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Professor Matthias Scheutz of Tufts University and his team have programmed several robots to read one another’s thoughts.  Below is an article describing this development courtesy of […]

Senator Ben Sasse
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Republican Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska issued a scathing takedown of President Trump during a telephone town hall with constituents on Wednesday.  He accused the […]

View from our deck!
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My wife, Elaine and I, will be traveling today to return home after spending a few days on Nantucket.

We stayed in a beach house on a very quiet part of the […]

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Below are five takeaways from last night’s Donald Trump and Joe Biden’s town halls courtesy of NBC News.  I saw most of the Biden town hall and thought he handled his quest […]

Flower Darby
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Flower Darby, an instructional designer and the author, with James M. Lang, of Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science in Online Classes, had an article in The […]

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The Associated Press is reporting that Melania Trump said yesterday that her and the president’s teenage son, Barron, tested positive for the coronavirus not long after his parents, b […]

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According to the latest report from the National S […]

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Not Our Faith, a new bipartisan Christian super PAC is taking on President Donald Trump with an ad that accuses him of hypocrisy when it comes to matters of faith.  

“Mr. Pre […]

William R. Doyle
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William R. Doyle, a professor of public policy and higher education at Vanderbilt University, has an article in today’s Chronicle of Higher Education, entitled H […]

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Asked about whether he would back expanding the US Supreme Court to more than nine justices, Joe Biden said on Monday that he’s “not a fan of court packing.”

“I’ve already spoken […]

Charles Koch
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Christopher Leonard, the author of  Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America  has an op-ed in today’s New York Times entitled  Char […]

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Two American economists, Paul R. Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson, were awarded the 2020 Nobel in economic science yesterday for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new […]

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Dr. Anthony Fauci said yesterday that President Donald Trump’s campaign should take down a political ad featuring his comments because he did not consent to it and the remarks were t […]

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Ithaca College’s newspaper, The Ithacan reported on October 8th, that approximately 130 faculty members will lose their jobs because of decreased enrollment.  La Jerne Cornish, […]

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Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump’s nominee to the US Supreme Court, will come before the Senate Judiciary Committee starting today.  These deliberations will garner a good de […]

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Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump’s nominee to fill Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s seat, goes before the Senate Judiciary Committee tomorrow in what is sure to be a major new […]

Tanya McDowell went to prison in part for misleading officials so her son could go to a better school.
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Nicholas Kristof has column this […]

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The Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) announced yesterday that it has cancelled the Oct. 15 debate between President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden after Trump […]

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Throughout its 208-year history, The New England Journal of Medicine has remained staunchly nonpartisan. The world’s most prestigious medical journal has never supported or c […]

Gretchen Whitmer
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Federal agents foiled a plot to kidnap Michigan Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer in an alleged scheme that involved months of planning and even rehearsals to […]