Editorial Roundup: New York Remember worries about climate change, and concerns that future energy costs may rise more than some people can afford to pay? Brad Hoylman (D-Manhattan) and Assemblywoman Joanne Simon (D-Brooklyn) ... 05/1/2024 - 8:11 pm | View Link
Rising Hindu nationalism leaves Muslims fearful in India’s holy city The sun glistens on the Ganges as Hindu devotees bathe in the holy river’s waters, and the Muslim call to prayer reverberates through the dusty air. Varanasi, an ancient city of temples and gods, is ... 04/30/2024 - 5:03 pm | View Link
KAUST Paves the Way for Breakthroughs with Simulated Reality King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) is applying modern technology in all its field of studies, preparing students to tackle real-world issues. 04/30/2024 - 4:18 am | View Link
Class of 2024 reflects on college years marked by COVID-19, protests and life's lost milestones College campuses have always been a hotbed for protests, but students today also carry additional stresses from having lived through the isolation and fear from the pandemic. 04/29/2024 - 7:30 am | View Link
Tesla surges by $64bn after Elon Musk’s Beijing breakthrough Tesla has taken a further step towards launching self-driving cars in China after a row over the transfer of data from drivers in the world’s second largest economy. Chief executive Elon Musk is ... 04/29/2024 - 6:25 am | View Link
Across social media, iPhone users have reported waking up to the scary realization that they had missed their alarm. “In the past six days of school, I’ve accumulated seven tardies,” said TikTok user CarterPCS. “I could’ve sworn it was because my alarm wasn’t going off.”
“I was literally late to work the other day because I slept through all four of my alarms that I had set,” TikTok user Charkaylotte recounted.
BEIJING — The death toll from a collapsed highway in southeastern China climbed to 48 on Thursday as searchers dug for a second day through a treacherous and mountainous area.
One side of the four-lane highway in the city of Meizhou gave way about 2 a.m. on Wednesday after a month of heavy rains in Guangdong province.
President Ronald Reagan warned in 1986 that if Nicaragua’s “Sandinistas” remained in power, “terrorists and subversives” would have sanctuary “just 2 days’ driving time from Harlingen, Texas.” During the 1980s, Reagan gave more speeches on the Central American country than about almost any other foreign policy issue. Congress voted countless times on his policy of undermining Nicaragua’s Cuban- and Soviet-backed government by arming insurgents known as the Contra.
LOS ANGELES — Police removed barricades and began dismantling a pro-Palestinian demonstrators’ fortified encampment early Thursday at the University of California, Los Angeles, after hundreds of protesters defied orders to leave. Some people were detained, their hands bound with zip ties.
The action came after officers spent hours threatening arrests over loudspeakers if people did not disperse.
In 2018, we worked with Bill Gates on a special issue of TIME dedicated to the power of optimism. Gates’ view, shared by many of the issue’s contributors, was that people are wired to focus on when things go wrong and when they don’t work. Sometimes this attention distracts us from the moments when progress is being made.
Sometimes all it takes is a cold email to start a revolution. Dr. Alex Oshmyansky, a radiologist who had become incensed by the runaway prices of prescription drugs, decided to email billionaire and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who famously makes his contact info public. He included a business plan for a small company he had created in 2018 that made drugs and sold them at cost.