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Johnson survives City Council veto override attempt by a single vote

The failed veto override comes a week before Johnson unveils his plan to close a $882 million 2027 budget gap

Oct 14 • 2:25 PM EDT • Business • chicagobusiness.com

Gemini 4 Argon Arrives With Big Claims for AI Agents and Scientific Discovery

Google just released the new Gemini 4 Argon, which it claims can generate up to a million tokens in a single run, a big jump for long code migrations and multi-step agent work. Competitors top out around 128,000 output tokens per request, so based on that claim, Argon’s 1 million is roughly 8x higher. Argon […]

Oct 14 • 1:12 PM EDT • Science • hpcwire.com

Cam Heyward singles out Gabe Rubio after key Steelers performance

Pittsburgh Steelers captain Cameron Heyward praised rookie defensive lineman Gabe Rubio for stepping up during a thin rotation against Indianapolis.

Oct 14 • 12:10 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Calvin Harris announces first North American headlining tour

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Calvin Harris is bringing his first headlining tour to Southern California next spring, with a stop at Inglewood’s Kia Forum. The Scottish DJ and producer will perform

Oct 14 • 11:22 AM EDT • Entertainment • recorderonline.com

Archaeologists Found a Lost Roman Oracle—and Decoded the 56 Baffling Messages Inside

The Roman-era “Magic 8 Ball” answered everyday questions with a single throw of knucklebone dice.

Oct 14 • 8:30 AM EDT • Science • popularmechanics.com

BUSINESS UPDATE: Port Perseveres Despite Tariffs’ Negative Impact

‘We are hanging tough ... in an environment that is incredibly difficult to do business in right now,” the port’s director says By Stefan Yablonski Tariffs imposed by the Trump administration have hurt the Port of Oswego by slashing Canadian aluminum cargo volumes and reducing revenue. “We’re doing good. We are hanging tough. It is a tough time for our line of business in general, you know with these tariffs and the amount of Canadian aluminum that we see through our docks,” said the new executive director, Tom Drumm. “Compared to 2025, we are doing exceedingly well in traffic coming in; not necessarily the volumes we were seeing, but yeah we are hanging tough in an environment that is incredibly difficult to do business in right now.” “I don’t know where people get these numbers to be honest. We have never publicly stated how much our revenue is down or up or left to right. We don’t have a strong sense of those revenue numbers until the shipping season really closes up. We won’t have an accurate picture of the revenue standpoint until after the shipping season, typically in late November,” he added. “What I can tell you is several of our Canadian vessels that carry the aluminum cells — the volume of aluminum on those vessels we have seen decreasing. That is attributed to a few factors. One is where Novelis is in in their restart process. Novelis is rocking and rolling right now. They are starting to pull a lot of aluminum from the port of Oswego, the aluminum that they roll down into coils. “Another factor plainly is the tariffs. Canadian aluminum is tariffed at 50%. So, on those vessels we are seeing lower numbers than we would like. We’d like to see vessels carrying roughly 10,000 metric tons of aluminum. Over the course of this year, we have seen more in the range of 4,000 to 6,000. “Every piece of that aluminum that we receive here by vessel at the port is from Canada and is subsequently hit with the 50% tariff. It directly affects us because we’ve received less volume than we would traditionally see pre-tariff times.” When the port receives less aluminum from those vessels it means less hours for the ILA (International Longshoremen Association) as far as folks that work on the dock, he said. When cargo declines, it affects everyone, fewer hours for longshoremen, fewer loads for truck drivers, fewer rail shipments and less business for local suppliers. “Outside of the aluminum that comes in by vessel, the port topped out at having roughly 4,600 aluminum ingots stored on site at the port. That project had never been done before. The port of Oswego had never had that many of those size ingots in our yard,” he said. “It has been a busy summer for the ILA. Would we like to see more work for them? Sure. They are working all those barges when they come in, but as opposed to working 15 hours they might be working seven or eight hours. It hasn’t been a distinct decline in ILA hours. There has been plenty of work to keep our guys busy throughout the summer.” More salt “We just brought salt back to the port in several, several years. Around Harborfest time at one point we had a salt barge here with about 24,000 metric tons of rock salt and we had an aluminum barge here the same week. We had close to 40 men working,” he said. “Yeah, the other products definitely keep us busy. The salt project was a massive project, one that we are proud of. I’ve got 24,000 metric tons of salt on site that has to go somewhere — that’s going to be another project.” It is important for the port to continue to look at different products, different commodities to try to diversify some of its revenue, he said, adding, “We have done a pretty good job of that in my first five months here … particularly with the rock salt we have on site right now. It is important to continue to try to stand out and work through some projects outside our usual business. I enjoy it. It is a challenge every single day we put our head down and we try our best.”

Oct 14 • 8:23 AM EDT • Business • oswegocountybusiness.com

SPECIAL REPORT: Tough Business

A string of vacant restaurant buildings shows that many restaurants in the region are struggling — and several are closing By Stefan Yablonski [caption id=attachment_11132 align=alignright width=401] Smokey Bones Bar & Fire Grill on Route 31 in Clay closed its doors in April. It had been in operation since at least 2008.[/caption] By their nature, most restaurants have a limited life. An astonishing 60% go out of business within three years of opening, largely due to fundamental flaws in the planning of the operation. But even restaurants that experience years of success almost always face eventual closure. The restaurant business is very hard and because of both personal factors and external factors beyond anyone’s control, restaurants don’t last forever. For many restaurants, age is a big factor, according to Kenneth Walsleben, professor of practice, entrepreneurship and emerging enterprises at Syracuse University. “The owners have been at it for 20 or 25 years, if not longer, they want some time to themselves,” he said. Such was the case for Jocko’s Famous Ritz Diner in Oswego. Jocko Reitz bought the building in the late 1970s from Robert Shapiro. However, when he stepped away from the business, it eventually closed. [caption id=attachment_11142 align=alignright width=402] For nearly 80 years, Vona’s Restaurant passed through three generations of family in Oswego. It closed its doors on Dec. 31, 2025.[/caption] For nearly 80 years, Vona’s passed through three generations of family in Oswego. Vona’s Restaurant officially closed its doors on Dec. 31, 2025, when no family member wanted to take over. It is on the market. The Ruby Tuesday in Oswego operated for about two decades before permanently closing in April 2026. The restaurant faced multiple temporary health department closures in 2024 and 2025 due to persistent fruit fly and foundation pest issues. Management posted a final closure notice on the doors in mid-April 2026 and the building was put up for sale. The same pattern has been happening in Onondaga County. The big building once used by Smokey Bones Bar & Fire Grill on Route 31 in Clay remains empty, more than six months after the restaurant closed its doors in April. It had been in operation since at least 2008. [caption id=attachment_11130 align=alignright width=401] Ruby Tuesday in Oswego operated for about two decades before permanently closing in April 2026.[/caption] Just down the road from Smokey Bones, the popular Outback Steakhouse closed in August 2024. Another restaurant took its place, La Cocina Mexican Restaurant, but it closed shortly after. The building sits empty. Other very popular restaurants in the northern suburbs of Syracuse have recently closed. Among them, Fireside by the River in Baldwinsville and Primo Nestico’s Bistro Bar in North Syracuse. “I haven’t really paid attention to the Syracuse area. There has always been some turnover, but there probably has never been a tougher time to be a restauranter than now. It’s just brutal,” Walsleben said. In the first year, roughly 20% to 25% of restaurants close or change hands, according to the National Restaurant Association. [caption id=attachment_11122 align=alignright width=401] Outback Steakhouse closed in August 2024. Another restaurant took its place, La Cocina Mexican Restaurant, but it closed shortly after. The building sits empty.[/caption] “Depending on what statistics you look at, you’ll find that any business has a high mortality rate in the first year. That is just the nature of entrepreneurship,” Walsleben said. “There are certain ones that are getting hit hard while others are more fruitful. “And when you look at the restaurant industry you have to factor in labor which is a large part — typically a third of your expenses — and those costs are going up. And there is always turnover which means investing money to train people. Then you’ve got food costs, which is also a third of the typical restaurant budget. Since the pandemic labor has gone up 41%, food costs have gone up 35%. That’s a big tight squeeze righty there. That’s two-thirds of your budget that has gone up 35% to 40% in the last few years. And then the only way you can make that work is to raise the prices.” The National Restaurant Association reports menu prices are up 36% since February of 2020. In a survey released by the association, more than eight in 10 restaurant owners reported that their food, beverage and labor costs are now higher than before the pandemic. You have to deal with the reality of are the customers willing to pay for that? Walsleben added. Restaurants historically have very thin margins; their profit margin is about 5%. “You have a third that goes into food, a third that goes into labor and about 28%, 29% that goes into everything else — overhead, insurance etc. So that brings you down to your 5% leftover,” he said. “Everything is going up. Customer expectations are going up and people aren’t going to spend that much more. So, you have a tight squeeze here,” Walsleben continued. “Restaurants who use delivery apps, they pay a fee to those guys. Those guys don’t work for free. So, you can kind of see where the squeeze comes from.” Stuck in the middle There are pockets of opportunity; the two extremes of the market can make a profit. But the middle gets squeezed out. “If you are a low-end fast-food kind of place, there is room for that. People have changed their budgets. They are still going out, but they are not spending more,” according to Walsleben. “The high end remains positive. If you have a restaurant that brings a specific experience … a great food product or you are catering to high end customers who aren’t so budget conscious, those patrons are going to expect a high-end experience. They expect excellent food every time. They are expecting excellent service. If you can meet those expectations there is room for you at the top. It’s just the guys in the middle are getting the squeeze from both ends. Tough competition, customer expectations, costs are up. Menu items, you can’t raise the prices as much as you need to. That is why you are seeing a lot of restaurants baling out.” The ones that can adapt quickly are the ones who are doing OK. “Success is heavily dependent on the strength of a restaurant’s concept development and the planning of its execution. Eventually things aren’t always new. Things change. So, if you are in the restaurant business you have got to change your menu — keep things new, fresh and update your meals. It is very fickle industry. One year carbs are out, the next year berries are out. Everybody’s diet changes — constantly chasing the latest phase. You have got to adjust your menu and move with those modifications. If you have a static menu that you have used the last couple years that hasn’t changed except for the pricing, you’ve got a problem,” he said. A lot of times these buildings are singular purpose, he added. “You have a commercially viable kitchen and you got a seating area. There is not a lot of other businesses that cater to that type of a layout. So, it’s pretty common to see another restaurant slide in,” he said. One of the things a banker learns early on is you don’t lend money to restaurants … because they fail so quickly. It is very hard to predict who the winners will be. So, if you are a restaurant in addition to all the other challenges, it is very difficult to get loans, according to Walsleben. “You might work really well in the kitchen. But that doesn’t mean you are a great businessperson,” he said. “Restaurants can fail because the owner didn’t know how to manage things properly. There are a lot of challenges. “There is opportunity at the high end and the low end. But in the middle, that’s the death valley. There are just so many things working against you. You really need to have something that will pull people in and continue to pull people in because you to constantly have to change. Think about a theme and a product that is unique to the area people don’t travel that far these days you have to be able to deliver it in an innovative fashion and keep updating to keep people coming in the door.” Out of Business? How Fast? Do nine out of 10 restaurants fail in their first year, as commonly claimed? No. Survival analysis of 1.9 million longitudinal microdata for 81,000 full-service restaurants in a 20-year U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics non public census of business establishments in the western US shows that only 17% of independently owned full-service restaurant startups failed in their first year, compared with 19% for all other service-providing startups, according to ResearchGate. The median lifespan of restaurants is about 4.5 years, slightly longer than that of other service businesses (4.25 years). However, the median lifespan of a restaurant startup with 5 or fewer employees is 3.75 years, slightly shorter than that of other service businesses of the same startup size (4.0 years). What Makes a Restaurant Successful? Opening and maintaining a successful restaurant is not as easy as creating a great menu and serving excellent food. It takes more than that, according to local restaurant owners who have been in business for decades in the region. They all agree that there are some guidelines to running a successful restaurant. • Quality food: Successful restaurants know exactly what they serve and who they serve it to. Delivering the same great taste every single time builds loyal customers. • Smooth operations: Friendly greetings and attentive staff make guests feel welcome from the moment they walk in. Hiring staff for personality and training for skill ensures reliable, caring service. • Smart marketing: Exceptional food and experiences naturally get people talking and sharing online. Word of mouth can help entice customers. Consistent social media and targeted advertising brings in new and repeat guests also. The menu is what keeps patrons coming back to Mimi’s Diner in Fulton, located at 201 N. Second St. “We locally source our produce and our meats. Our chicken and biscuits is a popular, popular special,” said Richard Tagliareni, the third-generation owner and general manager. “It’s all homemade. We have consistently served quality food.” His grandfather started the business more than 55 years ago. Mimi’s is engrained in the community. They cater to the community and are very involved in everything from the schools to local events. The first Mimi’s Drive-In opened in Mexico. Then a second in Oswego and then Fulton. Fulton’s Mimi’s is the only one left. “The last couple of weeks have been kind of slower than normal. October is usually a busier month for us People will start coming back around again. Also, the price of gas is affecting some things,” Tagliareni added. “We try to keep our prices in line. You go out to eat, you’re going to spend about a hundred bucks or so for two people for dinner. You come here to Mimi’s you are probably for two people for dinner it’s between $50 and $60. We are trying to keep our prices in line. We did have to increase our prices a little bit but things are looking OK.” For the Press Box, 29 E. First St., Oswego, it’s also about great food and a family atmosphere. “Our sports bar and restaurant was established in 1984,” said Alison Canale Scanlon, manager. “I think putting the time into everything makes a big difference and treating people like family when they walk into your restaurant. That’s how we have always operated since 1984.” “It’s the family oriented aspect,” she added. “Consistency, quality and presentation of our food — that’s the secret to a successful restaurant. We try to be very consistent with it. We treat people like family when they come in; because we know how we want to be treated when we go to a restaurant. We treat people the same or better.”

Oct 14 • 8:23 AM EDT • Business • oswegocountybusiness.com

Mom-and-Pop Business Owners Grapple with Harsh Times

Report shows small business owners in NYS less optimistic about the economy. Taxes, inflation, labor costs and competition from larger businesses are major concerns right now, they say By Aaron Gifford [caption id=attachment_11067 align=alignright width=300] Ashley Ranslow is director for New York state at The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB).[/caption] Owners of mom-and-pop businesses in New York state have been less optimistic lately than their peers in other parts of the country, a recent report indicates. The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), based on a survey of 11,000 of its members in the Empire State, reported that taxes, inflation, labor costs and competition from larger businesses are major concerns right now. “Indeed, while taxes are a major problem in New York and the United States overall, New York small businesses notably are struggling more with the state’s onerous, multi-level tax burden,” Ashley Ranslow, NFIB’s director for New York state, said in the July report. Compared with surveys of business owners in other states, far fewer New York respondents rated their businesses as in excellent or good health. The report also said labor costs here are about 25% higher than the national average and are the “single most important problem” facing businesses. One respondent to the New York-specific survey complained that too much red tape, taxes and laws that restrict high-yielding companies have stifled their operation’s growth. Others said high disability and workers’ compensation insurance costs, alarming increases in utility rates and excessive building regulations are discouraging. Statewide, New York has a gross domestic product of $2.53 trillion (third in the nation, followed by Texas, $2.90 trillion; and California, $4.25 trillion), a per capita income of $90,500 (sixth) and an unemployment rate of 4.6% (34th). There are 2.4 million small businesses that employ 3.9 million people. [caption id=attachment_11112 align=alignright width=451] Member of the Greater Liverpool Chamber of Commerce gather at one of the several functions the chamber organizes monthly. “Everyone in this business community encourages each other to shop local. Everyone just wants to see each other succeed,” says Megan Wilmot, the chamber director[/caption] “New York state boasts one of the largest, wealthiest and most diverse cities in the world — and that’s still only about half the state’s population,” the report said. “In other words, the state is both its iconic city and so much more — geographically, demographically, economically. But New York is not without its challenges, challenges that include notably high taxes and other weaknesses that impact the small business environment,” it said. The report includes an optimism index that compares responses from New York (NFIB) members with those of their peers in other states across several categories. This ranges from plans to increase employment to expectations for higher sales, to plans to increase inventory or expand. The scores for Empire State business owners were lower in most categories, but they did score higher than the national average in noting that they have current employment openings, and that they are hopeful that the economy will improve. “The metrics so far paint a picture of a state with a series of challenges for small businesses, from a slightly below national average Optimism Index to a more seriously below national business health to very substantially below national Employment Index. What is going on with businesses that are creating these differences?” the report stated. In Central New York, the regional labor force comprises nearly 398,000 workers. The median household income here is $71,463, and the gross domestic product for the region last year totaled $61.3 billion, according to the CenterState CEO economic development and research organization. About half of the region’s labor force works for small and mid-sized businesses, although the number of people employed in that sector has decreased by 7% since 2010, according to CenterState’s 2026 economic forecast report. “While record-high employment in large-scale enterprises provides a strong foundation for Central New York,” the report says, “the long-term health of communities depends on a thriving small business sector to serve as a stabilizer.” Area employers identify several barriers to Central New York’s anticipated growth, including lack of specialized or skilled workers, government regulations, unaffordable housing options and long-term construction disruptions. In the city of Syracuse, the number of jobs in retail trade decreased by 1,500 or 4.7% between July 2025 and this past July. By contrast, the number of jobs in the leisure and hospitality sector increased by 2.5% or 700 jobs, in the same annual period, according to the New York State Department of Labor. Still, there’s plenty of interest for new businesses across Central New York. U.S. Census figures show that the number of applications for new businesses in all four counties increased significantly in the past 20 years. In Cayuga County, there were 324 applications in 2005 compared to 470 last year. In Madison County, the number increased from 385 to 480; Onondaga County, from 2411 to 4132; and Oswego County, from 553 to 836. Downtown Cazenovia is exemplary of Madison County’s trend: In the past year, the village welcomed a bait shop, a thrift store, a vitamin infusion center, a pizzeria, a Pilates studio and an Italian restaurant. A candy store is scheduled to open on the main drag in the months ahead. Oswego’s list of interesting new businesses in the past year includes a bubble tea shop, a hot dog eatery in Fulton, a specialty grocery store that features New York state products in Mexico, a beauty and esthetics studio in Hannibal and a hardware and farm supply store in Sandy Creek. In Onondaga County, the Liverpool area has also enjoyed a steady stream of new shops and eateries in recent years. That suburban community is unique in that, unlike neighboring communities, most of the restaurants are family-owned and not part of a national chain. [caption id=attachment_11116 align=alignright width=300] Megan Wilmot is the executive director of the Greater Liverpool’s Chamber of Commerce.[/caption] Megan Wilmot, executive director of the Greater Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, said independent business owners in her community maintain a strong sense of pride in holding their own against national companies. The chamber helps boost morale with red carpet events, ribbon cuttings, coffee hours and five-year anniversary celebrations for participating businesses. “We have built such a strong community,” Wilmot said. “Everyone in this business community encourages each other to shop local. Everyone just wants to see each other succeed.” In Syracuse, the downtown retail occupancy rate last year was about 82%, a slight improvement from 2024, according to the Downtown Syracuse Committee’s most recent annual report. Buildings with the largest amount of vacant space included The Galleries, One Park Place, and Equitable Towers, though not all of those spaces are designated for retail use. New businesses that opened in downtown Syracuse last year: Better with Time Clothing, Dakshin Curry & Biriyani, Havana Tattoo Society, Milano Bean Café, Miss Daisy, Pausa Coffee, Sweets for Babe, The Society CNY and Yafah Beauty Studio. The Destiny USA mall’s occupancy rate decreased from 80% in 2023 to 72% by the end of 2024, according to Integra Realty Resources. That leaves more than a quarter of the mall’s retail space vacant. “Looking ahead, the retail market is expected to see minimal rent growth, with vacancy rates likely remaining stable in community and neighborhood centers but continuing to rise in enclosed malls,” Integra’s report said. “New construction activity is low and redevelopment plans for former malls like Shoppingtown and Great Northern are still in the planning stages. The proposed Micron chip plant may spur development, but challenges remain in finding co-developers for large-scale projects.” Nationally, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce expects that small businesses will remain resilient and see their sales and revenues eventually improve. That organization, in a recent national survey, found that 25% of small business owners expect the economy to improve in 2027, while 45% indicated that they plan to increase employment in the next 12 months. And 69% said they believe their small business is in good shape and 70% said they are comfortable with their current cash flow. Thirty-one percent of small businesses reported raising their prices in July and 28% are planning to raise their prices within the next three to four months, the report said. Twelve percent indicated that this is a good time to expand their business. “Small business owners voice optimism for future revenues and hiring,” the report said. “High costs continue to be a wet blanket on reinvestment.” The NFIB reported in July that Main Street, despite gas price hikes, “is OK … for now.” Its small business economics trend report said sales across the country have been strong compared to last year, but continued inflation and higher prices from mom-and-pop establishments are causing some “cracks” to show. “If costs stay this high for much longer, reduced investment will have a tangible economic impact,” the report said. “The status quo is OK, but the outlook? The outlook is uncertain.”

Oct 14 • 8:23 AM EDT • Business • oswegocountybusiness.com

Fairphone’s latest repairable earbuds are smaller, lighter, and longer-lasting

You can swap the buds’ batteries without a single tool.

Oct 14 • 7:00 AM EDT • Technology • theverge.com

Nicolò Tresoldi makes UEFA Champions League history

Germany U21 youth international Nicolò Tresoldi made UEFA Champions League history on Tuesday night, becoming only the second player to score a hat-trick in a single match at the San Siro as Club Bru...

Oct 14 • 4:21 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

HomePod Mini 2 Works as Default Speaker With Select Macs

The new HomePod mini 2 can be used as a default speaker on all Mac models with Wi-Fi 6E or later, according to Apple. You can use a single HomePod, or a pair for stereo sound. The previous-generation HomePod mini can also be used as a Mac's speaker via AirPlay, but it cannot be set as the default audio output. The previous-generation HomePod mini can also be used as a Mac's speaker via AirPlay, but it cannot be set as the default audio output.

Oct 13 • 5:19 PM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com

Mary Mingle to raise money for mental health in southeast Missouri

The 5K run and walk will return for the sixth year on December 5. The race will start at 8 a.m. at Houck Fieldhouse on Broadway.

Oct 13 • 10:15 AM EDT • Health • kfvs12.com

Epstein, Trump and trucks: Why political ads for a single Colorado race are flooding TV screens

Millions of dollars in spending have poured into north and central Colorado, flooding television commercial breaks with near-ceaseless political advertisements for a swing congressional seat.

Oct 13 • 6:00 AM EDT • Politics • denverpost.com

"I was forced to ship the game" - Glen Schofield blames Krafton management for The Callisto Protocol's problems

PUBG company Krafton was allegedly not ready to enter a single-player game space, and The Callisto Protocol apparently paid the price.

Oct 13 • 4:40 AM EDT • Technology • eurogamer.net

Tobey Maguire officiates wedding of ex-wife Jennifer Meyer

Tobey Maguire and Jennifer Meyer finalized their divorce and were declared legally single on September 21, a decade after their separation.

Oct 13 • 1:11 AM EDT • Entertainment • abs-cbn.com

Sanford Health in Bemidji Recognizes Indigenous Peoples Day

https://youtu.be/8efUyxgqZdI Indigenous Peoples Day was celebrated at Sanford Health in Bemidji with a blessing and prayer to start the day, serving a community bison roast and wild rice lunch, and learning about the history of jingle dresses from Vicky Fineday.

Oct 13 • 12:06 AM EDT • Health • lptv.org

Dems push Medicare for All as Republicans, including Sen. Cruz, slam single-payer plan

From New York to Michigan, Medicare-for-all has become a major campaign issue this election cycle, drawing sharp opposition from many Republicans.

Oct 12 • 10:04 PM EDT • Health • katu.com

Dems push Medicare for All as Republicans, including Sen. Cruz, slam single-payer plan

From New York to Michigan, Medicare-for-all has become a major campaign issue this election cycle, drawing sharp opposition from many Republicans.

Oct 12 • 10:04 PM EDT • Health • idahonews.com

Franklin County coroner announces measles-associated death, state Health Dept. still investigating

If confirmed, it would mark the sixth measles-associated death in Pennsylvania this year. That’s the most in a single year since 1991, when there was an outbreak in Philadelphia.

Oct 12 • 5:48 PM EDT • Health • penncapital-star.com

Kelly Clarkson, Brooklyn store clash over $15,000 mechanical bird price tag

Kelly Clarkson is engaged in a public dispute with a Brooklyn business over an encounter at its store, drawing strong reactions on social media from people taking both sides.

Oct 12 • 2:47 PM EDT • Entertainment • scrippsnews.com

No Man's Sky is somehow coming to mobile, and Hello Games says it's partly thanks to Light No Fire

No Man's Sky is coming to iPhone and iPad devices with every single update, and "some of those changes have come from Light No Fire."

Oct 12 • 2:20 PM EDT • Technology • eurogamer.net

Broadcom Is Building an AI Business Unlike Nvidia’s. Here’s My Price Prediction

Broadcom competes with Nvidia without selling a single GPU to the general market, and that unusual strategy has locked in hyperscaler contracts stretching years into the future. Whether the stock has already priced in that advantage is the question worth answering.

Oct 12 • 1:30 PM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com

The SEC in a Sentence

It’s that time again, time to cram all that happened this weekend and will happen next weekend in the nation’a premier college football conference into a single sentence that will make our English teachers wonder what the point even was. It’s the SEC in a Sentence. It’s prettier than an Arch Manning interception, except when […]

Oct 12 • 1:05 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Fremantle Takes Singapore Dating Format ‘Wingman’ Global in Mediacorp Deal

Fremantle has signed an exclusive deal with Singapore broadcaster Mediacorp to license “Wingman,” a dating show in which singles hand their romantic decisions over to their closest friends. Fremantle ...

Oct 12 • 9:15 AM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com

CA-AHF-MORRISON-HOTEL

AHF celebrated the acquisition of the historic Morrison Hotel, a 1913 Single Room Occupancy (SRO) building in downtown Los Angeles, on Tuesday, December 19, 2023. The Doors and photographer Henry

Oct 12 • 8:30 AM EDT • Entertainment • caledonianrecord.com

Real Madrid veteran starts new business venture that links him with his grassroots

Real Madrid’s win over Villarreal was not as tidy as Jose Mourinho would have hoped, but the team did manage to take all three points without conceding a single goal.For a team that had kept only on...

Oct 12 • 2:40 AM EDT • Business • sports.yahoo.com

Wizards HC Keefe Credits Detroit Pistons’ Physicality In Preseason Game

The Detroit Pistons suffered a tough single-digit overtime loss at the hands of the Washington Wizards on Saturday night

Oct 11 • 11:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Jaylen Warren Made Steelers History in Win Over Colts

The explosive playmaker ignited a 34-22 victory, becoming the first Steeler to record both a rushing and receiving touchdown of 50-plus yards in a single contest.

Oct 11 • 6:24 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

KINGPIN Says NVIDIA Tried To Force A Single Power Connector On RTX 3090 Ti KINGPIN, Screwing Up Its Production Timeline

Vince "KINGPIN" Lucido reveals NVIDIA's single 12VHPWR connector limit delayed the RTX 3090 Ti KINGPIN, which launched at $2,500.

Oct 11 • 9:33 AM EDT • Technology • wccftech.com

Squadron 42 opens for Steam wishlisting ahead of a planned Q2 2027 release

Cloud Imperium's single-player space epic Squadron 42, starring Mark Hamill and Gary Oldman, is now on Steam for wishlisting ahead of a Q2 2027 release.

Oct 11 • 7:43 AM EDT • Technology • eurogamer.net

Tim Samuelson: Altering the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry’s entrances will destroy its essence

When originally constructed as the Palace of Fine Arts for Chicago’s 1893 World’s Fair, the building was singled out for being perfect.

Oct 11 • 6:00 AM EDT • Science • chicagotribune.com

One income, two retirements: How couples can protect their future

Single-earner families should look beyond today’s budget and consider retirement savings, emergency funding, workforce reentry, and future Social Security benefits.

Oct 11 • 1:30 AM EDT • Business • telegraphherald.com

Zeynep Sonmez - Sinja Kraus 2-0

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Oct 10 • 8:23 PM EDT • Technology • flashscore.com

At one of WA's busiest ERs, each day brings teamwork and ‘an element of chaos’

Good Samaritan is the only hospital in Puyallup, the single emergency trauma center serving a large swath of central and east Pierce County, meaning staff members have to get creative.

Oct 10 • 9:00 AM EDT • Health • seattletimes.com

Expected Isaias losses unlikely to tip the market: Brokers

Preliminary projected insured loss estimates for Hurricane Isaias range in the mid-single-digit billions, as it moves toward the Eastern Gulf Coast on Friday, according to a reports by reinsurance…

Oct 9 • 2:45 PM EDT • Business • businessinsurance.com

Winning Nikon Small World in Motion video disqualified for AI use

New winner is Nguyen Nam Nhat of Vietnam for video of a roundworm and single-celled Dileptus.

Oct 9 • 2:44 PM EDT • Technology • arstechnica.com

Singleton’s ‘Downtown Economic Growth Program’ Would Stimulate Business Development in Small Towns

TRENTON – The Senate Economic Growth Committee advanced bipartisan legislation sponsored by Senator Troy Singleton and Senator Parker Space that would establish the “Downtown Economic

Oct 9 • 9:44 AM EDT • Business • njsendems.org

South Korean 'robot dog' became first to run a marathon on a single battery charge

A quadruped robot scampered more than 26.2 miles of uneven, hilly terrain alongside human runners without needing to be recharged.

Oct 9 • 5:00 AM EDT • Science • livescience.com

Fire destroys ice cream shop and damages businesses in Inglewood

Video from the scene showed heavy smoke billowing from the building’s roof. This video was broadcast during the NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026.

Oct 9 • 2:09 AM EDT • Business • nbclosangeles.com

‘Breathtaking,’ ‘Devastating’: Mathematics Reels After New OpenAI Release

Hundreds of new A.I.-generated findings moved the frontiers of higher math in a single day — dispelling any doubt that the field is forever changed.

Oct 8 • 5:53 PM EDT • Science • nytimes.com

The ripple effect: Why one business event rarely stays in one department

A single sanctions alert can move through compliance, legal, tax, and risk within hours. See why financial institutions and insurers need one trusted evidence base to keep up.

Oct 8 • 11:10 AM EDT • Business • legal.thomsonreuters.com

Google Cloud introduces Gemini agent for work as AI race heats up

Alphabet's Google Cloud on Thursday introduced the Gemini agent, a single AI agent for work ​that can answer questions, handle tasks, create content ‌and write code.

Oct 8 • 11:08 AM EDT • Technology • reuters.com

Google is launching a one-stop Gemini agent for your work tasks

The enterprise-focused Gemini agent handles work from a single interface.

Oct 8 • 10:28 AM EDT • Technology • theverge.com

One Doctor, Eight Billion Patients: After Stepping Back From The WHO Race, What I Stand For In The AI Society

The core of my policy manifesto, One Doctor, Eight Billion Patients, is a single proposition: Universal Intelligence Coverage (UIC) for health. Universal

Oct 8 • 8:53 AM EDT • Health • healthpolicy-watch.news

Meta VP: AI in advertising and the rise of single-person billion-dollar company

Businesses must stop using AI to optimize old processes and start reimagining how they compete.

Oct 8 • 3:00 AM EDT • Business • fortune.com

Why single Ebola death in Kenya has sparked fears of wider African spread

Oct 8 • 1:34 AM EDT • Health • aljazeera.com

Living Planet Report 2026

Every plant, animal, fungus and microorganism on Earth is part of a single living system, and we are part of it too. Biodiversity, the variety of life and the ecological relations

Oct 7 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • wwf.eu

ESPN's 2027 Super Bowl telecast will stream on Disney+

The Super Bowl is coming to Disney+. The Walt Disney Co. announced Wednesday that ESPN's telecast of the NFL's marquee event on Feb. 14 at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California,

Oct 7 • 2:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • thederrick.com

One game, fifty different rulebooks

The U.S. has no single framework for online entertainment platforms, leaving states with different rules, licensing systems and access for consumers.

Oct 7 • 12:25 PM EDT • Entertainment • jpost.com

Search committee named for next dean of the Klingler College of Arts and Sciences

The national search follows the July 2025 announcement that Dr. Heather Hathaway, professor of English, had been named acting dean.

Oct 7 • 12:03 PM EDT • Science • today.marquette.edu

Single

Your employment history may impact the health of your brain. A new study found that steady employment in midlife was associated with better memory and thinking

Oct 7 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • alzinfo.org

High school sports roundup for Oct. 3-5, 2026

Boys Tennis Lynnwood defeated Archbishop Murphy 7-0 Singles: Aryan Jadal (L) defeated Charles Leichman (AM) 6-2, 6-1 Kevin Phan (L) defeated Max Tsang (AM) 6-1, 6-0 Jaren Sayavong (L) defeated Leo […]

Oct 6 • 7:04 PM EDT • Sports • myedmondsnews.com

Angus Taylor’s immigration plan misses the target – on politics and on policy

The most surprising aspect of the Coalition’s policy is that in six pages of detail there is not a single mention of the labour market

Oct 6 • 6:47 PM EDT • Politics • theguardian.com

Disney World raises prices of annual passes, tickets

An already expensive visit to the “Most Magical Place on Earth” is about to get even costlier as Walt Disney World raises prices for annual passes and some single-day tickets.

Oct 6 • 5:23 PM EDT • Entertainment • thederrick.com

San Diego Tijuana International Jazz Festival sizzled in SoCal

SAN DIEGO — With a record-setting temperature of 103 degrees, things heated up fast on Saturday in Escondido before a single note was played on the third day of the

Oct 6 • 12:55 PM EDT • Entertainment • recorderonline.com

The 2026 Bluebird Banter Haiku Contest: Voting

Time to vote. I took all the haiku that had five or more recs. I had to put them into two polls because of an arbitrary limit that we have on Feed polls. 1: TCasserole Perfection and grace Gallant strides and vapour trails When Kirk steals second 2: Tom__M Walk, single, single Double play, strike […]

Oct 6 • 12:30 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

New on DVD: Get ready to mingle with 'DTF St. Louis'

Last month's Emmy winner for best limited series tops the DVD releases for the week of Oct. 13. "DTF St. Louis": HBO's seven-episode drama stars Jason Bateman as TV weatherman

Oct 6 • 11:49 AM EDT • Entertainment • recorderonline.com

Giants need this version of Abdul Carter every single week

Nine pressures on 37 pass rushes is the Abdul Carter performance the Giants needed against Arizona. Eight of them arrived […]

Oct 6 • 10:46 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Prime Video and the Television Academy announce 6-year deal to exclusively stream the Emmy Awards globally

Beginning in 2027, the Emmy Awards will stream live and free on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories—the first time the ceremony has had a single, dedicated home.

Oct 6 • 8:58 AM EDT • Entertainment • aboutamazon.com

Star Wars: Galactic Racer launches on Amazon Luna as part of Prime subscription

"Luna players can jump into the single-player campaign the moment it launches without needing to own a console or wait for a lengthy download"

Oct 6 • 5:12 AM EDT • Technology • gamesindustry.biz

Countdown now on to proper football returning

When the final whistle blew on the Premier League match at Craven Cottage on Sunday 20 September, we new it was going to be tough, but this tough??? Yes, this absolutely ridiculous three week break for largely meaningless internationals, so many pointless friendlies (including the Nations League nonsense). The Premier League had only kicked off four weeks earlier and then a break of three weeks so early in the season… Please let it make sense.

Oct 6 • 3:54 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

NBA 2K25 servers to shut down on December 31, single-player story mode will become unplayable

Decision to sunset 2K25 follows 2K's trajectory of delisting NBA games over the course of two years

Oct 6 • 3:24 AM EDT • Technology • gamesindustry.biz

The Beaver Brown Waters of Rupert Bay

Dissolved organic matter and suspended sediment mingle in the southernmost extent of James Bay.

Oct 6 • 12:01 AM EDT • Science • science.nasa.gov

South Florida business owner says hotel won’t pay clean up bill - WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports

A South Florida man has worked hard to grow his small business. Starting with a single truck, he’s now up to nine. But when heRead More

Oct 5 • 10:48 PM EDT • Business • wsvn.com

NBA 2K25 Is Getting Delisted After Just 2 Years, and Single Player Story Mode Will Become Unplayable

NBA 2K25 is being delisted after just two years, and players will soon no longer be able to play the game's single player story mode.

Oct 5 • 11:46 AM EDT • Technology • ign.com

Seedy K’s Pigskin Palaver: House of Cards & Much Mo’

Ah yes, October; the pigskin campaign is morphing more fully developed. And, fully enveloping. This week, there’s a football game on every single night. Not just the more traditional Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday. Because Draft Kings and Fan Duel and The World Wide Leader need content, we get Southern Miss and Troy on Tuesday, […]

Oct 5 • 10:11 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

An open-source tool lets you delete 12GB of Apple Intelligence data on macOS

Delete Apple’s AI with a single command.

Oct 5 • 9:47 AM EDT • Technology • theverge.com

Neighborhood Intelligence Provides Business Update and Announces $45.5 Million Equity Financing with Participation from Management and a Single Institutional Investor

NASHVILLE, Tenn., October 05, 2026--Neighborhood Intelligence (NASDAQ: NXH) ("Neighborhood" or the "Company") today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement for the purchase and sale of an aggregate of 16,485,508 shares of its common stock (or pre-funded warrants in lieu thereof) at a purchase price of $2.76 per share (or pre-funded warrant in lieu thereof) in a registered direct offering. In addition, the Company will issue warrants to purchase up to 16,123,189 shares of common

Oct 5 • 9:07 AM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com

CD Cuarte, the first opponent in the Copa del Rey

Girona FC will visit CD Cuarte, an Aragonese team from the Tercera Federación, in the match corresponding to the first round of the 2026/2027 Copa del Rey. The single-elimination match will be played...

Oct 5 • 8:10 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

NBA 2K25 is being delisted later this month, servers (including single-player story mode) shut down at the end of the year

MyCareer, MyTeam and all other online game modes will end in December…

Oct 5 • 5:54 AM EDT • Technology • videogameschronicle.com

7 best upgrades coming to Qatar's new Qsuite business class

Qatar Airways hoped to launch its new Qsuite business class in 2025, but it still hasn't flown a single passenger. See what to expect once it debuts.

Oct 5 • 5:45 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com

MedX Health Appoints Monaderm as a Representative for SkinSecure™ Across Europe for Beauty and Aesthetics Research

MISSISSAUGA, Ontario, October 05, 2026--MedX Health Corp. (TSXV: MDX), a data-driven skin health analytics company, today announced the appointment of Monaderm, the Monaco-based skin measurement specialist, as a key European sales agent for SkinSecure™, expanding the commercial reach of its non-invasive, objective biological skin measurement technology, which maps collagen, melanin and hemoglobin non-invasively in living skin in a single 30-second capture, across the European cosmetics and skin

Oct 5 • 12:00 AM EDT • Health • finance.yahoo.com

Chourio walk-off single lifts Brewers over Padres

Jackson Chourio smacked a walk-off two-run single to give the Milwaukee Brewers a 4-3 victory over the San Diego Padres on Sunday and a commanding 2-0 lead in their Major League Baseball playoff series.For the second straight day the Brewers rallied from 2-0 down to beat the Padres, who are now in survival mode as the best-of-five National League division series shifts to San Diego for game three on Tuesday.

Oct 4 • 8:14 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Marvin Harrison Jr. scores TD in Week 4

Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Marvin Harrison Jr. posted a single 12-yard reception for touchdown on four targets in Week 4

Oct 4 • 6:25 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

How you can watch the Jets-Bears game

CBS has a doubleheader today while FOX will show a single game to each region. If you live in the New York area, you will see: Jets at Bears early on FOX Cardinals at Giants early on CBS Chiefs at Raiders late on CBS Kickoff time for the game between the Jets and the Bears […]

Oct 4 • 8:13 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Coco Gauff

WTA - SINGLES: Beijing (China), hard - 1/16-finals

Oct 4 • 8:00 AM EDT • Technology • flashscore.com

Despair over future fuels political anxiety for college students on the cusp of adulthood

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Frankie Llerandi, 21, has been unable to land a single internship in his three years at Michigan State University.

Oct 4 • 7:38 AM EDT • Politics • wral.com

Despair over future fuels political anxiety for college students on the cusp of adulthood

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Frankie Llerandi, 21, has been unable to land a single internship in his three years at Michigan State University.He will

Oct 4 • 7:35 AM EDT • Politics • bangordailynews.com

Despair over future fuels political anxiety for college students on the cusp of adulthood

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Frankie Llerandi, 21, has been unable to land a single internship in his three years at Michigan State University.

Oct 4 • 7:35 AM EDT • Politics • coasttv.com

Despair over future fuels political anxiety for college students on the cusp of adulthood

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Frankie Llerandi, 21, has been unable to land a single internship in his three years at Michigan State University.

Oct 4 • 7:35 AM EDT • Politics • 2news.com

Despair over future fuels political anxiety for college students on the cusp of adulthood

(AP) — Frankie Llerandi, 21, has been unable to land a single internship in his three years at Michigan State University. He will graduate in the spring with an economics degree and an interest in dat...

Oct 4 • 7:35 AM EDT • Politics • yahoo.com

Despair Over Future Fuels Political Anxiety for College Students on the Cusp of Adulthood

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Frankie Llerandi, 21, has been unable to land a single internship in his three years at Michigan State University. He will graduate in the spring with an economics degree and an interest in data analytics, but true adulthood seems maddeningly far away. Most of his cousins ...

Oct 4 • 7:35 AM EDT • Politics • usnews.com

Ed Sheeran Joined By First 'Special Guest' Since Opening Acts Dropped Him

Macklemore was removed from the tour following remarks that included “Free Palestine,” and other support acts left in solidarity.

Oct 4 • 5:49 AM EDT • Entertainment • newsweek.com

LSU completes nonconference play with a rout of McNeese. The rest of SEC play awaits.

LSU took care of business in its final nonconference game against McNeese State. Here’s how the Tigers managed a meaningless game.

Oct 3 • 11:14 PM EDT • Business • nola.com

Commentary: Universal public health insurance is the answer

Employer-sponsored health insurance is rapidly deteriorating. In 2027, premiums are expected to see their largest single-year increase in two decades, jumping 11% and closing in on a nearly five-fold increase

Oct 3 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • yakimaherald.com

Why Is CVS Health (CVS) Reworking Primary Care Around Value Based Care?

CVS Health (NYSE:CVS) is expanding its primary care approach by integrating value-based care across its health system. The company intends to connect health plans, provider groups, clinics, and pharmacies under a single patient-centered care model. Management is targeting shared accountability for outcomes that include social determinants of health alongside traditional clinical metrics. This push to embed value-based care across CVS Health's operations reshapes how the group manages care,...

Oct 2 • 6:05 PM EDT • Health • finance.yahoo.com

Miami Heat to play as Vice City from 'Grand Theft Auto VI' for single game, with new court and uniforms

This will also happen to be Giannis Antetokounmpo's first game against his old team, the Milwaukee Bucks.

Oct 2 • 5:21 PM EDT • Technology • sports.yahoo.com

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. Thanks for reading The Chronicle Review! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Subscribe

Oct 2 • 2:52 PM EDT • Science • chronicleofhighereducation.substack.com

SeatGeek Launches TourIQ, Bringing Predictive Pricing Intelligence to Live Entertainment

NEW YORK, October 02, 2026--SeatGeek, the technology company that has put data at the center of the live event experience from day one, today announced the launch of TourIQ, a predictive intelligence product built for the people who book and price live shows. TourIQ tells a promoter or venue what a concert or third party event is worth at any building, for any artist, on any date, before a single ticket is sold, then generates a price for every seat in the house so the show opens with the right

Oct 2 • 9:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • finance.yahoo.com

Gears of War: E-Day reviews are in — Critics are loving this flagship Xbox shooter's return to form despite some odd elements

Reviews of Gears of War: E-Day's single-player campaign are in! Here's what the critics had to say about the story and gameplay of the latest entry in the Gears of War series.

Oct 2 • 4:59 AM EDT • Technology • windowscentral.com

Scientists have detected radio signals from a planet beyond our Solar System | BBC Sky at Night Magazine

Discovery marks the first time a radio signal has been confirmed as coming from a single planet rather than an entire system.

Oct 2 • 1:30 AM EDT • Science • skyatnightmagazine.com

Rome Chamber of Commerce to hold train ride fundraiser

The Rome Area Chamber of Commerce will hold a Fall Mingle Train Ride fundraiser on the Adirondack Scenic Railroad on the evening of Friday, Oct. 16, according to Chamber officials.

Oct 1 • 12:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • romesentinel.com