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Healthcare costs have more than doubled for many farmers this year, on top of soaring expenses
When Congress allowed Affordable Care Act tax credits to lapse, healthcare premiums spiked for millions of Americans — especially self-employed farmers and ranchers. That added cost is multiplying the stress on their already stretched balance sheets.
Former gym to be renovated into wellness focused business center
Rochester Realtor and developer Jay Christenson plans to soon give the former J.E.T.S. Gymnastics building a $3 million upgrade to transform it into a sporty business center combining office spaces with pickleball and basketball courts.
Nearly 12 million bottles of Rohto eye drops over sterility concerns, FDA announces
Nearly 12 million bottles of Rohto Cooling Eye Drops face a Class II recall over lack of assurance of sterility, affecting eight product lines.
SEC, Big Ten agree to support historic 'Protect College Sports Act' after intense negotiations
The retention pool jumped to $22.5 million as Senators Ted Cruz and Maria Cantwell secured support from Big Ten and SEC before the August recess.
Warriors’ Stephen Curry ‘Absolutely’ Open to $40 Million Contract Sacrifice
The Warriors are heading into extension talks with Stephen Curry, and he could take less on his next deal--under some conditions. The post Warriors’ Stephen Curry ‘Absolutely’ Open to $40 Million Contract Sacrifice appeared first on HEAVY.
Sphere Entertainment Q2 Earnings Call Highlights
Sphere Entertainment (NYSE:SPHR) reported second-quarter revenue of $313.6 million and adjusted operating income of $50.9 million, while executives highlighted progress on venue expansion, original content development and advertising partnerships. Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jim
Southlake man gets 9 years in prison for $8M business loan scheme
A former Southlake attorney was sentenced to nine years in federal prison for defrauding small-business owners seeking multimillion-dollar loans.
Huge blankets of seaweed are smothering coastlines from the Caribbean to Mexico
Some 27 million metric tons of self-sustaining sargassum have been recorded in the Atlantic, Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico in July, according to a report released Friday by the University of South Florida’s Optical Oceanography Lab.
4 Surprising Ways AI Is Helping Ordinary Businesses Reach $1 Million Faster
Turn your expertise into leverage before your competitors do.
Want to Be a Millionaire? Don’t Start a Business. Run for Congress.
The U.S. needs legislation to stop members of Congress from getting rich over the course of decades in office, Brian Hamilton writes.
46% of Business Owners Are Invisible to AI. Over Three Years, That's Millions in Lost Revenue. Here's How to Get Seen.
The company's brand matters, but the owner's visibility is the multiplier — and nearly half of business owners have no presence in the places AI treats as credible.
ABC7 Sports Overtime with Dionne Miller: July 31, 2026
On the latest ABC7 Sports Overtime, Dionne Miller discussed football returning in a big way with Chicago Bears training camp and Big Ten college football media day.
Princeton Engineering - Federal investment of $18 million builds on three decades of advances in materials science
The Princeton Center for Complex Materials (PCCM), a research center at Princeton University dedicated to pushing the frontiers of materials science, has been selected by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for renewed investment to build on its success in research, workforce development and public outreach
Hancock County innovation center reenvisions what career ed can be
The $48 million Amplify Hancock Innovation Center opened this week to help bolster workforce development in one of the state’s fastest-growing counties.
NJ announces $83M in first round of federal rural health grants
New Jersey announced $83 million in rural health grants for 103 projects, the first round of funding in the new five-year program.
India’s SEBI imposes 14.8 million rupees penalty on Zee Entertainment
July 31 (Reuters) - India's markets regulator on Friday imposed penalties totalling 14.8 million Indian rupees ($155,168.80) on Zee Entertainment Enterprises (ZEEL), Chief Executive Punit Goenka and Founder-Chairman Emeritus Subhash Chandra for secur...
India’s SEBI imposes 14.8 million rupees penalty on Zee Entertainment
July 31 (Reuters) - India's markets regulator on Friday imposed penalties totalling 14.8 million Indian rupees ($155,168.80) on Zee Entertainment Enterprises (ZEEL), Chief Executive Punit Goenka and Founder-Chairman Emeritus Subhash Chandra for secur...
$4 Million Commitment Will Help UT Health Sciences Expand Health Hubs to Bring Preventive Care to More Communities Across Tennessee
Community and healthcare leaders, friends and partners of UT Health Sciences gathered to celebrate UnitedHealth Group’s announcement of a $4 million commitment to expand the neighborhood health hub model developed at the university from five to 13 across the state by the end of 2027.
I hated my dad's lawn care business. Now I run it as CEO.
Jennifer Lemcke resented her dad's Weed Man franchise as a teen. Now she's CEO, running a business that made $426 million last year.
Inside Tencent’s Failed Attempt to Take On ‘Grand Theft Auto’
Lightspeed’s Last Sentinel burnt through six years of development and hundreds of millions of dollars
WA ‘millionaires tax’ critics target Jamie Pedersen with mailers
Conservative donors including Brian Heywood are targeting Senate Majority Leader Jamie Pedersen with new mailers over his role in the 'millionaires tax.'
Annual Polish Festival in New York Mills
The annual Sacred Heart-St. Mary Our Lady of Czestochowa Catholic Church Polish Festival is getting ready to welcome visitors.
India's SEBI imposes penalty of 14.8 million rupees on Zee Entertainment
India's markets regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) said on Friday it imposed a penalty of 14.8 million rupees ($155,168.80) on Zee Entertainment and its chief executive and chairman emeritus.
SAMHSA Awards $73.2 Million for Mental Health Treatment and Suicide Prevention Programs
HHS announced awarded $73.2 million in grants to strengthen children’s mental health services, suicide prevention programs.
Monroe County sees millions in business funding through New York SBDC program
Monroe County businesses secured $5.8 million in funding through New York's Small Business Development Centers, boosting local job creation and business launches.
A look at new construction projects and property deals in Ascension Parish
Ascension Parish recently announced new construction projects, property transactions and upcoming business events, Ascension Business Report writes. The parish issued permits for two major projects, including a $3 million, 10,483-square-foot building at The Church International on La. 42 in Prairieville, with Living Solutions Construction as the contractor, and a $400,000, 11,840-square-foot pre-engineered mixed-use metal building […]
Investment firm acquires majority stake in Indianapolis-based ShipSigma
Pennsylvania-based Inverness Graham has acquired a majority stake in Indianapolis logistics-tech firm ShipSigma in a deal valued at an estimated $100 million-plus.
U.S. Small Business Administration offering up to millions in loans for summer storm damage
Homeowners, business owners, and nonprofit leaders who have been impacted by the summer’s severe storms and tornadoes are eligible for up to millions of dollars in loans to fix up their damaged properties.
Scientists admit: the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs wasn’t what we thought - Futura-Sciences
The Scene of the Crime: Chicxulub and the Prehistoric Apocalypse About 66 million years ago, an asteroid roughly 6 miles wide (10 kilometers!) crashed into what is now the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. The resulting impact gouged out a crater nearly 112 miles across (around 180 kilometers)—buried today under layers...
Federal investment of $18 million builds on three decades of advances in materials science
The Princeton Center for Complex Materials (PCCM), a research center at Princeton University dedicated to pushing the frontiers of materials science, has been selected by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for renewed investment to build on its success in research, workforce development and public outreach.
The competition passed on a flying toy. We built it into $100 million dollar business
In his new book, Spin Master's Ronnen Harary explains how three founders in their 20s took a toy everyone rejected and turned it into Air Hogs.
Sony Pictures Entertainment Sees Revenue Drop 13% In Latest Quarter; Big Gains In Music
Crunchyroll continues to grow paid subscriber numbers, but lower revenues from motion pictures was due to the studio only releasing one theatrical film in North America in the period. SPE’s TV unit saw Q1 revenue reach $571 million, down 32% from $841 million in the same period a year earlier.
Manipal Health's $960 million India IPO fully subscribed
Temasek-backed Manipal Health Enterprises' $960.4 million initial public offering was fully subscribed on the final day of bidding on Friday, led by institutional investors.
Sony Up Quarterly Home Entertainment Revenue 4% to $110 Million
Sony Pictures Entertainment July 31 reported $110 million in home entertainment revenue for the first quarter ended June 30, up 4% from revenue of $106 million during the previous year period. Top-selling titles in the quarter included Avatar: Fire and Ash, Hoppers, Ready of Not 2: Here I Come, Avatar: 3 Movie Collection, 28 Years … Continue reading "Sony Up Quarterly Home Entertainment Revenue 4% to $110 Million"
Makers of unreleased Nicolas Cage movie sue Netflix for $105 million after theft of film
The filmmakers behind an unreleased Nicolas Cage movie have sued streaming giant Netflix for $105 million, after a copy the company had been given to screen was stolen.
Jets Should Pursue $62.9 Million Offensive Weapon Amid Camp
The New York Jets should explore signing $62.9 million free agent offensive weapon amid training camp. The post Jets Should Pursue $62.9 Million Offensive Weapon Amid Camp appeared first on HEAVY.
College Sports Commission approves reworked NIL deals worth total of $7.5M for 18 Nebraska players
The College Sports Commission has approved $7.5 million in restructured name, image and likeness opportunities spread among 18 Nebraska football players after those deals initially were rejected in a decision upheld by an arbitrator two months ago.
Shohei Ohtani card sells for $11 million, becomes third-most-expensive sports card
The buyer explains how the negotiation for the biggest chase card in the hobby went down.
'We're committed to this region' | New hospital expands Margaret Mary Health in rural Indiana
In a time when rural hospitals often struggle to keep doors open, Margaret Mary Health celebrated the opening of a $125 million facility in Batesville Thursday.
Learning from routine health system data builds better neuroimaging AI models
Nature Medicine - We trained a three-dimensional visual foundation model directly on 5.24 million routine clinical computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) image series so that...
Exclusive | ‘The Boss Wants This Money’: Inside Trump’s Unprecedented Fundraising Operation
Meredith O’Rourke, nicknamed ‘princess of darkness,’ carries out the president’s desire to wring hundreds of millions from companies for his projects.
Will Puka Nacua be first $50 million receiver?
How long can the Rams afford to wait to pay Puka Nacua?
Cedar Crossing casino to open in mid-November, ahead of schedule; reveals first entertainment lineup
The Cedar Crossing Casino & Entertainment Center will open in mid-November, ahead of its original Dec. 31 schedule, developers announced Thursday, July 30. Developers also announced the first wave of acts booked for the venue’s event center this fall and winter. The $275 million casino, a joint project of Peninsula Pacific Entertainment (P2E) and the […]
Elon Musk pledges up to $120 million for midterm elections
At the end of June, Republican fundraising committees already had $277 million
Supercharged millet could help children's gut health without usual supplement side effects
Every day in the urban slums of Mumbai, hundreds of young children were fed toddler-appropriate porridge, soft curry or fresh-baked goods. For some, these were made of ordinary pearl millet, an ancient ...
Pictures: Orlando Health Children’s Pavilion ribbon cutting
Scenes from the ribbon cutting ceremony of the new Orlando Health Children’s Pavilion, Thursday, July 30, 2028. The 189,000 square-foot, $160 million outpatient pediatric care facility brings more than 30 specialties together under one roof…
Saints, star WR Chris Olave reportedly agree to 4-year extension, worth up to $132 million
AHA heart failure registry making a major impact after 20 years
The registry has collected more than 1.6 million patient records from more than 800 hospitals. "We can do even better," one cardiologist said. "We have to treat heart failure with everything we've got."
Influence Media Partners to Acquire Anthem Publishing for $600 Million
Influence Media Partners has set a $600 million deal to acquire Anthem Entertainment's publishing and film/TV assets; Sony Publishing ups Ari Gelaw.
💣Bombshell in LaLiga: Carlos Espí joins Real Madrid
Real Madrid have finalized the signing of Carlos Espí after paying the €25 million release clause to Levante UD. The young forward arrives at the Santiago Bernabéu to strengthen the squad for the ...
VA Employee, CEO Plead Guilty to $14 Million Health Care Kickback Scheme
The Florida-based individuals worked together to fraud patients of the VA Community Care Program (VACCP), per the Justice Department.
Alignment Healthcare Turns Profit As Insurer Gets Handle On Costs
Alignment Healthcare’s second quarter net income more than doubled to $36.6 million compared to the year ago period as costs in its Medicare Advantage plans eased.
Florida collector pulls 1-of-1 Ohtani card, then sells for $10M+
A memorabilia collector in Florida pulled a 1-of-1 Shohei Ohtani Dual Gold Logoman Autograph card and proceeded to sell it for more than $10 million, according to the buyer.
Musk Reportedly Spending Up To $120 Million Helping GOP In Midterms—After Saying He ‘Got A Little Too Involved In Politics’
Musk told The Economist last week he thinks he “got a little too involved in politics.”
Bills’ $202 Million Offensive Duo Called Out for Sloppy Play
Buffalo Bills offensive tackles Dion Dawkins and Spencer Brown landed on the list of the NFL's 10 most penalized players since 2021. The post Bills’ $202 Million Offensive Duo Called Out for Sloppy Play appeared first on HEAVY.
Sphere Entertainment’s (NYSE:SPHR) Q2 CY2026 Sales Beat Estimates, Stock Soars
Content production and distribution company Sphere Entertainment (NYSE:SPHR) reported Q2 CY2026 results exceeding the market’s revenue expectations, with sales up 11% year on year to $313.6 million. Its non-GAAP loss of $0.62 per share was 55.6% above analysts’ consensus estimates.
Senate Panel Advances Science of Reading, Dyslexia Bills with Bipartisan Support
Two bills passed out of the Senate HELP Committee Thursday, advancing the federal government’s oversight of literacy instruction and intervention.
Senate Panel Advances Science of Reading, Dyslexia Bills with Bipartisan Support
A bill that would require states to only use the science of reading in classrooms in order to qualify for a multi-million dollar funding grant passed with bipartisan support from a committee of federa...
Netflix Sued For $105 Million After Hard Drive of Unreleased Nicolas Cage Movie Was Stolen From Its Office
The lawsuit faults Netflix for losing a drive that contained a copy of World War II thriller 'Fortitude.' The company maintains it's not responsible for the loss of the movie, which it says was delive...
Nevada invests $50M in rural healthcare with workforce grants
The state of Nevada is investing over $50 million to grow and sustain the healthcare workforce in rural parts of the state.
Elon Musk Plans at Least $100 Million in Midterm Spending to Help Republicans
Elon Musk, a year after a huge blowup with President Trump and the Republican Party, is said to be planning to spend in at least eight states to help them in November.
Harvard Business School announces 2026-2027 Blavatnik Fellows
Harvard Business School (HBS) has named its 2026-27 Blavatnik Fellows. The fellowship offers HBS alumni and Harvard-affiliated postdoctoral researchers the opportunity to advance new life science technology ventures and develop their leadership talents during a 12-month fellowship year. To date, Blavatnik Fellows have founded 50 biomedical companies developing innovations including gene writing technologies, engineered cell therapies, oral biologic drug delivery platforms, AI-enabled digital health solutions, and therapeutics for cancer, neurological, and metabolic diseases. Collectively, Fellows have raised more than $800 million in private and public capital to advance their ventures.
Kamala Harris' new $8M mansion is in a neighborhood with virtually no Black residents
Kamala Harris' $8 million Malibu mansion sits in a census tract that is 94% White and 0.2% Black, despite her career fighting racial bias in housing.
Friend re-launches its AI pendant with a speaker that talks to you, for twice the price
Everyone hated it, so Friend is making it even more expensive.
Emerald Ash Borer Summer Update: Information, Action, and Community Science
Ash trees are being threatened by Emerald Ash Borer (EAB), an invasive pest which has arrived in North America. Ash trees—which make up about 3% of all trees in Maine, an estimated 511 million trees—feed and support numerous species of insects, birds, and mammals, and are vital to Maine forests and communities. Once EAB has […]
This smart ring can measure your blood sugar using sweat, no needles required
For the millions of people with type 1 diabetes (and some with type 2 and other forms of the disease) who must monitor their glucose levels, the...
Building the future, atom by atom — NSF deploys $108M for materials science at 6 research centers
The U.S. National Science Foundation is pushing materials science beyond the state-of-the-art with an investment of $108 million in six advanced research centers. The centers will explore a broad…
Upper Merion Township proposes $200 million sports stadium
Officials in Upper Merion, Montgomery County, want to develop a stadium to host professional baseball and soccer teams, according to the Philadelphia Business Journal. | KYW Newsradio
This Week in Jacksonville - Business Edition: Experts urge tighter HOA oversight after $11 million fraud
Kent Justice tackles a question a lot of HOA homeowners are asking after the “Hammocks” case in South Florida: could HOA fraud happen here — and would anyone catch it in time? Kent’s guest is Marc Rodriguez, EVP of Market Operations at RealManage, who breaks down how financial oversight can fail inside volunteer-run boards, what practical controls can stop fraud before it starts, and how technology can add real transparency for both board members and homeowners.
Inforcer raises $50M to help prepare smaller businesses for a new world of AI and security risks
London-based Inforcer just closed a $50 million Series C round led by Insight Partners.
Agassi Sports Entertainment Secures $1 Million Convertible Note From Investments AKA
Agassi Sports Entertainment entered into a $1.0 million convertible promissory note to bolster working capital. The note bears 3.96% interest, defaults to 10% upon certain events, and matures on July 27, 2027. It will automatically convert at the same price as new investors in the next equity finan…
The new "science golden age" looks suspiciously like a grift
This edition of PN is made possible by paid subscribers. Become one ⬇️ 🚀 Subscribe to PN 🚀 The Trump regime is trying to usher in a “Golden Age in Science” where scientific research is run like a Trump family business, artificial intelligence is all that matters, profit is everything, and expertise is for chumps. Or at least that’s the vision emerging from a new 123-page “Report to the President” from Michael Kratsios, the Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. In a normal administration, you could probably skip over learning about a science policy document — but this is no normal administration, and this is no normal science policy document. Instead, it’s Trump’s attempt to end the actual golden age of science that was kicked off in 1945 with the publication of '“The Endless Frontier” by Vannevar Bush. [ ](https://www.publicnotice.co/p/harmeet-dhillon-portland) [ Harmeet Dhillon demonstrates danger of posting through it ](https://www.publicnotice.co/p/harmeet-dhillon-portland) Liz Dye · Jul 29 [ Read full story ](https://www.publicnotice.co/p/harmeet-dhillon-portland) Bush, at President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s request, laid out a vision of federal support for science that centered on funding universities to do basic research, saying that as long as those institutions were “vigorous and healthy and their scientists are free to pursue the truth wherever it may lead, there will be a flow of new scientific knowledge to those who can apply it to practical problems in Government, in industry, or elsewhere.” Kratsios’s report is supposed to be the successor to Bush’s, and even apes the format, but this isn’t really a document about science policy. It’s one about ending science research as we know it in favor of shoveling cash at big tech companies. While it might be temping to wave this away as an aspirational policy document, Trump has already begun to shift billions in research funds to AI projects and has taken a hatchet to science funding across the board. He’s teed up the shift Kratsios proposes here, and since neither Congress nor the Supreme Court seem inclined to stop him from doing whatever he wants with taxpayer money, it isn’t doomering or hyperbole to say we are staring down the barrel of a world where the only “science” the government intends to support is for-profit tech and defense advancements. Science for dummies Part of how you can tell this isn’t a document about science is that you are immediately faced with an absolute wall of business-speak of the worst sort. Did you know we must “tightly couple our science and technology enterprises to ensure that groundbreaking ideas invented in the United States are rapidly prototyped, tested, manufactured, and scaled domestically”? You do now! That tone isn’t surprising, because Kratsios has no background in science or research. He has a bachelor’s in political science and spent most of his career working for Peter Thiel at Thiel Capital. After a stint in the first Trump administration as Chief Technology Officer, where he also did not do any science, Kratsios was tasked in 2020 with overseeing the Pentagon’s research budget for a brief time, a position that, as the Wall Street Journal put it, “carries a great deal of power in terms of dictating investment allocations.” He spent the Biden years at Scale AI as “head of strategy,” which you will also note is neither a science nor a research job. But Scale AI has contracts with the Department of Defense and, as the Washington Post wrote in 2023, “has been aggressively pitching itself as the company that will help the US military in its existential battle with China.” And now you have the necessary background for our new golden age, which is going to be a golden age of taking money away from scientists and universities and giving it to companies like Scale AI. A note from Aaron: Working with brilliant contributors like Lisa takes resources. If you aren’t already a paid subscriber, please become one to support our work. 👇 Subscribe In a genuinely galling move, Katsios spends a lot of time slamming universities because of “administrative burdens on researchers” and the “well-documented inefficiencies” in academia, the message being that those damn universities waste the time of amazing researchers with paperwork. Except it’s the administration that is attempting to impose inefficient, unnecessary burdens on those researchers with a proposed Office of Management and Budget rule that would require senior political appointees to approve every science grant and ensure it aligns with Trump’s personal priorities. Researchers would also have to seek prior government approval to attend conferences or publicize their research. And political appointees could terminate any grant at any time if they feel like it. [ ](https://www.publicnotice.co/p/omb-rule-science-funding) [ The murder of expertise ](https://www.publicnotice.co/p/omb-rule-science-funding) Lisa Needham · Jun 11 [ Read full story ](https://www.publicnotice.co/p/omb-rule-science-funding) But when it comes to AI, we’re going to “restore permissionless innovation.” The report proposes to give lucky ducky innovators a pile of cash up front for grants lasting five years or longer, saying “awards should be fully-funded in year one, with all resources earmarked upfront, to minimize administrative burdens and reduce pressure for researchers to generate intermediate results to secure continued funding.” Yeah, wouldn’t want to have to make the Very Special Tech Bros show results or get money parceled out year by year like the plebes at universities. The report also proposes that we should have “fast grants” with “simplified applications requiring just a few pages of writing” because that is definitely how science works, just writing a bit off the dome and getting some cash. [ ](https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-ai-action-plan-altman-llms) [ Tech elites are turning AI into ChatGPTrump ](https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-ai-action-plan-altman-llms) Paul Waldman · July 29, 2025 [ Read full story ](https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-ai-action-plan-altman-llms) Oh, and we should have prizes and challenges, where multiple teams compete. The proposed prizes include incentives like “advance procurement commitments,” which means the federal government agrees to buy whatever is being developed. There’s also “regulatory fast-tracking,” making sure all those great AI thingies don’t have to wait too long to be unleashed on a market. These aren’t incentives to do science. These are incentives to develop things with tax dollars that you can then sell to the government for more tax dollars. In the suggestion that might be the most unhinged, the most very opposite of how both government and research work, our new age will include “golden tickets.” That’s where an individual reviewer in an agency — yes, just one person — can “recommend unconventional proposals that may not pass consensus-driven review panels” because somehow this will “surface valuable ideas too divisive for committees and attract higher quality reviewers by empowering them to exercise independent scientific judgment.” Yes, that’s saying that a random person in an agency should be able to shovel money at some idea even if it can’t pass a review panel, and that the opportunity to do so will attract better employees because apparently all the best minds in science are chomping at the bit to be allowed to unilaterally fund AI research based on their personal vibes. But that isn’t at all how actual science works, and actual scientists aren’t unhappy about review panels. They work collaboratively, not siloed in some secret race to create the next AI chatbot. A 2020 study by the National Bureau of Economic Research examined whether peer review panels succeed in helping agencies predict which research ideas will best advance science. Peer review was better at finding “diamond in the rough” applicants than a single government program official. How about that. Trump always wants a taste It’s painfully clear that what Katsios is trying to do here is turn the whole of government science research and funding into the sort of “move fast and break things” paradigm that is the hallmark of big tech. That method works to line the pockets of tech executives, but it isn’t science. There’s a reason the government funds different kinds of research than private tech companies do. What Katsios either fails to understand or deliberately ignores is that the federal government is the main funder of basic research precisely because it can take a long time for it to bear fruit and is not intended to be profitable as such. “Basic” here does not mean rudimentary or simple, but rather research that is designed to advance scientific knowledge instead of achieving a specific outcome or product. Big tech companies don’t widely fund that sort of research, because it doesn’t make them money. Industry dollars account for only about 20 percent of basic research funding, while the government contributes around 60 percent. Big tech companies and startups do, however, rely on and benefit from that basic research. A 2019 study found that 35 percent of all patents obtained by venture-backed startups from 1976 to 2016 cited federally supported research. Basic research funded by the NIH contributed to every single drug the FDA approved from 2010 to 2016. [ ](https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-saudi-nuclear-deal) [ The Saudi nuclear farce and governance by whim and meme ](https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-saudi-nuclear-deal) Noah Berlatsky · Jul 27 [ Read full story ](https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-saudi-nuclear-deal) Unlike inventing the next ChatGPT, actual science is slow and iterative. Government funding of research that, on its face, would not appear to lead to any big new invention is actually what underpins those big new inventions. If the government hadn’t funded research into desert lizard venom, we wouldn’t know about semaglutide, and we wouldn’t have Ozempic. If research scientists hadn’t studied how bees optimize nectar foraging within a colony, we wouldn’t have the algorithm that assigns internet traffic across computer servers. The report assiduously ignores that a symbiotic, profitable relationship between the federal government, universities, and private companies already exists. Each federal research dollar generates about $1.50 to $3.00 in long-term economic benefits. The $36 billion the government awarded in NIH research funding in fiscal year 2025 generated $94 billion in new economic activity. Trump’s proposed new golden age is intended to strip those billions from universities, resulting in the dismantling of departments and the shuttering of labs. But Katsios has a plan for that: Universities should just become trade schools to churn out no-show STEM degrees! “Require universities and community colleges to embed practical technical training and externships into STEM curricula. Let hands-on experience and industry credentials count toward degrees.” It’s quite the feat to, on the one hand, strip schools of funding for scientific research while simultaneously demanding to control what is taught and, oh, also, colleges need to give degrees to employees at big tech companies just for being employees at big tech companies. The new golden age would also exacerbate the brain drain Trump’s policies have already caused. Nature found that in the first quarter of 2025, US scientists submitted 32 percent more job applications abroad than in 2024. A March 2025 poll by Nature of roughly 1,600 scientists found that over 1,200 said they were considering leaving the country. Europe is investing $565 million to make it a “magnet for researchers” and provide funding for scientists who relocate. The new golden age is also about embedding Trump’s xenophobia into the fabric of American science. The report complains of an “over-reliance on foreign students” that “creates a security challenge our institutions are ill-equipped to address” and that a “reliance on foreign talent sidelines American students.” This is, to put it mildly, nonsense. International students pay far higher tuition and often receive no financial aid. Their tuition dollars are what make it possible for American students to get financial aid. In the 2023-2024 school year alone, international students contributed $43.8 billion to the US economy and supported over 378,000 jobs. Those 1.1 million international students accounted for only six percent of the total number of students in higher education that year, but were such an economic engine that for every three international students, one job was created or supported. It’s impossible not to wonder whether part of Trump’s loathing for universities and their leading role in scientific research is that there is no way for him to corrupt the process and make money off it in the same way he can by giving millions and billions to Silicon Valley types who, in turn, give him millions in cash. There’s no way for his children to invest in universities that the government then gives no-bid contracts to, fattening the family’s bottom line, which is pretty much the Trump sons’ current venture capital practice. Trump and Katsios’s view of science is narrow, cramped, and wrong. We’re not in a crisis, we’re not a failed state. We’ve been a science superpower for decades, and the only thing that threatens that is Donald Trump. Tech bros are already living high off the hog in this administration. They don’t need any more of our tax dollars. Hopefully this new golden age never comes to pass. Thanks for reading Public Notice. This post is public so feel free to share it. Share We’ll be back with more tomorrow. If you appreciate today’s PN, please do your part to keep us free by signing up for a paid subscription. 🚀 Subscribe to PN 🚀 Thanks for reading, and for your support.
Cuts to state, federal assistance and rising costs rock Oregon hospitals
Oregon hospitals lost $450 million in 2025 and $1.25 billion from 2022 to 2025, according to a report released July 29.
PRESS RELEASE: Bloomington Urban Enterprise Association to Support Seven Enterprise Zone Business Participants for New “Builder’s Room” AI Business Cohort
Amplify Bloomington and the Greater Bloomington Chamber of Commerce will hold an info session on Tuesday, August 4, at 6 p.m. at The Mill classroom, 642 N. Madison St., to introduce The Builder’s Room. The Bloomington Urban Enterprise Association (BUEA) is supporting seven spots in the cohort located within the Bloomington Urban Enterprise Zone to participate in this new hands-on cohort program that helps local businesses use AI-assisted tools to solve real operational challenges.
After Hobbes vs Rousseau: Politics must move beyond human nature
Since the great debate between Hobbes and Rousseau, our political theory has been organised around a single question: is human nature essentially good or essentially corrupt? Graham Harman, the philosopher behind object-oriented ontology, argues that this is simply the wrong question to be asking. The real forces governing our collective fate - climate change, artificial intelligence, geography, and pandemics - are non-human; therefore, questions about human nature are not the central ones. Instead, Harman proposes a politics reorganised around our relationship to non-human objects and environments, in which quasi-government institutions incentivise and deter actions with the aim of extending the survival of the human race. “It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.” This has become one of the most popular phrases among twenty-first-century intellectuals. Often misattributed to Fredric Jameson, it has been warmly embraced by such influential authors as Slavoj Žižek and the tragically departed Mark Fisher, and has fueled the notion that the major problem with the political Left is that it simply needs to become more speculative and creative. Naturally, this is never a bad idea in any human pursuit. But what if the political distinction between Left, Right, and Center itself results from a failure of imagination? SUGGESTED READING Hobbes vs Rousseau: are we inherently evil? By Robin Douglass This particular division has been with us only since the summer of 1789. During the simmering prelude to the French Revolution, it referred originally to the physical position in the National Assembly of radical figures on one side and loyal monarchists on the other. These positions are linked with two entirely different camps of modern political theory. On the Left we find a series of authors ranging from the moderate (Locke) to the supercharged (Rousseau) to the truly radical (Marx), all of them contending that exploitation of the many by the few justifies revolutionary overthrow of the existing order. On the Right they are countered by the likes of Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Schmitt, a group of thinkers convinced that corrupt human nature can be tamed only by force. In the words of the Nazi supporter Schmitt: “One could test all theories of nature and state and political ideas according to their anthropology and classify these as to whether they consciously or unconsciously presuppose [humans] to be by nature evil or by nature good.” This is the division we continue to face today, even in the daily retail politics of Western democracies.___Our species has regularly proven itself capable of both the noblest gestures and the most scathing cruelties, making it hard to define us as essentially either emancipatory or brutal in our aims.___The most refreshing feature of David Graeber and David Wengrow’s 2021 book The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity was their awareness that the forced choice between Rousseau and Hobbes (as they put it) is no longer sufficient. Our species has regularly proven itself capable of both the noblest gestures and the most scathing cruelties, making it hard to define us as essentially either emancipatory or brutal in our aims. Far from being stationed “beyond good and evil,” we seem to be fully entangled with both. We are not naturally good or evil, Graeber and Wengrow contend, but naturally experimental and imaginative. They rest their case on the archaeological record, which seems to bear witness to numerous episodes of seasonally shifting governments and festivals, which vacillate in the same society (even in the same year) between the egalitarian and the dictatorial. Such praise of political experiment makes a good fit with the generally anarchist position defended by these authors. Yet it is also what I find most disappointing in their position. Although they are right that the forced choice between Hobbes and Rousseau falls short of what our new situation requires, the authors simply replace it with praise for the human being as a political tinkerer and performer. In other words, they give us just another theory of human nature, one that would not have been out of place in the sixteenth or seventeenth century. What other options might we have?___The time is ripe for a retheorization of politics on the basis of something other than human nature… We are not just alienated and limited by objects, but also empowered and unleashed by them___One fresh approach would be to treat politics within a broader framework than human nature, given that the polis does not exist in a vacuum filled exclusively with people. When Bruno Latour went to observe the baboons of Kenya with the San Diego anthropologist Shirley Strum, they jointly concluded that these primates were more socially interdependent than our own species. Each baboon is so reliant on the dynamics of the group that they find themselves locked into constant surveillance of their potentially dangerous peers. The group structure turns out to be inherently volatile. Humans, by contrast, are able to stabilize their societies to a large degree through the mediation of inanimate objects. Although one’s position in society may seem to fluctuate over time, considerable stability is produced through such items as apartment keys, wedding rings, and identification cards, all of them serving to secure us a place distinct from that of our fellows. The Italian philosopher Maurizio Ferraris has written at length about the crucial role of documents in establishing social relations, making him a hero among notaries in his country. Proper names and license plates cement our position amidst other humans, as do symbolic achievements such as graduation from a top university or distinguished wartime service with its various medals and ribbons. None of this is found among baboons, despite their closeness to us on the evolutionary tree: after all, we did share a common ancestor just 25 to 30 million years ago. SUGGESTED VIEWING The goodness paradox With Richard Wrangham The time is ripe for a retheorization of politics on the basis of something other than human nature, whether understood in the manner of the Left or of the Right. We are not just alienated and limited by objects, but also empowered and unleashed by them. But initially, it is true, we face non-human things primarily in the form of constraints. It would be difficult, perhaps impossible, to form a human civilization underwater, deep underground, atop Mount Everest, or in outer space. Human dependence on the non-social background takes on subtler form in discussions of political geography, especially unloved on the more idealistic Left. Consider the luckless position of Poland during World War II, sandwiched between Hitler on one side and Stalin on the other. By contrast, note the good fortune of the United States in not having a military peer positioned on any land border. Anglo-American geopolitics, since the writings of the American naval commander Alfred Thayer Mahan and the British geographer Sir Halford Mackinder, has been wedded to the notion that one or more liberal offshore naval powers should prevent any authoritarian “heartland” regime from gaining effective control of Eurasia. That remains the case whether the opponent is the impatient Napoleon, the swashbuckling German Kaiser, the villainous Hitler, the murderous Stalin, or the industrial juggernaut Chinese. In their current Foreign Affairs article “Heartland vs. Rimland,” Michael Beckley and Hal Brands analyze the current and coming state of the world on the basis of these same rather durable principles. In recent years a similar outlook has been embraced, in inverted form, by the Putin-loving Russian philosopher Aleksandr Dugin, an icon of the Rightist intellectual underworld. For Dugin, the Anglo-Saxons are an evil force bent on destroying the spiritually superior people of the land: much like Athens in its failed war with Sparta, or Carthage in its eventual collapse against Rome. But the shared notion on both sides is that any strategy that fails to take geography into account is likely to end up as a defeated form of excessive optimism.___When dealing with environmental degradation, then, we are doing business with forces that promise dire effects on our species as a whole.___More striking for us today than geography is the non-human object called climate, which threatens rimland and heartland equally. Even if we contend that humans are one hundred percent responsible for triggering the climate crisis, it remains non-human in the sense of being an independent force beyond our effective control. In a major work published just before his death in 2002, The Structure of Evolutionary Theory, the American paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould noted the tendency of evolutionary theorists to focus too closely on the fate of individuals in view of their successful or failed adaptation to circumstances. With climate change, however, we confront a force that goes well beyond the scope of any individual life. Whereas Richard Dawkins extended evolutionary questions downward from individuals to the sub-individual gene, Gould pushed it upward, speaking of entire species or clades as impacted by environmental change. The asteroid that struck the Yucatán 66 million years ago is only the most famous example of this sort. In the wake of that catastrophe, large animals needing abundant supplies of food were at a fatal disadvantage by contrast with the smaller birds and mammals of the planet. When dealing with environmental degradation, then, we are doing business with forces that promise dire effects on our species as a whole. The effect is to shift our attention away from individual beings towards the survival of the group.In the United States in particular, the COVID-19 pandemic sparked considerable backlash among those who asserted a nearly absolute degree of individual freedom. In California I encountered those who demanded that their businesses be allowed to reopen, that it was enough to cover their mouths but not their noses, or that they should have the right to enter any public area despite refusing vaccination. Yet public health is probably the clearest argument against libertarianism, which often merely asserts the autonomy of individuals against any claims of the commons. In normal times the individual is worth defending; under conditions that threaten the survival of part or all of our species, compulsion may be our only resort, as with perfectly reasonable blackouts and rations in wartime. To rebuild human society under the constraints of climate change will be one of the great challenges of the century to come, as will our improvised grappling with artificial intelligence. Such phenomena pose existential risks for humanity, and leave far less room for tolerance of individual brattiness. Cases are mounting of devastating wildfires caused by arson. Recently it was reported that there is even a website where one can bet on the location of coming wildfires, raising the specter of deliberate blazes set to collect on wagers. The death penalty has steadily lost support in a world where many stress the infinite value of human life. But if we focus instead on entire ecosystems, those who purposely burn the forests may begin to look worse than serial murderers.___The politics of the future may be splintered by disagreement over such topics as how to manage our environing background and how to permit or restrict the entry of new objects into the political sphere.___So far I have spoken of force, authority, and punishment: measures sure to have greater appeal to those who identify with what we know as the Right. But other implications of the post-anthropocentric world are likely to have different backers. If non-human objects are seen as structuring political space, it stands to reason that they can no longer be introduced solely by the pace of technical breakthrough. Fields ranging from cybernetics to energy will demand increased politicization once they are reconceived not just as products of individual human investment, but as renovations of collective political geography. This need not involve world government, with its inherent risk of tyranny, but may involve quasi-governmental enforcers of prestige along the lines of a less corrupt FIFA or International Olympic Committee, punishing deviant states not with violence but with less tangible incentives.Politics will never lose its historic links with conflict and faction. But rather than factions aligned by differing theories of human nature, the politics of the future may be splintered by disagreement over such topics as how to manage our environing background and how to permit or restrict the entry of new objects into the political sphere. This will prove just as incommensurable with the modern Left/Right spectrum as a globe is with a two-dimensional map.
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