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Mar 26 • 10:53 AM EDT • Science • vcuhealth.org
How Robinhood's chief brokerage officer tells his kids to invest

Steve Quirk shared four stock indexes to have in your core portfolio. He recommends focusing on diversification, with some cash set aside for single stocks.

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Mar 26 • 10:29 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition with 208MB of total cache launches April 22nd

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 now official AMD has confirmed that the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition will launch on April 22. The date was shared by Jack Huynh, SVP

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Mar 26 • 9:49 AM EDT • Technology • videocardz.com
Fathom Entertainment Announces Upcoming Retirement of CEO Ray Nutt

Specialty distributor Fathom Entertainment CEO Ray Nutt has shared with the company’s Board of Directors his plans to step down from his role and retire later this year after serving as the company’s lead executive for the past nine years. Currently anticipated to depart Fathom later this year, Nutt is expected to play an active […]

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Mar 26 • 9:27 AM EDT • Entertainment • boxofficepro.com
WhatsApp rolls out updates including multiple accounts for iOS

WhatsApp shared multiple quality of life updates coming to its messaging platform starting today.

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Mar 26 • 9:00 AM EDT • Technology • engadget.com
International Olympic Committee announces new Policy on the Protection of the Female (Women’s) Category in Olympic Sport

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced a new Policy on the Protection of the Female (Women’s) Category in Olympic Sport and Guiding Considerations for International Federations and Sports Governing Bodies.

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Mar 26 • 8:54 AM EDT • Sports • olympics.com
Lewis Hamilton shares “full circle” moment after "unreal" samurai experience

Lewis Hamilton reflected on a “full circle” moment in Tokyo after taking a samurai lesson from Kill Bill fight choreographer Tetsuro Shimaguchi ahead of the Japanese Grand Prix

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Mar 26 • 8:36 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Flutter Entertainment (NYSE:FLUT) Valuation After Prolonged Share Price Weakness And Undervaluation Debate

Why Flutter Entertainment is on investors’ radar today Flutter Entertainment (NYSE:FLUT) has drawn attention after a period of weak share performance, with the stock showing negative returns over the past day, week, month, past three months, year to date, and past year. With the share price at US$103.40 and a market value of about US$18.9b, investors are weighing these declines against the company’s scale, global footprint, and recent revenue and net income figures. See our latest analysis...

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Mar 26 • 8:13 AM EDT • Entertainment • simplywall.st
New Dems Hear from Small Businesses on the Harmful Impacts of Tariffs

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Mar 26 • 8:00 AM EDT • Business • newdemocratcoalition.house.gov
The United States Senate Committee on Finance

Republican Cuts Are Wrecking Health Care for American Families

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Mar 26 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • finance.senate.gov
‘Science Friday’ Host Ira Flatow to Share Health and Wellness Discoveries on April 23

Are ultramarathoners built differently from the rest of us? What can Greenland sharks teach us about aging eyes? As the longtime host of the popular public radio program and podcast Science Friday, Ira Flatow explores questions like these during engaging discussions on topics ranging from science and technology to health, space and the environment.

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Mar 26 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • elmhurst.edu
Cardiologist's 3 Favorite High-Protein Foods to Boost Heart Health

In TODAY.com's Expert Tip of the Day, a cardiologist shares her favorite foods to add more healthy protein to her diet in a heart-healthy way.

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Mar 26 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • today.com
Apple Testing 200MP iPhone Camera That Could Ship Next Year

Apple is evaluating a 200-megapixel telephoto camera sensor that could potentially ship in an iPhone as soon as next year, according to Digital Chat Station, a leaker on Chinese social media platform Weibo with a decent track record. In a post shared today, the leaker said Apple is actively testing a 200-megapixel 1/1.2" sensor similar to the one rumored for Oppo's upcoming Find X9 Ultra.

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Mar 26 • 7:04 AM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com
Bank of America courts business clients in market-share push

To drive new client relationships in 50-some markets, BofA is hiring bankers and cultivating local connections, said Sharon Miller, the lender’s president of business banking.

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Mar 26 • 6:59 AM EDT • Business • bankingdive.com
Better Business Bureau: Data breaches are increasing

BBB of the Mid-South President and CEO Randy Hutchinson shares ways to protect investments and avoid scams each week.

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Mar 26 • 5:02 AM EDT • Business • commercialappeal.com
A $50 billion fund to help rural hospitals could actually lead to closures and cuts

States are rolling out plans for their share of a $50 billion fund established by Congress to improve rural health care. In some states, the money may provoke rural hospitals to cut services.

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Mar 26 • 5:00 AM EDT • Health • npr.org
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Five Tactics to Modernize Healthcare Data and Analytics

Cleveland Clinic’s Chief Analytics Officer shares insights on the tactics that shaped the organization’s transition to data modernization.

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Mar 26 • 12:01 AM EDT • Health • consultqd.clevelandclinic.org
Connections: Sports Edition today: Hints and answers for March 26, 2026, puzzle No. 549

Welcome to Connections: Sports Edition Coach — a spot to gather clues and discuss (and share) scores.

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Mar 26 • 12:00 AM EDT • Sports • nytimes.com
Jaouadi sets record as Florida, Indiana co-lead NCAA swim

Florida freshman Ahmed Jaouadi broke the NCAA record in the 1,650-yard freestyle, and the Gators shared the Day 1 lead with Indiana at the Division I swimming and diving championships on Wednesday.

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Mar 25 • 11:54 PM EDT • Sports • espn.com
Bronny, LeBron James share special on-court moment for Lakers

The family had to be happy about this one.

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Mar 25 • 10:02 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Business owner shares concerns about Cargill’s intentions to close local facility

The facility has been in operation since 2011.

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Mar 25 • 9:52 PM EDT • Business • whio.com
Business owner shares concerns about Cargill’s intentions to close local facility

A specific date for the final day of operations has not been confirmed.

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Mar 25 • 9:52 PM EDT • Business • yahoo.com
Melania Trump shares the spotlight with a robot at an education and technology event

Melania Trump and the humanoid walked slowly side by side along the red carpet from the opposite end of a White House hallway.

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Mar 25 • 5:23 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
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DOLPHIN ENTERTAINMENT ($DLPN) Releases Q4 2025 Earnings

DOLPHIN ENTERTAINMENT ($DLPN) posted quarterly earnings results for Q4 2025 on Wednesday, March 25th. The company reported earnings of $0.09 per share, beating estimates of $0.00 by $0.09. The company also reported revenue of $15,650,000, beating estimates of $15,300,000 by $350,000.You can see Quiver Quantitative's $DLPN stock page to track data on insider trading, hedge fund activity, congressional trading, and more. Receive $DLP

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Mar 25 • 4:55 PM EDT • Entertainment • quiverquant.com
Crimson Desert studio Pearl Abyss's share prices stabilize as sales top 3 million

Crimson Desert developer Pearl Abyss has seen its share price stabilize after confirming the new action-adventure game …

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Mar 25 • 4:43 PM EDT • Technology • gamesindustry.biz
The Politics of Personal Data

Sociologist Martin Eiermann tracks the intersections of AI and privacy.

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Mar 25 • 4:02 PM EDT • Politics • ls.wisc.edu
The Most Overlooked Sign of Chronic Inflammation, Per a Holistic Health Doctor

Dr. Taz Bhatia reveals the physical changes you don't want to ignore and how to treat them.

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Mar 25 • 3:26 PM EDT • Health • today.com
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Sports agent imparts life lessons at T.W. Lewis series

Leigh Steinberg recently documented his highs, lows and rebound as a renowned sports agent in a soon-to-be released book. He shared his life lessons as […]

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Mar 25 • 2:09 PM EDT • Sports • news.gcu.edu
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Marvel Rivals - The Super Hero Team-based PVP Shooter

Play for free Now!! Get ready to Ignite the Battle with Marvel Rivals!

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Mar 25 • 1:53 PM EDT • Technology • marvelrivals.com
Google says Android with Chrome is ‘fastest mobile platform for web browsing’

Google shared today that Android and Chrome have set “new performance records” for mobile web browsing in two benchmarks...

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Mar 25 • 1:00 PM EDT • Technology • 9to5google.com
Marvel Rivals - The Super Hero Team-based PVP Shooter

Play for free Now!! Get ready to Ignite the Battle with Marvel Rivals!

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Mar 25 • 12:53 PM EDT • Technology • marvelrivals.com
Why Vince Vaughn thinks late-night TV 'stopped being funny'

Vince Vaughn shared his hot take on the state of late-night television during an appearance on Theo Von's "This Past Weekend" podcast.

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Mar 25 • 12:51 PM EDT • Politics • usatoday.com
A Church Gym's Murals of Biblical Figures Playing Sports Goes Viral

"Pickleball Paul" and "Air Moses" are ballin' in support of the "real Doctor J."

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Mar 25 • 12:09 PM EDT • Sports • today.com
The politics of California’s surging gas prices

Gas prices continue to spike amid oil market disruptions caused by the war in Iran — and both Republicans and Democrats are working to capitalize on the issue.

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Mar 25 • 11:04 AM EDT • Politics • politico.com
Critically endangered hare spotted in surprising location for the first time in 40 years — but it was already dead

Scientists in China have announced the first confirmed sighting of the critically endangered Hainan hare in part of its native range in four decades, after spotting its completely flattened carcass on a roadside.

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Mar 25 • 10:38 AM EDT • Science • livescience.com
Sports Emmy Awards Nominees for 2026 Include Mike Tirico, Tom Brady, Jason Kelce

The awards ceremony will take place on May 26, 2026.

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Mar 25 • 10:25 AM EDT • Sports • today.com
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Shark scientists gather in Newport for the Northeast Pacific Shark Symposium

Shark scientists gathered at Oregon State University's Glady Valley Marine Science Building on the Hatfield campus in Newport to share research about shark species found on the west coast at the Northeast Pacific Shark Symposium.

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Mar 25 • 9:03 AM EDT • Science • klcc.org
Mike Tirico and Cris Collinsworth Earn 2026 Sports Emmy Noms

NBC Sports’ Mike Tirico has been nominated for an Emmy Award in the Outstanding Sports Personality – Play-by-Play category, alongside fellow nominees Joe Buck, Joe Davis, Ian Eagle and Jim Nantz. Tirico’s “Sunday Night Football” commentary partner, Cris Collinsworth, is up for the Event Analyst Emmy!

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Mar 25 • 8:36 AM EDT • Sports • today.com
CEO Letter to Shareholders 2025

Dear Shareholders, 2025 was a remarkable year for Amer Sports and our teammates, partners, and shareholders. It gives me great pleasure to share with you some winning moments from the last 12 months…

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Mar 25 • 8:26 AM EDT • Sports • amersports.com
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About Nintendo Switch 2 Game Pricing - News

Beginning in May 2026, and starting with preorders for Yoshi™ and the Mysterious Book, new Nintendo published digital titles exclusive to Nintendo Switch™ 2 will have an MSRP that is different from physical versions. Nintendo games offer the same ex…

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Mar 25 • 8:00 AM EDT • Technology • nintendo.com
The Selfish Gene: Still one of the most thrilling evolution books ever

Fifty years ago, Richard Dawkins shared an irresistible scientific metaphor with the world that modernised and democratised evolutionary biology. Half a century on, The Selfish Gene remains powerfully insightful, finds Rowan Hooper

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Mar 25 • 7:00 AM EDT • Science • newscientist.com
Democracy Depends on Science—So Scientists Need to Show Up for Democracy

A shared commitment to facts and knowledge, produced independently from political interference, is critical to democracy—and worth fighting to protect.

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Mar 25 • 7:00 AM EDT • Science • blog.ucs.org
Smith memo: Trump had classified docs shared with just 6 people, others tied to his business interests

Among the classified records taken to Mar-a-Lago by President Trump were documents so sensitive that one had been distributed to just six people, while another set was relevant to his business inte…

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Mar 25 • 5:00 AM EDT • Business • thehill.com
Poll: 1 in 3 Adults Are Turning to AI Chatbots for Health Information, Equaling the Share Who Use Social Media for Health

About a third (32%) of adults nationally say they have turned to artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots in the past year for health information, a new KFF Tracking Poll on Health Information and Trust finds. Most who turned to AI for health information say they were in search of quick and immediate advice, though challenges affording and accessing health care also play a role, particularly for younger adults.

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Mar 25 • 5:00 AM EDT • Health • kff.org
Connections: Sports Edition today: Hints and answers for March 25, 2026, puzzle No. 548

Welcome to Connections: Sports Edition Coach — a spot to gather clues and discuss (and share) scores.

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Mar 25 • 12:00 AM EDT • Sports • nytimes.com
Sphere Entertainment (SPHR) Stock Trades Up, Here Is Why

Shares of content production and distribution company Sphere Entertainment (NYSE:SPHR) jumped 3.1% in the afternoon session after positive analyst sentiment and a rating upgrade from an investment analysis firm fueled investor optimism.

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Mar 24 • 10:04 PM EDT • Entertainment • finance.yahoo.com
Ten Pieces of Non-Technical Career Advice for Engineering and Computer Science Students

At a new event focused on student success and career readiness at the Jacobs School of Engineering, alumni and faculty shared non-technical career advice with current students.

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Mar 24 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • today.ucsd.edu
'The Pitt' Star Noah Wyle Talks Universal Health Coverage, Season 3

The hit drama took the London spotlight ahead of the U.K. launch of HBO Max, as Wyle shared how his years of TV doc experience helped when the producer of 'KPop Demon Hunters' needed a medical hand this awards season.

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Mar 24 • 6:44 PM EDT • Health • hollywoodreporter.com
Rural health care providers can now apply for $50M to stabilize access -  New round of health care funding builds on record $146M investment  - Office of the Governor

SANTA FE – New Mexico’s rural health care providers can now apply for a share of $50 million in health care funding as part of the State of New Mexico’s three-year, $146 million investment that has helped recruit more than 800 health care workers to underserved communities. The funding comes from New Mexico’s Rural Health […]

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Mar 24 • 5:49 PM EDT • Health • governor.state.nm.us
Pistons’ Duncan Robinson shares personal story while supporting Detroit youth mental health

The Detroit Pistons Foundation, Children’s Foundation of Michigan, Duncan Robinson, and the Robinson Family Foundation made a special announcement in support of SAY Detroit’s LiveWELL Program, which provides school-based youth development programming focused on mental health, wellness, and life skills for Detroit Youth inside the SAY Detroit Play Center at Lipke Park.

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Mar 24 • 5:38 PM EDT • Health • clickondetroit.com
Marvel Rivals confirmed for Nintendo Switch 2

It's now been officially confirmed that Marvel Rivals is on its way to Nintendo Switch 2, as shared by Marvel Games.

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Mar 24 • 3:42 PM EDT • Technology • nintendoeverything.com
Paranovus sells 14.3M shares at 35 cents to raise $5M

A single institutional investor agreed to buy the shares, with closing set for about March 25. Paranovus says net proceeds will fund working capital.

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Mar 24 • 3:09 PM EDT • Entertainment • stocktitan.net
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Arkansas’ Goodwill leader shares business model goals - Talk Business & Politics

The CEO of Goodwill Industries of Arkansas Brian Marsh knows his nonprofit is practically a household name, but he’s hoping its work can change household incomes. Marsh sat down with...

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Mar 24 • 3:00 PM EDT • Politics • talkbusiness.net
Arkansas’ Goodwill leader shares business model goals - Talk Business & Politics

The CEO of Goodwill Industries of Arkansas Brian Marsh knows his nonprofit is practically a household name, but he’s hoping its work can change household incomes. Marsh sat down with...

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Mar 24 • 3:00 PM EDT • Business • talkbusiness.net
Marathon has sold 1.2M copies across Steam, PS5, and Xbox

Alinea Analytics estimates show that Marathon has generated gross revenues of $55M via 1.2M copies sold on Steam, PS5, and Xbox: Looking at the split between Steam, PS5, and Xbox, Steam is clearly the main platform for Marathon, accounting for a little under 70% of the audience (800K copies sold). Meanwhile, PS5 takes about 19% (217K) and Xbox (including console, PC, and cloud) accounts for a bit over 11% or 133K. Marathon is technically a first-party Sony title, so seeing the home console struggle to break 20% of the volume is a notable data point for the ongoing platform-agnostic debate. PlayStation Studios online games will almost certainly continue being multiplatform (despite Sony reportedly pulling back on PC releases). Subscribe for free to get the most accurate games estimates in your inbox twice a week 🫶 Subscribe As for Marathon, the consensus among hardcore players who pushed through the awkward onboarding phase – myself included – is that it’s fantastic. The gunplay, aesthetic, and presentation are among the best in the shooter genre. A great game doesn’t always equal an immediate hit, though, as shown by our estimates. Things are looking lukewarm right now. But this might be one of those marathon-not-a-sprint situations. Had to, didn’t I? Why wasn’t Marathon a hit on the same level as Arc Raiders? One topic that came up in a lot of conversations at GDC this year was why Marathon hasn’t hit the same stratosphere as Arc Raiders. On paper, they’re both extraction shooters, and Marathon has the Bungie pedigree – the house that built the gold standard for gunplay in Halo and Destiny. Marathon’s neon-futuristic aesthetic also distinguishes itself from the gritty realism of Tarkov or the post-apocalyptic hope of ARC Raiders. But vibes can only get you so far for first impressions if the onboarding feels like a brick wall. Marathon is a sweaty PvP-focused experience with a first-time user experience and UI that I can only describe as dreadful. Players are dropped into a complex ecosystem where the UI, though visually striking, is functionally uninformative, forcing users to manually hover over nondescript, identical icons just to identify basic gear or weapon mods. This lack of clarity is compounded by punishing mechanics like a severe heat gauge for movement and a scarcity of vital resources, all without a clear tutorial or a low-stakes mode to learn the ropes. Most people – even top streamers and veteran shooter players – have no idea what’s going on in Marathon at first. Arc is on the complete other end of the spectrum. As we covered here and here, Arc Raiders offers a more collaborative, approachable loop where players often work together toward shared goals. And the objectives are instantly clear. To many players, this contrast only emphasised Marathon’s issues, especially during the testing period. Players understand the Arc Raiders loop within 30 minutes, while Marathon acts as a massive filter, chewing up newcomers and spitting them out before they can experience the depth of Bungie’s signature gunplay. What I’m getting at here is that the poor first-time user experience of Marathon’s Server Slam likely stifled launch sales, while the opposite was true for Arc. Let’s look at the pre-launch copies sold for each game during their respective Server Slams (launch-aligned) : Looking at the trajectory: Arc Raiders saw a massive 80% jump in copies sold during its three-day Server Slam (day -13 to -11). Players jumped in, realised the water was fine, and immediately opened their wallets. Marathon, meanwhile, saw a 49% increase in the four days following its Slam (Day -7 to -3). At the time of each game’s respective launch, Arc Raiders had nearly double the Steam footprint of Marathon – and word of mouth only continued to grow. Bungie could have had more time to fix the onboarding process had the beta happened earlier. But Marathon launched three days after the beta finished. These factors limited the launch sales quite a bit, I reckon. Marathon has found a niche audience, though Despite the friction-heavy start, the data suggests that those who survived Marathon’s onboarding are loving life. We’ve been tracking cross-platform DAUs, and while there’s the expected post-launch leakage, many players are sticking with it. After peaking at 478K total DAUs on its first Saturday, Marathon has settled into a respectable rhythm, holding 345K DAUs as of yesterday and averaging 380K DAUs across the weekend. Steam continues to do the heavy lifting here, consistently accounting for the lion’s share of the daily players. Players have been putting in the hours, too: On Steam, Marathon’s average playtime has climbed to 27.8 hours, significantly outpacing the console averages on PS5 (16.5h) and Xbox (17.3h). Even more telling than the averages: 22% of the Steam audience has surged past the 50-hour mark, and nearly 7% have already logged over 100 hours. Subscribe for free to get the most accurate games estimates in your inbox twice a week 🫶 Subscribe This data suggests that once the Bungie magic clicks, it hooks players deeper than the average extraction shooter. There’s also started to be a shift in the game’s discourse. Marathon launched as one of those games that’s cool to hate. But as Marathon’s 100-hour club grows, we’re seeing conversations around its mechanical merit outweigh the negativity. Several high-profile creators, who were initially vocal critics, have spent the last week coming around on the mechanical depth of the endgame. It’s a subtle but positive signal; the hate train is losing steam, and a new narrative about the game is emerging. Bungie faithfuls unite Another interesting metric in Marathon’s first few weeks is who, exactly, is playing. Bungie leans heavily on its prestige as the “makers of Halo and Destiny,” in its marketing, and that message has clearly hit the mark. On Steam, the gravity (hammer) of Bungie’s previous work is unavoidable. A staggering 78.2% of Marathon players also played Destiny 2. The trend carries across other platforms, with 74.2% of PS5 players and 82.7% of Xbox players also having played Destiny 2. The Halo legacy lives on, it seems. More on that in a bit. While Destiny 2 went free to play, these numbers still represent a high-intent migration of a fanbase that trusts Bungie’s specific brand of kinetic gunplay and cryptic world-building. The Xbox data adds another layer of legacy. About 85.7% of Marathon players on Xbox have played Halo Infinite, while over half of the Steam audience has spent time in Halo Infinite and 36.1% in the Master Chief Collection (a paid collection of the old Bungie-made legacy games). Interestingly, we see a 55.9% overlap with ARC Raiders on Steam. Overlap is even higher there on PlayStation (60.5%) and Xbox (66.5%). And there’s also significant crossover with Helldivers 2 on all platforms, too. Subscribe for free to get the most accurate games estimates in your inbox twice a week 🫶 Subscribe Bungie has found some of its fans with Marathon, and the challenge now is keeping this engaged in a high-stakes PvP environment when they’ve spent the last decade primarily enjoying the power fantasies of PvE. On that note… Go the full 26 miles? Or cut and run? Time for some could’ve, should’ve, would’ve. These things would have improved Marathon’s performance at launch: A more robust onboarding process, perhaps in the form of a short single-player/PvE campaign. We know Bungie fans love this stuff. A traditional arena-based mode akin to Destiny’s Crucible could have been a bridge for the cautious players who’d have been otherwise deterred by the Server Slam. It’s also a great palate cleanser after getting merked. Introducing a dedicated PvE environment would have similarly diversified the conversation and lowered the barrier for the Bungie faithful who found the pure PvP extraction loop too abrasive. PvE is safer than PvP these days. There’s an argument that a thin PvE mode would have just felt like a budget Destiny, potentially hurting the brand more. But given how dire the FTUE is, I think it would have been a net positive. Any kind of tutorialised loop that demystifies the stakes, really. While there is merit in a studio sticking firmly to a singular creative vision, and going all in on the hardcore extraction loop. Less forgiving is the technical reality is that the user interface and first-time user experience (FTUE) were not at a commercial standard for launch. Subscribe for free to get the most accurate games estimates in your inbox twice a week 🫶 Subscribe In a landscape where player time is oversaturated and the most contested currency, a flawed FTUE is a critical failure point. But it’s not all doom and gloom, as Marathon has an incredible, unique gameplay loop, suggesting that financial success is still attainable if Bungie can pivot effectively. Bungie and PlayStation now face a difficult strategic crossroads, though – one within a challenging games market. They could: Double down on Marathon with a long-term Rainbow Six Siege- or No Man’s Sky-style recovery plan, which is something I heard Last Stand Media’s Chris Maldonado mention last week. While this could be a sunk-cost fallacy in action, it could eventually yield the audience the game’s mechanical depth deserves. Shift focus toward the inevitable Destiny 3 or another project, mitigating the escalating opportunity cost and cutting their losses, so to speak. Doing both is an expensive proposition, given the high overhead and burn rate of operating out of Bellevue, Washington. With Sony recently demonstrating a lower threshold for underperforming studios and projects, the margin for error has vanished. Whatever happens, the next six months will determine whether Marathon becomes a cornerstone of Sony’s live-service portfolio or a cautionary tale of vision exceeding accessibility. I’m hoping it’s the former, because Marathon rocks. As always, hit subscribe to get updates on Marathon and other relevant games. Subscribe Want to get your hands on our data for yourself – for free? We’re offering a free trial of our platform for games companies. Send us a message here, or reply to this email, and we’ll set you up. The last word Reply to this email – or reach out here – if you have any feedback for the newsletter – or want to request a game for us to cover. [Alinea Analytics boasts the most accurate PC and console estimates in the business. Game makers use our platform to understand their audience, keep an eye on the competition, monitor sales trends, and spot new opportunities. We equip game studios and financial institutions with accurate data and the confidence to make smarter, data-driven decisions. Want to talk about all things games market data? We’d love to chat!]

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Mar 24 • 2:06 PM EDT • Technology • alineaanalytics.substack.com
Age Comes for Us All—Even Politicians

Don’t look now, but the period from now through the 2028 presidential election will be a historic inflection point in our politics. We’ll see enormous generational change take place amid enormous uncertainty and volatility.

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Mar 24 • 11:15 AM EDT • Politics • cookpolitical.com
Paranovus Entertainment Technology (PAVS) surges 125.9% as low-float dynamics amplify trading volatility

Paranovus Entertainment Technology Ltd. (PAVS) is up 125.9% today. Here is some analysis on what might have caused this price movement.Analysis: The most likely driver looks technical rather than fundamental: PAVS has been prone to sharp, liquidity-driven swings after its recent reverse split reduced share count and tightened the tradable float. This could also be because traders are positioning around potential changes in the company’s at-the-ma

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Mar 24 • 10:53 AM EDT • Entertainment • quiverquant.com
San Antonio 2026 Teen Mental Health Survey now open

Teenagers can share their experience with mental health in an ongoing survey meant to inform city policy.

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Mar 24 • 7:29 AM EDT • Health • axios.com
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Why is AirDrop support disabled by default on Samsung Galaxy?

Samsung will officially start rolling out AirDrop support over Quick Share on Galaxy S26 devices throughout this week but, personally,...

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Mar 24 • 7:00 AM EDT • Technology • 9to5google.com
OpenClaw creator: User asked for a token refund for errors

OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger shared a refund request he received for errors, including "fabricated data." He refunded $0, as the agent is free.

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Mar 24 • 5:44 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Got a burning sports question? Ask The Athletic’s daily newsletter

Send The Pulse your most pressing sports questions, and we'll regularly share answers from our experts.

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Newsom Talks Trump, 2028 — and Where He Draws the Line on Israel

The California governor opens up about family, risk and the choices that could shape his political future.

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Mar 24 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • politico.com
Modernizing Pinnacol is about its members, not politics

By Akasha Absher While we share the passion for protecting Colorado’s workers expressed in a recent op-ed from the perspective of trial attorneys and union representatives, the piece paints a picture of Pinnacol Assurance that is more rooted in 1915 than our 21st-century reality (“Colorado’s workers can’t afford a privatized Pinnacol | OPINION,” March 17). […]

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Mar 24 • 2:45 AM EDT • Politics • coloradopolitics.com
Indiana hosts Los Angeles on 9-game home slide

Indiana is 4-34 in games decided by 10 points or more. The Lakers have gone 23-14 away from home. Los Angeles is eighth in the Western Conference with 14.6 fast break points per game led by LeBron James averaging 5.7.

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Mar 24 • 2:02 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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We disagreed on politics. We agreed on wine. That was enough.

At the Virginia Governor’s Cup Gala in Richmond earlier this month, a very dapper gentleman approached me and introduced himself. In his light-colored suit and bowtie, he looked very Southern in a classical sense, the sort of Virginia Gentleman you used to see south of the Rappahannock as recently as my college days. “I’m a longtime reader and fan of your writing, if not your politics,” he said. His comment was the proverbial iron fist in a velvet glove, simultaneously conveying praise and disapproval while establishing boundaries. Man, I wish we still discoursed like this instead of shouting bromides and insults to try and “own” our opponents with a funny meme and a furrowed brow. Subscribe “Well, we’ll always have wine to share together,” I said, and thanked him for his kind words. We clinked glasses, exchanged pleasantries about the delicious gold medal-winning wines being poured that evening, and went our separate ways. Our exchange reminded me that more unites us than divides us. Wine brings people together to share a meal and a few hours of joy despite our differences.1 That’s why I refer to the wine community — including readers and consumers — rather than the wine industry. Together, we are so much more than production, distribution and sales statistics. A few minutes later the evening’s awards ceremony began. Applause grew as the 12 winemakers who made the top-scoring wines for the Governor’s Case took the stage, including a loud cheer for Jonathan Wheeler of Trump Winery and his 2018 Blanc de Noir sparkling wine. All the winemakers on stage had reason to be proud, Wheeler perhaps more so. Trump Winery was the only winery to win six gold medals in the competition this year. (Wineries are limited to six entries.) Two of Wheeler’s ciders also won gold medals in a separate competition. When you cover the labels and take the sour taste of politics off your palate, the wines are pretty darn good.2 Then Gov. Abigail Spanberger, newly elected Democrat and Virginia’s first female governor, was introduced to great applause to announce which of the 12 wines had won the Governor’s Cup. She spoke for a few minutes about the importance of wine to Virginia’s economy and tourism and the international acclaim Virginia wine has received. Just two weeks earlier, she gave the Democrats’ response to Trump’s State of the Union speech, but this night wasn’t about politics. That didn’t stop several people in the crowd from speculating on the irony should she have to present the trophy to Trump Winery. In the end, Valley Road Vineyards was displayed on the screen behind Spanberger as the winning winery. Blue Bee Cidery in Richmond took top honors for that category. The crowd cheered a female governor presenting the state’s highest trophy to a female winemaker and then resumed the evening’s festivities, united by their mutual love of wine. A whiff of politics couldn’t dim the cheer of celebration and a community united by its love of wine. In Memoriam: Michel Rolland The global wine community lost a giant March 20, with the passing of Michel Rolland. He was 78. Rolland was the original “flying winemaker,” a globe-trotting consultant who helped Bordeaux regain its mojo in the 1970s and then shaped the rise of Napa Valley cult Cabernet as consultant to Simi, Harlan, Newton, Screaming Eagle, Araujo, Dalle Valle and other wineries. He was instrumental in Argentina’s rise to prominence and even had his own winery, Clos de los Siete, in a partnership with other wine families. Rolland’s career arc paralleled that of Robert Parker, the world’s most influential critic. Parker championed many of the wines Rolland consulted on, helping build his reputation and demand for his services. It also made him a target for Parker’s critics. As W. Blake Gray wrote on Wine-Searcher in his excellent tribute to Rolland: Rolland created the type of wines Parker loved: rich body, plenty of fruit, soft tannins. He sometimes faced the accusation of creating a generic international style of red wine, where the great wines he made in Argentina were indistinguishable from the great wines he made in France. Rolland chafed at that critique, as did many of his fans. He was credited with championing green harvesting and leaf pulling, as well as careful selection of grapes in the winery, practices we nearly universally think of today for high-quality winemaking. “Michel was an incredible innovator who changed how wine was made and how grapes were grown,” Napa Valley winemaker Aaron Pott wrote on Facebook. “His work has transformed the wine trade. He created new ways of looking at wine, tasting wine, evaluating ripeness and quality. … This was not just a man with a ‘style’ that he imposed on vineyards but a man that understood how to make great wine from great sites.” Rolland started his consulting company in 1973 in Libourne, in Bordeaux, with his wife, Dany. Both had graduated the year before from Bordeaux’s Institute d’Oenologie. The couple sold their majority share in the business in 2020, according to Wine Spectator. Over his career, Rolland reportedly worked with more than 100 wineries in 20 countries. He even made it to Virginia, where he consulted for Kluge Estate in the mid-2000s. (Kluge Estate is now Trump Winery.) Reader feedback, please! Last week, I did my first WineLine Live! with Dr. Laura Catena of Catena Zapata winery in Argentina. We enjoyed a fascinating discussion about her efforts to preserve the genetic heritage of old vineyards in Mendoza. I conceived of WineLine Live! for paid subscribers, as a thank you for your financial support. And while only a few people joined live, the video now has more views than I have paid subscribers, so I guess that’s pretty good. Even so, I’m considering opening future installments to anyone on Substack to reach a broader audience. So my questions to you: Should these be public? And what format do you prefer? Live gives a chat feature with the potential for viewers to interact with me and the guest, while a video post would just be that. Another alternative is a podcast, which would just be audio, without video of my chins. Please let me know in the comments. Leave a comment In the Glass A few wines I’ve enjoyed recently: Bonny Doon Vineyard Take Me to Your Liter, Le Cigare Volant, Red Wine of the Earth. 2023, Central Coast, CA. Blend of Grenache, Syrah Cinsaut and Petite Sirah. Delightful wine with expressive red fruit flavors, casual drinking. Doon lovers of a certain age will remember Randall Grahm’s Big House Red; this is more in that style than his original Le Cigare Volant, modeled after Chateauneuf du Pape. The liter bottle makes it an even better value. I see this online at about $15. Great value. Albert Bichot Bourgogne Pinot Noir Origines 2023. 13% - Textbook pinot noir and an excellent, affordable entry (regional) Burgundy. Wine Enthusiast Top 100 Wines of 2025. $24 at Total Wine & More. Loma Larga Pinot Noir 2021 “Coastal Cool Climate Wine”, Valle de Casablanca, Chile. An older sample, showing beautifully. Spicy and fruit forward. I’m seeing widely varied pricing online, from $18-$32. At the lower end, it’s a terrific value. 13.5% Dr. Loosen Riesling Dry 2016, Mosel, Germany. Found this “in the stack.” And it stacked up well, shedding some of its youthful acidity for opulent Riesling character, including a hint of the mineral oil older Riesling often features. A great value, as I’m seeing it as low as $14 online. 12% abv. Red Tail Ridge Blau Franc Blend 2024, Sans Oak, Finger Lakes. 13.4% abv. The name is a neat portmanteau of Blaufrankisch and Cabernet Franc, thus Blau Franc. The blend is 50-50, no oak involved. The Blau dominates on the palate, with the spicy caraway seed (think New York deli rye bread). The Franc adds body. The result is juicy, energetic and joyful. Sokol Blosser Estate Rosé of Pinot Noir 2025, Dundee Hills, Willamette Valley, Oregon. This first rosé of 2025 was a welcome respite to our cold, snowy winter here in the Mid-Atlantic. Oh man, I needed this! Bright and energetic, exuberant even, it perks up the mood and goes down fast. 13%. Certified B Corp. Ingredient and nutrition labeling, and in a modest way that doesn’t occupy a lot of label space. (Since it’s not required, presumably there are no minimum font size requirements.) More wineries should follow this example. Dave McIntyre's WineLine is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Subscribe Thanks for reading Dave McIntyre's WineLine! This post is public so feel free to share it. Share 1 Some restraint may be required. 2 Especially the bubblies.

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Connections: Sports Edition today: Hints and answers for March 23, 2026, puzzle No. 546

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A DNA test ruled him out. He was convicted of murder anyway.

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Your Thymus and Your Healthspan

Our thymus gland plays a central role in the development or our immune system, specifically for supporting T cell development (how these cells got their name, maturation and differentiation in the thymus) and discriminating between self and foreign, non-self antigen proteins with production of dendritic cells. As we age, our thymus gland shrinks—the process known as involution—with progressive change from spongy to fatty tissue, with loss of functionality. But this process, with respect to timeline and extent, markedly varies from one person to the next. And to make things even more complicated, our thymus gland anatomy and precise location in the chest also is highly variable. So the famous Frank Netter diagrams from the 1960s (such as at left below) don’t capture the remarkable heterogeneity that a random set of 12 chest CT scans (below at right). What I consider as 2 landmark papers in Nature this week (here and here) used AI to quantify health of the thymus in 2 large cohorts, and then correlate the metric to a broad array of health outcomes. In this edition of Ground Truths, I’m going to cover three questions: (1) How was thymus health determined by AI?; (2) How is thymus health linked to key clinical outcomes? and (3) Are there ways we can promote a healthy (aka rejuvenate) thymus gland in our later years? Subscribe 1. How was thymus health determined by AI? This was accomplished by extensive work developing and validating an AI pipeline for 2 stages, the first for localization and segmentation of the thymus bed, and the second to quantify a digital marker, termed the thymic health score. There’s a lot to this algorithmic development, so I won’t go into all the details, but just provide a rudimentary outline of what was done. The 1st stage used supervised learning with 2 radiologists reviewing 2,461 chest CT scans. That work trained a 3D U-Net model to automatically identify the thymic bed’s 3D cropped region using center of mass coordinates, which reached 99.8% accuracy. The 2nd stage used a foundation model that was pre-trained with SwAV (which stands for Swapping Assignment between multiple Views), a self-supervised model, that generated a high-dimensional thymus representation of 4,096 features. That compares to the radiology reductionist and subjective scoring of 0 to 3 where 0 means the thymus is fully degenerated and fatty, and 3 is considered dense, intact glandular soft tissue. Notably, the self-supervised learning (SSL) performance was superior to supervised (AUC ~0.75 vs 0.55, respectively) reflecting the shallowness of the 0-3 classifier vs SSL’s holistic, self-taught AI. The thymic health score ranged from 0 to 100, with the highest number indexed to fully preserved thymic health. The algorithmic work extended to explainability with both Shapely value distribution, meaning the model was holistic not relying on any “magic” pixel, and occlusion sensitivity, demonstrating the model’s performance was not affected by ribs, sternum, lung tissue, but rather focused on the thymic bed directly. Below are a few saliency maps from the occlusion sensitivity that indicate the thymic bed focus, not affected by neighboring structures, using the jet color scale. Now the AI was ready for processing ~25,000 CT scans, each over 30 MB files, from the 2 large participant cohorts to provide a thymic health score, it did so in less than 14 hours, which is less than 2 seconds per scan! Share 2. How is thymus health linked to key clinical outcomes? The two cohorts were the National Lung Screening Trial, NLST (N=25,031) and the Framingham Heart Study, FHS (N=2,581) each with baseline demographics and long term follow up of >12 years for health outcomes. From the NSLT, you can see below that increased age and body-mass index were correlated to reduced thymic health. And, overall, men had reduced thymic health scores compared with women. There are a lot of graphs in the paper for outcomes, for both the NLST and FHS cohorts. To simplify the major outcomes, below is a composite Figure with striking reduction of all-cause mortality and for the different causes of death. The results were consistent between the 2 cohorts. For example, the cardiovascular mortality hazard ratio average was 0.57 in NLST and 0.38 in FHS (weighted to be 0.53 for the aggregate). The reduction of mortality also extended to digestive diseases and pulmonary disease (data not shown below). Lung cancer incidence was reduced by 36% for high vs low thymic health (Figure below, with a panel -incidence and b panel-mortality, adjusted for age, sex, BMI, smoking status). Notably, there was a smoker’s paradox: lower incidence and improved survival for lung cancer in smokers who had a high thymus health score. Smoking was associated with lower thymic scores whereas alcohol was not. Higher thymic health was linked to higher HDL cholesterol, lower triglycerides, lower fasting blood glucose, and lower systolic and diastolic blood pressure. Inflammation biomarkers, such as C-reactive protein and interleukin-6, were elevated in the people with lower thymic health scores. In their second paper, the same team looked at the relationship between thymic score and outcomes for 3,476 patients receiving cancer immunotherapy. The non-small cell lung cancer progression-free survival was reduced in patients with low thymic health score. A parallel relationship for survival was seen for other types of cancer including melanoma, breast, and kidney with a 44% lower risk among high thymic scores (Figure). A similar pattern was seen with different immune checkpoint inhibitors. The thymus health score outperformed programmed death ligand-1 (PD-L1)and tumor mutation burden (TMB) assay of the tumor and was an independent prognostic marker of progression-free survival. In this dataset, a direct connect with thymus score and adaptive immune function was noted with a correlation before cancer treatment for both T-cell diversity and thymus T-cell production (a metric known as T cell receptor excision circles). Thymus Removal Study There is a highly relevant citation about thymus function before moving onto ways to rejuvenate it. In 2023, a very important study of thymus removal during cardiothoracic surgery was published, with 1146 patients undergoing thymus removal vs 1146 matched controls (mean age 55 years). The adverse outcomes for thymus removal were striking, with a 2.9 higher risk of all-cause mortality and doubling of cancer incidence, 1.5 fold increase in cancer mortality, and 1.5-fold increase in autoimmune diseases. The immune function showed marked compromise after thymus removal, as reflected by CD4+ and CD8+ T cells (Figure below) Share Ground Truths 3. Are there ways we can promote a healthy (aka rejuvenate) thymus gland in our later years? In recent months we’ve learned a lot about the process of thymus involution and the pathways by which this may be modulated. Thymus involution is primarily due to loss to thymus epithelial cells (TECs) and there are 2 subtypes with different functions: the cortical, responsible for positive selection of T cells, and the medullary, for negative selection. When adipose tissue infiltrates the thymus, thymic adipocytes are pro-inflammatory, knocking out T-cell output. Likewise, systemic inflammation, or “inflammaging,” from smoking, obesity, and chronic stress promote thymic adipocytes. Now, from preclinical studies, we know about key pathways that account for these processes. Historically, back in 2014, FOXN1 was recognized as a single master transcription factor essential for TEC function, with studies in mice with forced FOXN1 upregulation leading to thymus regeneration. That laid the foundation for potential regrowth of quiescent thymus cells. It took awhile to find pathways to accomplish this goal and to even refute its role as the master regulator. The Liver-Thymus Axis Feng Zhang and his team recently showed that injection of an mRNA vaccine to the liver encoding DLL1, IL-7 and FLT3-L in combination, factors known to support thymopoiesis (Figure), successfully enhanced immune function in aged mice. However, the effect was transient. The FGF21 Story Two reports in 2025 addressed the thymus gland’s production of FGF21, a growth factor (fibroblast growth factor 21) and its control of thymus involution. This growth factor is also produced by the liver, but it doesn’t have impact on the thymus in aged rodent models. In contrast, The liver’s hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) has been shown to reverse senescent TEC structural changes. Growth hormone stimulates production of insulin growth factor-1 (IGF-1) in the liver and the thymus. Two small studies in human participants (TRIIM, for Thymus Regeneration, Immunorestoration, and Insulin Mitigation) of 6 and 50 people, respectively, treated with combined human growth hormone, metformin and DHEA, suggested the potential of slowing epigenetic aging and improving thymus mass and function. But the combination of drugs, small sample, and lack of controls make conclusions murky. Increased thymus FGF21 led to increased CD8 T cells in old mice and extended healthspan and improved physical performance. Building on the previous FOXN1 data, ablation of β-klotho, the obligatory co-receptor for FOXN1, accelerated thymic aging. The benefit to FGF21 was confirmed in a companion paper using an FGF21 knock-in mouse model showing thymus enlargement and increased TECs throughout the lifespan. (schematic Figure below). The accompanying editorial for these 2 papers speculated: “The proposed link between age-associated thymus involution and organismal aging is intriguing, and suggests we might seek to achieve systemic rejuvenation by counteracting thymic involution.” Other Factors Lessons from the Axolotl (Mexican Salamander) In an elegant set of experiments of the axolotl (Figure), known for its complete thymus regeneration after total surgical removal, mediators were identified. Surprisingly FOXN1 was dispensable. But midkine, a growth factor, appeared to be the driver, the initiator of thymus cell growth, survival, and repair. Other components that contributed were Postn+ (periostin-expressing mesenchymal niches) and Ccl19, a chemokine protein from the bloodstream. RANK and RANKL RANK (receptor activator of nuclear factor κB its ligand (RANKL) have been considered key regulators of medullary TECs. In a study of both aged mice and human thymus cell cultures, their key role was confirmed, with multiple benefits of resorting TEC function, recruitment of progenitor cells, and T cell development. Subscribe Summing Up This body of work strongly supports the health of the thymus gland as a critical regulator of human healthspan, not just a correlate or link. The new landmark studies are reinforced by the regenerative biology experimental models that have shown, via an array of mediators, that healthspan of aged mice is at least in part dependent on thymus gland function and its critical role for maintaining adaptive immunity. It sure seems that we’d be better off having an immune reservoir of naive T cells instead of a profile in older adults of exhausted, low quality, memory T cells, with a senescent phenotype. It is striking that we ignored the importance of the thymus gland for many decades. A wake-up call was the results of the thymectomy matched control study reviewed here, with the opposite of high thymic health score improved health outcomes. The convergence of AI and healthspan here is notable. The exceptional and laborious work for developing and validating (no less explaining) the AI to quantify thymus health set the foundation for probing the connect the major health outcomes in two cohorts with extensive follow-up. We’ve never had a way to meaningfully quantify the thymus gland before, so this represents important leverage of supervised, self-supervised, and transformer models. The study wouldn’t have been possible without AI. And it begs the question as to whether there are ways we can maintain our thymus at a high health score. But it’s not so simple to rejuvenate our thymus. There are multiple risks including the induction of autoimmunity, increasing the risk of cancer, and inducing a pro-inflammatory state. For example, factors that increase TEC proliferation could compromise the medulllary negative selection process and leak out auto-reactive (self-attacking) T cells. Thymic cells could be induced to proliferate, but we know, for example, that growth hormone and IGF-1 are associated with an increase risk of cancer. If thymus rejuvenation doesn’t clear out the accumulated senescent cells in older adults, then inflammation within the gland could block the production of TECs. Keeping these risks in mind, we now have identified many ways to keep our thymus healthy as we age that undoubtedly will be tested in clinical trials going forward. Ultimately, the benefit-to-risk tradeoffs will be defined. In the meantime, we have desperately needed an immunome. As I’ve stressed in multiple prior Ground Truths, we have no test in the clinic to assess a patient’s immune status! It was very encouraging for me to get an email from Hugo Aerts, the senior author of the landmark papers in the days after they were published: “I also wanted to say that your Substack on “Why We Need an Immunome” was inspiring for this work. We found it a very compelling perspective and greatly enjoyed reading it.” Just having an assessment of a person’s immune status via a chest CT scan, with millions of these performed per year, might help in guiding the right immunotherapy for cancer (e.g. more intensive, combinations for those with low thymic health scores) and help define people who are increased risk for age-related diseases of cancer, cardiovascular, and neurodegenerative. The main theme of Super Agers is that we now have many layers of data (genetics, proteins, biomarkers, organ clocks that can be integrated via multimodal AI) for us to define a person’s specific risk decades before one of these age-related diseases leads to symptoms, enabling prevention. From the new studies this week, we can add thymus health score as yet another way to understand a person’s risk, a window into their adaptive immune system and healthspan. And perhaps someday we will be able to safely rejuvenate the thymus, or maintain its health through one’s life, and use the thymus health score to monitor. NB: I wrote this post (No A.I.) A Quick Poll Loading... ********************************************************************* Thanks to Ground Truths subscribers (now > 200,000) from every US state and 212 countries. Your subscription to these free essays and podcasts makes my work in putting them together worthwhile. Please join! If you found this interesting PLEASE share it! Share Ground Truths Paid subscriptions are voluntary and all proceeds from them go to support Scripps Research. They do allow for posting comments and questions, which I do my best to respond to. Please don’t hesitate to post comments and give me feedback. Let me know topics that you would like to see covered. Leave a comment Many thanks to those who have contributed—they have greatly helped fund our summer internship programs for the past two years. 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Business investment in the era of digital transformation

The weak performance of business investment across the OECD since the Global Financial Crisis holds back potential growth. However, it masks a strong investment dynamic in digital assets such as hardware, software, and databases. This column describes how this divergence between digital and non-digital assets has intensified from the mid-2010s. The strong investment performance of the US relative to the rest of the OECD is almost exclusively a digital phenomenon. A ‘digital divide’ is emerging, where laggard countries are accumulating digital capital per worker more slowly than those with higher initial starting levels.

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Mar 21 • 8:00 PM EDT • Business • cepr.org
How do I share a mental health diagnosis? | The therapist is in

Is there a way to share a mental health diagnosis but shield myself from hurt or judgment? How can I do it without changing a relationship?

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Mar 21 • 1:00 PM EDT • Health • seattletimes.com
Aspen hosts an eve of storytelling with famed sports photographer

Led by the lens, acclaimed American sports photographer Jean Fruth will share tales from her work covering Major League Baseball and beyond.

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Mar 21 • 11:28 AM EDT • Sports • aspentimes.com
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'Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man' writer says Tommy's ending was always the plan

Steven Knight has always known how Tommy Shelby's story would end, and with 'Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man,' he's finally shared it with audiences.

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Mar 21 • 9:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Exclusive Blue Lagoon Skin Science Discount as Seen on TODAY

Shop TODAY's Adrianna Brach gets a behind-the-scenes look at the brand's innovative products.

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Mar 21 • 7:50 AM EDT • Science • today.com
Amid US-Israel war with Iran, what will Pakistan do?

Pakistan has a defense pact and a friendship with Saudi Arabia, but shares a border and social ties with Iran. If the Saudis ask for help against Iran, Pakistan would be stuck. How is it managing these relationships?

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Mar 21 • 7:37 AM EDT • Politics • dw.com