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Comedian, actor and author Kirk Fox has spent most of his life playing: sports, unforgettable characters, and to rooms full of comedy fans worldwide. A former tennis instructor, he treats the sport like a detective treats a case. Everything connects, but he is always the common thread. You’ll know Kirk from “somewhere,” as he’s built a following across generations and genres: From “How to Rock” on Nickelodeon and hosting “The Test” mustache-free, to Sewage Joe on “Parks and Recreation,” Pat McCurdy in “Jury Duty,” Kenny Boy on “Reservation Dogs,” and more recently, Netflix’s “Bad Thoughts.” Fox has a way of making a role memorable, especially the comedically twisted ones. In June, he added novelist to an already stacked resume with “Palmdale,” his incredibly entertaining dirtbag-noir debut about a PI and his estranged daughter reuniting over a case. On Wednesday, “The Lowdown” returns to Hulu, and Fox is back in Sterlin Harjo’s world as a new character that still sounds a bit like him. Maybe that’s the job. Or maybe, that’s just Kirk Fox. From Nickelodeon to having Rob Iler on your lap in “Bad Thoughts” performing an alien scat scene, your career truly is a wild ride.

The sea cucumber study reveals an unusual form of tissue regrowth, with detached fragments continuing to heal, reorganize, and grow for more than three years in natural seawater. Credit: ShutterstockSea cucumber tissue kept growing for more than three years after removal, surviving in seawater teeming with microbes. Like Thing, the disembodied hand in The Addams Family, a severed piece of sea cucumber tissue kept living without the body it came from, prompting scientists to describe the animal as a “real-life zombie.” Weeks after being cut from a tube foot, the fragment appeared to be growing in seawater full of microbes, far from the sterile conditions usually needed to keep tissue cultures alive. Scientists at Memorial University of Newfoundland followed up by placing tissue removed from the feet, main body, and tentacles of three sea cucumbers in flowing seawater. The animals belonged to Psolus fabricii, a cold-water species. Working with collaborators including Rachel Sipler, a senior research scientist at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, the team documented what happened to those fragments in a study published in Science Advances.

Val Chmerkovskiy is being suspended from Dancing with the Stars for a week after he posted a controversial TikTok message that seemed to reference Will Smith's 2022 Oscar slap.