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California prides itself on being a diverse state that welcomes folks from all kinds of backgrounds.But actually connecting people who have radically different life experiences - that can be a challenge.The Santa Monica Public Library is hosting events to encourage deep one-on-one conversations between people from different backgrounds.

Dezeen Courses: over 110 course listings have been added to Dezeen Courses so far this year, joining the extensive list of architecture and design programmes that have been published since its launch in 2021.Dezeen Courses now features over 300 courses from more than 100 universities and institutions based in 25 different countries.

Any day now the Supreme Court will decide two cases that will determine the future of affirmative action one involving race-conscious admissions at the University of North Carolina and a companion case involving Harvard.Although debates around affirmative action have typically focused on people of color, the policy has also applied to gender, and women have been among affirmative action's greatest beneficiaries.

Kenan Malik makes some valid and nuanced points about the tendency of people on both the left and the right to defend freedom of speech only for views with which they agree (If you defend free speech, you must defend it all and not silence those you disagree with, Comment).But he is wrong to invoke freedom of speech to defend attempts to silence certain views.

Several US federal government agencies have been hit in a global cyberattack that exploits a vulnerability in widely used software.The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is providing support to several federal agencies that have experienced intrusions affecting vulnerable software exploited by the hackers, Eric Goldstein, the agency's executive assistant director for cybersecurity, said in a statement on Thursday to CNN.

Hitting the campaign trail in Iowa on Wednesday for the first time as a presidential candidate, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis road tested new policy ideas for handling student debt and boosting military morale.In Salix, Iowa, DeSantis said universities should have to pick up the tab if a former student can't pay back their loans.

The College for All Act would be paid for by a tax on Wall Street transactions.Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks alongside Rep. Pramila Jayapal during a news conference outside the U.S. Capitol on May 17, 2023, in Washington, D.C. Drew Angerer / Getty Images On Wednesday, Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Chair Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Washington) reintroduced a proposal to make higher education free at public schools for most Americans - and pay for it by taxing Wall Street.

A greater understanding of the risks and opportunities that artificial intelligence brings is needed to ensure the education sector is not left behind, Gillian Keegan has said.The Education Secretary has called on technology and education experts and business leaders to come forward with ideas on how generative artificial intelligence (AI) can be used in a safe and secure way.

Kathleen Stock, the controversial gender-critical feminist, is at the centre of a heated dispute at Oxford University over her planned appearance to address the Oxford Union on Tuesday evening.Professor Stock, 51, left her position at the University of Sussex in October 2021 after the publication of her book Material Girls, in which she outlined views perceived by some as trans-exclusionary, drew an angry reaction from students and inspired vitriol online.

In September 2015, a curator from Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library traveled to Amsterdam to collect the previous 12 years' worth of interest on a bond issued on May 15, 1648.At the bond's issuance, the borrower, an autonomous Dutch water authority, had promised to pay the holder interest in perpetuity.

Dale Wheatley, who performs deliveries for the Anatomical Gift Association of Illinois, came into work two weeks ago and found sage burning and three severed heads lying on a plastic container by his desk.Wheatley, who has worked for AGA for nearly five years, said he's never seen anything like the horror movie-like scene he stumbled upon that Wednesday morning in late May.

More than 200,000 post-secondary students with student loans are due to convocate this spring.And while many may not yet be thinking of repayment plans, experts and recent grads alike say they should be if they haven't already started."I think a lot of students aren't thinking about repayment until they get to the point of needing to repay their loans," said Renu Kanga Fonseca, acting registrar at Victoria College in the University of Toronto.

Now that WantedDesign Manhattan 2023 has wrapped, we're thrilled to share the final winners for the Best of Students and Schools, a showcase sponsored by iconic Italian housewares brand Alessi and presented with Design Milk.Words from sponsor Alessi's president, Alberto Alessi, on what design is today:
Walking away with the Best of Schools award, UK-based Northumbria University won for their Tools for Everyday Life, a project born from a brief pitched to the school's BA(Hons) 3D Design program (including academic staff, graduates, and Designers in Residence).

Making the next generation of computer chips demands the care, on an industrial scale, of making a gourmet meal.The finest ingredients, techniques, tools and, of course, the sharpest minds, must whip together something transformative.In kitchens missing just one, the meal falls short.In that regard, the Department of Commerce will soon command a feast of sorts, doling out $11 billion for research and development under the CHIPS Act to revive America's sluggish chipmaking industrynow making only 12 percent of chips worldwide.

Sisters Audrey Findlay, 75, and Barbara Rowe, 63, start every weekday with an 8 a.m.phone call.An hour or so later, they head to work together at Findlay Rowe, the gift shop they opened 12 years ago.(Previously, they worked at the same health care company for 13 years, where Ms. Findlay was the general manager and Ms. Rowe was the payroll manager.)

In , folks from across the food and restaurant industry answer Eater's questions about, well, how they got their job.Today's installment: Andrew Coté.Andrew Coté was born into beekeeping.His father, grandmother, and great-grandfather were all beekeepers before him.The tradition likely goes back further than that, but at the very least, he is a fourth-generation beekeeper, with over 130 years of history to prove it.

There are few places in the world that are more naturally beautiful and charming than Canada's Prince Edward Island.Wedged between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, the 2,185-square-mile island is a popular vacation destination for Canadians, as well as Americans who treat themselves to the gorgeous drive along the coast up through Maine.

Over the past half-decade, California lawmakers have signed off on almost a hundred laws seeking to alleviate the state's deepening housing crisis.Yet developers still aren't building anywhere near enough affordably priced homes for everyone who needs them.Now, a state assemblymember from San Jose is pushing a novel proposal he believes could finally jump-start affordable housing development by allowing the state government to get into the homebuilding business.

Jeremy Paxman has signed off University Challenge for the last time, saying he is looking forward to watching it along with fans at home.The 73-year-old veteran broadcaster and former Newsnight presenter has hosted the series since the BBC revived it in 1994 until Monday's episode.Paxman had announced he was stepping down from the quiz show a year after being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.