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Brazil vote offers opposing politics, similar fiscal outcomes

Brazil’s October election offers voters yet another stark left-versus-right choice, but investors see less difference on the fiscal front with debt likely to ‌keep rising under either candidate.

How Dolly Parton became the one thing most Americans could agree on
by bbc.com on August 26, 2026 at 8:11 am
The cultural icon was one of the rare celebrities adored by Americans of all ages, races and political persuasions.

No, Americans haven't embraced socialism. Suffering people have given up on politics as usual.

Aside from civics and C-SPAN nerds (like me), I’m not convinced that wide swaths of the working Americans care about political ideologies.

Colorado moves up in preseason USA TODAY Sports power rankings

Colorado football moved up in USA TODAY Sports' preseason FBS rankings but remains the lowest-ranked team in the Big 12.

AI helps design new materials that work in the real world

MIT researchers added a new component to AI models that design new materials, helping ensure the material will be stable and practical for real-world use. The “CrysVCD” approach could reduce the money and time spent on screening out unusable designs.

Sabrina Carpenter pays tribute to Dolly Parton after cleaning up lyrics for their collab

Sabrina Carpenter shared a tribute to Dolly Parton after the ‘Jolene’ singer’s death at 80. The two musicians collaborated on a remix of Carpenter’s ‘Please Please Please’ after Parton requested a lyric change.
Paranormal Activity: Nightmare Entertainment

More of a Broadway scream machine than a drama, Paranormal Activity opened Tuesday in its New York premiere at the August Wilson Theatre, where the title burns in blazing letters across a midnight-blue show curtain. The screaming starts even before the performance begins because extremely loud rock music continuously blasts through the already twilit auditorium...
Dolly Parton, beloved country music icon, dies at 80 after 'brief battle with cancer'

Dolly Parton, the beloved singer, songwriter, actor and philanthropist, has died, her family said on Tuesday. She was 80 years old.

CTA Architects restores Hunterfly Road Houses at Weeksville Heritage Center

The project entailed a comprehensive external overhaul, including the restoration of each house’s facades, windows, door openings, entrance porches, siding, and two of their roofs (including said roofs’ gutters, leaders, and wood brackets).
robert smithson's entropy leads BEAR architects into the spaces architecture forgot

BEAR Architects draws on Robert Smithson’s ideas of entropy to explore changing landscapes and new ways of thinking about domestic life.
40-Story Skyscraper Proposed Near Civic Center, San Francisco

Initial permits have been filed for a potential 40-story mixed-use skyscraper at 38 8th Street in San Francisco's Mid-Market District. The high-rise...

Marquette welcomes three new engineering faculty across departments

Marquette’s Opus College of Engineering welcomes three new engineering faculty this month. The colleagues represent an incoming wave of teacher-scholars to support Marquette’s educational and research missions in the Opus College.
Berkeley researchers receive ARPA-H award

Team will receive up to $19.3M in funding to transform lifesaving medical interventions with autonomous robotic surgeries
Engineering student awarded national scholarship for building preservation work

Shayla Hines, a fifth-year architectural engineering student at Penn State in the integrated bachelor of architectural engineering and master of architectural engineering program, is not only pursuing architectural engineering but excelling in it, a fact highlighted by her recent recognition as a Thornton Tomasetti Foundation National Scholarship recipient.