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5 science-backed ways parents can build a child’s confidence

Confidence is not something children magically “have” or “do not have.” It is built in small, repeatable moments: when a child is heard without being dismissed, encouraged without being overpraised, and guided without being controlled. Research-backed parenting practices point to a simple truth: children tend to feel more secure, capable, and resilient when home is predictable, warm, and emotionally steady. They also grow stronger when adults make room for effort, autonomy, movement, sleep, and good nutrition, because these basics shape learning, mood, and self-regulation. Here are five science-backed ways parents can help build lasting confidence in children.

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May 24 • 1:15 AM EDT • Science • timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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Knicks move within one win of NBA Finals with 121-108 victory over Cavaliers

Jalen Brunson scored 30 points, Mikal Bridges added 22 and the New York Knicks moved within one game of their first NBA Finals appearance since 1999.

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May 24 • 12:10 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Apple registers new 'gen AI' subdomain ahead of next month's WWDC keynote

Apple has just registered a new subdomain record ahead of WWDC: genai.apple.com. All signs point to WWDC 2026 being Apple’s...

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May 23 • 6:37 PM EDT • Technology • 9to5mac.com
Hegseth torches identity politics in West Point speech: ‘Can’t throw your pronouns at the enemy’

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth delivered a commencement address at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in the pouring rain on Saturday morning, in which he accused former “foolish and feckless …

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Nottingham Forest v Bournemouth: Key stats and talking points

Bournemouth visit Nottingham Forest on Sunday knowing they are already assured of a first European adventure next season – but they need a number of results to go their way to land a place in the Champions League. It was Forest who enjoyed their own continental quest this year, with an impressive run to the Europa League semi-finals providing a welcome distraction to their domestic woes. Vitor Pereira took over from Sean Dyche in February and has steered the Tricky Trees to safety thanks in no small part to an eight-game unbeaten run that ended with a 3-2 defeat by Manchester United last week.

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West Ham v Leeds: Key stats and talking points

West Ham need to beat visitors Leeds to have any chance of avoiding relegation. Two years after parting company with manager David Moyes despite finishing ninth in the league, West Ham need a favour from his current side Everton if they are to avoid relegation. The Hammers must beat Leeds and hope Tottenham slip up against Everton or they will be relegated from the Premier League for the third time after 2002-03 and 2010-11.

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May 23 • 8:20 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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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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May 23 • 6:45 AM EDT • Politics • adamtooze.substack.com
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‘Senators are not happy’: How Trump pushed the GOP to the breaking point this week

President Donald Trump’s relationship with Senate Republicans has hit a new low after a revolt over his $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund surfaced deep divisions over the direction of the party and its priorities.

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May 23 • 6:00 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Governor taps health, banking, business leaders for Northwest Florida State College board

The appointments are subject to confirmation by the Florida Senate.

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May 23 • 5:30 AM EDT • Business • floridapolitics.com
Governor taps health, banking, business leaders for Northwest Florida State College board

The appointments are subject to confirmation by the Florida Senate.

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May 23 • 5:30 AM EDT • Politics • floridapolitics.com
Dropout curious? Here's where you should start watching.

From "Dimension 20" to "Game Changer" and beyond, we tell you the best launch points for this streaming comedy platform.

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May 23 • 5:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • mashable.com
Yankees news: Get ready to learn some second base, Volpe!

Yankees’ Volpe to learn second base, Judge points at pitch selection as main issue in slump, Cole impresses in debut

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May 23 • 5:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
[[[Fox^Sports]] Slovakia vs. Czech Republic IIHF World Championship LiVe FrEE tOday 23 May 2026

Slovakia vs. Czech Republic IIHF World Championship live: Slovakia vs. Czech Republic IIHF World Championship look to seize control of thrilling Rugby Championship. Every team in the Rugby Championship has two wins apiece as we go into the final two game weeks. South Africa will host Argentina at Durban’s Kings Park Stadium with the Springboks a single point ahead of Los Pumas in the standings and just one behind leaders Australia.

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May 23 • 4:34 AM EDT • Sports • www2.smsu.edu
[[[Fox^Sports]] Hungary vs. Switzerland IIHF World Championship LiVe FrEE tOday 23 May 2026

Hungary vs. Switzerland IIHF World Championship live: Hungary vs. Switzerland IIHF World Championship look to seize control of thrilling Rugby Championship. Every team in the Rugby Championship has two wins apiece as we go into the final two game weeks. South Africa will host Argentina at Durban’s Kings Park Stadium with the Springboks a single point ahead of Los Pumas in the standings and just one behind leaders Australia.

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May 23 • 4:34 AM EDT • Sports • www2.smsu.edu
Who qualifies for the Europa League?

Bournemouth have already guaranteed at least a top-seven finish, meaning they will either qualify for the Champions League or Europa League. If English clubs get six Champions League spots, they will lose a Europa League spot in exchange. Brighton are currently seventh and have a one-point advantage over Chelsea and Brentford, the two teams directly below them.

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May 23 • 3:03 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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IAH is one of three airports where certain passengers will receive Ebola health screenings, CBP says

Bush Intercontinental Airport will be one of three U.S. entry points for passengers from countries affected by an Ebola outbreak.

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May 22 • 11:37 PM EDT • Health • abc13.com
Scientists discover a shortcut to the moon that NASA missed

Getting to the moon is partly a fuel problem. Plotting the most efficient path between two points in space saves propellant, and every kilogram of propellant conserved is money in the bank. Even tiny ...

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May 22 • 5:30 PM EDT • Science • yahoo.com
Replacing RAG with bash cut AI retrieval costs 30%

DCI lets AI agents search raw files with grep and bash instead of embeddings — boosting accuracy 11 points and cutting retrieval costs 30% on complex tasks.

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May 22 • 5:05 PM EDT • Technology • venturebeat.com
Galaxy Zoo: Clump Scout II

Identify star-forming clumps in galaxy images, and help train machines to do the same.

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May 22 • 3:16 PM EDT • Science • science.nasa.gov
Fable Dodges GTA 6’s Shadow as Korean Rating Points to a September or October 2026 Release Window

Playground’s Fable reboot has been rated in South Korea and Australia, pointing to a possible late September or October 2026 launch window.

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May 22 • 1:15 PM EDT • Technology • wccftech.com
iOS 26.5.1 Update for iPhones is Coming Soon

Apple's software engineers are testing iOS 26.5.1, according to the MacRumors visitor logs, which have been a reliable indicator of upcoming iOS versions. iOS 26.5.1 will almost certainly be a minor update that fixes bugs and/or security vulnerabilities, and it will likely be released by the end of next week. The logs show that Apple has ramped up testing of iOS 26.6 as well, with a first beta of that update likely to be released at some point in June.

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May 22 • 12:23 PM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com
Tim Bezbatchenko returns to oversee Columbus MLS, NWSL teams

Tim Bezbatchenko has been appointed as president of global soccer of the Haslam Sports Group and will oversee all sporting decisions for MLS' Columbus Crew and a forthcoming Columbus 2028 NWSL expansion team.

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May 22 • 12:00 PM EDT • Sports • espn.com
Notable Standouts and Disappointments in the Sabres’ Playoff Run

​The Buffalo Sabres’ season came to an abrupt end when Alex Newhook scored the Game 7 overtime goal to bring the Montreal Canadiens to the Eastern Conference Finals. Buffalo’s season is over, but it was a year of triumph and memories that will stick with the Sabrehood. ​In the playoffs, some players stood out, while […] The post Notable Standouts and Disappointments in the Sabres’ Playoff Run appeared first on The Lead.

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May 22 • 11:50 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Pushed to the limit, Republicans show rare defiance to Trump's demands

President Donald Trump’s political revenge tour met its potential match this week as angry, upset Republican senators, pushed to a breaking point by his seemingly insatiable and outlandish demands — particularly a $1.776 billion fund for Jan. 6 rioters and others he believes were wrongly prosecuted — did the unthinkable.

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May 22 • 10:26 AM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
A Royal bummer—which player has been the biggest disappointment?

The gap between expectation and reality.

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May 22 • 10:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Indira Mysorekar, PhD, named vice dean for research, basic science and graduate studies

Penn State College of Medicine has appointed Indira U. Mysorekar, PhD, as vice dean for research, basic science and graduate studies.

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May 22 • 9:09 AM EDT • Science • pennstatehealthnews.org
Novartis says Avidity's science could apply beyond muscular dystrophies

Novartis eyes Alzheimer's and Parkinson's as it looks to expand the AOC platform acquired in its $12 billion Avidity Biosciences buyout.

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May 22 • 9:00 AM EDT • Science • endpoints.news
Pushed to the Limit, Republicans Show Rare Defiance to Trump's Demands

WASHINGTON (AP) — The day arrived when the Senate just said, No. President Donald Trump’s political revenge tour met its potential match this week as angry, upset Republican senators, pushed to a breaking point by his seemingly insatiable and outlandish demands — particularly a $1.776 billion fund

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May 22 • 7:39 AM EDT • Politics • usnews.com
New movies to watch this weekend: See 'Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu' in theaters, rent 'Wasteman,' stream 'Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair'

The latest "Star Wars" film disappoints, "The Super Mario Galaxy Movie" hits home screens and horror fans can look to "Passenger" or "Lee Cronin's The Mummy."

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May 22 • 7:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Valorant's new Vanguard update seems to be bricking cheaters' PCs. Riot's response? "Congrats on your $6k paperweights"

Riot's latest Vanguard update is bricking cheaters' PCs, to the point where they have to do full OS reinstalls, and it's not sorry. At all.

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May 22 • 6:47 AM EDT • Technology • pcgamesn.com
Home discomforts - will being hosts on Sunday hinder Spurs?

Roberto de Zerbi's Tottenham need to get at least a point against Everton if they are to see off West Ham - assuming Nuno Espirito Santo's side do their job and beat Leeds at London Stadium. The 12 points Tottenham have picked up at home is the joint-fewest in the division, alongside already-relegated Burnley.

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May 22 • 4:32 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Odds stacked against hosts Fulham for Craven Cottage finale?

Can Fulham be effective against with their last game of the season at Craven Cottage Stadium on Sunday? Both sides have secured Premier League status next season, with the Whites sitting in 13th, level on points but two places behind the Magpies. Fulham have lost six of their past eight Premier League games against Newcastle, although the did manage the double over them last season.

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May 22 • 3:47 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
What Will Graf’s Next Contract Look Like? (+)

What will Collin Graf’s next contract look like? Graf, 23, emerged as a likely core piece of the San Jose Sharks’ rebuild this season. The 6-foot-1 winger dropped 21 goals and 46 points, averaging 16:27 a night. That was sixth among Sharks forwards. Notably, Graf also led San Jose up front in overall penalty kill […] The post What Will Graf’s Next Contract Look Like? (+) appeared first on San Jose Hockey Now.

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May 21 • 10:28 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Ancient asteroid craters may have sparked Earth’s oxygen-producing life

A hidden crater in South Korea may hold clues to one of the biggest turning points in Earth’s history: the rise of oxygen. Scientists discovered fossil-like stromatolites — layered structures built by ancient microbes — inside the Hapcheon impact crater, suggesting that asteroid strikes may have created warm, mineral-rich lakes where early oxygen-producing life could flourish.

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May 21 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
GOP senators balk at Trump's $1.8-billion 'anti-weaponization' fund, force delay in key vote

The discord marked a potential turning point for Congress, which has been largely sidelined under the second Trump administration on the war in Iran and other issues.

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May 21 • 5:59 PM EDT • Politics • latimes.com
Kyle Roberts appointed as K-12 supervisor of physical education, health and athletics - Bethlehem Central School District

At its meeting on May 20, the Bethlehem Central Board of Education appointed Kyle Roberts as the district’s supervisor of physical education, health and athletics. In the new role, Roberts will oversee all K-12 instruction in physical education and health education across all seven schools. He will also supervise intramurals and modified-level athletics and will … Continue reading "Kyle Roberts appointed as K-12 supervisor of physical education, health and athletics"

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May 21 • 4:55 PM EDT • Health • bethlehemschools.org
Expanding environmental aspects of your business

When discussing the natural environment in today’s maritime industry, I find a great deal of contention and difference of opinion. Varying points of view and motivations shape how much or how li

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May 21 • 3:02 PM EDT • Business • workboat.com
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy on Prime Video: ‘That business is growing, it’s profitable, and it’s still early’

Jassy discussed Prime Video's momentum during a recent Q&A with shareholders, pointing to original films, live sports, and streaming partnerships.

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May 21 • 2:12 PM EDT • Technology • aboutamazon.com
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy on Prime Video: ‘That business is growing, it’s profitable, and it’s still early’

Jassy discussed Prime Video's momentum during a recent Q&A with shareholders, pointing to original films, live sports, and streaming partnerships.

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May 21 • 2:12 PM EDT • Entertainment • aboutamazon.com
Marshall Health Network to offer free sports physicals on June 4

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Marshall Health Network will offer free sports physicals by appointment to middle and high school students Thursday, June 4, 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Marshall Sports Medicine Institute (MSMI), located at 2211 Third Avenue, Huntington. All students must bring their West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission or Ohio High School Athletic Association physical form completed and signed by a parent or legal guardian. To schedule an appointment, visit https://tinyurl.com/MSMIphysicals2026. Sports physicals are also available throughout the year at […]

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May 21 • 12:13 PM EDT • Sports • news.marshallhealth.org
Corbus Pharmaceuticals Announces the Appointment of Nishant Saxena as Chief Business Officer and Schedules a Pre-2026 ASCO CRB-701 Data Conference Call

NORWOOD, Mass., May 21, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Corbus Pharmaceuticals Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: CRBP), a clinical-stage company focused on devel...

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May 21 • 10:00 AM EDT • Business • markets.businessinsider.com
Jiben Roy: When science can’t predict the unthinkable

It’s a tricky point, and science does not have an answer. Tagore, a 1913 Nobel laureate in literature, lost seven family members, including his wife and three of his five children, within a short period of time.

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May 21 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • cdispatch.com
Class of 2026 Cadets Selected as National Science Foundation Fellows

United States Military Academy West Point

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May 21 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • westpoint.edu
Mosaic Health Appoints Seasoned Healthcare Leader Doug Wenners as Chief Executive Officer

/PRNewswire/ -- Mosaic Health (the "Company") today announced the appointment of Doug Wenners, a seasoned healthcare leader with a proven track record of...

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May 21 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • prnewswire.com
Bonus 228: The $1.776B Political Question

Every so often a story comes along that is so brazen, so cleanly emblematic of the moment we are living through, that staying quiet about it feels like a kind of complicity unto itself. Monday’s announcement by the Department of Justice that the Acting Attorney General has unilaterally created a $1.776 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” to compensate so-called “victims of lawfare” is one of those stories. And the reason I want to write about it here, in a newsletter ostensibly devoted to the Supreme Court and the law and politics surrounding it, is that I’m increasingly worried that we’re asking the wrong institution to save us from one of the most offensive, alarming, and anti-constitutional things we’ve seen from any president in American history. As I explain below the fold, the Anti-Weaponization Fund is not principally a legal problem awaiting a judicial fix. It is a shockingly egregious political abuse—the President suing his own government, purporting to settle with himself, and routing nearly $2 billion from the Treasury to his own supporters as a not-so-subtle (and not-so-formal) reward, if not an incentive, for political violence. And the Constitution’s answer to political abuses of this kind and magnitude is a political remedy, not a legal one. In his majority opinion in NFIB v. Sebelius (the Affordable Care Act case from 2012), Chief Justice Roberts defended the Court’s endorsement of Congress’s power to adopt the individual mandate by noting that it is “not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices.” As much of a judicial supremacist as I am, that sentiment is, for better or worse, an entirely correct (and, in the long term, normatively desirable) institutional assessment. One can believe in substantial judicial power without believing that literally every political dispute in our country can and should be resolved by unelected judges. The real upshot of this latest headline (among so, so many other similar headlines) is that it is past time to reinvigorate impeachment—not because conviction is realistic in this Senate, or even because impeachment itself is feasible in this House, but because forcing every member of Congress to vote on the record whether this brazen, corrosive, and affirmatively dangerous corruption is impeachable is itself a point worth fighting for (and fighting with our friends over). Assuming the courts will save us absolves our political leaders of both responsibility and accountability for allowing this kind of mischief to continue, and it absolves all of us of our responsibility to refuse to tolerate those who would just as quickly shrug their shoulders and move on. For those who aren’t paid subscribers, we’ll be back (no later than) Monday with our continuing coverage of the Supreme Court. For those who are, please read on.

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May 21 • 7:17 AM EDT • Politics • stevevladeck.com
Startup reveals ‘artificial egg’ to resurrect extinct birds, but scientists say the work misses the point

The science of de-extinction does not exist, but Colossal Bioscience’s “artificial egg” is an interesting technical feat

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May 20 • 7:45 PM EDT • Science • scientificamerican.com
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Steve Bellamy Launches TYPTI, Tennis Channel to Air Championships

"The points are long, the rallies are dramatic, the action is constant, there is a refined bedlam, and the strategy reads so beautifully on camera," Bellamy says of TYPTI.

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From The Sports Desk: Knicks mount epic fourth quarter comeback, stun Cavaliers

New York trailed by 22 points with under eight minutes to play in the fourth quarter, and came back to win in overtime. Plus, Egypt’s Mohamed Salah is our World Cup player spotlight.

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May 20 • 3:00 PM EDT • Sports • nbcnews.com
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WATCH: Duffy flips script on Dem senators with pointed questions about their own campaign cash

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy clashes with Democratic senators over corporate-funded Great American Road Trip as Americans face high gas prices.

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May 20 • 1:48 PM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
Cleveland sports radio host has rough morning trying to process Cavaliers' Game 1 choke job

Cleveland radio host Ken Carmen went viral after an impassioned meltdown over the Cavaliers blowing a 22-point lead to the Knicks in overtime.

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May 20 • 1:30 PM EDT • Sports • foxnews.com
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Omar breaks silence on alleged fraud connections in statement pointing to Trump admin: 'Flat out false'

Rep. Ilhan Omar claims she had no knowledge of the Feeding Our Future fraud scandal, pointing to Trump's role in signing the MEALS Act into law.

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May 20 • 1:04 PM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
WATCH LIVE: Trump delivers U.S. Coast Guard Academy commencement address
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May 20 • 10:18 AM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
Frank Mitloehner named UC Davis animal science chair

His appointment is effective June 1.

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May 20 • 9:54 AM EDT • Science • wattagnet.com
Mace targets Squad Dem with proposed constitutional ban on foreign-born lawmakers

Rep. Nancy Mace proposes expanding the natural-born citizen requirement beyond the presidency to Congress, federal judges and cabinet appointees.

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May 20 • 8:57 AM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
Iowa State scientists have helped pinpoint the origin of cotton

Scientists, including Iowa State researchers, pinpointed where upland cotton was first domesticated in Mexico thousands of years ago.

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May 20 • 7:02 AM EDT • Science • desmoinesregister.com
Springsteen's latest political moment

Bruce Springsteen heads to Cleveland on Friday at yet another political inflection point.

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May 20 • 6:27 AM EDT • Politics • axios.com
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How to recession-proof your life

The United States is not in a recession, but the normal economic cycle means it will be at some point.

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'The system is likely to reach a breaking point': Major Italian volcano is speeding toward a transition, and a major eruption could be on the way

Campi Flegrei, a volcanic caldera near Naples, is speeding toward a transition, a new study suggests, but there are still a lot of questions as to whether it will erupt in the near future.

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May 20 • 5:00 AM EDT • Science • livescience.com
WHO expert: ‘Declaring climate change a global public health emergency would be a turning point’

Air pollution, heat waves and infectious diseases: climate change is a health crisis that requires action now to save millions of lives, warn scientists and former health ministers.

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May 20 • 4:27 AM EDT • Health • genevasolutions.news
Knicks stun Cavaliers with 22-point comeback

The New York Knicks mount their biggest play-off comeback to beat the Cleveland Cavaliers in game one of the NBA Eastern Conference finals.

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May 20 • 2:37 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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The Knicks' MVP of their 22-point comeback in Game 1? James Harden

"There is no secret, we were attacking Harden."

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May 20 • 12:46 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Fells Point bar owner warns vacant storefronts signal strain on Maryland businesses

Sitting inside Max’s Taphouse in Fells Point, owner Gail Furman discusses the stretch of vacant spaces near one of Baltimore’s most recognizable bars.

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May 19 • 10:45 PM EDT • Business • foxbaltimore.com
Dartmouth Health study could point way to sustained weight loss for those who stop using GLP-1 drugs

GLP-1 drugs have transformed obesity treatment, but many patients regain weight after stopping the medication. A new study could point the way to a solution.

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May 19 • 8:43 PM EDT • Health • wmur.com
Plex is tripling the price of a lifetime pass to $750 after doubling it last year

FOMO is probably the point.

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May 19 • 7:03 PM EDT • Technology • theverge.com
Google TV update will support Wii-like pointer remotes

At Google I/O 2026, a new focus on pointer remotes – like a Wii remote – is being announced for...

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May 19 • 2:30 PM EDT • Technology • 9to5google.com
Tuesday concerts returning to Millsboro’s Cupola Park

Summer nights can be a little more magical with live music. And, once again, the Town of Millsboro will welcome the public to relax and jam at their 2026 Tuesday-night

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May 19 • 2:09 PM EDT • Entertainment • coastalpoint.com
Jaxon Smith-Njigba points out glaring mistake on offensive player of the year award: 'It's getting disrespectful'
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Dr. Elisabeth Ploran named inaugural dean of SFA’s College of Health Professions

Following a nationwide search, Stephen F. Austin State University has appointed Dr. Elisabeth Ploran as the inaugural dean of the College of Health Professions. Ploran will begin her tenure in July, coinciding with the launch of the new college.

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May 19 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • sfasu.edu
CEC Entertainment names Chris Monroe EVP, CFO

CEC Entertainment, parent company to Chuck E. Cheese and Peter Piper Pizza, has appointed Chris Monroe has EVP and CFO. Monroe has more than 30 years of experience in restaurants. aviation and defense sectors, according to a press release.

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SLU appoints College of Science and Technology dean

Southeastern Louisiana University has selected Mitchell Croatt as the dean of the College of Science and Technology.

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May 19 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • theadvocate.com
Globavend Welcomes Pictureworks CEO to Lead Its AI-Driven Entertainment Business

PERTH, Australia, May 19, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via IBN -- Globavend Holdings Limited (NASDAQ: GVH) (“Globavend” or the “Company”), an emerging e-commerce logistics provider and digital entertainment company, today announced the appointment of Fuk Yan Tse, known as Sharon Tse (“Ms. Tse” or “Sharon”), as Chief Executive Officer of Loomi Group, the operating arm of the Company’s digital entertainment business. This newly created position follows the Company’s transformational move into the digi

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May 19 • 8:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • finance.yahoo.com
Sports Daily Live: NBA Western Conference Finals open with thriller; Royals stumble again

In NBA action, the first game of the highly anticipated Western Conference Finals didn’t disappoint, as a battle between the top two seeds went into two overtimes.

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May 19 • 7:53 AM EDT • Sports • kwch.com
'A wave of enthusiasm' for 'another fresh start'

Part of the recipe for football's incredible popularity is the way that a summer break of buying and selling players and changing things around behind the scenes can convince any fanbase that things are set to improve in the season to come, no matter how badly the previous one ended. Chelsea are a perfect example right now. A big injection of hope can make all those intractable issues feel manageable again, and that is what the news about Xabi Alonso being appointed as the club's new manager has done.

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May 19 • 7:24 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Topgolf Announces Next Era of Leadership from Global Entertainment, Sports & Gaming to Drive Brand's Next Chapter of Growth and Transformation

/PRNewswire/ -- Topgolf, the leader in sports entertainment with 100+ venues globally, announced a comprehensive new slate of leadership appointments and...

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Topgolf Announces Next Era of Leadership from Global Entertainment, Sports & Gaming to Drive Brand's Next Chapter of Growth and Transformation

Topgolf, the leader in sports entertainment with 100+ venues globally, announced a comprehensive new slate of leadership appointments and promotions across the organization to support the brand's evolving business goals, strengthening operational performance and accelerating long-term value creation.

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May 19 • 7:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • finance.yahoo.com
Watch live: Rethinking Psychedelic Treatment for America’s Mental Health Crisis

Psychiatry is at an inflection point — and the stakes are high. Mental illness costs the U.S. economy more than $280 billion annually, drives veteran suicide rates, and places mounting strain on ev…

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May 19 • 7:00 AM EDT • Health • thehill.com
Bournemouth v Man City: Key stats and talking points

BBC Sport examines some of the key themes before Tuesday's match (19:30 BST), with Manchester City needing a win [TO KEEP THEIR TITLE HOPES ALIVE]. This will be Andoni Iraola's final home game as Bournemouth boss and comes with his team on the brink of qualifying for Europe for the first time. A point would ensure the Cherries can finish no lower than eighth, which – as a result of Manchester City's victory in the FA Cup final – will be worth a place in next season's Conference League.

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May 19 • 3:12 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Carter Bryant helps Spurs steal Western Conference finals opener

Game one of the NBA Western Conference finals is in the books and it was an instant classic. The San Antonio Spurs stole game one against the Oklahoma City Thunder, in double overtime, 122-115 behind a 41-point, 24-rebound performance from Victor Wembanyama. OWembanyama’s performance will forever be talked about but what will be overlooked is […]

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May 19 • 12:38 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Padres’ Rodolfo Durán picks off Shohei Ohtani with pinpoint precision

The Padres needed a huge defensive stop with Shohei Ohtani on base, and Rodolfo Duran stepped up big here versus the Dodgers.

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May 18 • 11:17 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Oregon sees a sustained drop in overdose deaths, state health officials say

Following national trends, the opioid crisis in Oregon may have reached its inflection point.

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May 18 • 8:10 PM EDT • Health • opb.org
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Phillies’ Don Mattingly reveals simple reasoning behind recent success

Philadelphia Phillies manager Don Mattingly discussed the club’s recent turnaround Monday before a three-game set vs. the Cincinnati Reds.

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May 18 • 8:04 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
SCI Lab: Finding common ground on divisive science - Morgridge Institute for Research

As a scholar on societal perceptions of scientific research, Dominique Brossard focuses a lot of energy on divisive, challenging and controversial topics. But her ultimate goal is to find the "rock" we all stand together on.

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May 18 • 6:00 PM EDT • Science • morgridge.org
Trucking insurance: How to make underwriters fight for your business

An Overdrive 2025 Small Fleet Champ's flatbed biz makes good on growth goals with a transparent promise to owner-operators: 15% of the gross for costs, no insurance chargebacks. "We had companies fighting over our business" this year, he said, with similarly transparent ELD data engagement.

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May 18 • 4:42 PM EDT • Business • overdriveonline.com
Science behind sobriety field tests

Albany High students in Elizabeth Lopatniuk's health classes participated in a dynamic lesson about the effects of alcohol on the body. After taking an in-depth look at the science behind why and how alcohol slows the activities of the brain and central nervous system, students learned about how a variety of factors can impact the level of intoxication and how blood alcohol concentration can impair one's ability to operate a motor vehicle. Albany High Student Resource Officer Nick Schuler led students through an overview of field sobriety tests that are routinely performed during a traffic stop when an officer suspects a driver may be under the influence of alcohol. Officer Schuler explained the three elements of a physical sobriety test, including walking a straight line with turns and checks for motor skill patterns, standing on one foot to check for balance and following a moving stimulus with eyes only to check for Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus (HGN), an involuntary, rhythmic jerking of the eyes as they look to the side. Students volunteered to try walking a straight line both with and without alcohol impairment simulation goggles. Officer Schuler pointed out particular behaviors and patterns that would lead to a failed field sobriety test during the simulation. As prom and graduation festivities approach, we applaud our Albany High staff for empowering our Falcons with valuable lessons so they can make wise and safe choices.

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May 18 • 4:20 PM EDT • Science • albanyschools.org
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Science behind sobriety field tests

Albany High students in Elizabeth Lopatniuk's health classes participated in a dynamic lesson about the effects of alcohol on the body. After taking an in-depth look at the science behind why and how alcohol slows the activities of the brain and central nervous system, students learned about how a variety of factors can impact the level of intoxication and how blood alcohol concentration can impair one's ability to operate a motor vehicle. Albany High Student Resource Officer Nick Schuler led students through an overview of field sobriety tests that are routinely performed during a traffic stop when an officer suspects a driver may be under the influence of alcohol. Officer Schuler explained the three elements of a physical sobriety test, including walking a straight line with turns and checks for motor skill patterns, standing on one foot to check for balance and following a moving stimulus with eyes only to check for Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus (HGN), an involuntary, rhythmic jerking of the eyes as they look to the side. Students volunteered to try walking a straight line both with and without alcohol impairment simulation goggles. Officer Schuler pointed out particular behaviors and patterns that would lead to a failed field sobriety test during the simulation. As prom and graduation festivities approach, we applaud our Albany High staff for empowering our Falcons with valuable lessons so they can make wise and safe choices.

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May 18 • 4:17 PM EDT • Science • albanyschools.org
WNBA graphic omitting Caitlin Clark shows identity politics still come first

OutKick argues the WNBA once again snubbed Caitlin Clark from a promotional graphic, choosing a player averaging 1.0 points per game over its biggest star.

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May 18 • 3:50 PM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
Whoa! Netflix is Sending Narnia Heading to Theaters...What This Means for the Future of Film

(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.) Here’s a funny thing about the debate over whether streamers should release their movies in theaters first: Both sides think the other side represents the “conventional wisdom”. If you’ve been reading me for any amount of time, or even just scanned my front page, you know I think movies make more money by having a robust theatrical window compared to going straight-to-streaming. I’ve published thousands of words on this topic. And for years, I felt like I was standing up to a wave of opposition. See, while the “put your films in theaters to make money” take was obvious at any point before 2019, post-streaming revolution, most of the trendy thinkers took the opposite point of view. Big names argued that Netflix putting their film straight-to-streaming (“S-to-S” from here on out) actually made more money. Netflix was “disrupting” theaters, just as they disrupted Blockbuster Video, and since innovation is always good, this too was a great idea. This thinking then leaked into the mainstream business outlets like the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg. I read many articles whose take boiled down to “Netflix makes tons of money from S-to-S releases” and “theaters were in structural decline” anyways. Covid-19 shutting down theaters and the 2023 strikes shutting down film production seemingly justified this point of view, as the box office struggled to return to 2017-2019 heights. Yet I’ve also read folks arguing the opposite point: the conventional wisdom says to put films in theaters! From some writers’ points of view, “everyone” actually agrees/agreed with my “send your films to theaters” take—especially the stodgy traditional studios—and folks still didn’t understand Netflix’s genius. I feel like, for the last two years, many people have argued this point as if it’s conventional wisdom. You know what? I may have been wrong. At this point, the “S-to-S strategy makes money” might be the minority viewpoint. Especially with the news this month that Netflix will put at least one film—Greta Gerwig’s Narnia film The Magician’s Nephew—in theaters in 2027 for a full 49-day run is big news. So that’s the story of the week, but I’ll also explain why they’re making this move now and why Netflix may not completely embrace theaters, along with other topics, like how I don’t buy Disney’s “super app” strategy, the latest good news out of the unions, my take on the latest attacks against free speech, and a whole lot more. Let’s get started. Subscribe Most Important Story of the Week - Netflix Goes to Theaters! Listen, I promise not to victory lap too hard today. As I just wrote, I’ve argued against sending films straight-to-streaming for—checks calendar—eight years now. Since 2018. Yikes. That’s a long time. And for years, others painted my thinking as “conventional” in that I was standing up for the status quo against trendy, cool disruption. And that’s not cool! But math is math, and I never could make the S-to-S numbers work. The only thing that ever enabled that model was Wall Street’s brief exuberance for it. It seems like the heads of Netflix now agree with me. (There were always rumors that former head of film for Netflix Scott Stuber argued internally for theatrical releases as well.) As they announced: “The Magician’s Nephew_—the first film in a Narnia series of films—will open on 12-Feb-2027, with a 49 day theatrical exclusive run.”_ I’m a little surprised at how little coverage this big change actually got. Credit to Bloomberg for leading with it and Matt Belloni’s The Town for highlighting it with the provocatively titled podcast “Hell Hath Frozen Over”. But after that? Instead of getting as much coverage as, say, the FCC’s latest egregious crackdown on free speech, this news story got crickets. But it’s massively more important for the future business of entertainment. So let’s start with the obvious question… Why Put Your Movies in Theaters? So…why should Netflix put (some!) of their movies in theaters? Well, I’ve already written that in a very, very, very long article from 2022: [ ](https://entertainment.substack.com/p/the-data-is-in-theatrical-films-massively) [ The Data Is In: Theatrical Films Massively Outperform Straight-To-Streaming Films ](https://entertainment.substack.com/p/the-data-is-in-theatrical-films-massively) Entertainment Strategy Guy · April 5, 2023 [ Read full story ](https://entertainment.substack.com/p/the-data-is-in-theatrical-films-massively) To summarize, theatrical runs make much more money, especially blockbusters, because they earn more money per viewing,1 and that helps boost home entertainment sales. Theatrical films also perform as well or better than the streaming-only films. Now, partially this is driven by increased marketing for said films, but said marketing ultimately boosts the awareness of the movies and drives improved streaming and library performance as well. Again, I’ve made this case after reviewing the economic models and streaming data for years. Just last week, Emily Horgan also made the case for kids films! Yes, it is probably conventional wisdom, but that’s also because it’s true! I’d also argue we’ve seen a lot of data in the various studios’ behavior. As I’ve noted before, the more a studio needs to make money, the likelier they are to put films in theaters. As such, Disney, Universal, Warner Bros., Paramount and Sony all send their major films to theaters. Even if they once made a big S-to-S push (*cough* Disney *cough*), they’ve since relented and returned to theaters. The tech companies don’t need to make money, per se, so it took them years to embrace theaters. Apple doesn’t need to make money because it doesn’t disclose their (likely) Quibi-sized losses each year. (They fear bad press more than losing money.) Amazon announced two years ago that they planned to make Amazon-MGM Studios/Prime Video profitable on its own, and guess what? Now they’re putting films in theaters. That leaves Netflix. They’re in between the “no need to make money at all” and the “desperately need to make money to offset linear TV declines”, so they had less pressure to put some films in theaters. Plus, for years, they were the sexy disruptor, and Wall Street rewarded them for that. (Honestly, they still do.) Yet, even Netflix likely saw the money they were leaving on the table (I’ve estimated it at an easy billion dollars before) so they changed their course. I heard one pundit argue that, because Netflix already makes so much money, they don’t need to make more money, which sort of goes against everything I’ve ever learned about business and economics. Again, to be super-nuanced, sending “films to theaters” does not mean EVERY film. TV movies have been a thing for decades. Lifetime films, Hallmark holiday films, Disney Channel Original Movies, and so on, don’t need theatrical runs. But films above a certain budget level (say $25 to 50 million) almost certainly need theaters to maximize their revenue. The Scenarios (with a Dose of Skepticism) Now time for some skepticism: it won’t surprise me at all if Netflix re-changes course. Specifically, Netflix announced that their Narnia film will go to theaters. And I’d bet anything we see KPop Demon Hunters 2: The Huntering2 also goes to theaters, cause it’s the surest hit outside of a Disney animated sequel right now. But how much does Netflix truly commit to theaters? They’ve already tried to emphasize that this is a one-off move. I see three broad scenarios:

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Additions to David Blunkett’s alternative king’s speech

Letters: Readers praise – and point to omissions from – the former home secretary’s proposed programme for government

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Epic gains ground as acute care EHR purchasing slows

The recent KLAS U.S. Acute Care EHR Market Share report showed Epic adding hospitals among smaller health systems, and researchers said Oracle's new AI-enabled EHR would be a "pivotal proofpoint."

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Austin FC Parts Ways with Sporting Director Rodolfo Borrell and Head Coach Nico Estévez

Austin FC today announced that the Club has parted ways with Sporting Director Rodolfo Borrell and Head Coach Nico Estévez, effective immediately. The Club has begun searches for its next Sporting Director and Head Coach while implementing an interim leadership structure for Soccer Operations. Davy Arnaud has been appointed Interim

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New MatterChat Model Helps AI to ‘See’ the Language of Science

From writing emails to generating computer code, much of the artificial intelligence prevalent in our daily lives has succeeded by mastering one domain: text. However, this leaves a major blind spot in the physical sciences, where models depend on the high-resolution, three-dimensional data of the physical world, like the intricate lattice of atoms in a crystal. Delivering on the promise of using AI for science requires teaching these data-driven text models to seamlessly “talk to” physics-based models. Now, a new AI framework from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), called MatterChat, solves this problem by creating a specialized “bridge.” It connects the conversational power of a Large Language Model (LLM) with a physics-based AI that models “interatomic potentials”: the complex physical forces between atoms. The resulting system already significantly outperforms general-purpose AI tools like GPT-4 at predicting material properties, and the team hopes it can accelerate scientific discovery by serving as a robust research partner that provides grounded insights and generates step-by-step instructions for synthesizing novel materials. A paper describing this work was recently published in Nature Machine Intelligence. “Traditional simulations can provide the physical rigor required for materials science, yet their computational cost remains prohibitive for high-throughput screening. Conversely, while LLMs excel at rapid knowledge synthesis, they inherently lack the ‘structural vision’ to interpret materials directly from their underlying atomic coordinates,” said Yingheng Tang, a postdoctoral researcher in Berkeley Lab’s Applied Math and Computational Research Division (AMCR) and lead author on the paper. “MatterChat was built to solve this dilemma, empowering LLMs with a structural ‘vision’ that allows researchers to leverage their full potential for solving complex, real-world materials challenges.” Empowering language models to solve complex challenges in materials science To build MatterChat, the Berkeley Lab team drew inspiration from technologies like Vision Question Answering (VQA) and Text-to-Image (T2I) generation. In these tasks, AI must translate high-level text concepts into visual images, or vice versa. Doing so requires developers to build tools that “bridge” two fundamentally different forms of data. The researchers adapted this concept to the physical sciences. With MatterChat, they created a “bridge model” that successfully connects an LLM’s general knowledge with the deep understanding of the atomic-scale world encoded in scientific interatomic potentials. Until now, researchers using LLMs to solve materials problems usually had to feed them raw data files as if they were just strings of text. It’s like asking an AI to understand a complex 3D engine based only on a parts list: the LLM can read the names, but it can’t “see” how the atoms fit together in space. MatterChat solves this by training a specialized AI bridge model, pre-trained on millions of crystal structures and an LLM, to align the LLM’s representation of the world with the interatomic potential’s representation of the world. The bridge model can translate physical insights into a format the LLM can actually understand. By giving the LLM these “scientific eyes”— a scientific “inductive bias” in the terminology of AI — the Berkeley Lab team has transformed it into a robust research tool capable of providing grounded scientific insights into complex materials challenges, such as predicting thermal stability or analyzing electronic band gaps. “We think of atoms as living in a physical space, but from a machine learning perspective, they are just vectors living in some very non-trivially structured manifold in a high-dimensional Euclidean space; and, of course, the same is true for the sentences and paragraphs that we use to express our ideas about those atoms,” said co-author Michael Mahoney, Berkeley Lab’s Scientific Data Division (SDD) AI Initiative Research Lead. “The bridge model basically gets those two structures to ‘talk with’ each other.” As a proof-of-concept of this general approach, the team trained their bridge model on a dataset curated by pairing nearly 143,000 stable atomic structures from the Materials Project with their corresponding physical properties. This training data was automatically assembled using the Materials Project’s API and deliberately enriched with properties fundamental to microelectronics design — like formation energy and bandgap — allowing MatterChat to learn the complex patterns connecting a material’s atomic blueprint to its functional performance. To validate their model, the researchers benchmarked MatterChat against a suite of other AI systems, from general-purpose LLMs to other specialized scientific AI methods. The results show that MatterChat consistently outperformed its competitors across a range of tasks. The model was more accurate in classifying material types and demonstrated superior precision in predicting numerical properties. For example, it excelled at predicting a material’s bandgap, a property critical for designing new electronics from high-capacity energy storage to next-generation computer chips. “Our design is significantly more efficient because we don’t have to build a massive AI model from the ground up,” said co-author Zhi (Jackie) Yao, a research scientist in Berkeley Lab’s AMCR. “Instead, we take two powerful, pre-trained models — a structural encoder for materials physics and an open-source LLM — and use them off-the-shelf. The only component we actually train is the lightweight ‘bridge model’ that translates between them. It’s the difference between building an entire car factory and simply designing a smart adapter that connects a world-class engine to a world-class navigation system. This approach is not only computationally efficient, but also makes the system modular, so we can easily upgrade components or adapt the bridge for other scientific domains in the future.” Crucially, this modular design highlights exactly how institutions like Berkeley Lab and the Department of Energy are carving out a highly valuable niche in the booming AI landscape. Rather than competing with Silicon Valley tech giants to build ever-larger language models from scratch, the lab is focusing on the specialized connective tissue that makes commercial AI useful for hardcore science. Because the bridge model approach underlying MatterChat is forward-compatible, it is perfectly positioned to leverage these parallel tracks of innovation. As Mahoney pointed out, “We expect that industry will continue to develop improved LLMs, and we expect domain scientists and facilities will continue to generate new data. An important part of scientific machine learning is not simply to solve problems on today’s data, but instead to develop general methods that will be forward-compatible with orders of magnitude more data, whether from scientific domains or from LLMs.” According to Yao, the MatterChat project, which was initially developed and enhanced with funding from a Berkeley Lab Laboratory Directed Research & Development (LDRD) Program, will now expand its capabilities. In a collaboration with Fermilab, MatterChat is already contributing to a U.S. Department of Energy Genesis Mission project — called Accelerating eXtreme Environment Specs-to-Silicon (AXESS) — that aims to speed up the development of next-generation, high-speed, radiation-hardened detectors for challenging particle physics experiments by using advanced 3D integrated circuits (chiplets) and AI-driven data analysis. In addition to the LDRD support, the team also credits supercomputing resources at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), located at Berkeley Lab, with MatterChat’s success. “We are incredibly grateful to NERSC; this research simply would not have happened without access to the Perlmutter supercomputer through their AI for Science program,” said Tang. Wenbin Xu, a NERSC postdoctoral fellow at the time, was also a major co-author of the work, as was Benjamin Erichson, a research scientist in Berkeley Lab’s SDD, highlighting the benefits of AMCR-SDD collaboration on AI for science. ### Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is committed to groundbreaking research focused on discovery science and solutions for abundant and reliable energy supplies. The lab’s expertise spans materials, chemistry, physics, biology, earth and environmental science, mathematics, and computing. Researchers from around the world rely on the lab’s world-class scientific facilities for their own pioneering research. Founded in 1931 on the belief that the biggest problems are best addressed by teams, Berkeley Lab and its scientists have been recognized with 17 Nobel Prizes. Berkeley Lab is a multiprogram national laboratory managed by the University of California for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science. DOE’s Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States, and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit energy.gov/science.

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May 18 • 11:00 AM EDT • Science • newscenter.lbl.gov
Business News: Royal Pop Sales Resume After Launch Rush For Audemars Piguet X Swatch Collaboration Forced Store Closures

This weekend's Royal Pop launch ends in disappointment and frustration at more than a dozen Swatch boutiques globally.

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May 18 • 11:00 AM EDT • Business • hodinkee.com
The world cannot afford to fail women, children and adolescents

Aid cuts, debt and conflict are pushing maternal and child health to breaking point.

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May 18 • 10:00 AM EDT • Health • aljazeera.com
MLB Power Rankings: Why disappointing teams seem to be the story of the year

Meanwhile, the Braves won't let go of No. 1 and the White Sox won't stop winning

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May 18 • 8:51 AM EDT • Sports • cbssports.com
Deepa Halaharvi, DO, Installed as OhioHealth Foundation Endowed Chair for Breast Health

OhioHealth proudly shares the appointment of Deepa Halaharvi, DO, as the inaugural holder of the OhioHealth Foundation Endowed Chair for Breast Health. Endowed chairs are honorary appointments by the OhioHealth Foundation which recognize distinguished service. Funds from this endowment will support breast health programs and services to improve ...

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May 18 • 7:57 AM EDT • Health • newsroom.ohiohealth.com
McFarlane on Alonso appointment, player fitness and Spurs

Chelsea interim boss Calum McFarlane has been speaking to the media before Tuesday's Premier League game against Tottenham at Stamford Bridge (kick-off 20:15 BST). Chelsea announced former Real Madrid boss Xabi Alonso as their new manager on Sunday.

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May 18 • 7:14 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Guardiola's final farewell?

It's the beginning of a defining week for Manchester City and Pep Guardiola, with Monday and Tuesday deciding whether the Premier League title race goes to the wire or comes to an abrupt halt. Arsenal face already-relegated Burnley later and City know they are likely to need to collect three points at Bournemouth on Tuesday, otherwise it will all be over. City have already won the FA Cup and Carabao Cup this season, but can they make it a domestic treble?

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May 18 • 6:45 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Best Sports Business Cities: Methodology

Explore the Best Sports Business Cities methodology, powered by 540,000+ data points and 120+ executive insights, detailing rankings, event weighting, market definitions, and indexing factors.

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May 18 • 6:00 AM EDT • Business • sportsbusinessjournal.com
Carrick made himself the 'only candidate'

BBC Senior football correspondent Sami Mokbel says Michael Carrick's impact and record as interim Manchester United boss made him the "only candidate" to be given the permanent role. United secured their 11th victory in 16 games under Carrick against Nottingham Forest on Sunday and his appointment on a two-year deal, with a one-year extension, is expected from the club imminently. "Carrick has taken that job in his stride so impressively," Mokbel told BBC Radio 5 Live's Football Daily podcast.

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May 18 • 5:03 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Religious anti-abortion center finds opportunity in town without OB-GYNs
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May 18 • 5:00 AM EDT • Health • cbsnews.com
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