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Emmy Predictions via Feinberg Forecast: Scott’s First Post-Nominations Read of the Race

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@ 09/07/2026

As I anticipated in my final pre-nominations forecast, HBO Max’s drama series The Pitt and comedy series Hacks, Apple TV’s comedy series Widow’s Bay and Netflix’s anthology series Beef all had great showings. Underperforming expectations were FX/FX on Hulu’s comedy series The Bear and limited series Love Story, as well as CBS’ reality competition program The Amazing Race. And there were plenty of other eyebrow-raising inclusions and omissions, as well — for instance, Apple TV’s Your Friends & Neighbors landed a best drama series nom, but no other mentions, whereas HBO’s Task received nods for acting, writing and directing, but not a nom for best drama series. I dissected it all at length in my analysis post.

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Council Post: Before You Integrate The Next Agent Protocol, Audit These Five Layers Of Your Own Catalog

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@ 09/07/2026

Michael Quoc holds 9 US patents and is the founder and CEO of Product.ai—a company building the truth layer for commerce.

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​Every CTO running an e-commerce stack is being asked the same question: Are we ready for agentic commerce? Most teams answer by counting integrations: UCP, ACP, MCP, Verifiable Intent. The integration list grows quarter after quarter. The layer underneath those integrations rarely gets audited.

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Meet SK Hynix, the trillion-dollar South Korean chipmaker debuting on U.S. markets

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A SK Hynix flag (R) and a South Korean national flag (L) flutter outside the company's Bundang office in Seongnam on Jan. 26, 2024.

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How all 50 U.S. states performed over 20 years of Top States for Business

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@ 09/07/2026

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It was 2007. George W. Bush was president. The U.S. economy was expanding, but there were growing signs that the explosive growth in the housing market — and maybe the entire boom of the past five or six years — was a giant bubble.  

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Sniffing Chocolate Before A Workout Could Add 18 Extra Reps, Study Suggests

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@ 09/07/2026

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Briefly inhaling the scent of dark chocolate before and during a workout could meaningfully improve a gymgoer’s performance—and even suppress hunger—according to a new peer-reviewed study.

Karlos May Nasar of performs a snatch during the Olympic Games Paris 2024.

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Key Facts

The report in Frontiers in Physiology found that exposing someone working out to chocolate smells immediately before and between weightlifting sets significantly increased the number of repetitions they could do without the participants feeling they were putting forth any greater effort.

The trial’s 23 participants—all male, and averaging 23 years old—had all fasted for at least 10 hours before exercising, and inhaled the smell of chocolate from a jar for 30 seconds between each set of leg extensions at 80% of their max weight.

Dark chocolate was found to be more impactful than milk chocolate, with men who inhaled a 90% cocoa variety able to do about 18 more leg extensions than those using a placebo.

Those who smelled a 60% cocoa milk chocolate scent added about 9 repetitions, according to the study.

Smelling dark chocolate was also found to suppress appetite in trial participants by reducing hunger and increasing feelings of fullness before exercise, while milk chocolate had no impact on appetite (but those studied said it smelled better).

CRUCIAL QUOTE

“Seeing a substantial increase in repetitions without the athletes feeling like they were exerting themselves any harder is a fascinating psychobiological outcome," Mohamed Nashrudin bin Naharudin, the study’s senior author and an assistant professor of sports science at the University of Malaya in Malaysia, said in a statement.

WHAT WE DON’T KNOW

What other smells may boost performance in the gym. The study's authors said they don't think chocolate is the only food with an odor that may help, but said it is pretty universally loved and recognized as a reward. “A person likely needs to find the odor familiar and appealing— or at least not repulsive—to trigger the psychological shift in appetite that’s needed to see a performance boost,” Nashrudin Naharudin said.

further reading

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