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Irene Greif talks to The Atlantic about being the first woman to get a Ph.D. in her field at MIT.

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YALE under fire for granting honorary degree to ‘environmentally conscious’ businessman sentenced to jail for asbestos deaths…

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At least if you’re an artist: A new study shows that because of this widely held stereotype [that creative people are eccentric], people infer that work made by an eccentric person is better and more valuable than work produced by a conventional character. … Students rated the unconventional art of Joseph Beuys (“The Pack”) more […]

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Every now and then, Lindsay Lohan falls apart, and this time the Oprah Winfrey Network’s cameras were there to catch it. Lohan’s reality show, Lindsay, debuts on OWN on Sunday, and via this extended first look, seems to include all the chaos that Lindsay wanted us to believe she was through with
(a fight with dad, awkward and suffocating hugs from mom, lateness, flaking, a possible breach of her sobriety, etc.).

Almost half of this trailer is taken up by footage of Oprah hearing about Lindsay’s bad behavior and then confronting Lindsay. "You need to cut the shit," says Oprah in the role of Captain Savealo. Fuck-up Lindsay is Rescuer Oprah’s perfect foil. That always seemed to be what this show was really about, and this trailer seems to confirm it.

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"Like a human who just went through laser vision correction, the International Space Station (ISS) recently got a clearer view of our world. That improved view is opening up new vistas for students in American classrooms." A gorgeous photo of British Columbia’s snow-capped mountains was the first view delivered via the Window Observational Research Facility at the U.S. Laboratory Science Window on the International Space Station. This video explanation of the window (part 2) is hosted by three-time shuttle veteran Mario Runco.

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Abby Martin works for Russia Today, the Russian government-funded international news channel that has been broadcasting a multi-lingual defense of Russia’s military presence in Ukraine all week. 

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