A month ago philosopher Felipe De Brigard received a strange phone call. “Are you in a private place where you can have a private conversation?” the voice on the other end asked.He was on a work retreat surrounded by colleagues. “Just say you need to talk about your taxes,” the caller said. De Brigard excused himself to find a private space, panicking the whole time about his taxes—but it was actually the MacArthur Foundation on the line. De Brigard had been awarded a prestigious “genius grant,” an $800,000 fellowship with no strings attached.“I just was floored. And I had to…
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If you’ve been on the hunt for a new pair of casual sneakers — they kind you can wear with leggings, dresses, jeans and beyond — now’s the time to buy. The Adidas Women’s Handball Spezial Shoes are on sale in several colors at Dick’s Sporting Goods, but the best deal is on the pink and navy pair — they are 67 percent off, which brings the price down to just $36.Deal of the dayThe Handball Spezial is a low-profile sneaker with a suede upper and Adidas’ signature three stripes down the side. The shoe originally debuted as an indoor…
Seventeen years ago, cell biologist Donald Ingber and his colleagues at Harvard University’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering submitted a paper to the journal Science describing their model human lung. It was smaller than a USB stick and made of a clear polymer slab containing narrow channels, which were lined with the type of cells that line a lung’s air sacs and blood vessels. When air was pumped through hollow chambers beside the channels, the device rhythmically expanded and contracted—it “breathed.”This lifelike movement was a dramatic change from previous generations of lung models, which typically used static cultures of…
Southwest Florida high school football enters its seventh week with critical matchups that could reshape playoff positioning.Teams across the region are preparing for pivotal contests, with standout performers from Sarasota and Manatee counties setting the tone for competitive play.The week features a mix of rivalry games and conference battles that will test both offensive firepower and defensive schemes.AI-generated briefing — triage, not the story; every claim links out to the coverage below.Latest videoPowered by TPD VideoIn this storyTopicSouthwest FloridaTopicSarasotaTopicManatee CountyTopicHigh SchoolTopicHigh School FootballThe ConversationAdditional Coverage2 sources▶ VideoBeyond the Scoreboard is back with another Game of …Instagram5h ago↗▶ VideoWeek 7 is…
Bruce Willis has reportedly settled into a routine amid his struggle with frontotemporal dementia (FTD), a degenerative brain disease that damages the frontal and temporal lobes. The actor retired in spring 2022 following an initial aphasia diagnosis, a disorder that affects how you communicate, which was later revealed to be FTD after they received a more specific diagnosis in 2023. Now, sources close to Bruce Willis claim that he knows he is deeply loved and cared for, but his ability to communicate remains limited three years after his diagnosis was first shared publicly. Bruce Willis Maintains A Regular Routine Amid…
DUBAI: The co-pilot accused of attacking the captain of a flydubai flight to Israel had previously been barred from flying in Oman over concerns about his extremist views, multiple media outlets reported.Scrutiny into the alleged assailant — who was identified in the reports as Omani national Hamam al-Hammami — and his motives has intensified after Wednesday’s (Sep 30) drama aboard a Dubai-Tel Aviv route that officials say narrowly avoided catastrophe.During the flydubai flight, the jet’s Indian captain was assaulted by his co-pilot but he managed to open the cockpit door, allowing passengers and crew to overpower the attacker and force…
Portadown, Northern Ireland – When the summer holidays arrived, Chris Nelson worried about his mother.At night, he lay awake waiting for her to return. During the day, he rang family members to ask if she was safe. There were threats and letters through the door.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list“I was afraid to leave the house,” he told Al Jazeera.His mother, Rosemary Nelson, was a lawyer representing the Catholic residents opposing the Protestant Orange Order parade along Portadown’s Garvaghy Road in Northern Ireland in the late 1990s.Every July, as marching season approached, there was a standoff.Orangemen sought to…
The Las Vegas Raiders are 3-0 and haven’t even handed the offense to Fernando Mendoza yet. Their unexpected start could create an interesting decision before the NFL trade deadline.Raiders could become surprise buyers at NFL trade deadlineNobody expected the Raiders to be sitting at 3-0 heading into Week 4.If they keep winning, ESPN’s Dan Graziano believes Las Vegas could become a buyer before the Nov. 10 trade deadline, with wide receiver standing out as a position to watch. The interesting part isn’t simply adding another weapon for the current offense.It could be about Mendoza.”If the Raiders spring another upset or two over the…
According to Gov. Bob Ferguson’s office, more than 200,000 Washingtonians are estimated to lose their healthcare coverage on Apple Health and Medicaid by the end of next year. This amounts to 22% of Washington Medicaid enrollees, an enormous number that will touch residents in every corner of our state.The culprit is easy to find: HR 1, the destructive budget law passed by President Donald Trump and Congress last year. As The Seattle Times reported, HR 1 “cuts more than $1.3 trillion in healthcare and food assistance nationwide,” while making it increasingly difficult to both enroll and keep enrollment in Medicaid…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways See how a solo founder can hand recurring research, content and follow-up to a dot, OpenAI’s new always-on AI agent inside ChatGPT, while keeping the decisions that matter. Talk a job through with your dot on a voice call, then let it keep working after you hang up. Explore seven practical business uses for these agents, from spotting missed invoices to planning your day and reviewing marketing results. OpenAI’s dots, the always-on AI agents now built into ChatGPT, arrive just as many solo founders are hitting the limits of chat-based…