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Dory Funk Jr, professional wrestling legend has died at the age of 85.
He held the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship between '69 and '73.
He also held many tag titles with this father and brother over the years.
He would go on to start his own professional wrestling school where some of his students were Jeff & Matt Hardy, Christian Cage, Kurt Angle, Adam Copeland (Edge) and many more.
He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2009.

Our testing shows that lead contamination at levels that pose a risk to residents’ health is fairly widespread
— even in sites that the EPA previously addressed.
Some homes that had previously undergone the EPA’s remediation process had high levels of lead contamination, our analysis found.  
We tested 150 previously remediated yards. One in 10 of those yards’ results came back with a concentration greater than 400 parts per million, the level the EPA used to decide which …

The EPA Doesn’t Typically Retest Homes in the Country’s Largest Residential Lead Superfund Site. So We Did.
The Flatwater Free Press and ProPublica independently tested hundreds of homes in eastern Omaha, Nebraska, and found toxic levels of lead in soil throughout — including in yards that the EPA remediated years ago. Here’s how we did it.

Lifestyle interventions, such as a combination of a healthy diet (whether it’s Mediterranean, low-carb, or low-fat) and exercise, consistently decreased epigenetic age.
Pharmacologic interventions
— including metformin and semaglutide, prescription medications used for metabolic control and weight management,
and anti-TNF therapies, which use biologic medications to target an immune system protein that triggers harmful inflammation
— decreased epigenetic age the most. …

Can you slow the aging process? Study reveals which interventions might help
A new Yale analysis found that diet, exercise, and some medications can slow the aging process, while over-the-counter supplements appear to have little effect.

Emergent topological structure in spontaneous brain-organoid activity
Eve Bodnia, Margaux Basart, Sofie Hai, Lenzie Ford, Nina Miolane, Kenneth S. Kosik, Dirk Bouwmeester, Lincoln D. Carr
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.16517 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.16517 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.16517
arXiv:2607.16517v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Neural activity is widely held to organize on low-dimensional structure embedded in a high-dimensional state space. Persistent homology reads such structure directly from the pattern of pairwise correlations, without assuming in advance which variables are relevant. We apply persistent homology to microelectrode-array (MEA) recordings of spontaneous activity from human (Lancaster) and mouse (Pa\c{s}ca) cortical organoids, spanning $26$--$234$ simultaneously sorted units, and ask whether topological data analysis resolves structure at the node counts that neural recordings actually deliver. Building weighted networks in correlation space and characterizing them by Vietoris--Rips filtration, we find that the first homology ($H_1$, loops) rises significantly above a rate- and population-preserving null in $14$ of $18$ datasets. This loop structure occupies a non-redundant core: it is robust to random removal of units yet disrupted by targeted removal of the units that carry it. Topological richness grows with network size, and second homology ($H_2$) emerges significantly above the null only in the larger networks. These results show that persistent homology resolves structured topology in neural recordings at the scale experiments actually deliver.
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