
2025-07-30 23:40:24
🚙 Harvard Found a Way to Make Rubber 10x Tougher and It Could Be Big for Cars
https://www.thedrive.com/news/harvard-found-a-way-to-make-rubber-10x-tougher-and-it-could-be-big-for-cars
🚙 Harvard Found a Way to Make Rubber 10x Tougher and It Could Be Big for Cars
https://www.thedrive.com/news/harvard-found-a-way-to-make-rubber-10x-tougher-and-it-could-be-big-for-cars
Trump Admin Issues Finding That Harvard Permitted Antisemitism in Violation of Civil Rights Law (The Harvard Crimson)
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/6/30/harvard-hhs-ocr-antisemitism-finding/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250630/p79#a250630p79
Harvard scholars demand school not cave to Trump's 'assault' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/harvard-university-2673797315/
Trump gathers MAGA elite to 'brainstorm' new ways to punish Harvard: report - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-harvard-2672236311/
Universities quietly negotiating with White House aide to try to avoid Harvard's fate, source says (Betsy Klein/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/05/31/politics/universities-negotiate-trump-administration-harvard
http://www.memeorandum.com/250531/p19#a250531p19
"Nach unseren Daten sind etwa 24 Prozent der Amerikaner antisemitisch eingestellt. Unter Studierenden liegt dieser Wert bei etwa 15 Prozent. Die spannende Frage ist also: Wenn Antisemitismus in den USA allgegenwärtig ist – und das ist er –, warum konzentriert sich die öffentliche Debatte dann so sehr auf die Universitäten und insbesondere auf #Harvard?"
Derek Penslar
Absolutely brilliant: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/5/27/sperling-milner-linda-mcmahon-harvard-wwe/
Harvard now offers free online courses on how the government is *supposed* to work.
https://pll.harvard.edu/subject/government
If you are part of a book club, like maybe an accessibility book club, remember that there are far better choices than Amazon for your book.
For example, this book can come from your local independent seller or benefit a support fund:
https://bookshop.org/p/books/…
Bookmarked: Texts and Translations of Transcendence and Transformation | Center for the Study of World Religions #Edition
Trump Administration Places Thumb On Negotiation Scale, Decides Harvard Didn't Do Enough To Fight Antisemitism - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/06/trump-administration-places-thumb-on-negotiation-scale-decides-harvard-didnt-do-enough-to-fight-antisemitism/
❝Think! Think! What do people love? The warmth of sunshine on their skin? Fresh fruit? The smell of the top of a baby’s head? Doritos? Laughter? Joy? The feeling of being seen? No, no! These answers are all wrong. It needs to be something that you can access after the Event!❞ https://
Fire smoke exposure leaves toxic metals and lasting immune changes #health
Was nicht kontrolliert werden kann, wird zerstört. https://www.tagesschau.de/eilmeldung/us-regierung-harvard-auslaendische-studierende-100.html
NIH cuts tracked by researchers in Grant Watch database | STAT
https://www.statnews.com/2025/05/27/nih-cuts-tracked-in-grant-watch-database-q-and-a-with-harvard-researcher-scott-delaney/
The Columbia deal with Trump is a blueprint. All of higher ed should fear what comes next. (Nicole Narea/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/politics/421954/columbia-brown-harvard-trump-settlement-antisemitism
http://www.memeorandum.com/250731/p128#a250731p128
📢 US-Regierung: Harvard-Universität darf keine ausländischen Studenten mehr aufnehmen
Die Trump-Regierung hat der Elite-Universität Harvard verboten, ausländische Studierende aufzunehmen. Die Universität nahe Boston habe das "Privileg verloren", schrieb Heimatschutzministerin Noem. Sie begründete dies unter anderem mit der "Weigerung" Harvards, ein sicheres Umfeld für jüdische Studenten zu schaffen und mit den Gleichstellun…
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Exclusive | Harvard Violated Students’ Civil Rights, Trump Administration Finds - WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/harvard-violated-students-civil-rights-trump-administration-finds-4a0ed7aa
- I'm a graduate of Harvard University.
- Good for you. I'm a graduate of comedy traffic school.
Is Boston where we start overthrowing the king again?
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/22/us/harvard-university-trump-international-students
Harvard Divinity School broke precedent
by refusing to publish a video of its commencement speech
after a speaker went off-script to call attention to the perilous conditions in Gaza.
“There are no safe zones left in Gaza after 600 days and 77 years of genocide,” said Zehra Imam,
who graduated from the Harvard Divinity School this spring and participated in the embattled Religion and Public Life program.
Imam, who is Muslim, was speaking with two other students f…
Rubio Says Lack of Social-Media Profile Could Prompt Visa Denial (Nick Wadhams/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-30/rubio-ramps-up-pressure-on-harvard-with-expanded-visa-scrutiny
http://www.memeorandum.com/250531/p31#a250531p31
Henry Chu named interim curator of the Nieman Foundation at Harvard once Ann Marie Lipinski steps down on July 1 after 14 years leading the institution (Nieman Foundation)
https://nieman.harvard.edu/henry-chu-named-int…
#TomLehrer, mathematician and singer-songwriter known for colorful satire, dies at 97
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/tom-lehr
“If the universities – or in this case a university press – are not willing to stand up for what is core to their mission, I don’t know what they’re doing. What’s the point?” – Thea Abu El-Haj
#Palestine
#Censorship
I, for one, believe that isolationism is a great mistake and will make us all poorer as humans.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/22/trump-harvard-international-students
"The Neuroscience of Cancer
Scientists are making surprising discoveries about the connections between cancer and the nervous system"
https://magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/neuroscience-cancer
Is Boston where we start overthrowing the king again?
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/22/us/harvard-university-trump-international-students
«But the cancellation of an entire issue of an academic journal, which has not been previously reported, is a remarkable new development in a mounting list of examples of censorship of pro-Palestinian speech.»
This is just one more example of how the world is turning a blind eye to the genocide the Israeli state is perpetrating against the Palestinian people. It is, in every way, inconceivable (and yes, that word does mean what I think it means) that world leaders are able to defend th…
Both Harvard and Columbia are failing to articulate the need and meaning of education, besides economic value. There is no sense of humanity or the humanities or the search for a truths. Both schools are for-profit companies in the minds of their boards, and their presidents reflect that understanding.
From: @…
Trump's billion-dollar settlement spree (Zachary Basu/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/30/trump-harvard-settlement-dei-lawsuit
http://www.memeorandum.com/250730/p7#a250730p7
Well, there you have it...
The same year, Vance told the National Conservatism Conference that “we have to honestly and aggressively attack the universities in this country.” “We live in a world that has been made effectively by university knowledge” and to rebuild the nation along the lines of white Christian nationalism, the universities must be destroyed. Vance told the audience, “the professors are the enemy.”
Medieval experts reveal how they found Harvard’s Magna Carta https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/medieval-experts-reveal-how-they-found-harvards-magna-carta/
Harvard Is Said to Be Open to Spending Up To $500 Million to Resolve Trump Dispute (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/us/politics/trump-harvard-payment.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Z08.Ih6h.KhLhW9cYpGYm&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
http://www.memeorandum.com/250728/p116#a250728p116
Tom Lehrer, the Harvard-trained mathematician whose wickedly iconoclastic songs made him a favorite satirist in the 1950s and ’60s on college campuses and in all the Greenwich Villages of the country,
died on Saturday at his home in Cambridge, Mass.
He was 97.
His death was confirmed by David Herder, a friend.
Mr. Lehrer’s lyrics were nimble, sometimes salacious and almost always sardonic,
sung to music that tended to be maddeningly cheerful.
Accompanying…
With the first #AAS246 presser "Cosmic Accelerators and Active Black Holes" came the papers https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adb7e0 (Discovery of a Pulsar Wind Nebula Candidate Associated with the Galactic PeVatron 1LHAASO J0343 5254u) &
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/adccb9 (Swift-XRT Observations and Upper Limits at Five LHAASO Galactic Sources) with the press release https://natsci.msu.edu/news/2025/2025-06-where-did-cosmic-rays-come-from.aspx, https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adccc1 (Radial Profiles of Radio Halos in Massive Galaxy Clusters: Diffuse Giants Over 2 Mpc) etc. with the press release https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/record-breaking-cosmic-structure-discovered-colossal-galaxy-cluster and https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09676 (Investigating the Emission Mechanism in the Spatially Resolved Jets of Two z ≈ 3 Radio-loud Quasars) with the press releases https://chandra.si.edu/photo/2025/j1610/ and https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/nasas-chandra-sees-surprisingly-strong-black-hole-jet-at-cosmic-noon/ and the abstract https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025AAS...24520421S/abstract (NIRCam imaging of NGC 4258).
playing hooky, en route to the ballgame, doing my best to cherish my place in the arcane, & very much feeling the harvard mixer '71 version of "old world" where jonathan richman (mr. route 128 himself!) inexplicably shouts out "hey, new york #mets kids!" starting at 6:40ish.
Steven Pinker has recently appeared on a podcast, which serves as a platform for scientific racism. Not the first time he's shown associations to scientific racism.
To be honest, after I learnt to take the "it's actually all getting better" narratives with a grain of salt, I decided not to buy into the Pinker hype. So, I'm not disappointed.
“It is not out of the ordinary or unexpected in any way for Harvard to crack down on pro-#Palestine or even #Israel-critical spaces on campus. That is part of #Harvard’s legacy,”
Leading Ukrainian historian Plokhii steps down from top Harvard post after 12 years: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/leading-ukrainian-historian-plokhii-steps.html
Harvard Scientist Accused of Smuggling Frog Embryos Indicted on New Charges | Thomson/Reuters
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/harvard-scientist-kseniia-petrova/2025/06/25/id/1216499/
Very excited about this! Code to access GRIN will help lots of Google Books partners, and the example might open other doors, as well as the obvious benefits of access to data!
'Institutional Books 1.0: A 242B token dataset from Harvard Library's collections, refined for accuracy and usability' https://arxiv.org/abs/2506…
This Isn't Negotiation. It's Authoritarian Extortion. (Pavan V. Thakkar/The Harvard Crimson)
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/6/26/enos-levitsky-harvard-trump-negotiation-extortion/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250626/p77#a250626p77
"An Ivy League university" means "not Harvard."
Limited access to healthy foods may raise childhood asthma risk https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/limited-access-to-healthy-foods-may-raise-childhood-asthma-risk/
Harvard releases Institutional Books 1.0, a dataset for AI researchers with 242B tokens, from 394M scanned pages and 983K public domain books in 254 languages (Matt O'Brien/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/ai-chatbot-
Trump's Education Secretary mocked after critics spot embarrassing grammatical errors in threatening letter to Harvard
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14685541/Trump-Education-Secretary-critics-spot-e…
Grand jury indicts Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova on smuggling charges (Thao Nguyen/USA Today)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/06/26/harvard-scientist-kseniia-petrova-indictment-smuggling/84362714007/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250626/p2#a250626p2
🧪👩🔬🧠 I attended my 25th college reunion at Harvard this weekend.
It was the biggest reunion attendance ever recorded. 💪
President Alan Garber got standing ovations from the 9000 of us in the crowd before even being introduced.
So proud of my alma mater, and wearing my Harvard swag proudly!
ht…
State Department investigates Harvard international exchange visa sponsorship
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/24/harvard-trump-state-department-visas
The Age and High Energy Environment of the Very Young Transiting Exoplanet TOI 1227b: #Exoplanet is Shrinking: https://chandra.si.edu/press/25_releases/press_071625.html and https://chandra.cfa.harvard.edu/photo/2025/baby/
Harvard is famously well-endowed. If it were a lady, Harvard would have a bosom and a half. And if it were a gentleman, Harvard would be Princeton.
- winner, "Top Joke of 1926"
Behind Closed Doors, Harvard Officials Debate a Risky Truce With Trump (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/us/politics/harvard-debate-settlement-trump.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250624/p22#a250624p22
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is pushing to 🆘 investigate whether Harvard University violated federal sanctions by collaborating on a health insurance conference in China that may have included officials blacklisted by the U.S. government.
Rubio signed off on a recommendation to the Treasury Department last month to open an investigation,
which experts and former Treasury officials said was 👉an unusual attempt from a cabinet secretary to target a domestic entity for sanctions enf…
Donald Trump concedes 'automatic loss' in Harvard case before judge even rules - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-harvard-2673539482/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Jul.21.2025_8.19pm
Harvard flouted the rules. Now, it's getting a hard lesson. (Kristi L. Noem/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/06/23/kristi-noem-harvard-foreign-students-dhs-restriction/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p52#a250623p52
Wait. What? Did Kepler poison Brahe?? I kinda expect he'd know how, the thing with his mom's 'tinctures' and all, and we know he "just happened" to gain access after, but what use would 'witches' (herbalists?) have to do with mercury?
#mysteryandintrigue
The Astronomers Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler (pdf)
https://chandra.harvard.edu/edu/formal/icecore/The_Astronomers_Tycho_Brahe_and_Johannes_Kepler.pdf
Harvard's Powerful Leader Faces Intense Scrutiny in Trump Fight (Anemona Hartocollis/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/us/harvard-penny-pritzker.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250726/p32#a250726p32
I have students who will are affected by Harvard news. I’m sure the university will fight. In the meantime this is a moment for inter school solidarity and action. Div School X can take my students who are then visiting Harvard. Make it so.
White House Seeks Payments From Other Universities--Including Harvard--After Columbia Deal Sets Precedent (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/harvard-columbia-trump-white-house-fines-payment-deal-settlement-d61aa9c6
http://www.memeorandum.com/250725/p23#a250725p23
“Our Jewish identity is not conditional on support for any government’s policies. Our commitment to justice is not separate from our Jewishness or from Jewish history – it flows directly from it.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/12/ha…
Harvard hired a researcher to uncover its ties to slavery. He says the results cost him his job: 'We found too many slaves' (Michela Moscufo/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/jun/21/harvard-slavery-decendants-of-the-enslaved
http://www.memeorandum.com/250621/p42#a250621p42
Federal judge calls DOJ's arguments 'mind-boggling' in lawsuit against Harvard (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/federal-judge-calls-doj-s-arguments-mind-boggling-in-lawsuit-against-harvard-243579461782
http://www.memeorandum.com/250722/p7#a250722p7
"A school founded by George Soros fled Hungary after it was targeted by an authoritarian leader. Academics at the school say President Trump is using a similar playbook against Harvard."
Trump’s Battle With Harvard Is Familiar to a University the Right Forced into Exile - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/us/trump-harvard-hungary-orban-george-soros.html
Federal judge blocks Trump effort to keep Harvard from hosting foreign students (Collin Binkley/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/harvard-trump-foreign-students-9498074cfe5f1054a712b9c21d36c6c5
http://www.memeorandum.com/250620/p78#a250620p78
Trump lashes out at federal judge presiding over Harvard case (Jacob Wendler/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/21/trump-harvard-case-judge-00465755
http://www.memeorandum.com/250721/p104#a250721p104
Exclusive: Harvard Law Review Axes 85 Percent of Submissions Using Race-Conscious Rubric, Documents Show (Aaron Sibarium/The Washington Free Beacon)
https://freebeacon.com/campus/exclusive-harvard-law-review-axes-85-percent-of-submissions-using-race-conscious-rubric-documents-show/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250619/p58#a250619p58
Studies done with this stuff " have lead to major breakthroughs, including links between cigarettes and cardiovascular disease and alcohol consumption and breast cancer. The research also uncovered the dangers of trans fats, which the U.S. has now largely restricted."
Trump cuts threaten ‘irreplaceable’ Harvard stockpile of human feces, urine - masslive.com
https://www.masslive.com/news/2025/06/trump-cuts-threaten-irreplaceable-harvard-stockpile-of-human-feces-urine.html
State Department tells consulates to resume processing Harvard visas - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/06/06/state-department-tells-consulates-reject-harvard-visas/
Judge extends block on Trump's Harvard international student ban (April Rubin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/16/harvard-federal-judge-international-students-block-extended
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p81#a250616p81
Will to Resist: What Dartmouth Teaches Harvard About Protecting American Freedom
https://www.justsecurity.org/116290/dartmouth-supreme-court-harvard/
Trump says Harvard has acted 'appropriately' and deal could soon be announced (Betsy Klein/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/06/20/politics/harvard-trump-potential-deal
http://www.memeorandum.com/250620/p131#a250620p131
Federal judge indefinitely blocks Trump administration from cutting off Harvard's ability to host foreign students (Devan Cole/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/06/20/politics/harvard-foreign-students-ruling
http://www.memeorandum.com/250620/p90#a250620p90
Harvard sues over Trump's foreign student visa restrictions
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5336161-harvard-sues-over-trumps-foreign-student-visa-restrictions/
The Latest: Harvard heads to court in $2.6B lawsuit against Trump administration | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/syria-israel-trump-plan-b-washington-commanders-b2793065.html
State Dept. Says Any Foreigner Seeking To Visit Harvard Must Be Vetted For ‘Hostile Attitudes Towards US Culture’ | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/03/state-dept-says-any-foreigner-seeking-to-visit-harvard-must-be-vetted-for-hostile-attitudes-towards-us-culture/
US judge blocks Trump plan to close Harvard's doors to international students (Nate Raymond/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-judge-blocks-trump-plan-close-harvards-doors-international-students-2025-06-24/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p151#a250623p151
Russian Scientist Released After Four Months in Federal Custody - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/science/russian-scientist-harvard-release.html
Harvard author Steven Pinker appears on podcast linked to scientific racism (Jason Wilson/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jun/07/harvard-steven-pinker-aporia-podcast
http://www.memeorandum.com/250608/p22#a250608p22
DHS subpoenas Harvard over international student information (Bianca Quilantan/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/09/dhs-subpoenas-harvard-over-international-student-information-00443697
http://www.memeorandum.com/250709/p67#a250709p67
Harvard, Trump admin clash over court protection for foreign students (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/12/harvard-trump-administration-foreign-students-00403417
http://www.memeorandum.com/250612/p158#a250612p158
Trump bans Harvard from admitting new international students (Trevor Hughes/USA Today)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/06/04/trump-bans-harvard-international-students/84038655007/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p173#a250604p173
Trump Restricts Harvard's International Students From Entering U.S. (Michael C. Bender/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/us/politics/trump-harvard-international-student-visas.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Mk8.U-n9.bw4Bw3qrLIiH
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p180#a250604p180
Trump proclamation seeks to restrict international students from Harvard (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/04/harvard-visa-ban-trump-international-students/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p185#a250604p185
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Restricts Foreign Student Visas at Harvard University (The White House)
https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/06/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-restricts-foreign-student-visas-at-harvard-university/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p179#a250604p179
Trump goes 'woke' in report on antisemitism at Harvard (Benjamin Eidelson/The Boston Globe)
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/03/opinion/trump-harvard-antisemitism-report-discrimination/?s_campaign=8315:varf
http://www.memeorandum.com/250703/p48#a250703p48
Russian Scientist Released After Four Months in Federal Custody (Ellen Barry/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/science/russian-scientist-harvard-release.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250612/p68#a250612p68
A Stephen Miller Staffer and Tough Talk: Inside Trump's Latest Attack on Harvard (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/us/politics/harvard-law-review-investigation-trump.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250602/p154#a250602p154
Can Trump Force Harvard to Improve? (Ben Sasse/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/can-trump-force-harvard-to-improve-writes-ben-sasse-reform-universities-ba1101c2?st=EnwpEg&reflink=mobilewebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/250601/p55#a250601p55
Trump Administration Live Updates: Federal Judge Blocks Efforts to Keep International Students Out of Harvard (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/20/us/trump-news
http://www.memeorandum.com/250620/p103#a250620p103
Harvard Explores New Center for Conservative Scholarship Amid Trump Attacks (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/harvard-conservative-scholarship-center-trump-attacks-a187242a
http://www.memeorandum.com/250711/p2#a250711p2
Trump Issues Proclamation Banning International Students at Harvard From Entering U.S. (Dhruv T. Patel/The Harvard Crimson)
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/6/5/trump-international-students-ban/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p177#a250604p177