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Scott Jaschik, Editor, is one of the three founders of Inside Higher Ed.With Doug Lederman, he leads the editorial operations of Inside Higher Ed, overseeing news content, opinion pieces, career advice, blogs and other features.Scott is a leading voice on higher education issues, quoted regularly in publications nationwide, and publishing articles on colleges in publications such as The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, Salon, and elsewhere.

Scott Jaschik, Editor, is one of the three founders of Inside Higher Ed.With Doug Lederman, he leads the editorial operations of Inside Higher Ed, overseeing news content, opinion pieces, career advice, blogs and other features.Scott is a leading voice on higher education issues, quoted regularly in publications nationwide, and publishing articles on colleges in publications such as The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, Salon, and elsewhere.

Scott Jaschik, Editor, is one of the three founders of Inside Higher Ed.With Doug Lederman, he leads the editorial operations of Inside Higher Ed, overseeing news content, opinion pieces, career advice, blogs and other features.Scott is a leading voice on higher education issues, quoted regularly in publications nationwide, and publishing articles on colleges in publications such as The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, Salon, and elsewhere.

This image released by Knopf shows Robert Gottlieb.Gottlieb, the inspired and eclectic literary editor whose brilliant career was launched with Joseph Heller's Catch-22 and continued for decades with such Pulitzer Prize-winning classics as Toni Morrison's Beloved and Robert Caro's The Power Broker, has died at age 92.

Rabbi Harold Kushner, seen here on July 10, 2008, had a way with words that resonated with readers across the world and across religions.Ariel Kushner Haber Rabbi Harold Kushner, who never strayed from answering life's most vexing questions about loss, goodness and God, and by doing so, brought comfort to people across the world, died on Friday while in hospice care in Canton, Mass.

Q: What is the biology behind the butterflies sensation people get when they're excited about dating someone new?Falling in love can be a whirlwind experience, from the awkward pauses during a first dinner as you scramble for what to say next, to the electricity of a flirtatious joke, to the whooshing of butterflies in the stomach when things really start to click.

Eastern Canada is experiencing one of the worst starts of wildfire season in recorded history, which calls into question whether Major League Baseball teams should put their players, staff and fans at risk.The smoke from the wildfires was seen first-hand at Yankee Stadium during Tuesday night's New York Yankees-Chicago White Sox matchup.

Robin Wagner, the inventive Tony Award-winning set designer of more than 50 Broadway shows, including the 1978 musical On the Twentieth Century, in which a locomotive appeared to be racing toward the audience with the actress Imogene Coca strapped to the front of it, died on Monday at his home in New York City.

Electricity generated from renewables surpassed coal in the United States for the first time in 2022, the U.S. Energy Information Administration announced Monday.Renewables also surpassed nuclear generation in 2022 after first doing so last year.Growth in wind and solar significantly drove the increase in renewable energy and contributed 14% of the electricity produced domestically in 2022.

Electricity generated from renewables surpassed coal in the United States for the first time in 2022, the U.S. Energy Information Administration announced Monday.Renewables also surpassed nuclear generation in 2022 after first doing so last year.Growth in wind and solar significantly drove the increase in renewable energy and contributed 14% of the electricity produced domestically in 2022.

By Isabella O'Malley | Associated Press Electricity generated from renewables surpassed coal in the United States for the first time in 2022, the U.S. Energy Information Administration announced Monday.Renewables also surpassed nuclear generation in 2022 after first doing so last year.Growth in wind and solar significantly drove the increase in renewable energy and contributed 14% of the electricity produced domestically in 2022.

Ali Junejo, left, and Alina Khan in "Joyland."(Oscilloscope Laboratories)(3.5 stars) A gentle man falls for a brassy trans woman in "Joyland," but that's not exactly what this lyrical, well-acted Pakistani drama is about.With its multiple intersecting narratives, writer-director Saim Sadiq's debut feature takes an almost novelistic approach to its central theme: the repression of human individuality by a regimented traditional society.

Realtor.comA little-known lakefront home, designed by modernist architect, Philip Johnson, is on the market for only the third time since it was completed in 1949.The 3,812-square-foot house in Willsboro, NY, sits on 20 acres, with 850 feet of water frontage on Lake Champlain.Glass walls frame the spectacular surroundings.

Brooklyn seventh grader Mahima Peters-Paleja typically thought of rats and pigeons when picturing her borough's wildlife.But now she's got a glimpse of a more diverse ecosystem that surrounds her Coney Island middle school.With the help of wildlife biologist Myles Davis, seventh grade students at Mark Twain Intermediate School for the Gifted & Talented have worked for months on a project monitoring animal activity in a nearby park through trail cameras.

Where do you point the world's most powerful space telescope?It's not an easy question.The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in December 2021, has amazed astronomers since it began sending back its first science data in July 2022.It has seen galaxies breathtakingly close to the dawn of time, probed the atmospheres of exoplanets in unprecedented detail and provided stunning new views of worlds in our solar system.

In the mid-1990s scientists found evidence that Earth's inner core, a superheated ball of iron slightly smaller than the moon, was spinning at its own pace, just a bit faster than the rest of the planet.Now a study published in Nature Geoscience suggests that around 2009, thecore slowed its rotation to whirl in sync with the surface for a time - and is now lagging behind it.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.A recently emerging tick-borne illness is spreading in New York City, and a tick expert said it's something that most people should watch out for, just as much as the more well-known Lyme disease.Babesiosis, while not as common as Lyme, is still problematic, according to Maria Diuk-Wasser, professor of ecology at Columbia University, who has been studying ticks in New York City, including Staten Island.

A version of this story appeared in CNN's Wonder Theory science newsletter.To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here.The idea of time travel has always fascinated me.Since I was a kid, I've imagined a Jetsons-like future with flying cars and the ability to journey to the past, as the Time Traveller did in H.G. Wells' novella The Time Machine.

When Roxana Kadyrova first moved to New York at age 24 nearly a decade ago, she felt an overwhelming sense of loneliness.Coming from Moscow, she'd always enjoyed the thrill of being in a new place all on her own, but this time was different.Her English wasn't very strong then, so language became another barrier to connection.

Okay, so you're not the best at small talk.We've all become a bit All you're looking to have is a decent conversation.It could be with the guy on the sidelines, at the gym, or anyone else you keep running into.But someone's gotta break the ice.You don't mind doing it.You just don't want things to be ... ah ... um ... eeh ... awkward.

Author James Shapiro holds his book 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare, which has won the Winner of Winners Award at the 2023 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction.Chris Close (AP) An account of a pivotal year for English history and literature has been named the greatest-ever winner of the U.K.'s leading nonfiction book prize.

Imagine a world without English majors.In the last decade, the study of English and history in college has fallen by a third.At Columbia University, the share of English majors fell from 10% to 5% between 2002 and 2020.According to a recent story in The New Yorker, The End of the English Major, this decline is largely a result of economic factors which departments get funded, what students earn after graduation, etc. Fields once wide open to English majors teaching, academia, publishing, the arts, nonprofits, the media have collapsed or become less desirable.

Speaking two languages provides the enviable ability to make friends in unusual places.A new study suggests that bilingualism may also come with another benefit: improved memory in later life.Studying hundreds of older patients, researchers in Germany found that those who reported using two languages daily from a young age scored higher on tests of learning, memory, language and self-control than patients who spoke only one language.

That mysterious twinge on one side of your lower abdomen that isn't occurring alongside your period?The one that keeps coming back, every month and roughly in the middle of your menstrual cycle?That sensation is most likely pain associated with ovulation, or, as it's known in the medical world, mittelschmerz (the German term for middle pain).

As the debate around whether to make even more changes to New York's reformed bail laws heats up in the final days of state budget negotiations, a group of over 100 law professors penned a letter to Governor Kathy Hochul and state legislative leaders urging them to leave the statutes as they are.In the missive, the law professors, who hail from law schools across the state including Columbia University and CUNY, blasted Hochul's push to excise from state law the least restrictive standard which compels judges to use the least onerous means for bringing defendants back to court.

Disney's anti-racism film Ruby Bridges is the subject of a complaint brought by a Florida parent who claims the movie is not appropriate for second-graders, because it might teach them that white people hate Black people.The film, which tells the story of a six-year-old girl who integrated New Orleans schools in the 1960s, has been a staple of school curriculums during Black History Month in the state's Tampa-area county of Pinellas.

Earlier this year, millions of Americans got a notice: Your food budget is about to be cut, potentially by hundreds of dollars a month.Here are some tips on how you can manage.You can't appeal.The notices signaled the coming end of a federal increase in food stamps that started in the early days of the pandemic, when unemployment spiked and lawmakers feared that hunger would, too.

Kellogg has picked a name for its new spinoff companies.They sound a lot like their old names, but with a new spin.The unit that houses its snacks, including Cheez-It and Pringles, plus its international cereal brands and plant-based foods will be called Kellanova.And its North American cereal business, which includes Frosted Flakes and Froot Loops, will be called WK Kellogg Co., the company announced Wednesday.

Community college enrollment took a steep dive during the COVID-19 pandemic, hitting its lowest numbers in 30 years.Now, colleges across the Bay Area are trying to lure students back with a tactic that might be hard to resist: free tuition.When I first started, it was like a ghost town, said Omolola Atolagbe, who began at Oakland's Laney College in 2021.

In 2021, San Mateo County, California, banned people incarcerated in county jails from receiving physical mail.Instead, family and friends were required to mail their letters to Smart Communications, a private for-profit company based in Florida that would scan and destroy those letters so that incarcerated people would be required to access them digitally through a limited number of shared tablets and kiosks in public spaces within the jails.

Local The most expensive schools all charge over $60,000 per year in tuition.Three Massachusetts colleges and universities made the list of the top 20 most expensive colleges and universities in the U.S. - and perhaps surprisingly, none of them are in Cambridge.The most expensive Massachusetts school, Tufts University, was found to be the fifth most expensive school in the country with a yearly tuition of $63,804.

What's 1% of market share worth?In the world of search, that's a multi-billion dollar question.It's now been a week since Microsoft revealed its new ChatGPT-powered Bing search engine and accompanying Edge browser.The way Microsoft sees it, just gaining another 1% of market share could give the company another $2 billion in ad revenue.

Barnard College of Columbia University, one of the most prominent women's colleges in the United States, announced on Thursday that it had chosen Laura A. Rosenbury, the dean of the University of Florida Levin College of Law, to serve as its next president.Ms. Rosenbury became the first woman to serve as dean of Levin College of Law, in Gainesville, Fla., in 2015.

Greenhouse gas emissions from the way humans consume food could add nearly 1 degree of warming to the Earth's climate by 2100, according to a new study.Continuing the dietary patterns of today will push the planet past the 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) limit of warming sought under the Paris climate agreement to avoid the worst effects of climate change, according to the study published Monday in Nature Climate Change, and will approach the agreement's limit of 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit).

A gynecologist who molested patients during a decades long career was convicted of federal sex trafficking charges Tuesday after nine former patients told a New York jury how the doctor they once trusted attacked them sexually when they were most vulnerable.A Manhattan federal court jury returned its verdict after deliberating less than a day in the case against Robert Hadden, 64, who worked at two prestigious Manhattan hospitals - Columbia University Irving Medical Center and New York-Presbyterian Hospital - until complaints about his attacks shut down his career a decade ago.