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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!

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May 31 • 5:58 PM EDT • Entertainment • foxnews.com

Ukraine's pitch to Silicon Valley: Bring AI, we'll bring experience

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wants to deepen ties between Ukraine and Silicon Valley's defense tech startups.

May 31 • 5:35 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com

Jacob Misiorowski outduels Tatsuya Imai, pitches 7 scoreless innings in shutout of Astros to finish May with 1 run allowed

Misiorowski allowed just one run in 38 1/3 innings in May and lowered his ERA to 1.65 with Sunday's win.

May 31 • 4:51 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Video: 11 Exciting New Games Coming To Switch 1 & 2 In June 2026

Star Fox, Final Fantasy and more!

May 31 • 12:00 PM EDT • Technology • nintendolife.com

Jason Benetti explains why NBC’s ‘Inside the Pitch’ is unlike anything MLB broadcasting has done before

Two months into NBC’s Sunday Night Baseball experiment, Jason Benetti knows exactly what separates it from every baseball broadcast that came before it. The “Inside the Pitch” concept — NBC executive producer Sam Flood’s live at-bat breakdown feature that debuted Opening Day alongside former pitchers Adam Ottavino and Clayton Kershaw — has drawn acclaim since…

May 31 • 11:30 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Fantasy Baseball Winners and Losers from Week 9 2026

Jacob Misiorowski set a record that probably should not be possible. The week that was in fantasy baseball featured a 451-foot exclamation point from a man who had been making contact with the baseball at an elite level while somehow watching all of it stay inside the park, a 26-year-old pitcher who threw 57 pitches at 100 miles per hour or faster in a single game — a number that had never been achieved in the pitch-tracking era — and a Saturday afternoon at Citi Field that produced two of the purest moments of the season in the same box score.

May 31 • 11:09 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Where do you rate Great American Ballpark?

I was in Cincinnati and Great American Ballpark. I have to say, regardless of the outcome, that I really liked it. Yes, it’s small. Not just the outfield dimensions, though. It’s cute, as the wife remarked. I feel that the rows are closer together in the lower bowl. I didn’t realize how pitched the right […]

May 31 • 9:36 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Little Nightmares 2 Enhanced Edition is finally available on Nintendo Switch 2

Little Nightmares 2's Enhanced Edition is finally available on Nintendo Switch 2.

May 31 • 9:07 AM EDT • Technology • eurogamer.net

Scientists found the hidden switch fueling alzheimer’s brain inflammation

Scientists at Scripps Research have uncovered a molecular “switch” that appears to fuel the damaging brain inflammation seen in Alzheimer’s disease. They found that a protein called STING becomes chemically altered in a way that keeps the brain’s immune system stuck in overdrive, harming the connections between nerve cells.

May 31 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com

Prep talk: Julian Garcia's championship pitching performance ranks among best

St. John Bosco pitcher Julian Garcia struck out 14, walked none and gave up one hit in 2-0 win over Norco.

May 31 • 7:15 AM EDT • Sports • latimes.com

Blue states pitch 100 percent tax on Trump’s ‘anti-weaponization’ payouts

“If you storm the Capitol and you take from this slush fund, too bad, we’re taking it,” one New York lawmaker said.

May 31 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com

Smile? Your health may be tied to the ballot box.

If you’ve avoided news coverage but realize your vote still should matter, here’s our pitch for www.santafenewmexican.com/elections.

May 31 • 3:00 AM EDT • Health • santafenewmexican.com

Karen Bass appears to liken Spencer Pratt to Trump amid tightening LA mayoral race

The Los Angeles mayoral race heads toward a likely runoff as Karen Bass, Spencer Pratt and Nithya Raman make final pitches before Election Day on Tuesday.

May 31 • 2:53 AM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com

Dodgers on Deck: Sunday, May 31 vs. Phillies

The Dodgers finish off their homestand on Sunday against the Philadelphia Phillies, with Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the mound coming off a pair of seven-inning gems. He’s pitched at least six innings in nine of his 10 starts, averaging 6.4 innings per start this season. Rookie Andrew Painter takes the ball for the Phillies, with a […]

May 30 • 10:07 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Rahe continues to come through for KU in regional play

Even before Kansas kicked off the first-ever Lawrence Regional, pitcher Boede Rahe promised that KU was going to play the exact same way it had all season — which would in turn mean that Rahe himself would bring the same level of fire to his closer role. Through two days of the regional, Rahe’s emotions […]

May 30 • 8:00 PM EDT • Sports • www2.ljworld.com

Tatis homers, but Padres undone by Nationals' six-run seventh

Through the first six innings Michael King was cruising.With less than 70 pitches through the first six innings, the San Diego Padres starter had kept the Washington Nationals in check, but a six-run seventh inning flipped the game on its head as the hosts won 9-4 on Saturday afternoon at Nationals Park.Fernando Tatis Jr, Xander Bogaerts and Manny Machado all had solo home runs for the Padres (32-25), as King left with the bases loaded having faced four batters in the seventh and plunking Nation

May 30 • 7:21 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Nintendo releases new wave of backwards compatibility fixes for Switch games on Switch 2

Get the full list of backwards compatibility fixes for Nintendo Switch games on Switch 2 that were just released for May 2026.

May 30 • 4:00 PM EDT • Technology • nintendoeverything.com

Minecraft LIVE from TwitchCon 2026: The Recap

Find out what went down at Minecraft LIVE @ TwitchCon Europe, including sneak peeks from the Chaos Cubed drop, our upcoming third drop of 2026 and its new biome, the sequel to a Minecraft Movie, and a new fearsome foe from our game Minecraft Dungeons II, out later this year.

May 30 • 2:30 PM EDT • Technology • minecraft.net

NCAA baseball: OU defeats The Citadel in regionals behind pitching, hitting depth

No. 2 seed OU baseball (33-21) won 8-3 against No. 3 seed The Citadel (35-25) in the Atlanta Regional of the NCAA Tournament.

May 30 • 1:15 PM EDT • Sports • oudaily.com

Ivey encourages Alabama small businesses to compete in national America 250 pitch contest

Gov. Kay Ivey encourages Alabama small businesses to join the America 250 pitch contest for a chance to win $1 million.

May 30 • 11:00 AM EDT • Business • 256today.com

Athletics' Luis Severino Shares Injury Update After Yankees Game

Athletics pitcher Luis Severino hopes to avoid a long-term injury after exiting Friday’s game against the Yankees with arm soreness.

May 30 • 10:30 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Kitchener teen wins innovation award at Canada-Wide Science Fair, fixes 35-year-old problem

Gurnoor Kaur, a Grade 11 student at Cameron Height Collegiate Institute in Kitchener, has won the best project award for innovation at the Canada-Wide Science Fair in Edmonton.

May 30 • 9:00 AM EDT • Science • cbc.ca

If Google nails the Googlebook, I'm gonna ditch my Windows laptop

I'm ready to leave Windows for Googlebook for these reasons

May 30 • 8:30 AM EDT • Technology • androidpolice.com

Prep talk: Loyola freshman pitcher Sheriff Hall can be a slayer in Division 2 final

The left-hander is scheduled to play Ganesha in the Southern Section Division 2 final

May 30 • 7:15 AM EDT • Sports • latimes.com

Can NiJaree Canady and Texas Tech take home a national title?

The million-dollar pitcher reflects on her college career as she gets her last shot at winning it all.

May 30 • 7:00 AM EDT • Sports • espn.com

'It Was A Miss, And I Own It' - Xbox CEO Hints At Removing PS5 & Switch Logos From Showcases

She says they're going to adjust for the future

May 30 • 6:12 AM EDT • Technology • purexbox.com

Candidates for California governor scramble to deliver final pitch to voters with days to go

The many candidates running for California governor have been rushing to deliver their closing arguments to voters in the race’s final days before the June 2 primary | 97.3 The Sky

May 30 • 12:02 AM EDT • Politics • audacy.com

Candidates for California governor scramble to deliver final pitch to voters with days to go

The many candidates running for California governor have been rushing to deliver their closing arguments to voters in the race’s final days before the June 2 primary | K-DAWN

May 30 • 12:02 AM EDT • Politics • audacy.com

Arkansas baseball pitcher Hunter Dietz due up vs. Kansas

Dietz will pitch in a game for the first time since he took a 105 mph line drive off his right shin during a start against Texas.

May 29 • 11:52 PM EDT • Sports • wholehogsports.com

Knicks decline to say how Mitchell Robinson injured his pinky ahead of NBA Finals

The Knicks big man needed surgery, and his status for the team's first Finals appearance in 27 years is unclear

May 29 • 4:05 PM EDT • Sports • cbssports.com

A party switch last year may bar Hector Mujica from running as a Democrat in CD 28

Mujica’s Primary opponent, Phil Ehr, has already filed an elections complaint challenging his eligibility under Florida’s updated party-affiliation law.

May 29 • 3:04 PM EDT • Politics • floridapolitics.com

Stray Nintendo Switch 2 launch trailer - adventure game appears with upgraded with visuals, frame rate, 4K, and mouse controls

Stray has now made its way to Nintendo Switch 2, and along with that, we have a new launch trailer. This edition includes upgraded visuals, 4K, and improved frame rate, alongside mouse control. More information about the title itself can be found in the following overview: Lost, alone and separated from family, a stray cat must untangle an ancient mystery...

May 29 • 12:30 PM EDT • Technology • nintendoeverything.com

Elmwood's Mister Pizza reopens under new management

According to a press release, most kitchen equipment has been replaced and the entryway and cashier counter have also been remodeled.

May 29 • 12:23 PM EDT • Business • spectrumlocalnews.com

Johnson Named Class of 2026 Honda Sport Award Finalist

The All-American pitcher adds another national honor after historic 2026 campaign

May 29 • 11:00 AM EDT • Sports • belmontbruins.com

French Open: Zeynep Sönmez forced to retire from match after tripping over court-side advertisement

Zeynep Sönmez needed two stitches following the incident.

May 29 • 10:10 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Inside 'The End of Oak Street': How Anne Hathaway ended up fighting dinosaurs in suburbia

'The End of Oak Street' combines prehistoric spectacle and grounded family drama, says director David Robert Mitchell, who called upon his childhood love of dinosaurs to craft the original sci-fi adventure.

May 29 • 9:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com

Witcher Dev Will Focus On Sequels Over Expansions For Witcher 4, 5, 6

The Witcher 3 may be getting a big new expansion almost 12 years after launch, but you shouldn’t expect that to be the norm for the series going forward. From Witcher 4 on, CDPR will focus on full games instead of developing expansions, the studio said. In the Q&A section of CD Projekt Red’s latest...

May 29 • 8:58 AM EDT • Technology • gamespot.com

Knicks center Mitchell Robinson reportedly has surgery on broken pinky, plans to play Game 1 of NBA Finals

May 29 • 8:51 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Northwestern researchers pitch ideas with environmental and health impact

Interdisciplinary teams compete for $200,000 in seed funding

May 29 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • news.northwestern.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

Google adjusts Gemini’s new usage limits in response to complaints

At I/O 2026, the Gemini app switched to compute-based usage limits. In response to “feedback about hitting limits too quickly,” Google...

May 28 • 10:03 PM EDT • Technology • 9to5google.com

Braves ace Chris Sale handled his business in win over Red Sox

With Sale pitching five solid innings without his best command, the Braves slammed the reeling Sox, in a Fenway Park matinee on Thursday.

May 28 • 8:36 PM EDT • Business • bostonglobe.com

Twisted graphene reveals a hidden superconductivity switch

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new way to control superconductivity — the mysterious phenomenon where electricity flows with zero energy loss. By pairing twisted layers of graphene with a synthetic diamond material, researchers were able to effectively switch superconductivity on and off by tweaking how electrons interact with their surroundings. Even more intriguing, the material behaved in ways that defied the rules of conventional superconductors, hinting at an entirely new kind of physics.

May 28 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com