"Cynt has always gone above and beyond in everything she has done, and her leadership of the Dallas Mavericks is no exception. She is an indelible fixture in the history of this franchise, and we are eternally grateful. The positive impact she has had here will be felt for a very long time." - Mavericks governor Patrick Dumont, in a press release, announcing Mavs CEO Cynt Marshall's retirement. (Tuesday, The Dallas Morning News)
"It opens a Pandora's box -- a good Pandora's box." - Dr. Leonid Moroz, a neuroscientist at the Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience in St. Augustine, Fla., commenting on a new study in which researchers found that a pair of comb jellies can spontaneously fuse into a single body. (Tuesday, The New York Times)
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"The more I watch this video, the more I'm troubled about what happened." - Neuroscientist Chris Nowinski, co-founder of the Concussion Legacy Foundation, after an apparent head injury suffered by Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen, who was cleared by his team's medical staff and went back into the game. (Tuesday, CNN)
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"We're seeing an alarming trend of antisemitism being included now in false narratives around pretty much any breaking news event... This portends a grim outlook for the information ecosystem, both on X itself but also on other platforms where these narratives trickle into and evolve." - Isabelle Frances-Wright, Institute for Strategic Dialogue's director of technology and society. (Tuesday, The Washington Post)
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"Georgia, not only was I signed to Death Row Records in 1992, but I am now the owner." - Snoop Dog, now a coach on NBC's The Voice, persuading Dallas-born singer Georgia Starne to join his team. (Tuesday, NBC)
"She has a unique awareness of the connections between body and soul, the living and the dead, and in a poetic and experimental style has become an innovator in contemporary prose." - Anders Olsson, chair of the Nobel committee, referring to South Korean writer Han Kang, winner of the 2024 Literature Prize. (Thursday, The Guardian)
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"She said those raccoons were becoming increasingly more aggressive, demanding food, that they would hound her day and night -- scratching at the outside of her home, at the door. If she pulled up her car, they would surround the car, scratch at the car, surround her if she went from her front door to her car or went outside at all." - Kevin McCarty, a spokesperson for the Kitsap County Sheriff, talking about a woman reporting that 50 to 100 raccoons forced her to flee her property. (Wednesday, The Associated Press)
"One of my great frustrations was that I wrote 'Hell or High Water,' and they filmed the darn thing in New Mexico. My love story to Texas was shot west of where it should have been shot." - Writer and director Taylor Sheridan, during a legislative hearing in Austin. Lawmakers are considering overhauling an incentives program to keep film and TV productions in Texas. (Wednesday, Texas Tribune)
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