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Kevin O'Leary Advocates Entrepreneurship Over Consulting to Students: 'Why Would Anybody Burn All Those Hours While Someone Else Makes Money?'

Kevin O’Leary, the famed investor and star of “Shark Tank,” urged students at Harvard to forgo the traditional consulting route and instead establish their own businesses.

Benzinga

This wild bioplastic made of algae just aced a Mars pressure test. Can astronauts use it to build on the Red Planet?

Scientists have grown algae in bioplastic habitats under Mars-like conditions, a step that could bring long-term space colonization closer to reality.

Space

Trump fossil-fuel push setting back green progress decades, critics warn

US president using ‘invented’ national energy crisis to justify expansion of coal, oil and gas, experts say

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Trump cannot dispel the ghost of Jeffrey Epstein

Trump’s grooming of his followers is impossible to undo. Now he is bedeviled by a conspiracy theory gap

The Guardian - US

Average IQ In The USA 2025: State Leaders And Laggards

USA IQ in 2025: See state average IQ scores, leaders, and laggards. Where does your state rank on the intelligence quotient scale, typically 85 and 115?

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Shark Tank's Kevin O’Leary warns Gen Z this job is a slow 'drift into hell' that'll make you unemployable for life

Multimillionaire serial investor Kevin O’Leary says just 24 months in consulting is enough to kill future prospects: ‘You are tainted meat for the rest of your life.’

Fortune

Leaders in India, Hungary and the US are using appeals to nostalgia and nationalism to attack higher education

Harvard University is under siege by the Trump administration – and the world is watching. But this case isn’t just an American issue.

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White House stonewalls when pressed to explain Trump’s implausible Unabomber story

Press Secretary offers non-answer when asked about Trump’s impossible claim that his MIT professor uncle once taught future killer Ted Kaczynski — who never attended MIT

The Independent UK

Debunking the 100,000 Medicaid Deaths Myth

Partisan pundits are misreading statistical estimates and misrepresenting the science to suggest that Trump's Medicaid cuts will kill 100,000 people. That claim doesn’t survive scrutiny.

Reason

What is the 3.5% protest rule and what does it mean for the US?

As the anti-Trump resistance has grown, so has talk of 3.5%, a figure which stems from research on previous movements

The Guardian - US

Columbia adopts controversial definition of antisemitism amid federal grants freeze

University announces move as it tries to restore $400m in funds frozen over alleged failure to protect Jewish students

The Guardian - US

Who Is Oliver Haarmann? Reese Witherspoon's Boyfriend And $440m German Tycoon

Reese Witherspoon's romance with German financier Oliver Haarmann is progressing. Their relationship became public last July, a year after her divorce from Jim Toth.

International Business Times UK

How universities can keep protests from turning violent: 3 lessons from the 2024 pro-Palestinian encampments

In spring 2024, pro-Palestinian student encampments that began at Columbia and Harvard spread to university campuses throughout the U.S. as Israel invaded Gaza in response to Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, surprise attack. At least 100 campuses had encampments for at least a few days during this period.

The Conversation

A law from the era of Red Scares is supercharging Trump administration’s power over immigrants and noncitizens

Nativism, the idea that government must guard native-born Americans from various threats posed by immigrants, has a long history in the United States.

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The Independent UK

A runner’s guide to visiting Boston for the Marathon: Where to stay, what to do and tips to conquer 26.2 miles

The iconic race sees thousands of runners travel from around the world for one of the most unique tests in the sport – having run himself Jack Rathborn reveals how to make the most of your time in the city if you’re taking part

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Donald Trump tastes defeat again as his gazillionth attempt to break the law is thwarted

A president who has nothing better to do than insult the Constitution.

Benzinga

Sam Altman's OpenAI Accuses Nonprofit With Possible Elon Musk Ties Of Misleading Public, Breaking Lobbying Laws

Sam Altman‘s OpenAI has reportedly lodged a complaint against a nonprofit organization, accusing it of violating state lobbying laws and possibly having connections to Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO Elon Musk.What Happened: OpenAI, the artificial intelligence company, has accused the Coalition for AI Nonprofit Integrity (CANI) of violating California’s lobbying laws, reported Politico on Thursday.…

Reason

No Sanctions Against Prof. Francesca Gino Over Libel Claim Against Data Colada

From today's order by Judge Myong J. Joun (D. Mass.) in Gino v. President & Fellows of Harvard College: The… The post No Sanctions Against Prof. Francesca Gino Over Libel Claim Against Data Colada appeared first on Reason.com.

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Trump Wants Harvard To Hand Over Info on Over 10,000 International Students

The university says it will continue to defend itself against government overreach.

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Trump administration says Harvard may lose accreditation, threatens to subpoena international student records

Harvard is safe, at least until 2027.

Benzinga

Mark Zuckerberg Once Revealed That Getting Into Harvard Made His Mom And Dad Prouder Than Building Facebook —Spills The Beans On Why No One Talked To Him At His First Class

Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META) CEO Mark Zuckerberg once joked that his parents were more proud of his Harvard University acceptance than anything he's done since, despite founding one of the world's most influential tech companies.

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“She Got In”: 24 Of The Worst College Admission Essays Shared In This Thread

You need good grades, clear aspirations, and the ability to pen a quality admissions essay. What you write can have a massive impact on your future.

The Guardian - US

The Trump administration pushed out a university president – its latest bid to close the American mind

Demanding that the University of Virginia’s president resign is taken from the Viktor Orbán playbook of authoritarianism

Benzinga

Scott Bessent Slams Larry Summers' '2,000 Days Of Death' Remark On Trump Tax Plan: Demands Apology Over 'Callous' TV Comment

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent criticized former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers on Monday, calling his recent television comments about Trump’s tax legislation “shockingly callous” and demanding a public apology.

The Independent UK

Colleges will soon have to fork over millions of dollars as Trump’s bill extends a tax on their endowments

Universities use their endowments to fund critical operations and to provide services, such as tuition assistance to low-income students

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