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Missouri’s Ozark National Scenic Riverways was the first national park area in the U.S. specifically created to protect a river system, so it’s no surprise that its waterways—The Current and Jacks Fork Rivers—are something special. Spring-fed, cold, and clear, they attract paddlers, swimmers, and anglers from all over. But Blue Spring, tucked just off the Current River, somehow manages to outshine even the park’s most celebrated natural wonders. Not to be confused with the smaller Blue Spring on the Jacks Fork River, this is the one long revered for centuries. Indigenous peoples called it “Spring of the Summer Sky,” and…

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A top official at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) demanded the removal of YouTube videos of himself that were published by a physician and writer who has been critical of medical misinformation and public health officials in the Trump administration, according to a YouTube notice that was seen by the Guardian.Jonathan Howard, a neurologist and psychiatrist in New York City, received an email from YouTube on Friday night, which stated that Vinay Prasad, who is the FDA’s top vaccine regulator, had demanded the removal of six videos of himself from Howard’s YouTube channel.Howard’s entire channel has now been deleted…

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We expect our doctors to be demi-gods – flawless, tireless, always right. But they are only human. Increasingly, they are stretched thin, working long hours, under immense pressure, and often with limited resources. Of course, better conditions would help, including more staff and improved systems. But even in the best-funded clinics with the most committed professionals, standards can still fall short; doctors, like the rest of us, are working with stone age minds. Despite years of training, human brains are not optimally equipped for the pace, pressure, and complexity of modern healthcare.Given that patient care is medicine’s core purpose, the…

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A baby in the UK has died from whooping cough, marking the first such death in the country this year.The infant’s mother had not been vaccinated against the highly infectious disease, which affects the lungs and airways. This death occurred as vaccination rates among children and pregnant women in the UK have fallen to their lowest levels in 15 years.Whooping cough, or pertussis, can be fatal for babies, who are at the highest risk of severe illness or death. The child, thought to be under the age of one, was taken ill and died between March and June this year,…

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Filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, whose new film Father Mother Sister Brother is being released by Mubi, addressed the company’s controversial ties to the Israeli military during today’s Venice Film Festival press conference. “I have spoken to Mubi about it,” Jarmusch said before explaining that he has “a very good relationship with [Mubi’s chief content officer] Jason Ropell who called him immediately when he lodged concerns. “My relationship with Mubi was started much before that, and they were fantastic to work with on this film. I was, of course, disappointed and quite disconcerted by this relationship.” The arthouse distributor, which had a…

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Aug 31, 2025, 08:00 AM ETESPN’s weekly PPR and IDP fantasy football rankings are an aggregate of our rankers (eight PPR, three IDP). They are Matt Bowen, Mike Clay, Tristan H. Cockcroft, Daniel Dopp, Eric Karabell, Liz Loza, Eric Moody and Field Yates. Karabell also provides his superflex rankings all season long.Rankings will be published every Tuesday and are updated throughout the week for news and emerging analysis.PPR rankings:Quarterbacks | Running backs | Wide receivers | Tight ends | Kickers | D/STIDP rankings:Top 50 DLs, LBs, DBs from Clay, Cockcroft and MoodyEric Karabell’s superflex rankings:Top 150 QBs, RBs, WRs and…

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August 31, 20253 min readHuge Cracks in the Earth Are Slicing through Cities, Swallowing Houses and Displacing Thousands of PeopleHundreds of thousands of people are at risk of losing homes, businesses—and lives—as giant “gullies” expand into cities across AfricaBy Miryam Naddaf & Nature magazine A view of a deep urban gully in Kamonia in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. More than 3,000 people are at risk of this gully expanding. Ruben Nyanguila/Anadolu via Getty ImagesGigantic trenches known as gullies are opening up in cities in Africa, swallowing up homes and businesses, sometimes in an instant, a study has found.About…

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new video loaded: Videos Contradict Israel’s Rationale for Deadly Hospital AttacktranscriptBacktranscriptVideos Contradict Israel’s Rationale for Deadly Hospital AttackThe strikes on Nasser Hospital in Gaza killed at least 20 people. A Times visual analysis calls into question what the Israeli military was initially targeting there, and why its troops attacked a second time, killing first responders and journalists.This is the moment before the Israeli military killed a group of journalists and rescue workers who were responding to a strike at a hospital in Gaza. [EXPLOSION] It was the second attack on that location in nine minutes, which was not only part…

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