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A modest proposal for finishing O’Hare on time
DePaul University researchers say O’Hare should consider modular construction techniques to keep a major terminal expansion project on track.
DBEDT strengthens partnership with leading Japanese retailer to expand opportunities for Hawai’i businesses
The Hawaiʻi Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism has reaffirmed its partnership with Japan’s Hankyu Hanshin Department Stores to continue expanding international sales and promotion opportunities for Hawaiʻi-made products at the annual Hankyu Hawaiʻi Fair in Osaka.
‘They would have never done it’: Musk-backed business court lands in Hinojosa’s hands
Power to appoint business court judges will soon be in the hands of the incoming governor-elect Gina Hinojosa, who vowed to reclaim power from big business.
Proposed federal small business changes would be detrimental
Leaders of the Akron and Canton chambers of commerce oppose the SBA's latest proposal.
Cape Girardeau City Council moves forward with business-funded tourism committee
The Cape Girardeau City Council voted 5-2 Monday night to move forward with a proposal from local business owners to pay for research on tourism in the city.
LANL Scientists Fan Guo And Shi-Zeng Lin Recognized For Physics Excellence And Named Fellows By American Physical Society
Fan Guo, left, and Shi-Zeng Lin. Photos Courtesy LANL LANL NEWS RELEASE Two Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists, Fan Guo and Shi-Zeng Lin, have been elected fellows of the American Physical S…
UO Sparks Nation's First Sports Angel Network
The Oregon Sports Angels (OSA), an investor network dedicated exclusively to sports products and sports technology launched, was born directly out of a classroom at the University of Oregon’s Lundquist College of Business.
UO Sparks Nation's First Sports Angel Network
The Oregon Sports Angels (OSA), an investor network dedicated exclusively to sports products and sports technology launched, was born directly out of a classroom at the University of Oregon’s Lundquist College of Business.
Musk-backed business court to land in Gina Hinojosa's hands
Texas’ first appointed judges were christened after Musk went up against a business court in Delaware. Now they'll be in Democrats’ hands.
Multiple fire trucks respond to business on Cypress Drive in Birmingham
ABC 33/40 in Birmingham, Alabama offers news, sports, and weather reporting for the surrounding communities including Tuscaloosa, Anniston, Cullman, Gadsden, Talladega, Sylacauga, Carbon Hill, Jasper, Hoover, Bessemer, Vestavia Hills, Alabaster, Trussville and Homewood.
Nearly one in five food stamp recipients could lose benefits under Trump proposal
Roughly 6.3 million low-income Americans could lose their food stamp benefits in fiscal year 2029 under a US Department of Agriculture proposed rule released Tuesday. That’s nearly one in five enrollees in the safety net program.
Michiganders think money is corrupting politics. Did their vote change that? | The Metro
Michigan voted in favor of a money-out-of-politics proposal, limiting campaign contributions from big companies receiving government money.
Michigan coach Kyle Whittingham: Oregon can 'outbid' most teams
"It doesn't hurt that you have $50-plus million at your disposal to ... outbid everybody," Whittingham said. "But that's not his fault. That's a credit"
New Smyrna Beach considers new restrictions on e-bikes, scooters in parks and business districts
New Smyrna Beach is looking to put new limits on where e-bikes, electric scooters and other motorized devices can be ridden, citing growing safety concerns involving pedestrians, cyclists and motorists. The City Commission is considering Ordinance 44-26, which would restrict the use of these devices in certain parts of the city. The proposal comes as residents raise concerns about riders traveling on sidewalks, weaving around pedestrians and ignoring traffic rules.
Health officials say 30 runners treated during Santa Barbara Half Marathon
Of those, 26 were transported to emergency departments by ambulance or private vehicle, while four were treated and released at the scene.
California voters defeat billionaire tax proposal that divided Democrats
The novel proposal would have charged billionaires a one-time 5% tax on most of their overall wealth, including their ownership in companies.
Scientists think they've found ancient remnants of dinosaur blood
Scientists have studied plenty of dinosaur bones, eggs and footprints. Now, some think they've found their strongest evidence yet of dinosaur blood.
Texas Democrats set sights on 2027 legislative session as bill filing begins
Lawmakers began filing legislation for the 90th Texas Legislature on Monday. Proposals so far include bills to legalize recreational marijuana, repeal school vouchers, change immigration enforcement policies and place new restrictions on data centers.
DTE, Consumers Sue To Block ‘Money Out of Politics’ Proposal Approved by Voters
The state’s largest utilities argue that the new law — approved by more than 80% of voters in Tuesday’s election — will violate their free speech rights and other provisions of the US Constitution.
Austin will retool APD’s policies on cooperating with ICE after Abbott’s election loss
Austin Mayor Kirk Watson said Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis will change the department's general orders ahead of Gina Hinojosa's takeover of the governor's office.
Gov.-elect Hinojosa wants to expand Medicaid in Texas. An executive order won’t make that happen
Texas Dems may craft a state “trigger bill” to activate Medicaid expansion if Congress repeals costly Trump administration restrictions.
This ‘Slow Horses' breakout has waited her whole life for Chris Rock
At the Toronto Film Festival in September, Rosalind Eleazar walked the red carpet with her "Misty Green" costars Chris Rock, Daniel Kaluuya and Anna Kendrick.
This ‘Slow Horses’ breakout has waited her whole life for Chris Rock
At the Toronto Film Festival in September, Rosalind Eleazar walked the red carpet with her “Misty Green” costars Chris Rock, Daniel Kaluuya and Anna Kendrick.
Forget Mosquitoes in Amber. Scientists May Have Found Dinosaur Blood in a 115 Million-Year-Old Bone.
Okay, you can’t clone a raptor from heme. But finding it after 115 million years is almost as wild.
Forget Mosquitoes in Amber. Scientists May Have Found Dinosaur Blood in a 115 Million-Year-Old Bone.
Okay, you can’t clone a raptor from heme. But finding it after 115 million years is almost as wild.
Potential impacts Democratic health care proposals on employer-sponsored health care
Summary: Democratic state and federal wins in the midterm elections could lead to Medicaid expansion in some states, and focuses attention on the House Democrats’ memo on health care priorities in the new Congress. Few of these proposals are likely to become law before 2029, but they could form the foundation for Democratic health care reform efforts after the 2028 Presidential election. Portion of total newly eligible for Medicaid if non-expansion states expanded Source: Cervantes, S et al How Many Uninsured Are in the Coverage Gap and How Many Could be Eligible if All States Adopted the Medicaid Expansion? KFF, July 27, 2026 It’s been almost a week since the midterm elections, and the Democrats will have large majorities in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, although not large enough to overcome Senate filibusters or Presidential vetoes. I reviewed some of what I thought these midterm results could mean in a post last week. In retrospect, I might have understated the elections’ impact on health care due to changes in governorship and majorities in many state legislatures. A Democratic trifecta (governorship and both houses) could mean expansion of Medicaid in Wisconsin, and a Democratic governor and House in Texas and Georgia could increase pressure in both states to expand Medicaid. That’s especially important, because Texas currently represents almost half of those who would be newly eligible for insurance from Medicaid expansions. Medicaid expansions matter to employers because they have been shown to decrease the risk of closure of rural hospitals and support workers’ ability to stay employed and productive. The House Democrats’ Cost of Living Healthcare Working Group published an 84-page memo in September with recommendations for the first hundred hours, the first hundred days, and the first year. The midterm results make this document more important. Here’s a review of what some of these recommendations could mean for employer-sponsored health insurance. Elements that could lower employer health care spending Restore the expanded advance premium tax credit for ACA plans. This could bring healthier enrollees back to the marketplace plans, which would improve the risk status of these plans and decrease the rate of uninsurance. Fewer people with insurance puts higher pressures on provider rates of employer plans. More stable ACA plans could encourage employers to consider transitioning from employer-sponsored plans to ICHRA/Choice, providing a fund for employers to purchase their own insurance on an exchange. Repeal Medicaid work requirements and other administrative rules of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act which as written will lead to a large increase in the uninsured rate. Fewer people with insurance leads to more pressures from hospitals for commercial rate increases. Extend Inflation Reduction Act negotiated drug prices to commercial health plans. These are now only applicable to Medicare Parts D (outpatient drugs) and B (drugs administered by providers. The Medicare negotiated prices are lower than net prices negotiated by PBMs. Hospital price limits. Some of the Democratic House proposals would institute site neutral payment and limit outlier hospital prices to 200% of Medicare. The average commercial health plan pays about 247% Medicare rates for inpatient hospital care, and many commercial health plans currently pay over 300% of Medicare for hospital services. PBM regulations. The proposals would mandate more transparency and prevent PBMs from paying subsidiaries more than market rates. Antitrust enforcement. The plan would break up vertically integrated health care monopolies which could lower prices through competition. Ban on non-compete contractual clauses could increase competition by increasing flexibility and supply of clinicians, although it could also increase physician leverage and lead to higher wages which could raise prices. Lower the Medicare eligibility age, which could take older, more expensive, workers off employer sponsored plans. Create a Medi-Kids plan to insure all children and potentially young adults up to age 26. These plan members have low non-preventive utilization and cost less per person than older plan members, but removing children from employer plans would decrease volatility because a few children have very high medical costs. Elements that could increase employer spending (in many instances for high value services) Mandate three primary care and three mental health visits without cost sharing Eliminate cost sharing for mental health care and substance use care during pregnancy and in the year after delivery Require coverage of infertility services Cap cost sharing for insulin, epipen and respiratory inhalers Count copay coupons and assistance toward member deductibles and cost sharing Cap total health care costs (premium and out-of-pocket costs) at 8% of household income Leave a comment Elements that could improve the market Increased price transparency Tightening enforcement of short-term plans, fixed indemnity plans, and cost-sharing ministries. These skimpy health plans skim off healthier people, leaving sicker people on marketplace exchanges and employer-sponsored health plans. Here’s a past post on the perils of cheap insurance. Most of these proposals are likely not to become law in the next two years, but could form the foundation of a Democratic proposal for health care reform in 2029 and beyond. The document does not provide cost estimates for these proposals. Share Thanks for reading! If you found this useful, please share, subscribe, like, and restack. You can find previous posts at this link. Views expressed in Employer Coverage are purely my own. Thanks for reading Employer Coverage ! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Subscribe
White House Must Choose between Peace, War: Araqchi
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said the White House must now decide whether to accept Tehran’s two-day proposal, which calls for an end to the war on all fronts, or face a military response from Iran’s battle-hardened Armed Forces.
WTGL's eye-popping new tradition drew inspiration from Naomi Osaka
The WTGL made its grand debut with a bang on Sunday afternoon in Florida, including the launch of a new tradition drawn from Naomi Osaka.
What to Stream: U2, 'Misty Green,' 'The Chosen' and Randy Travis
U2's new album and a Proud Family Christmas special are among the new streaming releases this week. Chris Rock returns to directing with "Misty Green" on Netflix, featuring Rosalind Eleazar
What to Stream: U2, 'Misty Green,' 'The Chosen' and Randy Travis
U2's new album and a Proud Family Christmas special are among the new streaming releases this week. Chris Rock returns to directing with "Misty Green" on Netflix, featuring Rosalind Eleazar
Steelers linked to standout Commanders CB in new trade proposal
The Pittsburgh Steelers have been linked to more wide receiver trade targets than we can count, but CBS Sports just projected the team would trade for a standout cornerback from the Washington Commanders.
Inflation, housing, jobs and corporate earnings will dominate the business calendar this week
Inflation updates dominate the calendar this week, along with a checkup on the housing market and more data on employment in the U.S. The latest updates come a week after
49ers rumors: Brandon Aiyuk’s reinstatement chances ‘not promising’ in 2026
The San Francisco 49ers boast one of the most recognizable NFL rosters from a names perspective and wide receiver Brandon Aiyuk, who spoke to media on Friday , November 6, is certainly one of them. Christian McCaffrey and Nick Bosa are expected to be back for Week 9 , while the 2023 Second Team All-Pro receiver Aiyuk has been working to be […] The post 49ers rumors: Brandon Aiyuk’s reinstatement chances ‘not promising’ in 2026 appeared first on ClutchPoints.
Iowa health officials identify potential measles exposure locations
The Iowa Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have identified potential measles exposure locations after cases were confirmed in Keokuk and Osage.
6.4K views · 152 reactions | Texas’s first Latina governor, Gina...
Texas’s first Latina governor, Gina Hinojosa, pledged to abandon the extreme partisanship that she said has defined politics in this deeply red state for decades. https://wapo.st/4AlAV7s
Iran is reviewing proposals focusing on Tehran’s nuclear program, officials say
Iran is reviewing proposals from Qatar to address differences with the U.S. over Tehran’s nuclear program. That's according to two Middle East officials who are not authorized to comment publicly
Town of Normal to try again at updating home-based business rules, starting with public opinion
A proposal updating the current restrictions on certain home-based businesses was couched amid strong public backlash. The Town of Normal is now seeking feedback in an open house this month.
Harrison County High Schools take part in county-wide mock business symposium
CLARKSBURG, W.Va. — High school business students from across Harrison County put their entrepreneurial skills to the test Friday, developing and pitching business proposals aimed at improving operations at The
How to watch Alabama vs LSU: TV, streaming, kickoff time
Here's how you can watch or stream Alabama football vs. LSU.
Lawsuits challenge Money Out of Politics ballot measure on First Amendment grounds
Two lawsuits have been filed against Proposal 2, the “Michiganders for Money Out of Politics” ballot measure that passed on Tuesday with over 80% of the vote, arguing it violates the First Amendment.
Men’s College Soccer Calendar Change Faces Huge Rejection From Schools
Enough schools voted against the fall-to-spring calendar to block the NCAA’s proposal.
This may be the best evidence yet that dinosaur blood can fossilize
Imaging and chemical analysis of a 115-million-year-old dinosaur fossil points to blood cells. But some aren't convinced.
CT Science Center plans its largest original exhibit, featuring dinosaurs
The Connecticut Science Center dinosaur exhibition will open in Hartford in 2027, featuring more than a dozen robotic animals and a local fossil.
DTE, Consumers sue to block ‘money out of politics’ proposal approved by voters
Michigan’s biggest utility companies are suing to block implementation of Proposal 2, arguing voter-approved restrictions on political giving violate free speech rights.
Socorro ISD employee health insurance cost rise +$100 a month after tax proposal rejected
Socorro ISD employees could see health insurance premiums jump by $100+ a month after voters rejected a $49M tax proposal. The board moved ahead with a plan holding district contributions flat as cuts begin.
High-Speed Insect Brain Provides Evidence of Engineering Design
An important element that enables the enhanced processing involves microsaccades. In humans, these are small involuntary eye movements.
Texas went so blue Talarico got more early votes than Paxton got in total
Senator-elect James Talarico and Governor-elect Gina Hinojosa in Texas defeated Republicans in an election upset
Consumers and DTE sue to block "Money out of Politics" proposal
Consumers Energy and DTE Energy filed a lawsuit in federal court on Thursday seeking a finding that Proposal 2, Money Out of Politics, is unconstitutional, and blocking it from taking effect.
Scientists just found dinosaur blood that survived 115 million years
Scientists have discovered chemically confirmed traces of ancient blood inside 115-million-year-old dinosaur bones, challenging assumptions about how long biological molecules can survive. The extraordinary preservation could unlock new clues about dinosaur physiology and even help scientists search for ancient life elsewhere in the universe.
Scientists Find Traces of Dinosaur Blood in 115-Million-Year-Old Fossil
For millions upon millions of years, the remains of a dinosaur lay buried in what is now Brazil. Over time, a familiar process unfolded: its bones eventually became fossils, preserving evidence of an ...
DTE, Consumers sue to block ‘money out of politics’ proposal approved by voters
Michigan’s biggest utility companies are suing to block implementation of Proposal 2, arguing voter-approved restrictions on political giving violate free speech rights.
DTE, Consumers file lawsuit to block Proposal 2's implementation
Attorneys for the utility companies argue Proposal 2 would violate their free speech rights, once implemented.
Iowa Department of Health and Human Services releases measles exposure alert in Osage
The exposure occurred at the Mitchell County Regional Health Center.
Watch: Gina Hinojosa’s first press conference as governor-elect
Hinojosa’s first press conference begins at 2 p.m. Thursday. She ousted longtime Republican Gov. Greg Abbott amid a national blue wave.
Consumers Energy, DTE seek to block 'Money out of Politics' proposal
Consumers and DTE sued to block the implementation of a newly-approved ballot proposal that would bar monopoly utilities from political contributions.
Consumers Energy, DTE seek to block 'Money Out of Politics' proposal
Consumers and DTE sued to block the implementation of a newly-approved ballot proposal that would bar monopoly utilities from political contributions.
PAHO calls for health to take a central place on Ibero-America’s political agenda
Madrid, November 5, 2026 (PAHO) – The Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr. Jarbas Barbosa, called for health to be placed among the political and diplomatic priorities of Ibero-America during a series of high-level meetings held in Madrid on the sidelines of the XXX Ibero-American Summit of Heads of State and Government.
How, and why, to stress test your business case
An important element of every investment proposal is knowing the answer to this question: What happens if the assumptions fail?
Michigan voters approve ‘Money Out of Politics’ ballot initiative; lawsuit filed
(The Center Square) – Michigan voters overwhelmingly supported a proposal to ban political spending by state-regulated electric and gas utilities and companies with large government contracts. The “Mo...
Latino voters reflect on historic Democratic wins as Texas shifts left
Two years after Donald Trump flipped longtime Democratic strongholds in the Rio Grande Valley, the region swung back toward Democrats in an election that will bring Texas its first Latina governor.
Last session tonight to weigh in on Heights Business District plan
Current business district proposal would allow buildings up to six stories and zero parking as incentives for developers The latest proposal for the Heights Business District offers “public benefit incentives,” which are conditional bonuses for developers. Developers can build up to six stories if they offer a public plaza, a public amenity, or first-and-second floor active commercial use. Developers will have no requirement to build parking spaces if they offer 60% ground-floor active commercial use, or if they preserve a historical facade. Those incentives and other parts of the plans will be discussed tonight, Nov. 5, when the Heights Neighborhood
Medicare delays controversial RPM rule update
Despite widespread opposition, Medicare will finalize a controversial proposal that will prevent providers, such as hospitals, from using third parties to deliver remote patient monitoring services.
The Texas-size Political Tremor Rattling Big Business
The Lone Star State’s business-friendly playbook could be rewritten by the Democrats’ election sweep there.
Dems inherit Texas colleges remade by GOP in conservative push
Universities were a political target of Texas Republicans. As Gina Hinojosa and other Democrats prepare for office, here’s a look at the turning point facing college campuses.
When papers become currency: a Chinese debate about trust in science
Last Saturday, 31 October, I went to the University of Hong Kong’s Beijing Centre for its Talent Forum. It was the fourth stop in the series this year, following events in Shanghai’s Zhangjiang, Shenzhen’s Qianhai, and on HKU’s main campus. The programme covered a remarkable distance in one afternoon. HKU’s Xiao-Jing Wang discussed computational neuroscience, intelligence, and the prefrontal cortex—before even delivering his inaugural public lecture to students back in Hong Kong. His colleague Bing Zhang took us from the Big Bang to artificial intelligence. Tsinghua’s Xue Lan asked how AI might reshape the institutional infrastructure underpinning higher education. There were lively panels featuring industry leaders from JD.com, Xiaomi, Haier—and Kaiser Y Kuo on the closing panel discussing innovation and international connections. I cannot pretend to have followed every detail of the brain models or the astrophysics. The talk that stayed with me was closer to something we have covered before: Zhou Zhonghe 周忠和 on papers, evaluation, and scientific trust. Zhou is a palaeontologist, an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and an international member of the US National Academy of Sciences. He is also editor-in-chief of The Intellectual (知识分子), China’s leading science commentary platform. His subject was uncomfortable enough for a room full of successful academics: what happens when the system for recognising good science starts rewarding something else? Part of my interest came from our sister newsletter, The East is Read, which covered the controversy around “Geng Tongxue” in May. A PhD dropout from Beihang University, Geng has publicly challenged papers by prominent researchers through detailed online allegations of manipulated images and fabricated data. At Tongji University, an investigation into a challenged Nature paper found academic misconduct, and the dean of its life sciences school was removed. The affair brought doubts about academic integrity well beyond laboratories and university committees. How could someone outside the established hierarchy spot problems in papers that had passed through prestigious journals and institutions? And what, exactly, had all that prestige guaranteed? Zhou approached these questions through two essays published in July by The Intellectual: one by Wang Xiaodong, director of the National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, and a response by Wang Liming, of Shanghai’s Shangsi Institute of Natural Sciences. Both began with the controversy over Geng. Their arguments deserve a wider audience, so I want to put parts of them alongside what Zhou said on Saturday. Wang Xiaodong’s starting point is evolution. A research system selects for the behaviour it rewards. Grants, jobs, journals, talent programmes, and prizes collectively determine which scientists prosper and which practices get passed down from advisors to students. “Whatever the system rewards is what it will evolve to produce,” he writes, citing the ancient Chinese saying: The King of Chu loved slender waists, and many in the palace starved to death. That is a more demanding diagnosis than saying there are dishonest people in science. Punishing a fraudster does not change the selective environment that made a particular kind of research profitable. His account also gives scientific success an awkward role in the story. As Zhou put it on Saturday, science became a victim of its own success. Once research became central to industry, national power, and economic growth, universities and laboratories expanded, and public money followed. That created an administrative need for rapid decisions: who should get the next grant, the next laboratory, the next appointment? The difficulty is that the true value of a discovery may take years or decades of testing and building to become clear. Resource allocation cannot wait that long. Publication counts, journal prestige, impact factors, and citations therefore become convenient ways to make an instant judgement. “The real problem is not that these indicators have no value,” Wang Xiaodong writes, “but that they are trying to answer a question that only time can answer.” Telling administrators simply to stop counting papers will never be enough. They still have budgets to distribute and appointments to make. Something has to replace the shortcut. Zhou described the consequences inside publishing. Papers acquire ever more requirements: a complete story, polished presentation, extensive datasets, and accessibility to readers beyond the immediate field. Individually, those demands sound reasonable. Together, he warned, they produce formulaic “eight-legged” papers 八股文 and rigid reviewing, while genuinely original or non-consensus work struggles to get past journal editors—some of whom wield immense gatekeeping power despite having limited laboratory experience themselves. Meanwhile, the demands for sprawling, “complete” narratives have fuelled a wider replication crisis. Wang Xiaodong uses a mahjong metaphor to describe the result: put the complex papers published by the exact same lab over several years side by side, and they often look like “Thirteen Orphans” (十三不靠)—every tile completely unrelated to the next, and none of them reproducible by outsiders. Zhou also spoke frankly as an editor who has trouble finding reviewers. Everyone wants someone else to review their work; qualified senior researchers have little time to return the favour. The labour is anonymous, unpaid, and brings almost no institutional recognition, so it increasingly gets passed down to postdocs and graduate students. And while anonymity protects reviewers from rank and personal favours, hyper-specialisation means an author’s most qualified reviewer is often a direct competitor, shielded from accountability. The protection and the problem coexist. Wang Liming takes the argument a step further. The decisive change, in his essay, is the instant conversion of academic honour into material resources. Once a paper can be cashed in for funding, a job, students, commercial investment, or even a company valuation, scientists are alienated from their work: they must keep minting this “research currency” to keep their teams alive. He is careful not to romanticise the past. The old world of gentleman scientists—financially independent figures like Boyle and Darwin who needed nothing from external funders—was also a closed club that excluded people without inherited wealth, women, and much of humanity outside the West. Professional science allowed ordinary people, himself included, to become researchers. Nobody should want to undo that. The problem, in his account, is an exchange system that becomes too uniform and too difficult to correct. His most pointed Chinese example is the “hat” (帽子): the prestigious talent designation that brings continuing access to money, laboratory space, students, and institutional influence. “If papers are the circulating currency of the research system, then a ‘hat’ is a bond that pays interest over the long term,” he writes. A paper at least requires another round of peer review. A title in the Chinese context can lock in a judgement made years ago and turn it into permanent status rent, regardless of whether its holder is still doing good science. Here, official institutions hire, organise, and evaluate scientists. Unlike honours awarded by autonomous academic communities in the West, a Chinese “hat” blends non-scientist administrative power with state authority. Once granted, it turns a past judgement into permanent status rent that is nearly impossible to revoke—because taking a hat off would imply that official authority erred in putting it on. Both Wangs see China as experiencing, at compressed speed, pressures present across global science. Research expansion, rising investment, publication growth, and elaborate evaluation metrics arrived in China within two or three decades rather than two or three centuries. Zhou agreed with that international framing—noting that recent US White House science policy documents and the new president of the US National Academy of Sciences, a fellow palaeontologist who recently visited Zhou’s institute in Beijing, have raised strikingly similar warnings about consensus-bound peer review, short-term project grants, and the replication crisis. Still, Zhou emphasised that China’s traditional hierarchy, personal networks (guanxi), and the ethos that “a good scholar becomes an official” (学而优则仕) amplify those pressures at home. So what would change things? Here Zhou’s tone differed from the call for a revolution in scientific trust in Wang Xiaodong’s essay. As an evolutionary biologist, Zhou favoured patchwork repair (修修补补). Living systems survive through accumulated adjustments; dramatic mutations are usually fatal. Science cannot return to a small, slow-moving pastoral era, especially after the successive accelerations of professionalisation after the Second World War, the internet, and now artificial intelligence. But it can alter the local environment in which researchers work. He pointed to domestic experiments designed to support unconventional research and diversify funding, including Tencent’s New Cornerstone Investigator Program, the Xplorer Prize, and the Future Science Prize. He also mentioned participating in reviews for “major non-consensus projects” under the National Natural Science Foundation of China. One guiding principle he recalled was wonderfully direct: “Failure is allowed; corruption is not” (允许失败，不允许腐败). That distinction would mean quite a lot if taken seriously. An honest attempt that fails should not have to disguise itself as a success to survive an assessment. Wang Liming’s essay adds a sharp caveat to the optimism about new domestic funders. Multiple organisations do not automatically produce multiple ways of judging science. If the same pool of senior domestic scientists makes the decisions through the same two-round review procedures, it is still “fake diversity.” He argues for three distinct kinds of money: broad baseline funding governed by fair procedures; patient funding for questions that take ten years; and non-consensus funding based on individual taste, deliberately empowering a few genuine experts to make biased, contrarian bets on eccentric ideas that would inevitably be averaged out by a committee. Replacing one monopoly with another achieves little; a healthy ecosystem needs variance. Zhou’s proposals for publishing were similarly concrete: strip papers of their resource-allocation burden and return them to recording discoveries and establishing priority; separate dissemination from evaluation, as eLife and Peer Community In do; adopt more modular “micro-publications” and real-name endorsements; recognize the labour of editors and reviewers; and give replication work proper credit rather than treating it as an unpublishable dead end. AI makes every part of this debate more urgent—and Zhou wove it throughout his talk. In his own preparation, he used AI to survey the declining influence of academic monographs, noting how tools are already changing how scholars gather information. More fundamentally, he placed AI as the latest great acceleration in scientific history: just as the internet sped up the pace of research and tightened external resource pressures, AI is compressing the cycle again. In the essays Zhou cited, AI cuts both ways. Wang Xiaodong expects large language models to erase much of the English-writing disadvantage long faced by Chinese scientists, further swelling the flood of papers coming out of Chinese labs. Wang Liming sees AI accelerating both ends of the trust crisis: it lowers the cost of paper mills and fabricated images just as quickly as it lowers the cost of automated image forensics, data auditing, and code reproduction. “Whoever builds the verification layer wins,” Wang Liming writes. His proposed alternative to the static, packaged “story paper” is a continuously versioned “unit of discovery” containing a falsifiable claim, raw data, analysis code, experimental parameters, and an ongoing log of independent checks—where negative results and failed replications are recorded rather than buried. Zhou ended his keynote by bringing AI back to the question of scientific honour and credit. Citing a recent Intellectual discussion on “What AI Means for Mathematics” featuring Fields Medalist Deng Yu 邓煜—at a moment when AI is already batch-solving mathematical conjectures, as HKU Vice-President Lin Chen noted in his opening remarks—Zhou agreed that human researchers must remain the principal agents: AI is a tool that frees scientists from tedious calculation to think about deeper, messier real-world problems. Yet that partnership creates a thorny new evaluation problem. When a breakthrough is made with AI, what is the human contribution and what is the machine’s? And since AI models distil centuries of accumulated human scholarship, is it right that the credit and value flow so heavily to the private AI companies building the tools? The old struggle over how to assign scientific honour is acquiring a whole new layer. What I took away was a serious discussion of how science can remain trustworthy as its scale, incentives, and tools change. These were scientists with real standing inside China’s system questioning how that standing is produced, and proposing changes that would affect their own institutions and peers. That made the afternoon at HKU’s Beijing Centre worthwhile. At the close, Wang Feng, Director of Communications and Public Affairs at HKU, said the value of the forum series—which heads to Hangzhou in December and cities like Chengdu early next year—would lie in the real cooperation it helped bring about. The university has plenty to celebrate: this week it topped the QS Asia rankings for a second consecutive year, alongside its 11th-place position in the QS World University Rankings 2027. For me, bringing this debate to an audience beyond the people who review papers and allocate grants was a useful contribution. 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Ted Cruz says 'blue tsunami' took over Texas after Democrats swept statewide races
Sen. Ted Cruz called the 2026 midterms a "blue tsunami" after James Talarico defeated Ken Paxton and Gina Hinojosa unseated Greg Abbott in Texas.
Strong Spine Chiropractic Opens Business In New Location
The Strong Spine Chiropractic has moved from its former Harrison Street location to a new office at 7 Rugby Place. The move allows the husband and wife owned business to expand both customer and building wise as their business continues to grow. Strong Spine Chiropractic is owned by Kevin Strong and Rosalie Betts. The pair […]
Proposals Emerge to Reinstate Some Taxes: Business NH Magazine
Proposals are emerging for next year’s legislative session aimed at increasing state revenues and lowering local property taxes.
UnitedHealthcare delivers proposal to Lee Health that could maintain network access
UnitedHealthcare said it delivered a proposal to Lee Health on Oct. 30 that could maintain long-term network access.
Will Gina Hinojosa be pro-business? What the governor-elect's voting record says
Gov. Greg Abbott turned Texas into on of the most pro-business states in the country, but that could change after his stunning defeat by Democrat Gina Hinojosa.
ENTERTAINMENT: Jurassic Quest roaring into convention center
Little Rock’s Statehouse Convention Center becomes the “home” for life-size dinosaurs.
Voters reject Rosie’s in Pulaski, Amherst County
Voters in Pulaski and Amherst County reject pari-mutuel wagering proposals that could have brought Rosie’s Gaming Emporiums
Benson vows cost relief as businesses brace for new era of Democratic ‘trifecta’ control
Jocelyn Benson’s decisive victory is an opportunity to pursue tax, labor and environmental policies that have long been opposed by business groups. How far she intends to go and which proposals she will embrace remain unclear.
Bradbury Science Museum Presents ‘Night With A Nerd: Neuromorphic Artificial Intelligence Wednesday Nov. 4.
BRADBURY SCIENCE MUSEUM NEWS RELEASE The Bradbury Science Museum will present ‘Night with a Nerd: Neuromorphic Artificial Intelligence’ 6-8 p.m. Wednesday Nov. 4. The community is encouraged t…
Texas' Political Blue Wave Has a Soundtrack: 'Choosin' Texas'
'Choosin' Texas,' by Ella Langley, has taken on yet another new meaning: it's now the anthem for political revolution in Texas's midterm elections.
Money out of Politics ballot measure faces First Amendment challenge
The Mackinac Center for Public Policy argues provisions of the proposal violate the First Amendment. It filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday.
LeTourneau political science professor analyzes historic Texas election shift
Shift in Latino and suburban voters drives Democratic victories statewide, he said.
Lawsuit filed against 'Money out of Politics' proposal after Michigan voters pass initiative
Almost immediately after Prop 2 passed in Michigan, a lawsuit challenging its legality was filed in federal court.
The Texas Midterms Showed that Latino Voters Are Still Looking For a Political Home
Economic hardship and concerns about immigration enforcement may have moved Latinos away from the Republican Party explains Lisa García Bedolla.
‘Money Out of Politics’ ballot measure passes, constitutional convention fails
Proposal 2 on Michigan ballots, the “Michiganders for Money Out of Politics” initiative, has passed.
Mariners News: Jason Kanzler, Edwin Uceta, and Robinson Canó, Jr.
The Mariners have their new skipper, the Astros search for theirs, and MLB announces another CBA proposal.
Braves News: Salary cap proposal, Rolddy Muñoz review, and more
Atlanta Braves news and notes from Tuesday.
‘A win the size of Texas’: Democrats celebrate shrinking Republican dominance in a big state
Voters watched results in near disbelief as James Talarico claimed victory in Senate race and Gina Hinojosa was elected state’s first Latina governor
Michigan votes in favor of Proposal 2 to get ‘Money Out of Politics,’ AP projects
Michigan voters have voted in favor of Proposal 2, which aims to “get money out of politics.”
Michigan votes in favor of Proposal 2 to get ‘Money Out of Politics,’ AP projects
Michigan voters have voted in favor of Proposal 2, which aims to “get money out of politics.”
Michigan votes in favor of Proposal 2 to get ‘Money Out of Politics,’ AP projects
Michigan voters have voted in favor of Proposal 2, which aims to “get money out of politics.”
Michigan votes in favor of Proposal 2 to get ‘Money Out of Politics,’ AP projects
Michigan voters have voted in favor of Proposal 2, which aims to “get money out of politics.”
Michigan votes in favor of Proposal 2 to get ‘Money Out of Politics,’ AP projects
Michigan voters have voted in favor of Proposal 2, which aims to “get money out of politics.”
Michigan votes in favor of Proposal 2 to get ‘Money Out of Politics,’ AP projects
Michigan voters have voted in favor of Proposal 2, which aims to “get money out of politics.”
State employees to see small jump in health premiums under new PEIA proposal
During a hearing Thursday, Oct. 29, 2026, the PEIA Finance Board released a plan that raised health insurance premiums 2% next year. This affects West Virginia state government employees.
Democrats seize power in Texas, ending decades of GOP dominance
Texas’ governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general and every other statewide candidate fell, upending the state’s political power structure in one night.
“Sad To Hear What Jorge Posada Had To Say” – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Takes Shots at Aaron Boone and Yankees Management
U. S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has questioned the New York Yankees’ decision to retain manager Aaron Boone, calling for changes within the organization after another disappointing season.
Michigan's 'money out of politics' measure passes, faces legal challenge
Unofficial results from the New York Times show Proposal 2 received support from 81% of Michigan voters.
Business-friendly Texas flips: Democrats end nearly 40-year drought, winning Senate seat and governor’s mansion
James Talarico and Gina Hinojosa turned Elon Musk’s $190 million campaign blitz into their closing arguments.
Democrats flip four governorships, extending the party’s inroads into red states
Republicans entered Tuesday’s midterms with a 26-24 advantage in governor’s offices across the country.
Cannabis Legalization Prevails in Massachusetts; Repeal Question Soundly Defeated
Ten years after legalizing adult-use cannabis, the Bay State voters rejected a prohibitionist proposal, Question 8, which aimed to wipe out the industry.