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They Eat Our Sweat - new book exposes daily struggles of transport workers in Lagos

Daniel E. Agbiboa’s book They Eat Our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria explores the world of drivers of minibuses (danfo) and motorcycles (okada) in Lagos, the economic capital of Nigeria. Agbiboa is assistant professor of African and African American studies at Harvard University. His research…

The Conversation

The next campus battle: Legacy admission

Lawyers for Civil Rights' Oren Sellstrom explains how vital evidence revealed in the Havard case can now be used

Salon

Editorial: It's time to end legacy admissions

When the U.S. Supreme Court recently voted to strike down affirmative action admissions programs at colleges and universities, it turned a spotlight on another system that has slid under the radar for far too long and also advantages some students over others on factors other than merit.

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An AP explainer on recent arrests in alleged human remains network

Federal investigators discovered a human remains trade with connections to Harvard Medical School and have arrested people in several states

The Independent UK

‘Grim Reaper’: Harvard Medical School faces 2 more lawsuits over alleged human body parts trafficking ring

BOSTON — One of two new lawsuits filed against Harvard in the wake of bombshell allegations a morgue employee was stealing and selling body parts donated to the university’s medical school reveals the employee may have identified as the “Grim Reaper.”

Boston Herald

How dead is "dead enough"?

Your loved one checked the box to be an organ donor at the DMV. Now they're dead. What happens?

Salon

Greg Cote: 100-plus deaths later, why can’t we finally end bizarre culture of college & sports hazing?

MIAMI — Asinine. Juvenile. Unnecessary. Archaic. Embarrassing. Dumb. Humiliating. Dangerous.

Miami Herald

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Man found with 40 human skulls and spinal cords ‘decorating’ his home, court filings say

FBI agents asked suspect James Nott if anyone was in the house, to which he replied: ‘Only my dead friends’

The Independent UK

Trudy Rubin: From hell to Harvard: One Ukrainian's escape and how you can help fulfill her dreams

Fifteen months ago, Alina Beskrovna was huddled with her mother and 30 other Ukrainians in a pitch-black basement in Mariupol, as Russian shells rained down and buildings around them collapsed in flames. I didn't know whether she was alive or dead.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

25-year-old Harvard grad worries A.I. won't foster 'educational resilience'

Entrepreneur Nadya Okamoto says using A.I. for schoolwork can stunt critical thinking skills, but admits it can free up time to do what you love.

Fortune

Support for legacy admissions is rooted in racial hierarchy

Not long after the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 2023 decision to ban the use of race in college admissions, people began to ask questions once again about the fairness of legacy admissions.

The Conversation

Who is Thai prime ministerial hopeful Pita Limjaroenrat?

Opposition leader who won election with promises of royal reforms faces an uncertain political future.

Al Jazeera

Harvard '21 grad says Gen Z just uses A.I. to do their homework, they 'aren't necessarily interested in using ChatGPT for learning'

At Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech, Nadya Okamoto, Harvard class of ‘21, confronted the CEO of Chegg, saying, "“I was a Chegg user but not because I gave a f*** about learning.”

Fortune

A.I. can kill your business in an instant. Just ask the CEO of Chegg

"I’m the poster child for getting your ass kicked in the public markets by A.I.," Chegg’s CEO said at Fortune Brainstorm Tech. He lost 48% in one day.

Fortune

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Tech CEO who takes 61 pills a day and eats 70 pounds of veggies a month to stay young forever says he's never been happier: 'I pity the previous version of me'

Bryan Johnson's anti-aging routine costs him $2 million a year, and he's constantly monitored. Yet, the tech CEO says he's never been happier.

Fortune

HBS withdraws papers from its dishonesty expert after she was found to be dishonest

Researchers allege that Harvard Business School professor Francesca Gino manipulated data in four of her studies, including one on dishonesty.

Reason

Affirmative Action Is Racist and Therefore Wrong

If activists want to help young people, they should start before college.

Newsroom.co.nz

Why the fear about sloping the playing field towards diversity?

The US Supreme Court v Harvard University decision is a backwards step for racial equality and has echoes of our own treatment of Māori students, writes Lianne Dalziel

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The Hindu

Physicist who found spherical meteor fragments claims they may come from an alien spaceship

A physicist from Harvard University has recovered 50 spherical iron fragments from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean that he claims may be material from an interstellar alien spaceship

The Texas Tribune

Race-based college admissions are now banned, but Texas schools still have ways to ensure campuses are diverse

Higher education experts say universities can implement other strategies like targeted recruitment in underserved communities, eliminating legacy admissions and getting rid of test requirements.

LiveScience

'Anomalous' metal spheres unlikely to be alien technology, despite Harvard scientist's claim

A prominent extraterrestrial-hunting scientist thinks that more than 50 tiny, metal spheres pulled from the Pacific Ocean might be the work of intelligent aliens. Others are skeptical.

The Week

The Harvard and Papua New Guinea interstellar meteor row

The removal of fragments from a possible interstellar meteor has sparked a row between scientists from Harvard and Papua New Guinean authorities.

The Independent UK

Dog genes could hold key to curing cancer, new research shows

Dogs and humans share 18 cancer mutation ‘hotspots’, Harvard study shows

The Guardian - UK

Poem of the week: Silence by Marianne Moore

A man who might seem rather snooty gradually reveals himself as cultured and restrained, rather like Moore’s art

WEKU

Supreme Court dissents and rejoinders, with respect and disrespect

Feelings seem raw at the court, certainly for the court's three liberal justices, who were on the losing end of some of the court's biggest cases this term, but also for the conservatives.

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