After an anesthetized cockroach is secured on the platform, a motor slides that rig into position, and a computer vision system assesses the insect's body size and position.
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New Atlas,
New Atlas,
12 Aug. 2025
Lamb and Smit approach with their gear and check vitals, then begin measuring, sampling and hoisting the grizzly’s anesthetized body into the air in a sling winched to a tree.
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Lesley Evans Ogden,
Smithsonian Magazine,
23 May 2025
And suddenly, Glenn and the Jets headed to halftime without running a play in the nearly 40 seconds at their disposal, a move that baffled both their loyalists in New Jersey and the Broncos’ sideline across the pond.
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Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
12 Oct. 2025
What started as a tense visit quickly escalated into a situation that left the whole family baffled and frustrated.
In recent years, however, his Midas touch on the charts has dulled slightly, and his last two sets — 2023’s – (Minus) and 2024’s Autumn Variations — missed the top spot, while failing to generate the long-lasting hit singles his earlier albums had easily spun off.
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Andrew Unterberger,
Billboard,
17 Sep. 2025
Syracuse University professor Dimitar Gueorguiev warned that TikTok’s edge has dulled.
Rather, Mailer’s recordings of them felt like an extreme but iconic depiction of 1970s countercultural underclass Americana, where teenage girls are drugged and gang-raped without registering much on the surface at all.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 Oct. 2025
The dude can work in Van Halen song titles or stupid words from drugged-out journalists on demand and on command.
At the headline-index level, a modest blip, the S & P 500 down half a percent at the worst, though in part the slide is being buffered by uncharacteristic strength in some defensive groups.
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Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
7 Oct. 2025
The operation showed that even far-reaching targets were not safe from drone attack, including the United States, a country buffered by two oceans and no significant adversary on its borders.
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