“Sommige kruiden gaan de werking van pil of antidepressiva tegen": expert duidt gevaren van de kruidengeneeskunde  Het Laatste Nieuws

Vanavond in ‘De tafel van Gert’: wat als je de diagnose van Alzheimer hebt en de juiste medicatie bestaat maar niet verkrijgbaar is?  Het Nieuwsblad

1. Philippe Gilbert reageert misnoegd na mislopen job als wielerbondscoach: “De vacature stond nooit open”  Het Nieuwsblad
2. Philippe Gilbert hekelt interne afspraken bij wielerbond: "Heb nooit kunnen solliciteren"  sporza.be
3. Serge Pauwels en Angelo De Clercq volgen Sven Vanthourenhout op als nieuwe bondscoaches: “Ik ben enorm vereerd”  Het Nieuwsblad
4. "De vacature stond nooit open": Philippe Gilbert misnoegd nadat niet hij, maar Serge Pauwels aangesteld wordt als bondscoach  Het Laatste Nieuws
5. Belgian Cycling kiest Angelo De Clercq als nieuwe bondscoach veldrijden  Wielerflits

1. “Niet iedereen draait de ideale drol”: stoelgangschaal speelt hoofdrol in nieuw VRT-programma. Professor legt uit wat je kaka zegt over je gezondheid  Het Laatste Nieuws
2. “Wat je eet is wat je voelt”, ‘De grote boodschap’ over de impact van darmgezondheid  VRT.be
3. Darmdokter Magali Surmont uit ‘De grote boodschap’: ‘Naar je stoelgang in de pot kijken, desnoods met het lichtje van je telefoon, kan je leven redden’  Humo The Wild Site
4. De fascinerende kronkels van onze darmen in 'De Grote Boodschap'  TVvisie

1. "Met een laptop vanuit de keuken": Magnumfotograaf Carl De Keyzer maakt met AI controversiële fotoreeks over Rusland  VRT.be
2. Magnumfotograaf Carl De Keyzer krijgt haatreacties voor zijn virtuele beelden  De Standaard
3. “Dit is geen lui project, ik heb zes maanden tot zes uur per dag aan mijn computer gezeten”: topfotograaf Carl De Keyzer maakt nieuw boek met AI  Het Nieuwsblad
4. ‘Op Instagram brak de hel los’: Carl De Keyzer gebruikt AI voor nieuwe fotoreeks over Rusland en daar is niet iedereen gelukkig mee  De Morgen

1. Al bijna 40 jaar lang hebben we een vertekend beeld van de planeet Uranus, en dat door stom toeval  Het Belang van Limburg
2. Waarom wetenschappers al 40 jaar lang fout beeld hebben van planeet door stom toeval  Het Nieuwsblad
3. Voyager 2 onthult geheimen van het magnetische mysterie van Uranus  Business AM
4. Mysterie Uranus ontrafeld: al 40 jaar lang hebben we een verkeerd beeld van de planeet  De Morgen

1. Samsung introduceert de Galaxy A16-serie, met twee nieuwe toestellen  Samsung Newsroom België
2. Samsung A16 4G kost 199 euro, 30 euro minder dan 5G-variant - Tablets en telefoons - Nieuws  Tweakers
3. De nieuwe Samsung Galaxy A16 van €199 heeft wat de iPhone 16 niet heeft  Bright.nl
4. Samsung lanceert nog goedkopere Galaxy A16 met zes jaar ondersteuning  TechPulse

“Dit wordt echt het pretpark van oom Dagobert”: kritiek alom nu kerstparade in Disneyland Parijs plots (deels) betalend wordt  Het Laatste Nieuws

1. Waarom cryptomunten sinds de verkiezing van Trump zo hot zijn (en wat daar de gevolgen van kunnen zijn)  VRT.be
2. Bitcoins verzilveren? Opgepast voor kater van de fiscus: tot 50% aanslagvoet mogelijk  Het Laatste Nieuws
3. ‘Bitcoin is stilaan incontournabel’: drie experts over de recordwaardes van cryptomunten  De Morgen
4. Bitcoin krijgt vleugels nu Trump zich achter de munt schaart  Het Nieuwsblad
5. De 7 Extra | Staat bitcoin voor een langdurige stierenmarkt?  De Tijd

Peperdure schoenenroof: ex-werkneemster Louboutin zou voor 1,5 miljoen euro artikelen illegaal hebben verkocht  Het Laatste Nieuws

1. Al 21.000 arbeiders omgekomen bij bouw 170 kilometer lang appartementsblok in Saudi-Arabië, blijkt uit Britse docu  De Morgen
2. Al 21.000 arbeiders om het leven gekomen bij bouw van waanzinnig 170 kilometer lang appartementsblok in Saudi-Arabië  Het Laatste Nieuws

1. Antwerpen hoopt op kerstakkoord voor nieuw bestuur  VRT.be
2. “De Wever was nog niet terug van het paleis of Rousseau liet zijn spierballen al rollen”  Gazet van Antwerpen
3. Onderhandelingen in Antwerpen gaan tweede maand in: federale gesprekken remmen lokale doorbraak tussen N-VA en Vooruit af  Het Nieuwsblad
4. ANALYSE. Filip Dewinter heeft zijn symbolische trofee, het is nu weer helemaal aan N-VA en Vooruit: wanneer krijgt Antwerpen nieuw stadsbestuur?  Het Laatste Nieuws
5. Gesprekken tussen N-VA en Vooruit over bestuursakkoord provincie Antwerpen van start gegaan  Gazet van Antwerpen

1. Doorbraak in Kortrijk: TBSK, N-VA en Vooruit werken samen aan nieuw stadsbestuur  Het Laatste Nieuws
2. Kortrijk heeft coalitie: Ruth Vandenberghe (TBSK) gaat in zee met N-VA en Vooruit  VRT.be
3. Met Kortrijk erbij loopt Vooruit bijna een homerun in de centrumsteden  De Standaard
4. Poli­ti­co­loog en Kort­rijk­zaan Nico­las Bou­te­ca: Klei­ne oppo­si­tie kan gevaar­lijk zijn”  Focus en WTV
5. Vlaams Belang ziet monstercoalitie niet zitten: “Het is een driekoppige draak”  Het Laatste Nieuws

1. Nu Petra De Sutter en andere kopstukken passen: wie kan (of wil) voorzitter van Groen zijn?  VRT.be
2. Petra De Sutter geen kandidaat-voorzitter voor Groen, ook Björn Rzoska is niet geïnteresseerd: “Het speculeren mag stoppen”  Het Laatste Nieuws
3. Na de beslissing van De Sutter: wie loopt zich warm voor voorzittersverkiezingen Groen?  Het Nieuwsblad
4. Trump ontmoet Biden - Petra De Sutter geen kandidaat-voorzitter voor Groen  De Standaard
5. Wie wil Groen nog leiden? Na 'nee' van De Sutter circuleert naam van Watteeuw  De Tijd

Because taking the time to solder really is worth avoiding the trip to "The Shack."

~NSHA

But passing them too closely results in a pretty sweet 360.

~NSHA

Fox News legal editor Kerri Urbahn told 'The Story with Martha McCallum that Trump could force a pardon from Gov. Hochul by threatening to withhold federal funds to New York unless she pardons his 34 felonies.

This shouldn't come as a surprise since Urbahn was the Director of Public Affairs for the Department of Justice under Attorney General Bill Barr during the first Trump administration.

This segment was prompted by the judge delaying a decision on Trump's 34 felony convictions for another week.

MACCALLUM: Governor Hochul could also pardon President Trump on these charges because it is a state charge, right?

URBAHN: Yeah that's right and look she needs to really be thinking through this because New York state needs federal money and they get a lot of it.

And there is a lot that the federal government could do in terms of pulling funding from both the city and the state of New York. There's a bunch of ways to do it through the Justice Department and other places, and you know, at the end of the day it's all politics.

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Between threats from Anonymous and a new crackdown from Twitter, ISIS is having a tough time reaching out and recruiting new psychopaths online.

To circumvent the censorship, the Islamic militant group has reportedly created its own social network called “Khelafabook.”

The Facebook clone claims it is independent and not actually sponsored by ISIS (even though it has ISIS logos all over its homepage). It says its goal is to show the world that they don’t only “live in caves” and “carry guns,” and they vow to “will rule the world by Allah’s permission.”

Khelafabook was set up by a man in Mosul, Iraq, according to The Independent, and is hosted in Egypt. There’s also an associated Twitter account which is linked to from the site.

The site first popped up last week, but has already been taken offline “to protect the info and details of its members,” according to a message on the page.

After it was taken down, Twitter accounts associated with Anonymous appeared to claim responsibility, as Vocativ points out.

For the the time being they’ll have to look elsewhere to share their terrorist pancake recipes.

Some Syrian refugees were placed in the same hotel as a Furry convention for temporary housing after arriving in Canada. Syrian kids and furries alike made the best of what is undoubtedly a weird situation. The organizers of VancouFur made sure to alert the attendees to be extra kind to the newcomers and it looks like they did just that.

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The city has repeatedly pressed for a special regulation from the national government

President and chief executive officer of Formula 1 owner Liberty Media, Greg Maffei, is to step down from his role at the end of the year.

The IOC needs to improve rules on transgender athletes to protect "female sport", says World Athletics president Lord Coe.

The judge describes Holly Le Gresley and Adriana Orme's actions as "abhorrent and sadistic".

Irish mixed martial artist Conor McGregor claimed to have had consensual sex with a woman who is accusing him of rape, a court has heard.

The news comes a day after confirmation that he will leave the BBC's Match of the Day.

1. After Sunita Williams, NASA now worried about her stranded mission partner's losing body mass  Hindustan Times
2. "My Body Has Changed, But....": Sunita Williams On Health Aboard Space Station  NDTV
3. Stranded Sunita Williams dismisses severe weight loss rumours, says she feels ‘healthier than ever’  The Times of India
4. Sunita Williams explains reason behind her changed appearance in space | 'They have routine checks, dedicated surgeons' | Inshorts  Inshorts
5. Inside Sunita Williams' extended mission: What she’s doing in space  India Today

1. Global carbon market gets green signal at COP29 under Paris Agreement's Article 6  The Hindu
2. Why India and China have pushed against climate change-related trade measures at COP29  The Indian Express
3. COP29: G77, China agree to use new NCQG draft text as basis for finance negotiations  The New Indian Express
4. Video | UN Scientists Warn Of 'Rising Emissions' Worldwide  NDTV
5. COP29 gets momentum with consensus on creation of carbon credits standards, India wants to conclude work  The Times of India

Encouraging pre-kindergarten children to write affords teachers the opportunity to provide scaffolds to improve spelling development. Teachers, however, tend to provide more support than necessary to guide children's early spelling, which may stifle children's opportunities to engage in important thinking that helps them to grow in their literacy knowledge.

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Rockies owner, chairman and CEO Dick Monfort expressed optimism that the team can reach a multi-year contract with third baseman Nolan Arenado, beyond the one-year, $26 million agreement that was finalized recently.

Most Major League teams still use a five-man starting rotation, but it takes a lot more pitchers than that to make it through a 162-game season. It certainly helps to have a potent one-two punch at the top of the rotation.

This time of year you read a lot about championship windows -- a way of thinking that seems to be standard operating procedure, whether clubs are in small or big markets. Well, the Rockies don't believe in that concept.

It's not rare to see former Major League sons in Major League uniforms, but is it unusual to find four in one clubhouse?

The prefrontal cortex is critical for decision-making across species, with its activity linked to choosing between options. Drift diffusion models (DDMs) are commonly employed to understand the neural computations underlying this behavior. Studies exploring the specific roles of regions of the rodent prefrontal cortex in controlling the decision process are limited. This study explored the role of the prelimbic cortex (PLC) in decision-making using a two-alternative forced-choice task. Rats first learned to report the location of a lateralized visual stimulus. The brightness of the stimulus indicated its reward value. Then, the rats learned to make choices between pairs of stimuli. Sex differences in learning were observed, with females responding faster and more selectively to high-value stimuli than males. DDM analysis found that males had decreased decision thresholds during initial learning, whereas females maintained a consistently higher drift rate. Pharmacological manipulations revealed that PLC inactivation reduced the decision threshold for all rats, indicating that less information was needed to make a choice in the absence of normal PLC processing. μ-Opioid receptor stimulation of the PLC had the opposite effect, raising the decision threshold and reducing bias in the decision process toward high-value stimuli. These effects were observed without any impact on the rats’ choice preferences. Our findings suggest that PLC has an inhibitory role in the decision process and regulates the amount of evidence that is required to make a choice. That is, PLC activity controls "when," but not "how," to act.

Basolateral amygdala (BLA) neurons are engaged by emotionally salient stimuli. An area of increasing interest is how BLA dynamics relate to evolving reward-seeking behavior, especially under situations of uncertainty or ambiguity. Here, we recorded the activity of individual BLA neurons in male rats across the acquisition and extinction of conditioned reward seeking. We assessed ongoing neural dynamics in a task where long reward cue presentations preceded an unpredictable, variably time reward delivery. We found that, with training, BLA neurons discriminated the CS+ and CS– cues with sustained cue-evoked activity that correlated with behavior and terminated only after reward receipt. BLA neurons were bidirectionally modulated, with a majority showing prolonged inhibition during cued reward seeking. Strikingly, population-level analyses revealed that neurons showing cue-evoked inhibitions and those showing excitations similarly represented the CS+ and behavioral state. This sustained population code rapidly extinguished in parallel with conditioned behavior. We next assessed the contribution of the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), a major reciprocal partner to the BLA. Inactivation of the OFC while simultaneously recording in the BLA revealed a blunting of sustained cue-evoked activity in the BLA that accompanied reduced reward seeking. Optogenetic disruption of BLA activity and OFC terminals in the BLA also reduced reward seeking. Our data indicate that the BLA represents reward-seeking states via sustained, bidirectional cue-driven neural encoding. This code is regulated by cortical input and is important for the maintenance of vigilant reward-seeking behavior.