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Monkey Business: Wild rhesus macaque spotted at Mount Dora hotel
A wild rhesus macaque was spotted at the historic Lakeside Inn in Mount Dora, Florida, spending about 45 minutes roaming the property and attracting attention from guests and staff. The hotel and local businesses responded with humorous, monkey-themed social media content, engaging the community. Wildlife officials cautioned the public not to approach or feed wild monkeys due to potential health risks and encouraged reporting sightings to authorities. The monkey has not returned to the hotel but has been seen elsewhere in downtown Mount Dora.
Making Our Own Luck
We are cross-posting a piece that former NIH official Kris Willis wrote for Macroscience. Kris is now the President and Founder of the Woodley Park Institute, for which I’m a board member. Picking winners or hedging bets? Federal science agencies have long wrestled with the question of how to ensure their billions of dollars of grants and contracts result in maximum benefits for Americans. On the surface, it might seem that a goal-oriented, interventionist style of management would be the best policy: prioritize our most pressing problems and distribute funding accordingly.This top-down strategy creates a unique hazard, though: bad choices can send resources in the wrong direction, resulting in slow progress that impedes the delivery of tangible benefits to citizens. Moreover, if decision makers pursue an applied advance when the underlying scientific principles remain poorly understood, they risk costly failures and a loss of support for the research enterprise at large. Examples include Nixon’s 1971 War on Cancer, undertaken on the premise that a cure could be achieved in less than a decade, the drive to build an operational commercial fusion plant by the mid-1990s, and the National Plan to Address Alzheimer’s Disease, which failed to produce the effective treatments and prevention strategies promised by 2025. The contrasting laissez-faire approach is to hedge your bets. If the path to an advance is impossible to predict, then the wisest choice might be to distribute funding to as widely as possible. The main risk of this strategy is that spreading funding thinly may limit the resources available to the most promising research, resulting in the same negative outcomes as the interventionist approach: limited support for the most promising topics, slow progress, and delayed returns. In reality, at science agencies like the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health, program managers navigate between these two extremes, setting some funds aside to target high-priority areas and using the rest to cover the widest possible range of meritorious proposals. This middle path seems like the most rational way to proceed, but it still requires making choices. How much should be set aside for high priority topics? What should those topics be? How should we define merit? Expert opinion can provide a helpful guide, but leading experts can have remarkably different opinions about what matters and what should be prioritized. Moreover, experts and administrators alike can be risk averse, giving an edge to high-profile, well-established concepts. What’s really needed is a data-driven framework to help guide decision-making, one that doesn’t simply repackage prestige or incumbency. Recognizing breakthroughs years in advance Many breakthroughs fail to attract funding or recognition at the earliest stages of development. Katalin Karikó, for example, spent years struggling to win grants for work on mRNA that would eventually win her and Drew Weissman a Nobel Prize. Similar stories can be told about Jim Allison’s groundbreaking studies leading to the development of cancer immunotherapy, Stan Pruisner’s demonstration that prions can self-replicate without DNA, or Robin Warren and Barry Marshall’s proof that Helicobacter pylori, not stress, causes ulcers. Yet at some point, the scientific community recognizes and responds to transformative breakthroughs like these. How does that change happen? And what if science funders could identify the areas that are on the cusp of a breakthrough? Those questions led my collaborators and me to study how scientists responded to past breakthroughs. Based on patterns in that data, we developed a means of predicting future breakthroughs, using biomedicine as a proof of concept. It’s worth taking a moment to describe how our approach works. Briefly, our prediction process begins by grouping the 18 million or so peer-reviewed papers in PubMed, the authoritative database of biomedical research, into roughly 50,000 unique topics. A small subset of these topics are so widely acclaimed as breakthroughs that they have been recognized with a major prize like a Nobel or a Lasker Award. We theorized that studying the development of these outliers over time, especially before they gained acclaim, was the key to identifying future instances of them. After defining topics, we chose 21 representative breakthroughs and asked what they looked like before they won prestigious prizes. To answer that question, we re-ran our topic-mapping algorithm repeatedly, winding back the clock one year each time, stringing together the years to follow the progress of each field as it grew and advanced. We found that in each case, the years leading up to a discovery followed a pattern: a burst of papers on a new, rapidly evolving topic, many of which quickly became influential. These characteristics—the percent of papers that are new, the percentage of papers that are brought in from other topics, and the influence of each individual paper—can all be measured separately for any given topic. Together, they act as a predictive signal that is detectable an average of five years before a transformative discovery is made, and up to thirty years before the discovery receives a major prize. Scanning the current research landscape for topics that display this signal allows us to predict what work will likely produce a future breakthrough. Each year we analyzed includes four or five signals, a number that appears to have remained constant across a twenty year time frame. In their classic work on the sociology of science, Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar established that the desire to participate in a major discovery is an important motivator for scientists as they consider whether they should take up (or abandon) a research problem. Although further work is needed, the simplest explanation for our results is that this behavior is widespread enough to detect at scale. A foundational advance, or something like it, draws the attention of scientists and causes them to change the direction of their research. They vote with their feet, staking their own reputation and careers by publishing on and citing the new idea. That upswell of interest is the foundation of our breakthrough signal. What kind of research does our model identify as a breakthrough? After building a model based on the patterns in our 21 preselected breakthroughs, we tested it by identifying all early signals of discovery from 1994 through 1997. Of the 18 signals we found in that time period, 17 can be traced forward in time to a breakthrough. Examples include super-resolution fluorescence microscopy (see the image above), the directed evolution of proteins and enzymes (Chemistry Nobel, 2018), and sequencing the human genome (National Medal of Science, 2008). The discovery of the role of leptin signaling in obesity is a particularly interesting case study. Around 1950, scientists noticed the existence of a type of lab mouse that suffered from a unique inherited form of obesity. When given the freedom to choose their own diet, these mice ate more than normal and preferred food that was high in fat. Researchers had few clues as to why the animals overate; early experiments pointed to the existence of a soluble ob factor found circulating in the bloodstream that regulated appetite, but its identity was unknown. In 1994, Jeffrey Friedman and colleagues identified and sequenced the ob gene, noting that the protein it encoded appeared to fit the profile of a circulating factor. A year later, a trio of high-profile publications demonstrated that ob was a hormone that regulated body weight and fat deposition by regulating appetite. One of these was co-authored by Friedman, who christened it leptin from the ancient Greek word for thin. Using our model, the data from 1996 make it clear this advance would become a breakthrough. Scientists had flocked to study the biology of the new hormone, generating the flurry of new papers and citations required to produce a signal. One of these demonstrated that serum leptin concentrations reflected the amount of adipose tissue in the human body, providing clinical validation of the earlier mouse studies. Before the identification of leptin, scientists were unable to point to a specific molecule that controlled appetite and adiposity, so that it was impossible to rule out non-physiological causes of obesity; its characterization fundamentally changed our concept of weight gain. In 2010, Friedman and fellow pioneer Douglas Coleman were awarded a Lasker for the discovery. Our work also identifies breakthroughs in clinical practice and behavioral and social sciences, even though these areas are less likely to draw the attention of major prize committees. One example that falls into this category is the introduction of endovascular aneurysm repair, a minimally invasive surgical procedure for the treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysm, a leading cause of death among Americans over the age of 65. Relative to the previous standard of care, it reduces in-hospital mortality by almost four-fold. In 2017, Timothy Chuter received the American College of Surgeons’ prestigious Jacobsen Innovation award for his multiple refinements to the technique. Another under-recognized breakthrough identified by our model is the development of standardized survey instruments to assess the quality of life for HIV+ patients. The antiretroviral cocktails introduced in the mid-1990s reduced AIDS mortality, but treatment came with serious side effects. The new evaluations showed that patients whose disease progressed had worse physical functioning than Americans with other chronic diseases, while those who were asymptomatic maintained a health-related quality of life on par with the overall US population. This evidence made it possible for patients and activists to argue that even in the absence of a total cure, and in spite of the side effects, alleviation of symptoms was a worthwhile priority for clinicians. My colleagues and I have failed to identify any significant recognition for the physicians and health policy experts who pioneered this advance, although in 2016, researchers called for the World Health Organization to set targets for good health-related quality of life as part of its framework to end the AIDS pandemic. From forecasting to funding How should science funders use our predictions? Any serious discussion of what we should do with this new capability needs to begin with an understanding of its limitations. We can’t (and shouldn’t) invest all of our resources in the small number of topics predicted to produce breakthroughs. Innovative new fields are born from existing ones; they rarely arise de novo. If funders don’t maintain a diverse portfolio, the breakthroughs of tomorrow will have no antecedents. Think of this as eating the seed corn, or killing the goose that lays the golden egg. There are also multiple goals of funding beyond basic scientific discovery, including translating discoveries into clinical practice, developing new technologies, supporting economic development, and training new scientists. The investments needed to accomplish these goals are likely different from those required to support emerging breakthroughs. Finally, we must be aware that we may not capture every instance of a breakthrough. The concept is fuzzy, and not every significant discovery is recognized with a major award. Further, breakthroughs are rare, meaning that our dataset is, by necessity, small. This makes formal estimates of accuracy challenging. Although our overall success rate appears to be high, any one signal may turn out to be a false positive. We found one apparent example: the development of the third generation COX-2 inhibitors, Vioxx and Celebrex, which were much celebrated in the early 2000s as effective but non-addictive pain relievers, meets all the algorithmic criteria of a breakthrough. Five years after it received FDA approval, researchers demonstrated that Vioxx was associated with serious cardiovascular complications, and the manufacturer voluntarily pulled the drug from the market. Celebrex remains available, although like other NSAIDs, it carries an FDA warning for increased cardiovascular risk. Decision makers who were overly focused on the breakthrough potential of this research might have wasted substantial resources nurturing an area that ultimately proved to be a failure—but so would those who relied on expert opinion at the time. That said, the potential benefits of funding the next mRNA vaccine or cancer immunotherapy years earlier than we might have are large. When we can’t assume the outcome of an action, it’s worth conducting an experiment. Can targeted support for areas that are poised to produce a breakthrough increase the return on scientific investment without cannibalizing future advances? With the necessary administrative infrastructure in place, conducting this experiment would be straightforward. First, identify all the breakthrough signals between 2018 and 2023, select half at random, and commit to a decade of investment. For biomedicine, a six year window should yield about 30 topics with the potential to produce a breakthrough. Providing strong support to half of these might be accomplished for $300 million a year. That’s roughly half of the recent annual budget of the NIH Common Fund or around 20% of the fiscal year 2025 budget for ARPA-H. After five years, then again at ten, compare to see which group — the one that was actively managed, or the control — produced more breakthroughs, and on what timescale. Although we used biomedicine as an example, the same experiment could just as well be run for physics, materials science, or any other discipline. Any attempt to undertake such an experiment should keep three points top of mind. First, we can predict the topic of future breakthroughs, but the people and vision for how to move the work forward are still important. In practice, this means success requires active program managers with the expertise to develop the science and the authority to do so, including by recruiting investigators. Second, we would be wise to learn from the failures of past attempts to fund transformative research. High among these are funding modestly repackaged work, confusing the genuinely novel with the merely unfamiliar, and relying too much on incumbent investigators. All of these risks can be mitigated by thoroughly and intelligently integrating high quality data into portfolio management. Finally, we need to have patience. Even with strong funding support, producing a breakthrough takes time. If supporting breakthroughs is the best way to nurture the birth of new fields, we also need to accurately describe and properly manage the other two stages, so that we invest wisely throughout the productive lifetime of ideas and divest once they reach the point of diminishing returns. We would benefit from more study of all of these phases, especially the transition from one to another. More research could answer questions like: When does a breakthrough become an established field? How do the availability of funding, the size and characteristics of the available workforce, and the accumulation of evidence that disagrees with prevailing models affect a field’s decline? Exactly how do old ideas give birth to new ones, and can we speed up the process? The more we understand about the dynamics of scientific progress, the better we can maximize the odds that our curiosity leads to results. I’d call that finding a way to make our own luck.
12 arrested in South Florida in nationwide investigation into $6.5B health care fraud
Investigators say Medicaid and Medicare thieves in South Florida bilked taxpayers for $27 million for everything from fake therapy to medical equipment patients never received. Officials seized the stolen taxpayer money from Key West to Fort Pierce.
MIT in the media: Exploring how curiosity-driven science is an essential ingredient in America’s success
“Scientific American” showcases the history and future of America’s scientific engine, highlighting promising young scientists and icons at MIT and beyond.
Spent 3 days at Acadia National Park; biggest mistakes we made
We spent a few days exploring Acadia National Park in Maine. Next time we go, we'll make reservations and avoid mistakes like packing the wrong shoes.
Gators among top-20 rated teams in EA Sports College Football 27
EA Sports views Florida as one of the nation's 25-best teams entering the 2026 season, so where exactly did the Gators land in CFB 27 rankings?
Moody Center announces exhibition exploring math, science and tech rooted in Indigenous knowledge systems
Through a framing of North, Central and South America as interconnected regions, “Radiant Geometries: Vectors of Knowledge from the Indigenous Americas” brings together contemporary Indigenous and Latin American artists whose practices illuminate knowledge as a living technology, through which the mathematical, metaphysical and artistic realms converge.
A season of festivals, special events and America 250 celebrations
The Florida Keys is turning up the heat with summer events this season running from Key Largo to Key West. Think local traditions, world-class culinary festivals, and landmark America 250
Ryman Hospitality Properties says it is evaluating future of Opry Entertainment Group
Ryman Hospitality Properties says it is exploring strategic opportunities for its Opry Entertainment Group.
Morocco vs Haiti Extended Highlights
Check out the full game highlights between Morocco and Haiti in the 2026 FIFA World Cup™. Announced by JP DellaCamera and Lori Lindsey.
'Stone Crazy' Millwood business owner entices neighbors outdoors with crystal searches
Nowadays, the sole proprietor of Millwood’s Stone Crazy crystal shop is enticing today’s youth to follow in her outdoorsy footsteps— quite literally. Since the pandemic, Jenny Dykes has been leaving crystals from her business along Inland Northwest trails to spur others into exploring public lands.
Morocco vs Haiti Highlights
Check out the full game highlights between Morocco and Haiti in the 2026 FIFA World Cup™. Announced by JP DellaCamera and Lori Lindsey.
Where health begins
Dean Bernadette Boden-Albala has spent her career exploring the factors that affect well-being long before disease develops
Political Science student receives Roosevelt in Washington Fellowship
University of Florida student Sandra Ukah selected as one of 15 students nationally to receive the Roosevelt in Washington Fellowship.
Exploring Heat’s search for shooters and what makes sense with roster, finances
A look at the Heat’s search for shooters to put around Giannis Antetokounmpo and Bam Adebayo
FSU computational scientist helps advance targeted drug-delivery systems using coding, modeling
A Florida State University computational scientist is paving the way for future medical breakthroughs by developing mathematical models and simulations to
EA Sports reveals ACC team ratings for College Football 27
EA Sports released its College Football 27 ratings, including where Florida State stacks up among ACC teams.
Why South Africa’s leopards shrank to half their normal size
A hidden population of South African leopards has revealed a remarkable evolutionary story. Researchers analyzing entire leopard genomes discovered that the Cape Floristic Region’s leopards are not only much smaller than most African leopards, but also genetically distinct after being isolated for roughly 20,000 years. Surprisingly, despite their small population, they have retained much of their genetic diversity.
A retro outdoor food park and entertainment venue is coming to Seminole Heights this fall
A slice of Old Florida could be coming to Seminole Heights this fall. Developers last week announced plans for Nebraska Roadside, an open-air food park and
They’ll never forget Steve Spurrier in Florida. He’s going to make sure of it
Few people are more associated with 1990s college football than Steve Spurrier, whose Fun 'n' Gun offense revolutionized the Florida Gators.
Jaguars coach explains what makes Liam Coen special
Who would have thought Liam Coen could ascend to this position so quickly? At least one coach wasn't surprised at all.
FSU Health creates grant program for projects on healthcare challenges
Florida State University is giving its researchers and local clinical providers financial support to work on addressing healthcare challenges.
Central Florida restaurants forced to shut down over health concerns
Last week, another six Central Florida eateries were told to close after a visit from a health inspector, according to state records.
Dozens in Florida among hundreds charged in a DOJ crackdown on healthcare fraud
The two-week operation uncovered more than $6.5 billion in false claims submitted to insurers, according to the Department of Justice. Nearly two dozen arrests were made by state authorities.
US: Google's YouTube settles teen mental health lawsuit
A Florida teenager said YouTube's addictive design contributed to depression, anxiety and sleep loss. Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok are also facing similar allegations about their impact on young users.
Early humans were bringing fire into caves 1.8 million years ago
A new study suggests early humans were using fire in South Africa’s Wonderwerk Cave as far back as 1.79 million years ago. Researchers found burned bones deep inside the cave, where natural wildfires could not have reached, indicating that fire was likely carried in and maintained by human ancestors. The discovery pushes back the timeline for fire use and reveals surprisingly sophisticated behavior long before humans could create fire on demand.
Florida Attorney General Issues Subpoena to CVS Health in Pharmacy Probe
Florida’s attorney general says he is examining whether CVS’s pharmacy benefit manager steers patients to its own pharmacies.
Daniel Perez appoints Matt Gaetz to Triumph Gulf Coast board
'I am returning to public service!'
NHL exploring Texas expansion opportunities in Houston and Austin, AP source says
Houston has never been home to an NHL franchise but previously had two pro hockey teams that both were called the Aeros.
Florida AG launches investigation into CVS Health over pharmacy competition concerns
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier issued a Civil Investigative Demand to CVS Health Corporation, the owner of the Caremark pharmacy benefit manager and hundreds of CVS retail pharmacies across the state.
Roku May Help Fox Avoid Aggregeddon
(Welcome to the “Most Important Story of the Week”, my bi-weekly strategy column analyzing the most important (but often not buzziest) news story of the last two weeks. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. Please subscribe.) Scrolling through links over the last week, I stumbled across this fun headline: Wow. Formula 1 (the sport, not the docu-series) is the perfect “dog not barking”. As a reminder, each week in my Streaming Ratings Report, I call out the shows that miss every viewership chart. I dub them “dogs not barking”—like the Sherlock Holmes mystery—because without any data, we forget they even exist. This is in contrast to something like, say, a film flop—cough The Mandalorian and Grogu cough—where even underperforming at the box office is widely discussed here, there and everywhere. In the US, Formula 1 is now in “no public viewership data, so not discussed” territory. After moving to Apple TV from its former home of ESPN, basically no one talks about it. Apple did publish an initial, unsourced, unsubstantiated, (dare I say unserious) datecdote claiming more folks are watching Formula 1 on Apple than ESPN, but we haven’t gotten any updates since. This stands in contrast to when the sport streamed on ESPN, and ESPN PR provided weekly viewership figures. Formula 1 was, at best, a niche sport in America—averaging 1.3 million viewers in the Big Data Plus era—but now it’s basically anonymous. (And yeah, after moving to Apple, I very, very, very much doubt its ratings increased.) Unfortunately, that story isn’t quite big enough to warrant a section in today’s “Most Important Story of the Week” column, but I wanted to call it out, because otherwise, no one else will! Certainly, no one will write articles about the silence/ratings decline, unlike when they wrote breathless articles connecting the rise in viewership to Netflix’s Drive to Survive, including Reuters just last month. (This is a topic I’ve tried to provide a moderate/nuanced/non-hyped take since 2022.) Anyway, on to this week’s issue. I was a bit worried I didn’t have a juicy topic, then the Murdochs went out and did their Murdoch thing: buying Roku. So that’s the story of the week, and it happens to touch on quite a few themes of the streaming wars and the disruption therein. I’ll cover that, plus why more consolidation in Hollywood media looks likely, more good news on the Hollywood labor front, whether we’ll see an uptick in production in Los Angeles, some Broadway and theme park news, cellphone prices going up in the third world (and possibly everywhere), and more. Subscribe Most Important Story of the Week - Another Big Media & Entertainment Merger The story of the week is clearly Fox is buying Roku for $22 billion. I read a lot of good strategy takes on why Fox bought this streaming TV device maker—and I’ll have mine below—but what fascinates me more is how this deal connects to quite a few themes of the streaming wars, linking to everything from the pace of M&A to “aggregeddon” to Netflix’s recent M&A actions/inactions to the shift to advertising from pure play streaming and more. The only topic I can’t really connect it to is my old theory, “never bet against Rupert Murdoch” because he isn’t the one who did this deal; his son Lachlan inked it. (Do I think he provided advice, even at his 95 years of age? Sure.) That plus I have one additional piece of strategy for all entertainment players, inspired by this deal. So let’s dive into all those topics, starting with why I like this deal. Roku is a Great M&A Buy
We moved from the US to Barbados. Our 8 kids are more independent now.
Lisa Desai and her husband decided to move to Barbados from Florida because they craved freedom and adventure for their eight kids.
Stada Weighs €6 Billion Takeover of CVC-Backed Cooper Consumer Health
Stada is exploring a potential purchase of Cooper Consumer Health from its private equity owners, people familiar with the matter said, as it hunts for acquisitions on the back of record profits.
The Cigna Group Foundation Invests $3 Million to Strengthen Youth Mental Health Through Nonprofits Across 10 States
22 nonprofits will expand access to youth mental health care and strengthen support for families and caregivers States: Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Missouri, New Jersey,...
Opinion | Is This the Year Florida Turns Blue?
David Jolly must persuade voters who have been increasingly hostile to Democrats that he’s a different kind of Democrat.
Bardstown Road businesses call for change following fights, shootings
The mayor’s office says it is exploring more options to crack down on crime after a string of incidents on Bardstown Road.
Broward AFL-CIO backs Michael Ferguson in bid to flip HD 100
'Unions built the American middle class.'
SoHo Business Alliance sues Tampa over public records
The South Howard Business Alliance is suing the City of Tampa for failing to provide records requested under Florida's Public Records Law.
UWF professor secures $825,000 grant to support cancer survivors - University of West Florida Newsroom
University of West Florida Assistant Professor of Public Health Dr. Karishma Chhabria Unrue has been awarded a nearly $825,000 grant through the Florida Cancer Innovation Fund to lead a statewide initiative focused on improving the health and well-being of breast and prostate cancer survivors. The award represents one of the largest externally funded research grants […]
The Jacob Engels attacks don't worry me. This does
I never thought he warranted the attention.
Fentrice Driskell lands trove of labor, environmental group endorsements
Driskell earned support from one of the state's largest labor unions.
A common vitamin could help fight one of the deadliest brain cancers
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Scientists thought they knew what's lurking at the centre of our Galaxy. But they may have been completely wrong this whole time | BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Could the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy be dark matter instead? Exploring the science behind the theory.
Sunburn — The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics
Sunburn, for your early morning shot of Florida politics.
Uruguay vs Cape Verde Highlights
Check out the full game highlights between Uruguay and Cape Verde in the 2026 FIFA World Cup™. Announced by JP Dellacamera and Lori Lindsey.
NASA’s Next Generation Telescope Arrives in Florida Ahead of Launch
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Panthers Acquire Brady Tkachuk From Ottawa In Blockbuster Trade
George Lucas makes surprise return to movies in an unexpected way
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Young men are flocking to a Florida campaign shaking up Republicans
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5 Florida restaurants, breweries that host weekly trivia nights
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Ecuador vs Curaçao Extended Highlights
Check out the full game highlights between Ecuador and Curaçao in the 2026 FIFA World Cup™. Announced by JP Dellacamera and Lori Lindsey.
Ecuador vs Curaçao Highlights
Check out the full game highlights between Ecuador and Curaçao in the 2026 FIFA World Cup™. Announced by JP Dellacamera and Lori Lindsey.
Wilton Simpson continues adding to re-election war chest despite weak competition
The egg farmer from Trilby flipped FDACS from blue to red four years ago.
Ellis Medicine, St. Peter’s Health Partners drop potential merger plans
After several years of discussions, Ellis Medicine and St. Peter’s Health Partners are no longer exploring plans to merge.
Blaise Ingoglia stretches fundraising lead in CFO race
The former Republican Party of Florida chair is pressing his advantage as summer heats up.
David Jolly banks $255K more as Dotie Joseph launches late long-shot gubernatorial bid
The former Republican is in good shape with less than two months before the Primary.
'Overcommunicating': Byron Donalds talks media decentralization and advocates for 'long-form' videos from politicians
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Travel mistakes I made in Italy as a first-time tourist
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How To Start A Profitable B2B Business—And 11 Ideas Worth Exploring
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Key OL target explains what makes Florida State stand out
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Baptist-Cigna deadline nears: Insurance expert shares 3 steps patients should take now
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Health advisory issued for Sanibel Causeway due to bacteria levels
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‘If there’s no fertility, there are no farms’: Why big food is exploring regenerative agriculture
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Exploring Meleek Thomas' potential fit with the Boston Celtics
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Exploring the science of kindness at Grandma’s Casita exhibition
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What patients need to know about the Baptist-Cigna dispute as Cigna claims Baptist costs 40% more than other hospitals
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At CMS, Oz Eyes Faster Tech Approvals and a 'Power to Convene'
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Obama encourages people to not give in to despair in current political climate
Former President Barack Obama speaks at the opening of the Obama Presidential Center, imploring Americans not to give in to cynicism and despair in the current divisive political climate.
What are the health implications of the Everglades wildfires, and will World Cup spectators and players be affected?
Dr. Roberto Lucchini works with first responders exposed to carcinogens in the World Trade Center attacks. He discusses how airborne toxins from South Florida fires could impact residents, visitors.
South Florida’s heat makes cancer patients sicker and more isolated, study says
One cancer survivor told researchers the sun “sucks the life out of him.”
Will Condon named Chief Executive Officer of Ascension Sacred Heart Health System
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State board delays UF president vote over governance concerns
The dispute centers around Mori Hosseini, a GOP megadonor who wieldsimmense sway over the direction of Florida’s flagship university.
Gabe Newell, founder of Bellevue’s Valve, buys $70.8M Florida mansion
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A doyenne of Democratic women's politics lines up behind Amanda Marie Green in CD 2
June Piscitelli, who has spent decades electing pro-choice women, backs the North Florida Democrat.
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Finalists: Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum, The Contemporary Austin - Laguna Gloria, The Museum of Human Achievement, Harry Ransom Center “Free Tuesdays rock! I...
A season of festivals, special events and America 250 celebrations
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Loss of another Seattle-area billionaire? Valve’s Gabe Newell is reported buyer of Florida estate
The Wall Street Journal reported this week that the video game developer is the buyer of a waterfront estate north of Miami.
Ghana vs Panama Extended Highlights
Check out the full game highlights between Ghana and Panama in the 2026 FIFA World Cup™. Announced by JP Dellacamera and Lori Lindsey.
'Elf' actor Faizon Love arrested in Florida amid paternity case
"Elf" and "Friday" actor Faizon Love has been arrested in Florida for contempt of court.
UF Health Cancer Institute Hosts Conference for Science Teachers
Science teachers from across Florida and the southeastern United States gathered in Gainesville this week for the UF Health Cancer Institute’s Cancer Research Conference for Science Teachers.
Why best place in Florida to visit is 30A, according to locals
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DOH-Orange WIC Returns to the SouthSide Health Center - Florida Department of Health in Orange County
Orlando, Fla. — After being temporarily relocated for HVAC upgrades, the Florida Department of Health in Orange County (DOH-Orange) Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program will return to the Southside Health Center on June 22, 2026.
Scientists stunned by the world’s largest whale “graveyard” millions of years old - Futura-Sciences
The Hidden Depths of the Diamantina Zone Deep beneath the Indian Ocean, researchers from China, Italy, and New Zealand got more than they bargained for during their recent expedition. Exploring the remote Diamantina Fracture Zone—which formed during the separation of Australia and Antarctica—the team operated the Fendouzhe submersible, a machine...
MOMENT OF SCIENCE: NASA set to launch new project
NASA missions have been exploring beyond our planet for nearly 7 decades! Now, NASA’s latest mission is almost ready for launch… 8 months ahead of schedule.
Will Sunshine Health see job cuts tied to parent Centene reductions?
Healthcare giant Centene is offering voluntary buyouts to staff, raising questions about its Florida subsidiary.
Gabe Newell Just Bought A $70 Million Mansion In Florida
Only $70 million, practically a steal
FSU scientists uncover differences in drivers of long-term temperature changes in Atlantic, Pacific oceans
Florida State University researchers have identified key differences in the root causes of long-term sea-surface temperature changes across the Atlantic
They don’t dance like Carmen no more
Born and raised in Key West, Carmen Rodriguez graduated from Key West High School, attended Florida Keys Community College and graduated from the University of South Florida in Tampa.
Billionaire Valve Boss Gabe Newell Buys Florida Super Mansion With Its Own Underground Tunnel for $70.8 Million
Gabe Newell has splashed out $70.8 million on a Florida super mansion that comes with its own tunnel to the sea.
These are the best things to do in Brevard this weekend, June 19 to 25
Find your weekend adventure: Butterflies, Sinatra and the Space Shuttle top our list of Brevard's best things to do.
RFK Jr. orders passenger from hantavirus-stricken cruise to remain in quarantine in Nebraska, despite CDC recommendation
A woman who was exposed to hantavirus on the MV Hondius cruise has been ordered by US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to stay in federal quarantine, despite being cleared to return home to Florida by a federal health expert.
FSU researcher receives NASA grant to map extreme heat and protect public health
A collaborative, interdisciplinary team with researchers from Florida State University’s College of Social Sciences and Public Policy has received an
FSU researcher receives NASA grant to map extreme heat and protect public health
A collaborative, interdisciplinary team with researchers from Florida State University’s College of Social Sciences and Public Policy has received an
Stein Your Florist Co. closing Northeast Philadelphia location, consolidating business in New Jersey
Joe Strada calls out 'full of crap' Washington in $1M ad buy
It's the first ad from the congressional candidate, who is running to succeed Daniel Webster in CD 11.
Cardenas enters Chicago mayor’s race with focus on city finances
Cardenas, a former 12th Ward alderman who spent two decades on the City Council and later served as floor leader under former Mayor Lori Lightfoot, announced his candidacy today.
FSU will be well represented at 2026 MLB Draft Combine
Florida State will have several representatives at the 2026 MLB Draft Combine, with seven Seminoles earning invitations.
Exploring the Current Boundaries of AI for Science at TPC26
Last week’s TPC26 event brought together many of the world’s preeminent experts in using AI for science and engineering. The conference demonstrated that we have come quite far in just […]