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Discovery and Multiwavelength Analysis of a New Dissociative #GalaxyCluster Merger - The Champagne Cluster: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ade67c -> NASA's Chandra Rings in New Year With Champagne Cluster: https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2025/champagne/

David Brooks calling for a general strike or nonviolent civil disobedience 
was not on my bingo card.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/opinion/trump-harvard-law-firms.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Opinion | What’s Happening Is Not Normal. America Needs an Uprising That Is Not Normal.
It will take a concerted effort by every sector of our society to respond to Trumpism’s threat.

Back when we tried people for committing genocide instead of calling them our allies, funding, and arming them.
#israel #genocide #Gaza

USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths
https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-shutdown-has-led-to-hundreds-of-thousands-of-deaths/
The cruelty, corruption, incompetence, hate fueled rule of the current USA administrati…

USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, according to Harvard Chan School’s Atul Gawande.

https://mstdn.plus/@gcvsa/115629686468055123 Truth is stranger than fiction. unbelievable, harvard, dominant hegemony privilege etc etc

As a graduate student at MIT, Steve Ramirez successfully created false memories in the lab.
Now, as a neuroscientist working at the frontiers of brain science, he foresees a future where
we can replace our negative memories with positive ones.
In "How to Change a Memory", Ramirez draws on his own memories
—of friendship, family, loss, and recovery
—to reveal how memory can be turned on and off like a switch,
edited, and even
constructed fro…

Holy shit

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/12/21/documents-reveal-harvard-salient-complaint/

Racial Slurs and Nazi Symbols: Inside the Complaint That Shut Down The Harvard Salient | News | The Harvard Crimson
Screenshots and message logs obtained by The Crimson appear to show Salient leaders casually using racial slurs, defending extremist rhetoric, and dismissing internal concerns — conversations that later became central to the board’s decision to suspend the magazine.

New evidence throws light on exactly how much of a wanker David Cameron is:
https://www.health.harvard.edu/mens-health/ejaculation_frequency_and_prostate_cancer

Ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer - Harvard Health
Research into the connections between sexual activity and prostate cancer....

In Private Letters, Harvard and Trump Administration Escalate Duel (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/us/trump-harvard-letters-deal.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251224/p53#a251224p53

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/10/14/harvard-security-breach-russian-cybercrime-group/
Harvard Investigating Security Breach After Cybercrime Group Threatens To Release Stolen Data

Harvard Investigating Security Breach After Cybercrime Group Threatens To Release Stolen Data | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard is investigating a data breach after a Russian-speaking cybercrime organization claimed it was preparing to release information stolen through a vulnerability in a software suite used by the University.

Rachael Maddow: “I think the consistent sustained movement we have seen against Trump this year really has looked and felt different, not only from Trump’s first term, but also really from any other presidency ever.”
@maddowmaddow highlights new research from the Harvard Kennedy School, which finds the share of counties hosting at least one anti-Trump protest has risen markedly during Trump’s second term.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQO4IOQkW1u/

What makes a Frontier firm?
Why is #reskilling so hard?
How can leaders build cultures thrive on experimentation & human-AI collaboration?
▶️ #Harvard's Raffaella Sadun on why it's so hard to become an AI-first organization - Worklab

Quoted in New York Times on Harvard Protest
The Harvard ‘Die-in’ That Set Off a Debate Over Protest and Punishment
“This became a good case study because it involved an Arab man and Black man in a way that they could use racist language to pull into these stereotypes,” said Hussein Rashid, a former Harvard Divinity School l

🪐 https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/10/you-see-saturns-rings-she-sees-hidden-number-theory/

Harvard University Nonviolent Action Lab (Ash Center)
#resist

Nonviolent Action Lab – Ash Center
Up-to-date knowledge on nonviolent action, how it works, and global trends in success and failure.

Harvard economist Jason Furman estimates that investments in data centers and information-processing software accounted for 92% of US GDP growth in H1 2025 (Nick Lichtenberg/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/10/07/data-centers-gdp-g…

Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says
Is a U.S. without data centers a country without GDP growth?

The trouble with being Harvard is that your name is the most valuable thing you own. It’s bigger than anything the institution actually does.
Yes, there are some amazing and excellent people at Harvard — and some utter dingbats, as anywhere else — but whatever actual excellence Harvard offers in education or research is secondary. Harvard is a •brand• first and foremost. It’s a name people put on their resumes to make themselves worth more money in capitalism’s eyes.
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren Urges Harvard to Cut Ties With Summers After Epstein Emails Surface
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/11/18/warren-summers-harvard/

Sen. Elizabeth Warren Urges Harvard to Cut Ties With Summers After Epstein Emails Surface | News | The Harvard Crimson
Sen. Elizabeth A. Warren (D-Mass.) urged Harvard to cut ties with former University President Lawrence Summers after newly released emails revealed years of personal correspondence between Summers and Jeffrey Epstein, CNN reported Monday.

Check out today's Metacurity for a ton of critical infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--Cyberattack on a critical third-party vendor could expose top banks' customer data,
--An insider shared internal CrowdStrike screenshots on Telegram,
--Hackers stole Salesforce-stored data from 200 companies,
--DOGE has purportedly disbanded,
--Harvard is the latest Ivy to get hacked,
--AI models can sabotage coding projects, …

Cyberattack on a critical third-party vendor could expose top banks' customer data
An insider shared internal CrowdStrike screenshots on Telegram, Hackers stole Salesforce-stored data from 200+ companies, DOGE has purportedly disbanded, Harvard is the latest Ivy to get hacked, AI models can sabotage coding projects, Singapore raids scam-connected firm, much more

Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties (The Harvard Crimson)
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/11/20/summers-leaves-teaching-at-harvard/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p161#a251119p161

Intentional "explosion" at Harvard Medical School in the early morning hours today.
#terrorism #explosion #harvard

Explosion at Harvard Medical School Was ‘Intentional,’ Officials Say
Two people were seen running from the building afterward, the school said. The school is asking the public for help to identify the individuals caught on surveillance video.

Trump Administration to Appeal Harvard Funding Case - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/us/trump-administration-appeal-harvard-funding-case.html

Protest numbers data from Harvard's Crowd Counting Consortium (Ash Center) -- part of the Nonviolent Action Lab
#resist

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/11/22/alumni-affairs-data-breach/
Penn, Princeton and now Harvard. Someone is definitely targeting the Ivies.

Data Breach at Harvard’s Development Office May Have Exposed Donor Records, Personal Information | News | The Harvard Crimson
Computer systems used by Harvard’s Alumni Affairs and Development Office were accessed by an “unauthorized party” earlier this week after a phone-based phishing attack, administrators announced in an email to University affiliates Saturday.

Lawrence Summers to Stop Teaching at Harvard While It Investigates His Epstein Ties (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/us/larry-summers-harvard-epstein.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p174#a251119p174

wow as a hoarder er keeper of all the things :-) this is amazing
https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/115563308736409551

CNN Short Doc on Harvard Departure
CNN ran a short doc on my departure from Harvard. Two versions of the same documentary are embedded below.
https://youtu.be/TRw-SXhkNZ0

About that warm reception MBS got:
Biden may regret releasing report on Khashoggi murder, says expert — Harvard Gazette
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/02/biden-may-regret-releasing-report-on-khashoggi-murder-says-expert/

"L'exposition Š la lumière pendant la nuit augmente le risque de maladies cardiovasculaires jusqu'Š 50 % par rapport au sommeil dans l'obscurité, selon une nouvelle étude"
De l'eau au moulin des communes qui coupent l'éclairage public la nuit.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. Nov 22, 2025
Dante Reno lit up No. 10 Harvard Crimson for 273 yards and three touchdowns
as No. 25 Yale Bulldogs seized an Ivy League FCS playoff berth
https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/gametracker/recap/NCAAF_2025112…

Harvard Crimson vs. Yale Bulldogs Live Score and Stats - November 22, 2025 Gametracker
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Q&A with Harvard economist Jason Furman, who consults for OpenAI, on the similarities between the AI boom and the dot-com era, AI's impact on jobs, and more (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

Recently reminded of Straight to Hell, the 1975—20?? zine featuring porny gay stories that were often real life narratives. Transgressive and important documentation. The Internet Archive has PDF scans of 5 edited book collections!
Harvard man, Harvard man,
blond for no reason. I'd
sure as shit quit the Quad
for him, scratch every dance
from my card for him; kiss
sunshine goodbye to open
his fly; trade clothes
for sheets, miss other meets
for him, for him

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Weil jetzt die Epstein-Files veröffentlicht werden, zieht sich Larry Summers zurück. Er stand offenbar noch 2019 mit Epstein im Kontakt und hat sich in Mails abfällig über Frauen geäussert.
Jetzt will er sich aus der Öffentlichkeit zurückziehen, aber immer noch an Harvard unterrichten.
Nur Männer nehme ich an.
Weil: Über Frauen äussert er sich abfällig und missbraucht sie bei Gelegenheit.
In einer Schule ist er ganz gewiss nicht am richtigen Ort.

Gotham fans are feeling good today
#gothamFC

Long a coveted voice, Larry Summers withdraws from a half-dozen groups amid Epstein ties. Harvard's not among them. (Anjali Huynh/The Boston Globe)
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/18/metro/larry-summers-harvard-jeffrey-epstein-commitments/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251118/p160#a251118p160

Harvard’s business model is raking in ungodly amounts of money selling that name to the offspring of the ultra-wealthy, however deserving or undeserving, and then investing it.
(Harvard does to its credit use a portion of that money to subsidize access for the highly deserving and underprivileged. I’ve seen the “tuition paid” graph for Harvard, and it’s very roughly ~20% pay nothing and ~40% pay full freight and their family has more money than everyone you’ve every known combined.)
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Quoted in New York Times on Harvard Protest
The Harvard ‘Die-in’ That Set Off a Debate Over Protest and Punishment “This became a good case study because it involved an Arab man and Black man in a way that they could use racist language to pull into these stereotypes,” said Hussein Rashid, a former Harvard Divinity School lecturer who knows Mr. Tettey-Tamaklo.

Expect deep cuts in PhD admissions throughout the US, including biomedical programs.
The current model of PhD training and the current financial climate are simply not compatible.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/10/21/fas-phd-admissions-cuts/…

Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for the next two years.

I thought this was pretty good. It's a 3.5 minute video, getting across Harvard and Cambridge Common, at twilight, on a really nice evening: #bike

Multispacecraft Measurements of the Evolving Geometry of the Solar #Alfvén Surface over Half a Solar Cycle: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae0e5c -> Astronomers Create First Map of the Sun's Outer Boundary: https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/astronomers-create-first-map-suns-outer-boundary

We're admitting PhD students! (Possible co-PIs include @… @… if interests align.) Here's what we're excited about pursuing with new students:

PhD advert
CS PhD openings @ Harvard HCI’s Variation Lab advised by Prof. Elena Glassman A little history Founded in the fall of 2018, our small group has been a home for some truly terrific interdisciplinary HCI researchers: our postdoctoral scholars Tianyi Zhang. Ian Arawjo, and writer-scientist Katy Gero...

Microstimulation of LGN and the many challenges of prosthetic vision #neuroscience

Neuroscience Special Seminar: John Pezaris, PhD
Neuroscience Special Seminar Monday, November 3rd, 12:00 pm John Pezaris, PhD Harvard Medical School SBRI J461 “Microstimulation of L...

Sources: Microsoft is planning a major healthcare push for Copilot in partnership with Harvard Medical School, as it seeks to reduce its dependence on OpenAI (Sebastian Herrera/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/microsoft-heal…

Jeffrey Epstein files: Larry Summers steps back from public commitments
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/17/larry-summers-jeffrey-epstein-harvard.html

My guess here at a distance is that it’s a terrible mistake to think of “Harvard” as a single anthropomorphic entity with a single mind. There are surely terrible internal battles raging at Harvard right now: between those who think it’s truly for education and those who think it’s truly for ROI, between those protecting the dollars and those protecting the brand reputation, between those cowering at the short-term financial risk of angering an authoritarian and those who see the long-term risks of capitulating.
What does “Harvard” think? Harvard is a bunch of different people. I wish them luck, and wisdom. Heaven knows they’ll need it.
/end

Harvard Must Take a Stand Against Trump's Compact (Pavan V. Thakkar/The Harvard Crimson)
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/10/9/enos-levitsky-harvard-trump-compact/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251009/p21#a251009p21

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Who is a Better Matchmaker? Human vs. Algorithmic Judge Assignment in a High-Stakes Startup Competition
Sarina Xi, Orelia Pi, Miaomiao Zhang, Becca Xiong, Jacqueline Ng Lane, Nihar B. Shah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12692

Who is a Better Matchmaker? Human vs. Algorithmic Judge Assignment in a High-Stakes Startup Competition
There is growing interest in applying artificial intelligence (AI) to automate and support complex decision-making tasks. However, it remains unclear how algorithms compare to human judgment in contexts requiring semantic understanding and domain expertise. We examine this in the context of the judge assignment problem, matching submissions to suitably qualified judges. Specifically, we tackled this problem at the Harvard President's Innovation Challenge, the university's premier venture compet…

Finally an RGB image of comet #3IATLAS from images taken by #GeminiNorth during the 26 November #shadowTheScientists session: https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2532/ - the coma has become bluer due to more gas emission. Also published today: an X-ray image by XMM-Newton at https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2025/12/XMM-Newton_sees_comet_3I_ATLAS_in_X-ray_light with explanations in http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iau/cbet/005600/CBET005646.txt which also contains more 3I news.
Meanwhile the paper https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ae2915 claims an upper limit for 3I's nucleus diameter of only some 750 meters from the measured non-gravitational acceleration (NGA) parameters: that would be waaay more stringent than the 5.6 km upper limit from early Hubble observations reported in https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/adf8d8 (where also a lower limit of 440 meters is stated).

Por um mundo em que isto se estenda Š merda dos "rankings das escolas" que infestam a imprensa portuguesa.
https://mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosbaez/115479917595681479

Gemini co-lead Oriol Vinyals says Gemini 3's gains come from better pre-training and post-training, contradicting the idea that pre-training gains are falling (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-unseats-anthropic-…

Google Unseats Anthropic With Gemini 3
Before we get to Gemini 3, we want to highlight this morning’s news that former Harvard University President Larry Summers has resigned from OpenAI’s board of directors following a congressional committee’s release of emails showing a personal correspondence between him and convicted sex ...

Chandra/HETG and NuSTAR Observations of V750 Ara, a $\gamma\,$Cas-type Star
David P. Huenemoerder (MIT), Sean J. Gunderson (MIT), Richard Ignace (East Tennessee State University), Joy S. Nichols (Harvard,Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), A. M. T. Pollock (University of Sheffield), Pragati Pradhan (Embry-Riddle Aeronutical University), Norbert S. Schulz (MIT), Dustin K. Swarm (University of Iowa), Jos\'e M. Torrej\'on (Universidad de Alicante)

Chandra/HETG and NuSTAR Observations of V750 Ara, a $γ\,$Cas-type Star
We present 197 ks HETG and 95 ks NuSTAR spectra of the $γ\,$Cas-type object V750 Ara. The high-resolution X-ray spectra show that the target is similar to other objects of this class. Data are interpreted under the assumption that the X-rays come from an accreting white dwarf, and our analysis implies an accretion rate of about $3\times10^{-11}M_\odot\mathrm{yr}^{-1}$. Emission lines are weak, and predominantly from hydrogen-like ions: Mg XII, Si XIV, and S XVI. H-like and He-like Fe are both …

US immigration authorities arrested a visiting professor at Harvard law school
after he was charged with discharging a pellet gun outside a Massachusetts synagogue the day before Yom Kippur,
– and he agreed to leave the country.
Carlos Portugal Gouvea, a Brazilian citizen, was arrested on Wednesday by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
after his temporary nonimmigrant visa was revoked by the state department
following what the Trump administration labe…

Harvard Youth Poll (Harvard University)
https://iop.harvard.edu/youth-poll/51st-edition-fall-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p84#a251204p84

Harvard posts biggest operating loss in 14 years as Trump cuts bite (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/16/trump-harvard-funding-operating-loss
http://www.memeorandum.com/251016/p109#a251016p109

‘Intentional’ explosion at Harvard Medical School, two people seen running from the building | The Independent
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/harvard-explosion-medical-school-b2856751.html

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if zuck got laid at harvard none of this would be happening

The offices at John Quackenbush’s lab at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
were once full of postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and interns.
Young scientists here worked on some of the most cutting-edge computational biology research in the world,
driving new discoveries and the creation of widely used big data tools, including one the National Cancer Institute named among the most important advances of 2024.
Today, the offices are rows of empty comp…

His lab was humming with discovery. After one year under Trump, it’s almost silent
John Quackenbush built a lab that is at the forefront of human genetics research and bioinformatics. Trump administration cuts have put it in danger of collapse.

Low-dimensional topology and symplectic dynamics
Dan Cristofaro-Gardiner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07680 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.07680

Low-dimensional topology and symplectic dynamics
These are notes to accompany my lectures at the $2024$ "Current Developments in Mathematics" conference hosted by Harvard/MIT. The lectures were about some recent progress in our understanding of two and three dimensional dynamical systems, using in part some tools from low-dimensional topology. In these notes, I try to give a sense for how this works by discussing a few examples from problems I have worked on and surveying some related developments. Some symplectic variants of Weyl's law play …

CNN Short Doc on Harvard Departure http://youtube.com/watch?v=TRw-SXhkNZ0&feature=youtu.be https://

Larry Summers "stepping back" from public roles after Epstein files release (Rebecca Falconer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/18/larry-summers-harvard-epstein
http://www.memeorandum.com/251117/p166#a251117p166

Ionization Sources of the Local Interstellar Clouds: Two B-stars, Three White Dwarfs, and the Local Hot Bubble
J. Michael Shull (University of Colorado, University of North Carolina), Rachel M. Curran (University of North Carolina), Michael W. Topping (University of Arizona), Jonathan D. Slavin (Harvard/SAO)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.0526…

Ionization Sources of the Local Interstellar Clouds: Two B-stars, Three White Dwarfs, and the Local Hot Bubble
The dominant sources of photoionizing radiation in the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) incident on the exterior of the local interstellar clouds include two nearby early B-type stars, $ε$ CMa ($124\pm2$ pc) and $β$ CMa ($151\pm5$ pc), three hot dwarfs, and the local hot bubble (LHB). Line emission (170-912A) from highly ionized metals (Fe, Ne, Mg) in million-degree LHB plasma may be responsible for the elevated ionization fractions of helium ($n_{\rm HeII}/n_{\rm He} \approx 0.4$) compared to hydro…

Larry Summers to Step Back From Public Commitments After Epstein Emails (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/elizabeth-warren-larry-summers-shouldnt-be-trusted-to-teach-at-harvard-after-epstein-emails-821be262?st=ud42Ex&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251117/p153#a251117p153

This creates truly perverse incentives and a strange culture — and it’s not clear to me that has to cut any one particular way.
I’ve heard Harvard described as a massive investment company with a small education wing, and the desire to control risk in such a situation is overwhelming. Making a deal with Stupid Darth Vader looks ridiculous if you think Harvard’s purpose is the advancement of human thought — but if you’re an investment manager treading water through the rise of authoritarianism, well, yeah, maybe you go along to get along and kiss the authoritarian’s ass.
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The state department is proposing to suspend 38 universities including Harvard and Yale
from a federal research partnership program because they engage in diversity, equity and inclusion hiring practices,
according to an internal memo and spreadsheet obtained by the Guardian.
The memo, dated 17 November, recommends excluding institutions from
the Diplomacy Lab – a program that pairs university researchers with state department policy offices
– if they “openly en…

As Summers Sought Clandestine Relationship With Woman He Called a Mentee, Epstein Was His ‘Wing Man’ | News | The Harvard Crimson
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/11/17/summers-epstein-wing-man-woman-described-as-mentee/

I was a red state governor. What I saw at Harvard surprised me. (Eric Holcomb/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/12/08/harvard-eric-holcomb-indiana-governor/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p72#a251208p72

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📝 Join us at the American Academy of Religion for the Arts of Interpretation sessions at Harvard. #AARSBL25
https://indigenousvalues.org/find-us-at-the-aar/
!Arts of Interpretation flyer with a picture of Charles Long (https://cdn.some.pics/adjb/691b3896ebbed.png)

The thing is, Harvard’s lucrative position •could• cut the other way. As @… put it, “What’s the point of having fuck-you money if you never say ‘fuck you?’”
Harvard has that kind of money. They •could• choose to be a mission-based org and fight back. There have been inklings of that in recent months: they’ve said no, they’ve countersued.
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Harvard Replaces Leader of Health Center Said to Have Focused on Palestinians (Mark Arsenault/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/us/harvard-replaces-public-health-center-director.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251213/p43#a251213p43

Sources: when Trump criticized Lip-Bu Tan in August, Satya Nadella, Jensen Huang, Michael Dell, and others spoke to Trump or his aides to vouch for Tan (Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/10/07/2025/at-intel-and-beyond-ce…

At Intel and beyond, CEOs find success going direct
A group of the US’ most powerful business leaders have managed to sway the president on everything from Intel to Harvard.

'Rat Hunting' Harvard Law Professor Agrees to Self-Deport After Firing Pellet Gun Near Synagogue During Yom Kippur (Jessica Schwalb/The Washington Free Beacon)
https://freebeacon.com/campus/rat-hunting-harvard-law-professor-agrees-to-self-deport-after-firing-pellet-gun-near-synagogue-during-yom-kippur/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p98#a251205p98

A lot of the (often quite powerful!) guys emailing Epstein were asking him for dating advice,
which seems to suggest that they saw his own sex life as aspirational.
https://bsky.app/profile/econmarshall.bsky.social/post/3m5p6dgmagb2a

Marshall Steinbaum (@econmarshall.bsky.social)
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.

Decentralized exchange Ostium raised a $20M Series A led by General Catalyst and Jump Trading, a source says at a ~$250M valuation, after previously raising $8M (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/03/ostium-series-a-fundraise-perpetuals-perps-cry…

Exclusive: Harvard grads raise $20 million for Ostium, a platform focused on a derivative popular with crypto traders
The marquee investors General Catalyst and Jump Crypto led the funding round.

That’s almost certainly the better strategy for them, even if the cynical view is true and they really are an investment org and not an educational institution at heart. We know that caving to bullies just marks you as a target. We know that, as @… said, those who resist grow in stature, and those who capitulate emerge as shadows of themselves (https://www.theindex.media/p/donald-trump-can-t-make-cowards-of-us-all). If Harvard is a brand, well….
But investment is a fear-driven world, and there’s a lot of fear circulating.
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Summers Visited Epstein's Island During 2005 Honeymoon (The Harvard Crimson)
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/11/21/summers-honeymoon-epstein-island/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251120/p78#a251120p78

#Minnesota raised #AntiWoke Warrior and former #FauxNews pundit #PeteHegseth has used his

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Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI board, Harvard launches probe after release of Epstein emails (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/larry-summers-resigns-openai-board-jeffrey-epstein-emails-rcna244766
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p75#a251119p75

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Trump and his allies are using
“page one of the authoritarian playbook”
in their accelerating attacks on political foes”,
said Harvard government professor Steven Levitsky,
who co-authored the book
How Democracies Die.
“You use political violence as a pretext to go after your political enemies.
Some of them have been chomping at the bit to do this.
They’re going after mainstream opponents and other critics.
They’re defining unacceptable b…

Harvard Has Identified Another Problem: Its Own Students (Anemona Hartocollis/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/us/harvard-students-absenteeism.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251006/p140#a251006p140

Top Trump official: OpenAI, Harvard should dump Summers (Victoria Guida/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/17/trump-official-larry-summers-breakup-00655279
http://www.memeorandum.com/251117/p139#a251117p139

Event: Dec. 6 Book Response on Living Islam
Join us for an evening of conversation inspired by Living Islam: Muslim Expressions of Faith, the acclaimed book byProfessor Ali S. Asani, which invites readers to explore the many ways Muslims around the world understand and experience their faith through culture, art, and everyday life.  The discussion, moderated by Alisha Kurji and featuring Dr. Alnoor Dhanani (Harvard University) and…

Hussein RashidEvent: Dec. 6 Book Response on Living Islam
Join us for an evening of conversation inspired by Living Islam: Muslim Expressions of Faith, the acclaimed book byProfessor Ali S. Asani, which invites readers to explore the many ways Muslims aro…

Summers To Step Back from Public Commitments Amid Epstein Scandal (The Harvard Crimson)
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/11/18/summers-steps-back-from-public-commitments-epstein/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251117/p146#a251117p146

TALKS > Online Buddhist Studies Events (Dec 16 - Jan 21)
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Authorities Investigating Explosion at Harvard Medical School, Believed To Be Intentional (The Harvard Crimson)
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/11/2/explosion-longwood/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251101/p52#a251101p52

LECTURE> Yin-Cheng Distinguished Lecture Series: A Paradigmatic Case? The Unpredicted Revitalization of Newar Buddhist Traditions in the Kathmandu Valley
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“Nixon tried to keep his criminality secret,
and the Bush administration tried to keep the torture secret,
and that secrecy acknowledged the norm that these things were wrong,”
Harvard Law Professor Jack Goldsmith said.
“Trump, as he often does when he is breaking law or norms,
is acting publicly and without shame or unease.
This is a very successful way to destroy the efficacy of law and norms.”

The Peril of a White House That Flaunts Its Indifference to the Law
The White House has made no legal argument explaining its bald claim that the president has wartime power to summarily kill people suspected of smuggling drugs.

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TALKS > Online Buddhist Studies Events (Nov 29 - Dec 17)
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