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After day 24 of the World Cup, France narrowly advance past Paraguay to retain top spot, while Morocco’s 3-0 win over Canada boosts them into serious title contention. The piece updates the 48-team rankings, hints at upcoming Brazil–Norway and Mexico–England clashes, and assesses which teams have solidified or altered their championship chances.
SteamOS 3.8.10 stable arrives with an updated Arch base, KDE Plasma 6.4, and Wayland as the default desktop (X11 available), plus Linux 6.16 kernel, broader hardware and controller support, improved screencasting, HDMI VRR, audio improvements, and initial Steam Machine hardware support.
Research suggests cannabis can impair short-term memory and, if started in adolescence, may reduce brain volume; older adults are increasingly using it for medical reasons, though evidence of neuroprotection is inconclusive; there’s no proven link to dementia yet, but federal research barriers and concerns about cannabis use disorder persist, especially among youth.
Giving up sugar for Lent can reveal how sugar acts on the brain’s reward system—driving dopamine signaling in the mesolimbic pathway, altering D1/D2 receptor balance and dopamine transport—similar to drugs of abuse; rodent studies show bingeing, withdrawal, and impulsivity; in humans, about 40 days off sugar may reset some neural sensitivity and reduce cravings, though effects vary by person.