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5 High-Dividend REITs Now Trading Below Book Value

The following real estate investment trusts (REITs) are interesting because each one bears a balance sheet not too different from those considered desirable in Benjamin Graham’s classic “The Intelligent Investor.” Graham, of course, is deemed the father of value investing and greatly influenced Warren Buffett, his student at Columbia University.

Benzinga

Commentary: College rankings don’t matter. Whether a school is a good fit does

The news that Columbia University filed fraudulent data to rise in the U.S. News & World Report college rankings has again raised the question of what these rankings mean. Does anyone imagine that as Columbia “plunged” from No. 2 to No. 18 (as its ranking was reassessed by U.S. News…

Chicago Tribune

First Thing: Judge proposed by Trump appointed in Mar-a-Lago records case

Judge Cannon appointed Judge Raymond Dearie as special master and denied the DoJ’s plea to continue reviewing the seized records. Plus, how to survive an empty nest

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Columbia whistleblower on exposing college rankings: ‘They are worthless’

US News relegated Columbia to 18th from second place after it was revealed the college had misrepresented key statistics

The Guardian - US

US News college ranking under scrutiny after Ivy League university plummets

Reliability of data used to compile influential list in doubt after Columbia University drops from second to 18th place

The Guardian - US

Polio in US, UK and Israel reveals rare risk of oral vaccine

The polio viruses recently found in the sewer systems of Jerusalem, New York and London were mutated versions of viruses that first originated in vaccines meant to stamp out the paralytic disease

The Independent UK

Scientists' big monkeypox fear: It will spread to wild animals and be here to stay

Maureen Miller, an infectious disease epidemiologist and medical anthropologist at Columbia University, was not surprised to learn this week that an Italian greyhound in Paris had become the first dog known to catch monkeypox from a human.

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International economists ask Biden to release Afghan central bank funds

More than 70 economists and experts, including Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz, called for Washington and other nations to release Afghanistan's central bank assets in a letter sent to U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday.

Reuters

Who Owns Your Media: The highs and lows of the India Today Group

Forty seven years ago, in 1975, Madhu Trehan founded India Today magazine, although her father Vidya Vilas Purie had originally envisioned it as a tabloid. Trehan had returned from the United States, where she studied journalism at Columbia University and worked with the UN and India Abroad, among other organisations.

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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

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.

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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

Reuters

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.

Los Angeles Times

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.

The Independent UK

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

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Astronomers find an Einsteinian hack to image black holes

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

Reason

Zora Neale Hurston's Inconvenient Individualism

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

Bangkok Post

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…

Benzinga

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.

WEKU

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.

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

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