Startup Eridan promises smaller, lighter radios

25 Apr 2024

https://www.fierce-network.com/wireless/startup-eridan-promises-smaller-lighter-radios The CEO of Eridan says the company has developed a small, light switch-mode cellular radio This could have drastic impacts on energy and spectrum consumption in the future The startup…

America’s elite universities are bloated, complacent and illiberal

8 Mar 2024

https://www.economist.com/international/2024/03/04/americas-elite-universities-are-bloated-complacent-and-illiberal?itm_source=parsely-api To keep its competitive edge the Ivy League will have to change The struggle over America’s elite universities—who controls them and how they are run–continues to rage, with lasting consequences…

Final U.S. spending bills offer gloomy outlook for science

7 Mar 2024

https://www.science.org/content/article/final-u-s-spending-bills-offer-gloomy-outlook-science?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_content=alert&utm_campaign=DailyLatestNews&et_rid=782094243&et_cid=5128927 Key research funding agencies get sizable cuts or flat budgets Scientists, prepare to tighten your belts. This week, the U.S. Congress is expected to approve six 2024 spending bills…

Whistleblowers flagged 300 scientific papers for retraction. Many journals ghosted them

27 Jan 2024

https://www.science.org/content/article/whistleblowers-flagged-300-scientific-papers-for-retraction-many-journals-ghosted-them?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_content=alert&utm_campaign=WeeklyLatestNews&et_rid=782094243&et_cid=5076641 Saga highlights how slow, opaque action by publishers threatens the integrity of the research literature. An inevitable consequence of the perverse incentives, lack of transparency, and deflection of responsibility…

‘People of color’ can’t be racist against whites, UW-Madison teaches law students

26 Jan 2024

https://www.thecollegefix.com/people-of-color-cant-be-racist-uw-madison-teaches-law-students/ A mandatory diversity training at the University of Wisconsin-Madison teaches students “people of color” cannot be racist against white people. The first-year law student training, developed by consultant Debra…

University of Wisconsin law students were subject to orientation where they were told ‘there are no exceptional white people’ and ripped ‘colorblindness’ as a sinister tool

26 Jan 2024

The state's only public law school forced its first-year students to sit through a heavy-handed DEI session upon their return to campus last week  The presentation claimed only white people…

Wisconsin’s Warning for Higher Ed

9 Jan 2024

Leaders have put off making tough decisions about their public colleges for decades. The options have only grown more difficult. 'Declining enrollments. Changing demographics. Tightening budgets. And, above all, an…

Robert Solow was an intellectual giant

5 Jan 2024

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2024/01/04/robert-solow-was-an-intellectual-giant Ensconced in a lorry, hidden from the enemy by the brow of a hill, the young Robert Solow decoded the radio signals of Nazi platoons across Italy. “We were very,…

Claudine Gay and the Limits of Social Engineering at Harvard

2 Jan 2024

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/02/opinion/harvard-claudine-gay-resignation.html A thoughtful and truthful piece by Brett Stephens of NYT on the resignation of Claudine Gay, the president of Harvard. 'I had written and filed a column about Harvard…

Thomas Sowell Quote

31 Dec 2023

Thank you Stanley K. Ridgley (a connection on LinkedIn) for sharing this insightful quote. I saw it up close and personal when students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison were protesting…