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How football, smartphones and mobile money drive youth sports betting in Africa
We should not assume that young people see betting simply as entertainment.
Doctor talks about physical, mental health challenges vets face after service
We speak with a doctor about the important things that military veterans should know about their mental and physical health after they leave the service.
Rhode Island voters approve higher education bond, providing funds for new URI integrated health building
KINGSTON, R.I. – Nov. 5, 2026 – Rhode Island voters overwhelmingly approved Question 1 on Election Day, Nov. 3, authorizing a $275 million bond investment in the state’s public colleges and universities, including $165 million for a new integrated health building at the University of Rhode Island’s Kingston Campus. The bond approval represents a significant […]
From Yonkers to Florida: How Casino Entertainment Changes Across Destinations
In Yonkers, a casino outing can begin with a simple arrangement: meet for dinner, spend an evening together and head home. Put the same idea into a Florida vacation, and the planning changes. Now there may be a hotel reservation, a concert and a beach day to fit around it. The word “casino” covers both […]
Why Youth Are Turning to AI for Mental Health Advice
Hannah Simon — a child and adolescent psychiatrist and the medical director of the Brandt Behavioral Health Treatment Center and Retreat at Rutgers, which provides evidence-based behavioral health care and outpatient services to New Jersey youth and young adults — discusses the increased use of chatbots for mental health advice and best practices for using it as an educational tool.
Luka Doncic’s 3rd Straight 40-Point Game Sparks Lakers Against Kings to Continue 3-Game Winning Streak
Despite getting off to a slow start by his own standards Wednesday night against the Sacramento Kings, the NBA’s leading scorer this season, Luka Doncic, would come alive and lead his team to victory. Facing the injury-ridden and dysfunctional Kings, Doncic and the Los Angeles Lakers would shake off a lackluster shooting performance in the …
TwinkleTwinkleStar announces strategic collaboration with U.K.-based Ventola Projects to transform party room entertainment
TwinkleTwinkleStar announces a strategic collaboration with Ventola Projects Ltd., a United Kingdom-based specialist in LED lighting, immersive technology, audiovisual solutions, and entertainment …
For the Rams, one player leaves as another enters?
Jaylen Watson is out, Myles Garrett is supposed to be on the mend and more NFL related news on a Thursday
State Launches New Rural Health Transformation Program Dashboard
NC Awarded $100M for Year 2, Funding to Come in Phases
I lost my period for two decades — I wish I had known what I know now
A former patient shares her struggle with hypothalamic amenorrhea and advocates for better education on the menstrual cycle as a vital sign.
HOMETOWN ENTERTAINMENT: Jim Messina to perform first Roanoke concert tonight at Jefferson Center
Jim Messina performs at the Jefferson Center Thursday at 7:30 p.m. for his first show in the city.
How Jared and Genevieve Padalecki brought ‘Guarding Stars’ to the screen (exclusive)
Genevieve Padalecki tells Entertainment Weekly that she recruited her husband, Jared Padalecki, to star as Jack Stapleton in the new Netflix movie ‘Guarding Stars,’ based on Katherine Center’s book ‘The Bodyguard.’
Why is DEAG Deutsche Entertainment stock surging today?
Why is DEAG Deutsche Entertainment stock surging today?
Bear Hollow Zoo Mourns the Loss of Beloved Black Bear Yonah
Bear Hollow Zoo is mourning the loss of Yonah (16), an American black bear who was humanely euthanized on the evening of November 1 following complications from severe pneumonia. Yonah was surrounded
Lucky Strike Entertainment (NYSE:LUCK) Q1 FY2027 Results: Inline Revenue, Wider Loss, and Debt-Reduction Focus
Lucky Strike Q1 FY2027 revenue inline, loss wider than expected; guidance reaffirmed as it targets debt reduction and same-store sales recovery.
B.Riley raises AMC Entertainment stock price target on strong results
B.Riley raises AMC Entertainment stock price target on strong results
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
PENN Entertainment (PENN) Q3 Earnings and Revenues Top Estimates
PENN Entertainment (PENN) delivered earnings and revenue surprises of +52.38% and +0.33%, respectively, for the quarter ended September 2026. Do the numbers hold clues to what lies ahead for the stock?
MBody AI Doubles Deployment at Major Northeast Casino & Entertainment Destination
Nasdaq-listed physical AI company grows it’s support at Mohegan Sun’s Environmental Services (EVS) team after successful pilot program MBody AI Doubles Deployment at Mohegan Sun An extended three-year agreement follows a successful paid pilot and a larger multi-year commitment. Highlights Deployment Doubled: Mohegan Sun has doubled its MBody AI deployment, with expanded operations already underway.Three-Year Agreement: The commercial agreement covers both the previously announced original instal
South Heartland District Health Department wins Parks and Recreation Department’s 2026 scarecrow competition
HASTINGS - The South Heartland District Health Department won the Parks and Recreation Department's 2026 Hallo...
PENN Entertainment (PENN) Reports Q3 Earnings: What Key Metrics Have to Say
While the top- and bottom-line numbers for PENN Entertainment (PENN) give a sense of how the business performed in the quarter ended September 2026, it could be worth looking at how some of its key metrics compare to Wall Street estimates and year-ago values.
In brief: 'A Proud Family Wizmas' trailer and more
Zoo wee mama, indeed. There's a brand-new trailer for the upcoming Disney+ animated holiday comedy film Diary of a Wimpy Kid Christmas: The Getaway. Readers of Jeff Kinney’s bestselling book series can see the Heffley family come to life in this festive film that premieres on Dec. 4 ...Speaking of trailers for holiday specials, fans of The Proud Family can watch a brand-new look at the upcoming stop-motion holiday special A Proud Family Wizmas. It arrives on Disney+ Nov. 14. The special is filled with songs and follows Penny Proud as she accidentally destroys Christmas and sets out to make things right. Kyla Pratt returns to voice Penny while guest stars Anderson .Paak, Lil Rel Howery, JB Smoove and Gabrielle Union come along for the ride ... TNCMS.AdManager.render({region: 'fixed-big-ad-top-asset', slot: 1, fold: "above"}); Camila Mendes is back in character as Ana Santos. The actress once again stars as the character in the new sequel film Upgraded 2. Prime Video has announced cameras are up and rolling on the movie in Venice, Italy ...Copyright © 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved. Thank you for reading kmaland.comAt KMA, we attempt to be accurate in our reporting. If you see a typo or mistake in a story, please contact us by emailing kmaradio@kmaland.com.
Sphere Entertainment’s (NYSE:SPHR) Q3 CY2026 sales top estimates
Content production and distribution company Sphere Entertainment NYSE:SPHRreported calendar Q3 2026 (fiscal Q1 2027) results beating Wall Street’s revenue expectations, with revenue up 4.5% year on year to $274.3 million. Its GAAP loss of $4.84 per share was significantly below analysts’ consensus…
Sphere Entertainment’s (NYSE:SPHR) Q3 CY2026 sales top estimates
Sphere Entertainment’s (NYSE:SPHR) Q3 CY2026 sales top estimates
What CVS Health (CVS) Said on Its Q3 Earnings Call
CVS Health (NYSE:CVS) plans to separate its retail pharmacy operations from its insurance and pharmacy services businesses, creating two publicly traded companies in a transaction expected to close in the first half of 2028. The announcement came as the company reported third-quarter 2026 revenue o
Arts and entertainment events happening November 5th-8th across the Mid-Ohio Valley
Jeff Dewitt joins Daybreak to discuss what’s happening November 5th-8th across the Mid-Ohio Valley!
‘A common interest amongst everybody’: Yampa Valley Entertainment brings performances, community together across Northwest Colorado
From local festivals to major entertainment venues, Craig’s Nick LaGorga is helping communities connect through live music while envisioning a growing role for entertainment in Moffat County’s future. For LaGorga, the magic of live entertainment...
AI Lost Big in the Midterms. What Does That Mean for Your Business?
The message of the “AI midterms” is that technology policy has become an electoral issue, not just a regulatory one. In the U.S., the longstanding embrace of “permissionless innovation” may be fading. If that’s the case, technology companies and their customers face a rapidly changing political environment. What should business leaders do? Many will continue to follow individual bills, lawsuits, elections, and agency proceedings as separate events. This is an essential element of any business’s strategy. But standing alone, it misses the larger picture of how these activities affect each other. Leaders should put together a team to follow six battleground issues: liability for tech-related harms, privacy and data access, competition, infrastructure, public subsidies and other government resources, and preemption and overlapping authority.
Entertainers have an obligation to be political
When we turn on the news, we expect to see discourse from politicians and elected officials about new government decisions and issues. But with such a politically active climate in the U.S, debate …
Six-Story Medical Office Building Tops Out At Broward Health North In Deerfield Beach
Florida YIMBY says "Yes In My Backyard" to positive new development in Florida.
Hyrox has partnered with World Triathlon. Could it really become an Olympic sport?
A partnership gives momentum to the fitness race joining the roster for the Summer Games. But not everyone is convinced
Fairview Health Services Partners with hellocare.ai to Expand Enterprise Virtual Care and Bring Connected Care to the NICU
Minneapolis, MN and Clearwater, FL — Fairview Health Services and hellocare.ai today announced an enterprise partnership to expand virtual care capabilities across Fairview’s inpat | Minneapolis, MN and Clearwater, FL — Fairview Health Services and hellocare.ai today announced an enterprise partnership to expand virtual care capabilities across Fairview’s inpatient environments, including a dedicated deployment designed to connect NICU patients, families, and care teams.
Ask the doctors: Sharing a meal is good for your health
Dear Doctors: I read about a study that says eating meals with other people is good for your mental health. Considering takeout, convenience foods and how much time we spend apart these days, this seems like important information. Do you know what study that was and how it was done?
Single-payer health care system proponents were thrown a big bone this election
Sen. Bernie Sanders is likely to lead the Senate’s health committee next year, which could grant him a chance to fundamentally alter how the FDA interacts with the companies it regulates. Read more:
Lucky Strike Entertainment Q1 revenue beats estimates; suspends dividend to cut debt
OverviewOutlookResult DriversCompany press release:Key DetailsAnalyst CoverageReuters Recommended ReadsFor questions concerning the data in this report, contact Estimates.Support@lseg.com. For any other questions or feedback, contact reuters.support@thomsonreuters.com.(This story was created using…
Heichal HaTorah Talmidim Experiment in the Science Lab
This past week, Heichal HaTorah’s ninth-grade biology students learned how to use indicators to test the pH levels of common household solutions. Students observed a wide range of colors as natural plant-based pigments (anthocyanins) in red cabbage juice reacted with acids and bases in everyday substances. Students made predictions and determined whether a substance was […]
Mass Effect petition has enough signatures for the Canadian Government to potentially save BioWare
There may be some good news for Mass Effect and Dragon Age fans hoping for some sort of future for BioWare that isn't death.
One museum visit a month could improve health, new report finds
Art Fund calls for greater investment in museums as research suggests regular visits could reduce depression, dementia risk and stress
Williamsburg debates proposed business improvement district
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First time buying health insurance during open enrollment? Here’s what to know
Not many 22-year-olds share DJ Mikunda’s enthusiasm for health insurance coverage. “You know what sounds like a good Friday night? It’s looking at he
Lucky Strike Entertainment Reports First Quarter Results for Fiscal Year 2027
RICHMOND, Va., November 05, 2026--Lucky Strike Entertainment today provided financial results for the first quarter of the 2027 fiscal year, which ended on September 27, 2026.
PENN Entertainment: Q3 Earnings Snapshot
(AP) — PENN Entertainment, Inc. (PENN) on Thursday reported third-quarter profit of $33 million.
PENN Entertainment earnings beat by $0.15, revenue was in line with estimates
PENN Entertainment earnings beat by $0.15, revenue was in line with estimates
Teens worldwide aren't getting enough exercise -- especially girls
A new study looks at the recommended amount of daily exercise for adolescents — and how few are getting it.
IGN Entertainment promotes Alex Simmons to lead editorial across its portfolio, with Wesley Yin-Poole overseeing IGN
Company veteran will oversee the firm’s range of editorial brands, including GamesIndustry.biz, while Yin-Poole runs day-to-day editorial on IGN.com
Memorial Health to close one of its Springfield facilities
"We are working with each of the residents and their families to create transition plans, including placements at other facilities if appropriate," said the statement.
Report: Japan's Tashima to stand against Infantino for FIFA presidency
Kozo Tashima, the honorary president of the Japanese Football Association (JFA), will challenge Gianni Infantino for the FIFA presidency, according to reports. Infantino’s position appeared under threat after a dropped plan for private investment in the World Cup caused consternation, but he has rallied and now looks to be in a strong position to win a fourth term at FIFA Congress in Morocco next year.
Cristiano Ronaldo announces international retirement
Portuguese football legend Cristiano Ronaldo announced on Thursday he was retiring from international football at the age of 41.- 'Will stay with me forever' - The Portuguese Football Federation said it would organise a "fitting tribute" to Ronaldo's "immense career".
PENN Entertainment (NASDAQ:PENN) reports Q3 2026 in line with expectations
Casino, sports betting and entertainment operator PENN Entertainment NASDAQ:PENNmet Wall Street’s revenue expectations in Q3 2026, with revenue up 7.1% year on year to $1.84 billion. Its non-GAAP profit of $0.32 per share was significantly above analysts’ consensus estimates.For more on PENN Entert…
PENN Entertainment (NASDAQ:PENN) reports Q3 2026 in line with expectations
Casino, sports betting and entertainment operator PENN Entertainment (NASDAQ:PENN) met Wall Street’s revenue expectations in Q3 2026, with revenue up 7.1% year on year to $1.84 billion. Its non-GAAP profit of $0.32 per share was significantly above analysts’ consensus estimates.
🏀 Y! Sports AM: Bye Millennials, Hello Gen Z
The NBA’s youth movement has transformed its generational makeup.
The Daily Mauling: 11/5/26
Kansas Jayhawks News The Topeka Capitol-Journal has Leroy Blyden and Tre White’s reactions to the Fordham win Andy Kotelnick talked to the press and gave his preview of this weekend’s UCF game ICYMI, the women’s hoops team won their season opener over Omaha this week Links! Jacoby Brissett is going to try and save Baltimore’s […]
The oddsmakers like the Red Sox. Why don’t we?
Note: this column assumes there will be a 2027 MLB season. Please disregard in advance should it not come to pass. Thank you. I was more than a little surprised at how negative the Over the Monster staff was in our recent assessment of 2026. “No, it was not a success. Of course it wasn’t,” […]
Here’s how to watch Ohio State women’s basketball vs Central Michigan for free
The Ohio State women are back in action tonight at The Schott. Here’s everything you need to know to stream the game vs. Central Michigan.
Michael Fedele comments on Patrick Mahomes' business mentality
During his interview with @EdEastonJr, Throne SPORT COFFEE Founder & CEO Michael Fedele commented on Patrick Mahomes' business mentality
Sylvester Stallone reveals why his 20-year feud with Arnold Schwarzenegger finally ended: ‘Enough of this’
The ‘80s action movie icons eventually joined forces for “The Expendables.”
MLB lockout tracker: What CBA talks mean for Phillies baseball
From a proposed salary cap to free agency and playoff changes, follow every development before the current CBA expires Dec. 1.
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.
Cristiano Ronaldo confirms retirement from international soccer
After years of spending time and elevating the Portuguese national team, Cristiano Ronaldo is done with international soccer . Ronaldo was a part of the Portuguese team for almost 23 years and represented the squad in 6 FIFA World Cups (2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, 2022, and 2026). Amid his ongoing suspension and miscommunication with manager Jorge […] The post Cristiano Ronaldo confirms retirement from international soccer appeared first on ClutchPoints.
Accel Entertainment: The Chicago Green Light
Accel Entertainment remains a Buy with a $15–$16 price target, driven by strong earnings and the Chicago VGT rollout greenlight. Read more on ACEL stock here.
Discounted panto tickets open doors for families
Westlands Entertainment Venue has released £3 tickets for its production of Aladdin.
Taking action: One Health planning in Malawi and Ghana - WOAH - World Organisation for Animal Health
One Health planning in Malawi and Ghana is turning shared priorities into costed plans for human, animal and environmental health.
Award-winning Women in Natural Sciences program spins off from Academy of Natural Sciences and Drexel
The program led to a 100% high school graduation rate and more than 96% college attendance for Philadelphia students.
Mamdani administration touts accomplishments of NYC's small business department
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…
ID@Xbox Deep Discounts Sale now live with over 800 indie game deals
The ID@Xbox Deep Discounts Sale is now up and running on the Microsoft Store, offering a bevy of big discounts across a bunch of indie games.
Vail Resorts facing a proxy fight over its board, business strategy
Oasis Management, which owns 10% of the resort operator’s stock, is calling for a strategic shift, saying “Vail Resorts has gone downhill”.
Six Flags Entertainment earnings missed by $5.57, revenue was in line with estimates
Six Flags Entertainment earnings missed by $5.57, revenue was in line with estimates
Entertainment venue InteractX now open in Cedar Park
The business features 11 challenge rooms and over 45 games that combine physical activity, technology, teamwork and friendly competition, a company representative said in a news release.
Save the Date! State of the Science Forum: Community Water Fluoridation (CWF)
The State of the Science Forum: Community Water Fluoridation (CWF) will feature a discussion among experts in the field, residents and Board of Health members on the current evidence and scientific li
Save the Date! State of the Science Forum: Community Water Fluoridation (CWF)
The State of the Science Forum: Community Water Fluoridation (CWF) will feature a discussion among experts in the field, residents and Board of Health members on the current evidence and scientific li
Palm Beach County 'Best of Season' arts and culture preview
From Broadway hits to classical concerts, here are the top arts and entertainment events coming to Palm Beach.
Woods Hole research ship heads to Lake Superior to hunt neutrinos
The R/V Neil Armstrong is making its first Great Lakes voyage, carrying Cape Cod science into fresh water for an experiment probing the universe.
Tennessee judge extends block on immigration checks in HIV/AIDS program
A Nashville judge continued to block the Tennessee Department of Health from demanding proof of citizenship from HIV-positive individuals.
Economic Development Director Announces Quarterly “Rochester Business Exchange” to Connect Business Owners with Local Government, Other Resources
Rochester Economic Development Director Michael Scala is pleased to announce “Rochester Business Exchange,” an informal discussion connecting municipal officials and staff, developers, and business owners and managers to share information, exchange ideas, discuss local issues, and strengthen relationships within Rochester’s business community. The purpose of the meetings is to share updates related to municipal government,...
Vida Y Salud-Health Systems & Hampton Regional Medical Center Settle Data Breach Lawsuits
Settlements have been agreed to resolve class action data breach lawsuits against Vida Y Salud-Health Systems & Hampton Regional Medical Center. Vida Settlements have been agreed to resolve class action data breach lawsuits against Vida Y Salud-Health Systems & Hampton Regional Medical Center.
Opinion: Dartmouth Health urges investment in youth mental health in New Hampshire
Youth mental health outcomes improved in New Hampshire since 2021, though levels remain higher than a decade ago despite new service investments.
Patrick’s Politics: Enjoy this moment of hope
There is good news in the United States today. After two years of one-party Republican rule, the people fought back.
Cristiano Ronaldo announces retirement from Portugal duty
Cristiano Ronaldo’s career representing Portugal has officially come to an end. The 40-year-old star took to social media to post a video confirming his retirement from the national team.Portugal’...
🚨 BREAKING: Cristiano Ronaldo announces international retirement
Cristiano Ronaldo has announced his retirement from international football, bringing an end to his record-breaking career with Portugal.The 41-year-old confirmed the news in a video posted on Instagra...
Flutter Entertainment (FLUT) Could Be 35% Undervalued Following Brazil Impairment ಸುದ್ದಿ
Flutter Entertainment (NYSE:FLUT) put fresh numbers on the table with its third quarter 2026 update, pairing higher reported sales with a wider net loss and a sizeable impairment tied to its Brazil operations. The share price reaction has been sharp. Flutter Entertainment closed at US$81.79, with the 1 day share price return declining 2.33% after the earnings and impairment news, even though the 7 day and 30 day share price returns rose 4.15% and 8.00% respectively. That short burst of buying...
MD-based home exterior improvement business adds 5 locations
A Maryland-based exterior home improvement company is expanding its national footprint with five new locations.
Peoria brunch business looks to add alcohol to its menu
A Peoria brunch business has taken the first step toward adding alcohol to its menu.
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…
Scores, updates for Delaware high school girls volleyball playoffs
Check back with Delaware Online/The News Journal each day throughout the state tournaments for updated schedules, scores, photos and highlight videos.
New estrogen research may change how scientists think about women’s aging brains
Scientists are assessing the potential benefits of hormone therapy for older women’s cognition.
New estrogen research may change how scientists think about women’s aging brains
Scientists are assessing the potential benefits of hormone therapy for older women’s cognition.
Commentary: Why aren’t employers hiring right now?
The economy is growing strongly, so why is nobody hiring? The latest data show growth hit 3.4% in the third quarter of this year, faster than expected. Yet during that
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Playhouse at McConnellstown has launched its “Raise the Roof” Capital Campaign to raise $30,000 for repairs to the theater’s roof and gutter system. Donations of any amount are being accepted
GOP’s defense of its gerrymandering: The rout could have been even worse
Democrats dismissed Republicans’ arguments as a contorted attempt to justify an expensive and controversial remapping offensive that did not accomplish what it set out to do.
China proves a cut above with world-first precision laser experiment in space
Researchers use a device mounted on the outside the Tiangong space station to make millimetre-scale cuts.
JioStar's Alok Jain On Unscripted TV & The End Of 'Koffee With Karan'
JioStar entertainment boss Alok Jain talks reality TV competition, building Indian formats and the end of 'Koffee With Karan'.
What the midterms could mean for the future of health AI
The midterms highlighted the negative sentiment around AI across the U.S. How will those attitudes trickle down to legislating AI use in health care?
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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