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☆ Esther Howland was the ‘mother of the American valentine’ who ‘would have killed it on Etsy’
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-13 | by ( Catherine E. Shoichet | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

She would have killed it on Etsy,” says Vanessa Bumpus, exhibit coordinator at the Worcester Historical Museum in Massachusetts. Ornate lace designs were a trademark of Esther Howland's valentines. Courtesy Collection of Worcester Historical MuseumBrightly colored paper placed beneath the lace accentuates the design. Courtesy Collection of Worcester Historical Museum“She’s fresh out of school, launching her own business. The room where the City Council meets is even named after Howland, Bumpus says.

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☆ Saabira Chaudhuri — Consumer Goods and Retail Reporter at The Wall Street Journal
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-18 | by ( Saabira Chaudhuri | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Saabira ChaudhuriSaabira Chaudhuri covers consumer goods and retail for The Wall Street Journal from London, with a focus on sustainability, health and how companies are adapting to fast-changing consumer behavior. She previously covered U.S. banks for the Journal from New York, and prior to that worked for Forbes, Fast Company and Mint. Saabira graduated from Mount Holyoke College and has a master's in business and economic reporting from New York University.

Persons: Saabira Chaudhuri Saabira Chaudhuri, Saabira Organizations: The Wall, Forbes, Fast Company, Mint, Mount Holyoke College, New York University Locations: London, U.S, New York

☆ With Affirmative Action Decision, College Admissions Could Become More Subjective
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( Anemona Hartocollis | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In the Supreme Court decision striking down racial and ethnic preferences in college admissions, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. had harsh words for Harvard and the University of North Carolina, calling their admissions process “elusive," “opaque” and “imponderable.”But the court’s ruling against the two universities on Thursday could lead to an admissions system that is even more subjective and mysterious, as colleges try to follow the law but also admit a diverse class of students. Officials at some universities predicted that there would be less emphasis on standardized metrics like test scores and class rank, and more emphasis on personal qualities, told through recommendations and the application essay — the opposite of what many opponents of affirmative action had hoped for. “Will it become more opaque? Yes, it will have to,” said Danielle Ren Holley, who is about to take over as president of Mount Holyoke College. “It’s a complex process, and this opinion will make it even more complex.”

Persons: John G, Roberts, ”, Danielle Ren Holley, “ Organizations: Harvard, University of North, Mount Holyoke College Locations: University of North Carolina

☆ Carol Higgins Clark, Mystery Writer, Is Dead at 66
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( Neil Genzlinger | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Carol Higgins Clark, who as a young woman retyped manuscripts by her mother, the famed mystery writer Mary Higgins Clark, before going on to become a best-selling suspense novelist herself, died on Monday in Los Angeles. Ms. Higgins Clark wrote more than a dozen novels on her own, beginning with “Decked” in 1992, and several others with Christmas themes in collaboration with her mother, who died in 2020. “She had her first suspense novel coming out, and had to get her second one in to her agent,” Carol Higgins Clark told NPR in 2008. “It was before computers, and she didn’t know how she was going to get it retyped in time, so I did it. And I did that for a number of her books, which was great for me to learn about how to write.”

Persons: Carol Higgins Clark, Mary Higgins Clark, Higgins Clark, ” Carol Higgins Clark, ” Organizations: Mount Holyoke College, NPR Locations: Los Angeles, Massachusetts

☆ Trans and nonbinary students have long had a place at women’s colleges. Here’s what they want you to know
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-30 | by ( Elizabeth Wolfe | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +17 min

And Smith – while it opens its doors to trans women and some nonbinary applicants – does not accept admissions applications from trans men. Avery is among the trans and nonbinary students who do not identify as women and yet have been attending women’s colleges for decades. Nanney noted that scholars have identified trans alumni of women’s colleges as early as the 1980s. “There’s a lot of resistance, especially from leadership, to use the term ‘historically women’s college’ because they think that connotes the idea that these colleges are no longer ‘women’s colleges,’” Nanney said. He now identifies as a trans man and contributes to the Wellesley Trans Archive, a student-run Tumblr page that documents stories of past and current trans students.

☆ Tons of other animals have clitorises — and they can teach us more about human sexuality
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-23 | by ( Paola Rosa-Aquino | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Many animals have clitorises, a female sex organ, but experts say they're understudied. She said she's seen more interest in this field in recent years, mostly from young female researchers. They found that all female snakes studied have a pair of clitorises — or hemiclitores, a two-part clitoris. Brennan said the fact that snake species have intersex individuals has heightened confusion about the creature's genital organs over the years. Their findings suggest that, like those in human females, the dolphin's clitoris provides pleasure during sex.

Dec 22 (Reuters) - FTX founder and former Chief Executive Sam Bankman-Fried, who faces U.S. fraud charges over the collapse of FTX, ran his crypto empire with a number of associates. GARY WANGGary Wang co-founded FTX and Alameda Research with Bankman-Fried, and served as FTX's chief technology officer. He and Bankman-Fried met at a math camp in high school and became college roommates, Bankman-Fried wrote in a now-unavailable FTX blog. Wang worked as a software engineer at Google before co-founding FTX and Alameda, according to an archived webpage for the FTX Future Fund, the company's charitable effort. NISHAD SINGHNishad Singh was a best friend of Bankman-Fried's brother in high school, Bankman-Fried wrote in the deleted blog post.

CNN —Scientists have discovered that female snakes have a clitoris — a previously overlooked or dismissed part of their anatomy (and that of many other animals), according to a new study. Female genitalia is not an easy subject to bring up sometimes and I think people were happy saying ‘it doesn’t exist. Folwell decided to investigate the female genitalia of snakes after noticing that very little research had been done on the topic. Studies of female genitalia in the animal kingdom are relatively sparse because of an “overwhelming focus on male genitalia,” according to the study. Last year, Patricia Brennan, an associate professor of biological sciences at Mount Holyoke College and coauthor on the new snake study, revealed dolphins also have functional clitoris.

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