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3 First-Year Medical Students Who Knew What to Do
Three first-year medical students at Northwestern University were taking a break Monday in a park near Northwestern Medical Hospital when...
CCSF, Facing 1-Day Strike by Faculty, Closes for the Day
The faculty union at the financially troubled City College of San Francisco is planning a one-day strike today. So the...
Fighting Cancer with Nanomachines
To beat cancer, we may want to start thinking small. In today's Academic Minute, the University of Texas at Austin's...
More Educated, More Liberal
Study finds those with graduate education not only lean more to the left than do other Americans, but have done so increasingly in the last two decades.
Opinion
'Life Beyond Boundaries'
Scott McLemee reviews Life Beyond Boundaries: A Memoir, by Benedict Anderson, whose sense of scholarship, and of life itself, was that it ought to be a mode of open-ended exploration.
'The Pulse': Mersive's Christopher Jaynes
This month's edition of the “Pulse” podcast features an interview with Christopher Jaynes, chief technology officer at Mersive.
The Alleged Conspiracy Grows
James Tracy, Newtown-shooting denier and ex-professor at Florida Atlantic, alleges in a federal suit that his faculty union conspired with the institution to get rid of him.
N.Y. Judge Orders Trump University Case to Trial
A New York judge ruled Tuesday that the state's attorney general's case against Trump University will go to trial, according...