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Scarlet, gray and something more: The science of sports fandom at Ohio State

The November air in Columbus was bitter and cold as more than 100,000 fans packed into Ohio Stadium for the 2024 edition of The Game. At the time, The No. 2 ranked Ohio State Buckeyes were 19.5-point favorites against unranked Michigan. A Buckeye win over the Wolverines was something that many Ohio State students had […]

Jun 10 • 9:42 PM EDT • Science • thelantern.com

We can create the future of science right now

Paul Litvak is the founder and Executive Director of the Robyn Dawes Institute and a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley. He has a PhD in Behavioral Decision Research from Carnegie Mellon where he studied emotions and the sunk cost bias. Over 15 years in industry, he solved a wide range of challenging technical problems. At Meta he created models optimizing the ad review process. At Google he ran experiments to measure social influence. At Airbnb, he was a product manager leading machine learning teams optimizing search ranking and price suggestions. He also co-founded and led product at Rhythmic Health, a venture-backed biosensing startup, creating an accurate low cost system using a color changing strip and a smart phone to measure salivary lactate. The bottleneck At this point, it is uncontroversial to say that science needs to stop using the PDF article as the unit of knowledge and currency. The unbearable slowness of scientific publishing, the profit motive and margins: I’m not saying anything new. The PDF also sucks because it’s hard to extract structured information, which makes it hard to do evidence synthesis. As a result, we do much less evidence synthesis than is needed. And evidence synthesis ultimately undergirds most policy and medical decision-making. I can see second-by-second real-time odds for any sporting or newsworthy event, but a school board can’t see the best evidence on whether their 8th graders should be taught algebra. As a society, we don’t treat this as an important problem. Again, not controversial. Not only is the problem well understood, but the solution has already been laid out. What we need is AI-assisted living evidence synthesis - (1) an open knowledge graph of atomic claims, (2) claims linked to evidence, (3) assessment and synthesis of each piece of evidence, and (4) continuous updating with new data. What few realize (yet) is that the technical capacity to build this vision for a significant portion of science already exists. Not only that, scientists and startup teams are already building many of these components. I know this because I’ve been surveying the space and talking to many of the builders. There are some missing pieces: for example, evaluations of how well some of the components work. But at this point, most of what’s missing is a fully end-to-end working integration of all of these parts. In the rest of this essay, I’m going to lay out all the parts of a working living evidence layer for science and who is working on them, and propose concrete next steps for building this system. What’s now possible The diagram above outlines the components of a living evidence synthesis platform, including some of the teams working on each component1. Scientific PDFs are processed into claims with associated evidence. The evidence is subjected to a forensic audit, methodological evaluation and robustness and reproducibility checks. Finally it’s given a weight in a continuously updating synthesis. What follows is a description and status of each component and a few of the teams working on them. Document understanding The first thing you need to be able to do is turn an article into structured data. Mostly that means parsing PDFs. There are often multicolumn layouts that confuse non-specialized PDF to text processing libraries. For scientific papers, there is the added complexity of parsing formulas and tables and figures. This is a really hot area - there are startups offering APIs, and it seems like a new open source package gets posted to Github every few weeks. What follows isn’t exhaustive. A package called GROBID was the state of the art for a while, they didn’t update their package for nearly two years until very recently. In the meantime reducto.ai released an AI powered PDF extraction API, PaddleOCR became popular, IBM released a model called Docling, and both Mistral and Gemini created models and libraries. I also know of at least one other well-funded psychology research group working on a paper parser. By contrast, there are few open evals in this space, with no extensive evals for complex table comprehension in particular. Nonetheless, I’m confident this will be a solved problem soon, given the combination of LLM advances and developer interest. Hypothesis level extraction There has been increasing interest in comprehending the extracted text of papers and linking information to evidence for each hypothesis. A lot of work has already been done. Trialstreamer (Marshall et al. 2020) and RobotReviewer LIVE (Marshall et al. 2023) demonstrated automated extraction of trial population, intervention, and outcome at scale on clinical RCTs. PaperQA2 (Skarlinski et al. 2024) and Ai2 ScholarQA (2024) extended this to retrieval-augmented question answering with citation grounding. Elicit, Consensus, and SciSpace operationalized claim-level extraction for end users. OpenEval (Booeshaghi et al. 2026) is the most recent and most ambitious: 1.96 million atomic claims extracted from 16,087 eLife manuscripts using Claude Sonnet 4.5, grouped into ~299,000 results, with LLM evaluations showing 81% agreement with human peer review on a 2,487-paper subset. None of these solutions link claims to test-statistics, as you would need to evaluate randomized controlled trials. This is why I built the evidence.guide API - to extract hypotheses and associated test statistics from behavioral science papers. The best public eval of this kind of extraction I’m aware of comes from the recent SCORE project - they had humans code thousands of psychology papers to extract their claims by hand. It would be extremely helpful to the world if all scientific PDFs were available as structured open data. I’ve been working to make this happen, both directly at Berkeley and through coordination with large entities I can’t yet speak of; as hard as it is to do, I think it’s possible2. Forensic audit A lot of work has been done on forensic audit, but some gaps remain. Of course, for biology papers that rely on images for evidence, there are a variety of tools (notably Proofig and ImageTwin) to spot anomalies. These are still well short of what sleuths like Elizabeth Bik can do on her own, but these tools are constant companions among fraud analysts. There’s someone working on auditing Excel files for anomalies, and a number of teams are automating numerical checks like GRIM and SPRITE, including Scrutiny project, the INSPECT-SR team as well as statcheck. The regcheck team is building a way to use AI to compare preregistrations to analyses in papers, to ensure there aren’t significant deviations. Nonetheless, there are many other kinds of anomalies to screen for, both public and less publicly known. And there are no formal evals for anomaly detection that I’m aware of. Still, there’s a lot to draw from in this space and I’m pretty certain we will be able to scan papers for most kinds of obvious anomalies in the near future. Methodological review This area has been white hot, though I fear for many of the startups in this space, because this capability may become commoditized. There are at least six different AI peer review companies, including Refine.ink, Reviewer3, ReviewerZero.ai, Q.E.D. Science, Paper Wizard, and Isitcredible. Coarse (a pun on refine) was also recently created as an open source alternative. These systems provide qualitative feedback on the content of papers, spotting methodological weaknesses and mathematical errors. They seem to work pretty well, and many academics report bitterly that they exceed the average quality of typical peer reviewers. But there are few evals here either. What evals exist so far involve using LLM-as-judge (circularity problems abound) or comparing against human reviews of questionable quality. What you’d ideally want is an eval that measures capturing known errors in papers3. Reproducibility and robustness Another active area has been using AI agents to automate computational reproducibility4 and robustness5 checks in papers that report numerical results. For more recent papers where data and code are available, AI agents can see whether they can re-run the analyses and produce the numbers reported in the published paper. In addition to a handful of individual academics who have been experimenting using Claude Code for this, the Institute for Replication is a leading group working on building an end to end system. The evals related to this problem are the most mature, with CORE-Bench (Siegel, Kapoor, Narayanan 2024) and PaperBench (OpenAI 2025) available to benchmark agents on this task. There is also work on getting AI agents to test alternative ways of analyzing the data to ensure the results are robust to small analytic design choices. Synthesis This is the most underdeveloped area where significant investment is required. Although some automated evidence synthesis systems exist — for example, otto-sr is building an AI agent to write systematic reviews — none of these incorporate the full range of paper level signals to weight evidence appropriately. Nor is there anything like an eval or a gold standard for a good systematic review. Arguably Cochrane reviews are the closest we have to gold standard human systematic reviews, though I’ve heard academics in the know complain about their uneven quality. A key question for a synthesis platform is how to weight anomalies and methodological issues in assessing the quality of a piece of evidence. This is an unsolved problem and one I’m very keen to work on. Continuous updating There are many pieces of basic infrastructure available for monitoring for new research and initiating updates. OpenAlex is the current open citation graph. Retraction Watch integrated into Crossref in October 2023. Scite tracks how citations support, contrast, or mention prior claims. The Living Evidence Network demonstrated continuous-update workflows in clinical guidelines. Engineering this is a relatively straightforward task. When you look over this technical architecture and all the progress being made, it’s hard not to be optimistic that a living guide to scientific evidence will be built. The stakeholders are ready The social infrastructure for this is starting to coalesce — it’s not just a pie in the sky academic exercise to imagine this coming into existence. Institutions like the Center for Open Science, the Institute for Replication, the INSPECT-SR, the Living Evidence Network and more are all working on scaling work to improve research quality. Funders are also aligned. The Sloan Foundation has funded living evidence work through COS. Coefficient Giving supports the Institute for Replication and COS. The Astera Institute and the Institute for Progress have shown interest in this space. NIH has established an Office for Replication and Reproducibility. Although there are (very unfortunately) serious headwinds in science funding generally, there is an active group of funders interested in metascience. A brief word about what I’ve been doing at RDI. First, as a Visiting Scholar at Berkeley I’ve been actively figuring out how a non-profit and a public university can conduct and make public the results of large-scale academic article data mining. With some of the money I raised from donors, I commissioned a legal analysis of recent case law and publisher text data mining (TDM) agreements in order to understand whether a massive open data mining of academic articles is possible (with caveats, it is). I’ve also been working to bring together stakeholders in this space, and identify gaps. I’ve also been doing some software development in this space, with more to come. A pilot proposal The assumption undergirding all of this is that an AI, given all this information, would make the right judgment about a scientific claim with lots of conflicting evidence, weighing all the factors appropriately. That’s the hypothesis we need to test. Randomized control trial research is the best place to focus on first. RCTs are used to make many of the important decisions in society - from medical trials to public policy changes. And they use a relatively uniform set of inferential statistics with lots of known and available diagnostics. Behavioral science experiments, within the broader realm of RCTs, should be first used as a testbed whose results can be generalized. Because behavioral science is at the vanguard of open science practices, replications abound (there are thousands of them) to serve as ground truth training data. Key Hypothesis Therefore the pilot would test, in behavioral RCTs that have been replicated, whether the quality of evidence for a claim can be used to accurately predict whether that claim will replicate. Secondary Hypotheses Compared to claims that replicated, non-replicated claims demonstrate a greater share of forensic anomalies in their source literatures. Hypothesis level claim and statistic extraction is accurate enough to scale living evidence without onerous human review costs. Replication prediction is more accurate than prediction markets6 or journal prestige. If all the different quality signals we gather do accurately predict which studies will replicate, then we can use that model to score evidence to power the living evidence layer. Why this is informative regardless of outcome If the pilot succeeds, the architecture extends to medical RCTs (where Living Evidence already operates and integration is mostly about claim representation), then to slices of basic biology with stable replication structure. If it fails, the field learns which quality signals are load-bearing and which ones metascience has oversold. Either result is a contribution to knowing what the literature supports. Implications for funders Because this burgeoning ecosystem of builders already exists, a well-informed philanthropic or government funder could play a crucial catalyzing role in bringing this future about. They could play at least three roles: creating open structured datasets, publishing open benchmarks and incentivizing the solving of key technical challenges. First, open archives of papers that the government maintains, like PubMed, could be turned into structured data amenable to large scale metascience and claim aggregation. I know the US government already has an interest in doing this, though some key open questions remain unanswered. How do you determine the best models and systems for accurately extracting information from papers? How can you establish a robust way to allow researchers to flag errors and correct them? And finally, how do you create a legal regime in working with publishers to maximize the scope of available papers? For the latter, a university or a private philanthropy may be better positioned to make structured data publicly available under journal subscription terms or fair use. Philanthropists or government funders could also coordinate to create or commission benchmarks that evaluate whether important problems have been solved. For example, an open benchmark for claim extraction from a range of different scientific article types would be extremely helpful. Ensuring the underlying data are accurate is vital for creating these evaluations. I’ve discussed opportunistically using various human-created datasets for this purpose, but a consistent problem is that errors in human data make it difficult for them to serve as a gold standard. Finally, with structured data and benchmarks available, the government or private philanthropy could use them to incentivize groups to develop machine learning systems that meet these benchmarks. Prizes are one potentially valuable tool for this. For example, you could establish a prize for a system that accurately updates a living meta-analysis for a small set of claims. Prizes are particularly useful as signals of problem importance, and can help create vibrant ecosystems of public and private research—see, for example the role the government played in kickstarting the current work on nuclear fusion. Conclusion The drawbacks of the current scientific publishing system are known. Scientists agree, metascientists agree, philanthropists agree: the published PDF plus citation graph isn’t the right substrate for maintaining a representation of the evidence base in science. The pieces needed to build the alternative either already exist or are rapidly taking shape. The community is forming around exactly this problem, with concrete partnerships and shared infrastructure. A pilot should start on behavioral science RCTs because that’s the slice of empirical science most amenable to legibility, where replication ground truth is richest, and where the failure modes are best documented. What’s been missing is the galvanizing mission to assemble these pieces into something that works. That’s what I’m proposing to build. *** 1 I have a broader field map that I’ll release publicly soon. This is me, building in public! 2 If this is something that you are excited about, please reach out and talk to me. 3 More on this very soon too! 4 This tests whether, given the code and the data, you can get the same statistics as reported in the published paper. 5 This tests whether the results are the same as a paper’s given alternative analytical decisions in conducting the analysis (like outlier omission). Closely related is the idea of a “multiverse” where you come up with many different ways of answering the same underlying research question with the same data, and test whether the results hold in all those alternative methods. There’s been work on the latter as well. 6 Some of the replications, e.g. those from the SCORE project, had paired the experiments with forecasts from prediction markets. So we get to look at this for free.

Jun 8 • 4:44 PM EDT • Science • goodscience.substack.com

Colombia’s soccer jersey isn’t just about sports. It’s become a symbol of political division

Colombia’s national soccer jersey has become the subject of controversy during the country's bitterly disputed presidential election.

Jun 6 • 9:30 AM EDT • Sports • seattletimes.com

Becerra advances to November, moves closer to becoming California's first elected Latino governor

Democrat Xavier Becerra consolidated enough support from Democratic base to advance beyond a bitter primary to California governor, while the second spot remains up for grabs.

Jun 5 • 8:44 PM EDT • Politics • latimes.com

Wu, a Collins foe, endorses his Senate challenger Latoya Gayle

Michelle Wu and Nick Collins have bitterly clashed the past two years over his vocal opposition to her property tax legislation.

Jun 3 • 10:30 AM EDT • Politics • bostonglobe.com

Dennis Cirkin Deserves a Fond Farewell from Sunderland

It's certainly a bittersweet exit, but it's important that we thank Dennis Cirkin for his time at the club and wish him the very best as everyone moves forward.

Jun 3 • 1:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

The Wyoming Department of Health Reminds People to Prevent Mosquito Bites This Summer. - Wyoming Department of Health

The Wyoming Department of Health (WDH) is reminding residents to protect themselves from mosquito bites as we move into warmer months to prevent West Nile Virus (WNV) infection. “Even if you don’t get bitten by mosquitoes often, one bite can still put you at risk of WNV infection,” said Courtney Tillman, Epidemiologist at the […]

Jun 1 • 5:11 PM EDT • Health • health.wyo.gov

Opponent Snapshot: Minnesota Golden Gophers

Head Coach: PJ Fleck (10th year, 66-44 at Minnesota, 96-66 overall) 2025 Record: 8-5 overall, 5-4 Big Ten Quick 2025 Recap Minnesota completed its second straight 8-5 season, thanks to an overtime win over New Mexico in the Rate Bowl. Their most notable wins from the season include a snowy 17-7 win over bitter rival […]

Jun 1 • 11:03 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

News 13 bids farewell to weekend sports anchor Marvin Parker Jr.

It's a bittersweet day at News 13 as the station says goodbye to weekend sports anchor and reporter Marvin Parker Jr.

May 31 • 5:38 PM EDT • Sports • wlos.com

'We were being bullied in our own home': How 'authoritarian' HOAs are contributing to the insect apocalypse

In the book "Bitter Honey," writer and researcher Jennie Durant explores how industrial agriculture is destroying bees — and what can be done to stop them.

May 31 • 12:00 PM EDT • Science • livescience.com

Astronomers gaze into the 'Crystal Ball Nebula' and see a vision of our dying sun — Space photo of the week

The Crystal Ball Nebula has captivated astronomers for more than 200 years, and it offers a bittersweet glimpse of a dying star system similar to our own.

May 31 • 6:00 AM EDT • Science • livescience.com

‘Destiny 2’ Reveals Its Last Update Will Be Its Best In Years

Destiny 2 is putting out one final update before it ceases development, and its bittersweet, given how good it will be.

May 29 • 9:15 AM EDT • Technology • forbes.com

John Thune goes 'all in' for Ken Paxton after bitter primary ripped GOP apart

John Thune backs Ken Paxton for Senate after Texas runoff victory, urging Republicans to go all in to prevent Democrats from flipping the key seat.

May 27 • 4:34 PM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com

Live Results: Texas midterm primary runoffs

Texans are choosing a Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Tuesday’s runoff election, bringing to a close the extended, bitter and expensive primary where President Donald Trump weighed in late to tip the race in another effort to rid the GOP of leaders less devoted to him.

May 26 • 10:18 AM EDT • Politics • pbs.org

California race for Congress escalates with attacks invoking Epstein and Chavez

The attacks come as Jasmeet Bains and Randy Villegas are locked in a bitter primary for California’s 22nd Congressional District

May 22 • 8:00 AM EDT • Politics • sacbee.com

Local Charleston County business to open new facility in Ravenel, creating 12 new jobs

Bittermilk Bottling Co., anonalcoholic beverage manufacturing company, is expanding its operations in Charleston County with a new Ravenel facility, marking a

May 21 • 12:28 PM EDT • Business • abcnews4.com

‘Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet’ becomes Seattle musical

Ten years in the making, a musical adaptation of Jamie Ford’s 2009 novel shares a sneak preview with the city the story calls home.

May 12 • 1:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • yakimaherald.com

Louisiana Republican Julia Letlow Is Trump’s Big Midterms Gamble

She is locked in a bitter primary that is testing the president’s power to shape MAGA’s next generation.

May 12 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • wsj.com

Linux bitten by second severe vulnerability in as many weeks

Production-version patches are coming online and should be installed pronto.

May 11 • 6:28 PM EDT • Technology • arstechnica.com

Why coffee tastes bitter, according to molecular biology

Researchers imaged taste receptors responding to coffee compounds for the first time.

May 11 • 1:59 PM EDT • Science • popsci.com

Germany's businesses frustrated by economic decline

No one had higher hopes for Friedrich Merz's chancellorship than the German business community. Meanwhile, however, early euphoria has given way to bitter disappointment.

May 11 • 4:37 AM EDT • Business • dw.com

Nebraska’s ‘blue dot’ becomes the center of a closely watched Democratic primary fight

Omaha may be a blue dot in a sea of Nebraska red, but that point of political pride has sparked a bitter divide among Democrats in one of the nation’s most closely watched congressional races.

May 9 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com

UFC 328 Countdown: Khamzat Chimaev vs. Sean Strickland

The middleweight title will be up for grabs in the UFC 328 main event. Undefeated champion Khamzat Chimaev (15-0) and former titleholder Sean Strickland (30-7) collide in a match between bitter rivals. UFC 328 Countdown previews the middleweight title clash.

May 4 • 8:19 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Manchester United vs Liverpool – Predicted lineup and team news

Manchester United aim to secure Champions League qualification when they host bitter rivals Liverpool on Sunday.Michael Carrick’s side currently sit third with 61 points from 34 matches. They have w...

May 3 • 12:35 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

What’s Nashville have that we ain’t got in Seattle?

Amid the bitterness in Seattle over Starbucks' big Nashville office was more than a little envy. How did a town with a fraction of Seattle’s population win Starbucks?

May 1 • 9:00 AM EDT • Business • seattletimes.com

A bitter political race turns Alabama Muslims into a target: ‘We are proud Americans’

Jay Mitchell and Katherine Robertson have both referred to Muslims in campaign ads.

Apr 30 • 7:00 AM EDT • Politics • al.com

‘Still a family business’

NEW ULM – For over 10 years, Lakes on 1st has been owned and operated by the Bode family. Starting Friday, the Bode clan will continue to work at the restaurant, but with a new owner, Brandon Roiger. “It’s a little bittersweet, but it is a good feeling too,” said Mike Bode, the founder and […]

Apr 28 • 8:00 PM EDT • Business • nujournal.com

COLUMN: Spring sports RoundUP

Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. Smile also because the spring season of Pilot athletics has been one heck of a ride. To celebrate the sweet end of 2025-26 classes and the bitter close of spring sports, I’ve created a comprehensive review of the last semester of Pilot athletics and most valuable player (MVP) nominations for each squad.

Apr 28 • 3:59 PM EDT • Sports • upbeacon.com

‘The Neighborhood’ Star Hank Greenspan Teases Series’ ‘Bittersweet’ Ending

Find out if he wants to continue acting and more about his film, 'Ethan Bloom.'

Apr 27 • 8:30 PM EDT • Entertainment • nbcrightnow.com

Seattle grows bitter over Starbucks expansion in Nashville

As new details of the Nashville plan spread Tuesday, reaction in Seattle ran the gamut. Many questioned what is next for the company's presence in Seattle.

Apr 22 • 9:00 AM EDT • Business • seattletimes.com

Archana Puran Singh on how ‘The Kapil Sharma Show’ stalled her acting career: 'I’m somebody who sits on a chair and laughs'

Archana Puran Singh, a veteran of Indian cinema for over four decades, recently opened up about the bittersweet impact of her television success. Whil.

Apr 20 • 3:20 AM EDT • Entertainment • timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Gil Carter

No matter what, Gil Carter was always going to find a career in education. “When people like politics, there’s the old saying that they have been ‘bitten by the bug.’ I was bitten at a young age,” laughed Carter, an assistant professor in Mississippi State University’s Department of Communication, Media and Theatre.

Apr 13 • 8:00 AM EDT • Politics • msstate.edu

From politics to punches: Biden Jr challenges Trump sons to cage fight

US politics already feels like a contact sport, but one of Washington's most bitter political feuds may literally be headed to the mat after former president Joe Biden's son challenged

Apr 10 • 12:15 PM EDT • Politics • insidenova.com

Bitter medicine: How California’s hospital bills end up depressing your take-home pay

Hospitals are suing a state agency that limits their cost increases. Their bills inflate health insurance premiums, leaving employers with less money for wages.

Apr 10 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • calmatters.org

Voters in Georgia have moved on from Marjorie Taylor Greene. On Tuesday, they finally fill her seat

Three months after Marjorie Taylor Greene abruptly left Washington in the midst of a remarkably bitter feud with President Donald Trump, voters in northwest Georgia on Tuesday are poised to cast their ballots – again – in a runoff election to replace her.

Apr 6 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com

Anthony Edwards misses Thursday's Timberwolves loss, becomes latest NBA star bitten by awards eligibility rules

Apr 2 • 8:57 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Anthony Edwards becomes latest NBA star bitten by awards eligibility rules with 17th absence

Anthony Edwards is averaging a career-high 29.3 points per game this season. He still won't be making an All-NBA team.

Apr 2 • 6:35 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Silicon Valley's tech world takes center stage in state politics

From a wide-open governor’s race to a bitter congressional contest, Santa Clara County has emerged as a key battleground in the tech industry's bid to control California politics — and shield billionaires from a wealth tax.

Mar 31 • 11:30 AM EDT • Politics • sanjosespotlight.com

Apple’s long, bitter App Store antitrust war

Apple’s iPhone empire spans the globe — and so does legal pushback.

Mar 29 • 8:00 AM EDT • Technology • theverge.com

Blackhawks’ $22M forward drops bitter truth on Chicago’s season

Chicago Blackhawks forward Tyler Bertuzzi did not hold back after another tough loss, admitting the team is struggling to find answers late in the NHL season. Chicago has now dropped six of its last eight games, falling further out of…

Mar 28 • 3:48 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Hegseth Criticized for Removing Four Officers From Promotion List

Bitter rifts have opened over the defense secretary’s campaign to reverse policies that he says are prejudiced against white officers.

Mar 27 • 6:16 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com

"We were there in the 80s for the crash, and this is definitely crashier." John and Brenda Romero reflect on the industry crisis

The pair have had to dramatically downsize their studio since the money dried up – but they're determined to keep on coding to the bitter end

Mar 27 • 10:21 AM EDT • Technology • gamesindustry.biz

One Republican Farmer in Wisconsin Is Bitter Over Trump’s Deportations

For 20 years, Tim O’Harrow has asked lawmakers to acknowledge that America’s food supply depends on immigrants. Politics went in the other direction.

Mar 27 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com

Penguins win shootout, back in second place

With just 11 games to go, every win or loss could make the difference between a Stanley Cup Playoffs berth or bitterly watching them from home.

Mar 26 • 11:19 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Jack Gibbens reflects on ‘bittersweet’ decision to leave Patriots

Gibbens signed a two-year deal with the Cardinals in free agency.

Mar 23 • 9:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

‘JUST POLITICS’: Bopp accuses Election Commission of favoritism, expects GOP candidate to be ousted

By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen March 6, 2026 In the increasingly bitter Republican fight over who can be on the May primary ballot for the Senate District 38 seat, a nearly 20-year-old opinion from former Indiana Attorney General Steve Carter has new relevance in the attempt to get one candidate tossed from the race.

Mar 6 • 11:11 PM EST • Politics • indianacitizen.org

John Cornyn and Ken Paxton Head to Runoff in Senate Republican Primary

Bitter rivals knocked out Rep. Wesley Hunt in Tuesday’s race but failed to reach a majority of the vote.

Mar 3 • 11:06 PM EST • Politics • wsj.com

‘Bittersweet update’: With lease ending, Lehigh Valley barbecue business seeks new ‘home base’

A business offering “low and slow wood-smoked barbecue,” including ribs, brisket, chicken and pulled pork, is in search of a new permanent location.

Mar 3 • 4:49 PM EST • Business • wfmz.com

Frostbitten lizard found in Rhode Island is healing

The tegu named Frankie was discovered by a man in Providence while shoveling his driveway.

Feb 28 • 10:19 AM EST • Science • popsci.com

Sean Strickland

Former middleweight champion Sean Strickland is eyeing another shot at the 185-pound championship fresh off his UFC Houston TKO win over Anthony Hernandez. Strickland's former training partner turned bitter rival Khamzat Chimaev holds the middleweight crown but is considering moving up to the light ...

Feb 24 • 12:40 AM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

An Unwavering Belief in Science, Creativity, and Equity: The Legacy of Dr. William H. Foege

In our bitterly partisan age, where science and public health are distrusted, even denigrated, there is a better part of America.

Feb 20 • 10:10 AM EST • Science • milbank.org

Certain bitter foods may trigger a brain response similar to working out, study finds

New sensory nutrition research reveals how bitter foods like dark chocolate may sharpen memory and attention through taste-triggered brain activation.

Feb 14 • 3:15 PM EST • Health • foxnews.com

Science made simple: Book dispels five misconceptions about carbon pricing

Gradually increasing the price of fossil fuels is considered a key element of effective climate policy—and yet it remains the subject of bitter controversy. In a new book, experts from the Potsdam Institute ...

Feb 14 • 9:00 AM EST • Science • phys.org

Sen. John Cornyn battles for political life in GOP primary contest with AG Ken Paxton, U.S. Rep. Wesley Hunt

Cornyn is seeking Texas Republicans’ nomination for a fifth term, in a contest that has seen bitter and expensive attacks on all sides. A new poll shows Paxton pulling away from Cornyn, but with no candidate leading by enough to avoid a runoff.

Feb 10 • 9:55 AM EST • Politics • houstonpublicmedia.org

That dry, bitter taste may be waking up your brain

New research suggests the astringent sensation caused by flavanols could act as a direct signal to the brain, triggering effects similar to a mild workout for the nervous system. In mouse experiments, flavanol intake boosted activity, curiosity, learning, and memory—despite these compounds barely entering the bloodstream. The key appears to be sensory stimulation: the taste itself activates brain pathways linked to attention, motivation, and stress response, lighting up regions involved in arousal and memory.

Feb 7 • 7:00 AM EST • Science • sciencedaily.com

I Spent Years Working a Stressful Job in Exchange for a Life-Changing Amount of Money. Then Everything Came Crashing Down.

I'm still so bitter.

Jan 26 • 6:00 AM EST • Technology • slate.com

Minnesota businesses shut down, protesters hit the streets in bitter cold to protest ICE

Hundreds of small businesses closed their doors Friday to demonstrate against federal immigration enforcement.

Jan 23 • 4:43 PM EST • Business • startribune.com

How YouTuber MrBeast's burger venture imploded, sparked lawsuits

MrBeast Burger is at the center of a bitter legal battle between Jimmy Donaldson and his business partner, Virtual Dining Concepts.

Jan 23 • 4:35 AM EST • Business • businessinsider.com

Spain’s judiciary is caught up in a bitter political war

The government decries charges of corruption as “lawfare”

Jan 14 • 11:59 AM EST • Politics • economist.com

Golden Nuggets: A legendary yet bittersweet Victory Monday

Your daily San Francisco 49ers news for Monday, January 12th, 2026

Jan 12 • 5:00 AM EST • Sports • ninersnation.com

El Clasico 2026 live stream: Where to watch, when is it, odds, prediction

The two bitter rivals meet with a trophy on the line Sunday in Saudi Arabia

Jan 11 • 11:53 AM EST • Sports • cbssports.com

Divided GOP returns to Washington this week for key vote on health care

Congress returns this week to a slew of bitter political fights and the threat of another government shutdown at the end of the month — all while facing high stakes as President Donald Trump and GOP leaders attempt to unify their fractured party in a midterm year.

Jan 5 • 5:00 AM EST • Health • cnn.com

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Jan 1 • 5:00 PM EST • Entertainment • ew.com

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Dec 30, 2025 • 2:02 PM EST • Sports • bitterrootstar.com

Feuding physicists and the bitter battle over the swirls in ‘The Starry Night’

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Dec 27, 2025 • 5:00 AM EST • Science • washingtonpost.com

4 Takeaways From the Packers' Win Over the Bears

In a battle to the bitter cold end, the Packers held off the Bears 28-21 to take control of the NFC North. Here's what we learned.

Dec 7, 2025 • 8:19 PM EST • Sports • foxsports.com

Family feud sparks succession battle at Polish tycoon’s business empire

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Dec 5, 2025 • 12:00 AM EST • Business • ft.com