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Concern about Discrimination against "Asian Americans" in University Admissions–in 1987!

Do Colleges Set Asian Quotas? Newsweek, February 9, 1987. With a mix of awe and animosity, students in the Boston area joke that MIT stands for Made in Taiwan. Like many of the nation's most competitive schools, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has experienced huge increases in Asian-American enrollments. Across…

Reason

'Overwatch 2' MIT stat: What is Damage Mitigated and why does it matter?

'Overwatch 2' is beset with problems before it even launches. The latest beta update brings some good news in the form of the MIT, or Damage Mitigated, stat.

Inverse

Marvel's 'Ironheart' series on Disney Plus — everything we know so far

Marvel's “Ironheart” series for Disney Plus looks to follow a character first introduced in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”. Here's what we know.

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Do naked ballots mean trouble for John Fetterman? Here’s what you need to know

PHILADELPHIA — Naked ballots didn’t cost Joe Biden the 2020 election. That doesn’t mean Democrats are in the clear this year.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

China's economy rotting from the head

China highlights a long-debated question about economic development: Can a top-down autocracy outperform liberal market economies in terms of innovation and growth?

Bangkok Post

Court Adopts Narrow Approach to Pseudonymity in Title IX Wrongful-Discipline Cases

A federal judge suggested that plaintiffs can sue as John Does only to the extent that identifying them would also identify nonparties who want to remain anonymous (such as the students who accused the plaintiffs of sexual misconduct).

Reason

Kanye West assails Jews, abortion in new interview with Lex Fridman

In a sprawling new podcast interview with MIT research scientist Lex Fridman, Kanye West made yet another series of incendiary and false statements about the Holocaust, abortion and the Jewish people.

Los Angeles Times

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Cell biologist from Duke named new president of MIT

A cell biologist who has spent the past eight years as provost at Duke University has been named president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Independent UK

The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 15 October 2022

On Monday the Sveriges Riksbank prize (the Nobel Prize for Economics) was awarded to Ben Bernanke. We can trace the last century of American economics in his life's work. He's often described as the saviour of the last recession. But what about this one?

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Michael Hiltzik: The artificial intelligence field is infected with hype. Here's how not to get duped

The star of the show at Tesla's annual "AI Day" (for "artificial intelligence") on Sept. 30 was a humanoid robot introduced by Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk as "Optimus."

Los Angeles Times

Delta works with MIT to study impact of airplane contrails on climate

ATLANTA — Delta Air Lines said Thursday it will work with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on a study examining the environmental impact of airplane contrails.

Tribune News Service

Commentary: The quandary of US-trained Chinese scientists: Stay or leave?

Would you train your workers and then squeeze them out by creating a hostile environment? Would you drive out these workers so they can go work for a competitor? The answer is obviously no. Yet this is what’s happening now in the U.S., with a rising number of U.S.-trained Chinese…

Los Angeles Times

Indonesian police kill militant suspected in farmers' deaths

Indonesian police say they have killed a militant believed to be responsible for the killings of Christian farmers on an Indonesian island

The Independent UK

Would Madinah Become Saudi Arabia’s ‘City of Lights’?

Since the second half of the 19th century, Paris’ inhabitants and visitors have known it as the city of lights (La Ville Lumière). Some historians suggest the name was given to the French capital because it was a hub for culture and intellect during the Age of Enlightenment, and its…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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The MCU’s 'Ironheart' will improve on the comics in one pivotal way

How will Ironheart set herself apart from Iron Man?

The Guardian - UK

Imperial College London: inside the university that is in the business of studying

At number five in this year’s rankings, up from seven last year, the university’s rep as the place for go-getters and entrepreneurs continues to flourish

The Guardian - UK

‘Father of quantum computing’ wins $3m physics prize

David Deutsch, who proposed an as yet unbuildable machine to test existence of parallel universes, shares prize with three others

Asharq Al-Awsat

Syria, Türkiye Discuss Roadmap for Safe Return of Syrian Refugees

Head of Türkiye’s National Intelligence Organization (MIT) Hakan Fidan and Syrian intelligence chief Ali Mamlouk have recently met in Damascus. Daily Sabah newspaper that is close to the Turkish government revealed details of the meeting, which it said was an attempt to form a roadmap for the safe return of…

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Asics made a sneaker with the world's lowest carbon footprint

The Gel-Lyte III CM 1.95 only emits 1.95kg of CO2e per pair.

Reuters

Exclusive-With a Russian nudge, Turkey and Syria step up contacts

Turkey's intelligence chief has held multiple meetings with his Syrian counterpart in Damascus over the last few weeks, a sign of Russian efforts to encourage a thaw between states on opposite sides of Syria's war, four sources said.

RideApart

MIT Researchers Find Inexpensive EV Charging Technology Solution

MIT Materials Chemistry Professor Donald Sadoway publishes a paper outlining his aluminum-sulfur battery as a cheap solution to lithium-ion batteries.

Inverse

Is that a piece of cake? Here's how your brain knows something is food

In a new study, researchers discovered a special group of neurons that light up whenever you lock eyes on a culinary delight.

The Independent UK

MIT scientists build briefcase-sized machine to turn saltwater into drinking water

A new company called Nona Technologies says the device is the “future of water”

Inverse

A private mission wants to find alien life on the Solar System's most unrelenting planet

The Venus Life Finder mission wants to find microbes on the place they shouldn't be able to survive.

Dynamite News

First look of Dominique Thorne starrer 'Ironheart unveiled at D23 Expo

The upcoming Marvel Studios series 'Ironheart', which stars Dominique Thorne and Alden Ehrenreich, on Saturday, got an official first look at the D23 Expo. Read more on Dynamite News:

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