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St. Charles D303’s 2026 Distinguished Alumni Class features WNBA health star, ‘The Bear’ actor

The St. Charles D303 '2026 Distinguished Alumni Class' features - the director of health for a WNBA team, an entrepreneur who once made the Forbes 30 Under 30 list, an actor featured on the Emmy-winning show The Bear, and a local assistant superintendent of education.

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Nov 8 • 1:02 PM EST • Health • shawlocal.com
UNH football rallies in final minute to beat Rhode Island

The University of New Hampshire football team rallied in the final seconds to beat Rhode Island, 24-21.

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Nov 7 • 10:07 PM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Manchester City 1 Nottingham Forest 3: City player ratings as Forest sweep a frail City side aside

Manchester City 1 (Rayan Cherki 52′)Nottingham Forest 3 (Jair Cunha 6′, Liam Delap 18′, 73′)Here are the City player ratings as Enzo Maresca’s side slumped to a 3-1 defeat to Nottingham Fore...

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Nov 7 • 2:53 PM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Unlikely political newcomer unseats NC powerhouse despite big challenges

LaKesha Womack had never run for office before, had very little funding or outside support, and had even been unhoused at one point. She also has an outstanding felony charge. None of that stopped her from unseating one of the state’s most powerful politicians.

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Nov 5 • 3:54 PM EST • Politics • ncnewsline.com
What a UNH professor taught me about politics, disagreement and hate: Splaine

Jim Splaine reflects on a UNH professor’s lessons and argues political differences need not lead to hatred after a divisive election.

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Nov 5 • 10:36 AM EST • Politics • seacoastonline.com
Takeaways from election night: Young voters, Hispanics shift away from the GOP as voters show unhappiness with Trump

President Donald Trump repeatedly encouraged voters to pretend he's on the ballot this Election Day. They appear to be taking his advice — and that's not a good thing for the Republican president or his party.

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Nov 3 • 11:12 PM EST • Politics • pbs.org
AP Voter Poll: Voters want Congress to impose more checks on an unpopular president

The AP Voter Poll, an expansive survey of the electorate, suggests most are deeply unhappy with Trump, with roughly 6 in 10 saying they disapprove of how he’s handling the presidency.

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Nov 3 • 6:08 PM EST • Politics • pbs.org
Cost of living, corruption top issues and voters deeply unhappy with Trump

The AP Voter Poll, an expansive survey of the electorate, suggests most are deeply unhappy with Trump

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Nov 3 • 5:24 PM EST • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
Early CNN Voter Poll results find an electorate deeply unhappy with Trump and the economy

Voters are broadly unhappy with the state of the nation, the condition of the economy and President Donald Trump’s job performance, according to CNN’s Voter Poll.

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Nov 3 • 5:12 PM EST • Politics • cnn.com
Jimmy Kimmel reacts to Martha Stewart’s controversial Halloween costume: ‘How does this happen?’

Jimmy Kimmel is reacting to Martha Stewart’s decision to dress up as a homeless person for Halloween: ‘This is how you know your assistant hates you.’

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Nov 3 • 2:52 PM EST • Entertainment • ew.com
MitoRx Therapeutics Appoints Neil Anderson as Chief Business Officer

Neil joins from Novo Nordisk and brings more than 20 years of experience in business development and strategic transactionsAppointment strengthens MitoRx’s business development capabilities as the Company advances MTRX31 towards the clinic for metabolically unhealthy obesity Harwell Oxford, UK – 3 November 2026: MitoRx Therapeutics (“MitoRx”), a biotech company targeting the restoration of healthy mitochondrial metabolism in high-risk obesity, today announces the appointment of Neil Anderson, Ph

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Nov 3 • 7:00 AM EST • Business • finance.yahoo.com
NH is destination for space sector

The two-day Space, Technology, Trade and Research expo on Oct. 28-29 in Durham convened innovators, producers, scientists, engineers, investors, bankers, students and representatives of the U.S. Space Force and Department of War. The goal: Increase networking, collaboration and awareness of what’s happening here, including on the campus of UNH, which provides tools, expertise and facilities for product development and testing.

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Nov 2 • 4:01 PM EST • Business • nhbr.com
Scientists discover that some “unhealthy” diets can boost cancer immunotherapy in mice

In a surprising discovery, scientists found that certain diets associated with obesity can make cancer immunotherapy more effective in mice, challenging traditional assumptions about diet and cancer treatment. The findings suggest that the secret may lie in how food interacts with gut bacteria to strengthen the immune system's response to cancer.

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Nov 2 • 7:00 AM EST • Science • sciencedaily.com
“Go Ahead & Request That Trade”: NFL Fans React As Justin Jefferson Declines To Speak With Reporters After Vikings’ Loss vs. Lions

Justin Jefferson was visibly unhappy after the Minnesota Vikings’ six-game win streak ended on Sunday. Kevin O’Connell and his team suffered a 19-15 loss on the road at the hands of the Detroit Lions.

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Nov 2 • 4:57 AM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Unheralded RB Among Steelers Captains vs. Browns

PITTSBURGH — Ahead of Sunday’s matchup with the AFC North rival Cleveland Browns, guard Brock Hoffman, running back Lew Nichols […]

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Nov 1 • 1:06 PM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Rabid Anti-Communism Still Shapes the Politics of California

Donald Trump likes to brand California’s Democratic establishment as a nest of “far-left communists.” This unhinged rhetoric can still find a ready audience because it resonates with a deep-rooted Californian tradition of lurid, authoritarian red-baiting.

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Nov 1 • 8:30 AM EST • Politics • jacobin.com
Here’s why you can’t shake those unhinged political texts

There’s no overnight fix, but you could mitigate the issue for the future.

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Oct 31 • 8:00 AM EDT • Politics • theverge.com
MIT affiliates named 2026 Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Fellows

MIT faculty members Sendhil Mullainathan, Alex Damian, Bailey Flanigan, Yunha Hwang, and Manish Raghavan, as well as two additional alumni, were recently named to the 2026 cohort of Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Fellows.

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Oct 30 • 4:15 PM EDT • Science • news.mit.edu
Street Medicine at Ohio State works to expand health care access for Columbus’ unhoused population

Without stable housing, accessing health care can become a challenge for people experiencing homelessness. Ohio State Street Medicine, a student-led nonprofit organization, works to close that gap by providing medical care directly to unhoused individuals in Columbus. The organization holds six outreach events a month, offering services such as wound care and addiction medicine treatment. […]

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Oct 30 • 7:57 AM EDT • Health • thelantern.com
Political homelessness: How the Michigan Senate race divided the Jewish community

The high-stakes race caused a rift among Jewish voters unhappy with Abdul El-Sayed

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Oct 29 • 6:00 AM EDT • Politics • deseret.com
The Campaign To Defend Trans Healthcare in Missouri Is Slow Going, on Purpose

The campaign to defend access to transgender healthcare for young people in Missouri is taking an unhurried approach to talking with voters about how the ban on midterm ballots would play out.

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Oct 29 • 5:00 AM EDT • Health • kffhealthnews.org
Ahead of midterms, Missourians defend transgender healthcare

The campaign to defend access to transgender healthcare for young people in Missouri is taking an unhurried approach to talking with voters about the proposed ban.

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Oct 29 • 5:00 AM EDT • Health • npr.org
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Opinion: Granite Staters want a fighter on health insurance costs

A UNH Survey Center poll shows 90% of NH residents believe insurance companies have too much power over medical treatments.

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Oct 28 • 6:00 AM EDT • Health • concordmonitor.com
The Christmas at the Kringles Parody Popcorn Bucket Is Festively Unhinged

Christmas at the Kringles, the upcoming genre-bending horror comedy from Briarcliff Entertainment, has unveiled the first look at its parody popcorn bucket. Given what we know about the movie, the sou...

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Oct 27 • 1:03 AM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
The Christmas at the Kringles Parody Popcorn Bucket Is Festively Unhinged

Christmas at the Kringles, the upcoming genre-bending horror comedy from Briarcliff Entertainment, has unveiled the first look at its parody popcorn bucket. Given what we know about the movie, the souvenir offers the perfect tease for its weird and unusual narrative. Why the Christmas at the Kringles popcorn bucket fits the film’s strange holiday premise […] The post The Christmas at the Kringles Parody Popcorn Bucket Is Festively Unhinged appeared first on ComingSoon.net - Movie Trailers, TV &

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Oct 27 • 12:51 AM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Health officials find cluster of Tuberculosis cases impacting unhoused community

Maricopa County health officials are working with nonprofits that serve the unhoused after identifying a cluster of tuberculosis cases.

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Oct 26 • 7:37 PM EDT • Health • abc15.com
Younha ends C9 Entertainment contract over unpaid earnings

Youngha's exclusive contract with C9 Entertainment was terminated on Sept. 14. The singer has also filed a lawsuit to recover her unpaid earnings and intends to resolve the remaining issues through legal proceedings.

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Oct 26 • 1:26 AM EDT • Entertainment • koreajoongangdaily.com
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Sky Sports share rumours of unhappy Leeds United star live on air vs Sunderland

Daniel Farke looking unimpressed as Leeds United take on Sunderland at Stadium of Light on 25 October

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Oct 25 • 3:05 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Fielded is obsessed with scammers and unhinged Japanese cyberpunk

Some Kind of Animal, the latest record from Fielded, jumps from slinky R&B, to neo-soul, to industrial funk.

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Oct 24 • 11:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • theverge.com
'This money is a band-aid': Hospital leaders unhappy with rural healthcare fund uses

Laura Gamble, CEO of Pender Community Health, received federal grants for updates to her hospital. She's happy, but says there needs to be a plan for the future.

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Oct 22 • 7:35 PM EDT • Health • ketv.com
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The One Chart That Explains Why Netflix Cleaned House

(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what’s popular in streaming TV and what isn’t. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. If you were forwarded this email, please subscribe to get these insights each week.) Yeah, I’ll be honest: I went with a clickbait-y headline today. One chart? That explains everything? That’s as clickbait-y as it gets. But let’s be real. I’m analyzing a dataset that I’ve built over six years, and c’mon, I never write articles which feature just one chart! If you think this article—which includes a level of data detail unheard of in journalism twenty years ago—is clickbait, fine by me. Really, what I’m doing is using data to explain Netflix’s recent strategy changes, since the story of the month is the turbulence at Netflix. First, head of content Bela Bajaria was fired. Then head of film Dan Lin followed her to the unemployment ranks. (Along with, sadly, 1,000 other Netflix workers.) And then Netflix delivered a “sub-optimal” earnings report, which continued their year-long stock price slide. Then came a flood of articles explaining why all this is happening. (Mine’s coming shortly, rest assured.) I realized I had the perfect chart to explain Netflix’s woes. Specifically, Nielsen’s weekly top ten charts. Usually I focus on one or two weeks in my Streaming Ratings Reports, but sometimes it’s worth stepping back to look at the larger story. And hoo boy, what a story. This article is my annual (plus three months) follow-up to one of my most popular articles of last year. (And a topic I’ve been visualizing for the last half decade.) Subscribe Netflix’s Share of The Nielsen Charts Continues to Decline

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Oct 22 • 5:03 PM EDT • Entertainment • entertainment.substack.com
New Report Highlights How Private Credit Powers Businesses Across America

Dunham: "Private credit direct lending plays a critical role in our economy, supporting countless small and midsized businesses across the U.S."

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Oct 22 • 1:14 PM EDT • Business • investmentcouncil.org
NBCUniversal's Home Entertainment, Live Plays Business Segment Sees 12.7% Q3 Revenue Decline

NBCUniversal’s studios’ “other” business segment, which includes home entertainment, live plays and third-party content distribution, reported revenue of $285 million, down 12.7% from revenue of $326 million in the previous-year period. Top-selling titles in the quarter included Obsession, Disclosure Day and The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, among others. Overall studios segment operating income increased 18.6% … Continue reading "NBCUniversal’s Home Entertainment, Live Plays Business Segment Sees 12.7% Q3 Revenue Decline"

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Oct 22 • 11:21 AM EDT • Entertainment • mediaplaynews.com
Reports: Barcelona unhappy about PSG fans' chainsaw tifo

Barcelona reportedly want UEFA to take action against Paris Saint-Germain over a huge banner displayed by their fans at of the Champions League match between the two teams. The Vanguardia paper and EFE news agency on Wednesday cited club officials as saying they plan to report the banner to the delegate from Europe's governing body who attended the match.

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Oct 21 • 5:48 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
The pumpkin concierge business creates a new revenue stream for farmers

A new fall trend is creating an additional revenue stream for pumpkin farmers.

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Oct 20 • 10:23 PM EDT • Business • kcbd.com
The pumpkin concierge business creates a new revenue stream for farmers

A new fall trend is creating an additional revenue stream for pumpkin farmers.

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Oct 20 • 10:23 PM EDT • Business • fox34.com
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How a walk in the woods can be good for mental health

Ever wonder why a walk through the woods can be such a mood booster? Research from the University of New Hampshire shows that it can be as simple as the sounds people experience in nature, people's awareness ...

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Oct 20 • 7:20 PM EDT • Health • medicalxpress.com
Martin Short mercilessly roasts Conan O’Brien: ‘You look like Ed Sheeran in a funhouse mirror’

Martin Short mercilessly roasted Conan O’Brien on his podcast for minutes on end, calling him ‘Carrot Bottom,’ ‘Ed Sheeran in a funhouse mirror,’ and ‘a human surrender.’

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Oct 19 • 6:20 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Manchester United stars claim interview ban after Lisandro Martínez outburst

Manchester United players Bruno Fernandes and Matheus Cunha claimed they were not allowed to speak to reporters after their 1-1 draw at Leeds United in the wake of Lisandro Martínez's TV outburst

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Oct 19 • 9:46 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
BUTCH’S BLOG: Unhealthy Health Care

Unhealthy Health Care Lately I’ve had to deal with some health problems—skin carcinomas to be precise. Too much sunning in my youth on the waves and beaches of New Jersey. My mother used to slather us with Coppertone. Wear hats, I say. And use that high SPF sunscreen. But for me, the horse is already way out of the barn. I’ve had two surgeries now, painful, but successful, one more to go. But I’m not here to whine. I’m lucky. I will survive. And, importantly, I have health insurance. Many are not so lucky. When the bill came from the clinic,...

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Oct 18 • 4:47 PM EDT • Health • tillamookcountypioneer.net
Poll: Americans are anxious, pessimistic and deeply unhappy with Trump ahead of the midterms

The share of Americans who believe the country is on the wrong track is at the highest level of the president’s second term, according to the NBC News Decision Desk Poll.

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Oct 18 • 9:00 AM EDT • Politics • nbcnews.com
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Zack Polanski says application of Zionism is racist and no state has right to exist

Green leader in England and Wales calls ‘debates about words’ unhelpful and denies recent motion was controversial

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Oct 18 • 6:39 AM EDT • Politics • theguardian.com
Mental illness: why is it on the rise?

Dismissing ‘overdiagnosis’ of conditions can be unhelpful for those suffering real distress – but so can a ‘label for life’

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Oct 18 • 1:50 AM EDT • Health • theweek.com
Dear Abby: My adult daughter doesn't want anything to do with me

Dear Abby gives advice to a reader who is struggling to maintain a relationship with her daughter and her grandchildren.

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Oct 17 • 3:00 AM EDT • Technology • nypost.com
Maine voters are unhappy over political climate as they cast early ballots in midterm elections
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Oct 16 • 7:48 PM EDT • Politics • yahoo.com
Why some Gen Z voters who backed Trump now regret their decision

A focus group of eight Gen Z Trump voters reported feeling unhappy or disappointed with the state of politics, with some going as far as to say they regret supporting him in 2024.

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Oct 16 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • kgou.org
Why some Gen Z voters who backed Trump now regret their decision

A focus group of eight Gen Z Trump voters reported feeling unhappy or disappointed with the state of politics, with some going as far as to say they regret supporting him in 2024.

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Oct 16 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • npr.org
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Most reboots are nostalgia slop. 'Girls' might be the exception.

Lena Dunham's show has seen a resurgence in recent years, but that's not the only reason it's primed for revisiting.

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Oct 15 • 2:51 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Casino Del Sol donates $20,000 to El Rio Health to bring medical care to Tucson’s unhoused

Casino Del Sol commits $20,000 to El Rio Health’s Street Medicine program, which brings medical care to shelters, parks, encampments and washes across Tucson.

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Oct 15 • 2:29 PM EDT • Health • kold.com
Health Factsheet January - August 2026

Situation Report in English on Cameroon about Health and Protection and Human Rights; published on 15 Oct 2026 by UNHCR

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Oct 15 • 8:03 AM EDT • Health • reliefweb.int
Lena Dunham's 'Girls' is making a comeback — but 1 key character is missing from the announcement

The Emmy-winning show is returning for a limited run at HBO.

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Oct 14 • 11:17 AM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
RWJBarnabas Health Provides $1 Million Lifeline to Maintain, Expand Stable Housing for Unhoused Newarkers

RWJBarnabas Health has announced a $1 million investment in Newark-based United Community Corporation (UCC) to expand its medical respite program for individuals experiencing homelessness and support the continued operation of its emergency shelter. The funding will double the program's capacity from 10 to 20 residents, providing more patients with a safe place to recover following hospital discharge while addressing housing instability and other social determinants of health.

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Oct 14 • 10:45 AM EDT • Health • newswise.com
RWJBarnabas Health Provides $1 Million Lifeline to Maintain, Expand Stable Housing for Unhoused Newarkers

RWJBarnabas Health today announced a $1 million donation to United Community Corporation (UCC), a longstanding pillar of the Newark community, to support and double the capacity of its medical respite program that provides safe, stable, transitional housing for the unhoused following discharge from a hospital.

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Oct 14 • 10:02 AM EDT • Health • rwjbh.org
Lena Dunham to bring back 'Girls' for a 5-episode run on HBO 10 years after its finale

“Girls” will return for a limited five-episode run a decade after its finale | WWL

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Oct 13 • 3:38 PM EDT • Entertainment • audacy.com
Lena Dunham to bring back 'Girls' for a 5-episode run on HBO 10 years after its finale

“Girls” will return for a limited five-episode run a decade after its finale | WBBM Newsradio 780 AM & 105.9 FM

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Oct 13 • 3:38 PM EDT • Entertainment • audacy.com
Brooklyn Nets Could Steal Karl-Anthony Towns From Knicks

The future of Karl-Anthony Towns with the New York Knicks will be one of the top stories of the entire NBA season. Towns has made multiple public comments expressing unhappiness over the contract negotiations with the Knicks. It appears that both sides are extremely far apart, despite Towns willing to take a discount to stay […] The post Brooklyn Nets Could Steal Karl-Anthony Towns From Knicks appeared first on HEAVY.

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Oct 12 • 11:48 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Just politics or the ‘opposite of clever’? The risks and rewards of strategic voting

Vote splitting and parliamentary overhangs are not unheard of in New Zealand elections. But making them a deliberate campaign tactic is different.

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Oct 12 • 9:10 PM EDT • Politics • theconversation.com
Nintendo Was Reportedly Unhappy With Elon Musk's Saturday Night Live Wario Sketch

Nintendo was reportedly unhappy with Elon Musk's 2021 Saturday Night Live sketch where he played Wario.

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Oct 12 • 5:27 PM EDT • Technology • ign.com
Prime Video acquires exclusive UK and Ireland rights for 'Diana: Her Secret Confessions'

Prime Video secures exclusive UK and Ireland rights to Diana: Her Secret Confessions, a three-part documentary series featuring hours of never-before-heard audio recordings of Diana, Princess of Wales.

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Oct 12 • 5:53 AM EDT • Entertainment • aboutamazon.co.uk
Immune Cell Map Uncovers How Individual Aging Trajectories Diverge

Researchers created an immune aging map showing that a balance between two immune cell types can predict future health. The findings link immune aging patterns to risks of chronic disease, mortality, and unhealthy aging.

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Oct 11 • 8:00 PM EDT • Health • technologynetworks.com
Harrison: Shad White blames Bennie Thompson for Delta’s problems. Is he right?

White, who is expected to run for governor in 2027, has been particularly vocal in the call to unseat Thompson.

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Oct 11 • 8:45 AM EDT • Politics • sunherald.com
Serie A official line-ups: Como vs. Roma

Como start Nico Paz, Maxence Caqueret and Lucas Da Cunha in this top of the table showdown with Roma, who rely on Paulo Dybala, Donyell Malen and Pierluigi Gollini.It kicks off at the Stadio Sinigagli...

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Oct 11 • 5:40 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
College football: UNH drops overtime heartbreaker to North Carolina A&T

The University of New Hampshire football team lost to North Carolina A&T in overtime on Saturday, falling to 2-5 overall on the season.

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Oct 10 • 5:08 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Knicks' Karl-Anthony Towns reportedly 'irked' owner James Dolan with extension talk comments

It seems like Karl-Anthony Towns has done enough talking in the media to make the owner of the organization unhappy. That could have been a major part in stopping the extension talks.

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Oct 10 • 12:20 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
NASA veteran joins UNH to lead R&D

Ramy Rahimi is the new vice president for research and development at the University of New Hampshire.

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Oct 9 • 11:47 AM EDT • Business • nhbr.com
Brownsville Native Supports U.S. Navy Osprey Squadron

Petty Officer 2nd Class Makayla Ward, a native of Brownsville, Texas, serves the U.S. Navy assigned to the “Sunhawks” of Fleet Logistics Multi-Mission Squadron 50 (VRM-50).

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Oct 8 • 10:48 AM EDT • Business • texasborderbusiness.com
Haze not ‘a threat’ to Singapore F1 race, but entertainment could be curbed

Transboundary haze from Indonesian fires has pushed city state’s air quality to unhealthy levels, but track activity will not be affected.

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Oct 8 • 8:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • scmp.com
Who Won August and September: Original Films or Franchises?

(Welcome to the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a newsletter on the entertainment industry and business strategy. I write a weekly Streaming Ratings Report and a bi-weekly strategy column, along with occasional deep dives into other topics, like today’s article. Please subscribe.) I just heard someone say that if you’re reading a pundit or data analyst, and they don’t tell you that they got anything wrong, they’re not a pundit but an “influencer”. I agree with that. You have to tell your audience when you get things wrong, or they won’t (or shouldn’t) trust you as much. Today, we’ve got another edition of “What I Got Right, What I Got Wrong”. In general, I’m patting myself on the back (and patting very hard) about a few things like IP at the box office, LIV golf, horror films, crowdfunding movies, superheroes, and old people going to the theaters. That said, I also made a couple of data mistakes on the streaming bubble popping and HBO’s datecdotes, so I’m not perfect. But first, I need your feedback... Subscribe Follow-Ups: What Should We Call Mid-Budget Movies Which Aren’t Cinematic Enough for Theaters But Are Too Expensive to Make Money on Streaming? After I asked for feedback on what we should call straight-to-streaming films that are too big to pencil out on streaming but not really big enough to resonate in theaters, I got some great suggestions from you all, including... “Moldilocks” from John Aboud “Little Big Indie” from Travis Frick1 “Midflicks” from Jonathan Funke. “Extra-Medium” from Jona Nwuke. (Read the explanation in the footnote.) Between these and Brandon Katz—who suggested “Bermuda Budget Triangle”, “The Platform Gap” and “The Distribution Deadzone”—we’ve got some excellent suggestions. And they’re better than my suggestion, the “Streaming Budget Dead Zone”, so let’s take a poll! The winning entry becomes the new term. Loading... RIGHT: LIV Golf is Fully Bankrupt…Is Anyone Else Next? A few years ago, I was always a bit perplexed at all the articles I’d read praising LIV Golf and their strategy to disrupt the PGA. LIV Golf, a brand new professional golf league, offered PGA stars ten times what they made on the PGA Tour to join their new league. And folks praised this strategy for its initial “success” in that a lot of big names did indeed leave the PGA. Yeah, of course the players came over. LIV Golf paid them so, so, so much more! But LIV Golf hadn’t discovered a way to increase potential revenue. So think about this in basic business terms… They paid much more in costs… …but had no real way to increase revenue. That’s not a strategy! That’s deficit financing. It won’t work unless you bankrupt the competition (and then turn around and pay those same golfers much, much less). It’s not a sustainable strategy and only lasts as long as the company/person/nation backing it decides they’re cool with losing money. For LIV Golf, that meant Middle East oil wealth, in particular Saudi Arabian money. Clearly, the current Iran War has hurt Middle East finances, so they need to trim their more exorbitant spending. And LIV Golf was part of that trimming. This should be a major warning for others. TGL’s parent company, TMRW Sports, just got a $1 billion valuation, despite TGL’s (the indoor golf league) horrible TV viewership of less than half a million viewers per match. Unrivaled, the women’s basketball league, just secured a $650 valuation, despite its horrible TV viewership and a new rival (Project B) entering the scene next year. To relate this to streaming, Hollywood should ask which streamers may have wealthy patrons funding their losses. (Let’s be clear: Google, Amazon and Apple.) Could those patrons lose their appetite? For Amazon, probably not. But Apple has a new boss, so maybe! WRONG: My Analysis of the Streaming Bubble Was Missing a Week I’m going to be congratulating myself a lot today, but I make mistakes too, like this data goof. When I last compiled the data on the decline in TV shows, I was missing one week at the end of June. If you look at the first image, you can see that one week was mislabelled as “July”. Mainly, this image got updated to show a 27% decline, not 29%: This change doesn’t really impact the overall analysis, but it is two percent better. By the way, through the third quarter, the decline increased and it’s now a 30% decrease since 2022. (I’ll write/visualize this in an upcoming article.) But I want you to trust me and my data. Especially these days, when many people are using LLMs that I know are inserting faulty data into their charts, I want to keep earning my audience’s faith. So that’s the accurate data. RIGHT: IP Remains Very, Very Popular In July, I wrote a giant (and I mean giant) article on Backrooms, Obsession, and the box office, going over what we know, what we don’t know about what works in theaters, looking at YouTubers, IP, the horror genre, comic book movies, and a whole lot more. The month of August really tested a lot of my theses and, being honest, mostly supported my arguments. Let’s start with IP. Looking at 8-Aug (the weekend after Spider-Man: Brand New Day came out) to 18-Sep (the weekend that Resident Evil came out, which I think provides a nice bookend to this time period), there were seven films based on pre-existing IP: Resident Evil (2026) ($126 million) Practical Magic 2 ($65 million) _Insidious: Out of the Furthe_r ($65 million) Coyote Vs. Acme ($59 million) Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie ($53 million) Tony ($15 million) Super Troopers 3 ($7 million) Compare those to the notable original films from the past month—I actually could have included more movies, but here are just thirteen, bringing us to an even twenty films—including.... The End of Oak Street ($54 million) Buddy ($26 million) Mutiny ($15 million) By Any Means ($15 million) The Dog Stars ($14 million) Runner ($14 million) One Night Only ($11 million) Hope ($8 million) Spa Weekend ($7 million) The Uprising ($6 million) Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma ($6 million) Onslaught ($3 million) Eli Roth’s Ice Cream Man ($2.8 million) Here’s that in chart form: Five of the top six films in this time period were all based on IP. I made a big chart of films that grossed over $200 million at the box office before Spider-Man: Brand New Day and The Odyssey hit theaters. Let’s update that chart! By the way, if you want to see how I categorized each film—so another bar chart—here it is: I know that many of my fellow critics/pundits/analysts dislike films based on IP and how Hollywood is making so many of them. And I’m sympathetic to this point of view. As I’ve written many, many times before, you need a balance between existing franchises, new IP, and original films. And Hollywood clearly needs to make more films like Resident Evil (a well-made film from a visionary director) and fewer Practical Magic 2’s (which didn’t get critical or customer buzz). But at some point, critics and pundits need to contend with what audiences are telling them: Movie-goers aren’t showing up to original films. Audiences are speaking with their dollars, telling you they want more IP and franchises. You can try to convince studio heads to make fewer IP-based films and franchises, but the data and numbers aren’t there. Instead, critics need to work harder to convince audiences to show up for original films. Aim your ire/concern at the average person, not studio heads.2 Because they’re just making the films that audiences are telling them to make. WRONG: Original Horror Films Didn’t Break Out I’ll be honest, even though I wrote an article casting some skepticism on the horror genre in July, if you asked me to make a prediction, I would have predicted that, in August, a new, original horror film would have blown up. No, seriously, I just assumed that Obsession and Backrooms presaged a change in audience behavior. But none of the buzzy new original horror films from August—Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Onslaught (not an action film in spite of the ads), The End of Oak Street, Eli Roth’s Ice Cream Man, or _Buddy—_broke out. To be clear, exactly one of those films (Buddy) had good “ROI”, but again—I try to be specific in my language—none were “popular” in any broad sense of the word. None of them will be “saving” movies theaters like Backrooms or _Obsession_helped save the summer. The new Insidious film and Resident Evil, both based on IP, were far and away the biggest horror films since July. (We’ll see if this changes in October/Halloween season.) RIGHT: Stay Skeptical about Crowdfunding... I’ve long been skeptical about crowd-investing platforms as one of Hollywood’s saviors, mainly because there’s so much hype/buzz. People need to stay more skeptical about more things, explaining both the potential upside but also the downsides. In particular, the media often hypes crowdfunding at the start and never checks in on the actual results after they’ve come in later. And August gave us our first update! _Ice Cream Man—_directed by Eli Roth—grossed $6 million off of a $5.5 million budget. This is a production of The Horror Section, which was one of the first “crowd investing” studios with 2,400 investors, which means that 2,400 investors probably lost money. They certainly aren’t getting as great of returns as if they had just invested their dollars in the stock market. Hopefully Stiletto (Tagline: “Someone’s Going to Make it Rain Blood!”) does better next month. WRONG: Another Data Goof Here’s another data error. When the first episode of House of the Dragon came out, HBO put out that it had 21.5 million viewers in the first three days, and I read that to mean in the US…but no, it was global. So my US-only datecdotes charts shouldn’t have included it. We never got US-only numbers for the first episode, but for the final episode, HBO put out that it had 11 million US viewers. (And that global dropped to 21 million viewers.) Here’s the updated chart (which I’ve since used in the Streaming Ratings Report): Still, this show is absolutely huge. RIGHT: Superhero Films Remain Very, Very Popular After Supergirl flopped, I read a few takes that “comic book movies are going the way of the Western”. Post-Spider-Man: Brand New Day, that take didn’t age well. To be fair, I have a very nuanced take on the superhero genre right now; it’s down right now, for a lot of reasons. But it’s not “dead”. Maybe _Spider-_Man is just a really popular character? I saw that take, and it’s a fair counter-argument. (But pundits arguing that superhero movies were dead should have mentioned this $1.5 billion counter-argument…) But is it just Spider-Man? The next Avengers film already has $50 million in pre-sales (and I was skeptical that that film would do well) and the Avengers: End Game re-release topped the box office two weekends ago (over three original films). And I wouldn’t bet against Batman or Superman. So maybe it’s just Spider-Man, Batman, Superman and the Avengers. Oh, and Deadpool, of course. And Black Panther. And Wolverine. And probably the X-Men. Plus a well-made Wonder Woman or the Hulk film could break out. But that’s it! It’s just those ten characters/teams. Oh, what’s that? Lanterns is also doing well on HBO? (See previous section…) To be fair, I’m actually pretty sympathetic to the argument that more popular characters—like Spider-Man and Batman—anchor more popular films. In fact, I made that exact argument three years ago when I first wrote about the “Marvel-cession”. In many ways, you can blame The Guardians of the Galaxy for fooling Marvel Studios (and the rest of us) into believing that any character could pop. It turns out, the list of iconic characters is probably smaller than most people think. But it’s probably too early to say that superhero films and comic book movies are dead unless “death” means a slight decline over a longtime. RIGHT: Who Killed Theaters? Old People I get frustrated whenever I see headlines or analysis about how young people are “returning” to theaters. As I’ve detailed(for years), young people have always powered the US box office, despite narratives about “kids these days” and their “phones”. Really, what’s changed post-2020/pandemic is that old people aren’t going to the movies nearly as much. This summer, I saw a movie (from an older director) in a theater near a retirement community, and multiple older people at the theater were talking about how this was their first time seeing a movie in years. I dislike personal anecdotes, so YouGov can fill in the data, best summarized by this headline: “Who killed movie theaters? Not the youths”. According to them, 64% of people aged 18-29 have seen a movie in the last year, but only 30% of 65-and-older. 20% of 18-29 have seen a movie in theaters in the last week and 42% in the last month. Here’s the polling data: Most concerning? Many Americans (17%) think theaters are a worse or much worse experience than watching films at home. Slight WRONG: Hadestown Opens Big A live theater capture of the Broadway musical, Hadestown, made $20 million at the US box office, which begs the question: was I wrong to be skeptical about musicals a few years ago? Yes and no. On the one hand, $20 million is a far cry from being “popular”, so yeah, the genre isn’t that popular overall and Hadestown is one of the more popular musicals from recent years (i.e. the “Taylor Swift Data Fallacy” in action). On the other, I doubt filming this cost all that much, and I don’t think that they spent much on marketing, so this is a good source of ancillary revenue. Smaller Updates WRONG: As I mentioned in a Streaming Ratings Report, I underestimated the budget for Enola Holmes 3. It probably cost more like $50 million, if not more. But... I’m not sure that it really matters? At sub-10 million hours, prices have to come down to make this work. WRONG: Netflix is giving Ink a 27-day in theaters! To quote the kids/YouTubers these days, let’s go! Now I might actually have a chance to see Danny Boyle’s latest in theaters. I’d complained about this in a “Coming Soon” section, but I was heartened to read that Netflix is giving multiple films longer theatrical windows this year. RIGHT: Netflix is sending 4-5 films per year to theaters. Netflix is slowly but surely sending more and more films to theaters, as I cautiously predicted earlier this year. For now, it’s just three big films and a number of awards contenders, but still, this is great news. And they’ll be releasing box office grosses! Just this week, Ted Sarandos confirmed that KPop Demon Hunters 2 will come to theaters (and my guess is it performs in the box office top ten at a minimum). WRONG: Angel has 3 million subscribers! How do I know this? Well, they told Deadline, who reported it. I marked this as “wrong”, since they’ve doubled their subscribers in one year but, you know, they don’t really have a hit film to speak of and they’re still losing money. WRONG: Furious was only renewed for one more season. I accidentally wrote “two more seasons” in my latest “Renewals, Cancellations, Un-Orders and Removals Update”. RIGHT: House of David is ending with its third season. In July, Prime Video renewed House of David for a third season, as I just wrote in my latest “Renewals and Cancellations” report. Well, now it’s ending after that third season. Why? As I’ve been writing, its viewership wasn’t great. I got feedback that this show didn’t cost very much, but it cost enough that its limited viewership didn’t save it. WRONG: Adults was a Hulu original! So I missed Adults when it first came out last year; I saw that it aired on FX and just assumed that it was a linear-first program. Turns out, it aired three episodes on FX, but binge-released the rest of its episodes the next day on Hulu. Huh. So I should have covered it last year! But I just wrote about it. 1 “When I was a kid in the 90s, if you wore a t-shirt to school that wasn’t too big and also wasn’t too small, but somehow didn’t quite fit, we’d say you were wearing an “extra-medium” shirt.” 2 As always, a huge exception is Disney, which barely makes anything original anymore.

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ChatGPT for Teens keeps teens talking, even during mental health crises

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New program brings mental health, medical care to unhoused people in Charlotte

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Packers’ Matt LaFleur unhappy with Green Bay after Buccaneers win

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ALDS Game 1 Player of the Game: Gerrit Cole

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Democrats Lead Governor Races Deep in Republican Territory, Polls Show

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Studying Science in an Anti-Scientific Time

This Chronicle Review Deep Cut was first published in 2025. By Julianne Werlin Thanks for reading The Chronicle Review! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Subscribe The last two decades have not been kind to science studies. Already bruised and battered by the “science wars” of the 1990s, by the 2000s sociologists of science — who had long argued that science had to be understood in its human context — were encountering the funhouse-mirror version of their own views in right-wing critiques of climate scientists. It was enough to give some prominent scholars pause. “Was I wrong to participate in the invention of this field known as science studies?” asked Bruno Latour, the most famous sociologist of science in the world, in 2003. “Should we apologize for having been wrong all along? Or should we rather bring the sword of criticism to criticism itself and do a bit of soul-searching here: What were we really after when we were so intent on showing the social construction of scientific facts?” In response, Latour proposed a change of method and attitude. Science studies, now chastened and contrite, would no longer seek to strip facts of their authority, but to enrich and enhance them. What this meant in practice was never fully clear. But his diagnosis of problems resonated, even if his solutions did not. Latour’s exercise in public hand-wringing signaled a shift in mood. By 2016, with the first election of Donald Trump, the idea that skepticism of science was a right-wing position, not a left-wing one, had become a commonplace, discussed eagerly in The New York Times. For liberals, vaccine denial during the Covid era and Trump’s second-term attacks on the funding of scientific research, covered extensively in these pages, added a new urgency to the defense of science on both practical and principled grounds. There was little appetite for a sociology or philosophy of science that emphasized the messiness and missteps of the scientific process rather than its integrity and triumphs. The distinguished historian of science Peter Dear’s new book, The World as We Know It: From Natural Philosophy to Modern Science (Princeton University Press, 2025), which seeks to tell the story of 18th- and 19th-century science for a general public, may seem comfortably remote from these bitter contests. In its 16 short chapters, Dear draws swift, sure sketches of major discoveries from Newton to Einstein, ably guiding the reader through debates on stellar nebulae, animal taxonomy, atomic chemistry, evolution, and other flashpoints in the history of science. But though a work of history, Dear’s book must still negotiate our polarized present. In a blurb on its back cover, the historian of biology Lynn K. Nyhart alludes to the “present moment, when scientific knowledge is being swamped by misinformation and its institutions are under siege.” Dear himself, in his conclusion, refers to the “yard signs” and “bumper stickers” that proclaim “Science Is Real.” One antidote to both anti-science propaganda and to reductive slogans in science’s defense is a robust history and philosophy of science: exactly what Dear’s scholarship has long offered. But his new book illustrates how difficult such work has become. Dear, an emeritus professor of history at Cornell University, is best known as a creative and philosophically minded historian of the Scientific Revolution. His edited volume The Literary Structure of Scientific Argument (1991) analyzed the rhetoric of Galileo’s thought experiments to brilliant effect. Discipline and Experience: The Mathematical Way in the Scientific Revolution (1995) was a major contribution to the analysis of scientific experiments in early modern Europe and beyond, while Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge in Transition, 1500-1700 (2001), now in its third edition, remains one of the best overviews of the profound epistemological upheavals of 16th- and 17th-century science. But Dear has also ventured into later periods. Nearly two decades ago, in The Intelligibility of Nature: How Science Makes Sense of the World (2006), he turned to the 18th and 19th centuries to sketch a history and theory of scientific knowledge. Aimed at a generalist audience, Dear’s simple prose belied serious philosophical ambitions. Science, Dear argued, has two aspects: “natural philosophy,” the quest to understand the true nature of the universe, and “instrumentality,” the applied skills and technologies that allow us to manipulate the world for human advantage. Both strands are ancient, but the innovation of the phenomenon we call “science” was to yoke them together. As Francis Bacon wrote, “Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known, the effect cannot be produced,” an insight typically abridged to “knowledge is power.” Or, in Bertrand Russell’s characteristically blunt phrase, science has two functions, “1. to enable us to know things, and 2., to enable us to do things.” So far, so conventional. But Dear took issue with this familiar story in one respect. Bacon’s formula implied that theory and practice could be fused in a single method. In fact, Dear argued, the quest to understand nature and the desire to manipulate it were coupled only loosely. They could come together, but they could also pull apart. Focusing on natural philosophy, the “knowing” half of the scientific circle, he used a series of case studies from cosmology, taxonomy, chemistry, electromagnetism, and quantum theory to show how theories changed over time, in dialogue with practice, but never reducible to it. Take the case of matter, the basic substrate of the physical world. In the 18th and 19th centuries, scientists not only disagreed about what it was, but also about how well it could be known. In 1789, the chemist Antoine Lavoisier dismissed speculation about the atomic composition of chemicals as “discussions entirely of a metaphysical nature,” as he sought to orient chemistry away from philosophical abstraction and toward laboratory results. But in the 19th century, atoms returned with a vengeance in the atomic chemistry of John Dalton, who wanted to explain the underlying structure of nature. It was not just that Dalton and Lavoisier had a different set of experimental results, or even a different theory, Dear showed. What counted as an explanation had changed. In arguing that scientific theories depended on their intelligibility to human beings with complex arrays of beliefs and commitments, Dear was in sympathy with science studies. Key figures such as the sociologist Steven Shapin emphasized the importance of psychological mechanisms like trust in the formation and acceptance of scientific ideas. But in focusing on the scientific pursuit of knowledge, not its politics or economics, Dear resisted the more cynical perspective of some of his colleagues. The Intelligibility of Nature strikes a very different note than Shapin’s collection of a few years later, Never Pure: Historical Studies of Science as If It Was Produced by People With Bodies, Situated in Time, Space, Culture, and Society, and Struggling for Credibility and Authority (2010), to name just one example. Walking a very fine line, Dear depicted science as driven at once by complex social dynamics and by the intellectual power of real discoveries. It was a testament not only to his own acumen but also to the vitality of the field that he was able to do so. Nearly two decades later, The World as We Know It returns to the questions broached in The Intelligibility of Nature. Like Dear’s earlier study, it begins with the Newtonian cosmos and ends with debates between Einstein and Bohr on quantum physics. Beyond its terminal figures, many of the same characters appear in both studies, including the naturalists John Ray and the Comte de Buffon; the chemists Étienne François Geoffroy, Antoine Lavoisier, and John Dalton; as well as Charles Darwin and Michael Faraday, among others. Its subject is nearly identical: As in The Intelligibility of Nature, The World as We Know It considers natural philosophy as opposed to instrumentality, here defined as the “desire to create a picture of what the world is really like — the world as God knows it — rather than simply having instrumental or operational control over it.” The two books also overlap in insights — and sometimes even in language. The reader who has learned in The Intelligibility of Nature that Buffon’s method of classifying animals “reflected his belief in the importance of the senses and empiricism in learning about nature (a doctrine associated with Newton and the philosopher John Locke)” will experience a sense of déjà vu on reading, in The World as We Know It, that the classification “reflects Buffon’s commitment to the epistemological stance of Newton and his philosophical underlaborer John Locke, who stressed the role of the senses in creating natural knowledge.” Later in the passage, we read that, “because of its stress on understanding the ways of life of animals in their environments, Buffon’s approach could almost be labeled (anachronistically) as ‘ecological.’” And again, “an anachronistic way of putting it would be to say that Buffon recommends an ecological mode of understanding.” Likewise, in The Intelligibility of Nature we read of Dalton that he was initially drawn to meteorology, and that: He did a bit of experimental work on these things, especially having to do with the water-holding capacity of gases, but his real interest lay in understanding what, at an underlying natural-philosophical level, was really going on physically.” Whereas, in The World as We Know It: He did experimental work on these things, especially concerning the water-holding capacity of gases — although not at a very refined level quantitatively — but he was continually trying to develop a theoretical conception of what was happening physically. The final full chapter of each book closes on the same resigned note. Intelligibility: These days, most serious work on the natural philosophical underpinnings and implications of quantum mechanics is performed not by physicists but by philosophers of science. Among scientific practitioners themselves, Bohr’s attempt to use instrumentality as sufficient grounds for a respectable science has met with a high degree of success. And again, in The World as We Know It: Bohr’s and Einstein’s concerns are now questions that are mostly discussed by philosophers of science rather than by physicists themselves. The marginalization of these sorts of questions amounts to the demise of natural philosophy, at least in physics, in the 20th century. Quantum mechanics “works,” and that’s good enough for most scientists who encounter it. Examples could be multiplied. When handling the same subject matter, some echoes are inevitable. Scholars should not feel that because they have written “Isaac Newton died in 1727” in one book, in the next they must describe him as perishing, expiring, or meeting his maker. But the repetitions of language and arguments (not to mention six reproduced images) threaded throughout The World as We Know It are more extensive than that. They should have been caught by Princeton University Press or its reviewers, and revised. Because the two books have so much in common, it is easy to see where they diverge. The World as We Know It is a less theoretical work than its predecessor. The sociology of knowledge that organized The Intelligibility of Nature has been reduced in scale and folded into readings and examples. The taut interplay between history and theory, which gave the earlier study so much interest, is there, but it is subtle. In the earlier book, the case studies demonstrated theoretical claims about the character and development of science. In the later work, each narrative of discovery is an end in itself. Insights emerge from the history, but they do not control the organization of the study. With the theory muted, it can be hard to understand the logic uniting Dear’s sprawling history of more than two centuries of scientific knowledge. The 16 brisk chapters cover an enormous amount of material. But the closer the volume edges to comprehensiveness, the more obvious the missing elements become. A chapter on “Institutions and Pedagogy,” describing the birth of the research university, illustrates the problem. Inserted roughly halfway through the book, the unnumbered chapter is designed as an “entr’acte,” in acknowledgement that it does not fit the study’s organization around scientific discoveries. Yet as Dear is well aware, no general history of the development of modern science can bracket its 19th-century institutionalization and professionalization. It was the 19th-century university, after all, that gave us the “scientist,” a term coined by the Cambridge philosopher William Whewell. Dear’s history of scientific discoveries implies a wider social and institutional history, but it remains largely subterranean, only occasionally extruded under the pressure of the narrative. It must be said that the balance is not all on the side of the earlier study. There are some advantages to the more historical, less theoretical organization of The World as We Know It. Dear’s accounts of paradigm shifts are remarkably lucid, no small accomplishment given that they span fields and centuries. He makes excellent use of the wealth of new scholarship on Darwin and his influences, to which he has himself contributed. It is satisfying to see puzzle pieces from Buffon’s natural history, Georges Cuvier’s animal taxonomy, Thomas Robert Malthus’s demography, and Charles Lyell’s geology recombined seamlessly in the Darwinian jigsaw. Likewise, Dear’s discussion of stellar nebulae, divided between chapters two and 15, shows vividly how Newton, Kant, Herschel, and Hubble reimagined insights and observations as they sought to discover whether the diffuse light that filtered through early telescopes was a glowing, gaseous substance or discrete but distant stars. Yet despite such pleasures, the book remains a more modest work than The Intelligibility of Nature. Dear has clearly not changed his views about the history of science. But in the two decades that have elapsed, the discipline and the world around it have changed, making it harder to write a sociologically and philosophically ambitious history of science for the general reader. That is a shame, because in the age of Silicon Valley and biotechnology, both the reciprocity and the tensions Dear identified between the epistemological and instrumental ambitions of science are more evident than ever. In recent years, some of the most exciting new books on the history of science in early modernity have focused precisely on this pressure point. Important studies such as Pamela H. Smith’s From Lived Experience to the Written Word (2022), James Poskett’s Horizons: The Global Origins of Modern Science (2022), and Vera Keller’s The Interlopers: Early Stuart Projects and the Undisciplining of Knowledge (2023) all shed new light on how early modern science negotiated the relationship between its instrumental and epistemological ambitions, or in Russell’s phrase, knowing and doing. There is every opportunity for a philosophically informed approach to draw new insights from this wealth of material. Dear, unfortunately, has not done so in The World as We Know It. But for future scholars of the history of science, his body of work over nearly four decades may provide just the model. Julianne Werlin is an associate professor of English at Duke University. Thanks for reading The Chronicle Review! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Subscribe

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Cambodia: Imprisonment of Activists, Politicians, and Journalists Amid Unrelenting Crackdown

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Most Americans blame Trump for high prices as his economic approval hits new low, AP-NORC poll shows

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John Cunha, DO, FACOEP, Appointed Permanent Chief Medical Officer of Holy Cross Health

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Vincent D'Onofrio Shuts Down God Of War Laufey Gooner Complaints: 'Buddy Got Bodied By Kingpin'

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Taylor understands Exeter fans' frustrations

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Revealed: Roma were also interested in Da Cunha

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Carlo Ancelotti Labels Jair Cunha a 'Positive Surprise' for Brazil

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27 Flight Attendants Share Unhinged Passenger Questions

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TKO Group Holdings (TKO) Benefit from Strong Demand for Sports and Entertainment

Cooper Investors, an investment management firm, released its second-quarter 2026 investor letter for “Cooper Investors Global Equities Fund (Unhedged)”. The letter can be downloaded here. The Fund returned 6.6% for the quarter, bringing its financial-year return to -6.4%. On a local currency basis, performance was approximately flat for the year, as the strengthening Australian Dollar […]

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UnitedHealth: Quality Dividends From Health Insurance

UnitedHealth raised 2026 adjusted diluted EPS guidance to $19.50–$20.00, reflecting strong margin discipline. Read why UNH stock is a Buy.

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‘Powerful and beautiful’: Here’s why we all need body fat

From releasing hormones to regulating our temperature, fat has myriad roles in the body. Here’s how much you need and why chasing extreme fat-loss goals is unhealthy.

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‘Powerful and beautiful’: Here’s why we all need body fat

From releasing hormones to regulating our temperature, fat has myriad roles in the body. Here’s how much you need and why chasing extreme fat-loss goals is unhealthy.

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Real Madrid unhappy with France’s management of Kylian Mbappé

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Matt Fitzpatrick's commanding victory at the Open de France sets the stage for a strong showing at the upcoming Alfred Dunhill Links Championship.

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Harrison: Will Mississippi politicians avoid blame for rising healthcare costs?

Nearly all of Mississippi’s congressional delegation voted against extending the enhanced tax credits or subsidies for the Affordable Care Act Marketplace insurance policies.

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Pols & Politics: Minogue closing the gap in new poll, Healey still favored in general election

Gov. Maura Healey remains favored for reelection in November, but not as comfortably as in past surveys as the latest UNH Survey Center poll shows GOP challenger Mike Minogue is closing the gap.

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Sep 27 • 5:21 AM EDT • Politics • bostonherald.com
Judge Judy’s ‘selfishness’ slammed by“ The View” cohosts after TV icon told unhappy Americans to ‘go somewhere else’

Judy Sheindlin raised eyebrows at the Hot Topics table — particularly as Ana Navarro and Sunny Hostin criticized her, though Sara Haines and Alyssa Farah Griffin came to her defense.

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Sep 25 • 2:18 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Another new poll shows close Maine Senate race

Other UNH results show Democrat Hannah Pingree continuing to lead the pack for governor ahead of Republican Bobby Charles and independent Rick Bennett.

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Sep 25 • 11:26 AM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
Cornwall resident, filmmaker Lena Dunham to give book talk in town

In a 2022 essay for Architectural Digest, Lena Dunham discussed living on a home constructed on her parents’ Connecticut property in Cornwall.

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Sep 24 • 10:56 AM EDT • Entertainment • newstimes.com
Taylor frustrated by Exeter's international absences

Exeter City manager Matt Taylor says he is unhappy at having to play his side's League Two fixture at Bristol Rovers without his two international players.

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Sep 24 • 4:15 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Robert Pattinson is an unhinged delight in gonzo 'Primetime'

Starring an unhinged Robert Pattinson, the drama “Primetime” exposes the ickiness and discomfiting qualities of reality TV.

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Sep 23 • 11:12 AM EDT • Entertainment • centraloregondaily.com
Valencia Reportedly Unhappy with Harvey Elliott’s Fitness

Elliott is Valencia’s third-highest paid player and the Spanish club don’t believe he is yet match fit.

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Sep 23 • 10:03 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
“DWTS ”judge Carrie Ann Inaba claps back at audience booing her over Harry Shum Jr. critique

“You can boo as long as you vote!” she told the unhappy crowd.

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Sep 22 • 10:39 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com