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Mac & Read Talk Bears vs. Packers!

The latest Mac & Read Show is available everywhere you get your podcasts @2ndCityGridiron!

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Oct 8 • 11:58 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Indian Premier League Stands Alone at the Top as Asia Pacific Sports Rights Growth Slows, Media Partners Asia Finds

The Indian Premier League remains the only Asia Pacific sports property priced at the top of the global market, according to new research from Media Partners Asia, which expects growth in the region’s sports rights fees to slow to 1%–2% a year through 2030, down from about 10% a year since 2021. The cricket league …

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Oct 8 • 11:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
The plague never went away. Cases are reported in Africa and the U.S. nearly every year

The plague, a rare bacterial infection known for its deadly impact in 14th-century Europe, still exists today.

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Oct 8 • 10:03 PM EDT • Health • seattletimes.com
Packers Urged to Trade for Superstar Running Back

The Green Bay Packers are going to need a running back to hold things down on offense moving forward. Meanwhile, the Philadelphia Eagles just saw their starting right tackle retire and a starting interior lineman get traded. If the Eagles are continuing to sell, the Packers should be buying Saquon Barkley, according to Wendell Ferreira […] The post Packers Urged to Trade for Superstar Running Back appeared first on HEAVY.

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Oct 8 • 9:09 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Science, ‘Much Ado About Murder’ dot ARTx3 October slate

The ARTx3 Campus, which comprises the Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas, the ARTSpace on Main and ART WORKS on Main, presents the following events in October: Next Gen STEAM Exhibition Series (Series 4: Bird In A Cage) — through Oct. 31 Can you make a bird move without touching it? Bird in a […]

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Oct 8 • 9:00 PM EDT • Science • pbcommercial.com
How MLB's Proposed Changes Would Impact the A's

MLB's latest proposal would shorten the regular season and make changes to the postseason format — but only if players agree to a salary cap first

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Oct 8 • 8:50 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Seminole Tribe Sues DraftKings for Running Illegal Sports Betting in Florida - WRUF 98.1 FM | 850 AM

The battle over sports betting rights in Florida is heading to court with the Seminole Tribe defending its exclusive rights to sports gambling in the state. The Seminole Tribe is suing DraftKings and CEO Jason Robins, claiming the company violated Florida’s 2021 Gaming Compact and is operating an illegal sports betting business. Through the 2021

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Oct 8 • 8:16 PM EDT • Sports • wruf.com
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San Diego County launches new study on long term health effects of Tijuana River pollution

The county is expanding its efforts to better understand the health impacts of the Tijuana River sewage crisis. They're now looking for qualified researchers to study whether long-term exposure is making people sick.

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Oct 8 • 7:53 PM EDT • Health • nbcsandiego.com
Bipartisan push in Texas hopes to land new U.S. Space Academy

The academy would be modeled after West Point and the Naval Academy to educate and train future leaders of the Space Force.

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Oct 8 • 7:20 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
Trump bucks and the politics of mailing checks

The checks started going out last week, nearly one million of them, and mostly to battleground states. With a return address for the U.S. Treasury and a letter enclosed signed by President Donald Trump, these one-time checks for $500 were ostensibly government rebates for Obamacare enrollees who overpaid. In the accompanying letter, however, Trump attacks his predecessor and talks about his record in office on an important issue he’s not polling well on, which makes it seem more like the most expensive political mailer in U.S. history. The average piece of direct mail costs between 30 cents and $3, according to Mail Processing Associates, a print, mail, and fulfillment company. At $500 a pop plus roughly 50 cents each to issue the paper check, the cost of Trump’s healthcare mailer sent to more than 950,000 enrollees comes in at more than $475 million. Trump’s midterm healthcare message “For years, the Biden Administration overcharged you to fund the operation of HealthCare dot gov,” Trump wrote in the letter. “That money belongs to hard-working Americans, not the Government, and now, I am returning it to you!” In the letter, Trump makes false and misleading claims about his administration’s record on healthcare costs, an issue Democrats have a 20 point advantage on over Republicans, according to a recent poll from KFF, a nonpartisan health policy think tank. Trump touts his administration’s TrumpRX program, which he claims is “delivering massive discounts.” However, new research from KFF found that of a selection of drugs available on the TrumpRX platform, just five were the lowest price, while 13 were the highest price. Trump also falsely claims in the letter that he’s fighting to lower healthcare costs. In reality, average monthly premium payment costs for enrollees rose 58% under Trump while marketplace sign-ups declined 5%, per KFF. Under Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, it’s estimated 10 million more Americans will be uninsured by 2034. You get a check and you get a check and you get a check Trump’s long promised cash outs to his fans, from his days as a casino operator and gameshow host to his presidency. During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the first Trump administration made the unprecedented move to put Trump’s name on checks that went out under the CARES Act (notably the $500 refund checks this time around don’t feature Trump’s name). Ever since, Trump’s been chasing that high. In his second term, Trump’s promised more stimulus that never arrived, like refund checks from DOGE cuts and tariffs, while he said at his party’s convention last month that he’d give out $5,000 checks to everyone if Republicans win in November. In reality, DOGE overstated its cost cutting and Trump’s government actually now spends more than former President Joe Biden’s, while Trump’s tariffs actually grew the trade deficit. His proposal for $5,000 checks would add about $1.2 trillion to the national debt. The problem is there’s no money to give. These $500 checks — plus $90 Medicare rebate checks also going out as well as $250 deposited this week in some Trump Accounts for kids courtesy Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell and his wife Susan — represent the closest Trump’s going to get to making good on his promise to deliver cash fast. And the checks seem especially targeted. Though the $500 checks went out to enrollees in one of 30 states that use the federal HealthCare dot gov marketplace, a Reuters review found 71% of the payments, or $339 million, went to enrollees in 13 states that have the most competitive elections for governor and U.S. Senate. Most Americans don’t buy it Could Trump bucks sway the election? An Economist-YouGov poll found 57% of U.S. adults doubt Trump will deliver on his promise for $5,000 checks, compared to 21% who do. “I’m waiting on my DOGE check and I’m still waiting on my tariff check,” one 2024 Trump voter who’s since turned on him told a recent focus group. “It felt like kind of trying to buy people’s votes, which honestly felt like in elementary when the class president was like, hey we’re going to take you to the water park if you vote for me. It’s like, I don’t think it works like that.” But for voters in swing states who got a check, it could still matter. One survey published in 2022 found receiving a physically personalized check in the mail during the pandemic was associated with a much greater self-reported likelihood of voting for Trump in 2020, and those gains mainly came from out partisans. The issue for Trump comes if these checks are mostly going to Obamacare enrollees whose premiums have gone up by more than just $500 since he took office and who view the money as something like a bribe before the election rather than an actual long-term solution to lowering household costs. Spending $500.50 per mailer would be absurd as a normal campaign expenditure, but since Trump’s checks and letter are a government rebate, his campaign and super PAC didn’t have to spend a dime and he got out his message regardless. If enough voters in key states are swayed by the one-time payment, it could prove to be the best $0 the Trump campaign spent. 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Oct 8 • 6:01 PM EDT • Politics • yellopolitics.com
Trump bought over $1 million in SpaceX debt days before unveiling space policy

The purchase, revealed in his latest financial disclosure, involved a firm directly affected by his administration’s actions — and led by presidential ally Elon Musk.

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Oct 8 • 5:53 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
SpaceX calls for better coordination in orbit after near-misses with Starlink

These led to conjunctions of tens of meters to hundreds of meters. Way too close to comfort."

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Oct 8 • 5:37 PM EDT • Technology • arstechnica.com
A looming Social Security debate: From the Politics Desk

Plus, Democrats’ corporate PAC dilemma.

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Oct 8 • 5:35 PM EDT • Politics • nbcnews.com
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Performing Arts Center Pointing to 2027 Opening as Local Entertainment, Business, and Educational Partner

This reporter recently met with Front Royal Performing Arts Center (FRPAC) Board of Directors President Shae Parker and Vice-President Kate Gorecki to get an overview, including photos seen below, of the renovation status of the planned, multi-faceted Performing Arts Center on the 100 block of East Main Street at its intersection with Church Street. With

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Oct 8 • 5:26 PM EDT • Entertainment • royalexaminer.com
2026-27 NBA Season Preview: Lakers, Suns, Clippers, Warriors, Kings (Pacific Division)
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Oct 8 • 5:18 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Watch: How UC Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory leads NASA missions like ESCAPADE

Perched high in the hills above campus, it's one of only two university-based centers in the U.S. capable of managing the entire life cycle of a satellite mission.

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Oct 8 • 5:14 PM EDT • Science • news.berkeley.edu
WATCH LIVE: U.S. House candidates James, Mitchell debate in Iowa in race to replace Hinson

Democratic state Rep. Lindsay James and former state Rep. Joe Mitchell, the Republican candidate, are facing off in a contest to represent Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District.

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Oct 8 • 5:09 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
SELENA GOMEZ ANNOUNCES LEON BRIDGES AND BELLA KAY AS ENTERTAINMENT FOR THE FOURTH ANNUAL RARE IMPACT FUND BENEFIT

/PRNewswire/ -- The Rare Impact Fund today announced the special musical guests set to take the stage at its fourth annual Benefit on October 14 at The...

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Oct 8 • 5:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • prnewswire.com
Guardant Health to Report Third Quarter 2026 Financial Results on November 5, 2026

PALO ALTO, Calif., October 08, 2026--Guardant Health, Inc. (Nasdaq: GH), a leading precision oncology company, today announced it will report financial results for the third quarter 2026 after market close on Thursday, November 5, 2026. Company management will webcast a corresponding conference call beginning at 1:30 p.m. Pacific Time / 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time.

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Oct 8 • 4:05 PM EDT • Health • finance.yahoo.com
Kraft Sports + Entertainment Unveils New JetBlue Loft at Gillette Stadium

15,000 square feet of premium hospitality space will become the new home of the Patriots Tailgate Party presented by Bud Light and a year-round private event destination.

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Oct 8 • 4:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • patriots.com
Kraft Sports + Entertainment Unveils New JetBlue Loft at Gillette Stadium

15,000 square feet of premium hospitality space will become the new home of the Patriots Tailgate Party presented by Bud Light and a year-round private event destination.

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Oct 8 • 4:00 PM EDT • Sports • patriots.com
ESPN: Pacers' Questionable Interior Depth 'Remains a Concern'

ESPN believes the Indiana Pacers' questionable interior depth remains a concern.

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Oct 8 • 3:37 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
The JAS-Pininfarina Honda NSX Restomod Is Finally Here

The long-awaited JAS Tensei packs a 425-hp naturally aspirated V6, a six-speed manual, and stunning Italian styling.

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Oct 8 • 3:32 PM EDT • Technology • roadandtrack.com
The Great Healthcare Cost Hike Is Here

"Here’s how the looming healthcare hike will impact insurance costs, wherever you get your coverage," write Neale Mahoney and Abigail Sanchez.

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Oct 8 • 2:59 PM EDT • Health • time.com
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Trump awards National Medals of Science, Technology to U.S. tech leaders

The awards went to SpaceX founder Elon Musk, Nvidia co-founder Jensen Huang and Google co-founder Sergey Brin, among others

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Oct 8 • 2:24 PM EDT • Science • spectrumlocalnews.com
Trump awards National Medals of Science, Technology to U.S. tech leaders

The awards went to SpaceX founder Elon Musk, Nvidia co-founder Jensen Huang and Google co-founder Sergey Brin, among others

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Oct 8 • 2:24 PM EDT • Science • spectrumlocalnews.com
IT firm’s relocation paves way for latest I-88 warehouse project

The plan spotlights two forces reshaping the suburban office market: Companies upgrading their workspace to adapt to post-pandemic usage and real estate firms redeveloping office properties into warehouses.

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Oct 8 • 2:18 PM EDT • Business • chicagobusiness.com
How does atmospheric turbulence impact tornado formation?

Supported by a new three-year, $1,099,777 grant, researchers in the Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences will investigate what triggers some storms to produce tornadoes — and when — with the goal of improving forecasts.

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Oct 8 • 2:15 PM EDT • Science • psu.edu
U.S. Lawmakers Launch Sexual Abuse Probe of Youth Sports Giant AAU

Bipartisan leadership of a powerful House committee demanded answers from the Amateur Athletic Union after a ProPublica and Washington Post investigation found that the massive youth sports organization has failed to protect kids from sexual abuse.

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Oct 8 • 2:15 PM EDT • Sports • propublica.org
NYC Health + Hospitals/Metropolitan Opens Serenity Room to Provide Comfort for Patients and Families

New York, NY – Metropolitan Hospital recently held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new Serenity Room, a private space for patients and families in the

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Oct 8 • 2:01 PM EDT • Health • nychealthandhospitals.org
James Webb telescope pinpoints the most distant 'fast radio burst' ever seen, more than doubling the previous record

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected the farthest "fast radio burst" ever seen, providing more clues about these mysterious explosions.

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Oct 8 • 2:00 PM EDT • Science • livescience.com
Rodenbaugh's co-owners continue 60-year legacy of downtown Allen business

Gary and Ronald Rodenbaugh continue running the downtown Allen home improvement business their father Donald opened in 1962.

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Oct 8 • 2:00 PM EDT • Business • communityimpact.com
Packers' Jordan Love Moves Up NFL List Despite Inconsistent Performance

The Green Bay Packers got a huge win this past weekend.

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Oct 8 • 1:29 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Watch live: Trump to honor Elon Musk, tech leaders at science summit

President Trump is set to recognize some of the biggest names in technology Thursday at the “A New Golden Age” summit in Washington. Trump will award the National Medal of Science to Tesla and Spac…

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Oct 8 • 12:55 PM EDT • Science • thehill.com
DAVE THE DIVER DLC ‘Subnautica 2 Content Pack’ announced

MINTROCKET has announced DAVE THE DIVER’s final downloadable content pack—a Subnautica 2-themed expansion in partnership with Unknown Worlds Entertainment. It will launch free of charge…

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Oct 8 • 12:45 PM EDT • Technology • gematsu.com
New early learning reading space to open at R.B. Tullis Library in New Caney

A Family Place Library featuring toys, books and workshops will open Nov. 2 at R.B. Tullis Library in New Caney.

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Oct 8 • 12:34 PM EDT • Entertainment • communityimpact.com
NASA Advances LISA Mission Contributions With New Test Telescope

NASA has taken the next step in the process of developing a new all-glass telescope for the LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) mission, a space

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Oct 8 • 11:31 AM EDT • Science • science.nasa.gov
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Delta Q3 earnings preview: Premium business expected to blunt high fuel costs; CEO Bastian, Musk battle over in-flight wifi

Delta Air Lines will report third quarter results Friday morning, with investors expecting Delta's premium business to continue to blunt issues like rising fuel costs and capacity cuts.

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Oct 8 • 11:30 AM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com
NVIDIA Commits $1B to Advance US Science Over the Next 5 Years

Commitments Will Strengthen Fields Critical for US Leadership Including Quantum Computing, Healthcare and Energy Security SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 8, 2026 — NVIDIA today announced commitments valued at $1 billion to build out the United States’ capacity for artificial intelligence research and development in fields critical for U.S. leadership, including quantum computing, healthcare and energy […]

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Oct 8 • 11:19 AM EDT • Science • hpcwire.com
Amendment 79: New Opportunity: B.8 Heliophysics Spaceflight Science Foundations

The Heliophysics Spaceflight Science Foundations (SSF) program (B.8 of ROSES) solicits investigations that enable the formulation of high-impact spaceflight

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Oct 8 • 11:14 AM EDT • Science • science.nasa.gov
Federal Employees Face 10.9% Increase in Health Premiums as Open Season Dates Announced

Federal employees will pay higher prices for health insurance in 2027. On average, federal employees enrolled in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHB) will pay 10.9 percent more toward their premiums in 2027, marking the third straight year of double-digit increases in the employe

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Oct 8 • 11:11 AM EDT • Health • fedagent.com
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NVIDIA Announces Five-Year Commitment to U.S. Science Research

NVIDIA on October 8, 2026, announced commitments valued at $1 billion to build out U.S. capacity for super intelligence research and development over the next five years, in fields the company described as critical for U...

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Oct 8 • 10:59 AM EDT • Science • unite.ai
US, Zambia sign $2.49B health financing pact after removing data and specimen-sharing terms

The U.S. and Zambia have signed a $2.49 billion health financing deal after removing clauses on specimen-sharing and patient data

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Oct 8 • 10:58 AM EDT • Health • washingtonpost.com
US, Zambia sign $2.49B health financing pact after removing data and specimen-sharing terms

The U.S. and Zambia have signed a $2.49 billion health financing deal after removing clauses on specimen-sharing and patient data.

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Oct 8 • 10:52 AM EDT • Health • seattletimes.com
US, Zambia sign $2.49B health financing pact after removing data and specimen-sharing terms

The U.S. and Zambia have signed a $2.49 billion health financing deal after removing clauses on specimen-sharing and patient data.

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Oct 8 • 10:51 AM EDT • Health • clickorlando.com
US, Zambia sign $2.49B health financing pact after removing data and specimen-sharing terms

government and Zambia signed a health financing deal on Thursday after agreeing to remove specimen-sharing and patient-data clauses that had stalled the conclusion of the pact.The Zambian government a...

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Oct 8 • 10:51 AM EDT • Health • yahoo.com
Article in Top Science Journal Endorses ‘Nature Rights’

The authors try to sell their radical proposal by comparing it to past efforts to redress injustices against humans.

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Oct 8 • 10:33 AM EDT • Science • mindmatters.ai
I’m a personal trainer. This compact dumbbell set is the best addition to my home gym

If you want to step up your strength training at home, snag this compact set at a deal

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Oct 8 • 10:15 AM EDT • Technology • theguardian.com
Pull Up to 7-Eleven in Forza Horizon 6

A storefront inspired by 7-Eleven stores in Japan, a Konbini Prop Pack, an Egg Salad Sandwich Collectible, and an exclusive 7-Eleven Toyota Supra GR livery – all available in Forza Horizon 6 today.

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Oct 8 • 10:11 AM EDT • Technology • news.xbox.com
Health Check: Doctor discusses prostate cancer risk and screening for awareness month

Dr. David Mendoza, a surgical urologist, discussed prostate cancer risk factors and screening recommendations.

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Oct 8 • 10:07 AM EDT • Health • wtap.com
Ribbon Cut On Relocated Child Behavioral Health Hub

Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center cut the ribbon Wednesday on the new home of its Child & Family Guidance Program at 150 Dixwell Ave., moving the children's behavioral health services hub into a larger space inside ConnCORP's newly built First HAVEN building.

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Oct 8 • 9:47 AM EDT • Health • newhavenindependent.org
Louisiana Activists Draw Links Between Petrochemical, Climate Harm to Maternal Health

Louisiana feminist activists came together on October 2 at the annual Black Birth Matters conference to demand that policy makers consider how toxic air pollution and other environmental damage negatively impact reproductive health.

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Oct 8 • 9:37 AM EDT • Health • hrw.org
Breaking into the Peer-Reviewed Engineering Literature

Editor’s note: We are delighted to present a new series by William Dembski, adapted from his Substack. This is the 14th post. Find the full series so far here, “My Personal History with Information.”…

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Oct 8 • 9:33 AM EDT • Science • scienceandculture.com
The Weather Company and Health Action Alliance Join Forces to Strengthen Business Preparedness Amid Weather's Increasing Impact

/PRNewswire/ -- The Weather Company, the world's leading weather provider, and the Health Action Alliance (HAA), the nation's largest employer network at the...

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Oct 8 • 9:15 AM EDT • Health • prnewswire.com
The Weather Company and Health Action Alliance Join Forces to Strengthen Business Preparedness Amid Weather's Increasing Impact

/PRNewswire/ -- The Weather Company, the world's leading weather provider, and the Health Action Alliance (HAA), the nation's largest employer network at the...

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Oct 8 • 9:15 AM EDT • Business • prnewswire.com
Scientists Can Now Watch Auroras in Broad Daylight From Space and It's As Stunning As It Sounds

SMILE can see auroras hidden by sunlight and watch entire magnetic storms develop.

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Oct 8 • 9:00 AM EDT • Science • zmescience.com
Business interruption claims soar: Allianz report

Business interruption claims severity is rising sharply, with average claim values rising by more than 30% annually over the past two years, according to a report issued Thursday by Allianz Commercial.

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Oct 8 • 8:50 AM EDT • Business • businessinsurance.com
Week 5 NFL picks against the spread, predictions for every game: Packers need a win, but rival Bears are favored
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Oct 8 • 8:48 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
6 High-Fiber Fall Foods for Better Gut Health, Recommended by a GI Doctor

In TODAY.com’s Expert Tip of the Day, a gastroenterologist shares her favorite fall produce packed with dietary fiber to support gut health.

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Oct 8 • 8:45 AM EDT • Health • today.com
Images: Science Square's latest jobs hub arrives on Westside

One of the world’s leading battery makers officially cut the ribbon this week on a $56-million, jobs-producing investment into research and development at the cusp of Georgia Tech.Spread across four stories where English Avenue meets Midtown, Duracell’s Global Innovation Center for Research and Development marks a key addition for Science Square, an 18-acre, mixed-use district expected to produce 500 homes, retail, and nearly 2 million square feet of lab and office space across multiple phases.

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Oct 8 • 8:20 AM EDT • Science • atlanta.urbanize.city
NASA releases Artemis 2 science data

Six months after its Artemis 2 mission flew around the moon, NASA has released the full science data collected from the flight.

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Oct 8 • 8:07 AM EDT • Science • spacenews.com
2026 Election Preview: Billionaires, AI, and Generational Change

A panel of top political reporters unpack the key races and issues shaping California’s 2026 election.

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Oct 8 • 8:00 AM EDT • Politics • ppic.org
Open science is compatible with research security, says Canada’s chief science advisor

Open science is “not incompatible” with research security and science leaders and policymakers should “demystify” the false dichotomy between the two, according to Mona Nemer, Canada’s chief science advisor. More than a decade ago, EU policymakers were promoting open science, open innovation and open collaboration across the world. It was a political movement that aimed to make scientific research, data, software, publications and methodologies transparent, accessible and reusable for everyone.But that rhetoric has changed over the past few years. After Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022 and Donald Trump came back to power in 2025, international partnerships have become more pragmatic. Countries are trying to implement protectionist policies and governments are increasingly worried about technology espionage. According to Nemer, science can remain open if the sector can come up with improved security protocols that would protect research data from undue manipulation by foreign actors. “If anybody can fiddle with the with the data, then [open science] is actually quite dangerous and quite useless,” she told Science|Business. Universities and research institutions are increasingly vulnerable to attempted espionage and other types of foreign interference. In September, the UK’s domestic counter-intelligence service MI5 issued a security warning against collaborations with the China General Technology Research Institute. And earlier this year, Germany’s Helmholtz Center for Information Security was criticised by federal research minister Dorothee Bär, who told a parliamentary hearing that “existing rules and systems” at the institute “were not suitable” for preventing leaks to China. According to Nemer, universities and research institutions should perhaps follow the example of the private sector, as companies have been able to safeguard their research while still publishing results. “I think that there is a level of research security hygiene that researchers and institutions need to just adopt,” she said. “You don't have to tell Sanofi or IBM how to safeguard their research, which they end up publishing anyway.”While certain areas of research will not be open for collaboration with certain partners, in other areas cooperation is necessary even with researchers based in adversarial countries. “I stress this because politics change,” she said. “Science and politics don't make for good fellows, and whether we like it or not, politics will influence certain things.”Researchers will play an important role in “protecting the integrity of science,” said Nemer. “I think that it's time that there's a commitment to a certain scientific compact, so that citizens don't think that science is actually an open door for espionage and for anti-nationalism.”New partnershipsNemer spoke with Science|Business on the margins of the Hamburg Science Summit on September 17, the day when Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney called for increased cooperation with the EU, including in science and technology. Canada is looking to strengthen ties with partners in other corners of the world, after the Trump administration threatened to put tariffs on Canadian goods and services and even openly suggested Canada could become the 51st state. In parallel, the US government has indicated it wants to retreat from international science projects, including US collaboration with Europe’s CERN particle accelerator and other big science labs.Related articlesThe stats we need to better understand R&DCanada looks to deepen research and education links with the EUCan researchers trust that AI models won’t leak their ideas?Nemer said the US is still a science “powerhouse,” but Canada and Europe will have to work closely together on global challenges. “It’s important for both [sides], but I think it's also important for the rest of the world, because the cut in funding for development, in health, in regions like Africa and other places, have dramatic effects.” The Trump administration is also planning a review of the Nelson memo, a Biden-era document that mandated that results of federally funded research would be openly available. With that idea being called into question, Nemer said it could be “very disruptive” to scientific collaborations and could jeopardise research on climate change, the Arctic and global health. “When your collaborator suddenly tells you I'm not going to share the data with you as a researcher, if this happens, I think it's very worrisome,” she said. “I'm certainly hoping that a lot of the Canadian institutions, funders, researchers, have started looking at joining forces on databases and using more European research infrastructures,” Nemer added.

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Oct 8 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencebusiness.net
Google Cloud unveils persistent Gemini Agents for long-running tasks, and they get their own Gmail, Calendar, and Drive storage

While Google supplies its own Gemini models, the agent can already use Anthropic's Claude models, with support for additional proprietary and open-weight AI models planned.

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Oct 8 • 8:00 AM EDT • Technology • venturebeat.com
Concern after Europeans endorse US science agenda

Germany’s biggest research funder has said it is “concerned” after Berlin, plus several other European countries, endorsed a controversial US-led science policy statement. On October 4, the White House announced that 16 countries, including Germany, the UK, Italy, Greece, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Poland, Japan and South Korea had backed the Kyoto Vision for a Golden Age of Science.The document, agreed on the margins of the annual Science and Technology in Society forum in Kyoto, which gathers science ministers from across the world, appears uncontroversial at first sight. It’s a one-page statement, without any concrete measures, that touches on reducing administrative burden on scientists, experimenting with new funding models and the use of “super intelligence” in science, the Trump administration’s preferred term for artificial intelligence. However, what’s controversial is that much of the language in the Kyoto Vision reflects Science: A New Golden Age, a major policy document released by the White House in July.That document attracted criticism for deriding universities as “legacy institutions” and suggesting money be diverted to new research labs. In a speech in Kyoto on October 4, Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office for Science and Technology Policy and the report’s author, said that the US was seeking to “diversify the ways that we support research to meet our best scientists where and when they do their best work.” The worry is that the Trump administration may be using genuine dysfunctions in academia as a pretext to defund and disempower universities, which US vice president JD Vance has labelled “the enemy.” Many in Europe also want more experimentation and reform of how science is organised and funded, and agree with criticisms of academia made by Science: A New Golden Age. But some also fear that if the US pushes for reform partially in bad faith, it could politicise and undermine the whole agenda. Washington is currently trying to change federal funding rules so that political appointees can block and cancel scientific grants. It has cut grants mid-project on topics related to diversity and other politically forbidden areas. And last year, it threatened to cut Harvard University’s federal funding unless it admitted a “critical mass” of new faculty and students to create campus “viewpoint diversity.” “Particularly concerned”Because of this wider US political context, the Kyoto Vision’s otherwise innocuous sounding statement that “we encourage experimentation with new institutional models for science that provide varying levels of autonomy, resources and direction” has caused consternation in Europe, particularly from some of Germany’s biggest science organisations. A spokesperson for the German Research Foundation (DFG), the country’s biggest funder, said that it would “closely monitor whether the current US administration uses the Kyoto Vision to restructure research funding to the detriment of research institutions such as universities and their autonomy.” The DFG was “particularly concerned” with the statement’s references to Science: A New Golden Age, they continued. A spokesperson for the German Rectors’ Conference, which represents the country’s universities, said that the reference to “new institutional models” raises “questions on the underlying understanding of academic freedom and autonomy.” Research funding must “guided first and foremost by scientific not political principles,” they went on. Dampen criticismEuropean endorsement of the Kyoto Vision might dampen domestic criticism of the Trump administration’s science policy, some in the US fear, by suggesting international support. “What we saw from Germany, Japan, the UK and other countries, is an impulse that the administration has exploited with our own science reform movement, a belief they can use dialogue to make things better,” said Cole Donovan, director of science policy at the campaigning group Stand Up for Science. “In practice, the administration has done the opposite.” Not a binding statementThere’s been so much concern in Germany that the country’s federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space put out a statement defending its endorsement of the Kyoto Vision, which it has posted on its website. Related articlesIs metascience being co-opted?European researchers sound the alarm that Trump rule changes will hit cooperationThe US ‘golden age’ science strategy: what Europeans need to know The ministry said that it “should be regarded as a basis for discussion and does not constitute a binding statement.” Backing the statement gives Germany the chance to raise “issues and concerns” with the US during upcoming talks on science and technology scheduled for November. “Although these intentions appear, in principle, to be worthy of support, they will be scrutinised and examined more closely as the process continues,” the statement continues. Super intelligence?A ministry spokesperson confirmed to Science|Business that Germany had broadly endorsed the Kyoto Vision.However, they said Berlin had not agreed to final changes in the statement to refer to AI as super intelligence. In September, facing protests against data centres and polling that suggests US citizens are far more concerned than excited by the technology, Trump issued an executive order that attempts to rebrand AI as super intelligence, following polling on social media.The name change is to “reflect the transformative capabilities of these technologies and the limitless opportunities they create for the American people,” the order says. EU askedThe UK and Italian science ministries did not respond to a request for comment on their endorsement of the Kyoto Vision. Although most EU countries did not endorse the statement, it’s not clear which states the US asked. The White House Office for Science and Technology Policy did not return a request for comment. A European Commission official, speaking under condition of anonymity, said that the US had approached the EU, but too late for the EU to quiz all its member states on whether Brussels should endorse the statement.

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News and notes from Iowa Startup Week

Last week’s Iowa Startup Week event featured a packed four days of keynotes, panels, and networking opportunities, all aiming to spotlight and celebrate entrepreneurship in Iowa. The Business Record attended several sessions and gathered reactions from attendees. Here are snapshots of what we heard. Iowa is an ‘incredibly rich community’ to help startups Joseph Nelson, co-founder…

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Bears-Packers Rivalry Explodes as Both Sides Trade Shots

Ben Johnson wanted to revive Bears-Packers. Mission accomplished. For years, the NFL’s oldest rivalry had been defined largely by Green […]

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Google and Unity unveil gen-AI game-making platforms, and demonstrate one of them with depressingly rubbish "dream game" Space Corridor

It was only a matter of time. Google now lets you create simple games with AI text prompts. The Unity engine will also include text prompts and co-op creation.

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'Other Mommy' is packed with jump scares. Why our brains can't resist them.

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Abbott Health & Fitness Expo for 2026 Chicago Marathon begins: Hours, packet pick-up, location

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Zambia says it is negotiating US minerals deal after 'decoupling' from health pact

Zambia is negotiating a critical minerals deal with the US government ​after "decoupling" it from a separate health ‌funding agreement it signed on Thursday, its foreign minister said.

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Zambia says it is negotiating US minerals deal after 'decoupling' from health pact

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Resilience and regeneration are reshaping Asia-Pacific real estate value

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Business English for Workplace Communication (2026): EF English Live Recognized for Practical, Speaking-Focused Learning by Better Business Advice

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What’s Boom Ball? Crazy rules, entertainment on the diamond, headed for NE Ohio

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How does one of downtown New Orleans' biggest office space holders see the market?

Lahaksy is at the helm of nearly 1.5 million square feet of downtown office space.

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Waynesboro museum exhibit celebrates 100 years of Wayne Theatre

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The Math Singularity Is Here, and Science May Be Next

OpenAI has released an extraordinary body of mathematical work produced by an unreleased frontier model: 722 manuscripts spanning 372 research families across fields including number theory, complexity theory, and mathematical physics. Each result required, on average, the equivalent of roughly three hours of ChatGPT Pro reasoning. A New Era of Discovery We may be witnessing the beginnings of a “math singularity”: a point at which machine-generated discovery accelerates beyond humanity’s ability to independently reproduce, verify, or fully absorb it. If frontier models can generate hundreds of meaningful results in the time it takes a human researcher to investigate one, the constraint will no longer be producing new mathematics. It will be our capacity to validate, interpret, and integrate it. This does not make mathematicians obsolete. It changes their role. They may increasingly serve as guides, critics, and meaning-makers. Increasingly, they will decide which questions matter, determining which results can be trusted, and explaining why they are important. Mathematical insight may become abundant, while human judgment becomes more valuable than ever. Mathematics May Be Only the Beginning Every scientific discipline could eventually experience a similar acceleration. AI systems could generate and test hypotheses, connect findings across specialized fields, and explore possibilities at a scale no human research community could match. In medicine, imagine models identifying overlooked disease mechanisms, designing drugs and clinical trials, personalizing treatments, or discovering cures in months rather than decades. In materials science, AI could help create better batteries and cleaner industrial processes. In climate science, it could accelerate advances in energy, forecasting, and carbon removal. In biology, it could uncover relationships hidden across enormous genomic and molecular datasets. The result would not simply be faster research. It could expand the frontier of what is scientifically possible. The New Bottleneck Scientific discovery, however, is not the same as scientific progress. A medical breakthrough must still survive laboratory testing, clinical trials, regulatory scrutiny, manufacturing constraints, and real-world deployment. As machine-generated ideas multiply, the bottleneck may shift from producing breakthroughs to validating them safely and translating them into practice. We may soon have more hypotheses than laboratories can test, more drugs than clinical trials can evaluate, and more mathematical results than experts can review. That imbalance will require better systems for automated verification, reproducible research, prioritization, peer review, and collaboration between AI and domain experts. The importance of OpenAI’s work is not merely the number of manuscripts produced. It offers a glimpse of a world in which intelligence can explore thousands of intellectual paths in parallel. If ideas cease to be scarce, humanity’s defining challenge will be deciding which are true, which matter, and how to turn them into progress. The math singularity is not the end of human inquiry. It is the beginning of a new kind—one in which machines expand the frontier of knowledge and humans decide where it should lead. Subscribe Share Leave a comment

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Wake Forest vs NC State Prediction: The Wolfpack Are Back

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At Anvil City Science Academy, learning goes analog

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holding space in music therapy for patients with dementia

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Breast cancer survivors join together as CHI Health St. Elizabeth shines pink for October

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Green Bay Packers add linebacker ahead of Week 5 game vs. Chicago Bears

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Arkansas Children’s Northwest completes major expansion

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Ben Johnson Makes Honest Admission on Packers QB Jordan Love

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Detroit Free Press

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Thunder Rookie Aday Mara Passed His First Real Test

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Margaret Hamilton, whose software helped land Apollo astronauts on the moon, has died

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Dana Altman's greatest achievement before he retired? Lifting Creighton out of the mud in the '90s

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SpaceX is a real company, with real numbers and real business, says Jim Cramer

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Packers tight end Kraft struggling with drops as he comes back from torn ACL

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Margaret Hamilton, Whose Software Guided the Apollo Missions, Has Died

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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.

Packers defense gets ready to take on Bears

The Green Bay Packers renew their rivalry with the Bears Sunday at Lambeau Field. By necessity, the Packers defense will have a different look.

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Oct 7 • 6:25 PM EDT • Sports • spectrumnews1.com
Space activities and a brewing science night coming to Spark Science Center

The Spark Science Center is celebrating World Space Week with two hands-on programs, and a week later it will launch a new adult-only series with a look at the science of brewing.

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Oct 7 • 5:44 PM EDT • Science • yahoo.com