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Scotsman
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
Breakneck Comedy brings Craig Campbell's Raging Gracelessly tour to Bathgate this Autumn
Following the success of his previous Scottish dates, comedian Craig Campbell brings his Raging Gracelessly tour back to Scotland this Autumn. The tour includes a show at Bathgate's Room at the Top on Friday 24 October. Sign up to our daily newsletter Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Edinburgh News, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... The Canadian born comedian, who now lives in Devon, has a number of television credits to his name – both in the UK (Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow, Russel Howard's Good News) and Canada – but is probably best remembered as the comedian who made an expectant mother laugh so hard that her waters broke on Dave's One Night Stand (U&Dave, formerly Dave). His latest Scottish tour begins in Invergordon on Friday 3 October and ends in Bathgate on Friday 24 October, the thirteen-date tour also includes shows in Aberdeen, Pitlochry, Clydebank, and Linlithgow. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Craig's Scottish tour dates are with Aberdeen-based promoters, Breakneck Comedy. Breakneck Comedy's founder, Naz Hussain said, 'I'm delighted to be bringing Craig's Raging Gracelessly tour back to Scotland, following the success of his Scottish shows with us last year. It's always a joy to watch him in action and audiences can expect a fantastic evening of comedy from one of Canada's finest comedians.' Canadian comedian Craig Campbell is heading back to Scotland this Autumn Breakneck Comedy is renowned for bringing top comedians and performers to towns and venues that might not be on the usual tour schedule. 'I love bringing big names to towns that some promoters might overlook' says Naz. 'It's really exciting to be able to put on shows all over Scotland and make it easier for people to be able to enjoy a great night of comedy and entertainment without them having to worry about catching a train home from the city.'
Vox
6 days ago
- Politics
- Vox
Four stories that are more important than the Epstein Files
is a senior editorial director at Vox overseeing the climate teams and the Unexplainable and The Gray Area podcasts. He is also the editor of Vox's Future Perfect section and writes the Good News newsletter. He worked at Time magazine for 15 years as a foreign correspondent in Asia, a climate writer, and an international editor, and he wrote a book on existential risk. It's not too much to say that the business of America has all but halted because of a years-old criminal the past couple of weeks, one story has overshadowed every other, no matter how important they might be: Jeffrey Epstein. Unless you've been taking your summer vacation on Mars, you probably know the contours of the story. (And if you don't, my Vox colleague Andrew Prokop wrote a useful summary this week.) But what matters here isn't so much the details as it is the sheer, unrelenting attention it has commanded. Between July 6, before the story really began to blow up, and July 13, online searches on the topic increased by 1,900 percent, according to a Newsweek analysis. A CNN analyst noted that over roughly the same time scale, Epstein was Googled 2.5 times more than Grok — this during the AI model's, uh, newsworthy launch — and 1.4 times more than tariffs. The furor over the case has led to Congress essentially shutting down early for the summer, a Republican effort to evade Democrats' sudden and politically convenient demands for transparency. It's not too much to say that the business of America has all but halted because of a years-old criminal case. I'm not saying the Epstein case is totally without importance. The crime was horrific, the investigation details murky, and the political ramifications if the case shakes the president's connection to his political base are obviously meaningful. (And if you want to read about any of that, well, good news — you have no shortage of sources.) But there is virtually no way we'll look back in 20 years and think that the relitigation of the Epstein case was clearly the most important thing happening in the world in July 2025. Related Something remarkable is happening with violent crime rates in the US Attention is a finite resource, and you are where your attention is. A story like Epstein is analogous to a mindless, out-of-control fire consuming all the oxygen in a burning house. So I thought I'd put together a list of four stories happening right now that matter far more for the country and the world than the contents of the Epstein Files. And fair warning — they're not all good news stories, but they absolutely are worth your attention. 1) America's dangerous debt spiral Through the first nine months of the 2025 fiscal year, which goes up to this June, the United States spent $749 billion on interest on the national debt, more than it spent on anything other than Social Security. Not the debt itself — just the interest. And our debt problem is accelerating: According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), President Donald Trump's recently passed budget bill will add $3.4 trillion to the national balance sheet over the next decade. You might say: So what? Budget scolds have been warning about the debt since at least the 1980s, and the most dire predictions have yet to come true. But as the economist Herbert Simon once warned, referring specifically to unsustainable economic policies: 'If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.' While 'there's no magic number at which the debt load becomes a full-on crisis,' as my colleague Dylan Matthews wrote last year, just about everything that is happening now — including persistently high interest rates, which make debt that much more painful, as anyone with a recent mortgage knows — indicates that crisis point is on its way. And what will happen then? The CBO warns that unless budget patterns shift dramatically, the country will face an unpalatable mix of massive tax hikes, severe cuts to essential services, even default. And our debt problem intersects catastrophically with some of America's other generational challenges, like the fertility and aging crisis (see No. 3) and the country's ability to defend itself (No. 4). 2) A global hunger crisis I've written before about the long-term improvements in child mortality and extreme poverty. Those trends are real, and they represent some of the best reasons to feel optimistic about the world. But positive long-term trends can mask periods of setback. When it comes to childhood hunger, the world is in danger of falling back. A new UNICEF report shows that after more than two decades of consistent progress, child stunting — early-life malnutrition that can lead to less growth and lifelong health problems — appears to be rising again. And while the humanitarian catastrophe that is Gaza at least has the world's attention, if not enough of its help, hunger is spreading in other countries that remain under the radar. In Africa's largest country of Nigeria, nearly 31 million people face acute food insecurity — almost equivalent to the population of Texas. Ethiopia, Pakistan, and Yemen have all seen alarming reversals in childhood nutritional health. Add in surges in food prices driven by extreme weather, and the devastating effects of cuts in US food aid, and you have a recipe for a problem that is getting worse at the very moment when the willingness to help is eroding. 3) A real population bomb When it comes to long-term, world-changing trends, climate change gets most of the attention (if not necessarily the action). But there's another challenge unfolding in nearly every country in the world that will be just as transformative — and for which we may be even less prepared. That's the population slowdown. In 2024, the US fertility rate hit an all-time low of less than 1.6 births per woman, far below the 2.1 required to maintain the current population level. While other countries like Japan or Italy will get there sooner, the US is absolutely on a path to an aging, shrinking future. As early as 2033, annual deaths are predicted to outpace annual births, while by 2050, one in every five Americans will be over the age of 65. An aging and eventually shrinking population will put more stress on everything from health care to pension systems to economic productivity, in ways that — absent some kind of technological miracle — will make us poorer, and will change life in ways we can only begin to imagine. And no one really has any idea how to fix it, or if it's even fixable at all. 4) A generational security challenge The Cold War ended nearly 35 years ago. For all of that time, the US has enjoyed a historically unprecedented position of global military supremacy. Americans have lived with the background assumption that the US would never really face a war with a true geopolitical rival — and certainly wouldn't lose one. Of all our national privileges, that might be the most foundational one. But that foundation is in danger of crumbling. At the same time, America's munitions reserves are dangerously low. In supporting Israel during its recent conflict with Iran, nearly 14 percent of the US's vital THAAD missile interceptor inventory was expended — just replenishing those stores may take up to eight years. Meanwhile, Pentagon authorities temporarily paused shipments of Patriot missiles and other critical air-defense systems to Ukraine amid global stockpile pressures. US air defenses now reportedly have only a quarter of the interceptors needed for all the Pentagon's military plans. Should a major conflict pop up in, oh I don't know, Taiwan, essential munitions could be depleted far faster than production could replace them. That's how you lose wars. None of these stories are scandals, and none of them generate great social media content. They're hard, long-term, wonky, even boring. But they are important. And they deserve our attention. A version of this story originally appeared in the Good News newsletter. Sign up here!
Vox
19-07-2025
- Health
- Vox
The brain tech revolution is here — and it isn't all Black Mirror
is a senior editorial director at Vox overseeing the climate teams and the Unexplainable and The Gray Area podcasts. He is also the editor of Vox's Future Perfect section and writes the Good News newsletter. He worked at Time magazine for 15 years as a foreign correspondent in Asia, a climate writer, and an international editor, and he wrote a book on existential risk. When you hear the word 'neurotechnology,' you may picture Black Mirror headsets prying open the last private place we have — our own skulls — or the cyber-samurai of William Gibson's Neuromancer. That dread is natural, but it can blind us to the real potential being realized in neurotech to address the long intractable medical challenges found in our brains. In just the past 18 months, brain tech has cleared three hurdles at once: smarter algorithms, shrunken hardware, and — most important — proof that people can feel the difference in their bodies and their moods. A pacemaker for the brain Keith Krehbiel has battled Parkinson's disease for nearly a quarter-century. By 2020, as Nature recently reported, the tremors were winning — until neurosurgeons slipped Medtronic's Percept device into his head. Unlike older deep-brain stimulators that carpet-bomb movement control regions in the brain with steady current, the Percept listens first. It hunts the beta-wave 'bursts' in the brain that mark a Parkinson's flare and then fires back millisecond by millisecond, an adaptive approach that mimics the way a cardiac pacemaker paces an arrhythmic heart. In the ADAPT-PD study, patients like Krehbiel moved more smoothly, took fewer pills, and overwhelmingly preferred the adaptive mode to the regular one. Regulators on both sides of the Atlantic agreed: The system now has US and EU clearance. Because the electrodes spark only when symptoms do, total energy use is reduced, increasing battery life and delaying the next skull-opening surgery. Better yet, because every Percept shipped since 2020 already has the sensing chip, the adaptive mode can be activated with a simple firmware push, the way you'd update your iPhone. Waking quiet muscles Scientists applied the same listen-then-zap logic farther down the spinal cord this year. In a Nature Medicine pilot, researchers in Pittsburgh laid two slender electrode strips over the sensory roots of the lumbar spine in three adults with spinal muscular atrophy. Gentle pulses 'reawakened' half-dormant motor neurons: Every participant walked farther, tired less, and — astonishingly — one person strode from home to the lab without resting. Half a world away, surgeons at Nankai University threaded a 50-micron-thick 'stent-electrode' through a patient's jugular vein, fanned it against the motor cortex, and paired it with a sleeve that twitched his arm muscles. No craniotomy, no ICU — just a quick catheter procedure that let a stroke survivor lift objects and move a cursor. High-tech rehab is inching toward outpatient care. Mental-health care on your couch The brain isn't only wires and muscles; mood lives there, too. In March, the Food and Drug Administration tagged a visor-like headset from Pulvinar Neuro as a Breakthrough Device for major-depressive disorder. The unit drips alternating and direct currents while an onboard algorithm reads brain rhythms on the fly, and clinicians can tweak the recipe over the cloud. The technology offers a ray of hope for patients whose depression has resisted conventional treatments like drugs. Thought cursors and synthetic voices Cochlear implants for people with hearing loss once sounded like sci-fi; today more than 1 million people hear through them. That proof-of-scale has emboldened a new wave of brain-computer interfaces, including from Elon Musk's startup Neuralink. The company's first user, 30-year-old quadriplegic Noland Arbaugh, told Wired last year he now 'multitasks constantly' with a thought-controlled cursor, clawing back some of the independence lost to a 2016 spinal-cord injury. Neuralink isn't as far along as Musk often claims — Arbaugh's device experienced some problems, with some threads detaching from the brain — but the promise is there. On the speech front, new systems are decoding neural signals into text on a computer screen, or even synthesized voice. In 2023 researchers from Stanford and the University of California San Francisco installed brain implants in two women who had lost the ability to speak, and managing to hit decoding times of 62 and 78 words per minute, far faster than previous brain tech interfaces. That's still much slower than the 160 words per minute of natural English speech, but more recent advances are getting closer to that rate. Guardrails for gray matter Yes, neurotech has a shadow. Brain signals could reveal a person's mood, maybe even a voting preference. Europe's new AI Act now treats 'neuro-biometric categorization' — technologies that can classify individuals by biometric information, including brain data — as high-risk, demanding transparency and opt-outs, while the US BRAIN Initiative 2.0 is paying for open-source toolkits so anyone can pop the hood on the algorithms. And remember the other risk: doing nothing. Refusing a proven therapy because it feels futuristic is a little like turning down antibiotics in 1925 because a drug that came from mold seemed weird. Twentieth-century medicine tamed the chemistry of the body; 21st-century medicine is learning to tune the electrical symphony inside the skull. When it works, neurotech acts less like a hammer than a tuning fork — nudging each section back on pitch, then stepping aside so the music can play. Real patients are walking farther, talking faster, and, in some cases, simply feeling like themselves again. The challenge now is to keep our fears proportional to the risks — and our imaginations wide enough to see the gains already in hand. A version of this story originally appeared in the Good News newsletter. Sign up here!
Economic Times
13-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Economic Times
Klay Thompson Megan Thee Stallion Net Worth: A look at earnings, business ventures and career of NBA star and rapper
ANI Klay Thompson posts photo with Megan Thee Stallion confirming relationship. See their net worth Klay Thompson and Megan Thee Stallion net worth is $70 million and $30 million, respectively. Klay Thompson has confirmed his relationship with rapper Megan Thee Stallion. On Saturday, the NBA star shared a photo with the rapper on Instagram, adding to recent rumors. Though Megan's face was not visible, the post confirmed growing speculation about their relationship. This comes after Thompson was seen in one of Megan's vacation Saturday, Klay Thompson posted a picture of himself and Megan Thee Stallion on Instagram. In the photo, they stood close to each other. Megan's face was not shown, but followers recognized her. The post did not include tags or captions. This followed a photo shared by Megan earlier in the week, where Thompson was visible in the background. The pair were reportedly on vacation. Fans had speculated about a romance between the two. The new post confirmed their connection without words. Also Read: FIFA Club World Cup 2025 Final: Chelsea Vs PSG match date, time, venue, tickets and how to watch live online, with and without cable Though neither Klay Thompson nor Megan Thee Stallion has made any public comment, the images from their vacation suggest a relationship. Multiple photos shared during the trip hinted at them being together. The new post by Thompson adds more evidence to the dating rumors. No official statement has been released. Still, the Instagram post is being seen by many as confirmation. The relationship has now become a trending topic across social of 2025, Klay Thompson's estimated net worth is $70 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth. After spending 13 seasons with the Golden State Warriors, Thompson signed a three-year, $50 million contract with the Dallas Mavericks in his career with the Warriors, he earned the following: $9.3 million from 2011 to 2015 $69 million from 2015 to 2019 $190 million from 2019 to 2024 For the 2024–25 season, his salary is around $32 also has several business interests. He co-founded the CBD brand Just Live with Alex Morgan. He has invested in Sleeper, a fantasy sports app, and Overtime, a sports media company. He also owns Realtypath, a real estate firm. Also Read: Walmart 850,000 Ozark Trail Water Bottles Recall: How to identify defective bottles and get refund? Here's why these bottles are dangerous Megan Thee Stallion's estimated net worth is $30 million as of 2025, according to Celebrity Net Worth. She is a three-time Grammy Award winner. Her income comes from album sales, tours and streaming. Her albums include Good News (2020) and Traumazine (2022).She recently completed the Hot Girl Summer Tour. Megan is managed by Roc Nation. She was born in Houston and graduated from Texas Southern University in 2021. She has built a large international fanbase through music and social Instagram post by Thompson has received thousands of likes and comments. Fans of both celebrities have responded with excitement and curiosity. The post has increased interest in both of their personal lives. What is Klay Thompson's net worth in 2025? Klay Thompson's net worth is estimated to be $70 million in 2025, including NBA salary, business investments and endorsements. How did fans find out about Klay Thompson and Megan Thee Stallion? Klay appeared in the background of Megan's Instagram photo, followed by his post of the two together, confirming dating rumors.
Time of India
12-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Klay Thompson Megan Thee Stallion Net Worth: A look at earnings, business ventures and career of NBA star and rapper
Klay Thompson and Megan Thee Stallion net worth is $70 million and $30 million, respectively. Klay Thompson has confirmed his relationship with rapper Megan Thee Stallion. On Saturday, the NBA star shared a photo with the rapper on Instagram, adding to recent rumors. Though Megan's face was not visible, the post confirmed growing speculation about their relationship. This comes after Thompson was seen in one of Megan's vacation photos. Instagram Revelation On Saturday, Klay Thompson posted a picture of himself and Megan Thee Stallion on Instagram. In the photo, they stood close to each other. Megan's face was not shown, but followers recognized her. The post did not include tags or captions. This followed a photo shared by Megan earlier in the week, where Thompson was visible in the background. The pair were reportedly on vacation. Fans had speculated about a romance between the two. The new post confirmed their connection without words. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Costco Shoppers Say This Wrinkle Cream Is "Actually Worth It" The Skincare Magazine Also Read: FIFA Club World Cup 2025 Final: Chelsea Vs PSG match date, time, venue, tickets and how to watch live online, with and without cable New Celebrity Couple Though neither Klay Thompson nor Megan Thee Stallion has made any public comment, the images from their vacation suggest a relationship. Multiple photos shared during the trip hinted at them being together. The new post by Thompson adds more evidence to the dating rumors. Live Events No official statement has been released. Still, the Instagram post is being seen by many as confirmation. The relationship has now become a trending topic across social media. Klay Thompson's Net Worth and Business Ventures As of 2025, Klay Thompson's estimated net worth is $70 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth. After spending 13 seasons with the Golden State Warriors, Thompson signed a three-year, $50 million contract with the Dallas Mavericks in 2024. During his career with the Warriors, he earned the following: $9.3 million from 2011 to 2015 $69 million from 2015 to 2019 $190 million from 2019 to 2024 For the 2024–25 season, his salary is around $32 million. Thompson also has several business interests. He co-founded the CBD brand Just Live with Alex Morgan. He has invested in Sleeper, a fantasy sports app, and Overtime, a sports media company. He also owns Realtypath, a real estate firm. Also Read: Walmart 850,000 Ozark Trail Water Bottles Recall: How to identify defective bottles and get refund? Here's why these bottles are dangerous Megan Thee Stallion's Career and Net Worth Megan Thee Stallion's estimated net worth is $30 million as of 2025, according to Celebrity Net Worth. She is a three-time Grammy Award winner. Her income comes from album sales, tours and streaming. Her albums include Good News (2020) and Traumazine (2022). She recently completed the Hot Girl Summer Tour. Megan is managed by Roc Nation. She was born in Houston and graduated from Texas Southern University in 2021. She has built a large international fanbase through music and social media. Public Reactions and What's Next The Instagram post by Thompson has received thousands of likes and comments. Fans of both celebrities have responded with excitement and curiosity. The post has increased interest in both of their personal lives. FAQs What is Klay Thompson's net worth in 2025? Klay Thompson's net worth is estimated to be $70 million in 2025, including NBA salary, business investments and endorsements. How did fans find out about Klay Thompson and Megan Thee Stallion? Klay appeared in the background of Megan's Instagram photo, followed by his post of the two together, confirming dating rumors.
