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and it was a huge failure and continues to be an issue in other countries. Just look at the UK with its council housing situation.

Politicians everywhere, remember this for your next campaign.

The Vision Pro is a joke. Way too low resolution (PPD), heavy, expensive, and over-engineered and power hungry. It's baffling how it was ever greenlit.

Is this the same NYT that supported DEI these past few years?

Ironic that when women achieved parity in academia in the 2000s, academia as a industry is already on its way out like print magazines.

Reading that feels like parody. "for-profit gulag"?

sounds like you haven't visited a top-ranked physics department in a while

My guess is not much unless you give them a specific problem, and create a hierarchy.

Otherwise things will just fragment into cliques and fights, like any university department.

For an idea of how far the average US physics education has been dumbed-down in the past three decades, I doubt a 3rd year US-educated physics graduate student could pass a test on any of the chapters.

Doubtful. It's a way of life, as anyone has interacted with German academics knows.

When the next pandemic hits, for people who don't remember the last one.

It wouldn't be a standard day at the BBC without some anti-Israel nonsense.

Getting rid of SLS is great, but they're cutting deep space exploration and astrophysics by 2/3 which is profoundly dumb. That's something that can't be done by the commercial sector.

They are free to say these words, but there is no right to taxpayer funds for saying them

Sensible. In the age of YouTube and Netflix, NPR and PBS are anachronisms.

if that were truly the case, big tech or academia could fund long bonds (30+ yr) for R&D

but the RoI is horrible as we all know, academia is a money pit

Since when are lawyers supposed to be trustworthy

The only thing suspect here is that they're a college student, which might be a signal of poor judgement in 2025.

Better to be safe than sorry, eliminate plastics from your life

Interesting a wire service like reuters is selling commentary now

Americans can shun Canadian products too, they should be careful what they wish for

The Reddit front page is a prime example of such manufactured consensus.

CBS is using public airways and election ads and propaganda are regulated by the FCC.

If they were on the internet/cable with MSNBC and Fox News they would free to air their propaganda.

Underwhelming. Cancelled my subscription in favor of Gemini Pro 2.5

With their large untaxed endowment, they should be fine without federal funding. Make it so.

Particle physicists need to concentrate on their inevitable future career shift than someone rightfully calling out their failures.

This would be science fiction a decade ago, but now it's just ho-hum

If this passes, it's the end of competitive astrophysics in the US. No exaggeration.

All those models would also say the Earth is round.

Another opinion piece disguised as news by arstechnica.com