The networks bring on two play-by-play announcers for the tournament.
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Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
19 Aug. 2026
The announcers revealed the kinds of small biographical details familiar to anyone who has watched the Olympics, attempting to humanize the athletes by highlighting their love of macaroni and cheese, Greek mythology, or Legos.
Researchers who are sincere, relatable and genuinely care are effective messengers for communicating uncertain or evolving information.
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Aleeza Gerstein,
The Conversation,
28 Aug. 2026
Find the right messengers Local, trusted messengers outperform national campaigns, and the most recent Yale and George Mason polling suggests the field has been solving the wrong problem.
Culture and History Crows and ravens have similarly eerie reputations as spooky harbingers of death or danger.
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Blythe Copeland,
Martha Stewart,
31 Aug. 2026
Our results, just published in the journal Science, suggest that the 1982-83 and 1997-98 El Niños – two of the strongest in recent memory – may be harbingers of more extreme events to come as the planet warms.
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