Chen Ning Yang, Nobel-Winning Physicist, Is Dead at 103 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/s...
Chen Ning Yang, Nobel-Winning Physicist, Is Dead at 103
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October 20, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Chen Ning Yang, Nobel-Winning Physicist, Is Dead at 103 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/s...
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At No Kings rally in Franklin NJ with maybe 500 people
October 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
At No Kings rally in Franklin NJ with maybe 500 people
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By now at least 1000 people I think
October 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
By now at least 1000 people I think
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Statement by 4400 scientists on the humanitarian tragedy in Gaza
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August 21, 2025
We, the undersigned, are scientists from around the world writing in our personal capacity as deeply concerned citizens. We are deeply distressed by the worsening humanitarian crisis i...
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September 5, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Statement by 4400 scientists on the humanitarian tragedy in Gaza
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A Palestinian state would rescue Israel. It would not be a reward for Hamas www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...
A Palestinian state would rescue Israel. It would not be a reward for Hamas
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www.haaretz.com
August 17, 2025 at 1:28 AM
A Palestinian state would rescue Israel. It would not be a reward for Hamas www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...
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My new @science.org editorial on the role of scientists in defending democracy is out today. As authoritarianism takes hold in the US, we must fight for the democratic principles that enable a free society and scientists have a key role. I hope you'll join us.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Scientists’ role in defending democracy
The United States’ democratic leadership, commitment to freedom of expression, and investment in the pursuit of knowledge have long enabled its preeminence in science and technology. Yet today we are ...
www.science.org
August 14, 2025 at 6:36 PM
My new @science.org editorial on the role of scientists in defending democracy is out today. As authoritarianism takes hold in the US, we must fight for the democratic principles that enable a free society and scientists have a key role. I hope you'll join us.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Join UCS and 100+ orgs in the streets on 9/20 in NYC and around the country.
Demands:
💵Shut down billionaires. Fund our future.
✊Shut down fascists. Protect migrants and the global majority.
🌏Shut down polluters. Defend Mother Earth.
#MakeBillionairesPay #MakePollutersPay
Demands:
💵Shut down billionaires. Fund our future.
✊Shut down fascists. Protect migrants and the global majority.
🌏Shut down polluters. Defend Mother Earth.
#MakeBillionairesPay #MakePollutersPay
‘Make Billionaires Pay’ March Will Bring Together Climate and Social Justice Movements - Inside Climate News
A coalition of over 100 organizations is planning a protest in September during the U.N. General Assembly, linking climate action, migrant justice and gender equity.
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August 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Join UCS and 100+ orgs in the streets on 9/20 in NYC and around the country.
Demands:
💵Shut down billionaires. Fund our future.
✊Shut down fascists. Protect migrants and the global majority.
🌏Shut down polluters. Defend Mother Earth.
#MakeBillionairesPay #MakePollutersPay
Demands:
💵Shut down billionaires. Fund our future.
✊Shut down fascists. Protect migrants and the global majority.
🌏Shut down polluters. Defend Mother Earth.
#MakeBillionairesPay #MakePollutersPay
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Here is an attempt at an optimistic view by a thoughtful observer
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
The ‘Day After’ Plan for Gaza That Netanyahu Doesn’t Want to Talk About
Despite what Netanyahu says, the West Bank business elite is ready and willing to govern and rebuild.
www.politico.com
August 9, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Here is an attempt at an optimistic view by a thoughtful observer
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
80 Years Ago, Nuclear Annihilation Came to Japan www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/w...
80 Years Ago, Nuclear Annihilation Came to Japan
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August 6, 2025 at 9:50 AM
80 Years Ago, Nuclear Annihilation Came to Japan www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/w...
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"Before January 2025 there had been no—zero, zilch—interest in killing off USAID. It wasn't something Trump ran on. It wasn't envisioned in Project 2025. It was only once Elon Musk decided that USAID was evil that destroying the agency became a policy goal for the Republican party."
The Boy Genius Who Killed 14 Million Poor People
What is the moral weight of responsibility for the men who carried out DOGE’s work?
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August 1, 2025 at 2:36 AM
"Before January 2025 there had been no—zero, zilch—interest in killing off USAID. It wasn't something Trump ran on. It wasn't envisioned in Project 2025. It was only once Elon Musk decided that USAID was evil that destroying the agency became a policy goal for the Republican party."
I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.
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July 16, 2025 at 4:05 AM
I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
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“Authoritarian regimes treat scientific evidence not as a tool calibrated by research, collaboration, and the free exchange of ideas, but as an obstacle to overcome.” UCS’s Melissa Finucane explains how today’s attacks on science echo a dark history, and why they pose a threat to democracy & us all.
Science Caught in a Rip Tide: How Authoritarianism Sweeps Away Evidence-Based Policy
Independence is why authoritarian regimes invariably target science and scientists. Authoritarianism acts as a relentless rip tide, pulling science beneath the surface of political control.
blog.ucs.org
June 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
“Authoritarian regimes treat scientific evidence not as a tool calibrated by research, collaboration, and the free exchange of ideas, but as an obstacle to overcome.” UCS’s Melissa Finucane explains how today’s attacks on science echo a dark history, and why they pose a threat to democracy & us all.
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Peter Lax's pragmatic approach to solving differential equations was influential across fields ranging from weather forecasting to starting nuclear chain reactions.
https://go.nature.com/4l0LogS
https://go.nature.com/4l0LogS
Peter Lax obituary: mathematician who pioneered computer-based solutions to real-world problems
The Abel prizewinner’s pragmatic approach to solving differential equations was influential across fields ranging from weather forecasting to starting nuclear chain reactions.
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June 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Peter Lax's pragmatic approach to solving differential equations was influential across fields ranging from weather forecasting to starting nuclear chain reactions.
https://go.nature.com/4l0LogS
https://go.nature.com/4l0LogS
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Obituary: Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (1923-2025) mathematician who established that Einstein’s equations mirror the real world
https://go.nature.com/4kAneKn
https://go.nature.com/4kAneKn
Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat obituary: mathematician who established that Einstein’s equations mirror the real world
Nature - Pioneer of general relativity and gravitational-wave theories saw her work confirmed by observations 65 years later.
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June 11, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Obituary: Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (1923-2025) mathematician who established that Einstein’s equations mirror the real world
https://go.nature.com/4kAneKn
https://go.nature.com/4kAneKn
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President Donald Trump today fleshed out his vision for a previously proposed 56% cut in the $9 billion budget of the National Science Foundation, and it’s not a pretty sight. scim.ag/3HhGa1D
Final NSF budget proposal jettisons one giant telescope amid savage agencywide cuts
Trump’s 57% proposed cut to agency would drop grant success rates to 7% and gut education and training
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May 31, 2025 at 12:40 AM
President Donald Trump today fleshed out his vision for a previously proposed 56% cut in the $9 billion budget of the National Science Foundation, and it’s not a pretty sight. scim.ag/3HhGa1D
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“The customs official canceled Ms. Petrova’s visa on the spot and began deportation proceedings.” One way to understand Trump effect in govt: an ever widening circle of people, like low-level customs officials, get to make categorical decisions abt lives of others. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/s...
She Worked in a Harvard Lab to Reverse Aging, Until ICE Jailed Her
President Trump’s immigration crackdown ensnared Kseniia Petrova, a scientist who fled Russia after protesting its invasion of Ukraine. She fears arrest if she is deported there.
www.nytimes.com
April 11, 2025 at 5:35 PM
“The customs official canceled Ms. Petrova’s visa on the spot and began deportation proceedings.” One way to understand Trump effect in govt: an ever widening circle of people, like low-level customs officials, get to make categorical decisions abt lives of others. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/s...
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As the great Benjamin Franklin wisely and famously put it at the signing of the Declaration of Independence, “We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”
www.americaamerica.news/p/donald-tru...
www.americaamerica.news/p/donald-tru...
Donald Trump Is Not Invincible
The tariff fiasco illustrates that collective pressure can crack his seemingly immutable agenda
www.americaamerica.news
April 11, 2025 at 4:08 PM
As the great Benjamin Franklin wisely and famously put it at the signing of the Declaration of Independence, “We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”
www.americaamerica.news/p/donald-tru...
www.americaamerica.news/p/donald-tru...