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GRAND JURY DELIVERS NOLAN WELLS CASE VERDICT
A Jackson County grand jury came to a decision in the death of 18-year-old Nolan Wells, who vanished during a July 4 boat trip to Horn Island and was found dead two days later. Twenty-three jurors, 132 subpoenas, 43 witnesses, phone forensics, GPS logs, security footage. The unanimous result was a no true bill. No charges, and no answer either. The state's chief medical examiner and the pathologist the family hired both landed on the same word: undetermined. The report says accidental drowning still fits and was never ruled out. Then the grownups started swinging. DA Angel Myers McIlrath used a 15-minute Facebook video to say there is not a scintilla of evidence the death was racially motivated, and that the Crump team "knew better but did not do better." Crump answered that two pathologists documented blunt force injuries to the back of Nolan's head and his back, and nobody has explained where they came from. Pick your outlet and you get a different story. Right-leaning coverage ran with the DA's beatdown of Crump and the witness who testified Wells slipped awkwardly off a boat and kept socializing. Left-leaning coverage ran with the race question the DA says was never there.
97-YEAR-OLD BRITISH GRANDMOTHER OUTWORKED YOU
Betty Bromage, born 12 March 1929, got on top of a biplane at an airfield in Cirencester on 4th of August and let a pilot fly her through a loop-the-loop. Guinness logged her at 97 years and 145 days, which beats the oldest female wing walker record she set herself in 2022, and it earned her a second title for the oldest woman to do the loop. She broke her own record. The only person she had to beat was Betty. This was her sixth wing walk since she was 87. She had a stroke in August 2025 that still affects her speech, and the flight raised money for the stroke unit at Cheltenham General Hospital, where she was treated. Her stated reasoning to the BBC was that she would get bored of life otherwise, that she can't drive and can't see very well, so she does the things she can do. The things she can do include going inside out at a few thousand feet. On the loop itself she said you just have to have faith in your pilot. Somewhere in an office, a Guinness adjudicator is maintaining a spreadsheet for how old a human can be while bolted to the outside of an aircraft, and the top of the leaderboard keeps being one British nurse in her nineties.
DANISH SCIENTISTS KINDA CURE BLIND MICE WITH INJECTED MICROSCOPIC SOLAR CELLS
A team led by Aarhus University spent seven years chasing one question: could you build a microscopic solar cell, park it inside a living body, and use light to tell cells what to do. The answer, published September 22 in Nature Biomedical Engineering, is apparently yes. The particles are hollow spheres of graphitic carbon nitride, roughly 300 nanometers wide, with the architecture cribbed from plant chloroplasts. You inject them into the eye. They settle next to the nerve cells that survived, and when light hits them they set off electrical and chemical processes that push a signal toward the brain. No gene editing, no viral vector, no rewiring anybody's DNA. Just a shot of lab powder doing the job the dead photoreceptors walked off. In mice with advanced retinitis pigmentosa, the team picked up light responses in the visual cortex and saw the animals change their behavior under light, and they got ganglion cells firing in isolated pig retinal tissue with an LED. Before anyone starts booking eye appointments, lead researcher Menglin Chen is blunt that this is a light-evoked response in a wrecked retina, an early step and not a finished prosthesis. The patents are filed, and the team is now grinding through long-term safety, delivery and stability before anyone puts this in a human.
PEACOCK SOLVES THE O.J. CASE 32 YEARS LATE, TWO YEARS AFTER HE DIED
Peacock just greenlit OJ's Accomplice, a two part documentary arriving in December that promises "real evidence" Simpson had help. Real evidence. Which raises a question about the previous three decades of O.J. documentaries, every one of which was also sold to you as the definitive one. The pitch is that law enforcement never seriously considered a second person, and that never before heard eyewitness accounts suggest someone in Simpson's inner circle was there on June 12, 1994. The interview list includes Kato Kaelin, who is still fielding questions about thumps on a guest house wall from 1994, and one of Nicole Brown Simpson's sisters. Peacock has not named the alleged accomplice in the announcement, which is a confident move when the accomplice is in the title. The Daily Mail says it reviewed leaked clips built around a mob linked Simpson associate who died in 2006, and that a Brown sister emailed the paper calling the theory "a bunch of BS." The production company, Ample, also made Netflix's This Is The Zodiac Speaking, so its record on closing famous cases has room to grow. Simpson was acquitted in 1995 after an eight month trial, found liable in the civil case, and died in 2024.
ONE TRACKER SAYS TECH CUT 225,000 JOBS THIS YEAR. ANOTHER SAYS RELAX, IT'S ONLY 176,000
SkillSyncer counts 519 layoff events and 225,122 tech workers cut in 2026, roughly 846 people a day. TrueUp, covering the same year on the same planet, has it at 176,306 across 548 events. That's a gap of almost 49,000 people, which is a weird amount of humans to lose track of when the entire industry claims its software can count things now. Oracle is the headliner. Its annual filing showed headcount down about 21,000 over the year ending in May, close to 13%, leaving around 141,000 employees, and Oracle wrote in the filing that deploying AI across its operations had already reduced its workforce. In September it added another $700 million to the tab, pushing total restructuring costs to about $2.8 billion. Severance gets expensive when payroll is the only flexible line in a $55.7 billion capex year. The "AI did it" part is mostly self-reported. Microsoft cut 4,800 jobs, mostly in Xbox, and its chief people officer said the eliminated roles were not being replaced by AI, only that AI is changing how work gets done. Challenger, Gray & Christmas had AI blamed for 40% of May's cuts, up from 7% in January. Nobody audits that box. Shareholders like "the future arrived" a lot more than "we hired too many people in 2021."
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