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Some Academics Get Funding for Propping Up the Livestock Industry – Mother Jones
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When researchers at the United Nations published a bombshell report in 2006 called “Livestock’s Long Shadow,” the livestock industry soon realized it had a major public relations challenge on its hands.
Media outlets around the world covered the report and its main findings: Livestock are a major source of greenhouse gas emissions that need to be reined in, and
Claudine Gay Is Not the Real Story
Claudine Gay is gone. The Harvard president’s slow-burning plagiarism scandal was finally fanned into a full-blown conflagration that neither she nor the university could stamp out. After weeks of mounting accusations, several new instances of alleged plagiarism uncovered Monday night—added to about 40 earlier examples—appear to have been the final straw. Her resignation was tendered yesterday afternoon.
The conservative activist Christopher Rufo, who helped kick off this controversy when he and fellow conservative Christopher Brunet leveled a round of
UC Academics Streikposten im größten Streik des Jahres
Studenten am Streikposten am 16. November 2022
*Rund 48.000 wissenschaftlich Beschäftigte insgesamt 10 Campus der University of California (UC). trat am 14. November in den Streik und schloss Klassenzimmer und Forschungslabors im größten Mitarbeiterstreik an jeder akademischen Institution in Geschichte.
Die Postdoktoranden, Lehrassistenten und Lehrbeauftragten, Doktoranden und akademischen Forscher werden in Vertragsverhandlungen mit dem UC-System von der Gewerkschaft United Auto Workers vertreten.
Die Verhandlungen zwischen den Streitparteien dauern seit Monaten an, und während
Marcus Freeman von Notre Dame verdeutlicht Kommentare zu OSU Academics
Notre Dame Trainer Marcus Freeman präzisierte seinen Kommentar dazu Bundesstaat Ohio‘s Akademiker und sagte in einem Folgeinterview, dass er seine Alma Mater niemals missachten würde.
In einem Gespräch am Dienstag auf 97.1 The Fan mit den ehemaligen Teamkollegen von Buckeye, Bobby Carpenter und Anthony Schlegel, sagte Freeman, dass er die akademischen Fähigkeiten des Bundesstaates Ohio in einem Interview mit Dennis Dodd von CBS Sports nicht herabgesetzt habe. Er behauptete, dass er von Dodd falsch zitiert wurde und dass „Schlüsselwörter
The Mysterious Disappearance of a Revolutionary Mathematician
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While living in an internment camp in Vichy France, Alexander Grothendieck was tutored in mathematics by another prisoner, a girl named Maria. Maria taught Grothendieck, who was twelve, the definition of a circle: all the points that are equidistant from a given point. The definition impressed him with “its simplicity and clarity,” he wrote years later. The property of perfect rotundity had until then appeared to him