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Researchers discover an abrupt change in quantum behavior that defies current theories of superconductivity

New paper from Princeton team challenges the conventional wisdom of superconducting quantum transitions.




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Study shows routes for recycling carbon dioxide and coal waste into useful products

A new report led by Emily Carter and Elizabeth Zeitler *14 offers research and policy ideas, including carbon fiber replacements for rebar in construction and titanium in high-tech applications.




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Nilufer K. Shroff will conclude her service as vice president and chief audit and compliance officer

A leader in her field with over 35 years of experience, Shroff has transformed Princeton’s audit and compliance functions during her more than 17 years at the University.




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Saien Xie wins fellowship supporting revolutionary approach to energy-efficient electronics

Xie, a materials engineer, won a 2024 Packard Fellowship for creating atomically thin materials. “Thinking and inventing down to an atomic level like Saien is doing, most spectacularly I should add, is the future,” said James Sturm, ECE department chair.




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Apartheid isn’t the Question, Settler Colonialism is: Black South African Thought and the Critique of the International Left’s Apartheid Paradigm

“Chigumadzi argues that within the liberal international order, it is “reasonable” and “workable” to struggle to end apartheid and racial segregation, while it is “unreasonable” and “unworkable” to struggle to end settler colonialism and indigenous land dispossession. In arguing that apartheid is overrepresented in the International Left’s racial discourse and historiography, Chigumadzi draws from generations of Black South African political activists, philosophers, and historians—most notably from the Pan Africanist-Black Consciousness Tradition. These traditions critique apartheid’s relatively short 54 years of institutionalized racial segregation as the paradigmatic historical framework for analyzing South Africa’s three centuries of settler colonialism and land dispossession. Drawing from this black radical critique, Chigumadzi rejects the liberal notion that apartheid’s end is the object of liberation struggle, and, instead asserts the centrality of the struggle for the return of indigenous lands.” Dr. Panashe Chigumadzi is an award-winning writer and Assistant Professor of African History at Brandeis University. Chigumadzi holds a doctorate from Harvard University’s Department of African and African American Studies, and a masters in African Literature from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.




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A Life Worth Living, a new musical by Jeffery Chen '25

A Life Worth Living is a new dramatic-comedy musical that follows Gavin, a depressed teenager involuntarily sent to a residential mental health treatment facility. Using music and comedy, the show focuses on topics of platonic love, mental health, and suicide, while exploring themes of grief, acceptance, and radical hope. Talkback with Dr. Calvin R. Chin, Princeton's Director of Counseling and Psychological Services, follows 11/9 performance. Free tickets required.




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A Life Worth Living, a new musical by Jefferey Chen '25

A Life Worth Living is a new dramatic-comedy musical that follows Gavin, a depressed teenager involuntarily sent to a residential mental health treatment facility. Using music and comedy, the show focuses on topics of platonic love, mental health, and suicide, while exploring themes of grief, acceptance, and radical hope. Talkback with Dr. Calvin R. Chin, Princeton's Director of Counseling and Psychological Services, follows 11/9 performance. Free tickets required.




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A Life Worth Living, a new musical by Jeffery Chen '25

A Life Worth Living is a new dramatic-comedy musical that follows Gavin, a depressed teenager involuntarily sent to a residential mental health treatment facility. Using music and comedy, the show focuses on topics of platonic love, mental health, and suicide, while exploring themes of grief, acceptance, and radical hope. Talkback with Dr. Calvin R. Chin, Princeton's Director of Counseling and Psychological Services, follows 11/9 performance. Free tickets required.




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A Life Worth Living, a new musical by Jefferey Chen '25

A Life Worth Living is a new dramatic-comedy musical that follows Gavin, a depressed teenager involuntarily sent to a residential mental health treatment facility. Using music and comedy, the show focuses on topics of platonic love, mental health, and suicide, while exploring themes of grief, acceptance, and radical hope. Talkback with Dr. Calvin R. Chin, Princeton's Director of Counseling and Psychological Services, follows 11/9 performance. Free tickets required.




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A Life Worth Living, a new musical by Jeffery Chen '25

A Life Worth Living is a new dramatic-comedy musical that follows Gavin, a depressed teenager involuntarily sent to a residential mental health treatment facility. Using music and comedy, the show focuses on topics of platonic love, mental health, and suicide, while exploring themes of grief, acceptance, and radical hope. Talkback with Dr. Calvin R. Chin, Princeton's Director of Counseling and Psychological Services, follows 11/9 performance. Free tickets required.




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A Life Worth Living, a new musical by Jefferey Chen '25

A Life Worth Living is a new dramatic-comedy musical that follows Gavin, a depressed teenager involuntarily sent to a residential mental health treatment facility. Using music and comedy, the show focuses on topics of platonic love, mental health, and suicide, while exploring themes of grief, acceptance, and radical hope. Talkback with Dr. Calvin R. Chin, Princeton's Director of Counseling and Psychological Services, follows 11/9 performance. Free tickets required.




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Extremely Spicy Peppers Health Benefits

The health benefits of hot peppers are well-documented, and their popularity in various forms of cuisine is increasing rapidly. The chemical responsible for both the heat and the health benefits is called capsaicin. Before the invention of refrigeration, adding spicy elements to food was a common practice in warm climates to prevent spoilage. Capsaicin, found ... Read more

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Ramzi Yousef Found Guilty of Masterminding 1993 World Trade Center Bombing (1997)

In 1993, terrorists detonated a car-bomb in an underground garage of the World Trade Center complex in New York City, killing six, injuring more than a thousand, and causing more than $300 million in damage. In all, ten militant Islamist conspirators were convicted of involvement in the bombing, including Yousef, who also bombed an important Shia shrine in Iran in 1994 and later planned a large-scale terrorist scheme that included killing the pope. What alleged 9-11 mastermind is Yousef's uncle?






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Tech Briefing: A 90mm Full Suspension Singlespeed, 135mm Cranks, Wheel Protection Kits & More



All the tech from the last <i>two</i> months.
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How do psychedelics work? This brain region may explain their effects

The claustrum seems to act as a switchboard, telling different parts of the brain when to turn on and off. But what happens when the switchboard operator steps away?




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When wild dolphins help humans fish, both benefit

A new study shows just what dolphins get out of cooperating with fishers in Brazil (besides lunch).




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4 major effects of climate change in America

Warming temperatures are causing extreme weather patterns across the country. But communities are pushing back with solutions old and new.





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Israeli modern classic film ‘Turn Left at the End of the World’ turns 20


The movie was the first Nesher made after returning to Israel following a decade-long stint in Hollywood.




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Netflix defends its decision to remove Palestinian films from platform


Netflix explained, "We launched this licensed collection of films in 2021 for three years. Those licenses have now expired."




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Music from the battlefield: Ukrainian activist, music promoter graces Israel's international fest.


Zakharov tends to the sunny side of life, and he is a major mover and shaker on the Ukrainian cultural scene, with a definite accent on artistic vehicles that seek to cultivate a better world for all




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New theatre production ‘Collective Phenomena’ reveals story of defiant Soviet-Jewish scientists


The director of Collective Phenomena, Semion Aleksandrovskiy, shared a little of this complex history via his own family story.




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Ryanair passenger dies on ‘chaos’ flight before emergency landing at Stansted

The man was pronounced dead at the scene after CPR efforts from cabin crew




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A 'dama de gelo': quem é Susan Wiles, estrategista de Trump que será 1ª mulher chefe de gabinete de um presidente dos EUA

"No início da minha carreira, coisas como boas maneiras importavam e havia um nível esperado de decoro", disse Susan ao site Politico, descrevendo o partido Republicano como significativamente diferente do de várias décadas atrás.







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Open Source Project DeFlock Is Mapping License Plate Surveillance Cameras All Over the World

An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Flock is one of the largest vendors of automated license plate readers (ALPRs) in the country. The company markets itself as having the goal to fully "eliminate crime" with the use of ALPRs and other connected surveillance cameras, a target experts say is impossible. [...] Flock and automated license plate reader cameras owned by other companies are now in thousands of neighborhoods around the country. Many of these systems talk to each other and plug into other surveillance systems, making it possible to track people all over the country. "It went from me seeing 10 license plate readers to probably seeing 50 or 60 in a few days of driving around," [said Alabama resident and developer Will Freeman]. "I wanted to make a record of these things. I thought, 'Can I make a database of these license plate readers?'" And so he made a map, and called it DeFlock. DeFlock runs on Open Street Map, an open source, editable mapping software. He began posting signs for DeFlock (PDF) to the posts holding up Huntsville's ALPR cameras, and made a post about the project to the Huntsville subreddit, which got good attention from people who lived there. People have been plotting not just Flock ALPRs, but all sorts of ALPRs, all over the world. [...] When I first talked to Freeman, DeFlock had a few dozen cameras mapped in Huntsville and a handful mapped in Southern California and in the Seattle suburbs. A week later, as I write this, DeFlock has crowdsourced the locations of thousands of cameras in dozens of cities across the United States and the world. He said so far more than 1,700 cameras have been reported in the United States and more than 5,600 have been reported around the world. He has also begun scraping parts of Flock's website to give people a better idea of where to look to map them. For example, Flock says that Colton, California, a city with just over 50,000 people outside of San Bernardino, has 677 cameras. People who submit cameras to DeFlock have the ability to note the direction that they are pointing in, which can help people understand how these cameras are being positioned and the strategies that companies and police departments are using when deploying them. For example, all of the cameras in downtown Huntsville are pointing away from the downtown core, meaning they are primarily focused on detecting cars that are entering downtown Huntsville from other areas.

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Microsoft Edge Is Trying To Forcefully Get Your Chrome Tabs Again

A new update is rolling out that automatically starts Microsoft's Edge browser and prompts users to import their Chrome tabs -- a move that has sparked criticism over its invasive tactics to encourage Edge adoption. The Verge's Tom Warren reports: My colleague Richard Lawler noticed that Edge started automatically on his PC last week at boot and offered up a new prompt to "enhance your browsing experience." The pop-up has a "bring over your data from other browsers regularly" option ticked by default, and encourages people to confirm and continue with a big blue button. If you want to dismiss this prompt there's a tiny white X button that looks similar to the sparkles Microsoft is using in the background of the prompt. If you simply hit confirm and continue then Microsoft Edge will import your Chrome data and continually import your tabs if you have Chrome set as default. The prompt seems to mainly appear on PCs with Chrome installed, suggesting that Microsoft is once again targeting Chrome users. Microsoft confirmed the new "feature" to The Verge. "This is a notification giving people the choice to import data from other browsers," explains Microsoft spokesperson Caitlin Roulston. "There is an option to turn it off."

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Voters in progressive county recall far-left mayor and district attorney

Even Democrats can get sick of the crime that results from left-wing policies. So the voters in California’s Alameda County — which voted lopsidedly for the Democrats in every statewide and national election — have voted to remove a soft-on-crime mayor and district attorney. A San Francisco news source reports: Voters in the East Bay […]

The post Voters in progressive county recall far-left mayor and district attorney appeared first on Liberty Unyielding.




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Trump Announces Susie Wiles As Chief Of Staff

By Reagan Reese President-elect Donald Trump announced Thursday that his 2024 campaign manager, Susie Wiles will be his Chief of Staff in his administration. Wiles, who led Trump’s return to the White House alongside Chis LaCivita, has largely been praised for her disciplined and professional operation in the 2024 run. Heading up Trump’s second administration, […]

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With Trump Returning To Power, Europe Chief Weighs Idea Of Buying More Natural Gas From US Instead Of Russia

By Ireland Owens President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen said Friday that she proposed to President-elect Donald Trump the idea that the U.S. could supply more natural gas to Europe to decrease the bloc’s reliance on Russia, according to Barron’s. The EU chief said the topic of tapping U.S. liquefied natural gas […]

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GOP Senate Majority Leader-Hopefuls Scramble To Address Trump Demands Ahead Of Inauguration

By Julianna Frieman Republican senators competing for the majority leader position vowed Sunday to address President-elect Donald Trump’s demands ahead of his inauguration. Trump revealed Sunday that the Senate leader of his GOP majority must support recess appointments to assure his Cabinet positions be confirmed expeditiously and unobstructed. The three senators contending for the leadership […]

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Two major reforms can improve the VA

(Official Washington Examiner editorial, Nov. 11)  Year after year, presidential administration after administration, people across the political spectrum agree that U.S. military veterans deserve better treatment. Alas, despite genuinely good […]

The post Two major reforms can improve the VA appeared first on Quin Hillyer.




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I'm more grateful for each day - Sir Chris Hoy

Six-time Olympic gold medallist Sir Chris Hoy tells BBC Breakfast about his life with terminal cancer and the legacy he hopes to leave.




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Sinner beats Fritz after Medvedev defeats De Minaur

Jannik Sinner beats Taylor Fritz 6-4 6-4 while Daniil Medvedev defeats Alex de Minaur 6-2 6-4 at the ATP Tour Finals.




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‘I grieve for the person I was before' - Covid inquiry to begin new phase

The Covid inquiry opens its next set of hearings on Monday, looking at the impact on healthcare and the NHS.




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Nurses bore the brunt of Covid, ex-chief nurse says

Dame Ruth May tells the Covid inquiry nurses struggled with low staffing levels and difficulties accessing protective equipment.




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Chief medical officer had nightmares after spy poisoning

Dame Sally Davies told the Dawn Sturgess Inquiry she had worried about the disposal of the nerve agent.




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COP29 chief exec filmed promoting fossil fuel deals

Undercover filming shows COP29 chief exec discussing new oil and gas projects ahead of climate summit.




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Susie Wiles: Who is Trump's new chief of staff?

The 67-year-old - whose father was an American football star - will be the first woman in the job.




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Firefighter rescues two-year-old from burning building

Body camera footage shows the moment a boy was saved from his home in Texas after his mother couldn't reach him in the fire.




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Ruben Gallego defeats Trump ally Kari Lake in Arizona Senate race

He is on course to become the battleground state's first Latino US senator, according to a CBS News.




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BBC reporter: They ransacked my home and left my town in ruins

The BBC’s Mohanad Hashim, in Sudan for the first time since the war began, sees what has happened to his childhood neighbourhood.




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South Africa's radical opposition rocked by high-profile defections

What is behind the exodus of Economic Freedom Fighters members to ex-President Jacob Zuma's party?




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How Long To Let Logs Sit Before Splitting?

When it comes to splitting logs for firewood or other woodworking projects, patience is a virtue. While it might be tempting to start splitting freshly cut logs right away, it’s essential to allow them some time to “season” or dry out properly. The question many enthusiasts ask is, “How long should I let logs sit […]

The post How Long To Let Logs Sit Before Splitting? appeared first on Patriot Outdoor News.




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Spain floods: Before and after images show devastation

Satellite images and on-the-ground photos show the scale of destruction caused by the floods.




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Keeper's penalty heroics send Wigan through in EFL Trophy

Wigan Athletic goalkeeper Tom Watson saves all three penalties in a shootout victory over Nottingham Forest U21s to send them through to the EFL Trophy knockout phase.