest Admission on Vikings QB Kyler Murray

Despite a sluggish start for the league's lowest-ranked offense, insiders predict Kyler Murray will finally ignite against Miami to silence critics and secure a dominant 4-0 start.

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Sean McVay’s Comments About Call Raise Questions About NFL Policy

Discussions between teams and the NFL are not always treated as confidential.

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Expert Game Picks: Raiders or Chiefs?

Take a look at who the experts are picking to win Sunday's game.

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Remembering Howard Stevenson, Who Transformed the Study of Entrepreneurship

Howard Stevenson transformed entrepreneurship from a study of founders’ personalities and business formation into a way of managing: pursuing opportunity beyond the resources currently controlled. His approach emphasized testing ideas, committing resources in stages, assembling teams, and rewarding value creation—practices that could benefit organizations of any size. His ideas reshaped business education and influenced generations of entrepreneurs and managers around the world.

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Tony Romo will not return to CBS Sports in wake of drunk driving arrest

The former Dallas Cowboys star quarterback and the network mutually agreed to part ways after his July arrest for operating a vehicle under the influence

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Tony Romo out as NFL analyst for CBS Sports following July DUI arrest

The network said it was a mutual decision to part ways.

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Tony Romo out at CBS Sports after nine years following drunk driving arrest

Former NFL star Tony Romo will not be returning to CBS Sports after his arrest for drunk driving earlier this summer, the network said in a statement.

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CBS Sports and Tony Romo ‘Mutually’ Part Ways After His July OWI Arrest in Wisconsin

Tony Romo and CBS Sports are officially parting ways after nine years together. The network announced the former Dallas Cowboys quarterback’s departure on Friday, October 2, and confirmed that J.J. Watt will remain in his place on its lead NFL broadcast team. “CBS Sports and Tony Romo have mutually agreed to part ways. We thank […]

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