Our verdict on The Selfish Gene: An unpopular piece of popular science - New Scientist

I don’t know all the details yet, as the formal announcement will be made just after this article is published, but Premier Tim Houston is going all-in for a gigantic data centre in Point Tupper. As Jennifer Henderson reported last night:

Trump’s tariffs loom over pivotal Maine Senate raceSeptember 28|Duration 2:40The Canada-U. S. trade war is hitting Maine’s economy as voters grapple with rising costs. The fallout could shape a key midterm race that will help determine which party controls the U. S. Senate. If U. S. President Donald Trump's tariffs could bring manufacturing back to places it has fled, the town of Millinocket, Maine, ought to be a likely candidate. Millinocket was for decades a thriving paper mill town, until Great Northern Paper ceased operations in 2008. Its fenced-off property sits abandoned, and although there's a growing outdoor recreation sector in the town of 4,100, its economy has struggled ever since. Then came a plan, backed in part by Norwegian investors, for a $300 million US aquaculture venture repurposing the giant lagoons on the old mill site, to be called Great Northern Salmon. "It was a marriage made in heaven," said Gail Fanjoy, the president of the local chamber of commerce. "Out of the gate, they were going to employ 50 people. That's a home run.

With 302 neurons, 200 of them in their heads, hermaphrodite female roundworms reveal surprising sex-specific differences in the nervous system and how these differences influence behavior, reproduction, and aging. Researchers at Northeastern University compared brain activity in male and hermaphroditic Caenorhabditis elegans, a microscopic worm widely used in biological research to understand how sex wires males and female nervous systems differently.