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27 April 1925 | A French Jewish girl, Paulette Bloch, was born in Paris. On 31 July 1944 she was deported from Drancy to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.

Analysis of FIRE database by Rajiv Sethi shows shift in attacks on free speech, now more common from the Right than the Left. There are many other interesting details in this piece, including regarding the broad range of sanctioned topics. rajivsethi.substack.com/p/under-fire

Researchers pinpoint the genes responsible for the final three pea traits studied by Gregor Mendel more than 160 years ago go.nature.com/3EDaPpe

“data recently analyzed by the board revealed that National Airport was the site of at least one near collision between an airplane and a helicopter each month from 2011 to 2024.” nytimes.com/2025/04/27/bus…

Trump clearly falling asleep at the funeral for Pope Francis is not only fair game for criticism but should be deeply embarrassing to all Americans. It would have been a huge scandal with any previous president, and yet, the muted media coverage of it shows how far we've fallen.

Unlike many other universities, the University of Michigan has recognized the need for reform and taken action in the last 18 months. Sarah Hubbard, Regent @umich and Carl Meyers write about what they’ve done and why:

So much social media research is based on a variable that picks up only a little bit of what matters: hours-per-day of consumption. In a new paper in JAMA, Dmitri Christakis & Lauren Hale advocate for looking at PATTERNS of use, such as compulsivity and repetition, not (just)

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Our courts working. “They arrested me. What’s the reason? Because I raised my voice, and I said no to war, yes to peace,” Mahdawi said. “Because I said, ‘Enough is enough. Killing 50,000 Palestinians is more than enough.’” Free speech is not a crime. nytimes.com/2025/04/30/nyr…

Idea: Estimate Trump's mental age by explaining why trade deficits don't mean other countries are taking advantage of us to younger and younger children till you hit the age where they can't understand it.

FILED: Detaining Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk for writing an op-ed critical of Israel is both unlawful and un-American. Now, FIRE is joined by National Coalition Against Censorship, Cato Institute, PEN America, The Rutherford Institute, and others in standing with Ms. Öztürk against this authoritarian act.

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This is what lawlessness looks like. L.A. federal prosecutors resign over plea offer made to deputy AFTER conviction. latimes.com/california/sto…

Denmark was liberated from the nazis this evening 80 years ago. Since then no other country has threatened to invade us. Until now when Trump does so again and again as if it is not insane at all.

The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked. Some messages are accessible. 404media.co/the-signal-clo…

ICYMI: The first keynote of Penn Center for Health Incentives+Behavioral Econ’s Spring Research Seminar Series, the event featuring Team Scientist Nicholas A. Christakis and co-hosted by Co-Director Katy Milkman is now available on our Youtube channel! Watch it here: bit.ly/4jewUc8

INVESTIGATION: Uncovering Chinese Academic Espionage at Stanford. After interviewing multiple anonymous Stanford faculty, students, and China experts, the Review can confirm that the CCP is orchestrating a widespread intelligence-gathering campaign at Stanford. 1/8

On December 13, 1973, Isaac Asimov wrote a brief but memorable letter to Carl Sagan, prompted by his reading of Sagan’s newly published book, The Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective. In Letter Asimov wrote; “I have just finished The Cosmic Connection and loved

The federal government presented no evidence Ozturk had committed any crime. She was wrongfully, unlawfully, immorally detained for publishing an op-ed, which is a quintessentially American act. Thank god for our independent judiciary. cnn.com/2025/05/09/us/…

Innovation takes time US scientists who received renewals from the NIH over the past four decades produced more novel research than those who didn’t go.nature.com/4jLPBoa