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G7 attention in Paris turns to Ukraine while US-mediated talks get underway in Abu Dhabi

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his counterparts from the Group of 7 developed democracies are turning their attention toward Ukraine and how to support it in its struggle to defend itself from Russia.

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Nov 10 • 12:15 AM EST • Politics • seattletimes.com
Science Takes Center Stage At The Niswonger With Mr. C's The World In Motion

recently welcomed more than 1,000 students from Van Wert City Schools in grades 1–7 to the Niswonger Performing Arts Center for an exciting morning of science, discovery, and entertainment! Students

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Nov 10 • 12:00 AM EST • Science • wapakdailynews.com
Seminole Science Observes Hispanic Heritage Month with Annual Festival

Seminole County's best source of news since 1908. This local newspaper covers Sanford, Lake Mary, Altamonte Springs, Longwood, Oviedo, Casselberry, Geneva and parts of Volusia County such as Deltona, DeBary and Osteen.

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Nov 9 • 9:24 PM EST • Science • mysanfordherald.com
Syracuse University forensic science professor dies at 62

SU forensic science professor Joelyn Cornwell died at 62 on Oct. 24, Arts and Sciences Dean Mortazavi announced Monday in a campus-wide email.

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Nov 9 • 9:04 PM EST • Science • dailyorange.com
November 12 Vallejo/Vacaville Arts-Entertainment Source: Faces and Places

Touro University hosted a major American Pharmacists lecture on Oct. 27.

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Nov 9 • 5:44 PM EST • Entertainment • timesheraldonline.com
Latino voters nationwide were a key part of midterm blue wave, but not so much in Oklahoma

Latino voters were instrumental in forming the national blue wave this midterm election. But available data suggests Oklahoma's voting Latinos didn't drive the same change as their counterparts in surrounding states.

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Nov 9 • 4:27 PM EST • Politics • kgou.org
Arts Center of Cannon County presents Christmas in Connecticut

Based on the beloved Barbara Stanwyck film, this hilarious musical is destined to become a holiday tradition!

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Nov 9 • 2:46 PM EST • Entertainment • herald-citizen.com
Google Store previews Black Friday 2026 deals, starting Nov. 19

With early deals ending yesterday, the US Google Store has now shared its upcoming Black Friday sale that starts on November 19.

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Nov 9 • 1:29 PM EST • Technology • 9to5google.com
Why more people are rethinking their relationship with alcohol

Rethinking your relationship with alcohol starts with questioning why you drink, common beliefs about alcohol and its effects on your health.

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Nov 9 • 1:07 PM EST • Health • uchealth.org
As Congress’ Lame Duck Session Starts, More than 100 Groups Urge Congress to Pass Health Care Price Transparency Before Year's End

Passing These Pending, Vetted, Bipartisan Bills Would Be a Foundational First Step to Address Voter Demand for Action on Health Care Affordability Washington, D.C. – As Congress returns to Capitol Hill today, less than a week after a historic midterm election, more than 100 organizations are calling on Congress to act on bipartisan measures to […]

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Nov 9 • 12:20 PM EST • Health • familiesusa.org
Unrest fuels interest in standalone political violence cover

Recent unrest across parts of Asia that extends beyond conventional strikes, riots and civil commotion is driving interest in standalone political violence cover, according to Adam Sullivan, Arthur J.

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Nov 9 • 10:32 AM EST • Politics • businessinsurance.com
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Unrest fuels interest in standalone political violence cover

Recent unrest across parts of Asia that extends beyond conventional strikes, riots and civil commotion is driving interest in standalone political violence cover, according to Adam Sullivan, Arthur J.

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The Science Behind the Steps | News

For dance alumnus Gregory A. Youdan Jr., BA, ’07, teaching anatomy starts with what his students already know as dancers. News in Summary Hofstra

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Nov 9 • 9:52 AM EST • Science • news.hofstra.edu
Skydance Starts Layoffs In Games Division After Warner Bros. Games Acquisition

After acquiring Warner Bros. Games as part of the bigger deal, layoffs have begun in the games division at Skydance.

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Nov 9 • 9:37 AM EST • Technology • insider-gaming.com
From Bioprinted Tissue to Teen Heart Health: Explore the Fall 2026 Issue of University of Miami Medicine Magazine

Explore the Fall 2026 University of Miami Medicine Magazine, featuring research on vaccine response, vaping and teen hearts, HIV testing and more.

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Nov 9 • 8:39 AM EST • Health • news.med.miami.edu
Hellebuyck Trade: 5 Starts Show Promise for the Devils

The Hellebuyck trade was always going to bring big expectations for the New Jersey Devils. Adding a goalie with his resumé gives fans reason to believe the Devils can take another step. Three starts will not tell us whether the move was worth everything New Jersey surrendered to the Winnipeg Jets, but they give us …

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Nov 9 • 7:45 AM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Apple's Siri Boss May Leave - Here's Who Could Take Over

Mike Rockwell "continues to seriously consider stepping down" as Apple's vice president of Siri engineering and could leave the company altogether next year, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Gurman described the potential move as a major blow to Apple. If Rockwell departs or moves to another role, responsibility for Siri would likely fall to one of two people.

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Nov 9 • 7:31 AM EST • Technology • macrumors.com
To become better health care providers, students commit their hearts to community work

A partnership between health professions students and community groups has helped build trust and understanding with patients.

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Nov 9 • 7:00 AM EST • Health • aamc.org
Deportation policy ‘might have been too tough’, says Trump, as Miller starts chief-of-staff role

President’s admission appears at odds with the elevation of immigration hardliner

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Nov 9 • 5:53 AM EST • Politics • theguardian.com
Sweet preparations: Bangor chocolate shop heads to Christkindlmarkt in Bethlehem

ArtsQuest’s Christkindlmarkt will return to Christmas City for its 34th year.

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Nov 9 • 5:48 AM EST • Entertainment • wfmz.com
The Real Story of the Polar Bear in a UVM Science Hall Starts With Two Montpelier Agents Undercover in the Arctic

A polar bear has been hanging out in a UVM science hall for decades. Subscribe He’s a full-grown male, standing behind glass on an artificial iceberg in the lobby of the University of Vermont’s Marsh Life Science Building in Burlington. Most Vermonters have no idea he’s there. Students who asked about him heard he came from Canada. A poacher killed him, the story went, federal officers seized the hide at the Vermont border, and the government gave him to UVM on “indefinite loan.” A UVM biology professor told it that way in 2012. The university’s own news office repeated it in 2021. That story was wrong. The bear was evidence. In 1972, two federal wildlife officers from Montpelier posed as trophy hunters, bought their way into an illegal hunt run by a poaching ring, and followed it all the way to the frozen Arctic Ocean north of Alaska. One of them shot this bear. Sonia DeYoung, who works with UVM’s natural history collections, pieced the real story together from a half-remembered campus rumor, a case file buried in Anchorage and one stripped claw. She told it Nov. 6 in UVM Magazine. The Undercover Buy Early in 1972, Paul Bagalio and Bruce Parker walked into a Seattle taxidermy shop. Both lived in Montpelier. The case file lists Parker as a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agent and Bagalio as a deputy game warden for the service. On paper, Bagalio was an unlikely undercover man. Born in Northfield and raised in Montpelier, he served in the Marines after high school, graduated from Norwich University in 1957, taught at Vermont Technical College and worked as an engineer at Rock of Ages, according to his obituary in the Times Argus. He founded Ramchem, a company that made epoxies for the Barre granite industry. He was also a hunter. His obituary passes along his advice: “Don’t ever miss an opportunity to hunt.” And it says he worked undercover for the U.S. Department of the Interior, helping expose what his family calls one of the largest poaching rings in U.S. history. In the Seattle shop, Bagalio and Parker posed as unscrupulous trophy hunters who wanted a polar bear and didn’t care how they got one. They came away with a scribbled note: a phone number and a hefty price. The Seattle Times later reported the number. In a May 1972 story, later reprinted in the Congressional Record, the paper said the two-man hunt cost $6,500, more than $50,000 in today’s money. The Times cited a federal search-warrant affidavit alleging that the ring paid two men who held valid Alaska permits so the hides and skulls could be shipped and processed under their names. Bagalio and Parker traveled to Barrow, on Alaska’s Arctic coast, with guides working with the taxidermist. These were not men to cross. The case file describes a man taking a 12-gauge automatic shotgun from his plane and telling Parker it was “the persuader.” One photo in the file shows a mustached accomplice peering out from beneath a heavy fur hood. On March 8, 1972, on the pack ice about 100 miles north of Point Barrow, the northernmost point in the United States, Bagalio shot a male polar bear. Parker shot a second. Bagalio had no legal permit to kill it, and that was the point. The bears were hard evidence of what the ring was selling. Back in Fairbanks, a Fish and Wildlife agent marked Bagalio’s bear so it could be identified later. He smeared fluorescent dye around its nose and ripped the dark outer sheath off one of its front claws. Bagalio and Parker went on to run several more undercover hunts against poachers in the West. The danger was real. Bagalio later told the Bennington Banner, according to DeYoung’s account, “My guide made it perfectly clear that he would leave me dead in the mountains if he thought I was an investigator.” Subscribe The Faded Rumor The bear came to UVM in 1975. How the government handed him over is still unknown. A rumor came with him. A student named in the UVM Magazine article simply as Carol helped catalog the university’s specimens in those years, and she heard it: an undercover federal agent had killed the bear in Alaska because he feared his cover would be blown and his life was in danger. Over the years the rumor faded. In the 1980s, the bear was put away in storage long enough for mice to chew the fur off his ankles, and several of his front claws went missing. He was later brought back out and set up on his iceberg in the Marsh Life Science lobby, where he has stood for decades since. Somewhere along the way, the Canada story took over. The Case File Decades later, DeYoung met Carol at an open house for UVM’s zoological collections. Carol told DeYoung’s research partner, Dave Moroney, what she remembered. They were delighted, and skeptical. At DeYoung’s request, David Rippeto, a UVM graduate who is now a Fish and Wildlife special agent in Anchorage, went through a mountain of old case files stashed in cardboard boxes and found the right one. It ran more than 80 pages: photographs, letters, permit records and a typewritten account of the case. Carol’s rumor had the core of it right. A federal officer had shot the bear in Alaska while undercover. But the file showed it wasn’t a desperate move to save his own skin. The shooting was part of the plan. The Stripped Claw One question remained. Was the bear in Burlington really Bagalio’s? DeYoung and Moroney shone a black light on the bear’s snout, looking for the dye. Nothing glowed. They already had the answer. The year before, a conservator repairing the mouse damage had found that one of the bear’s supposedly missing front claws was still there, minus its dark outer sheath, just as the agent in Fairbanks had left it in 1972. “Fifty years later, the marker originally meant for law enforcement told us we had our bear,” DeYoung wrote. Paul Bagalio didn’t live to see it. He spent the rest of his life in Vermont, most of it at Horn of the Moon in East Montpelier, and died Dec. 11, 2022, at 90, a few months before DeYoung first opened the case file. His family remembered the bear differently. The obituary says he took a record-class polar bear in Siberia, across the international date line. The federal case file puts the bear in this story about 100 miles north of Point Barrow. The obituary doesn’t say whether it’s the same animal. His bear is still on the iceberg. Go see him: The polar bear stands in the entrance to Benedict Auditorium, between the Marsh Life Science and Hills buildings on UVM’s Burlington campus. Compass Vermont is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Subscribe

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Nov 9 • 5:45 AM EST • Science • compassvermont.com
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Potential impacts Democratic health care proposals on employer-sponsored health care

Summary: Democratic state and federal wins in the midterm elections could lead to Medicaid expansion in some states, and focuses attention on the House Democrats’ memo on health care priorities in the new Congress. Few of these proposals are likely to become law before 2029, but they could form the foundation for Democratic health care reform efforts after the 2028 Presidential election. Portion of total newly eligible for Medicaid if non-expansion states expanded Source: Cervantes, S et al How Many Uninsured Are in the Coverage Gap and How Many Could be Eligible if All States Adopted the Medicaid Expansion? KFF, July 27, 2026 It’s been almost a week since the midterm elections, and the Democrats will have large majorities in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, although not large enough to overcome Senate filibusters or Presidential vetoes. I reviewed some of what I thought these midterm results could mean in a post last week. In retrospect, I might have understated the elections’ impact on health care due to changes in governorship and majorities in many state legislatures. A Democratic trifecta (governorship and both houses) could mean expansion of Medicaid in Wisconsin, and a Democratic governor and House in Texas and Georgia could increase pressure in both states to expand Medicaid. That’s especially important, because Texas currently represents almost half of those who would be newly eligible for insurance from Medicaid expansions. Medicaid expansions matter to employers because they have been shown to decrease the risk of closure of rural hospitals and support workers’ ability to stay employed and productive. The House Democrats’ Cost of Living Healthcare Working Group published an 84-page memo in September with recommendations for the first hundred hours, the first hundred days, and the first year. The midterm results make this document more important. Here’s a review of what some of these recommendations could mean for employer-sponsored health insurance. Elements that could lower employer health care spending Restore the expanded advance premium tax credit for ACA plans. This could bring healthier enrollees back to the marketplace plans, which would improve the risk status of these plans and decrease the rate of uninsurance. Fewer people with insurance puts higher pressures on provider rates of employer plans. More stable ACA plans could encourage employers to consider transitioning from employer-sponsored plans to ICHRA/Choice, providing a fund for employers to purchase their own insurance on an exchange. Repeal Medicaid work requirements and other administrative rules of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act which as written will lead to a large increase in the uninsured rate. Fewer people with insurance leads to more pressures from hospitals for commercial rate increases. Extend Inflation Reduction Act negotiated drug prices to commercial health plans. These are now only applicable to Medicare Parts D (outpatient drugs) and B (drugs administered by providers. The Medicare negotiated prices are lower than net prices negotiated by PBMs. Hospital price limits. Some of the Democratic House proposals would institute site neutral payment and limit outlier hospital prices to 200% of Medicare. The average commercial health plan pays about 247% Medicare rates for inpatient hospital care, and many commercial health plans currently pay over 300% of Medicare for hospital services. PBM regulations. The proposals would mandate more transparency and prevent PBMs from paying subsidiaries more than market rates. Antitrust enforcement. The plan would break up vertically integrated health care monopolies which could lower prices through competition. Ban on non-compete contractual clauses could increase competition by increasing flexibility and supply of clinicians, although it could also increase physician leverage and lead to higher wages which could raise prices. Lower the Medicare eligibility age, which could take older, more expensive, workers off employer sponsored plans. Create a Medi-Kids plan to insure all children and potentially young adults up to age 26. These plan members have low non-preventive utilization and cost less per person than older plan members, but removing children from employer plans would decrease volatility because a few children have very high medical costs. Elements that could increase employer spending (in many instances for high value services) Mandate three primary care and three mental health visits without cost sharing Eliminate cost sharing for mental health care and substance use care during pregnancy and in the year after delivery Require coverage of infertility services Cap cost sharing for insulin, epipen and respiratory inhalers Count copay coupons and assistance toward member deductibles and cost sharing Cap total health care costs (premium and out-of-pocket costs) at 8% of household income Leave a comment Elements that could improve the market Increased price transparency Tightening enforcement of short-term plans, fixed indemnity plans, and cost-sharing ministries. These skimpy health plans skim off healthier people, leaving sicker people on marketplace exchanges and employer-sponsored health plans. Here’s a past post on the perils of cheap insurance. Most of these proposals are likely not to become law in the next two years, but could form the foundation of a Democratic proposal for health care reform in 2029 and beyond. The document does not provide cost estimates for these proposals. Share Thanks for reading! If you found this useful, please share, subscribe, like, and restack. You can find previous posts at this link. Views expressed in Employer Coverage are purely my own. Thanks for reading Employer Coverage ! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Subscribe

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Nov 9 • 5:11 AM EST • Health • employercoverage.substack.com
'The wound is wide open': Recovery continues one year after UPS crash

A year after the UPS plane crash in Louisville, ongoing impacts from the disaster are hard to miss. Here's a look inside continuing cleanup efforts.

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Nov 9 • 5:01 AM EST • Business • courier-journal.com
When a Young Person’s Mental Health Starts to Shift

The most important people in a young person’s life are often the ones who know them best: parents, family, teachers, doctors and other trusted adults. They are also generally the first to notice when…

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Nov 9 • 1:00 AM EST • Health • mississippitoday.org
Rubio will discuss Iran, Ukraine, AI and more with G7 allies in France

Secretary of State Marco Rubio will meet his counterparts from the Group of 7 industrialized democracies this week.

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Nov 9 • 12:03 AM EST • Politics • seattletimes.com
Rubio will discuss Iran, Ukraine, AI and more with G7 allies in France

Secretary of State Marco Rubio will meet his counterparts from the Group of 7 industrialized democracies this week.

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Nov 9 • 12:01 AM EST • Politics • wsls.com
Rubio will discuss Iran, Ukraine, AI and more with G7 allies in France

Secretary of State Marco Rubio will meet his counterparts from the Group of 7 industrialized democracies this week.

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Nov 9 • 12:01 AM EST • Politics • news4jax.com
Rubio Will Discuss Iran, Ukraine, AI and More With G7 Allies in France

PARIS (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will meet his counterparts from the Group of 7 industrialized democracies on Monday, with unresolved world crises on the agenda and questions about how President Donald Trump will approach foreign policy after his Republican Party’s massive losses in ...

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Nov 9 • 12:01 AM EST • Politics • usnews.com
Sony’s Ramayana Opens No. 2 at Worldwide Box Office, but Only No. 5 Domestically

Ramayana: Rise of a Legend pulled off a split that rarely happens at the box office. Sony’s epic opened as a worldwide juggernaut but landed surprisingly low on the domestic charts, and the numbers te...

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Nov 8 • 11:04 PM EST • Entertainment • yahoo.com
‘The Hit List’ From ‘Gangs Of London’ Director Kim Hong-sun Boarded By Finecut For Sales

Korean sales company Finecut has picked up international rights to martial arts action film The Hit List, directed by Kim Hong-sun (Project Wolf Hunting, Gangs Of London). The project reunites Kim wit...

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The Arts and Entertainment Tickets Worth Buying This Season

It’s a varied and active lineup, with more than a few world, national or regional premieres in the mix.

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Nov 8 • 6:17 PM EST • Entertainment • sarasotamagazine.com
Joe Milton III starts for Eagles against Giants

Joe Milton III makes first start for Philadelphia.

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Nov 8 • 5:35 PM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Habitat for Humanity starts work on Town of Beloit homes

TOWN OF BELOIT — Habitat for Humanity Waukesha-Jefferson-Rock has started work on five new houses on South Wisconsin Avenue.

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Nov 8 • 4:30 PM EST • Business • beloitdailynews.com
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Island Resident's Work Celebrated by Academy of Arts and Sciences

Last month, Vineyard summer resident Deborah Gray White was inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. The honor recognizes Ms. White’s career as a scholar of African American and women’s history.

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Nov 8 • 12:25 PM EST • Science • vineyardgazette.com
Karla Hult talks jump into politics

Former KARE 11 journalist Karla Hult is preparing for a new role at the Minnesota Capitol after being elected to represent Senate District 50, covering parts of Bloomington and Edina. In an interview with FOX 9, the senator-elect discusses her transition from journalism to public service and outlines legislative priorities, including affordability, housing costs, child care, health care and gun safety.

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‘X-Men’ cast: Meet the actors playing Jean Grey, Cyclops, and more in the MCU

The next generation of mutants is taking shape in the MCU. Check out the new ‘X-Men’ cast, side by side with their comic book counterparts.

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Nov 8 • 7:30 AM EST • Entertainment • ew.com
Game Preview: Pittsburgh Penguins @ Anaheim Ducks 11/8/2026

Who: Pittsburgh Penguins (6-9-2, 14 points, 7th place Metropolitan Division) @ Anaheim Ducks (9-7-1, 19 points, 4th place Pacific Division) When: 8:00 p.m. eastern How to Watch: Locally televised game on Sportsnet Pittsburgh, streaming for out of market at ESPN+ Pens’ Path Ahead: The schedule starts to take a breather after tonight, the Pens go up […]

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Nov 8 • 6:00 AM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
How Democrats reshaped the Senate, in charts and maps

Two years after President Donald Trump carried much of the country’s political map, voters in some of his strongest states delivered a dramatic reversal. Democrats flipped seven Republican-held Senate seats, including in states Trump won by double digits in 2024. These charts and maps show the geographic shifts.

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Nov 8 • 5:00 AM EST • Politics • cnn.com
Pastry chef departs Michelin-starred restaurant; Jones Walker adds attorneys

Take a look at some of the recent promotions and new hires announced at south Louisiana businesses.

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Nov 8 • 5:00 AM EST • Business • nola.com
Could Yankees’ Ben Rice return to catcher in 2027?

Ben Rice made his MLB debut with the New York Yankees during the 2024 season. He primarily played first base, but did catch in one contest. The 2025 campaign saw Rice spend various amounts of time in different roles. He played first base and designated hitter most of the time, but he did catch in 36 games (26 starts). In his 2026 All-Star season , […] The post Could Yankees’ Ben Rice return to catcher in 2027? appeared first on ClutchPoints.

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Nov 7 • 7:57 PM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Bruins’ Michael DiPietro Makes Turnaround After Years of Waiting

The Boston Bruins may not be a one-goaltender show in 2026-27, thanks to Michael DiPietro’s emergence through his first five starts.Heading into the season, the Bruins slotted DiPietro in as their backup goaltender to Jeremy Swayman. Swayman looked like he would ultimately start in 60-plus games, given DiPietro’s lack of experience and success in the […] The post Bruins’ Michael DiPietro Makes Turnaround After Years of Waiting appeared first on HEAVY.

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8th annual Empowering Black Women Conference held at Living Arts and Science Center

8th annual Empowering Black Women Conference held at Living Arts and Science Center

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Nov 7 • 6:52 PM EST • Science • hawaiinewsnow.com
8th annual Empowering Black Women Conference held at Living Arts and Science Center

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8th annual Empowering Black Women Conference held at Living Arts and Science Center

Panels centered on different topics, including church first ladies, the balancing act of health and wellness in Black women, and leading in every space, which focused on Black women in the workplace.

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Nov. 7 Arts & Entertainment Calendar

Events coming up in the Greenville area offer music, arts, theater and family fun. Here is a sampling. Today refers to Saturday, Nov. 7.

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Some Parts of the Ocean Are Turning a Weird Shade of Blue-Green. Scientists Suspect It's Plastic

This change in ocean colour, while not ideal, could help us to track microplastics.

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Nov 7 • 2:39 AM EST • Science • zmescience.com
Pope Leo in 'pretty good health' as he starts Latin America tour

Pope Leo travels to Uruguay just three weeks after having surgery for lung cancer.

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Nov 7 • 1:57 AM EST • Health • bbc.com
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Arts and entertainment throughout the region

A listing of arts and entertainment events throughout the region.

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Nov 7 • 12:00 AM EST • Entertainment • johnsoncitypress.com
No business like GnomeMade business

NEW ULM – The Minnesota firearm deer hunt opener starts Saturday, but in New Ulm, the shopping opener started Friday. Hundreds of holiday shoppers attended the 42nd GnomeMade Market, spread across the community at over 20 locations. One of the craft market’s most popular stops is the Lind House at 622 Center Street. Every year […]

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Nov 6 • 7:00 PM EST • Business • nujournal.com
Whoa, I Missed It! Disney Starts Licensing the Household Silver, When IP Backfires, and More Big Content Moves

(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.) Over these last few months, the entertainment business story landscape revolved around Skydance (and their merger) and Netflix (and their leadership shakeup). I don’t even want to scan my archives to see how many times I wrote about just those two companies over the last six months or so, let alone how many times they demanded their own article. Oh, how I long for June, when I could avoid them and write about other mergers and acquisitions (Comcast and NBCUniversal; Fox buying Roku). Well, not really, but you know what I mean. That focus on just two companies meant I ignored a lot of fun and, more importantly, important stories. So, it’s also time for another “Whoa, I Missed It” article. These are stories I wish I had written about, but aren’t exactly current events anymore. And there are a lot of them! Fifteen stories in all, including a very important merger that I didn’t write about, my word of warning about the IP deluge, how “genre” TV is making a big comeback, Netflix’s latest smart acquisition (and a licensing divorce), Disney and HBO’s recent TV show buys (and what they say about reboots on TV), a big cable merger, Amazon’s new bundle, social media censorship, and a lot more. Subscribe Most Important Story of the Week - Buy, Sell or Hold the Latest Content Development and Licensing in 2026!!! Content is king. I’ve written that before, and I believe in it now more than ever. If I had to quantify it, and I have, I put it at about 50% of the fate of any given media company, be they streamer, network, bundler, studio or social platform. This is a hits-driven business, and, as I like to do about every so often, it’s time to check in on the latest content moves. These content shifts on their own aren’t usually enough to be the “most important story” of a week, but if you add them up, you can see the content landscape shifting. The stories also fell into two natural buckets: licensing deals and IP moves. Plus, I’ll offer my “buy, sell or hold” rating for whether I think the deal is smart for a given side. Let’s dive right in. Disney Starts Licensing the Household Silver Disney is starting to license their core brands to Netflix. Quietly, over the last couple of years, Disney had rented some 20th Century [Fox] shows and films to Netflix, but until now, the core brands had escaped that fate. Now? At least some Pixar films will make it to Disney (including Elio) and some Disney+ Originals (like Percy Jackson and the Olympians). Here’s my rating for each company: Disney: Sell. One is tempted to say Disney has started licensing the “crown jewels”, but I don’t think we see that yet. I’d call this the “family silver” instead, which isn’t quite as valuable. That said, Disney’s new CEO clearly is focused on shoring up the company’s profitability, and that means licensing deals, even at the expense of Disney+ exclusivity. This could also help bring eyeballs to Percy Jackson for the upcoming season, a similar benefit to “dual casting” this show, which I also think Disney should do. Still, in the long run, I’d protect the core brands more. Netflix: Buy. This is a smart move, assuming the price is right, and I’d bet it is. (Netflix’s content licensing teams are some of the best in the industry.) Of course, this is another data point that Netflix is moving away from making their own films and relying on licensing instead. That has downsides—they’ll always end up renting—but if you’re buying Disney content, that’s a good move. Prime Video Buys More Live Events Amazon’s Prime Video/MGM Studios keeps purchasing live events, including the Emmys (which I wrote about here) and some regional sporting rights. These bolster their NFL, NBA and Academy of Country Music Awards licensing deals. My theory here is that Prime Video knows that they can sell the advertising for more on live events than on their massive acquired/original inventory of shows and films. (As I’ve been showing with Reelgood’s data, they have a LOT more shows and films than other streamers.) Advertisers want live, engaged viewers, since they’re a lot more likely to be real. Prime Video: Hold. I like Amazon’s focus on live events, but it remains tough to evaluate this company, er, business unit, since we don’t know anything about their financials. Yes, Amazon’s CEO recently released a very carefully worded statement about Prime Video, claiming profitability, but we don’t know by how much by when. (It’s also not audited by third parties, so we have to take it with another grain of salt.) Plus, given that Amazon increased the price of the Emmys by about a third, they also likely overpaid. (Maybe that’s why they’re barely profitable, allegedly.) But also, I think they know they need to dominate live TV, and that’s a smart strategy! So I’m torn, but lean towards calling this a smart move. The Emmys: Definitely sell! I mentioned this in my “Streaming Bonus Content” article, but I really, really, really, really do NOT like this move for the Emmys. Chasing short term dollars over long term awareness is not a smart move. To reach the widest audience, the “dual-cast” format—meaning broadcast and streaming—just reaches more people. Skydance Takes Its Animation Back This is the story that made me want to write a “let’s catch up on content” column in the first place. Specifically, Skydance and Netflix have ended their animated film output deal. It’s not huge, since really, what film has Skydance Animation made that’s broken out? But strategically, it shows you how Skydance is positioning their company. Skydance Animation: Hold. Again, I still need to see Skydance Animation put out a hit or two before I can judge this as a smart move. The other worry for Skydance is they have a lot of overlapping animation houses now, and that’s going to end at some point. Still, if John Lasseter can regain his animation mojo—and his track record has been mixed at Skydance, ignoring his other issues—this could be a powerful point for Paramount. Netflix: Hold (put your films in theaters). Right now, with the Dan Lin upheaval and Peter Rice coming in, we don’t really know what Netflix’s plans for theaters versus straight-to-streaming films are. So I need to see what new films (if any) they buy/rent/produce to replace the Skydance flicks, but it will probably be a smarter investment of capital, since the straight-to-streaming films have just failed to break out, outside of one major example. Theaters: Buy! They do look like they’re gonna end up with more inventory based on the Skydance move, and now Netflix putting four to five films in theaters per year. For example, Netflix confirmed that KPop Demon Hunters 2 will come to theaters, and that’s going to be a smash. Disney+’s Reboot Future So those were the major licensing news stories, and now we get to the IP-related updates. Obviously, I’m generally pro-IP in content development. But that’s not some iron law; not all IP hits equally. Get ready for Entertainment Nuance Guy. And let’s start with a big worry. Scanning the news stories, Disney has three reboots on their lineup between ABC, Hulu and Disney+: Coach (on ABC), The X-Files and Glee. So are reboots as immune to failure as IP? We’re just getting started with this issue, but the rest is for paid subscribers of the Entertainment Strategy Guy, so if you’d like to find out about… Why I’m skeptical about some upcoming genre and IP plays… How Skydance’s merger closing unlocked Paramount and HBO… The focus on “genre” across the streamers and studios… Some big creators leave Netflix… Netflix’s horror TV show licensing play (and what they should have done instead)… A huge merger that I didn’t write about... Whether or not we’ll see a major film tax credit… Amazon’s new megabundle of streamers… And (somehow) more… ...please subscribe! We can only keep doing this great work with your support.

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The 7 College Football Games to Watch in Week 10

November starts with a bang.

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Latest Jackson County Health inspections: Clyde's Corner, Pangea, Rogue Salad Co.

Restaurants and food carts are inspected at least twice a year by Jackson County Health Department employees. Inspectors look for risk factors that could increase the potential for food-borne illness, […]

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LSU SciArts New Play Festival celebrates intersection of science and theater. See when it opens.

This year's festival features staged readings of three new, scientifically accurate plays selected from more than 200 submissions from across the country.

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LSU SciArts New Play Festival celebrates intersection of science and theater. See when it opens.

This year's festival features staged readings of three new, scientifically accurate plays selected from more than 200 submissions from across the country.

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Politics Friday: What Democratic electoral gains mean for Minnesota as Republicans regroup

Friday at noon, MPR News politics editor Brian Bakst talks with Amy Klobuchar as she begins the transition from senator to governor next year. She starts with a DFL trifecta, although she isn’t in line with her party base on everything.

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URI students join others from around Rhode Island to exhibit dynamic research projects at RI-NEST annual meeting

KINGSTON, R.I. — Nov. 6, 2026 — Several University of Rhode Island students joined their counterparts from several partner institutions around the state last week to display their dynamic research projects during the annual meeting of the Rhode Island Network for Excellence in Science and Technology. Representatives of URI, Brown University, Rhode Island College, Rhode […]

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Scientists achieve record-breaking low temperature on China's space station, paving the way for new physics experiments

Matter starts to behave differently at extremely low temperatures, creating conditions ideal for studying quantum physics and new states of matter. Now, researchers from China have achieved a new low-temperature ...

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NVIDIA confirms the RTX 5090 isn't discontinued by giving ONE away

NVIDIA returns to giving away GeForce RTX 5090 cards after several RTX 5080 promotions. The giveaway comes as questions remain over RTX 5090 production and availability.

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Islanders’ Weaknesses Exposed in Loss to the Hurricanes

The Islanders showed promise against Carolina but fell short. Per the New York Post, their power play and slow starts remain the real problem for this team.

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What many get wrong about Amish or Plain Anabaptist communities, measles, and health

The U.S. has reported three measles deaths this week in three different states. All the affected were unvaccinated, and some were too young to get vaccinated, relying on herd immunity. Many states haven’t seen a measles death in more than 30 years. Measles is highly contagious, but it mainly spreads among those without immunity. Social factors typically shape these unvaccinated pockets. Many states describe these deaths as occurring among “under-immunized, rural communities.” (In the future, it could be among other tight-knit groups.) Small signals in the news point to many outbreaks right now among the Plain Anabaptists (APA), which include communities like the Amish and Mennonite. Many know APA communities from a distance through their bakeries, furniture, and roadside buggies. But most of us don’t know enough about them, their traditions, or how those traditions actually interact with health and disease. Rumors, misconceptions, and frustration fill those voids. Tristan Sharratt, a family nurse practitioner and rural health researcher who grew up near and works with these communities in Central New York (and a YLE reader who reached out!), says misconceptions continue to create major problems. If the U.S. wants to stop a tsunami of measles coming down the pipeline, or even support health in those communities proactively beyond measles (which is ideal), we must understand how specific communities protect themselves, their values, and the role broader society plays. This starts with a conversation and some self-reflection. Here are the top five lessons I learned from my conversation with Tristan.

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Spin Doctors - College of Arts and Sciences

Yin Lyu explores how spin-based technologies could power faster, more efficient computers of the future.

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From stained glass to thrift stores: Check out 6 business updates in San Marcos

Several new businesses have opened or are opening in San Marcos, including Esaltare Arts and four new stores at the San Marcos Premium Outlets.

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Is The Xbox Series X More Powerful Than The Steam Machine?

Gamers have eagerly anticipated Valve's console for years. Despite using newer parts, though, it's pretty evenly matched against an Xbox.

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Electronic Arts Launches 25 Classic PC Games on Steam for the First Time

Including titles like 'Wing Commander' and 'Road Rash.'

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Las Vegas Arts District business owners say storm drain construction is cutting into sales

Business owners in the Arts District say storm drain work along Charleston Boulevard is driving away customers.

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Las Vegas Arts District business owners say storm drain construction is cutting into sales

Business owners in the Arts District say storm drain work along Charleston Boulevard is driving away customers.

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Arts District businesses seek emergency relief as Las Vegas construction cuts into foot traffic

Business owners along Charleston Blvd. and Commerce St. are asking the city for measures including extended construction hours, expanded free parking and temporary relief from certain taxes and fees.

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Lionsgate and 3 Arts Entertainment Launch New Horror Banner Render Road

3 Arts and Lionsgate are teaming for a new horror banner Render Road, which will specialize in new television, films and digital content.

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WhatsApp’s AI-powered photo expansion tool starts rolling out on iOS

Select WhatsApp users on TestFlight and in the main app are now seeing the option to expand an image in the app’s photo editor.

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Stellantis asks parts makers for deeper visibility into supply chain

The request for "Tier-N" visibility matches policies at General Motors and other competitors as the industry experiences more frequent factory disruptions.

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UVA Health sees flu cases increase as season starts early

Dr. Costi Sifri says a vaccine can help prevent the flu, and an early start does not necessarily mean an early end.

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Arts and Entertainment Agenda, Nov. 6 to 12

‘An Evening with Easy Jim’ at Belly Up Aspen, Nov. 6 The Grateful Dead tribute band Easy Jim will takes the stage at 9 p.m. Nov. 6 at Belly Up Aspen, 450 Galena St. Following...

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Citizen science program helps find exotic ticks

Climate change is affecting not only our weather but also the distribution of parasites and the diseases they can carry. One example is the growing presence of Hyalomma ticks in parts of Europe where ...

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Anthology by local editors imparts wisdom, advice to young women

“Uncertain Girls in Uncertain Times” includes essays from 40 contributors around the country, as well as poems that mirror their life experiences.

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Election over, the clock starts ticking again on landmark college sports bill in lame-duck House

Next week in Congress, the clock starts ticking on a groundbreaking bill designed to overhaul college sports with nobody quite sure how an overwhelming wave of election-night victories for Democrats across the country will reset the debate.

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Election over, the clock starts ticking again on landmark college sports bill in lame-duck House

Next week, Congress could begin debating a bill to overhaul college sports, amid uncertainty from recent Democratic election victories.

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Election over, the clock starts ticking again on landmark college sports bill in lame-duck House

Next week, Congress could begin debating a bill to overhaul college sports, amid uncertainty from recent Democratic election victories.

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New Lehman Center director Dante Albertie wants to make Bronx an entertainment destination

Less than two months into his first season as Executive Director of Lehman Center for the Performing Arts, Dante Albertie spoke with the Bronx Times about

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Best of Santa Cruz County entertainment, arts & food events this weekend, Nov. 5-8

With the weekend nearly here, check out things to do around Santa Cruz County, with a recommendation from Lily Belli and a specially curated list from Lookout’s BOLO events calendar.

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Walleye Capital parts ways with former stock picking head Anil Gondi

Walleye has had a tough 2026, including a 5.9% loss in October.

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Help veteran-owned small businesses avoid scams during National Veterans Small Business Week

National Veterans Small Business Week (NVSBW) starts in just a few days. A great way to honor veteran small business owners is to help them spot and avoid scams. And if you’re a business owner (veteran or not), your best defense against scammers is an informed workforce. Here’s how you and your team can take part in NVSBW 2026 and learn more.

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Data Center Construction Starts Lag 6 Months Behind, Report Says

Data center construction starts are slowing, a report from GlobalData finds. Here's why.

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To squish or not to squish: The science behind squishies

For college students, sitting through a long lecture can be harder than it sounds. About halfway through, your leg starts bouncing under the desk, or your thumb starts clicking your pen without you…

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NVIDIA GeForce NOW adds 24 games in November, Hogwarts Legacy gets DLSS 5

NVIDIA is adding 24 games to GeForce NOW this November, including eight arriving this week and new Xbox storefront support. Hogwarts Legacy also receives DLSS 5.

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Last session tonight to weigh in on Heights Business District plan

Current business district proposal would allow buildings up to six stories and zero parking as incentives for developers The latest proposal for the Heights Business District offers “public benefit incentives,” which are conditional bonuses for developers. Developers can build up to six stories if they offer a public plaza, a public amenity, or first-and-second floor active commercial use. Developers will have no requirement to build parking spaces if they offer 60% ground-floor active commercial use, or if they preserve a historical facade. Those incentives and other parts of the plans will be discussed tonight, Nov. 5, when the Heights Neighborhood

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Arts and entertainment events happening November 5th-8th across the Mid-Ohio Valley

Jeff Dewitt joins Daybreak to discuss what’s happening November 5th-8th across the Mid-Ohio Valley!

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RUNC: Elizabeth Jenkins El - College of Arts and Sciences

The chemistry major studies why postpartum depression is often misunderstood and misdiagnosed.

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400,000-year-old teeth reveal a stunning twist in human evolution

A groundbreaking discovery is rewriting the story of human evolution, revealing that an ancient human species once thought to be an evolutionary dead end may have left genetic traces in people alive today. By extracting proteins from 400,000-year-old Homo erectus teeth discovered in China, scientists uncovered evidence suggesting that these early humans interbred with Denisovans, another mysterious ancient human group. That genetic connection may have eventually reached modern populations in the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, and other parts of Southeast Asia.

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NEED TO KNOW: Arts and culture news this week

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From Broadway hits to classical concerts, here are the top arts and entertainment events coming to Palm Beach.

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When papers become currency: a Chinese debate about trust in science

Last Saturday, 31 October, I went to the University of Hong Kong’s Beijing Centre for its Talent Forum. It was the fourth stop in the series this year, following events in Shanghai’s Zhangjiang, Shenzhen’s Qianhai, and on HKU’s main campus. The programme covered a remarkable distance in one afternoon. HKU’s Xiao-Jing Wang discussed computational neuroscience, intelligence, and the prefrontal cortex—before even delivering his inaugural public lecture to students back in Hong Kong. His colleague Bing Zhang took us from the Big Bang to artificial intelligence. Tsinghua’s Xue Lan asked how AI might reshape the institutional infrastructure underpinning higher education. There were lively panels featuring industry leaders from JD.com, Xiaomi, Haier—and Kaiser Y Kuo on the closing panel discussing innovation and international connections. I cannot pretend to have followed every detail of the brain models or the astrophysics. The talk that stayed with me was closer to something we have covered before: Zhou Zhonghe 周忠和 on papers, evaluation, and scientific trust. Zhou is a palaeontologist, an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and an international member of the US National Academy of Sciences. He is also editor-in-chief of The Intellectual (知识分子), China’s leading science commentary platform. His subject was uncomfortable enough for a room full of successful academics: what happens when the system for recognising good science starts rewarding something else? Part of my interest came from our sister newsletter, The East is Read, which covered the controversy around “Geng Tongxue” in May. A PhD dropout from Beihang University, Geng has publicly challenged papers by prominent researchers through detailed online allegations of manipulated images and fabricated data. At Tongji University, an investigation into a challenged Nature paper found academic misconduct, and the dean of its life sciences school was removed. The affair brought doubts about academic integrity well beyond laboratories and university committees. How could someone outside the established hierarchy spot problems in papers that had passed through prestigious journals and institutions? And what, exactly, had all that prestige guaranteed? Zhou approached these questions through two essays published in July by The Intellectual: one by Wang Xiaodong, director of the National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, and a response by Wang Liming, of Shanghai’s Shangsi Institute of Natural Sciences. Both began with the controversy over Geng. Their arguments deserve a wider audience, so I want to put parts of them alongside what Zhou said on Saturday. Wang Xiaodong’s starting point is evolution. A research system selects for the behaviour it rewards. Grants, jobs, journals, talent programmes, and prizes collectively determine which scientists prosper and which practices get passed down from advisors to students. “Whatever the system rewards is what it will evolve to produce,” he writes, citing the ancient Chinese saying: The King of Chu loved slender waists, and many in the palace starved to death. That is a more demanding diagnosis than saying there are dishonest people in science. Punishing a fraudster does not change the selective environment that made a particular kind of research profitable. His account also gives scientific success an awkward role in the story. As Zhou put it on Saturday, science became a victim of its own success. Once research became central to industry, national power, and economic growth, universities and laboratories expanded, and public money followed. That created an administrative need for rapid decisions: who should get the next grant, the next laboratory, the next appointment? The difficulty is that the true value of a discovery may take years or decades of testing and building to become clear. Resource allocation cannot wait that long. Publication counts, journal prestige, impact factors, and citations therefore become convenient ways to make an instant judgement. “The real problem is not that these indicators have no value,” Wang Xiaodong writes, “but that they are trying to answer a question that only time can answer.” Telling administrators simply to stop counting papers will never be enough. They still have budgets to distribute and appointments to make. Something has to replace the shortcut. Zhou described the consequences inside publishing. Papers acquire ever more requirements: a complete story, polished presentation, extensive datasets, and accessibility to readers beyond the immediate field. Individually, those demands sound reasonable. Together, he warned, they produce formulaic “eight-legged” papers 八股文 and rigid reviewing, while genuinely original or non-consensus work struggles to get past journal editors—some of whom wield immense gatekeeping power despite having limited laboratory experience themselves. Meanwhile, the demands for sprawling, “complete” narratives have fuelled a wider replication crisis. Wang Xiaodong uses a mahjong metaphor to describe the result: put the complex papers published by the exact same lab over several years side by side, and they often look like “Thirteen Orphans” (十三不靠)—every tile completely unrelated to the next, and none of them reproducible by outsiders. Zhou also spoke frankly as an editor who has trouble finding reviewers. Everyone wants someone else to review their work; qualified senior researchers have little time to return the favour. The labour is anonymous, unpaid, and brings almost no institutional recognition, so it increasingly gets passed down to postdocs and graduate students. And while anonymity protects reviewers from rank and personal favours, hyper-specialisation means an author’s most qualified reviewer is often a direct competitor, shielded from accountability. The protection and the problem coexist. Wang Liming takes the argument a step further. The decisive change, in his essay, is the instant conversion of academic honour into material resources. Once a paper can be cashed in for funding, a job, students, commercial investment, or even a company valuation, scientists are alienated from their work: they must keep minting this “research currency” to keep their teams alive. He is careful not to romanticise the past. The old world of gentleman scientists—financially independent figures like Boyle and Darwin who needed nothing from external funders—was also a closed club that excluded people without inherited wealth, women, and much of humanity outside the West. Professional science allowed ordinary people, himself included, to become researchers. Nobody should want to undo that. The problem, in his account, is an exchange system that becomes too uniform and too difficult to correct. His most pointed Chinese example is the “hat” (帽子): the prestigious talent designation that brings continuing access to money, laboratory space, students, and institutional influence. “If papers are the circulating currency of the research system, then a ‘hat’ is a bond that pays interest over the long term,” he writes. A paper at least requires another round of peer review. A title in the Chinese context can lock in a judgement made years ago and turn it into permanent status rent, regardless of whether its holder is still doing good science. Here, official institutions hire, organise, and evaluate scientists. Unlike honours awarded by autonomous academic communities in the West, a Chinese “hat” blends non-scientist administrative power with state authority. Once granted, it turns a past judgement into permanent status rent that is nearly impossible to revoke—because taking a hat off would imply that official authority erred in putting it on. Both Wangs see China as experiencing, at compressed speed, pressures present across global science. Research expansion, rising investment, publication growth, and elaborate evaluation metrics arrived in China within two or three decades rather than two or three centuries. Zhou agreed with that international framing—noting that recent US White House science policy documents and the new president of the US National Academy of Sciences, a fellow palaeontologist who recently visited Zhou’s institute in Beijing, have raised strikingly similar warnings about consensus-bound peer review, short-term project grants, and the replication crisis. Still, Zhou emphasised that China’s traditional hierarchy, personal networks (guanxi), and the ethos that “a good scholar becomes an official” (学而优则仕) amplify those pressures at home. So what would change things? Here Zhou’s tone differed from the call for a revolution in scientific trust in Wang Xiaodong’s essay. As an evolutionary biologist, Zhou favoured patchwork repair (修修补补). Living systems survive through accumulated adjustments; dramatic mutations are usually fatal. Science cannot return to a small, slow-moving pastoral era, especially after the successive accelerations of professionalisation after the Second World War, the internet, and now artificial intelligence. But it can alter the local environment in which researchers work. He pointed to domestic experiments designed to support unconventional research and diversify funding, including Tencent’s New Cornerstone Investigator Program, the Xplorer Prize, and the Future Science Prize. He also mentioned participating in reviews for “major non-consensus projects” under the National Natural Science Foundation of China. One guiding principle he recalled was wonderfully direct: “Failure is allowed; corruption is not” (允许失败,不允许腐败). That distinction would mean quite a lot if taken seriously. An honest attempt that fails should not have to disguise itself as a success to survive an assessment. Wang Liming’s essay adds a sharp caveat to the optimism about new domestic funders. Multiple organisations do not automatically produce multiple ways of judging science. If the same pool of senior domestic scientists makes the decisions through the same two-round review procedures, it is still “fake diversity.” He argues for three distinct kinds of money: broad baseline funding governed by fair procedures; patient funding for questions that take ten years; and non-consensus funding based on individual taste, deliberately empowering a few genuine experts to make biased, contrarian bets on eccentric ideas that would inevitably be averaged out by a committee. Replacing one monopoly with another achieves little; a healthy ecosystem needs variance. Zhou’s proposals for publishing were similarly concrete: strip papers of their resource-allocation burden and return them to recording discoveries and establishing priority; separate dissemination from evaluation, as eLife and Peer Community In do; adopt more modular “micro-publications” and real-name endorsements; recognize the labour of editors and reviewers; and give replication work proper credit rather than treating it as an unpublishable dead end. AI makes every part of this debate more urgent—and Zhou wove it throughout his talk. In his own preparation, he used AI to survey the declining influence of academic monographs, noting how tools are already changing how scholars gather information. More fundamentally, he placed AI as the latest great acceleration in scientific history: just as the internet sped up the pace of research and tightened external resource pressures, AI is compressing the cycle again. In the essays Zhou cited, AI cuts both ways. Wang Xiaodong expects large language models to erase much of the English-writing disadvantage long faced by Chinese scientists, further swelling the flood of papers coming out of Chinese labs. Wang Liming sees AI accelerating both ends of the trust crisis: it lowers the cost of paper mills and fabricated images just as quickly as it lowers the cost of automated image forensics, data auditing, and code reproduction. “Whoever builds the verification layer wins,” Wang Liming writes. His proposed alternative to the static, packaged “story paper” is a continuously versioned “unit of discovery” containing a falsifiable claim, raw data, analysis code, experimental parameters, and an ongoing log of independent checks—where negative results and failed replications are recorded rather than buried. Zhou ended his keynote by bringing AI back to the question of scientific honour and credit. Citing a recent Intellectual discussion on “What AI Means for Mathematics” featuring Fields Medalist Deng Yu 邓煜—at a moment when AI is already batch-solving mathematical conjectures, as HKU Vice-President Lin Chen noted in his opening remarks—Zhou agreed that human researchers must remain the principal agents: AI is a tool that frees scientists from tedious calculation to think about deeper, messier real-world problems. Yet that partnership creates a thorny new evaluation problem. When a breakthrough is made with AI, what is the human contribution and what is the machine’s? And since AI models distil centuries of accumulated human scholarship, is it right that the credit and value flow so heavily to the private AI companies building the tools? The old struggle over how to assign scientific honour is acquiring a whole new layer. What I took away was a serious discussion of how science can remain trustworthy as its scale, incentives, and tools change. These were scientists with real standing inside China’s system questioning how that standing is produced, and proposing changes that would affect their own institutions and peers. That made the afternoon at HKU’s Beijing Centre worthwhile. At the close, Wang Feng, Director of Communications and Public Affairs at HKU, said the value of the forum series—which heads to Hangzhou in December and cities like Chengdu early next year—would lie in the real cooperation it helped bring about. The university has plenty to celebrate: this week it topped the QS Asia rankings for a second consecutive year, alongside its 11th-place position in the QS World University Rankings 2027. For me, bringing this debate to an audience beyond the people who review papers and allocate grants was a useful contribution. 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Siemens Healthineers starts carve-out of diagnostics business

Nov 5 - German medical technology company Siemens Healthineers said on Thursday it had ​begun carving out its ‌diagnostics business, which it plans to rebrand as Olyrian Diagnostics ahead of a future divestment. The company ‌said ​the separation proces...

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Alabama vs LSU Prediction: The College Football Playoff Starts Now

Alabama and LSU are both 6-2, and while this massive showdown isn't an SEC and CFP elimination game, yeah, it is. Here's the CFN preview and prediction.

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