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What's going on, South Dakota?
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Burglars hit Eugene home linked to Asian American business owners in second break-in since
HEADLINE: A resident asleep at home during recent Asian-American business owners targeted burglaryWEB SCRIPT:EUGENE, Ore. —The Eugene Police Department has con
49ers full injury updates a mixed bag of news for 2nd Week 9 practice
The San Francisco 49ers had some good news to balance out the bad on their second Week 9 injury report.
Tribal chairs tell RFK Jr. they need federal resources to improve their own healthcare
Native American communities experience some of the highest disparities in healthcare in the country. Tribal chairs are hoping to work with U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who visited North Dakota Thursday, to remedy that.
Eugene police report second burglary within a week targeting homes of Asian business owners
Eugene police said Thursday, Nov. 5, they’re investigating two home burglaries targeting business owners who are Asian.
Armstrong welcomes HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to North Dakota, stresses importance of soil health | North Dakota Office of the Governor
Gov. Kelly Armstrong participated in a roundtable discussion with U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., stressing the importance of soil health to agriculture and the future of Americans’ health and well-being.
High-Speed Insect Brain Provides Evidence of Engineering Design
An important element that enables the enhanced processing involves microsaccades. In humans, these are small involuntary eye movements.
Aidan Chiles Remains Listed on Injury Report Ahead of Iowa
Aidan Chiles remains questionable on Northwestern's second injury report ahead of Iowa. With kickoff approaching, the Wildcats face uncertainty at quarterback as they prepare for a crucial Big Ten matchup
Vandalia Health Mon Medical Center among Newsweek’s America’s Best-in-State Hospitals 2027
Vandalia Health Mon Medical Center has been named to Newsweek’s America’s Best-in-State Hospitals 2027 list, its fourth consecutive year of recognition.
Seaport Entertainment Group Inc (SEG) (Q3 2026) Earnings Call Highlights: Second Straight ...
Seaport Entertainment Group Inc (SEG) posted a 113% year-over-year improvement in operating EBITDA to $362,000, though record Las Vegas heat and severe New York weather weighed on Q3 results.
Holiday shoppers beware: fake online stores are already open for business
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — With Black Friday and Cyber Monday right around the corner, online shoppers need to take heed. Savi Security, the consumer tech company that created the free scam checker Sca…
HHS Secretary RFK Jr. visits Bismarck, discusses transformation for rural health care in North Dakota
Statewide leaders gathered with the U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary to discuss health care in North Dakota.
Trump lawyer urges appeals court to toss hush-money case
NEW YORK — Judges hearing an appeal of Donald Trump’s criminal conviction for concealing a hush-money payment to a porn star focused on whether prosecutors properly applied campaign-finance law to
Meet the unexpected winners of this year’s midterms
While Democratic victories in marquee national contests took the spotlight this week, with the party securing at least 250 seats in the House and winning back the Senate, several candidates in down-ballot races across the country clinched what appear to be surprising wins.
How Purdue sports became important part of search landing on President Jay Silveria
Purdue University announced Jay Silveria as next president, and he comes from the SEC while tasked with athletics responsibilities he'll have to wrap up.
Lionsgate Ups Quarterly Home Entertainment Movie, TV Revenue 39%
Lionsgate Nov. 5 reported home entertainment revenue from motion pictures and TV shows of $241.1 million in the second quarter, ended Sept. 30. That was up 39% from revenue of $173.3 million in the previous-year period, according to a regulatory filing. Revenue from movies released across digital and packaged media tallied $183.8 million, up more … Continue reading "Lionsgate Ups Quarterly Home Entertainment Movie, TV Revenue 39%"
Hegseth not under consideration to be appointed to Senate
Neither President Trump nor Sen. Marsha Blackburn, the governor elect, have made moves to get the defense secretary a Senate seat in Tennessee.
No practice for A.J. Brown again
Patriots WR A.J. Brown unable to practice for second straight day because of injuries
AP Computer Science: New Challenges, New Opportunities, and New Faces
AP Computer Science A has quickly become one of Latin’s fastest-growing classes, enrolling 82 students over just two years and filling three sections this year. Despite Latin offering few AP classes, AP Computer Science A was added to the Upper School curriculum at the beginning of the 2025-26 school year. Along with the course, Latin...
Kansas' rate of children without health insurance tops national average for second year
Kansas' rate of uninsured children surpasses the U.S. average for the second consecutive year with 8.5% of Kansans under age 18 without access to coverage.
PENN Posts Q3 Profit as Snowden Calls Election Night Good for Sector
PENN Entertainment reported Q3 revenue of $1.84 billion and net income of $32.6 million, while its CEO called Tuesday's elections good for the sector.
Ask Your Business a Question, Get a Real Answer: VirtuMCP Brings Secure AI to Miami Beach Companies
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... VirtuWorks, a Coral Gables-based provider of managed IT services and cybersecurity, is bringing VirtuMCP to Miami Beach businesses. The secure gateway connects AI assistants such as Claude and Microsoft Copilot to the systems companies already run on, so owners can get answers from their own data without giving up […]
The Secret to Your Quarterback’s Arm Isn’t Just Luck or Athleticism. It’s Physics, Expert Explains.
A physicist breaks down the mechanisms of a perfect pass. You’ll never watch a game the same way.
Second year funding delayed for Rural Health Transformation Program
According to a report from KFF Health News, state leaders received an email on Oct. 30 alerting them to the second-year funding announcement delay.
Everforth awarded potential $200M+ federal contract
Everforth ECS has secured a contract extension potentially worth more than $200 million to help the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
North Carolina: Investigation Into Football Program Cost Nearly $1 Million
Internal records reveal a massive financial toll following misconduct claims and high-profile resignations, leaving Bill Belichick fighting for bowl eligibility to secure his future in Chapel Hill.
OpenAI says its new cybersecurity model is better at not hacking other companies
GPT-6 Cyber is a big step up from OpenAI’s last cybersecurity model.
Jack Dorsey's Block makes second round of job cuts this year
Block said in an email to staff that it's "reducing the number of roles, changing some responsibilities, and shifting some reporting lines."
K-Movie Entertainment to launch sales at AFM on ‘Secret Of My Father’
Casting also announced on the third feature from award winning Korean director Jéro Yun.
Trump stands by Hegseth after election losses, but other Republicans want him out
The U.S. defense secretary is facing intense political backlash over the costly and unpopular war with Iran, which the president acknowledged was partly to blame for the drubbing that the GOP took in ...
How do octopuses remember? Scientists uncover a surprising secret
How does an octopus remember what it has learned? A new study led by Dr. Ana Luiza Turchetti-Maia, Dr. Tal Shomrat and professor Binyamin (Benny) Hochner—researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem ...
Medicus Pharma proposes $135M SkinJect spinout through SPAC business combination
Medicus Pharma CEO Dr Raza Bokhari joined Steve Darling from Proactive to discuss a proposed transaction involving the company's wholly owned subsidiary, SkinJect, which has entered into a non-binding letter of intent with an undisclosed special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) for a potential business combination. The proposed transaction contemplates a US$135 million pre-money enterprise valuation for SkinJect, alongside a concurrent equity financing intended to support the company's SKNJCT-005 clinical study in patients with Gorlin syndrome and preparations for a potential New Drug Application (NDA). Bokhari told Proactive that the proposed deal is designed to establish SkinJect as a separately listed company focused on advancing its dermatology and rare-disease development program. Under the proposed structure, the SPAC would acquire 100% of SkinJect in exchange for newly issued common shares in the combined company. Medicus Pharma intends to retain majority economic and voting ownership, allowing existing Medicus shareholders to maintain significant participation in SkinJect's potential future value. The separation would also provide SkinJect with a dedicated financing platform to fund its clinical development activities, particularly the SKNJCT-005 study targeting Gorlin syndrome, a rare genetic condition associated with the development of multiple basal cell carcinomas. The concurrent financing is expected to support the clinical program and the work required to prepare and potentially submit a New Drug Application, subject to successful development and regulatory progress. Final ownership percentages have not yet been determined. These will depend on negotiations surrounding the definitive transaction agreement and the combined company's capitalization, including retained SPAC cash, public and sponsor shares, warrants and other potentially dilutive securities. Medicus said the proposed transaction remains subject to the completion of definitive documentation and other customary conditions. The planned spinout represents a strategic step in Medicus Pharma's efforts to give SkinJect a dedicated corporate and financial structure, while allowing the parent company to retain majority participation as the dermatology program advances towards its next clinical and regulatory milestones. #proactiveinvestors #nasdaq #mdcx #tsxv #mdcx #pharma #SkinJect #Biotechnology #Healthcare #RareDisease #GorlinSyndrome #Dermatology #SPAC #ClinicalTrials #DrugDevelopment #NDA #Biopharmaceuticals
Wyoming poised to welcome new major political party based on Bextel’s vote totals
by Maggie Mullen, WyoFile Wyoming is poised to recognize a new major party after Rebecca Bextel, a Constitution Party candidate for governor, secured
Curt Cignetti rips ESPN for favoring SEC over Big Ten
Curt Cignetti thinks two-loss Big Ten teams need more respect.
NIST Releases Cybersecurity Guide for Solo Business Owners
What: On November 2, 2026, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released a document titled, Small Business Cybersecurity: Non-Employer Firms (NIST Cybersecurity White Paper 50). The guide provides practical cybersecurity steps fo
Bigger bacon and ditching breakfast: Wendy’s reveals turnaround plan as sales slump continues
Wendy’s reported its seventh consecutive quarter of declining sales, prompting the company to reveal a turnaround plan while rejecting a massive takeover offer.
Firms struggle to insure against climate risks: Barclays
Nearly nine in 10 U.K. businesses in sectors including agriculture, hospitality, manufacturing, housing and transport have struggled to secure climate risk insurance…
2 Takeaways From Grizzlies’ 107-103 Loss to Pacers
Memphis committed 19 turnovers and shot 12-of-44 from 3-point range in a 107-103 loss to Indiana, its second straight defeat.
Concert alert! Farmer Music Center adds rock band to 2027 lineup
Cincinnati's newest music venue is wasting no time filling its schedule, as the second artist to perform at Farmer Music Center has been announced.
Cristiano Ronaldo's science-backed health longevity secrets
Cristiano Ronaldo has a reputation as a health obsessive who follows a strict regimen, but his lifestyle is more balanced than you might think.
Cristiano Ronaldo's science-backed health longevity secrets
Cristiano Ronaldo has a reputation as a health obsessive who follows a strict regimen, but his lifestyle is more balanced than you might think.
Florida Gators to make QB change ahead of Oklahoma showdown
The Florida Gators will be making a quarterback change ahead of their SEC showdown against the Oklahoma Sooners.
WR Pat Bryant Returns From IR
Second-year wideout appears set to miss just four games with ankle injury as the Denver Broncos prepare to face the Carolina Panthers on Sunday.
'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' Skyrockets Sony Pictures Entertainment's Quarterly Profit, Revenue
Spider-Man: Brand New Day, the top-grossing theatrical release in 2026, helped Sony Pictures Entertainment hit a fiscal grandslam in the second quarter ended Sept. 30. The fourth installment starring Tom Holland in the title role along with Zendaya as his female interest, skyrocketed Sony’s theatrical revenue almost 1,020% to $1.276 billion from $114 million in … Continue reading "‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Skyrockets Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Quarterly Profit, Revenue"
Citadel Securities hired someone to grow their cryptocurrency business, of all things
Citadel wants new business. Digital business.
Sanford Fargo named top heart program
For the second consecutive year, Sanford Health Fargo was named to Becker’s 100 Hospitals and Health Systems with Great Heart Programs list.
GE HealthCare Technologies' Taha Kass-Hout to Resign as Chief Science and Technology Officer
GE HealthCare Technologies' Chief Science and Technology Officer Taha Kass-Hout will resign effective December 31, 2026.Original SEC Filing: GE HealthCare Technologies Inc. [ GEHC ] - 8-K - Nov. 05, 2026This is an AI-powered summary. It may contain inaccuracies. Consider verifying important informa…
Last session tonight to weigh in on Heights Business District plan
Current business district proposal would allow buildings up to six stories and zero parking as incentives for developers The latest proposal for the Heights Business District offers “public benefit incentives,” which are conditional bonuses for developers. Developers can build up to six stories if they offer a public plaza, a public amenity, or first-and-second floor active commercial use. Developers will have no requirement to build parking spaces if they offer 60% ground-floor active commercial use, or if they preserve a historical facade. Those incentives and other parts of the plans will be discussed tonight, Nov. 5, when the Heights Neighborhood
TV channel, kickoff times announced for Georgia football vs. Missouri
The No. 2 Georgia Bulldogs (7-1, 5-1 SEC) are slated to host the No. 19 Missouri Tigers (6-2, 3-2 SEC) in Sanford Stadium
Mineral separation facility coming to Eastman Business Park secures $54M; Aims to strengthen American supply chains
A rare earth mineral separation facility that's coming to Eastman Business Park has secured about $54.2 million.
You can still grab GTA 6's Ultimate Edition for $20 if you want the full experience
Upgrade and secure the full breadth of the GTA VI experience 👇
Sotera Health (SHC) Could Be 28% Below Fair Value As Earnings Beat Lands
Sotera Health (SHC) is back in focus after reporting third quarter 2026 results that topped Wall Street forecasts, reaffirming its full year revenue and earnings outlook, and securing a Moody's credit rating upgrade. Recent trading tells a mixed story, with Sotera Health’s share price up 2.25% on the day of the earnings beat yet down about 12% over the past week and 11% over the last month. At the same time, the 1 year total shareholder return of 3.67% and 3 year total shareholder return of...
How do octopuses remember? Scientists uncover a surprising secret
How do octopuses remember what they learn? A new study reveals a surprising “molecular switch” in the octopus brain that helps preserve memories by keeping connections between nerve cells strengthened over time, without the need to produce new proteins. The discovery sheds new light on one of nature’s greatest mysteries: how creatures with vastly different brains evolved remarkably sophisticated learning and memory abilities.
In an AI World, Sport’s Competitive Advantage May Be Its Oldest One
Today’s guest column is from professors John Cairney and Rick Burton. We know with relative certainty, professional and big collegiate sport organizations are spending heavily on artificial intelligence. Player performance, ticket pricing, fan engagement—GMs and ADs alike believe that there is a new “secret sauce” available, and the evidence is pretty compelling. AI offers the …
Shedeur Sanders Has Something to Say Amid Browns QB Report
Shedeur Sanders may get another shot to start for the Cleveland Browns on Sunday. Deshaun Watson is in concussion protocol, leaving the door open for the second-year quarterback to be named the QB1 against the New Orleans Saints. He had something to say about the development and shared it with the media. Sanders entered the […] The post Shedeur Sanders Has Something to Say Amid Browns QB Report appeared first on Gridiron Heroics.
Unfinished business for Cantero as Pearson chases a Chilean double
Last Sunday in San Pedro de la Paz, five men came off the bike together and only 44 seconds separated them at the line. Seven days later, almost all of them…
Kamala Harris urges Dems to 'be ruthless' with power after midterms, demands Trump accountability
Former Vice President Kamala Harris, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and former President Bill Clinton offered their thoughts on the heels of the midterm elections.
The Bulletin welcomes 2026 editorial fellows
The Bulletin proudly welcomes its largest editorial fellow class yet. Fellows work closely with Bulletin editors to produce cutting-edge journalism focused on nuclear risk, climate change, disruptive technologies, or biosecurity. As part of a Bulletin initiative focused on uplifting the next generation of experts, our Editorial Fellows Program is possible because of readers and supporters alike.
Just how hard is the rest of the Steelers’ schedule?
The second half of Pittsburgh’s schedule might not be as hard as you think.
Sony Group: Record Q2 performance lifted FY26 guidance, with entertainment growth offset by cost and market risks
Q2 sales, operating income and net income rose strongly, while FY26 guidance was raised across major measures. Entertainment platforms and hit content supported growth, with memory costs, market softness and cybersecurity among the risks.Based on Sony Group Corporation [6758] Q2 2027 Audio Transcri…
Triumphal Arch Set to Win Final Approval Despite Court Challenges
President Trump’s 250-foot arch project is expected to win approval on Thursday from a federal planning board. Court action and Democrats’ upcoming control of Congress could halt the plans.
Trump Administration Delays Awards Slated To Improve Rural America’s Health
State leaders who scrambled to win and begin spending their first-year shares of Republicans’ five-year, $50 billion fund are in the dark about how much they’ll receive in the Rural Health Transformation Program’s second year after a federal office notified states that more time is needed to make allocations.
Four evening games in winter
The next seven matchdays in the Bundesliga have been scheduled. Eintracht play four times at 18:30, while the second half of the season begins on a Sunday.The Bundesliga has confirmed the schedule for...
Video: Democratic Health Professionals Win Seats in Congress
Some Democratic doctors and nurses ran and won congressional seats by centering their campaigns on opposing Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
When papers become currency: a Chinese debate about trust in science
Last Saturday, 31 October, I went to the University of Hong Kong’s Beijing Centre for its Talent Forum. It was the fourth stop in the series this year, following events in Shanghai’s Zhangjiang, Shenzhen’s Qianhai, and on HKU’s main campus. The programme covered a remarkable distance in one afternoon. HKU’s Xiao-Jing Wang discussed computational neuroscience, intelligence, and the prefrontal cortex—before even delivering his inaugural public lecture to students back in Hong Kong. His colleague Bing Zhang took us from the Big Bang to artificial intelligence. Tsinghua’s Xue Lan asked how AI might reshape the institutional infrastructure underpinning higher education. There were lively panels featuring industry leaders from JD.com, Xiaomi, Haier—and Kaiser Y Kuo on the closing panel discussing innovation and international connections. I cannot pretend to have followed every detail of the brain models or the astrophysics. The talk that stayed with me was closer to something we have covered before: Zhou Zhonghe 周忠和 on papers, evaluation, and scientific trust. Zhou is a palaeontologist, an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and an international member of the US National Academy of Sciences. He is also editor-in-chief of The Intellectual (知识分子), China’s leading science commentary platform. His subject was uncomfortable enough for a room full of successful academics: what happens when the system for recognising good science starts rewarding something else? Part of my interest came from our sister newsletter, The East is Read, which covered the controversy around “Geng Tongxue” in May. A PhD dropout from Beihang University, Geng has publicly challenged papers by prominent researchers through detailed online allegations of manipulated images and fabricated data. At Tongji University, an investigation into a challenged Nature paper found academic misconduct, and the dean of its life sciences school was removed. The affair brought doubts about academic integrity well beyond laboratories and university committees. How could someone outside the established hierarchy spot problems in papers that had passed through prestigious journals and institutions? And what, exactly, had all that prestige guaranteed? Zhou approached these questions through two essays published in July by The Intellectual: one by Wang Xiaodong, director of the National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, and a response by Wang Liming, of Shanghai’s Shangsi Institute of Natural Sciences. Both began with the controversy over Geng. Their arguments deserve a wider audience, so I want to put parts of them alongside what Zhou said on Saturday. Wang Xiaodong’s starting point is evolution. A research system selects for the behaviour it rewards. Grants, jobs, journals, talent programmes, and prizes collectively determine which scientists prosper and which practices get passed down from advisors to students. “Whatever the system rewards is what it will evolve to produce,” he writes, citing the ancient Chinese saying: The King of Chu loved slender waists, and many in the palace starved to death. That is a more demanding diagnosis than saying there are dishonest people in science. Punishing a fraudster does not change the selective environment that made a particular kind of research profitable. His account also gives scientific success an awkward role in the story. As Zhou put it on Saturday, science became a victim of its own success. Once research became central to industry, national power, and economic growth, universities and laboratories expanded, and public money followed. That created an administrative need for rapid decisions: who should get the next grant, the next laboratory, the next appointment? The difficulty is that the true value of a discovery may take years or decades of testing and building to become clear. Resource allocation cannot wait that long. Publication counts, journal prestige, impact factors, and citations therefore become convenient ways to make an instant judgement. “The real problem is not that these indicators have no value,” Wang Xiaodong writes, “but that they are trying to answer a question that only time can answer.” Telling administrators simply to stop counting papers will never be enough. They still have budgets to distribute and appointments to make. Something has to replace the shortcut. Zhou described the consequences inside publishing. Papers acquire ever more requirements: a complete story, polished presentation, extensive datasets, and accessibility to readers beyond the immediate field. Individually, those demands sound reasonable. Together, he warned, they produce formulaic “eight-legged” papers 八股文 and rigid reviewing, while genuinely original or non-consensus work struggles to get past journal editors—some of whom wield immense gatekeeping power despite having limited laboratory experience themselves. Meanwhile, the demands for sprawling, “complete” narratives have fuelled a wider replication crisis. Wang Xiaodong uses a mahjong metaphor to describe the result: put the complex papers published by the exact same lab over several years side by side, and they often look like “Thirteen Orphans” (十三不靠)—every tile completely unrelated to the next, and none of them reproducible by outsiders. Zhou also spoke frankly as an editor who has trouble finding reviewers. Everyone wants someone else to review their work; qualified senior researchers have little time to return the favour. The labour is anonymous, unpaid, and brings almost no institutional recognition, so it increasingly gets passed down to postdocs and graduate students. And while anonymity protects reviewers from rank and personal favours, hyper-specialisation means an author’s most qualified reviewer is often a direct competitor, shielded from accountability. The protection and the problem coexist. Wang Liming takes the argument a step further. The decisive change, in his essay, is the instant conversion of academic honour into material resources. Once a paper can be cashed in for funding, a job, students, commercial investment, or even a company valuation, scientists are alienated from their work: they must keep minting this “research currency” to keep their teams alive. He is careful not to romanticise the past. The old world of gentleman scientists—financially independent figures like Boyle and Darwin who needed nothing from external funders—was also a closed club that excluded people without inherited wealth, women, and much of humanity outside the West. Professional science allowed ordinary people, himself included, to become researchers. Nobody should want to undo that. The problem, in his account, is an exchange system that becomes too uniform and too difficult to correct. His most pointed Chinese example is the “hat” (帽子): the prestigious talent designation that brings continuing access to money, laboratory space, students, and institutional influence. “If papers are the circulating currency of the research system, then a ‘hat’ is a bond that pays interest over the long term,” he writes. A paper at least requires another round of peer review. A title in the Chinese context can lock in a judgement made years ago and turn it into permanent status rent, regardless of whether its holder is still doing good science. Here, official institutions hire, organise, and evaluate scientists. Unlike honours awarded by autonomous academic communities in the West, a Chinese “hat” blends non-scientist administrative power with state authority. Once granted, it turns a past judgement into permanent status rent that is nearly impossible to revoke—because taking a hat off would imply that official authority erred in putting it on. Both Wangs see China as experiencing, at compressed speed, pressures present across global science. Research expansion, rising investment, publication growth, and elaborate evaluation metrics arrived in China within two or three decades rather than two or three centuries. Zhou agreed with that international framing—noting that recent US White House science policy documents and the new president of the US National Academy of Sciences, a fellow palaeontologist who recently visited Zhou’s institute in Beijing, have raised strikingly similar warnings about consensus-bound peer review, short-term project grants, and the replication crisis. Still, Zhou emphasised that China’s traditional hierarchy, personal networks (guanxi), and the ethos that “a good scholar becomes an official” (学而优则仕) amplify those pressures at home. So what would change things? Here Zhou’s tone differed from the call for a revolution in scientific trust in Wang Xiaodong’s essay. As an evolutionary biologist, Zhou favoured patchwork repair (修修补补). Living systems survive through accumulated adjustments; dramatic mutations are usually fatal. Science cannot return to a small, slow-moving pastoral era, especially after the successive accelerations of professionalisation after the Second World War, the internet, and now artificial intelligence. But it can alter the local environment in which researchers work. He pointed to domestic experiments designed to support unconventional research and diversify funding, including Tencent’s New Cornerstone Investigator Program, the Xplorer Prize, and the Future Science Prize. He also mentioned participating in reviews for “major non-consensus projects” under the National Natural Science Foundation of China. One guiding principle he recalled was wonderfully direct: “Failure is allowed; corruption is not” (允许失败，不允许腐败). That distinction would mean quite a lot if taken seriously. An honest attempt that fails should not have to disguise itself as a success to survive an assessment. Wang Liming’s essay adds a sharp caveat to the optimism about new domestic funders. Multiple organisations do not automatically produce multiple ways of judging science. If the same pool of senior domestic scientists makes the decisions through the same two-round review procedures, it is still “fake diversity.” He argues for three distinct kinds of money: broad baseline funding governed by fair procedures; patient funding for questions that take ten years; and non-consensus funding based on individual taste, deliberately empowering a few genuine experts to make biased, contrarian bets on eccentric ideas that would inevitably be averaged out by a committee. Replacing one monopoly with another achieves little; a healthy ecosystem needs variance. Zhou’s proposals for publishing were similarly concrete: strip papers of their resource-allocation burden and return them to recording discoveries and establishing priority; separate dissemination from evaluation, as eLife and Peer Community In do; adopt more modular “micro-publications” and real-name endorsements; recognize the labour of editors and reviewers; and give replication work proper credit rather than treating it as an unpublishable dead end. AI makes every part of this debate more urgent—and Zhou wove it throughout his talk. In his own preparation, he used AI to survey the declining influence of academic monographs, noting how tools are already changing how scholars gather information. More fundamentally, he placed AI as the latest great acceleration in scientific history: just as the internet sped up the pace of research and tightened external resource pressures, AI is compressing the cycle again. In the essays Zhou cited, AI cuts both ways. Wang Xiaodong expects large language models to erase much of the English-writing disadvantage long faced by Chinese scientists, further swelling the flood of papers coming out of Chinese labs. Wang Liming sees AI accelerating both ends of the trust crisis: it lowers the cost of paper mills and fabricated images just as quickly as it lowers the cost of automated image forensics, data auditing, and code reproduction. “Whoever builds the verification layer wins,” Wang Liming writes. His proposed alternative to the static, packaged “story paper” is a continuously versioned “unit of discovery” containing a falsifiable claim, raw data, analysis code, experimental parameters, and an ongoing log of independent checks—where negative results and failed replications are recorded rather than buried. Zhou ended his keynote by bringing AI back to the question of scientific honour and credit. Citing a recent Intellectual discussion on “What AI Means for Mathematics” featuring Fields Medalist Deng Yu 邓煜—at a moment when AI is already batch-solving mathematical conjectures, as HKU Vice-President Lin Chen noted in his opening remarks—Zhou agreed that human researchers must remain the principal agents: AI is a tool that frees scientists from tedious calculation to think about deeper, messier real-world problems. Yet that partnership creates a thorny new evaluation problem. When a breakthrough is made with AI, what is the human contribution and what is the machine’s? And since AI models distil centuries of accumulated human scholarship, is it right that the credit and value flow so heavily to the private AI companies building the tools? The old struggle over how to assign scientific honour is acquiring a whole new layer. What I took away was a serious discussion of how science can remain trustworthy as its scale, incentives, and tools change. These were scientists with real standing inside China’s system questioning how that standing is produced, and proposing changes that would affect their own institutions and peers. That made the afternoon at HKU’s Beijing Centre worthwhile. At the close, Wang Feng, Director of Communications and Public Affairs at HKU, said the value of the forum series—which heads to Hangzhou in December and cities like Chengdu early next year—would lie in the real cooperation it helped bring about. The university has plenty to celebrate: this week it topped the QS Asia rankings for a second consecutive year, alongside its 11th-place position in the QS World University Rankings 2027. For me, bringing this debate to an audience beyond the people who review papers and allocate grants was a useful contribution. 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World Market opens Spokane Valley location
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Dissecting Colorado’s Democratic sweep
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Full Fight: Amanda Nunes decimates Ronda Rousey
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Alabama and LSU are both 6-2, and while this massive showdown isn't an SEC and CFP elimination game, yeah, it is. Here's the CFN preview and prediction.
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UConn football needs strong finish to reach bowl game
STORRS, Conn. (WTNH) — The UConn football program hasn’t been to a bowl game in three consecutive seasons since 2007-09. If the Huskies reach a bowl game this season, it would be a great momentum builder for coach Jason Candle. But after last Saturday’s loss to Air Force, the Huskies may have an uphill climb. […]
Nets take control in second half against Hornets en route to 114-104 win
Michael Porter Jr. had 26 points and 10 rebounds and Julius Randle added 22 points as the Brooklyn Nets won their second game of the season, 114-104, over the Charlotte Hornets on Wednesday night.
Chicago Bulls' Skid Hits Six as Jalen Brunson Makes History
The Chicago Bulls suffered their sixth consecutive loss Wednesday as Jalen Brunson erupted for 33 points in the New York Knicks' 135-105 victory at Madison Square Garden.
Downtown Mesa businesses thrive as city keeps vacancy rate below 10 percent, leaders say
Businesses are filling up fast in downtown Mesa, according to city leaders who say their downtown sector has more than 500 individual properties. All but 6.9% of them are filled.
Stars release statement after Plano voters reject Proposition A taxes
The team says it will continue working with the city to secure funding for its $1 billion venue.
Moore talks Maryland budget, redistricting, Democrats’ future after reelection
Gov. Wes Moore is heading into a second term promising to make Maryland more affordable, but a projected $2.5 billion budget shortfall will test how he delivers on that pledge.
Valkyries’ Kiah Stokes wears shirt mocking ESPN to championship parade
The Golden State Valkyries were surprising WNBA champions, hanging a banner this fall in just their second year of existence. As you might expect, Golden State’s players kept receipts of the doubt they faced along the way. And at the team’s championship celebration on Wednesday, veteran center Kiah Stokes literally wore one of those receipts.…
Giants Announce Major Abdul Carter Injury Update Before Eagles Game
On Sunday, the 4-2-1 New York Giants will take on the 2-6 Philadelphia Eagles at Lincoln Financial Field.Heading into Sunday’s game, the Philadelphia Eagles have dropped six consecutive games and will be without quarterback Jalen Hurts for the remainder of the season. Tanner McKee has started the previous three games for the Eagles; however, the […] The post Giants Announce Major Abdul Carter Injury Update Before Eagles Game appeared first on HEAVY.
'Mormon Wives' star Jen Affleck files for divorce from husband Zac
"Secret Lives of Mormon Wives" star Jennifer Affleck is divorcing husband Zac Affleck after seven years of marriage.
Paul F. Tompkins, Skye Townsend, and Aparna Nancherla share the secrets of Dropout's 'MP3'
Plus, learn how Jeremy Culhane's kisses bit was born.
Car crashes into business in downtown Bryan
A crash left a vehicle up against a building Wednesday near the intersection of William J. Bryan Parkway and Main Street in Bryan
1 killed, suspect dead in shooting at Florida business complex: Authorities
The suspect was fatally shot by a security guard during an exchange of gunfire inside a cafeteria in the Tampa-area Citibank office complex, according to authorities.
1 killed, suspect dead in shooting at Florida business complex: Authorities
The suspect was fatally shot by a security guard during an exchange of gunfire inside a cafeteria in the Tampa-area Citibank office complex, according to authorities.
‘Secret Lives of Mormon Wives’ star Jen Affleck files for divorce amid pregnancy
‘The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives’ star Jen Affleck has filed for divorce from Zac Affleck, her husband of seven years, months after announcing her pregnancy with their fourth child.
These Salt Lake City blocks inspired Smith Entertainment Group's downtown plan
Smith Entertainment Group says it wants to plug ideas from a few Salt Lake City sections into its design near the Delta Center, per new project documents.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to visit North Dakota, participate in agriculture, health discussions
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will visit North Dakota Thursday to participate in three roundtable discussions with state and tribal leaders.
‘Bachelor’ star Melissa Rycroft seeks help after DWI arrest, ambulance crash
NEW YORK — “The Bachelor” alum Melissa Rycroft is opening up about her recent struggles with mental health following her second DWI arrest in just over a year. “First, please
Porto overpower Napoli despite McTominay strike
Porto gain their first victory of this season's Champions League with three second-half goals to overcome Napoli.
TikToker Turns to DNA Testing for Answers About Her Health and Discovers a Secret Her Family Had Kept for Decades
A TikToker who goes by BlondeSanity, and posts under the handle @kozmoqueen, says she had a heart attack at just 24 years old. Given the complexity of her medical issues, she turned to her parents for...