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Andrew Delbanco is named this year's Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities

The honorary lecture series is deemed the highest honor the federal government gives for intellectual achievement in the humanities.

WEKU

This experimental robot replicates a distinctly human sense — embodiment

Using artificial intelligence, mechanical engineers teach a robot to learn about its body.

Inverse

Incomplete grade? Columbia loses ranking over dubious data

U.S. News & World Report has unranked Columbia University from its 2022 edition of Best Colleges

The Independent UK

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Margo Jefferson feels ghosts around her. The Chicago-born writer of ‘Negroland’ spends a day with us visiting some of them.

CHICAGO — Margo Jefferson, who has worked a half-century as one of the more formidable and composed critics of American culture, watched the city unwind from the back seat of an SUV. We moved slowly through traffic, maneuvering from the Loop to Wicker Park. She doesn’t get back here often…

Chicago Tribune

Renting in New York City: ‘There are horror stories but I found it easier to find a home in Manhattan than London’

One Londoner reveals what it’s like to search for a rental home in the Big Apple, and how it compares to Brixton.

Evening Standard

Sweltering streets: Hundreds of homeless die in extreme heat

Hundreds of homeless people die in the streets each year from the heat, in cities around the U.S. and the world

The Independent UK

In hottest city on Earth, mothers bear brunt of climate change

Heavily pregnant Sonari toils under the burning sun in fields dotted with bright yellow melons in Jacobabad, which last month became the hottest city on Earth.

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Commentary: Why our response to school shootings is all wrong

“He shot and killed horrifically, incomprehensibly,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said, describing the actions of the 18-year-old gunman allegedly responsible for killing 19 children and two adults at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, last Tuesday.

Los Angeles Times

Weather's unwanted guest: Nasty La Nina keeps popping up

La Nina, the flip side of the better known El Nino weather condition, keeps popping up

The Independent UK

Astronomers find an Einsteinian hack to image black holes

Researchers from Columbia University announced a new and potentially easier way to study black holes.

Inverse

Zora Neale Hurston's Inconvenient Individualism

The author of Their Eyes Were Watching God defies easy political categorization.

Reason

Ending the war of attrition in Ukraine

Wars often erupt and persist because of the two sides' miscalculations regarding their relative power. In the case of Ukraine, Russia blundered badly by underestimating the resolve of Ukrainians to fight and the effectiveness of Nato-supplied weaponry. Yet Ukraine and Nato are also overestimating their capacity to defeat Russia on…

Bangkok Post

5 Things You Might Not Know About Karine Jean-Pierre, Joe Biden's New Press Secretary

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki previously announced she would be leaving the role on May 13.

Benzinga

World Food Prize goes to former farmer who answers climate change question: 'So what?'

The 2022 honoree is Cynthia Rosenzweig, whose computer modeling has shown the impact on global food yield. She talks about her "aha" moment — and the biggest surprise in her findings.

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The Guardian - UK

Is escalation in Ukraine part of the US strategy?

The aim of the billions committed through the Lend-Lease plan could tip the geopolitical balance. History may be about to repeat itself, says Adam Tooze of Columbia University

The Independent UK

Zoom meetings generate fewer creative ideas, study finds

Results are driven by differences in physical nature of video conferencing and in-person interactions

Chicago Tribune

Commentary: Homicides near universities are a crisis that needs immediate action and long-term solutions

On Nov. 9, University of Chicago graduate student Shaoxiong “Dennis” Zheng was fatally shot during a robbery that occurred near the campus. Just three weeks later, Temple University senior Samuel Collington suffered the same tragic fate just two blocks from campus. Days later, Columbia University graduate student Davide Giri was…

Tribune News Service

States look to community colleges to fill labor gap

Monique Acosta began the month of March as a pre-K classroom assistant in Arizona, with no credential other than her high school degree.

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Do IBCs benefit biomedical research?

Experts say IBCs are a crucial tool for ensuring the safety of biomedical research. Critics say they are too opaque

The Guardian - US

US graduate students protest against low pay while universities profit from their work

Student workers often earn ‘below the minimum living wage’ for helping teach courses and assisting with research

The Guardian - US

‘My skin tone is not really accepted’: model Nyakim Gatwech on colorism and Instagram

Gatwech, who was targeted in a prominent psychiatrist’s racist tweet, has built a career in the face of industry prejudice

The Guardian - UK

Madeleine Albright obituary

Diplomat and scholar of international relations who served as the first female US secretary of state

The Independent UK

Columbia University suspends head of psychiatry over tweet about model

‘Coming from somebody with so much power, that was so disappointing,’ the model said.

Reason

Jacob Mchangama, "Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media," and Milton's Curse

I much enjoyed Jacob Mchangama's podcast on the history of free speech (Clear and Present Danger), so I'm particularly pleased to see his book is now out: s I asked him if he could pass along a guest post related to the book, and he graciously agreed: According to Columbia…

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