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Meat, dairy and rice production will bust 1.5C climate target, shows study

Emissions from food system alone will drive the world past target, unless high-methane foods are tackled

The Guardian - UK

Jaguars 7-round mock draft: 9 potential targets post-NFL combine

The Jaguars have nine draft picks in the 2023 NFL Draft. Who should they be eying?

USA Today Sports Media Group

Bee populations are shrinking, but the buzz about robot bees to the rescue is premature

If bees die out, how will the flowers, trees and crops be pollinated? One answer is robot bees. But is this a good idea or even possible?

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Walter Mirisch, Oscar-winning producer, dead at 101

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences says Oscar winning film producer Walter Mirisch has died at age 101

The Independent UK

‘Old-school union busting’: how US corporations are quashing the new wave of organizing

Victories at several companies energized organizers, but hostile corporations – and an impotent labor board – stymie negotiations

The Guardian - US

Bing's chatbot isn't your girlfriend

Bing chatbot conspiracy theories offer a dark window into the dangers of toxic masculinity

Salon

Russian invasion of Ukraine is an attempt to restore pre-communist empire, researcher claims

Russia's invasion of Ukraine is part of Moscow's attempt to restore the empire that existed before the emergence of the Soviet Union. RFI's Jan van der Made talked to Professor Serhii Plokhy, director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University on how the West failed to read Russian President…

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The educational background of the top-4 state executives in each state

Welcome to the Wednesday, February 22, Brew.

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College Basketball Predictions For Every Game. Friday, February 17

College basketball predictions for every game along with the schedule, game times, and how to watch on Friday, February 17

USA Today Sports Media Group

Fifty-eight state executives have master’s degrees; 93 have law degrees

Of the 192 officeholders currently occupying the top four executive positions in each state—governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, and secretary of state—184 have a bachelor’s degree, 58 have a master’s degree, and 93 have a law degree. Nine such officeholders have a Ph.D., and one has a medical degree. Eight…

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Interesting New Contractual Due Process Lawsuit by Former Harvard Business School Professor

The case, filed by, among others, lawyer and FIRE co-founder Harvey Silverglate, is Edelman v. President & Fellows of Harvard College; an excerpt: Plaintiff Benjamin Edelman brings this suit in law and equity to correct the harm that Harvard University has caused to his career, livelihood, and reputation by unlawfully…

Reason

A diverse Supreme Court grapples with affirmative action, with its justices of color split sharply on the meaning of 'equal protection'

The United States Supreme Court is deciding a pair of cases that could end affirmative action programs that consider race in college admissions.

The Conversation

Noah Feldman: Ethics code wouldn’t fix Supreme Court’s legitimacy crisis

Pressure is rising on the U.S. Supreme Court to adopt an ethics code. On its face, this sounds reasonable. What’s not to like about ethics? But it’s worth asking what problem the change would solve.

Tribune News Service

These Easy Practices Could Significantly Reduce Your Risk of Long Covid

A public health study from Harvard shows that six typical health habits halve the risk that one will develop long Covid.

Inverse

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"The Rise and Fall of Jews at Law Schools"

An interesting essay by New York Law School professor Rebecca Roiphe. A taste:Many, if not most, students have bought into academic lessons peddled in the 1980s and '90s as an outgrowth of what's often called critical legal theory. Among them: Law is not a neutral institution designed to ensure the…

USA Today Sports Media Group

College Basketball Predictions For Every Game. Saturday, February 11

College basketball predictions for every game along with the schedule, game times, and how to watch on Saturday, February 11

Tribune News Service

Commentary: Facebookopoly

The recent news is that Facebook’s parent, Meta, had record earnings that have driven the stock up over 20% in trading. In the world of social media, Facebook is ubiquitous. Coming from humble beginnings as a Harvard student’s pet project, it’s now expanded to 2.89 billion users worldwide, making it…

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Modi skips the A-word, leaves Rahul Gandhi’s 5 questions unanswered

Facing a volley of allegations linked to the Adani Group controversy during the stormy budget session, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday hit back at the opposition’s charges. But did he?

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The Guardian - UK

Forget regret! How to have a happy life – according to the world’s leading expert

For 84 years, the Harvard Study of Adult Development has tracked the lives of hundreds of Americans. Now its director, Robert Waldinger, is explaining what it has taught him about health and fulfilment

Los Angeles Times

Editorial: A welcome revolt against the flawed college ranking system

A handful of top medical schools, including Stanford and Columbia, pulled out of U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings in January, following a similar exodus of more than a dozen law schools, including UC Berkeley, Yale and Harvard, late last year. It’s a welcome development that is overdue. Undergraduate…

The Guardian - AU

Want to be culturally sensitive? Start by saying my name right

In a country where many were either born overseas or have at least one parent born elsewhere, there should be no place for intellectual laziness and complacency

The Independent UK

Chanting Harvard students walk out of lecture by professor accused of groping and harassment

More than 100 Harvard students chanted ‘justice for survivors’ as embattled professor John Comaroff began his first lecture of the semester on Tuesday

Los Angeles Times

Robin Abcarian: Two universities that tried to squelch academic freedom have backtracked. Here's hoping that's a trend

I thought my mind was playing tricks on me when I first read that Kenneth Roth, who led Human Rights Watch for three decades, had been disinvited to a fellowship at Harvard Kennedy School's Carr Center for Human Rights.

The National (Scotland)

The female Scottish astronomer who discovered the famous Horsehead Nebula

TODAY, I am writing about one of the most remarkable Scottish women scientists that ever lived, Williamina Fleming ...

Fortune

Kim Kardashian's Harvard Business School lecture made the internet lose its mind

The reality TV star received backlash even though her SKIMS shapewear brand has a multi-billion dollar valuation.

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