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‘It baffles me’: what drew a mild lawyer with a liberal past into Trump’s election plot?

Kenneth Chesebro – low-profile, bright, seemingly decent – is not your average Trump guy. So how did he become the architect of the election subversion scandal?

The Guardian - US

Iowa school used ChatGPT to ban 19 library books

A.I. is being used to enforce book bans and is battering American education in the process.

Fortune

As a college applicant of color, what Downers Grove North senior Izzy Cervantes is facing in a post-affirmative action world

As universities adjust to a ban on race-conscious admissions, Chicago-area high school students try to sort out what the ruling means for them.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Jack Goldsmith Responds to Critics on the Dangers of Prosecuting (or not Prosecuting) Trump for Trying to Overturn the 2020 Election

I was one of the critics he responded to, and in this post I offer a rejoinder.

Reason

Five Books About Retirement to Prepare You for Your Golden Years

These books about retirement will help prepare you for your next stage through fiction and nonfiction. What's more, they are great reads!

Kiplinger

Sports doctor says Raiders DE Tyree Wilson could have reduced explosiveness when he returns from injury

Raiders DE Tyree Wilson could have reduced explosiveness Week 1

USA Today Sports Media Group

‘Affirmative action for the privileged’: why Democrats are fighting legacy admissions

Critics argue that university’s preference toward legacy applicants exacerbates existing inequalities in higher education

The Guardian - US

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There’s far more scientific fraud than anyone wants to admit

Despite recent scandals of research misconduct and error, the academic world still seems determined to look the other way

The Guardian - US

‘What people accused Oppenheimer of doing’: the untold story of spy Ted Hall

In Steve James’s documentary, A Compassionate Spy, a lesser-known figure from the Manhattan Project is given the spotlight

The Guardian - US

Charles Ogletree, longtime legal and civil rights scholar at Harvard Law School, dies at 70

Charles Ogletree taught Barack and Michelle Obama and represented Tupac Shakur, Anita Hill and survivors of the 1921 massacre of Tulsa’s Black community.

Chicago Sun-Times

For $17,700 you can get your master’s degree in happiness: ‘This is too important a field to be at the mercy of self help’

90 people from 15 countries across multiple generations are becoming happiness experts.

Fortune

Charles Ogletree, longtime legal and civil rights scholar at Harvard Law School, dies at 70

Law professor and civil rights scholar Charles J

The Independent UK

A landmark study opens a new possible way for Black Americans to trace their ancestry

Researchers have compared the DNA of 27 Black people who lived at the Catoctin furnace between 1774 and 1850, finding a link between these enslaved Americans and nearly 42,000 living relatives.

WEKU

Filling Fauci's shoes: Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo is HIV expert and a lot of fun at parties

Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, a professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, will lead NIH's infectious diseases institute. Colleagues say she has a wide breadth of knowledge and a joyful demeanor.

WEKU

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‘A Compassionate Spy’: Why a U.S. scientist thought leaks to the Soviets would save the world

Doc profiles Ted Hall, a Manhattan Project physicist (and sometime Chicagoan) who shared atomic bomb secrets, then spent a lifetime dodging the feds.

Fortune

Did Fitch ditch its credibility by playing politics? Here’s why ratings agencies have a knack for getting it wrong

A review of the ratings agencies’ track record suggests that they are not very good at their raison d’être: giving ratings.

Reason

Scholar of Dishonesty Accused of Research Dishonesty Sues for Libel, Claiming Accusers Were Dishonest

Prof. Francesca Gino, a celebrated scholar studying dishonesty, was recently put on unpaid leave by Harvard, based on allegations that she had fabricated data in her studies; the allegations had been raised and discussed by three professors who run Data Colada (Uri Simonsohn of ESADE Business School in Barcelona, Leif…

The Conversation

Ending affirmative action does nothing to end discrimination against Asian Americans

In two cases challenging the use of race in college admissions, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the educational benefit of racial diversity is no longer what it once called a “compelling interest.”

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Dishonesty expert accused of fraud sues Harvard and watchdog site for $275 million over their ‘appalling’ bias and ‘utter disregard for evidence’

She accused the defendants of defamation and gender discrimination.

Fortune

A Harvard professor raking in over $1 million a year who specialized in 'dishonesty' was accused of fabricating research. 3 retractions have already occurred

Harvard Business School's Francesca Gino has many articles and books to her name, including "Rebel Talent: Why it Pays to Break the Rules in Work and Life."

Evening Standard

Who is Jack Smith? The man who could bring down Donald Trump

Jack Smith, the US special counsel who on Tuesday filed a second federal criminal indictment against Donald Trump, is an Ironman-racing, Harvard grad with a reputation for winning tough cases against war criminals, mobsters and crooked cops.

Newsroom.co.nz

Kiwi Maia still pinching herself over huge US win

After shocking the United States' elite young athletes by winning the NCAA national 1500m, Kiwi runner Maia Ramsden plots a path to the Paris Olympics. Sarah Cowley Ross reports.

The Hindu

J. Robert Oppenheimer: the man, his science, and the man beyond the science

We take a look at Robert Oppenheimer, the scientist and the man, beyond his most famous scientific development- the atomic bomb.

Reason

Justice Sotomayor Defends Racial and Ethnic Classifications Relied Upon by Harvard and UNC

She doesn't do a very good job of it.

Reason

Flashback 1987: "In a Pure Meritocracy … Stanford Could Become 40 Percent Jewish, 40 Percent Asian-American"

Concerns that elite universities have rigged their admissions policies to disfavor Asian Americans are nothing new. In 1987, Newsweek reported accusations along those lines. The article noted that the acceptance rate for Asian American applicants at elite colleges had dropped dramatically, that Harvard, Princeton, and Stanford had all studied why…

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