Take a sip every time Kamala giggles, begins an answer with “Look,” or refers to her running mate as “Coach Walz.”

Take a sip every time Trump calls her Comrade Kamala, calls him Tampon Tim, or discusses his crowd sizes.

Finish your drink if Kamala tries out a new accent, asks “Do you think you fell out of a coconut tree?,” or tells the Philly audience she ate a cheesesteak at both Pat’s & Geno’s for prep.

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A group of scientists at Cornell University and Italy’s Florence University created an interface that measured electrical signals from a mushroom and converted those signals into movements in a robot

Because mushrooms are naturally sensitive to light, the mushroom – a king trumpet, which is edible – wheeled around or pumped its legs depending on the degree and type of light to which it was exposed

“The potential for future robots could be to sense soil chemistry in row crops and decide when to add more fertilizer,” one of the authors said

The technique – converting electrical signals into robotic movement – has been applied in numerous recent studies

In one, an artificial worm brain was installed in a Lego robot; in another, it was used to improve human prosthetics

93-year-old Rupert Murdoch and four of his six kids control News Corp – a $15B conglomerate that owns nearly 40 media entities, including the Wall Street Journal – through a family trust. The trust owns 14% of News Corp and controls 41% of its voting shares

Activist investor Starboard Value sent a proposal to News Corp shareholders that would end the Murdoch family’s control. Starboard’s CEO added, “There are no reasonable arguments to extend… de facto control to the inheritors of a founder”

Three of the Murdoch children have sued their father, Rupert, who recently assigned his son Lachlan – whose conservative politics align with his father’s – majority control over the trust upon his death

Starboard’s CEO, who would need nearly all non-Murdoch shareholders to agree to his proposal, argues that the schism between the Murdoch children “could be paralyzing to [News Corp’s] strategic direction”

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McFarland co-founded the Fyre Festival, a “luxury” music festival on a Bahamian island promising top entertainment and amenities, scheduled for spring 2017. Mismanagement and deception, however, led organizers to cancel it once attendees arrived and found dire conditions

In 2018, he pleaded guilty to wire fraud related to the festival and served four years in prison

On Monday, McFarland shared details about Fyre Festival II with NBC News. The event – reportedly priced at $1,400 to $1.1M per ticket – will take place in April 2025 on a private island off the coast of Mexico

McFarland co-founded the festival alongside Ja Rule to promote his music talent booking app. Celebrities like Kendall Jenner, Bella Hadid, and Emily Ratajkowski also promoted it

Attendees arrived to find disaster relief tents for sleeping, cheese sandwiches in styrofoam boxes, and no music. The fiasco became the subject of several documentaries

When asked how he plans to attract artists to Fyre Festival II after 2017’s failure, McFarland said, “We have the chance to embrace this storm and really steer our ship into all the chaos that has happened”

68% of the public overdose victims were homeless, and 22% had been diagnosed with severe mental illness per reporting from The San Francisco Standard

San Francisco’s overdose death toll hit an all-time high of 806 in 2023. 653 of those came from fentanyl

To reduce such deaths, San Francisco’s health department says it has trained every city employee – cops and librarians included – on how to reverse an overdose

To put the public overdose number into perspective, between 2020 and 2023, the city recorded 212 homicides

That means 3.4x as many San Franciscans died from drug overdoses in public than from murder anywhere