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How geopolitical rifts cut scientific collaboration

Researchers have measured how worsening geopolitical relations hobble scientific collaboration, at last quantifying the impact of rifts between governments on cooperation between labs. Over the last decade, a tenser world has thrown up new barriers to cross-border science. Collaboration between the US and China has dimmed as the two countries have sunk into an ever-deeper rivalry. Links between Russia and Europe have collapsed following Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. But while a concern, the magnitude of the damage is less than might be expected. For all the geopolitical turmoil of the last decade, international scientific collaborations are near a record high. “Some part of the story is positive,” said Shreyas Gadgin Matha, a social scientist at Harvard University and an author of the new study. “Research collaborations are largely resilient.” Matha and colleagues looked at data on cross-border research papers and patents in the period 2000-23, and analysed how they were impacted by countries’ political relations, as measured by how often states voted together in the United Nations. They found that when states drift apart at the UN by the median difference in votes between all countries, joint scientific papers decline by 3.1% over the next three-year period. To put that in context, over the last decade, the US and China have diverged by around a third of that difference in votes every three years. In other words, on average, it takes quite a significant diplomatic rift even to trigger a small single-digit percentage drop in joint papers. “In the short term, even something like a 3% reduction [in joint papers] is, in some ways, not that big of a number,” said Matha. Research remains more international than ever, according to an analysis extending to 2023 released by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in 2025. We’re still living in an era of unprecedented scientific globalisation, the analysis says, with 27% of papers in OECD countries written across borders. In 1970, just 2% of articles had authors from different countries. Longer-term damage?However, this trend towards increasing international collaboration “has lost momentum and might be partly breaking down,” the OECD analysis says, largely due to a fall in the intensity of US-China joint papers since 2018. Matha and his colleagues stressed they are not complacent about the global science system. For now, “it's pretty resilient,” said co-author Muhammed Yildirim, director of academic research at Harvard’s Growth Lab. But if links are weakened, through the denial of study visas, for example, then this could have a much longer-term effect, cascading through generations of scientists, he added. Related articlesChina becomes Russia’s biggest collaborator after war decimates science ties with the west US scientists prefer German to Chinese collaborators, study finds Horizon Europe is now truly global. But what comes next? Another finding of the study, Burning bridges or bridging divides: Geopolitics and collaboration in research and innovation, is that trust appears easier to destroy than create.The hit to scientific collaboration when countries drift apart is around three times as big as the growth in joint papers when they move closer, the paper finds. “It's far easier to break these ties than to mend them, and that that also perhaps has some larger policy lesson,” said Matha.PatentsThe results around patents were less clear cut. Some methods of analysis found a statistically significant link between a diplomatic rift and a drop in co-patenting, but others did not. According to Yildirim, patents with cross-border inventors are often developed by multinational companies, which may have invested heavily in global R&D facilities, so are less likely to change how they operate simply due to a change in the geopolitical weather. “That's why we might not be seeing the effect immediately in technology,” he said.By contrast, researchers might be more sensitive to geopolitics, because visa policies can quickly affect who meets who at academic conferences, he went on. International collaboration on patents is much lower than for academic articles, the study shows. It peaked at around 10% in 2010, and has since fallen back to around 8%. This could be because China dramatically ramped up domestic patents in the 2010s, said Yildirim, squeezing the international share.

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Sep 10 • 8:00 AM EDT • Business • sciencebusiness.net
Trump makes a dubious pledge to give every U.S. adult $5,000 if GOP wins

It would most likely cost more than $1 trillion and require congressional approval

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Sep 10 • 7:59 AM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
Trump makes a dubious pledge to give every U.S. adult $5,000 if GOP wins

It would most likely cost more than $1 trillion and require congressional approval

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Sep 10 • 7:59 AM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
Restaurant group behind Kelce-Mahomes steakhouse takes on Chicago

Noble 33, the group behind Travis Kelce and Patrick Mahomes’ Kansas City steakhouse, plans restaurants in River North and Fulton Market.

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Sep 10 • 7:00 AM EDT • Business • chicagobusiness.com
Arsenal consider €80m move for Como midfielder Paz

Arsenal are considering a move to sign Como midfielder Nico Paz next summer and have expressed initial interest.Paz is on Arsenal’s radar ahead of the 2027 summer window as Mikel Arteta looks to imp...

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Sep 10 • 6:55 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Mikel Arteta set to agree stunning 'seven-year' Arsenal deal

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta smiling in a pre-match press conference

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Sep 10 • 4:30 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Climate solutions most likely to reach ‘positive tipping points’ revealed by scientists

Global shift towards clean electricity could trigger ‘cascade’ of progress, helping reduce air pollution, cut waste and revive oceans

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Sep 10 • 1:00 AM EDT • Science • theguardian.com
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O’Gorman motivated for 48th Dakota Bowl

SIOUX FALLS (KELO) – The Dakota Bowl is one of the biggest football games of the year for O’Gorman High School, which is something future Knights are taught from a young age. “I think our players, starting with all six of the guys that we had here today, that started our council, were kindergartners that […]

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Sep 9 • 11:47 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Big ninth inning stuns Canaries in game one

Sioux Falls, SD (CANARIES) – The Sioux Falls Canaries took a one-run lead into the ninth inning Wednesday night but Kansas City erupted for seven runs in the frame to sink the Birds 12-6 in game one of the West Division Series. Both teams scored a run without a hit in their half of the […]

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Sep 9 • 11:46 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Arsenal: Martin Odegaard new role explained by Mikel Arteta after captain's Champions League winner at Napoli

Martin Odegaard scored his fourth goal in five games this season with the winner in Arsenals 1-0 Champions League victory at Napoli on Wednesday; Gunners captain only scored once in 2025/26 but higher position and fitness have facilitated fast start to the new campaign

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Sep 9 • 7:05 PM EDT • Sports • skysports.com
Mikel Arteta Names Kevin De Bruyne Among Best Midfielders Ever

Mikel Arteta worked with Kevin De Bruyne for more than three years at Manchester City before taking charge of Arsenal, and remains a huge admirer of the Napoli midfielder.

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Sep 9 • 7:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
N.C. businesses brace for Canadian tariffs, feel sting of other world events

Businesses in the automotive industry will likely feel a direct impact of the Canadian counter-tariffs.

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Sep 9 • 6:29 PM EDT • Business • spectrumlocalnews.com
4 groups caught using the same Chrome and Windows exploit kit

A patch gap and the hastened pace of AI-based vulnerability discovery are likely contributors.

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Sep 9 • 4:55 PM EDT • Technology • arstechnica.com
HHS recognizes Recovery Month, celebrates strength and pathways to recovery | Health and Human Services North Dakota

September is National Recovery Month, as proclaimed by Gov. Kelly Armstrong. The month celebrates people in recovery, the families and communities who support them and the possibility of recovery from mental health and substance use challenges. North Dakota Health and Human Services (HHS) reminds North Dakotans that recovery looks different for everyone, and support is available at every stage of the journey. Read the National Recovery Month proclamation.

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Sep 9 • 4:22 PM EDT • Health • hhs.nd.gov
New Hampshire Gubernatorial and US Senate Primaries By the Numbers

Kelly Ayotte makes history once again in the Granite State.

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Sep 9 • 2:26 PM EDT • Politics • smartpolitics.lib.umn.edu
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Tee Higgins should play in Week 1

Tee Higgins likely to play in Week 1 against the Bucs.

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Sep 9 • 2:05 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Indonesian foragers may have sucked on mind-altering nuts 25,000 years ago, research finds

Analysis of two skeletons reveals tooth wear and traces of psychoactive substance in what may be earliest known evidence for human drug taking

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Sep 9 • 2:00 PM EDT • Science • theguardian.com
NBA’s Dallas Mavericks Seek Zoning for Sports and Entertainment District

The Dallas Mavericks’ chose a likely place to begin the rezoning process for a sports and entertainment district, a onetime thriving mall. The team is looking at 100 acres of land that used to be the Valley View Center. The mall was once home to Bloomingdale’s, Dillard’s and Macy’s in the 1990’s but was shuttered and then ...

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Sep 9 • 1:43 PM EDT • Entertainment • connectcre.com
Why Lewis-Skelly remained at Arsenal despite strong outside interest

Myles Lewis-Skelly was linked with a move away from Arsenal this summer, with several teams willing to add him to their squads, including Chelsea and Manchester United.Both clubs had been offered the ...

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Sep 9 • 11:30 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
The Rwandan eyeing Champions League history against Man Utd

Rwanda forward Joy-Lance Mickels has helped Azerbaijan's Sabah reach the Champions League proper on their competition debut, and is now looking to down the team he supports.

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Sep 9 • 10:41 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Browns cornerback Denzel Ward joins Guardians’ ownership group

The Macedonia native is the second prominent athlete from Northeast Ohio to buy a stake in the Guardians this year, joining Travis Kelce.

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Sep 9 • 9:06 AM EDT • Business • crainscleveland.com
‘We’re resilient’: Maine businesses brace for Canadian retaliatory tariffs

Businesses in border states and provinces, including Maine, will feel the squeeze of both sets of tariffs the most. And there likely won’t be a deal in place before the U.S. midterm elections. There have already been some layoffs in…

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Sep 9 • 8:23 AM EDT • Business • baltimoresun.com
Foldable iPhone Duo to Come With Apple Pencil Support

Apple's foldable iPhone Duo will come with Apple Pencil support, reports Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Gurman previously claimed that Apple had prototyped a dedicated Apple Pencil for its foldable iPhone that was "stubbier than the versions for iPads" and "designed to magnetically attach and charge on the side of the device," but he said it was unlikely that the accessory would be released.

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Sep 9 • 7:06 AM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com
First on CNN: Routine blood testing may hold hidden clues to colorectal cancer before age 45

When you have your blood drawn in a routine doctor’s visit, some of the markers in your blood that get tested could hold unexpected clues to how likely you are to develop colorectal cancer at a young age, new research suggests.

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Sep 9 • 6:30 AM EDT • Health • cnn.com
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14 of Science’s Biggest Mysteries We’re Still Trying to Figure Out

There’s a lot we know today that humanity didn’t know hundreds of years ago, and there will likely be a lot people will learn in the coming years that we can’t possibly know right now. Among these que...

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Sep 9 • 6:30 AM EDT • Science • yahoo.com
Wisconsin volleyball doesn't panic after tough start to season

Coach Kelly Sheffield contrasts his Badgers' response to adversity with a scene from "Animal House."

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Sep 9 • 6:00 AM EDT • Sports • captimes.com
The wildest sport you’ve never heard of has some unlikely stars: American cowboys

Nine American cowboys joined thousands of global athletes in Kyrgyzstan for the World Nomad Games, competing in Kok-Boru — Central Asia’s ancient, brutal sport of equestrian goat-grabbing.

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Sep 9 • 5:55 AM EDT • Sports • cnn.com
VOTE: Do you expect Don Kelly back next season?

Will the Bucs find a new Skipper?

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Sep 9 • 5:39 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Toulouse confirm impending Mark McKenzie exit

Toulouse FC president Olivier Cloarec has confirmed that Mark McKenzie (27) is highly likely to leave the club in January and return to his native USA.It was reported by The Athletic during the transf...

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Sep 9 • 5:15 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Keltie Knight of E! shares a day in her life ahead of the Emmys

Emmy-winning TV host Keltie Knight juggles a busy schedule in LA, balancing show prep, podcasting, and fashion fittings ahead of the Emmys.

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Sep 9 • 5:05 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Arsenal XI vs Napoli – Predicted lineup and team news

Arsenal open their Champions League campaign at Napoli on Wednesday, returning to the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona for the first time since their 2019 Europa League quarter-final win there. Mikel Art...

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Sep 9 • 1:30 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Prep sports recap for Sept. 8, 2026

PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD/WYZZ) — Now there’s only one undefeated soccer team in the Big 12 Conference. Gavin Stickelmaier and Cal Byrkit scored two goals apiece as Notre Dame beat visiting Champaign Central, 6-0, in the Big 12 opener for both schools on Tuesday. The Irish (4-0) handed the Maroons (2-1-1) their first loss of the […]

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Sep 9 • 12:14 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Entertainment District Around Akins Ford Arena Starts to Take Shape

Selling or leasing county-owned property around Akins Ford Arena has always been part of the plan for funding its construction, and the Athens-Clarke County Commission took another step toward that goal last week. The county is putting a parcel known as the Kelley Diversified tract on Willow Street up for sale. The old City of Athens bought the land and built a warehouse in 1970, and for a time it was used for vocational training. The unified government declared it surplus in 2007, but bids came in well below expectations, so it was never sold. However, since then the area between downtown and the North Oconee River has been built up, so the property could be more desirable to developers […]

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Sep 9 • 12:11 AM EDT • Entertainment • flagpole.com
Jacks look to continue playing ‘fresh’ in Week 3

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — SDSU fell to 1-1 on the season after a 34-18 loss at Northwestern over the weekend. The Jacks struggled to convert in the red zone but otherwise hung around with the Wildcats for the majority of the night, only trailing by two with eight minutes to go in the fourth. […]

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Sep 8 • 11:55 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Tucker Kraft named team captain for Packers

GREEN BAY, W.I. (KELO) — Timber Lake native and former SDSU Jackrabbit Tucker Kraft was named one of five team captains for the Green Bay Packers ahead of the 2026 season. This is Kraft’s second season as an offensive captain for the Packers. This Sunday against the Minnesota Vikings Kraft is set to make his […]

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Sep 8 • 11:54 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Guess Whose Back!? Dbacks 5, Royals 3. F/11

On Tuesday the Dbacks were able to get to a season high 10 games over .500 as they beat the Kansas City Royals in 11 innings. The story of the game was Corbin Burnes’ return to the team, but the guys that stole the show at the end were of an unlikely variety as there […]

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Sep 8 • 11:44 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Vikings Projected to Likely Strike NFL QB Deal Before Deadline

Bleacher Report's Alex Kay named Minnesota Vikings quarterback J.J. McCarthy the most likely signal-caller to be traded during the 2026 NFL season. The post Vikings Projected to Likely Strike NFL QB Deal Before Deadline appeared first on HEAVY.

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Sep 8 • 10:32 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
UC Berkeley Welcomes QuantrolOx to its Quantum Innovation Corridor

Quantum researchers and campus leaders heralded the arrival of QuantrolOx at UC Berkeley’s Roger Herst Quantum Nexus. The occasion marks the first U.S. office for QuantrolOx, establishing a foothold

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Sep 8 • 8:31 PM EDT • Science • ls.berkeley.edu
Chinese scientists find a hidden atomic structure that unlocks methane

Scientists found that a tiny atomic structure that forms on nickel oxide during methane conversion is more effective than the metallic nickel long believed to drive the reaction. The discovery allowed a low-nickel catalyst to rival one containing 10 times more metal, potentially opening the door to cheaper and more efficient industrial catalysts.

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Sep 8 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
Incumbent GOP governor rolls to primary victory after keeping Trump at a distance

Kelly Ayotte cruised past Republican primary challengers, setting up a high-stakes New Hampshire governor's race against Democrat Cinde Warmington.

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Sep 8 • 6:50 PM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
Midwest Aerial Athletics wins big in Aruba

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) —KELOLAND News first took you to Midwest Aerial Athletics back in July. The gym was gearing up to compete on the international stage. “We just competed in Texas, and that was the qualifier for Aruba. So we’re going to Aruba this year and hopefully Australia and then Italy in the next […]

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Sep 8 • 6:10 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Glendale Actress Finds Love of Science

A few years ago, Marilyn Heidecker was more likely to portray a criminalist on TV, film, or stage rather than work as an actual scientist who analyzes physical evidence in

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Sep 8 • 6:00 PM EDT • Science • outlooknewspapers.com
Luke Fickell Updates Badgers' O-Line Health, Evaluates Week 1 Performance

Wisconsin's head coach provided health updates and an evaluation of his offensive front.

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Sep 8 • 2:36 PM EDT • Health • si.com
Judi Dench’s Oscar doesn’t have her name on it: ‘Could be anyone’s’

Sir Ian McKellen, meanwhile, never got his Golden Globe engraved for a hilarious reason.

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Sep 8 • 1:51 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Andy Reid: Patrick Mahomes will "most likely" start Week 1
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Sep 8 • 1:38 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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​​If AI thinks it's conscious, it's more likely to believe in vampires, karma and ghosts, new study shows. What does it mean for how we use it?

A new study shows that measures to stop AI's claims of consciousness have unintended consequences for non-human entities

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Sep 8 • 1:37 PM EDT • Science • livescience.com
Growing girls sports in South Dakota

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — The visibility of volleyball and women’s basketball is only growing in South Dakota. South Dakota State hosted Sioux Falls native Bergen Reilly and volleyball powerhouse Nebraska on Sept. 2. It was the highest attended event in First Bank and Trust Arena’s history. The Sanford Pentagon sold out the state’s first […]

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Sep 8 • 1:15 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Alex Filippenko named 2026 Dorothea Klumpke-Roberts Awardee

The Astronomical Society of the Pacific announced that Distinguished Professor of Astronomy Alex Filippenko will receive its 2026 Dorothea Klumpke-Roberts Award. The award recognizes noteworthy

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Sep 8 • 1:15 PM EDT • Science • ls.berkeley.edu
Are rich people really worse behaved? Here’s the science

Who’s more likely to steal sweets from a child? According to science, it’s the rich. A study seemingly confirming our suspicions about the moral behaviour of the wealthy was one of the winners of the 2026 Ig Nobel prizes, which honour research that makes you laugh and then think. Science editor Ian Sample tells Madeleine Finlay what the researchers think could be behind the phenomenon, and they explore some of the other awards, including one for a surprising quality we look for in our friends and another for a biomechanical definition of kissing

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Sep 8 • 12:26 PM EDT • Science • theguardian.com
UC Berkeley Law event targets Trump science policies as ‘censorship’

​The University of California, Berkeley School of Law organized an Aug. 25 discussion focused on resisting censorship and protecting academic freedom in scientific research.

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Sep 8 • 10:43 AM EDT • Science • campusreform.org
Mark Consuelos injured during “Live With Kelly and Mark ”break as Kelly Ripa recovered from gum surgery

Consuelos revealed a sports-related injury sustained while “Live” was on a between-season break, during which Ripa was recovering from a painful oral procedure.

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Sep 8 • 10:33 AM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Kelly Ripa returns to ‘Live’ for first time in over 1 month after painful gum surgery

Kelly Ripa finally returned to ‘Live With Kelly and Mark’ for the first time in over a month, following an extended absence due to painful gum surgery.

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Sep 8 • 9:08 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Six decades of politics (but little government)

The first aired episode of “Star Trek,” entitled “The Man Trap,” premiered on September 8, 1966 — 60 years ago today. I’m actually editing a political science fiction issue of The Forum right now, and it’s prompted to me think a lot about the ways that Trek deals with politics and government and what it’s offered us as commentary. The @smotus report is a reader-supported publication. To support this work, please become a paid subscriber. Subscribe The original TV series ran from 1966 to 1969. It had a loyal but modest following, but the audience grew substantially with the series in syndication for years after that. The franchise developed its first motion picture in 1979, followed by five sequels, and then a whole other series of films built around the “Next Generation” series that first aired in 1987. In recent decades, several more TV series have built up around it, including the current “Strange New Worlds,” now in its fourth season. Throughout the past six decades, the franchise has offered us a good many insights into US politics and international relations, although often disguised as science fiction yarns. The original series was largely a Cold War fable, with the United Federation of Planets (a stand-in for the US) perpetually at odds with the Klingon Empire (a stand-in for the USSR). The “Let That Be Your Last Battlefield” episode (1969) posited a planet divided into two races, largely indistinguishable to outsiders, but nonetheless constituting a brutal racial hierarchy. “Patterns of Force” (1968) showed a struggling planet where the leader had attempted to construct a benevolent dictatorship — literally Nazism without bigotry — and found that authoritarianism could not exist apart from hierarchy and oppression. (Relatedly, I’d put “Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country,” high on a list of dad films about the end of the Cold War, near “The Hunt for Red October.”) Get 20% off for 1 year Indeed, the original series itself was something of a political statement, with a multi-racial crew running the Enterprise, a diverse and largely peaceful Federation mostly free from want and oppression, and protected by Starfleet, an armed force whose scientific mission was at least as important as its military one. Famously, when Nichelle Nichols wanted to walk away from the role of Uhura on the original series, none other than Martin Luther King, Jr. met with her and urged her to remain on the show, discussing the importance of viewers seeing an intelligent Black woman as part of the command team three centuries hence. Later series in the Trek franchise offered a good deal of political commentary on their own, but probably none as explicitly and incisively as “Deep Space Nine,” which ran from 1993 to 1999. The episodes surrounding the Dominion War, especially the “In The Pale Moonlight” (1998), showed the compromises, sacrifices, and moral rot associated with winning even a just war — probably better than any series would until “Andor” (2022-25). In “Far Beyond The Stars” (1998), Captain Benjamin Sisko is somehow transplanted to the role of a science fiction writer in 1950s New York. The writer is frequently sidelined and his ideas stolen because publishers don’t want to credit a Black writer. Several series have depicted the secretive Section 31 — an unacknowledged black ops security force operating within Starfleet. These episodes often end up using Section 31 as a foil to show the dangers of a lawless group within a lawful society, even (especially) when that group posits itself as essential for everyone else’s freedom to continue. The current “Strange New Worlds” has played with a few political themes. I found the first two seasons of this show among the best that the Trek franchise has produced in decades, but this season and the last have really been struggling for ideas. Yet one interesting thread is the idea that the diplomatic and enlightened leadership style of Captain Christopher Pike will not work in all situations. “A Quality of Mercy” (2022), which I wrote about here, puts Pike in the middle of a battle with a Romulan vessel in an alternate timeline, and finds that Pike’s conciliatory style would actually make a lengthy and deadly war more likely, while a quick and more violent approach might have prevented the war. This season’s opener, “Valles Marineris,” shows a pre-lightspeed civilization locked in a war to the death with a neighboring planet. The idea of an alliance or a federation hasn’t even occurred to them — their ship’s commander is curious but doesn’t see it as an option. For a franchise as political as “Star Trek,” one thing we almost never see is the government. We get occasional glimpses of Starfleet’s council — mostly uniformed people at a rectangular table — but almost no sense of how the Federation is governed. Are there elections? Who is in the legislature? How much power does the president have? What kind of factional divisions do they wrestle with and how? The shows and films are pretty silent on this. We’ve seen a few military tribunals within Starfleet, but little about how civilians deal with crime and injustice. With recent years seeing some of the franchise’s more interesting plot lines and casts, it seems clear that Star Trek is still full of energy and ideas. Given the erosion of American democracy and the reshuffling of the international order, there’s no shortage of material for future shows to comment on. I’m not sure we should toast to 60 more years, but cheers to a show that continues to teach us about ourselves. Share

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Assessing Kelp Bed Expansion Around Kodiak Island in Alaska - NCCOS - National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science

Scientists from NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science Kasitsna Bay Laboratory joined a week-long mission to investigate the recent expansion of giant kelp forests in waters surrounding Kodiak Island, Alaska. Bull kelp, the predominant canopy kelp in the region, has been largely replaced by giant kelp in the last couple of decades. While both ... Read more

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Sep 8 • 8:39 AM EDT • Science • coastalscience.noaa.gov
Dodgers notes – Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts, Andy Pages

Shohei Ohtani returned to the Dodgers lineup on Monday night against the Cincinnati Reds after missing four games dealing with lingering issues. He looked much more like himself that he has in a while. He very likely will not return as a pitcher this season, however. The Dodgers are hoping that being able to just […]

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Sep 8 • 8:09 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Arsenal Predicted XI vs Napoli as Arteta Handed Injury Boost

Mikel Arteta faces a selection dilemma in Naples as key stars return. Discover how Bruno Guimaraes and Ebere Eze could spearhead a refreshed lineup seeking European redemption.

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Sep 8 • 8:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Business Beat : KCC offering CNA training in Battle Creek and Coldwater in November

BATTLECREEK, MI (WTVB) - Kellogg Community College is accepting applications now for 12-day CNA training cours...

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Sep 8 • 6:55 AM EDT • Business • wtvbam.com
Tobacco use can undermine fertility, UN health agency warns

Smoking very likely makes it harder to have a baby, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) warned in a new publication issued on Tuesday, highlighting that women who smoke have a 40 per cent higher risk of infertility compared to non-smokers.

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Sep 8 • 6:04 AM EDT • Health • news.un.org
Inhaled Microplastics Linked To Lung Cancer, Study Finds

By Dennis Thompson HealthDay ReporterTUESDAY, Sept. 8, 2026 (HealthDay News) — People with lung cancer are more likely to have hidden deposits of microplastics in their lungs, a new study says. About 66% of lung cancer patients had detectable microplastics found in fluid samples taken from their ...

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Sep 8 • 6:00 AM EDT • Health • usnews.com
Haste ye back to full health, gaffer

This column is usually filled with bad takes, daft footballing opinion and poor attempts at humour, but today I want to be a little more serious. The gaffer, Jim Goodwin, is going through a health issue at present. As a player, Goodwin was never my favourite, in fact, he likely wasn't anyone's favourite.

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Sep 8 • 5:46 AM EDT • Health • sports.yahoo.com
Haste ye back to full health, gaffer

This column is usually filled with bad takes, daft footballing opinion and poor attempts at humour, but today I want to be a little more serious. The gaffer, Jim Goodwin, is going through a health issue at present. As a player, Goodwin was never my favourite, in fact, he likely wasn't anyone's favourite.

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Sep 8 • 5:46 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Alonso thought 'outside the box' against Arsenal

BBC Radio 5 Live's Monday Night Club team have been discussing Chelsea boss Xabi Alonso's "brave" and "fascinating" approach to defending Arsenal's corners. The Spaniard suffered his first defeat as Blues manager on Sunday, as Mikel Arteta's side came from behind to earn a 2-1 win at Emirates Stadium. On Sunday, Chelsea employed a tactic of leaving four players upfield for defensive corners, going man for man in the penalty area.

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Sep 8 • 4:25 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Remembering ‘Superstar’ Bill Dundee and his unlikely Owensboro furniture business

For a time, Owensboro wrestling fans could buy furniture from “Superstar” Bill Dundee — and have him help deliver it.

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Sep 8 • 1:15 AM EDT • Business • owensborotimes.com
Kelly Grappe on election trust, ballot access and "People Over Politics"
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Jackrabbits fueled by missed opportunities

BROOKINGS, S.D. (KELO) — The SDSU Jackrabbits marched into Evanston, Illinois this past weekend to take on Northwestern, and despite many trips inside Wildcat territory the big play never came. The Jacks made seven total trips inside the Northwestern 20-yard line but only came away with a touchdown one time. Head Coach Dan Jackson says […]

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Sep 7 • 11:08 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Pierre native Kienholz posts impressive college debut

PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) — The No. 24 Louisville Cardinals fell to the No. 9 Ole Miss Rebels 41-38 on Monday night, and the quarterback for the losing side is a name many around South Dakota will remember. Pierre High School graduate Lincoln Kienholz earned his first start since he was a Pierre Governor in the […]

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Sep 7 • 10:55 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Pat Fitzgerald Creates New MSU Award After Viral Moment

Pat Fitzgerald found a new way to recognize toughness at Michigan State. He also found one nobody is likely to forget. Fitzgerald introduced a weekly Spartan Warrior honor Monday, with offensive tackle Robert Wright Jr. becoming the first recipient after…

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Sep 7 • 9:36 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Did Marks Save Nets Future With Rockets Trade in 2024?

By reclaiming pivotal draft assets from Houston, Brooklyn secured the building blocks of a new era, pairing Egor Dëmin with Mikel Brown Jr. to anchor a revitalized backcourt.

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Sep 7 • 9:18 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Dodgers on Deck: Tuesday, September 8 vs. Reds

The Dodgers and Reds continue their series, and Tarik Skubal makes his second start of the homestand. Because these two teams play again next week in Cincinnati, Skubal will likely start twice against the Reds. Left-hander Nick Lodolo starts Tuesday for Cincinnati. Tuesday game info

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Sep 7 • 7:58 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Markel expands California workers' comp reach with Midwest General partnership

The deal launches days after California approved its second straight year of rising workers' comp benchmarks

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Sep 7 • 7:25 PM EDT • Business • insurancebusinessmag.com
Taylor Swift Faces New Ed Sheeran Conflict Days Before Travis Kelce’s NFL Opener

Taylor Swift faces an uncomfortable conflict with longtime friend Ed Sheeran days before Travis Kelce begins his 2026 NFL season. The post Taylor Swift Faces New Ed Sheeran Conflict Days Before Travis...

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Sep 7 • 6:46 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Lights, camera, action: Irksome influencers at the US Open are here to stay

Experts say influencers likely to remain a feature of major sports events, despite the anger and irritation they cause.

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Sep 7 • 11:48 AM EDT • Sports • aljazeera.com
Aidan Chiles Details First Game Working With Chip Kelly

Aidan Chiles and Chip Kelly showed flashes of an exciting connection in Northwestern’s season opener, with the quarterback praising Kelly’s playcalling and explaining how the duo worked together in the Wildcats’ 34-18 win.

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Sep 7 • 11:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Is ‘Once a Cheater, Always a Cheater’ Actually True? Here’s What Science Has to Say.

People who cheated in one relationship were three times more likely to cheat again, but researchers say the pattern isn’t destiny.

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Sep 7 • 10:57 AM EDT • Science • vice.com
Arsenal extends their superb head-to-head record over Chelsea

Arsenal have dominated their matches against Chelsea since Mikel Arteta became manager at the club, and the Gunners extended their dominance in the fixture in their latest meeting with the Blues.Mikel...

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Sep 7 • 10:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Supreme Court Could Resolve Marijuana Business Licensing Disputes, Congressional Report Says

A new report from congressional researchers says that a split among circuit courts about whether state marijuana business licensing systems can discriminate against out-of-state residents “likely increases the odds” that the Supreme Court will take up and resolve the issue. The Congressional Research Service (CRS) report, published on Thursday, examines the Dormant Commerce Clause of […]

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Sep 7 • 9:52 AM EDT • Business • marijuanamoment.net
iPhone 18 Pro appears to show new colors in a retail store, but likely fake

A video shared by a leaker with some track record appears to show two of the new iPhone 18 Pro...

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Sep 7 • 9:30 AM EDT • Technology • 9to5mac.com
Why aren’t free-floating planets captured when they fly past stars?

Wandering planets are not likely to be captured because the planet would have to lose energy to become gravitationally bound.

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Sep 7 • 9:00 AM EDT • Science • astronomy.com
'Lang not thinking about what could be

Former Preston goalkeeper Alan Kelly praises striker Callum Lang's "striker's instinct" to score the first of his two goals against Blackburn.

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Sep 7 • 7:47 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Three CEOs on why their unlikely majors were the best choice for careers in business

Lyft’s CEO says choosing a major in these areas “vaccinates you against irrelevance."

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Sep 7 • 7:00 AM EDT • Business • fastcompany.com
What crisis line reports reveal about mental health in the rural West

Mountain West texters are more likely to bring up self-harm in crisis conversations than Americans at large. Rural areas face barriers like geographic isolation and a lack of mental health resources.

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3 CEOs on Why Their Unlikely Majors Were the Best Choice for Careers in Business

Lyft’s CEO says choosing a major in these areas “vaccinates you against irrelevance."

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“Fascinating game” Arteta proud of his players’ performance against Chelsea

Mikel Arteta is proud of his Arsenal players after they came back from a goal down to beat Chelsea in the Premier League yesterday, describing the fixture as a game he thoroughly enjoyed.Chelsea opene...

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Sep 7 • 5:30 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Roma Line Up Two Acquisitions for the January Window

Roma are more likely to wait till January to further bolster their squad than to sign a free agent, even though they are evaluating a pair, and Jayden Oosterwolde and Endrick remain on their radar.Acc...

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Sep 7 • 5:05 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Everton's unlikely new hero's journey to Merseyside

There was some bemusement among supporters when Everton announced the arrival of Ainsley Maitland-Niles, who has endured something of a nomadic career since making his professional debut for Arsenal in a Champions League tie against Galatasaray in 2014. Following the retirement of Seamus Coleman at the end of last season, Everton chief executive Angus Kinnear spoke about taking their time to find a replacement. When they eventually settled on Maitland-Niles, it was not the coup supporters had envisaged after a tedious, summer-long search.

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Sep 7 • 4:51 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Odegaard back to his 'very best' for Arsenal

It is surely too early in the season to get carried away, and there are likely to be bigger tests ahead for Mikel Arteta's side. Against Chelsea, they had to find a different way to win after £117m signing Morgan Rogers fired the visitors into a second-minute lead at Emirates Stadium on Sunday. Former Manchester United and England player Ashley Young said Odegaard's form will be key for Arsenal this season.

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Sep 7 • 3:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Mikel Arteta Issues Cristhian Mosquera Injury Update After Chelsea Win

Cristhian Mosquera was missing as Arsenal beat Chelsea at the Emirates, with Mikel Arteta confirming the defender is dealing with a muscular problem.

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Mueller, offensive line power Lynx to win over Knights

BRANDON, S.D. (KELO) — Saturday night saw a ranked 11AAA showdown with No. 1 Brandon Valley downing third-ranked O’Gorman, 34-21. Ryder Mueller was the star of the show for the Lynx, posting 228 yards and three touchdowns on the ground and a 71 yard recieving TD. Head coach Matt Christensen was confident in Mueller’s game […]

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Sep 6 • 11:52 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Canaries draw Kansas City to open postseason play

MOORHEAD, MN (CANARIES) — The Sioux Falls Canaries are headed to the Miles Wolff Cup Playoffs for the fourth consecutive season and for the eighth time in franchise history. The Birds will open postseason play against West Division regular season champion Kansas City. The Canaries (50-49) will host the Monarchs (58-41) for Game 1 of […]

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Sep 6 • 11:50 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
USD soccer takes down Drake in Senior Day shutout

VERMILLION, S.D. (USD) — South Dakota women’s soccer closed out its two-match homestand in style Sunday, defeating Drake 2-0 at First Bank & Trust Soccer Complex on Senior Day. The Coyotes earned their third win of the season while handing the Bulldogs, the Missouri Valley Conference preseason favorite, their third loss of the season. The Coyotes […]

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Sep 6 • 11:49 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
SDSU soccer match versus Idaho canceled

BROOKINGS, S.D. (KELO) — The South Dakota State soccer match on Sunday, Sept. 6, versus Idaho has been canceled due to persistent weather conditions in the region. The Jackrabbits and Vandals played the first 45 minutes of regulation without interruption. SDSU freshman Stella Braddock scored a goal in the 37th minute on a header, courtesy of a corner […]

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Sep 6 • 11:48 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Early deficit too much for Canaries to overcome

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Lincoln scored 13 runs in the second inning and never looked back, topping the Sioux Falls Canaries 22-11 at the Birdcage. The Saltdogs scored twice in the top of the first before Grady Mee singled to bring home Michael Curialle in the bottom half. Lincoln sent 19 batters to the plate […]

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Sep 6 • 11:12 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
White Voters Are Twice as Likely as Black Voters to Follow Politics Closely

We asked voters how closely they follow government and current affairs, and we have the answers, visualised just for you.

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Sep 6 • 11:00 PM EDT • Politics • thecommonsense.co.za
Shohei Ohtani might return to lineup Monday, but ‘unlikely’ to pitch again this season

LOS ANGELES — Shohei Ohtani is out of the Dodgers lineup on Sunday for a fourth straight day, but has progressed enough that he could start again at designated hitter as early as Monday night against the Cincinnati Reds. But it’s becoming increasingly likely that Ohtani does not pitch again this season. Ohtani has dealt […]

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Sep 6 • 8:43 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Ranking Bucks' Most Important Building Blocks for New Rebuild

Ryan Rollins tops the list, with Kel'el Ware, Brayden Burries, the Miami picks and Nate Ament behind him.

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Sep 6 • 8:16 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Chelsea Handed Harsh Truth After Loss to Arsenal

Chelsea has been handed a harsh truth after losing the derby against Arsenal on Sunday, Sept. 6. The Blues visited the Gunners on Matchday 3 of the 2026-27 Premier League season, and Mikel Arteta’s team came away with the victory despite Xabi Alonso’s side being the first to open the scoring.In the second minute, Morgan […] The post Chelsea Handed Harsh Truth After Loss to Arsenal appeared first on HEAVY.

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The core anti-Pangram constituency is phony writers

Welcome to The Closing Argument, our verdict on the news, plus everything The Argument published and appeared in this week. The Verdict, by Kelsey Piper A lot of people hate AI for drowning the internet in slop and displacing human creatives. You might think that these people would be thrilled by a program that can identify and flag AI-generated work. But many people who hate AI also hate Pangram, an impressively accurate AI detector that produces very few false positives, according to high-quality independent research. This loathing found its most recent expression in a bizarre Wired article that amplifies a wide range of false arguments from Pangram skeptics: that AI detectors are racist (they’re not) or ableist (they’re not)1 or don’t work (this one does)2. Rather than starting from the premise that it would be really valuable to have a working AI detector and scrutinizing Pangram to make sure it lives up to that promise, the article starts from the premise that Pangram obviously has bad vibes and sets out to discover why. (One answer: The CEO microwaved lunch during an interview!) Why aren’t writers who resent Pangram more eager to distinguish themselves from posters who are having ChatGPT ghostwrite all their work? There are a few different things at play, but I think one key dynamic is this: These are often the same people. A core constituency for arguments like Wired’s is “writers” who are using AI to write their posts but resent this fact being made public. They stand to lose from AI detectors because AI detectors call them out. Share When Substack announced a partnership with Pangram, a sizable fraction of the platform’s authors rose up in outrage. Some people had experience with other AI detectors that didn’t work, and some felt that AI writing ought to be encouraged — both of which are fair enough. But the fury was fueled by authors passionately insisting that Pangram kept wrongly accusing them on almost every post they published. Pangram can be wrong, especially on short passages. But in the overwhelming majority of cases where Pangram looked at a whole blog post rather than a single paragraph, the program correctly detected work as AI. Even if we can’t be 100% sure in any individual case, we can notice the trend in the aggregate. Wired quotes Sam Illingworth, a professor of critical AI literacy at Edinburgh Napier University, who said, “I don’t think [AI detectors] work. … I think that detectors are prejudiced against certain people.” This spring, he said that he used AI for research and editing; this summer he acknowledged that in addition to research and editing, he also uses it “now and then for a turn of phrase I keep.” Pangram informs us that most of his posts are 100% AI-written (some are mixed AI-and-human) and that 100% AI-written posts started appearing last year. The favorable interpretation is that, as someone whose recent work Pangram consistently mistakes for AI, Illingworth sees Pangram’s flaws firsthand. The unfavorable interpretation is that the tool’s credibility trades off against his own, because its account of who writes his posts is not consistent with his. Illingworth is not alone in insisting the detector does not work. “It’s a Monday night in late July, and I’m pasting my own Substack draft into an AI detector for the first time. Not because I’m worried. Because I’m curious. I wrote every word of it myself, the way I write everything, out loud in my head first, in a rhythm that still carries the accent of a language I learned to think in before I learned to write in this one,” begins one Substack post by an author indignant that Pangram flags her writing as AI. “That’s the part I had to sit with before I could write this.” If you, like me, have worked with AIs a lot, you won’t even need Pangram there. The author of that piece is AI. It is obviously AI! I checked 10 other posts on the blog, and they were also obviously AI! “I have spent 22 years as an award-winning author and essayist. And now this bullshit tool that learned from MY writing is going to accuse me of plagiarism,” popular Substack writer Carlyn Beccia wrote in an anti-Pangram post. “For the last and final time, AI DETECTORS DO NOT WORK.” Here’s what her writing sounded like in 2020: “Most success stories revolve around one person who believed enough in you to say — give it a try. We call these people muses, but they are so much more than that. They are the strong man giants whose shoulders we stand on so we can see the horizon. Throughout the editing process, I am sure my editor felt less like a giant of greatness and more like Atlas with the world on her shoulders.” Pangram says it was 100% human-written. (So were other articles of hers in 2020.) And here’s what it sounds like now: “And then there is the reshuffling, which sounds like paperwork until you remember that empires have always loved paperwork. The Trump regime recently moved special education oversight from the Education Department to HHS. That is not a minor bureaucratic transfer. It changes the frame.”3 Pangram says this is mostly AI. I am not convinced that Pangram is wrong. In my own experience, Pangram is very effective on long texts — if it marks a long essay as AI, the essay was either written by AI or deliberately written to sound like AI. On tweet-length or paragraph-length texts, it’s not perfectly reliable. It seems to work just as well for non-native English speakers as for native speakers. While I have seen dozens of claims of pre-2022 text returning a positive result on Pangram, I have tried repeatedly to corroborate those and have never once succeeded. To be clear, I’m absolutely not saying that complaining about Pangram suggests a writer is a cheat. There are plenty of other concerns. Most are mistakenly premised, such as the false claim that Pangram trains on work you put into it, but others are reasonable: It’s unreliable on sufficiently short text segments; it creates an internet witch-hunt mentality when there are defensible uses of AI; people who are open about their AI use are sometimes blamed, when the only people really doing something wrong are the ones who hide it; and it isn’t perfect, so a single positive result shouldn’t be taken as decisive proof of misconduct. I’m happy to concede that Pangram is imperfect and possible to over-rely on. If an author’s posts are mostly non-AI and one scans as partially AI, this could be a mistake. It’s also possible to defeat Pangram with intentional effort. If you think we need something more robust and more reliable, fine! But if you don’t like AI and don’t like Pangram, your attitude really ought to be that it’s a shame that our existing tools for AI detection are imperfect, and it’s important to invent better ones. If your stance is instead that AI is evil and so is looking for AI, then ultimately you’re contributing to the sloppification of the internet. You’re making it harder for people who write their own text to distinguish themselves, and providing cover for authors who are definitely not writing their own text. Subscribe Top stories this week, by Kobe Yank-Jacobs Commentators often worry that the decline of reading could mean the decline of liberal democracy — but deliberative governance actually predated widespread literacy. This week, Maibritt Henkel pointed out that many liberal cultures thrive on a culture of raucous, interactive debate, which can happen in-person as easily, if not more so, than in text. Read on, dear reader, to learn more. It may actually cheer you up: [ ](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/reading-wont-save-liberalism) [ Reading won’t save liberalism ](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/reading-wont-save-liberalism) Maibritt Henkel · Sep 1 [ Read full story ](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/reading-wont-save-liberalism) It used to be bad to downplay climate change (if we mean denying its reality). Today, it’s actually good to downplay climate change (if we mean keeping the issue out of political fights so we can make real progress). This counterintuitive view is called “climate hushing,” and contributor Alex Trembath argued that it’s the key to enacting good policy going forward. 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Columnist Matthew Yglesias explains: [ ](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/when-economic-liberty-means-central) [ When "economic liberty" means central planning ](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/when-economic-liberty-means-central) Matthew Yglesias · Aug 31 [ Read full story ](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/when-economic-liberty-means-central) 🌟Abundance Wins of the Week🌟 Shout out to my home state of California, whose legislature passed two housing bills this week. One requires a housing density minimum in transit-oriented areas of the state’s most transit-rich cities (Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, San Diego, and Long Beach). Another bill closes two common loopholes used by third parties to delay housing projects, including an opportunity to challenge maps of a given lot created by the developer after a project has been approved. Shout out to our big-state rival, Texas, where pro-housing SB 785 took effect this week. The new state law requires municipalities to have at least one district permitted for manufactured housing without a special permit. This will promote zoning changes in 44% of municipalities. The company Fervo Energy signed a deal with Google for what is set to be the world’s largest enhanced geothermal facility, proving a technology can work at a scale that could be crucial to a decarbonized, energy-abundant economy. Share Worth watching… This week, forecasting legend Nate Silver joined Jerusalem, Matt, and Jeremiah on a crowded episode of the pod. It was a party. And speaking of parties, our round table debated the factional lines within the Democratic Party: Is it possible to be center-left and also anti-establishment? Watch or listen to find out: The Rio Grande Valley in Texas is one of the areas that swung hardest toward Trump in 2024, but musician Bobby Pulido is running to flip it back. Right now, The Argument/Split Ticket’s model has him running 1.1 points behind his Republican opponent in a district Trump won by 18 points. Tune in to find out how he differs from national Democrats and what he thinks he can to do win this seat. On Thursday, Bernie Sanders was among the first politicians to call for a ban on superintelligence. My guest this week, Andrea Miotti, has been lobbying to ban superintelligence for several years, most recently in the U.K., U.S., and Canada. I asked him how he gets legislators to take speculative risks seriously, and we dug into what plans might look like to actually pass a ban. Listen to learn more: What’s News with The Argument The Argument recommends, by Kobe Yank-Jacobs If we ever lose track of Justin Zuckerman, I’ll have the team split up and check all the movie theaters in the city. I’m shocked (and a little jealous) at how often he gets out to see good cinema. This week, he brings us It Ends, a “horror-ish movie,” which he described as a “Gen Z Waiting for Godot.” I was intrigued before he added that it was “funny, dark and existential” — at which point I was fully locked in. I guess I also had existential themes on the mind this week. One morning, a single line from a poem I read long ago just came to me: “Is death a stretch of time in which a life is just a flash?” The poem is called “From 20,000 Feet” by Heather McHugh. I suggest the version in The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry, which, by tradition, my best friend and I always bring backpacking, extra weight be damned. We’ll stay thematically dark for just one more rec from senior editor John Robert Thomason, whose upcoming trip to Baltimore reminded him to suggest Michael Clune’s memoir White Out (about being addicted to heroin in Baltimore in the 1990s). Ben Lerner’s blurb called it _“_Disturbing, brilliant, hilarious—it’s as if Proust had written Jesus’ Son.” John told me this “seems accurate, with the caveat that I’ve never read Proust.” I, personally, have also shelved Proust until retirement. At this point, I was a little concerned for the team since all of us tossed out such psychologically grim material — maybe we’re all down about the end of summer — but thankfully, at least a few of us were into more upbeat selections. Milan Singh recommended Made In’s 5-quart stainless clad saucier, suggesting he had some fun in the kitchen. Jeremiah Johnson asked if he could recommend yet more Carly Rae Jepsen. Once denied, he offered up Game Changer instead_,_ calling it “the most wildly creative game show, maybe in the entire history of the genre.” Eli Richman mentioned _Lucky, “_a B-tier show with an A-tier cast and an S-tier theme song.” I suppose he was recommending the song, Horns of a Bull. Still, despite these cheerier recs, I couldn’t help but be concerned that we were subconsciously worried about racing toward summer’s end — the end of swim trunks and splashing around. Then a message landed reminding me of the three-day weekend to come. A whole extra day for sunshine. One more swim in the lake. I was grateful this called to mind yet another line from a poem, one by Mary Oliver, the patron saint of every gorgeous summer day (and about whom a documentary is now out). Speaking to God in the poem “Thirst,” she wrote: grant me, in your mercy,a little more time. Love for the earthand love for you are having such a longconversation in my heart. We have merch! We have quarter-zips, keychains, hats, and stickers. Each one is a great conversation starter in its own way. Buy them here. 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[ Read full story ](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/god-is-back-on-the-timeline) 1 This was a legitimate thing to worry about, but doesn’t seem to be a problem given the actual technology: Marijke Van Vlasselaer, Filip Van Droogenbroeck, and Bram Spruyt’s 2026 paper looks at whether Pangram is less accurate when evaluating the work of non-native speakers of English. It isn’t. That’s because Pangram isn’t really looking at how “unusual” a piece of writing is but whether it has the characteristic patterns of LLMs. The Wired article makes an odd gesture at a different Pangram-is-racist argument. There were several controversies this summer during which upcoming books were canceled after being discovered to be AI-written: “The three novels mentioned earlier — Shy Girl, Daggermouth, and Call Me, easily publishing’s biggest AI-detection scandals — were all written by writers of color.” But come on! As Zvi Mowshowitz put it: “They were not primarily written by people of color. They were primarily written by AIs.” That’s the whole problem! And as my colleague Jeremiah Johnson recently observed with respect to Cambridge’s Arday scandal, a community being unwilling to call out fraud if it’s perpetuated by people of color is not an anti-racist tendency; it is ultimately quite racist. 2 Many non-Pangram detectors don’t work, but many possible airplane designs also don’t work, and no one considers this a general argument against aviation; the thing that matters is whether any detection works. 3 The phrase “empires have always loved” mysteriously became all the rage in the last few years. See here, here, here, here and here. Before 2025, the only use of that phrase I have been able to find is a single Tweet. The logic of the sentence, too, is incoherent in an AI-characteristic way. “...sounds like paperwork, until you remember that empires have always loved paperwork”? Does remembering that make it sound less like paperwork? It’s a craft-ful sentence, but what is it actually saying??

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Mikel Arteta hails Arsenal’s display in win against Chelsea

Mikel Arteta hailed a “beautiful” win after Arsenal came from behind to beat Chelsea 2-1 at the Emirates Stadium. The Premier League champions required a response after conceding for the first time this season, Morgan Rogers stunning home fans into silence with a volleyed goal after 77 seconds before the hosts hit back against a Chelsea side still finding its feet under Xabi Alonso.

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After transfer worries, Everton have an unlikely new hero

Not even Ainsley Maitland-Niles could have imagined his Premier League return for Everton would have played out like it did.

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Arteta hails Arsenal as ‘joy to watch’ after Chelsea win

Mikel Arteta has said his Arsenal team are a ‘joy to watch’ as the Premier League champions extended their perfect start to the season with a win against Chelsea.Arsenal overcame Chelsea in a grip...

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