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Texas Business Court is a powerhouse for resolving civil disputes

White & Case partner Sean Gorman published an article in Bloomberg Law detailing how the Texas Business Court is uniquely positioned to handle complex, high-value disputes.

Jun 3 • 8:00 AM EDT • Business • whitecase.com

The cult of objectivity has broken consciousness science

With 22 competing theories and no consensus in sight, the science of consciousness is lost. In this exclusive IAI interview, Berkeley psychedelics researcher and bestselling author of a new book on consciousness Michael Pollan insists that even though consciousness lies beyond traditional forms of scientific investigation, we should resist becoming dualists who see it as something radically different from ordinary stuff in the world. Instead, he makes the case for reimagining science itself: it must stop reaching for objective descriptions of physical reality, and instead embrace subjectivity as the indispensable core of all inquiry. Alasdair Craig: How did your experiences with psychedelics get you interested in consciousness?Michael Pollan: One of the things that happens on psychedelics is that they foreground consciousness. What formerly seemed perfectly transparent and ever present—and yet, non-existent, as water is to fish—suddenly you see it. The metaphor I use in the book is that psychedelics sponge the windscreen. Suddenly you realize: wow, there’s a windscreen, there is this phenomenon that’s mediating my relationship to reality. This is not an unusual realization on psychedelics. I think a lot of people are called to think about consciousness after psychedelic experiences. So that was the proximate inspiration for A World Appears: A Journey Into Consciousness (2026).And then there was a more specific way in which psychedelics influence the book. That was a particular experience I had on psilocybin. I had the sensation that the plants in my garden were conscious and returning my gaze, with their own point of view and agency, and I got curious as to how to evaluate an insight like that. I mean, what’s the truth quotient of insights you have on psychedelics? And I was reading William James—who, of course, wrote beautifully about mystical experience—and he said, we can’t judge the metaphysics here, but we should pay attention to two criteria: (1) How useful is it to think this is true? He was a pragmatist, of course. And (2) can we subject it to other ways of knowing to validate it? Because maybe we should treat these insights as hypotheses. And that’s kind of how I approach psychedelics, as a great generator of hypotheses, but they need to be tested against other ways of knowing. And so that led me down this long path exploring the science of plant intelligence and plant sentience.AC: I love your phrase, “smudging the windowpane of conscious experience.” So do you now start to think, actually, even when I’m not on psychedelics, I’m just seeing a screen all the time, which is not reality, but rather is my conscious experience, behind which reality is hidden?MP: Well, you know, not when I’m brushing my teeth and making breakfast! But yes, in meditation, certainly. I mean, one of the things you realize is that my experience happens to be this way now, but it could be another way. And many things can affect it. My morning coffee changes the screen in various ways, sharpens certain things.___The only tool we have to understand consciousness is consciousness.___There’s this wonderful metaphor in Aldous Huxley’s book, The Doors of Perception, where he thinks we channel consciousness, and that what the brain does is edit it, and there’s a reducing valve. And psychedelics open the reducing valve wider. I don’t know that I’m ready to buy into the idea that consciousness exists outside brains, but I do love that metaphor because there are times when you are more conscious than others. I know I’ve switched from window pane to valve, but you know, a camera aperture can open wider or narrower. And I do have a sense of that. I have a sense of when I’m being less conscious, and when I’m being more conscious, by which I mean, you know, more present, taking in more sensory information. So when you start thinking about consciousness as a matter of degree, that changes things also.I think when we scroll on social media, obviously, we’re conscious. But minimally so, because we don’t have to generate our own thoughts. We’re basically taking these little hits from other people and thinking their thoughts.The process of writing this book made me kind of relativize everyday consciousness as just one type, which is exactly what William James said. Normal consciousness is one type, separated by the flimsiest of screens from the other types.AC: If we stick with the metaphor of the smudge on the window that you get when you take psychedelics, it seems like we’re saying that consciousness has become like an object that you’re looking at, right? You’re looking at the smudge and that just is consciousness. But sometimes we’ll talk about consciousness as a state that you’re in, rather than an object you can perceive. You’re either conscious or you’re not conscious. So it’s difficult to really know what sort of thing we’re talking about when we talk about consciousness, right?MP: Yeah. When you say that consciousness is an object, what’s the subject? Consciousness also? The only tool we have to understand consciousness is consciousness. So we’re in a closed loop and when we get a perspective on consciousness, we’re not achieving any distance from it. That’s one of the problems with studying consciousness. Science is predicated on an objective, God’s eye view of things, and you never get that. There’s no such thing. SUGGESTED VIEWING The brain filters consciousness With Àlex Gómez-Marín But, yeah, there is this sense, I think, that consciousness is something you can approach. Certainly, when you’re writing and trying to recreate a conscious experience, it’s a fiction, but you’re standing back from it, and looking at it. But there’s no real subject-object distinction.AC: That’s so interesting, because when philosophers start talking about consciousness, they often talk about what they call “qualia”, which is their word for the felt experience of, say, the color red. And I think that way of speaking often makes us think of the qualia as an object, which you can see out there: the redness of red. But, as you say, we also want to collapse the subject-object distinction when we talk about consciousness. So there’s something strange going on here…MP: Oh, yeah, there are many strange things going on! *AC: Let’s talk about the varieties of consciousness. Apart from perceptions, there are, pains, emotions, thoughts, and so on. What is it that holds all this diversity together so that they all count as instances of consciousness? What is it that they all have in common?MP: Yeah, that’s a really good question. I mean, there is sensory information, right? Which we perceive coming from the world outside ourselves. And then there’s internal information, which is what’s called interoception. And this is very important too. This is where feelings come from—what are sometimes called homeostatic feelings—that are intended to get the brain to keep us in these narrow ranges of temperature and glucose and so on. That’s a very important part of consciousness. And according to some researchers, who I think are probably right, this is where consciousness begins, with these very primal feelings, like hunger and thirst and warmth and itch, and things like that. And then there’s this third thing, which is our thinking about thinking.And what holds all this together is, I think, the sense of self. Consciousness generates a self: it is probably an organizing principle. All this stuff is happening to the self. It’s a construct, I think, but it is very useful. It can connect all these different streams of consciousness to a single being or a place, metaphorically speaking.* AC: The first half of your book is about the science of consciousness. Is consciousness just another thing, like black holes or the origin of life, which we don’t yet understand, but which we should have every hope that science will one day get to the bottom of, or is there something special about consciousness that makes this unlikely?MP: It depends how you define science. As we define science now, it’s going be very difficult. Science since Galileo has had a set of rules or assumptions, which is that the proper remit of science is to deal with the objective, quantifiable, third-person world. And the physical sciences have done amazing work under that set of limitations. Galileo—for tactical reasons, not for philosophical reasons—said science should not deal with the soul, which at the time was what consciousness was considered to be. So what is subjective, what is qualitative, what is first person, we’re going to leave to the church, he said. And this was a good agreement, and it probably kept many scientists from getting burned at the stake. But it leaves science in an awkward spot, now that it wants to venture into that territory of qualities, of first-person experience. And I don’t think it has the proper tools. I think it will have to add to its toolkit in some way, and find a way to bring in phenomenology, or lived experience and introspection, which science is usually dismissive of.The challenge—we alluded to it earlier—is that the only tool you have to study consciousness with is consciousness. And what I mean by that is, the whole scientific enterprise is a manifestation of consciousness. As much as scientists like to flatter themselves with this idea that they attain a godlike perspective on what they study, when it comes to consciousness, there’s no such thing. And it’s fine for all the things you can step outside of and study from that perspective. But two areas it won’t work are consciousness and cosmology.___It could be that we live in this anomaly of not believing nature is conscious. And maybe psychedelics are teaching us something we’ve forgotten.___With cosmology, too, you have to study the universe from inside the universe. It’s not that cosmologists haven’t made progress. We know a lot about the age of the universe and expansion and things like that. But we can’t penetrate what happened before the Big Bang. We just don’t have the tools because we can’t stand outside.The fact that there are 22 full-scale theories of consciousness tells you all you need to know: we’re kind of lost. And I was surprised to find that we are more lost than I thought we were when I started this. I thought that there’d be leading theories, or that we had experiments that we could conduct that would nail some of this down. And the fact is, we don’t.So, I don’t know if science can solve it. But, of course, we can change the rules of science. A really influential book for me was a book called The Blind Spot, by two physicists, Marcello Gleiser and Adam Frank, and a philosopher, Evan Thompson. It’s a reminder that science is a social practice. It’s organized in a certain way and it can be organized in a different way. But it has this huge blind spot at the center of it, which is its failure to recognize that it is a form of consciousness itself, and it doesn’t have a good way of taking account of lived experience.AC: On the one hand, I think you want to resist traditional dualism, which would say that consciousness is something magical, something supernatural, right? But on the other hand, you’re accepting that there is this division in reality between the stuff that you can investigate objectively and measure, and so on—the stuff that science has been good at finding out about—and consciousness, which, for some reason, you can’t objectively measure. Some would take this to suggest that the dualism is actually right. Is there a way of reconciling these two strands of your thinking?MP: To call it magical is full of value judgement. I mean, you could just say immaterial. The interesting thing is, I think, that intuitively we’re all dualists. And I don’t know whether that’s because we’re children of Descartes and other cultures are less dualist than we are. Or it may be because that’s how consciousness feels. It feels different than the body. It feels separate from the body. But I don’t think we should trust that intuition.AC: So let’s think about ways that science might be changed to get at consciousness. I suppose the starting point would be the way that you begin the second half of your book. You have this nice line from William James, where he says, “We now begin our study of the mind from within.” Could you give us some sense of the ways of studying the mind from within? What does this involve?MP: I don’t know what that science looks like. But one of the points I’m making is that it depends on the humanities. I found that I learned as much, if not more, about consciousness, from reading novels and poetry. There is a sense of the fullness and complexity of consciousness that you don’t get in any scientific account. I interviewed this stream-of-consciousness writer and I approached her as an expert on consciousness, and she is. So I think that dialogue is really important.I’m reading Ben Lerner’s new novel, Transcription. Just read the first page of this novel: it’s a man falling asleep on a train, going to conduct an interview, and there is the experience of being in the train, facing backwards, there’s the view outside, but there’s a reflection of himself through which he’s seeing outside. There’s the memory of dropping his kids off at school. All this is going on in one moment of consciousness. Scientists aren’t going anywhere near that. But I think it’s useful for them to think about. That’s where we’re trying to go: like, how does such a layered experience happen? You know, it also makes you wonder, could a computer ever do this? And it gives you some doubt.*AC: Before we get to computers, perhaps we could talk briefly about plants. How did you come to feel that they are sentient?MP: Well, it was a psychedelic experience, and it’s not unusual on psychedelics. In fact, there’ve been studies about how people become animists during psychedelic experience. Their belief in animism arises after a single psychedelic experience.You know, most scientists would say this is all a myth. But we have only 400 years of the age of enlightenment and science. Before that, we were animists, and if you go around the world, most indigenous cultures are still animists, and children are animists, by and large, until they go to school. So it could be that we live in this anomaly of not believing nature is conscious. And maybe psychedelics are teaching us something we’ve forgotten.As I said, I wanted to test this idea, and see whether there was conventional scientific evidence for it. And there’s fascinating work going on in a field that calls itself—in a rather cheeky way—plant neurobiology. These are people who fully realize there are no neurons in plants, but they’re trolling conventional botanists! And they’re doing experiments that are demonstrating that plants can learn and remember, which is kind of amazing: how do you store a memory without neurons? They’re finding plants that can solve problems, that can hear and see. In fact, they have 20 senses to our five or six. For example, a bean plant looking for something to twine, and given a pole within eight inches or so of it, knows where that pole is and will aim its spiraling reach at that pole. What is that about? Is it bouncing signals off of it?One of the spookiest things is the fact that the same anesthetics that put us out put plants out. You might think that plants are already out, but they’re not. They’re just slow. If you take a plant with a fast behavior, like a Venus flytrap, and give it an anesthetic, it will stop reacting. So you have to ask yourself, what is lost when the plant is anaesthetized? Some state of alertness, of awareness, of its environment, of reactivity. I’m not prepared to call that consciousness, but maybe it’s sentience—which is a simpler form of consciousness, and involves the ability to sense what’s going on in your environment and assess what’s good and bad for you and act appropriately. That may be a universal quality of life.AC: Let’s turn from plants to AI. You point out that LLMs are trained on the internet rather than direct interactions with reality. You put this really nicely when you say the internet is not the world so much as a shadow cast by the world. So LLMs are living in this kind of shadow world, or in Plato’s cave, as you put it. What’s the significance of this for AI consciousness and moral consideration? And, to recall the beginning of our conversation, if we’re stuck behind a veil or screen of consciousness, are we also stuck in a kind of shadow world?MP: I don’t think they’re the same shadow worlds because our world includes nature and other people. And even if it’s mediated in some ways... There is a reality out there, and we are in relation to it, through consciousness. There’s friction with it. What’s missing from the LLMs is that friction with the real world. There’s more to the world than human representation, which is what they’re dealing with. And that means that so far, AI is a cultural technology for combining thoughts we’ve already had. SUGGESTED VIEWING Cracking the code for thought With Roger Penrose, Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski, Max Tegmark, Güneş Taylor Genuine creativity is more than collage. A lot of what AI does now is tantamount to collage, putting this with that and you know, that’s part of art, certainly. But there are also genuinely new ideas that come into the world that don’t come in through manipulating the representations we already have. So it remains to be seen whether AIs can be truly creative in that more radical sense.But my arguments against AI becoming conscious have to do with the fact that the idea of AI consciousness is based on this faulty metaphor that the brain is a computer. There are dimensions in which the brain is like a computer—it certainly does its share of computation. But computers have this sharp distinction between hardware and software, and brains don’t. In a brain, hardware and software are identical. Every memory is a physical change to the brain. Brains are not interchangeable in the way computers are. So this idea that you could take the consciousness out and somehow run it on another substrate, a silicon substrate, seems foolhardy.Anyway, it’s a more extended argument, and I may be wrong. And when we move to computers that aren’t based on silicon—neuromorphic computers and things like that—all bets may be off.AC: Regarding your point about LLMs being stuck in the world of our representations—the internet or whatever—and not being able to interact with reality, are these representations, the world of the internet, themselves part of reality? We’ve created the internet, but it’s still a real thing that exists. And so while the LLMs may be trapped within that part of reality, they’re nevertheless within reality and interacting with it and so on. So it’s not obvious that there’s a barrier there to them becoming conscious and being creative.MP: Yeah, I mean, if our consciousness is built out of human culture, which is what we’re talking about with all those representations. But I tend to think consciousness comes a bit more out of nature and friction with the natural world, but...AC: So there’s a fundamental divide between the natural world and human artefacts?MP: And we lose track of that, and especially people in this computer world. You know, the people who are creating these AI systems, my guess is they’ve been into video games since the age of three, and they didn’t go outside a lot. And their own contact with nature is somewhat limited. I could be wrong, it’d be a very interesting thing to ask, all the wizards of AI, whether they like to go fishing and hiking and do things like that. Or were they on computers from a very early age? I interviewed Blake Lemoine, the Google engineer who came to believe that LaMDA, the Google LLM out at the time, was conscious and deserved personhood. It was very clear that he didn’t see a distinction between this bubble in which he lived and the real world. And I think we’ve all been distanced from the natural world, and this is taking us even further away. But it’s still there, you know, and we still have bodies, and we’re still mortal, and we don’t live in a simulation.AC: I think that’s a great place to finish. Michael Pollan, thank you very much!

Jun 3 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • iai.tv

grandMA3 And ACT Entertainment’s DisplayStations Support CMU School Of Drama’s Production Of “Company”

Pittsburgh-based Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Drama utilized several grandMA3 consoles for lighting control and DisplayStations for designer stations on its latest production, Stephen Son | Pittsburgh-based Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Drama utilized several grandMA3 consoles for lighting control and DisplayStations for “Company.”

Jun 3 • 7:16 AM EDT • Entertainment • livedesignonline.com

The best museums in the world for art, history, and science

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Jun 2 • 4:10 PM EDT • Science • qz.com

Sheinbaum tells US ambassador to avoid political interference in drug trafficking dispute

Mexico’s president says ambassadors must avoid political affairs after Ron Johnson’s post on drug trafficking dispute

Jun 2 • 1:18 PM EDT • Politics • theguardian.com

Motorola Edge (2026) for US and Canada unveiled with smaller 6.3" display

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Jun 2 • 11:34 AM EDT • Technology • gsmarena.com

The screenless Camp Snap 2 is slimmer and comes with more filters

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Jun 2 • 11:00 AM EDT • Technology • theverge.com

How Science Works

The 2nd Weather and Climate Livestream is now underway. It is organized by a group of early-career researchers concerned about declining funding for the field and eager to demonstrate how weather and climate research makes a difference in our lives. Last year’s event was a great success, drawing terrific press coverage including a piece in the NY Times. This year features a strong lineup of talks aimed at a general audience — I highly recommend tuning in. Share I gave a talk yesterday about How Science Works in Three Steps. You can see the short presentation here (I’ve appended a transcript below): And please tune into the livestream here. It runs through tomorrow at 6 pm ET. Thanks for reading The Climate Brink! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support our work. Subscribe Cleaned up transcript: Thank you, and thanks to everyone tuning in. I want to talk about something I think a lot of people don’t really understand: how science actually works. Arguments over any scientific topic — climate change, vaccines, you name it — revolve around competing claims. For climate change, the claims are: Is the Earth warming? Are humans to blame? What will the impacts be? Over the last 150 years, the scientific community has developed a remarkably robust method for sorting out which claims are true and which aren’t. That method is what I want to walk through. So how does science generate knowledge? If you ask a high schooler, they’ll give you the version they learned in ninth grade: an individual scientist forms a hypothesis, runs an experiment, and draws a conclusion. That’s more or less what happens at the individual level, though in practice it’s more iterative — you design, test, and refine all at once, landing on a slightly different idea each time until you reach a conclusion about whatever hypothesis you’ve ended up with. But this isn’t science. It’s only step one. Any individual scientist can make mistakes — scientists are human. Maybe there’s a bug in the code, maybe there’s an error in the experiment. Just because someone ran an experiment and reached a conclusion doesn’t mean it’s right, and scientists don’t treat a single result as settled truth. Step two is peer review, the first layer of quality control. The scientist writes up what they did and submits it to a journal, which sends the paper to other experts in the field. Those experts judge whether the methods are sound, whether it properly references prior work, and whether the conclusions actually follow from the data. Ask any scientist and they’ll tell you peer review is miserable — the comments come back brutal, often harsh, and you have to revise and resubmit, sometimes multiple times, before an editor finally accepts the paper. Peer review catches an immense amount of bad science, but it can’t catch all of it. Reviewers get sloppy or overworked, they miss obvious mistakes, and they can’t catch hidden errors — a bug in the code, a misread instrument. So a peer-reviewed paper making it into a journal doesn’t mean the paper is right. Nobody treats a single paper as the final word. That’s where step three comes in: the crucible of science. Important results get retested by the broader community. If you publish something interesting, it gets dissected. Sometimes people try to reproduce your work directly but more often they test its implications. If someone claims X is true, and that implies that Y is also true, then scientists will go check Y. If a claim survives this gauntlet long enough, it becomes accepted. That’s how we generate knowledge. Let me give an example: the ozone hole. In 1985 — and I doubt many people watching were around then, but I remember it well — Joe Farman and his colleagues published observations from Antarctica showing that a huge chunk of ozone was disappearing every year. This was shocking because most atmospheric chemists had expected ozone loss to occur at mid-latitudes and high altitudes, not over the South Pole. When scientists see something they don’t understand, they rush to explain it, and several competing hypotheses quickly appeared in the peer-reviewed literature. One pointed to chlorine chemistry from chlorofluorocarbons. A second blamed nitrogen chemistry, possibly driven by solar proton events — meaning the sun was responsible. A third argued it wasn’t chemistry at all but dynamics: winds were carrying naturally low-ozone air from the lower atmosphere up into the stratosphere. Then the community went to work testing which theory could survive the crucible. Aircraft flew into the ozone hole and found no nitrogen, ruling out the nitrogen theory. Measurements showed the air in the polar vortex was descending, not rising — which would bring high-ozone air down, eliminating the dynamics theory. Meanwhile, those same flights measured enormous amounts of chlorine, strongly correlated with exactly the regions where ozone was being destroyed. That became known as the “smoking gun” paper, and it established that chlorine chemistry was the cause. Through this process, a consensus emerged. And it’s worth being clear that this consensus is organic. There’s no vote, no poll, no meeting where it gets decided. Scientists go to conferences, talk to one another, and independently arrived at the same answer. It’s the ultimate free market of ideas. After the consensus was established, the peer-reviewed literature doesn’t even mention the rival theories — it simply takes chlorine chemistry as given. That’s what a consensus looks like. It doesn’t mean every single scientist agrees, but it does mean there’s no longer any legitimate debate. So where can you see what scientists actually think? It’s all in the peer-reviewed literature, which contains the entire historical record of the argument: the discovery, the competing theories, the debate, the testing, and finally the community coalescing around one answer. But there’s a lot of room for misrepresentation. You can dig up an old paper claiming the ozone hole was caused by dynamics and wave it around as if there still was a debate about the cause of the ozone hole — without mentioning that the idea was disproven long ago and that even its own authors no longer believe it. There’s a bigger problem, though: the peer-reviewed literature is written in a language I call “nerd.” It’s extremely hard to read — honestly, some of it is hard for me to follow. It takes graduate students years to work through the literature in a single field, so we can’t expect policymakers or ordinary people to do it. This is where scientific assessments come in. The most famous is the IPCC — the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The job of an assessment is to read and summarize the peer-reviewed literature, synthesizing what’s settled, what’s been disproven, and what remains genuinely debated. To ensure the assessments accurately summarize the peer-reviewed literature, assessments are written by large teams, which are far less prone to bias than individuals and which dilute the influence of any one scientist with an axe to grind. The teams are deliberately assembled to avoid stacking the deck, and the reports themselves go through multiple rounds of peer review. That rigorous process is exactly why you can trust them and why people consider the IPCC to be the gold standard of what we know about the climate system. An assessment produced through a different process may well not be credible. You can even watch the consensus evolve across assessments. Take the attribution of warming. The 1990 IPCC report said the observed warming was broadly consistent with model predictions but also comparable to natural variability — in other words, we don’t know whether humans are responsible. By 1995, it concluded that the balance of evidence suggested a discernible human influence — a sentence only a committee could write, and one that barely commits to anything. By 2001, most of the warming over the previous 50 years was judged “likely” due to greenhouse gases; by 2007, “very likely”; by 2013, “extremely likely.” The 2023 report says essentially the same as 2013 — there’s not much stronger language available. So, to wrap up: science is our ultimate tool for deciphering the universe — the most successful method we’ve ever developed for determining what’s true and what isn’t. Our understanding is written into the peer-reviewed literature, so if you want to know what scientists think, that’s where to look. And for those of us who don’t speak nerd, scientific assessments are the Rosetta Stone — they translate nerd into English. Let me open the floor to questions. Thank you.

Jun 2 • 10:35 AM EDT • Science • theclimatebrink.com

Where do the Detroit Lions rank in the NFC?

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Jun 2 • 10:32 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

‘Enough is enough’: Shaq does not hold back his opinion on Angel Reese

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Jun 2 • 9:16 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Asus announces new Android tablet with tandem OLED display

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Jun 2 • 8:34 AM EDT • Technology • notebookcheck.net

Alejandro Garnacho offered to three Serie A giants

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Jun 2 • 1:40 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Business fire on Evansville’s north side Monday

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Jun 1 • 8:30 PM EDT • Business • 14news.com

One fat helped pancreatic cancer grow while another cut disease in half

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Jun 1 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com

2 families say their student at Spring charter school should be named valedictorian over GPA dispute

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Jun 1 • 6:54 PM EDT • Science • abc13.com

Taxpayers Win Against California in Business Location Dispute

Landlords who rented out property in Alaska successfully convinced a tax tribunal in California that they had no business connection to the Golden State and, therefore, shouldn’t have to pay state taxes there.

Jun 1 • 3:55 PM EDT • Business • news.bloombergtax.com

All-New ROG XBOX Ally X20 Bundle Raises the Bar for Gaming Handhelds

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Jun 1 • 1:34 PM EDT • Technology • press.asus.com

Samsung Drops World’s First 4K 360Hz Penta Tandem OLED at Computex, Headlining a 16-Monitor Stack From 8.8 to 49 Inches

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Jun 1 • 4:15 AM EDT • Technology • wccftech.com

Top Litigators & Corporate Attorneys 2026 - Orange County Business Journal

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Jun 1 • 4:00 AM EDT • Business • ocbj.com

Herbal Dispatch Reports First Quarter 2026 Results and Provides Business Update

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Jun 1 • 3:00 AM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com

Jerome Powell uses JFK award speech to warn against political pressure on Fed, courts and schools

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May 31 • 9:55 PM EDT • Politics • politico.com

The Alienware AW3926QW is the world's first 39-inch 5K OLED monitor with an RGB stripe panel

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May 31 • 7:00 PM EDT • Technology • engadget.com

Crow Wing SWCD to host free soil health events

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May 31 • 10:00 AM EDT • Health • brainerddispatch.com

MSI shows MEG Vision X2 AI+: "The World’s First Gaming Desktop with Agentic AI Companion"

MSI MEG Vision X2 AI+ desktop adds a cylindrical AI display MSI has announced the MEG Vision X2 AI+, a new flagship gaming desktop that will be shown at

May 31 • 8:00 AM EDT • Technology • videocardz.com

Three men shot, one fatally, early Sunday at Muncie restaurant

Anyone with related information is asked to call Muncie Police Department detectives at 765-747-4867, or police dispatchers at 765-747-4838.

May 31 • 7:44 AM EDT • Business • thestarpress.com

Modern Graphics Via DisplayLink For Your ISA-Era PC

The monitors used on older computers are now becoming difficult to find, as we doubt anything for MDA, CGA, Hercules, or EGA has been manufactured in decades. Even VGA, though there are plenty of s…

May 31 • 4:00 AM EDT • Technology • hackaday.com

After 22 years, you can finally download Paint.net from the URL 'Paint.net'

All because the original owners made a huge error.

May 31 • 1:45 AM EDT • Technology • xda-developers.com

IPL 2026: Behind the scenes at JioStar — ‘The future of sports broadcasting’

This year's IPL has surpassed 1.1bn viewers across JioStar's television and digital platforms, with feeds pumped out in 12 languages

May 31 • 12:30 AM EDT • Sports • nytimes.com

Erewhon sued in Culver City over a rent dispute

Trendy Erewhon, the reigning Rolls-Royce of grocery stores, has fallen behind in rent payments for its Culver City outpost, its landlord says.

May 30 • 6:00 AM EDT • Business • latimes.com

Illinois cannabis businesses push for regulatory changes as legislative session winds down

Illinois cannabis dispensary owners are urging lawmakers to ease security and surveillance requirements, arguing the costly regulations are outdated and should be modernized as the state's legal cannabis industry matures.

May 29 • 8:24 PM EDT • Business • fox32chicago.com

Adamstown Community Days began Friday evening with rides, food, live entertainment

Adamstown Community Days started Friday evening, featuring rides, food, live entertainment, and a fireworks display planned for Saturday night.

May 29 • 7:34 PM EDT • Entertainment • wgal.com

Eagle business students shine at mock interview event

Morehead State University takes pride in helping Eagles soar after graduation by ensuring they have knowledge in the classroom and opportunities for real-world experience and career preparation. MSU business students with the Elmer R. Smith College of Business & Technology were able to display their preparedness for one of the key steps in the hiring process as they participated in a Mock Interview Event with hiring managers from across the region this spring. Hosted by MSU's Center for Career Development & Experiential Education and hosted by Instructor of Business Communication and Management Dr. Christy L. Trent (Class of 2006), the event allowed 33 undergraduate business students to sharpen their interviewing skills in a high-pressure situation. For more information, contact the Center for Career Development & Experiential Education at careerservices@moreheadstate.edu or 606-783-2233.

May 29 • 2:13 PM EDT • Business • moreheadstate.edu

Galaxy Z Fold 8 series may ‘significantly’ improve the display crease

A new report claims that the Galaxy Z Fold 8 delivers a “significant” improvement to the display crease, on par...

May 29 • 12:45 PM EDT • Technology • 9to5google.com

How CWS Supports Mental Health for Communities in Crisis: Healing Hidden Wounds

People around the world experiencing conflict, crisis and trauma need mental health support to prevent severe, lifelong effects. CWS’s locally led, trauma-informed mental health programs help people affected by crisis cope, recover and begin to rebuild their lives. Mental health is as essential to well-being as physical health. For people around the world who have been exposed to displacement, disaster, … Read More

May 29 • 10:40 AM EDT • Health • cwsglobal.org

Chicago prosecutor denies investigation into E. Jean Carroll, disputing reports

Multiple reports said the Justice Department was investigating whether she had lied during the course of civil litigation against Trump

May 29 • 8:47 AM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com

Jill Zarin Suing Business Partner Who Sued Her: Details

Jill has an ongoing dispute. The post Jill Zarin Suing Business Partner Who Sued Her: Details appeared first on Reality Tea.

May 29 • 8:26 AM EDT • Business • yahoo.com

Science-Driven Plays Put Reason and Emotion on Display

This year's Mach 33 festival presented six evocative new plays

May 29 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • caltech.edu

The Witcher 4 is the work of over twice as many CD Projekt staff as The Witcher 3, in a fresh display of how blockbluster team sizes have ballooned

The Witcher 4 is the work of over twice as many CD Projekt developers as The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, the company's execut…

May 29 • 7:20 AM EDT • Technology • rockpapershotgun.com

SRAM vs the UCI: How a dispute over gear ratios could change global sport forever

Why the outcome of a relatively obscure legal battle could have far-reaching consequences

May 29 • 5:01 AM EDT • Sports • nytimes.com

SRAM vs the UCI: How a dispute over gear ratios could change global sport forever

Why the outcome of a relatively obscure legal battle could have far-reaching consequences

May 29 • 5:01 AM EDT • Sports • nytimes.com

Jill Biden on that disastrous debate and Joe's decision to withdraw

Walking off stage after the debate with Trump, Joe Biden whispered, \

May 29 • 3:01 AM EDT • Politics • usatoday.com

The Science of Flavored ENDS: A Response to Bloomberg, Durbin, and the Senate Letter on FDA's Recent Actions

The stakes: half a million American lives every year Cigarette smoking kills roughly 480,000 Americans annually, and nearly 28 million American adults still smoke. Peer-reviewed population modeling estimates that displacing combustion with substantially less harmful nicotine delivery would avert between 1.6 and 6.6 million premature deaths and recover 20.8 to 86.7 million life-years by 2100....

May 28 • 12:55 PM EDT • Science • rstreet.org

He left big law, became a DJ to pay his bills, and built sports clubs inside refugee camps. Now he wants more members than Bayern Munich

Jan van Hövell's KLABU turns shipping containers into community hubs for some of the world's 120 million displaced people. PSJ just signed on to help.

May 28 • 9:51 AM EDT • Sports • fortune.com

Rumour: Persona 6 Protagonist Leaks Catch Fans Off Guard, Reveal Whispers Intensify

Is it finally happening?

May 28 • 9:30 AM EDT • Technology • pushsquare.com

Federal Rule Takes Aim at Health Care Bureaucracy, Reducing Dispute Fees, and Boosting Transparency

Major reforms were finalized today to strengthen the No Surprises Act.

May 28 • 9:15 AM EDT • Health • hhs.gov

Business - Macron announces big investments at France's 'electrification team' meeting

May 28 • 5:02 AM EDT • Business • france24.com

Small Business Creation Rose Post-Pandemic; Expansion Remains Key Challenge

Report finds small business disparities rooted in business size, industry, and location

May 28 • 4:55 AM EDT • Business • urbanmilwaukee.com

Is The Market Mispricing Flutter Entertainment On FanDuel Concerns?

Flutter Entertainment faces headwinds from prediction markets and declining US sports betting revenues. Learn why FLUT stock is a buy.

May 28 • 3:40 AM EDT • Entertainment • seekingalpha.com

Samsung unveils world's first 31.5-inch 4K 360Hz QD-OLED panel with 680Hz dual mode and DisplayHDR TrueBlack 600

Samsung Display confirms 31.5-inch 4K 360Hz QD-OLED with DisplayHDR True Black 600 Samsung Display has announced a new 31.5-inch QD-OLED monitor panel

May 27 • 8:00 PM EDT • Technology • videocardz.com

Opinion: Follow California’s lead in protecting workers from AI displacement

By an Executive Order, Gov. Gavin Newsom seeks to fill a gaping public policy void on a bread-and-butter issue for workers. Illinois and Gov. JB Pritzker would do well to follow suit.

May 27 • 5:32 PM EDT • Business • chicagobusiness.com

U.S. Supreme Court settles long-running water dispute over dwindling Rio Grande

In a brief order Tuesday, the court accepted the recommendation of a special master to move forward with agreements first proposed last year by New Mexico, Texas and Colorado.

May 27 • 2:58 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com

Ebola outbreak in DR Congo collides with conflict and hunger, WHO warns

The UN World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday warned that eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo faces a “catastrophic collision of disease and conflict” as a fast-spreading Ebola outbreak outpaces containment efforts in a region already battered by armed violence, mass displacement and acute hunger.

May 27 • 9:48 AM EDT • Health • news.un.org

Xreal launches a cheaper AR glasses brand, starting with the $299 a01

Called X by Xreal (or XBX), its first product are the $299 a01 display glasses.

May 27 • 6:37 AM EDT • Technology • engadget.com

Monterey nonprofits and Montage Health provide $110,000 for Casanova fire survivors

Local organizations are teaming up to offer $110,000 in funding to help residents displaced by the Casanova apartment fire in Monterey with housing and recovery support.

May 26 • 10:23 PM EDT • Health • ksbw.com

PS Store Days of Play Sale Live Now with 2,000+ PS5 Game Deals

RE Requiem! Ghost of Yotei! Dispatch!

May 26 • 8:15 PM EDT • Technology • pushsquare.com

Supreme Court sides with Trump in dispute over immigration judges' speech restrictions

The justices overturned a lower-court ruling that questioned whether a complaint system for federal employees is still working as intended after the Republican president fired some of its top officials.

May 26 • 5:26 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org

Graduate Exhibition Showcases Intersection of Health, Technology, Art, Design

From digital data and technology to the environment, healthcare and the body, graduate students from across the College of Letters and Science at University of California, Davis, are pushing boundaries with their experimental research and creative expression. The results, varied in medium and discipline, will be on display at the Arts & Humanities 2026 Graduate Exhibition.

May 26 • 4:10 PM EDT • Health • ucdavis.edu

Down to Earth - Count the dead bugs on your windshield and contribute to science

May 26 • 7:41 AM EDT • Science • france24.com

Apple To Quietly Steal Samsung’s Galaxy S26 Ultra Privacy Display Trick For The M6 Pro & M6 Max MacBook Pro, Three Years Ahead Of Schedule

Apple might adopt Samsung's OLED panels as well as the Galaxy S26 Ultra's Privacy Display tech for its M6 Pro and M6 Max MacBook Pro.

May 25 • 6:01 PM EDT • Technology • wccftech.com

Another Android brand is teasing us with magnetic rear screens

Another Android smartphone maker has launched a magnetic rear display accessory for its smartphones and it is really good.

May 25 • 12:20 PM EDT • Technology • androidauthority.com

I found an Android launcher that solves something the Pixel Launcher still struggles with

It made my home screen feel organized again

May 25 • 12:15 PM EDT • Technology • androidpolice.com

Tybee Marine Science Center offers free community day on Tuesday

Families can explore interactive coastal displays, hands-on learning experiences, treats and raffle prizes.

May 25 • 11:19 AM EDT • Science • wtoc.com

Mental health support program aims to break stigma in Hispanic community

PEARLS well-being sessions offer a non-traditional approach to mental health support.

May 25 • 9:17 AM EDT • Health • kttc.com

Budget conference: State prosecutors, public defense lawyers to get pay bumps and more jobs, but there's a huge disparity

State Attorney Offices are teed up for more jobs and bigger raises, creating a recruitment and retention issue for Public Defenders.

May 25 • 8:58 AM EDT • Politics • floridapolitics.com

Scientists propose recommendations to G7 leaders over Arctic warming

Arctic summer sea ice has shrunk by half since the 1970s, and scientists advising G7 leaders warn that the consequences will be felt far beyond the polar region.

May 25 • 8:32 AM EDT • Science • rfi.fr

Business - Oil prices ease on renewed hopes of US-Iran peace deal

May 25 • 5:07 AM EDT • Business • france24.com

CT’s silent health disparity: Lack of adult dental coverage

Oral health is not separate from overall health, but foundational to it. Yet policy continues to treat it as separate or optional.

May 25 • 12:01 AM EDT • Health • ctmirror.org

HP releases new 14-inch laptop globally with 120 Hz VRR display and 64 GB RAM

HP has released a new 14-inch laptop globally. Described as a mobile workstation, the ZBook 8 G2a 14-inch features modern AMD Ryzen processors, up to 64 GB of RAM and multiple display options with 120 Hz VRR refresh rates or 800 nits peak brightness.

May 24 • 5:43 PM EDT • Technology • notebookcheck.net

Suspected Ebola cases in eastern DR Congo pass 900 as health workers struggle with aid cuts

As the number of suspected Ebola cases in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo pass 900, health workers say that the chaos left by years of fighting and local government failures has been compounded…

May 24 • 3:17 PM EDT • Health • france24.com

AI is getting worse as Google and Anthropic nerf AI models and limit usage

Evidence is mounting that the subsidization of AI is ending in real time. Will businesses still shell out for it?

May 24 • 1:12 PM EDT • Technology • thestreet.com

Adorable ASCII Aquarium Lives On Your Desk

[Kert Gartner]’s ASCII Aquarium turns a cheap yellow display (CYD) into a tiny simulated aquarium, complete with ASCII sea creatures each with their own behaviors. There’s all kinds of …

May 24 • 1:00 PM EDT • Technology • hackaday.com

Mental Health Awareness Month helping to dispel stigmas

Expanding access to mental health care

May 24 • 11:30 AM EDT • Health • baynews9.com

'We can identify these really early, before the clinical diagnosis': Epigenetic markers may help explain why Native Hawaiians are aging faster

Live Science spoke with Alika Maunakea, an Native Hawaiian epigeneticist, about how epigenetics underpins health disparities between Native Hawaiians and others in Hawaii.

May 24 • 11:00 AM EDT • Health • livescience.com

Monkey business: artist chimps paint in their own style, study shows

Several studies conducted in captivity have demonstrated that chimpanzees, like other great apes, enjoy painting and drawing. But new resreach led by French and Japanese primatologists has shown that…

May 24 • 10:41 AM EDT • Science • rfi.fr

Monkey business: artist chimps paint in their own style, study shows

Several studies conducted in captivity have demonstrated that chimpanzees, like other great apes, enjoy painting and drawing. But new resreach led by French and Japanese primatologists has shown that…

May 24 • 10:41 AM EDT • Business • rfi.fr

WATCH: AI fluency in Ohio State's Fisher College of Business teaching

May 24 • 6:01 AM EDT • Business • dispatch.com

OnePlus OLED tablet leak points to global launch and high-end chipset

OnePlus may be preparing a new Android tablet for global markets. A fresh leak suggests it may feature an OLED display and high-end hardware. The tablet could be based on the Oppo Pad Mini, which launched in China earlier this year.

May 24 • 3:16 AM EDT • Technology • notebookcheck.net

Romain Grosjean's No. 18 Car Will Have Kyle Busch's Font At The INDY 500

Kyle Busch's No. 18 will be on display throughout the 2026 INDY 500.

May 23 • 11:37 PM EDT • Sports • foxsports.com

Alleged iPhone XX renders reveal first look at all-screen iPhone X successor; major design changes tipped

Apple’s highly anticipated 2027 anniversary iPhone, referred to as the iPhone XX (or iPhone 20) is rumored to feature a radical quad-curved display and next-gen under-display Face ID technology. Emerging reports from the supply chain suggest a total design overhaul, including potential capacitive buttons and improved HDR image sensors, as Apple prepares to celebrate two decades of the iPhone.

May 23 • 8:51 PM EDT • Technology • notebookcheck.net

Touchable POV Display Blooms In Mid Air

Typically, when we think of touch screens, we think of LCDs or OLEDs with a resistive or capacitive sensing layer laid over the top. However, a team from the University of Chicago has developed an …

May 23 • 7:00 PM EDT • Technology • hackaday.com

St. Charles volleyball sweeps Dayton Carroll to earn state berth

After falling short of reaching the OHSAA Division II state tournament last season, St. Charles earned some redemption May 23.

May 23 • 4:55 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Astros 4, Cubs 2: RISPy business. Again.

Pete Crow-Armstrong hit a home run, though.

May 22 • 6:25 PM EDT • Business • bleedcubbieblue.com

Astros 4, Cubs 2: RISPy business. Again.

Pete Crow-Armstrong hit a home run, though.

May 22 • 6:25 PM EDT • Business • sports.yahoo.com

Austin’s only women’s sports bar, displaced by Project Connect, fundraising for move

Austin’s only sports bar dedicated to women’s sports must find a new location and funding its move out of the path of an upcoming light rail project construction, just one year and two …

May 22 • 5:48 PM EDT • Sports • kxan.com

The D.N.C. Chairman, Trump’s $1.8 Billion Fund and More Politics News

He has focused on internal politics, building a loyal base despite tactical disputes.

May 22 • 5:07 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com

South Sudan: Children face malnutrition as health services collapse

South Sudan’s hunger crisis is worsening as conflict, displacement, rising food prices, and collapsing health services leave children at growing risk of severe malnutrition and disease.

May 22 • 10:23 AM EDT • Health • care.org

World Health Assembly endorses resolution on precision medicine

At the Seventy-ninth World Health Assembly, Member States endorsed a new resolution on Precision medicine: a path towards targeted, personalized and equitable care, taking an important step towards advancing precision medicine as part of efforts to strengthen equitable, effective and sustainable health systems. Precision medicine refers to the use of clinical, molecular, genomic and other health data to inform prevention, diagnosis and treatment, taking into account variability while applying appropriate ethical and legal safeguards. When integrated responsibly into health systems, precision approaches can improve outcomes across different disease areas and across the life course – from cancer and rare diseases to infectious diseases, maternal, newborn and child health, mental health and noncommunicable diseases. The resolution reflects rapid advances in genomics, diagnostics, data science and digital health, alongside widening global inequities in access to these innovations. Many populations – particularly in low- and middle-income countries – remain underrepresented in data and research, limiting the public health impact of precision medicine and risking the widening of health disparities if action is not taken now. "Precision medicine is not an aspirational idea for health delivery in the future – it is already transforming lives across the world. But its benefits remain out of reach for too many and the research driving progress is concentrated in high income countries. This WHA resolution gives global health leaders, ministries of health, and WHO a clear mandate: to act. From infant screening to setting up genomic databases WHO will work with countries to bring about the power of these innovations." Dr Meg Doherty, Director Science for HealthThrough the resolution, Member States commit to developing and strengthening national policies, infrastructure, workforce capacity and governance frameworks to support the safe, ethical and equitable integration of precision medicine into health systems, aligned with universal health coverage. This includes promoting affordability, ensuring inclusive research and data systems, strengthening regulation and data governance, and fostering collaboration across sectors and regions.WHO is requested to provide technical and normative support, review and coordinate existing guidance, facilitate global and regional collaboration, and develop a Global Strategy on Precision Medicine to guide equitable and context‑appropriate implementation. WHO stands ready to support Member States through tools such as a country maturity model for countries to self-assess capacity in implementing precision medicine depending on their context. In the immediate term WHO will map all existing guidance and frameworks and host extensive consultations with interest holders globally.By placing equity, inclusion and public value at the centre of precision medicine, the resolution reinforces WHO’s commitment to ensuring that scientific advances benefit all people, everywhere, and that no one is left behind in the next era of health innovation."By uniting people-centered healthcare with innovation, precision medicine has the potential to transform lives. This resolution helps ensure those advances serve the shared goal of health for all." Dr Sylvie Briand, Chief Scientist For further information please visit the Health Topic: Genomics

May 22 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • who.int