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Carly Simon Reveals Parkinson’s Diagnosis

“I have learned to accept that every day will look a little different. But I am still very much here,” the singer said in a statement to NBC News.

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Jul 27 • 9:10 AM EDT • Health • today.com
Carly Simon reveals Parkinson's disease and cancer diagnoses

Carly Simon revealed in a new interview with People magazine that she's been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.

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Jul 27 • 8:51 AM EDT • Health • usatoday.com
Simone Biles undergoes procedure weeks after June health scare

The seven-time Olympic gold medallist shared a photo in scrubs alongside husband Jonathan Owens but didn't disclose details of the procedure.

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Jul 26 • 6:36 AM EDT • Health • olympics.com
550 years later, scientists claim to have solved what killed Botticelli’s muse

Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli painted Simonetta Vespucci as Venus rising from the waves. Now, scientists think they’ve solved how she died

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Jul 26 • 6:00 AM EDT • Science • scientificamerican.com
Kyle Gordon scores another banger.

The comedian and artist behind “Planet of the Bass” and my personal favorite, “Selekta,” has an absolutely incredible sendup parodying Paul Simon’s Graceland jaunt to Africa. Gordon is popularly compared these days to Weird Al but his ability to embed authentically in genre is even more sophisticated. He’s a shapeshifter who does real homework on his parodies. I can’t wait to see what he does next. [Media: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJBm1n8JUZ8&list=RDqJBm1n8JUZ8&start_radio=1]

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Jul 25 • 12:31 PM EDT • Entertainment • theverge.com
Simone Biles brings mental health message to Chicago's Faces of Fitness this weekend

The seven-time Olympic gold medallist was announced as a headliner of the sold-out Chicago event, where she will speak about the importance of prioritising mental health.

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Jul 24 • 3:56 AM EDT • Health • olympics.com
Simone Biles Undergoes Procedure Following June Health Scare

After a June health scare, Simone Biles updates fans on a July medical procedure. Biles remains undecided on a 2028 Olympic run as former teammates Suni Lee and Katelyn Ohashi announce comebacks.

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Jul 23 • 5:29 PM EDT • Health • forbes.com
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'The Merry Wives of Windsor Cove' review: A Shakespearean surf comedy

Eli Simon directs 'The Merry Wives of Windsor Cove,' a musical adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy that's part of this summer's New Swan Shakespeare Festival.

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Jul 23 • 6:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com
Hunter Biden shares his painful road to recovery and fight against political scrutiny

NPR's Scott Simon asks Hunter Biden about his addiction, treatments, and political notoriety.

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Jul 18 • 7:42 AM EDT • Politics • npr.org
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Simone Ashley On Returning For <i>Bridgerton</i> Season 5, Her New Music Career & Touring

Simone Ashley on returning for Bridgerton Season 5, her new EP Songs I Wrote In New York, and the world tour she's hoping to make happen.

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Jul 17 • 9:18 AM EDT • Entertainment • refinery29.com
The States Try to Topple WarnerMount…Thus Begins the Local Antitrust Era

(Welcome to the “Most Important Story of the Week”, my bi-weekly strategy column analyzing the most important (but often not buzziest) news story of the last two weeks. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. Please subscribe.) Well, it looks like it’s time for another strategy column. Can I finally avoid writing about M&A? No, it seems I cannot. Admittedly, I’m a week early with this column, since I usually put it out every other week. But this news couldn’t wait. This will make three “Most Important Stories” in a row with a merger or acquisition as its centerpiece. First, Roku-Fox (an acquisition), then Comcast-NBCUniversal (a divestment!), and now the State AGs and the WGA’s lawsuits against Paramount’s pursuit of Warner Bros. Discovery (antitrust). M&A is usually the “most important” topic any given week, simply because a giant company merging or breaking up (or preventing those outcomes) can have the biggest impact on the streaming board. If you think about these companies as players in a game, changing the number of players is one of the biggest changes you can make. I shouldn’t really complain, either, since this lawsuit is very good news for customers and suppliers (econ speak for talent, workers and indie studios in Hollywood). So let me answer some questions about this potential trial, along with (shudder) making some heavily caveated predictions. I’ll also look at whether Hollywood must consolidate, whether or not the states can win, trouble at X-Box, Netflix’s YouTube binge, and more. Plus, I have five images that visualize this merger and the harm, including three brand new data looks you’ve never seen before. Subscribe Most Important Story of the Week - Can The States and the WGA Stop Hollywood’s Consolidation (Crisis)? If every other newsletter and news outlet is writing about the same story, I try to avoid writing about it as well, but I can’t ignore a story this consequential. The story of the last year was the fate of Warner Bros. Discovery, and this development potentially extends that saga into 2027. As I tried to figure out my angle, I realized, like my last column, I’m again faced with a series of questions. These questions, though, are much more forward-looking. Will the states win? Will the WGA win? If so, what happens to Warner Bros. Discovery? Either way, will this chill the market for future mergers? So you know what that means: predictions. About the future, no less, the hardest thing to predict.1 Just remember: nothing here comes with a guarantee. And the more confident someone is in their predictions, the less you should trust them. This situation is incredibly fluid, nuanced, uncertain and tenuous. So let’s try to explain what may happen. Question: Why File this Lawsuit? I’ll admit, a few months back, I was fairly pessimistic about the fate of this lawsuit. Rumors had started bubbling up that the state Attorneys General (in particular California) wanted to settle with either some minor divestments (usually CNN) or behavioral remedies. And that tracked for me: the states usually settle lawsuits, like the recent John Deere right-to-repair suit. Yet, they plan to fight this. (As they did the LiveNation-Ticketmaster monopolization trial and the Nexstar-Tegna merger.) Honestly, that also makes a ton of sense. Frankly, this move is just good politics for these State AGs. Most are still running for higher and higher office in blue states—some folks have emphasized that only Democratic AGs joined this suit, but given the Ellison/Trump ties, and fears of retribution, that tracks—and a high profile case like this will help them move up the electoral ladder, especially since Paramount and its leadership (the Ellisons, father and heir) have sided with the other side of the political aisle. That makes them unsympathetic to Democratic voters and Hollywood workers in particular. Why did this lawsuit happen? In addition to the very real concerns about industry consolidation, this is why. That said, I don’t think we would have seen this lawsuit for Netflix and Warner Bros., simply because they’re more sympathetic and aligned with Democrats. But those consolidation concerns are real. The “town”—meaning Hollywood and such—really is seeing the damage of mergers on this industry. That’s why the WGA also filed its own lawsuit in defense of workers as well. (Wildcard: What about Europe? Will they try to stop the deal, too? There have been some rumors out of the UK they may try to fight the deal, and UK enforcers just stopped a Getty Images-Shutterstock tie up, so there is precedence. This argument could go either way, though. On one hand, the EU doesn’t need to step in, cause they states are handling it. On the other hand, this could make the EU’s case easier. Just imagine if both sides coordinated. I’ll simply say, “We’ll see!”) Question: Will The State AGs or the WGA Win? Can the state AGs play David to Paramount-Skydance’s Goliath here? That’s really the whole thing, isn’t it? If you know this result, you could make a lot of money. When things are uncertain, it’s tempting to shrug and say, “Eh” meaning it’s a 50/50 proposition. I wouldn’t, though. When in doubt, you should expect that the merging parties succeed. AT&T did successfully buy Warner Bros., after all, and Disney bought Fox without any challenges. Many judges are extremely sympathetic to mergers, and I’d bet the state AGs get a judge who will allow the merger. (Even Obama-appointed judges often allow mergers.) As I understand it, we’ll see two main attacks. First, theatrical films. The AGs are arguing that, when it comes to share of box office and the number of both “wide releases” and blockbuster (or “tentpole”) films, the merging parties will have over 27% market share. Now, the Supreme Court once ruled from on high that any merger that exceeds 30% is presumptively illegal, but that’s guidance, not an ironclad bar. Still, the states will have to argue that this is close to having too much power, and with that power, this will likely further worsen the theater/studio splits in particular. Indeed, as Matthew Stoller pointed out, “just five studios are responsible for 95% of all blockbusters; if this merger goes through, then Paramount and Disney will control 60% of that.” So yes, movie studios will be very concentrated after this merger. Want me to visualize some of that? Well, here’s the share of films that grossed over $200 million at the domestic box office since 2022. (Note: this isn’t all films released in over 3,000 screens, but it is a good look at market power.) First, here are the 43 films by studio: Notice all the blue (Disney), orange (Universal), and purple (Warner Bros)? Yeah, those studios are powerful, and this combines Paramount with one of them. Here’s the look by studio and share of the films that grossed over $200 million: Now, if you look at that and also think, “Huh, should we break up Disney?” I’m with you. I’ve seen some folks poo-poo this idea that this is a real category, but it is! For an upcoming article, I’ve been pulling data on the share of top 100 films at the box office as a share of total box office, and it’s massive. Here’s the chart: (This analysis looks at The-Number’s top 100 films and total domestic box office each year.) To be clear, tentpoles make up 80.7% of the box office each year, so I do think it’s a genuine market. (To be clear, films grossing over $50 million make up 80% of the domestic box office, and films grossing over $100 million make up 64.1%.) I mean, the top 100 films at the box office make up 95% of each year’s grosses. Worse, the combined studios will likely cut output to flex that market power. Everyone can just look at what happened to Disney and Fox to see the precedent. (With fewer films, the remaining theaters have to give more for those few films that remain.) Here’s an image I’ve used a lot, the share of wide-release films from Disney and Fox over time: The AGs will also argue that this consolidation will also impact the cable industry. In this case, the consolidation is actually worse, but that environment is…complicated. Paramount will argue that the cable industry is shrinking. That said, predictions that cable will “go to zero” also don’t look very well supported by the data, as the declines are shrinking, meaning “cable” or “vMVPDs” will likely stabilize at some point. Can the state Attorneys General win on those two main arguments? I honestly don’t know. Again, I’d bet no, since history in general supports that, but it depends on the judge/jury and how they interpret the arguments. Notably, Paramount won’t face accusations about monopoly power in other areas, like streaming, news, sports rights, or vertical integration. I tend to disagree with leaving out sports rights, but I also see the appeal for a simpler case. The states also aren’t really pushing novel theories about labor harm either, which should help. (By the way, Sean McNulty at The Ankler wrote a great run through of potential options, and Capitol Forum also wrote a great paper on theatrical consolidation. Both these pieces predated the lawsuit. Matthew Stoller is also out with his analysis of the pros and cons of the case too.) In some ways, the WGA’s case is even stronger. Quoting Sean McNulty’s summary: “The WGA is citing WARNAMOUNT as crossing a 30% market share in multiple sectors, a number that the Supreme Court has precedent for deeming “presumptively anticompetitive” in a market. According to the WGA numbers, WARNAMOUNT would have represented: - 35% of film writing jobs between 2021 and 2024 - 36% of TV writing projects between 2022 and 2025 - 38% of overall deals between 2021 and 2024” Notably, antitrust enforcers did win recently in the Penguin-Simon & Schuster merger by focusing on labor impact, so don’t count this thinking out. (Wildcard: Will the states try to get a jury trial? Most likely no, they’ll let a judge handle it. If I’m them, though, I’d try to put this in front of a jury. Juries tend to understand monopoly power in a more realistic way than judges faced with legions of economists.) Question: What if They Win? What if They Lose?

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Jul 15 • 4:48 PM EDT • Entertainment • entertainment.substack.com
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April B & Shenelle SImone talk the latest in entertainment headlines

A fight breaks out at a Hilary Duff concert, shares heartfelt message, plus other big entertainment stories.

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Jul 13 • 11:10 AM EDT • Entertainment • fox5atlanta.com
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MAGA's attack on science is even worse than it looks

In my post on America’s 250-year anniversary, I argued that respect for the individual was the “secret sauce” in the U.S.’ long-lasting preeminence among nations. But it was certainly not the only factor. There were plenty of institutional innovations that helped the U.S. stay on top — economically, militarily, and in terms of the attractiveness of its society. One of these was American science. Today we take things like the modern research university, government grants for science, public-to-private research spinoffs, etc. for granted, but a lot of that infrastructure wasn’t there before World War 2. It was either invented or scaled up massively by the U.S. government in the postwar period, led by far-sighted scientist-bureaucrats like Vannevar Bush (pictured above). If you want to read about this history, a good place to start would be Jonathan Gruber and Simon Johnson’s excellent book Jump-Starting America. Those scientific institutions didn’t exist in a vacuum, however. They were backed by the U.S. government’s abiding faith in the power of science — and, even more fundamentally, by deep popular trust in the scientific enterprise. Science gave us radar and the atom bomb in wartime, and in peacetime it gave us plastics, vaccines, cheap food, and a thousand other things that made our lives easier. Science was also the driver behind American industry — chemicals, aerospace, telecommunications, computers, electronics, and so on. We owed science our jobs, our livelihoods, our comfortable living standards, and our greatness and power as a nation. It’s little wonder that both political parties, even as they fought viciously over other issues, were steadfast in their support of science. For a long time, the only people who distrusted science were a hippie fringe on the left who disliked modernity (or thought they did, anyway), who also disliked American industry and American power, and who subscribed to an early version of degrowth environmentalism. America’s scientific enterprise is still strong, especially compared to the systems in Europe, Japan, Korea, and other developed countries. It has lost a lot of ground to China in a relative sense, but a lot of that is because of China’s incredible growth; as China has poured untold amounts of money and talent into its research labs, spending and output have overtaken the U.S. by some measures. There are a few ways in which China’s rise creates problems for American science — for example, top scientists can choose to work in China instead of in the U.S. — and of course there’s the concern that China’s technological strength will help its military to reign supreme. But overall, China’s rise in science should be good for American science, since American scientists can use Chinese discoveries for free and build on them. The much bigger problem is that the scientific enterprise America built during and after World War 2 is now being threatened with absolute decline. The biggest problem, of course, is that much of the country — the Republican half — has basically lost faith in the scientific enterprise. To what degree this loss of faith is justified is an open question, and deserves to be discussed openly. But the larger point — that the system that powered American dominance is under threat — is true either way. Most Americans still trust science, but MAGA Republicans don’t There’s a myth, popular in right-wing circles, that scientists have lost the trust of regular Americans — either due to the increasingly left-wing composition of academic departments, or to misbehavior during Covid, or to DEI-related research taking over science, etc. This also fits with a wider narrative that Americans are losing trust in all of our institutions. But it just isn’t true. Poll after poll shows that on the whole, Americans still trust scientists and want to spend more on science. For example, here’s a Pew poll from late 2025 showing that although about a fifth of Republicans did lose confidence in science in 2020, two thirds still have at least “a fair amount” of confidence: That same poll found that scientists are among America’s most trusted groups — even better trusted than the military! In fact, Americans trust scientists more than people in most other countries do. Other polls show that although Republican trust in science has dropped somewhat, Republican support for spending more on science remains very strong: A Pew poll in 2023 found the exact same thing: So when MAGA types tell you about scientists losing their credibility, or a drop in trust in science, they’re only talking about themselves. Whatever left-wing politicization of science happened during the Biden administration — and there was definitely some of that — it was not enough to make most Republicans lose faith in the scientific enterprise, or favor research cuts in order to purge unwanted ideology from the system. That doesn’t mean I think progressives should continue down the path of politicizing scientific research. They should not, and Biden made real missteps in this area. Objectivity clearly matters for public trust of science in the long term. But as of right now, there’s no crisis of trust in science, except among the smallish minority of people who are running around screaming that there’s a crisis of trust in science. But despite science’s overwhelming popularity and public trust, Trump and his administration are launching an unprecedented and devastating attack on American science — cutting funding, and forcing science projects to undergo ideological review by government commissars. Trump’s comprehensive attack on science

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Jul 10 • 11:23 AM EDT • Science • noahpinion.blog
Baker Hughes CEO: Continued business tailwinds with the need for power generation and LNG

Lorenzo Simonelli, Baker Hughes CEO, joins 'Power Lunch' to discuss the chief executive's thoughts on the AI data center power story, the happenings in energy markets and much more.

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Jul 9 • 2:28 PM EDT • Business • cnbc.com
Simón Levy Discusses U.S.-Mexico Security, Politics, and Organized Crime in Atypical Te Ve Interview

Throughout the conversation, Levy makes a series of allegations involving senior Mexican officials, military leaders, and the U.S. government, while discussing the potential implications for bilateral relations and the country’s political future.

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Jul 7 • 12:20 PM EDT • Politics • texasborderbusiness.com
T.I. Reveals He Never Wanted His Kids to Get Into Entertainment: ‘We Got a Thousand Rappers’

T.I. spoke out on Arian Simone's podcast about the betrayal he's seen in entertainment and why he wanted different paths f...

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Long Reads for the Long Weekend

(Welcome to the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a newsletter on the entertainment industry and business strategy. I write a weekly Streaming Ratings Report and a bi-weekly strategy column, along with occasional deep dives into other topics, like today’s article. Please subscribe.) Happy Fourth of July weekend! As has been a tradition of mine going back to the beginning of the EntStrategyGuy website, I’m sharing my favorite long reads of the last year, like I did in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2024, and 2025. Let’s dive right in! Subscribe “Different Prices for the Same Ride: How Uber and Lyft Use AI to Get More Money Out of You“ by Derek Kravitz in Consumer Reports I don’t think surveillance pricing, like the kind described in this brilliant Consumer Reports article, is long for the world—it’s toxically unpopular—but we’ll see if either party takes on this issue. If I ran a political party focused on affordability, I would focus on a few pro-consumer and pro-market policies: Banning non-compete agreements. Ending surveillance pricing Eliminating junk fees (read more here...) Ensuring “right to repair” for consumer (and military!) products Capping excessive app store fees Stopping digital/algorithmic price-fixing tools. Preventing automatic subscription price increases. And more. If you want to fight inflation, there are a lot of great ways to do it quickly. Speaking of higher prices... “Secret Documents Show Pepsi and Walmart Colluded to Raise Food Prices Across the Economy“ by Matt Stoller in BIG Again, I think a political party should focus on lowering prices for consumers. And deals like this—Walmart making a deal/forcing Pepsi to offer the lowest prices at its stores and nowhere else—hypothetically lower prices at Walmart...but raise them everywhere else. “15 DUIs, still driving: California’s failure to take repeat drunk drivers off the road“ by Robert Lewis and Lauren Hepler in CalMatters CalMatters does terrific reporting in California, something the Golden State desperately needs more of, and this article is a great example of that. “PugLips: The next insanely popular thing you’ve never heard of…” by Simon Carless in Game Discover Co I thought that this parody article (and yes, it’s a parody, but I was definitely unsure at first) was hilarious and totally nailed how much tech/business journalism feels these days. Actually, three of my favorite articles this year were on hype in the video game industry, including Georg Zoller’s “The Video Game Industries Very Dark Night”—which I linked to recently and wrote a follow-up here—and Owen Mahoney’s “Derek Zoolander, Videogame Exec”. In particular, I like Mahoney’s focus on user experience as a guide to what trends will actually grab hold of customers. “The Matrix Lies“ by Evan Shapiro in Media War & Peace Evan Shapiro’s first person account of his experience with AI was hilarious. I think LLMs capabilities have significantly grown from last summer, and yet...my editor/researcher just had an abysmal experience using an LLM to do a quite basic task (which our LLM normally does each week) and the LLM made a mistake on every single data entry...along with seven different mistakes affecting twelve of the twenty or so entries, including mistakes that are explicitly spelled out in the prompt. That’s a brutal failure rate. Again, if you use AI/LLM for data collection, you need to take a lot of extra steps to verify and check the data. “Ghosts in the Balcony: A Cross-Country Trip to 58 Theaters Fighting to Survive“ by Matthew Frank in The Ankler I thought Matthew Frank’s pitch to head across America to visit theaters sounded insane aggressive at the time—at least it felt that way to someone a decade older than him; man, to be in your twenties again, am I right?—but I knew the result would be great. And it was, a terrific feature by a great young writer. Also, I loved Matthew’s recent article on who’s getting the precious few entry level jobs in Hollywood. (Hint: nepotism.) “Disney erased FiveThirtyEight“ and “Did Las Vegas get too greedy?” by Nate Silver in Silver Bulletin I love media history and analysis, and there’s no one better to get the history of FiveThirtyEight than from Nate Silver, who wrote about his personal experience in one of my favorite pieces from this year. I also loved Nate’s breakdown of what’s causing Vegas’ woes, but I’ll offer one criticism, summarized as “Might I suggest antitrust?” Many centrists/center-right/libertarian thinkers (Nate is self-described as the latter) often don’t consider consolidation or antitrust as factors in policy issues like housing, America’s military readiness, or, in this case, Las Vegas. Even if libertarians want to debunk antitrust/consolidation concerns, I’d love to read that debunking. In this case, Vegas is incredibly consolidated (though it also has been for a long time) and I’d have loved to read Nate at least contending with this factor, since he addresses almost every other potential factor for Vegas’ decline. “Why Microsoft’s Carbon Removal Pullback Is Such a Big Deal“ by Robinson Meyer in Heatmap News I’m a big supporter of carbon removal efforts, but this nascent industry faces a lot of headwinds, including this big move most recently. I think it’s clear that solar panels and batteries should be able to get the world to its carbon footprint goals, but effective carbon renewal remains necessary to prevent the worst impacts of global warming. “AI is killing the cheap smartphone“ by David Oks LLMs and AI will impact the world in ways we’re not ready for, and already, third world countries are seeing the prices of cheap cellphones skyrocket due to the cost of chips skyrocketing. This article by David Oks is a terrific breakdown. “100 Days of Madness: Netflix, Paramount, Warner and the Future of Hollywood“ by Wade Major at Hollywood Heretic Wade Major dove deep into Hollywood/streaming’s financials in this must read piece. Not that I agree with everything in this article (read my take on Warner Bros./Paramount here) but the analysis is top notch. I think many people discount how quality thinking, regardless of the argument/conclusion, will make you a better thinker. “Erased by the UFC: Frank Shamrock, The MMA GOAT of the 20th Century“ by Nate Wilcox in The MMA Draw Newsletter Growing up playing the UFC fighting game on the Dreamcast, Frank Shamrock was my favorite MMA fighter, and this history/tribute to him was great. Other Fun Reads “The Hardest Part Of History To Tell Is How It Felt“ by Craig Fehrman at Defector “Unmasking the Sea Star Killer“ by Craig Welch at bioGraphic “What Could Save the Industry? Fin-Syn“ by Richard Rushfield in The Ankler Alex Rollins Berg in Underexposed on movie bumpers, pillow shots, Disney trash cinema, cult films, and Casablanca. David H. Montgomery in YouGov’s The Surveyor on punctuation marks, condiments, dinosaurs, and comic strips and kids media. “How Medium finally pivoted its way to profitability“ and “Why the best journalists on YouTube are all former Vox employees“ by Simon Owens in Simon Owens’s Media Newsletter “It’s Not Just You, Netflix Shows Have Gotten Slightly Shorter: Here’s What the Data Says“ by Kasey Moore at What’s on Netflix “Numlock Awards: How Diane Warren became the biggest loser in Oscar history“ by Nathaniel Rakich and “Numlock Awards: The Oscar Bait era is over. The Oscar Chum era is here.” by Walt Hickey & Michael Domanico at Numlock Awards

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Jul 3 • 2:38 PM EDT • Entertainment • entertainment.substack.com
Anfernee Simons agrees to 2-year deal with Philadelphia 76ers

The Philadelphia 76ers agreed to a two-year, $12.3 million contract with guard Anfernee Simons. Simons averaged 14.3 points per game last season.

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Jul 2 • 3:19 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
The future of Oxford: Science, technology, and collaboration

In conversation with Professor Lady Sue Black and Simon Ruck about Oxford North, from opening to today.

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Jul 2 • 11:54 AM EDT • Science • pharmaphorum.com
France Politics

France's President Emmanuel Macron chairs the fifth follow-up meeting on combating drug trafficking, at the Elysee presidential Palace in Paris, Thursday July 2, 2026. (Simon Wohlfahrt/Pool Photo via AP)

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Liverpool sporting director Richard Hughes expected to join Simon Francis at Al Hilal

Francis, who replaced Hughes as Bournemouth’s technical director in 2024, is leading the Saudi Pro League club's transfer activity.

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Riley Gaines and MyKayla Skinner send message to Simone Biles on women's sports debate after SCOTUS ruling

Riley Gaines and MyKayla Skinner celebrate the Supreme Court transgender athletes ruling and call on Simone Biles to join their movement.

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Jun 30 • 7:54 PM EDT • Sports • foxnews.com
Simon Leis's daughter reflects on her father's legacy, youth mental health advocacy

"We definitely knew there was a love-hate relationship with my father," says Julie Raleigh, on her father, Simon Leis's legacy. Although behind the headlines, Raleigh says that Leis was simply "Dad" to her, remembering him as a man who protected his family in the same way that he tried to keep Hamilton County safe throughout his time in law enforcement.

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Simon Says... Buy This OpenAI Mechanical Keyboard Thingy

It's a collaboration between OpenAI and Work Louder. It does something or other with Codex.

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Jun 29 • 10:34 PM EDT • Technology • gizmodo.com
Warriors reportedly interested in three NBA free agents as LeBron decision looms

The Golden State Warriors reportedly have their eye on several players ahead of NBA free agency.

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Saturday Sports: The World Cup enters knockout stage; Serena returns to Wimbledon

NPR's Scott Simon and sportswriter Howard Bryant have a World Cup knockout stage preview and discuss Serena Williams' return to Wimbledon.

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The Business of Beauty Global Forum: Inside the Industry

Jane Hertzmark Hudis, Simone Dominici and Vicky Tsai were among the speakers unpacking the most pressing topics for the industry in the second session of The Business of Beauty Global Forum 2026.

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Jun 25 • 6:26 PM EDT • Business • businessoffashion.com
Families, business owners push leadership to break silence following Haywood Mall shooting

Eleven days after shots rang out at Haywood Mall in Greenville, families and business owners are growing frustrated by the lack of answers from Simon Corporate and Upstate-based mall management.

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Jun 24 • 6:14 PM EDT • Business • wyff4.com
Daily Bean: Trades! Trades! Trades! More Rumors, Bruins Draft Board

Where do we begin? The Boston Bruins did not grab any headlines yesterday. They signed P-Bruins goaltender Simon Zajicek to […] The post Daily Bean: Trades! Trades! Trades! More Rumors, Bruins Draft Board appeared first on Boston Hockey Now.

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Jun 24 • 8:11 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Dean Simon Sheather to retire after transformative tenure at UK Gatton College of Business and Economics

After more than three decades in higher education — and nearly eight years of transformative leadership at the University of Kentucky — Simon Sheather, Ph.D., will retire as dean of the Gatton College of Business and Economics, effective June 26.

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Letter From the President

Letter From the President on Simons Foundation

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Jun 23 • 12:13 PM EDT • Science • simonsfoundation.org
Pivot Fellow Natasha Blitvic Brings Math to Marine Microbiology

Pivot Fellow Natasha Blitvic Brings Math to Marine Microbiology on Simons Foundation

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Jun 23 • 12:04 PM EDT • Science • simonsfoundation.org
April B & Shenelle Simone talk about latest entertainment news

April B and Shenelle Simone joined Good Day Atlanta on Monday with the latest entertainment headlines, including Jelly Roll divorce, Anne Hathaway pregnancy, death of Tay Keith and more.

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Jun 22 • 11:02 AM EDT • Entertainment • fox5atlanta.com
Prada serves up luxury fashion’s version of pasta pomodoro at Milan Fashion Week

Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons reimagine jeans-inspired basics in leather and technical fabrics for their latest collection.

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Saturday Sports: The World Cup; the unexpected 'Boston Scottish Beer Fest'

NPR's Scott Simon and sports reporter Michele Steele discuss the World Cup.

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Illusionists charm “America's Got Talent” judges — minus Simon Cowell — with dangerous act and Spice Girls T-shirt

Cowell tells one of the contestants that he looks like "that actor," by which he means Jonah Hill.

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Simone Johnson Talks WWE Departure, Whether She'd Ever Return To Entertainment

Simone Johnson, formerly known as "WWE NXT" General Manager Ava, spoke about her departure from the company, and if she'd ever return to entertainment.

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The Science of Team Science: Lessons Learned from the International Brain Laboratory

The International Brain Laboratory offers insights into how large-scale scientific collaborations can be supported and how the model itself can be improved.

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Best summer books of 2026: Sport, Health and Wellness

Simon Kuper and Anjana Ahuja select their best mid-year reads

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Simone Biles remains mum on mysterious near-death experience in Belize

Simone Biles said she's not ready to discuss the mysterious health crisis that nearly killed her during a Belize trip earlier this month.

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Jun 16 • 6:47 AM EDT • Health • foxnews.com
Wednesday appoint Wilson as sporting director

Sheffield Wednesday appoint former Stockport chief executive Simon Wilson as their new sporting director

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Second Vanderbilt Health team wins NIH Replication Prize

Led by Simon Vandekar, PhD, a group of biostatisticians earned the honor for tools that help brain researchers tell strong, trustworthy findings from weak ones. Vanderbilt took two of 15 total NIH prizes.

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Quilty, Giovanni Entertainment Strike Preferred-Look Deal

Quilty, which makes an AI screenplay-analysis tool, landed a deal with Giovanni Entertainment, first partnership with a production company,

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Jun 11 • 11:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • variety.com
Simone Biles Returns to Texas Home After ‘Almost Dying’ from Mystery Health Scare While Husband Jonathan Owens Was Training In Indianapolis

Biles, 29, has revealed that she endured "the scariest experience" of her life while her husband, Jonathan Owens, was away from their home.

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Olympian Simone Biles reveals she had a health scare

Olympian Simone Biles reveals she had a health scare

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Simone Biles Posts About ‘Almost Dying’ In Health Scare. What We Know

“This was one of, if not the scariest experience of my life,” the gymnastic legend wrote.

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Jun 8 • 11:25 AM EDT • Health • today.com
Mz. Shyneka gives the latest in entertainment headlines

The news spans from Simone Biles, a Tony Awards recap, and Megan Thee Stallion being named in a legal issue.

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Simone Biles Reveals She ‘Almost Died’ In Terrifying Health Crisis

While her husband was away at NFL practice, the gymnastics star faced a sudden life-threatening situation alone.

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Jun 8 • 10:22 AM EDT • Health • bet.com
Olympic legend Simone Biles reveals health scare

We are learning more this weekend after Olympic legend Simone Biles revealed that she "almost died" in a social media post made on Saturday. Biles has only shared vague details about the experience that appears to have left her shaken. "I'm not one to normally share things like this because I value privacy in today's age. But almost dying wasn't on my bingo card this week," Biles wrote. This comes after back in November when Biles revealed she had recently undergone three plastic surgeries.

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Simone Biles says health scare nearly killed her

Olympic gymnast Simone Biles almost died during a life-threatening health scare that landed her in the hospital, she revealed Saturday. “I’m not one to normally share things like this because I value ...

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Simone Biles opens up about 'almost dying' in recent health scare

Simone Biles is recovering after “almost dying” during a recent health scare, calling it one of the scariest experiences of her life.

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Simone Biles recovering from health scare she described as ‘scariest experience’ of her life

While she didn’t divulge many details, decorated U.S. gymnast Simone Biles shared that she was resting in bed following a terrifying health scare.

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‘Almost dying wasn’t on my bingo card’: Simone Biles suffers health scare

Simone Biles shared that she suffered a health scare recently.

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‘Almost dying wasn’t on my bingo card’: Simone Biles suffers health scare

Simone Biles shared that she suffered a health scare recently.

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‘Almost dying wasn’t on my bingo card’: Simone Biles suffers health scare

Simone Biles shared that she suffered a health scare recently.

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Simone Biles Says Medical Scare Was Because of Health, Not Accident

Biles did not elaborate further on what caused the incident or whether it involved ongoing hospital treatment.

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Olympian Simone Biles is recovering from serious health scare after 'almost dying'

The 7-time gold medalist said she has been resting in bed all week after the incident.

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Olympian Simone Biles is recovering from serious health scare after 'almost dying'

Olympian Simone Biles reveals she has spent the week recovering in bed after suffering a frightening health scare: 'Almost dying wasn't on my bingo card.'

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Simone Biles resting after serious health scare: ‘Almost dying wasn’t on my bingo card’

Simone Biles suggested she came close to death after a medical emergency that left her in hospital

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Simone Biles reveals health scare after 'almost dying'

Seven-time Olympic champion Simone Biles reveals she suffered a health scare, describing the experience as "almost dying".

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Simone Biles reveals health scare, calls it one of the "scariest" moments of her life

Team USA gymnastics great Simone Biles has not competed in nearly two years, last featuring at the Olympic Games in Paris.

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Simone Biles reveals health scare, describes ‘almost dying’

The world’s most-decorated gymnast said on Instagram that she had “one of, if not the scariest experience of my life.”

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Simone Biles reveals terrifying health update: 'Almost dying wasn’t on my bingo card'

Simone Biles revealed a terrifying health scare on Instagram, writing Saturday that “almost dying wasn’t on my bingo card."

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Simone Biles reveals recent health scare: ‘Almost dying wasn’t on my bingo card’

Biles did not share any details of the medical episode she called "one of, if not the scariest experience of my life.”

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Simone Biles posts about 'almost dying,' says she is recovering

Simone Biles shared that she recently had a health scare and was "almost dying" in a recent Instagram post. She said she is currently recovering.

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Olympic legend Simone Biles reveals hospitalization: 'Almost dying wasn't on my bingo card earlier this week'
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Simone Biles discusses recent health scare: 'almost dying wasn't on my bingo card'

Simone Biles recently underwent an undisclosed health scare, causing a near-death experience. Here's what is known about Biles' condition.

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Simone Biles Shares Health Update in Photo, 'Almost Dying Wasn't On My Bingo Card'

Olympic gymnast Simone Biles revealed Saturday that she had a serious health scare this week, though she didn't go into detail on what occurred.

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Leaked WhatsApps, embarrassing emails: it’s bad for British politics that privacy is now dead

The principle underlying the release of the Mandelson papers is that officials are always ‘on the record’ – but our leaders must be able to speak their minds freely, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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National Security Without Consensus: Taiwan’s Domestic Politics Through 2028

As Taiwan faces mounting military pressure from Beijing, Simona Grano argues that the greatest security risk is not military pressure but the domestic political fragmentation undermining its defense strategy ahead of the 2028 elections.

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Simon Cowell reveals the 'Got Talent' standout who did 'more good for our show than any other contestant'

Simon Cowell selects the 'Got Talent' competition series' MVP ahead of the new 'America's Got Talent' season.

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A famed folk-rock duo gets the musical treatment at Village Theatre

“We Ain’t Ever Gonna Break Up,” on stage at Village Theatre, loosely maps the tumultuous relationship of obvious analogs Simon & Garfunkel.

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Nelson High multi-sport standout Simone Sideris achieves NCAA Division I dream

The Nelson High School senior played basketball, soccer and track, constantly searching for where she truly belonged.

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Simon Levin elected to Royal Society

Levin, Princeton's James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University, is among the 93 scientists around the world named fellows of the Royal Society.

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Bond breakout? Big effects of bad data. Immigration and thermostatic politics & dad-chat is coming for dad-books.

Thank you for opening your Chartbook email. Anna Airy, A Shell Forge at a National Projectile Factory, Hackney Marshes, London, 1918 Bond breakout - John Authers Across the developed markets, bond markets are staging a slow-motion car wreck. Looking at the drastic moves in the US, Japan, the UK and France, Barclays’ Ajay Rajadhyaksha commented: “Last week, long bonds broke. Not in one country. In all of them. Simultaneously. Four countries. Four different political systems. Four different central banks. But the same trade — “get me out of duration!”” Each country has its own contributing political problems, but the uniformity of the shift out of long-term bonds with high duration makes clear that something broader is afoot. For Rajadhyaksha, it is “simple and uncomfortable.” The developed​ world “has too much debt, too little fiscal discipline, and no political appetite for fixing either.” If there’s a trigger, it has been the Iran war and the resulting shock to oil supply. Source: Bloomberg G7 countries are now borrowing at rates that were enjoyed by EM in the early 2020s For contributing subscribers only. Subscribe Trade between China and Russia has grown in recent years For contributing subscribers only. Subscribe Big effects of bad data A decade ago nearly nine in ten Americans, when approached, agreed to fill out the Current Population Survey, which is administered to about 60,000 households each month and asks about, among other things, employment. Fewer than seven in ten do so now (see chart 1). For the Consumer Expenditure Survey, which tries to capture 3,700 households monthly, the response rate is down from 68% to 40%. … When the information becomes less reliable, investment decisions get more difficult to make. Some may be delayed, creating a potential drag on the economy. A new working paper by Nicholas Bloom of Stanford University, Erica Groshen, former head of the Bureau of Labour Statistics (BLS) now at Cornell University, and Duncan Hobbs and Michael Strain of the American Enterprise Institute, a think-tank, hazards an estimate. Preserving trust in “the integrity and quality of official statistics”, the authors claim, generates economic benefits of about $25 for every $1 spent on the BLS, the agency with an annual budget of $700m that is responsible for many of these data. To arrive at their conclusion the quartet analysed an ignoble episode in the BLS’s recent history. On August 1st 2025 Donald Trump sacked Erika McEntarfer, appointed as the agency’s commissioner by his predecessor, Joe Biden. The president alleged, without evidence, that the BLS’s steep downward revision to recent jobs numbers had been “RIGGED in order to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad”. In fact, it was the wanton dismissal that looked bad in the eyes of many observers. In the following seven days there was a 50% leap, relative to the week before, in the average value of the index of Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU), which tracks the number of articles mentioning such uncertainty that are published daily in American newspapers. This was a discernible jump even when compared to the chaos caused by Mr Trump’s trade war in April 2025 and his real one in Iran in the past two months (see chart 2). Based on Mr Bloom’s earlier study with other colleagues of the EPU’s impact on business investment, industrial production and employment, the authors estimate that the jump reduced American GDP by over $100bn (0.3%) and non-farm payrolls by 168,000 (0.1%). Source: The Economist Immigration and thermostatic politics (Sarah O’Connor in the FT) A strange thing happened a year and a half ago. No sooner had Americans elected Donald Trump as president on an explicitly anti-immigration platform than US public opinion began to swing much more favourably towards immigration. … to political scientists who study “thermostatic” politics, this development is no surprise at all. Public opinion often moves against the prevailing party, especially if they are perceived to have gone “too far” in one direction. The phenomenon was first explored in the 1990s with reference to fiscal policy, but in recent years it has been particularly evident in the realm of immigration policy. While these swings in opinion polls can make it seem as if people don’t know their own minds, they can be a useful democratic check on governments by sending bright flashing warning lights when policies stray too far from the public’s comfort zone. The problem comes when politicians misinterpret those signals. When people tell pollsters they want less immigration, or think it is bad for the country overall (or the converse), they are often expressing an opinion about how things appear to be going in that moment relative to their preferences, rather than a deep shift in their underlying views. According to Alexander Kustov, a political scientist, most Americans’ views are quite stable and moderate: they support immigration that is controlled and in the national interest, and oppose flows that are disorderly or under-enforced. In the US, he argues the Trump administration over-interpreted dissatisfaction with high immigration under Joe Biden, and implemented policies that went too far for many voters. “People don’t necessarily change their idea about their ideal immigration policy, but they can react to what the government is currently doing,” he told me. “A lot of people are not happy with what the Trump administration are doing — right now we’re not talking about border enforcement, we’re talking about people not just getting harassed, but killed.” But similarly, he added, pro-immigration advocates would be making a mistake to interpret the recent, more favourable swing towards immigration as a deep-seated ideological shift in attitudes. The recent history of UK immigration policy offers another cautionary tale. After the 2016 Brexit referendum, public concern about immigration fell. This was partly because net migration statistics declined, but also because people felt a sense of catharsis and control, says Sunder Katwala, director of British Future, a think-tank. By 2019, the public ranked immigration as only the ninth biggest issue of concern, according to Ipsos polling. But when the Conservative government liberalised visa routes for students and care workers between 2019 and 2022, that helped net migration to surge. And so, too, did public concern. Today’s Labour government has implemented another sharply restrictive turn in immigration policy. As Kustov and researcher Caitlyn Yates argue, thermostatic public opinion should be a useful check on politicians. Instead it seems to have helped to magnify the pendulum swing in the UK. The government over-interprets and overreacts to a change in public opinion, which reacts in turn, prompting a sudden swing the other way. Source: Financial Times 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 $50. 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 Anna Airy, Shop for Machining 15-Inch Shells: Singer Manufacturing Company, Clydebank, Glasgow, 1918 Racing for a vaccine … we have been here before! The deadly Ebola outbreak in two African countries driven by a virus species with no vaccine has triggered an urgent search for a potential jab, in a test of troubled global efforts to avert threats posed by emerging diseases. A World Health Organization advisory group is due to would meet on Tuesday to recommend candidate jabs to prioritise for clinical trials, the global health body said. It will assess data including an analysis by the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (Cepi), which was set up after failures in the international response to a previous Ebola crisis. The latest Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda has infected hundreds of people and killed more than 80, health authorities say. Cepi’s reaction will be a crucial indicator of its progress towards its wider goal of producing vaccines for pandemic threats in just 100 days, despite steep cuts to international health funding. “If there was ever a time that we could show the world why Cepi is needed and show the world why the 100-day mission is needed, it’s now,” Nicole Lurie, the organisation’s executive director for preparedness and response, told the FT. “We’re happy to accept that responsibility, but obviously we need help from partners — particularly financial help in the long run.” DR Congo and Uganda would make the final decision on whether to press ahead with any vaccine candidates endorsed for clinical trials by the WHO experts, the global health body said. “Other ethical and community acceptability issues will be considered,” said the WHO, which declared the latest outbreak a public health emergency of international concern on Sunday. “This will be important to make sure that the trial, if it happens, will be adequately communicated to the population.” Lurie said Cepi had provided information from a survey of research teams and companies working on drugs that might be effective against the Bundibugyo virus behind the outbreak. The organisation hoped soon to announce partners in the quest for a jab, she added, although she declined to give a timescale for when one might be developed. Cepi’s Nicole Laurie said global health bodies were ‘getting some live-fire drills’ with hantavirus and the latest Ebola outbreak. The hunt for a vaccine should be helped by scientific advances including the use of artificial intelligence to find drugs active against viruses, Lurie said. Existing jabs against the Zaire Ebola virus responsible for many previous outbreaks might provide a basis for tackling the Bundibugyo species, she added. “We’ll see how far and how fast we can get,” Lurie said, adding that Cepi had done preliminary work recently on a possible jab for the rat-borne hantavirus responsible for a recent fatal outbreak on a cruise ship. “Both with hantavirus and now with Ebola, [we] are getting some live-fire drills.” Source: Michael Peel in the Financial Times Dad-chat is coming for dad-books. (By Pamela Paul and Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg in the WSJ) They were the go-to gifts for Father’s Day: a book about some little-known chapter of World War II, the sweeping narrative of a shipwreck, perhaps the latest presidential biography. These days, dad books are a dying breed. Nonfiction book sales have been in decline for the past four years, and are now the most challenged segment of the print book market. Publishers say certain types of books still fare well—including celebrity memoirs and religious titles. But in recent years, print sales in such categories as biography, current affairs and business and economics—what publishers refer to as “serious nonfiction” and which tend to resonate especially with men—have fallen considerably. Sales of nonfiction print titles were down nearly 8% through May 9 this year, and sales of books about politics and current affairs were down 19%, according to book tracker Circana BookScan. Publishing has long been subject to cyclical changes, with trends in format and genre taking over bookshelves in grand sweeps. (Remember the adult coloring-book craze? Or the stratospheric rise of romantasy?) But many in publishing believe the decline in serious nonfiction is more existential. “The trend couldn’t be clearer,” said Jonathan Karp, the former chief executive of Simon & Schuster and publisher of the new Simon Six imprint. “This is a sea change and people should wake up and realize we’re living in a new world.” One culprit for the shift: a new media diet for fans of more serious nonfiction. … Sixty-two percent of men and 54% of women consumed a podcast in the prior month, according to a recent survey by Edison Research at SSRS, up from 46% and 39%, respectively, in 2023. “When we have internal meetings to talk about this problem, it always comes around to podcasts,” said Jonathan Burnham, president and publisher of the Harper Group at HarperCollins Publishers. “The man who wants to read American history is now tuning into one of the many good podcasts about history that lends the quiet attention to a serious subject he’s looking for. It makes the idea of sitting down with a 700-page Ron Chernow book less appealing. You’ve scratched that itch.” Source: Wall Street Journal Remarkable report by Novara from the nationalist rally in London in mid May. Anna Airy, Leopard Moth and Plums, 1915 If you’ve scrolled this far, you know you want to click: Subscribe

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Quantum supremacy just ran into an unexpected rival: An ordinary laptop armed with new math

Using a conventional computer and cutting-edge mathematical tools and code, physicists at the Center for Computational Quantum Physics (CCQ) at the Simons Foundation's Flatiron Institute and collaborators ...

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SimonMed hopes to drum up whole-body MRI business

The Tucson, Arizona-based radiology practice announced it will offer 20% discounts on its longevity scans to the military, veterans and first responders.

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Kudos to Cheer Club, College of Business faculty, Cybersecurity team and more

Becky Cottrell, Ph.D., Department of Social Work, and Bridget Arend, Ph.D., School of Education Becky Cottrell from the Department of Social Work and Bridget Arend, Ph.D., from the School of Education co-authored an article recently published in an international journal. Read the article. Biff Baker, Ph.D., College of Business Biff Baker, Ph.D., received a Best in Track award from the Society for Advancement of Management for research examining bureaucratic inefficiencies within Section 8 subsidized housing programs. The study focuses on how administrative delays and communication breakdowns can create housing instability for families and discourage landlord participation. It also offers recommendations to improve accountability and trust in public housing systems. Brendan Fry, Ph.D., Department of Mathematics and Statistics Brendan Fry, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, co-authored the article “Modeling the Impact of Venous Collapsibility on Retinal Oxygenation,” published in the Journal of Theoretical Biology. The interdisciplinary research brought together scholars from the University of Delaware, Indiana University Indianapolis, McGill University and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital. Access the article. Bridget Arend, Ph.D., School of Education Bridget Arend, Ph.D., professor in the School of Education, co-published the book “Facilitating Seven Ways of Learning: A Resource for More Purposeful, Effective, and Enjoyable College Teaching, Second Edition” with James R. Davis. The book explores practical approaches to improving college teaching and student learning experiences. Buy the book. College of Business Faculty At the 2026 Western Decision Sciences Institute international conference, Sally Baalbaki-Yassine, Ph.D., Debora Gilliard, Ph.D., and David Lynn Hoffman, Ph.D., from the College of Business received the Best Case Study Paper Award for “Oreo: A Global Success Story in Brand Evolution and Market Leadership.” Lisa McVicker, Ph.D., and Apryl Brodersen, Ph.D., also had their paper, “Electronic Performance Monitoring: Employer Panacea or Legal Quagmire?” accepted for publication in the Journal of Business Leadership. Community Engagement Exchange Program Metropolitan State University of Denver was selected to host international Fellow Aleja Henao Espitia of Bogotá, Colombia through the Community Engagement Exchange program funded by the U.S. Department of State. View Espitia's LinkedIn profile. David Varel, Ph.D., College of Letters, Arts and Sciences MSU Denver historian David Varel, Ph.D., has been awarded a 2026 ACLS Fellowship by the American Council of Learned Societies. The fellowship program supports outstanding scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, and selected just 63 scholars from more than 2,000 applicants this year. Varel’s project, “The Black Chicago School: Academic Activism in the Age of American Apartheid,” explores the work of Black scholars who challenged scientific racism, built alternative institutions and helped lay the foundation for the modern civil rights movement. The fellowship provides up to $60,000 to support full-time research and writing. Learn more about the fellowship. MSU Denver Office of Financial Aid Team Several MSU Denver employees were recognized for leadership and service during the Colorado Association of Financial Aid Administrators (CAFAA) conference held in May in Crested Butte. Don Holtzen, interim associate director of systems, chaired the conference and was recognized for his service as CAFAA conference chair and technology chair during the 2025-26 term. Holtzen also received the Postsecondary Institution Professional of the Year award, which recognizes financial-aid professionals who have made significant contributions to their institutions and to CAFAA. Tori Pacheco, associate director of Student Services, helped design décor and facilitate the conference and was recognized for her service as CAFAA secretary during the 2025-26 term. Destiny Candelaria, call center coordinator, served on the conference planning committee and presented on One Stops during the event. Michael Nguyen, executive director of Financial Aid and Scholarships, assisted as a CAFAA board member and was recognized for serving as president-elect during the 2025-26 term. Richard Balbag, program assistant I, received the Distinguished Support Staff Member of the Year award, honoring staff members who have made exceptional contributions to their financial-aid offices. Military Friendly Recognition Military Friendly has awarded MSU Denver Gold Status as a military-friendly university and ranked the University No. 7 nationally for military spouses. The recognition reflects MSU Denver’s strong support systems for veterans and military spouses, including transfer credit assistance and retention-focused resources. As of 2026, 1,050 military-connected students are enrolled at the University, advancing institutional priorities around serving veterans and supporting student retention. MSU Denver Cheer Club The MSU Denver Cheer Club earned third place in the 4-Year College Small Coed Intermediate division at the USA Spirit Nationals. Celebrate the win on Instagram. MSU Denver Cybersecurity Team An MSU Denver cybersecurity team earned first place in the Strategist category at the 2026 CYBER RECon National Competition hosted at Fort Meade, Maryland, by U.S. Cyber Command. Led by Jeffrey London, Ph.D., and undergraduate student Matthew Bopp, the team competed against universities and law schools nationwide with its 30-page legal analysis on cybersecurity and free speech titled “Freedom of Speech and MDM: Misinformation, Disinformation, and Malinformation.” The paper also earned Bopp a personal invitation to apply to the University of Maryland School of Law. MSU Denver Debate Team MSU Denver Debate won the 2026 Sierra Sustainability Summit hosted at Yosemite National Park in April. Students Kat Conte and Simon Bernhard bested teams from George Washington University, Gallaudet University, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, the University of San Francisco and Tennessee Tech in the modified present-and-defend style competition. Their proposal recommended adapting Colorado’s Keep Colorado Wild Pass model to support California state parks facing budget constraints. Learn about the summit. MSU Denver Women’s Golf MSU Denver Women’s Golf was represented on the national stage this month as junior Neige Dunn competed as an individual at the NCAA West Regional. She became the first Roadrunner in 10 years to qualify for NCAA Regionals as an individual. Get the details.

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2026 Best 40-Under-40 Business Professors: Elena Prager, Simon Business School, University of Rochester

Over the last decade, Poets&Quants has honored more than 540 up-and-coming star MBA and graduate business professors from around the world.

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NBA Star Kevin Love on Helping Kids Learn About Mental Health

NBA champion Kevin Love joins TODAY’s Carson Daly to talk about his nonprofit, the Kevin Love Fund, a free program for kids that provides tools to help them understand and overcome mental health struggles. Love explains how his curriculum can be implemented in schools, shares how Simone Biles thanked him for his work, and opens up about how his mission set the foundation for him as a father.

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Simone Biles' coaches reunite on Georgia gymnastics staff
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Harmer and Porter help Essex to parity with Hants

Simon Harmer and Jamie Porter eke out an unlikely first-innings lead for Essex in the County Championship against Hampshire at Chelmsford.

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SimonMed Imaging launches new add-on AI services with extra out-of-pocket charges

The Scottsdale, Arizona-based radiology practice said Monday it’s seeking to scale AI across all routine imaging, hoping to deliver “preventive insights nationwide.”

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Simons scoop up another property along downtown's South Meridian entertainment corridor

The building is on the same block as planned Simon-backed developments for a Ritz-Carlton hotel, Live Nation music venue and Ole Red bar, restaurant and country music hall.

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Two NYU Faculty Elected to National Academy of Sciences

Andrea H. Brand and Eero P. Simoncelli among this year’s 120 new members

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May 4 • 9:55 AM EDT • Science • nyu.edu
Bournemouth 3-0 Crystal Palace

Simon: Andoni Iraola orchestrated another masterpiece and the players delivered. Alex Scott and Alex Jimenez were the standouts. Paul: Crystal Palace were only poor because Bournemouth never allowed them to be involved.

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May 4 • 6:50 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Carrick secures Champions League - what are Man Utd waiting for?

Unless Manchester United appoint Luis Enrique, it is hard to think of an acceptable alternative to giving Michael Carrick the job on a permanent basis, writes Simon Stone.

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May 3 • 3:20 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Simone Biles on mental health advocacy: "We're making progress, we're making change"

The 11-time Olympic medallist on how she sees mental health in sports five years after her conversation-sparking Olympics at Tokyo 2020.

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Apr 29 • 4:29 PM EDT • Health • olympics.com
Ole Red restaurant, entertainment venue planned for Meridian Street

The project is a partnership between property owner Boxcar Development LLC — a firm controlled by the Herb Simon family — and Nashville-based Opry Entertainment Group.

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Apr 29 • 10:59 AM EDT • Entertainment • ibj.com
PS&E’s Simon enhances mixed-use district with Blake Shelton music bar Ole Red

Pacers Sports & Entertainment owner Herb Simon is bringing Blake Shelton’s music bar venue Ole Red to his burgeoning mixed-use Fieldhouse District, as the organization continues to expand Indianapolis’ market size through data and real estate.

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Apr 29 • 10:28 AM EDT • Entertainment • sportsbusinessjournal.com
Simone Biles talks to CNN about her LA28 prospects, mental health journey and life as an NFL ‘WAG’
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Apr 29 • 6:54 AM EDT • Health • cnn.com
'Survival no longer feels impossible'

When Xavi Simons' knee gave way, many of us thought that was it. All season, when Spurs have come face to face with adversity, they have crumbled. It has left us questioning the players' desire and mental fortitude.

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Apr 29 • 3:38 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
More room for the fintech business to grow sustainably, says GoTo Group CFO

Simon Ho, CFO of GoTo Group, joins Squawk Box Asia to discuss the company's latest earnings report. He names the fintech business is a key driver of growth, and says there is still more room to expand in Indonesia.

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Apr 28 • 10:42 PM EDT • Business • cnbc.com
Xavi Simons injury: Tottenham playmaker to miss rest of season and World Cup with Netherlands after being stretchered off at Wolves
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Apr 27 • 3:30 AM EDT • Sports • skysports.com
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Gossip: Man Utd keen on Simons

Manchester United are closely monitoring Xavi Simons' situation at Tottenham as they consider moving for the 23-year-old Netherlands midfielder in the summer. (Fichajes - in Spanish)

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Sunday Science: Spring leaf out

It's been quite the rollercoaster ride this spring season in terms of temperatures, and we aren't the only ones who think that.The USA Phenology Network tracks

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Apr 26 • 10:07 AM EDT • Science • turnto10.com
CCX Sports Spotlight: Kate Simonet, Mental Health Advocate, Publishes Children's Book

In this CCX Sports Spotlight we talk Park Center graduate Kate Simonet who is about to publish her second children's book dealing with mental health.

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Apr 25 • 2:01 PM EDT • Health • ccxmedia.org
CCX Sports Spotlight: Kate Simonet, Mental Health Advocate, Publishes Children's Book

In this CCX Sports Spotlight we talk Park Center graduate Kate Simonet who is about to publish her second children's book dealing with mental health.

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Apr 25 • 2:01 PM EDT • Sports • ccxmedia.org
Louisville adds 7’5 USC transfer Gabe Dynes

Pat Kelsey’s commitment to getting bigger in 2026-27 took another (very) sizable step forward Saturday with the commitment of 7’5 USC transfer center Gabe Dynes. Dynes, a Kentucky native who played his high school basketball at Simon Kenton in Independence, picked U of L over Kentucky. Before transferring to USC, Dynes spent two seasons at […]

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Apr 25 • 11:16 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com