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☆ Is an Ivy League degree worth it? Report finds advantages beyond future earnings
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-02 | by ( Jessica Dickler | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

In the end, the group of Harvard and Brown University-based economists found that attending an Ivy League college has a "statistically insignificant impact" on earnings. Leadership positions are disproportionately held by graduates of a few highly selective private colleges, the Opportunity Insights report found. Meanwhile, at the nation's top schools, including many in the Ivy League, acceptance rates hover near all-time lows. The pathway to CEO is not necessarily an elite university. However, "the pathway to CEO is not necessarily an elite university," added Alvin Tillery, a political science professor and director of Northwestern's Center for the Study of Diversity and Democracy.

Persons: Christopher Rim, Alvin Tillery, Hafeez Lakhani Organizations: Princeton University, Office, Communications, Harvard University, University of North, Ivy League, Harvard, Brown University, Stanford University, Duke University, University of Chicago, Technology, Command, ACT, Northwestern's Center, Diversity, Diversity and Democracy, Princeton, MIT, Glowimages, Getty Locations: New Jersey, University of North Carolina, Massachusetts, New York, Michigan , Illinois, Wisconsin

☆ Pizza party: 14 versions of the world’s favorite food
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( Terry Ward | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +15 min

The solution was to fry the pizza dough, with ricotta and pork fat tucked inside, for a puffier and more substantial effect. With several locations in Miami, Rey Pizza offers Cuban pizza varieties that include chorizo, picadillo (ground beef) and platano (plantain). New York slice pizzaNew Yorkers just fold their slices to eat on the move. “New York slice pizza uses a low-moisture and low-fat mozzarella that’s dry, almost more of a provolone,” Verde says. He recommends trying authentic New York slice pizza at Amore Pizzeria in the Flushing neighborhood of Queens (for a whole pie, try the Italo-Americano New York style pepperoni pizza at Coco Pazzeria).

Persons: Fabio Errante, , “, ” Errante, ”, Nino Coniglio, ” Coniglio, Enzo Algarme, ” Algarme, ’, Henry Cunningham, Gabriele Bonci, Cunningham, Stefano Politi Markovina, Tatyana Serraino, that’s, Lisa Cherkasky, it’s, Errante, . Wood, Allen Brown, Derek Gaughan, Pala, ” Gaughan, Louis, Steve Dolinsky, there’s, Dolinsky, Lou Malnati’s, crème, Khachapuri, Maggie Rossetti, iStockphoto, Ciro Verde, Coco Pazzeria, Pazzeria, Coniglio, you’re Organizations: CNN, CNN Travel, UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage, Food, Netflix, Washington Post, Uno, Pizza, Americano Locations: Naples, Italy, Italian, Brooklyn, New York City, Neapolitan, Virginia, Rome, Rome’s, Prati, Rome's Trastevere, Errante, Olive, Sicily, United States, Palermo, Detroit, Michigan, Trumbull, Columbus, New Haven, New Haven , Connecticut, Chicago, Cuban, Miami, Gouda, France’s Alsace, Germany, Catalonia, Spain, Balearic, Istanbul, Yerevan, Berlin, Hamburg, Armenia, Turkey, Georgia, York, Astoria , Queens, ” Verde, Flushing, Queens, Yorker

☆ Why so many Americans feel trapped in their homes by their low-rate mortgages
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( Jessica Dickler | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty ImagesThe recent spike in mortgage rates has created a so-called golden handcuff effect. For homeowners, a low mortgage rate is similar. Nearly 82% of home shoppers said they felt "locked-in" by their existing low-rate mortgage, according to a recent survey by Realtor.com. Between 1978 and 1981, mortgage rates similarly doubled from around 9% to more than 18%, compelling more homeowners to hold on to their homes. Mortgage rates may not return to sub-3% levels again anytime soon — if ever.

Persons: Bob, Terri Wood, Bob Wood Bob Wood, Terri, It's, Wood, Tomas Philipson, Philipson, Saul Loeb, he'd, Zillow, Greg McBride, Sam Khater, Freddie Mac's, Jacob Channel Organizations: University of Chicago, White House Council, Economic Advisers, AFP, Getty, Jacob Channel Locations: Mobile , Alabama, Tennessee, Arlington , Virginia, Bankrate.com, LendingTree

On Tuesday, Goolsbee said his own decision at the Fed's next meeting in September will be driven by what happens on prices. And those metrics suggest, Goolsbee said, that the Fed is on the "golden path" of disinflation without a recession. But, he added, he does not see a tight connection between labor market tightness and inflation - meaning, he believes that inflation can fade even as the job market stays healthy. The Fed's September rate call will depend on what happens with inflation, as will how long the Fed will keep rates high and when it will start cutting, he said. "The answer is, it totally depends on whether we're able to navigate the path and get inflation down without a recession," he said.

Persons: Austan Goolsbee, Obama, Brendan McDermid, Goolsbee, that's, Banks, Ann Saphir, Andrea Ricci Organizations: University of Chicago, Democracy, REUTERS, Chicago Federal Reserve Bank, Reuters, U.S, Fed, Labor Department, Thomson Locations: New York City, U.S

☆ Morning Bid: Beijing stimulus given benefit of the doubt
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-31 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Yet that merely stoked wagers Beijing would have to dole up sizable stimulus at some point or risk social unrest, particularly with youth unemployment rising. So far, domestic investors seem to be giving Beijing the benefit of the doubt - foreign funds have been shunning Chinese stocks for a while. Any rise in Japan's paltry yields should, theoretically, be a plus for the yen and a negative for yen-funded carry trades. This in part reflects the still huge gulf between Japan rates and emerging markets and the fact that many carry trades are funded at one month rates and rolled over. Right now, investors can still borrow yen for one month at -0.1% to buy pesos and earn 11.1%.

Persons: Wayne Cole, China's, it's, That's, Austan Goolsbee, Sam Holmes Organizations: Beijing, Nikkei, Bank of Japan, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Western Digital Corp, Aercap, Thomson Locations: Wayne, Beijing, Asia, Pacific, Japan, Chicago

☆ Opinion | The State of Evangelical America
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-30 | by ( Tish Harrison Warren | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

And you often say that people don’t always leave the church because of what Christians believe, but instead because they don’t think Christians actually believe what they claim to believe. And in many cases they’re starting to question not whether the church is too strict, but whether the church actually holds to a morality at all. I think the fragmentation that’s happening to the evangelical movement right now is actually a necessary precondition for renewal. I won’t give up on the word “evangelical.” There was a time when I did. I wrote an op-ed in 2016 in The Washington Post called “Why This Election Makes Me Hate the Word ‘Evangelical’” — but I’ve come around.

Persons: don’t, “ I’m, I’m, ”, Tim Keller, it’s, Tim, North Americans don’t, we’ve Organizations: The Washington Post, University of Chicago, North Americans Locations: evangelicalism, The, Africa, Asia, Latin America

☆ 'Oppenheimer' doesn't get Einstein's relationship with the Los Alamos director quite right. Here's what they really thought of each other.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | Jenny Mcgrath | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

In reality, Einstein and J. Robert Oppenheimer knew each other but weren't friends until much later. The movie focuses on J. Robert Oppenheimer, who led the assembly and testing of the first-ever atomic bomb at Los Alamos in New Mexico. Einstein and Oppenheimer disagreed on a key issue: the governmentOppenheimer (right) standing with General Leslie Groves of the US army. Out of fear the Nazis would develop and use a nuclear weapon, Einstein wrote the letter that convinced President Franklin D. Roosevelt to launch an atom-bomb program. Einstein the outsider, Oppenheimer the disgraced insiderJ. Robert Oppenheimer in 1950.

Persons: Albert Einstein, Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer, Einstein, J, Robert Oppenheimer, Nolan, Alex Wellerstein, Corbis, who'd, Edward Teller, Wellerstein, Arthur Compton, Leslie Groves, Einstein wasn't, wouldn't, Franklin D, Roosevelt, Lewis Strauss, Strauss Organizations: Service, Manhattan, Princeton, New York Times, Manhattan Project, University of Chicago, Times, Getty, Trinity, National Security Research, United Locations: Wall, Silicon, Los Alamos, New Mexico, Princeton, United States

☆ Opinion | The Case for Tourism
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( Ross Douthat | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Agnes Callard, a University of Chicago philosopher, infuriated various portions of the internet in June with an essay making the case against travel. Though really it was the case against tourism, since Callard exempted many forms of travel — for work or study, for personal or political reasons or charitable service — from her critique. The traveler departs confident that she will come back with the same basic interests, political beliefs and living arrangements. So I refrained from any comment on her thesis, assuming — like every other self-deluded tourist — that I would return more enlightened than before. But casting my mind back to that distant prior self, I dimly remember having two reactions to Callard’s essay.

Persons: Agnes Callard, Walker Percy, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Chesterton, Callard, Mona Lisa, ’, Percy Organizations: University of Chicago, Scottish Locations: G.K, France, Britain, Netherlands

☆ Four Decades Later, a Victim of the Highway Killer Is Finally Identified
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Jesus Jiménez | More About Jesus Jiménez | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For nearly 40 years, the remains of a body found on an abandoned farm in rural Indiana were known as those of Adam Doe. All four were victims of Larry Eyler, the serial killer known as the Highway Killer, who murdered at least 21 young men, the authorities said. He preyed across the Midwest, and some of his victims were young gay men whom he stabbed several times. Two of the victims were identified within months. A third victim was identified in 2021.

Persons: Adam Doe, Larry Eyler, Danny Bridges, Eyler, Keith Lavell Bibbs Locations: Indiana, Chicago, Newton

☆ Ukraine's NATO membership would be bad for Putin, but great for the Russian economy, professor says
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( Filip De Mott | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Russia's economy could return to global markets if Ukraine joins NATO, Konstantin Sonin wrote. The Russia scholar said Kyiv's membership in the alliance would make it harder for the Kremlin to justify outsized military spending. Such rhetoric typically prioritized high military spending over economic welfare, a factor in the Soviet Union's 1991 downfall, Konstantin said. "To be sure, bringing Ukraine into NATO would not undo the damage Putin has inflicted on the Russian economy," he said. And the growth of military spending has been difficult to track because an increasingly larger portion of it has been determined a state secret.

Persons: Konstantin Sonin, Putin, Vladimir Putin, Long, Konstantin Organizations: NATO, Service, University of Chicago, Project Syndicate Locations: Ukraine, Russia, Wall, Silicon, Soviet

☆ Kids of the 1% are twice as likely to get into 'Ivy Plus' colleges, even when their grades are no better than anyone else's
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( Kai Xiang Teo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A new study shows kids of the top 1% are over twice as likely to be admitted to Ivy Plus colleges. That's despite scoring no better than students of other income groups, per an Opportunity Insights study. Ivy Plus refers to the eight Ivy League colleges Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, UPenn, Princeton, and Yale, plus Stanford, MIT, Duke, and the University of Chicago. On Tuesday, the US Department of Education launched a federal civil rights probe against Harvard, alleging favoritism towards legacy students in their admission process, per Reuters. The Ivy Plus colleges did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Insider, sent outside regular business hours.

Persons: Rhodes Organizations: Ivy Plus, Service, Opportunity, Harvard, Ivy, Ivy League colleges Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, Yale, Stanford, MIT, Duke, University of Chicago, US, Associated Press, US Department of Education, Reuters Locations: Wall, Silicon, Columbia, UPenn, Princeton

☆ Education Department opens investigation into Harvard’s legacy admissions
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Opening a new front in legal battles over college admissions, the U.S. Department of Education has launched a civil rights investigation into Harvard University's policies on legacy admissions. An Education Department spokesperson confirmed its Office for Civil Rights opened an investigation at Harvard. Wesleyan President Michael Roth said a student's "legacy status" has played a negligible role in admissions, but would now be eliminated entirely. Legacy policies have been called into question after last month's Supreme Court ruling banning affirmative action and any consideration of race in college admissions. NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson said he commended the Education Department for taking steps to ensure the higher education system "works for every American, not just a privileged few."

Persons: Jane Sujen Bock, Michael Roth, Derrick Johnson, Brown Organizations: U.S . Department of Education, Harvard, Civil Rights, discriminates, Education Department, Coalition, Wesleyan University, Wesleyan, Amherst College, Carnegie Melon University, Johns Hopkins University, NAACP, Ivy League, Stanford, MIT, Duke, University of Chicago, Athletic Locations: Boston, New England, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Maryland

☆ Support for using violence to 'coerce' members of Congress nearly doubled over the last 6 months — even more so among Democrats — according to a study
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( Sonam Sheth | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A recent study found that public support for using violence to "coerce" members of Congress nearly doubled from January to June. Support among self-identified Democrats for political violence grew by about 250%, according to the study. The spike was most pronounced among self-identified Democrats: in January, 7% of Democrats supported using political violence against lawmakers, and that number climbed to 16% in June. By contrast, the support for political violence against Congress among self-identifying Republicans increased by 50%. Specifically, the survey found roughly 4% of Americans — an estimated 12 million people — supported using violence to return Trump to office in April.

Persons: Robert Pape, Donald Trump, Trump, Pape Organizations: Service, University of Chicago's, Security, —, University of Chicago, Republican Locations: Wall, Silicon

☆ MLB roundup: Shohei Ohtani hits 36th homer as Angels beat Pirates
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +11 min

Devers capped the scoring by hitting a solo home run -- his 24th homer of the season -- in the seventh inning. New York's Carlos Carrasco (3-4) allowed five runs on 10 hits in 2 1/3 innings (58 pitches). Yankees 8, Royals 5Anthony Rizzo hit his first homer in over two months and collected a season-high four hits as host New York beat Kansas City. He yielded those four runs on six hits and struck out six in six innings to pick up the win. Oakland's Luis Medina was pulled after five innings, having given up just one run on two hits.

Persons: Shohei Ohtani, Kiyoshi Mio, Ohtani, Luis Rengifo, Andrew Velazquez, Rengifo, Tyler Anderson, Carlos Estevez, Carlos Santana, Jacob Webb, Bryan Reynolds, Rafael Devers, Adam Duvall, Devers, Connor Wong, Chris Murphy, Carlos Carrasco, Brandon Nimmo, Alex Faedo, Faedo, Alex Lange, Spencer Torkelson, Andy Ibanez, Joe Musgrove, Gary Sanchez, Anthony Rizzo, Gleyber Torres, Jordan Lyles, Torres, Salvador Perez, Michael Massey, Luis Severino, MacKenzie Gore, Riley Adams, Gore, Lane Thomas, Joc Pederson, Scott Alexander, Bryce Harper, Aaron Nola, Gregory Soto, Craig Kimbrel, David Fry, Harper, Johan Rojas, J.T, Realmuto, Trea Turner, Alec Bohm, Bryson Stott, Jake Fraley, Fraley's, Spencer Steer, Steer, Christian Encarnacion, Strand's, Derek Law, Arizona's Tyler Gilbert, Gunnar Henderson, Ryan O'Hearn, Mike Baumann, Yennier Cano, Felix Bautista, Wander Franco, Yandy Diaz, Luis Arraez, Arraez, Pierce Johnson, Jesus Luzardo, Randal Grichuk, Brenton Doyle, Ozzie Albies, Michael Harris II, Ronald Acuna Jr, Albies, Elvis Peguero, Daysbel Hernandez, Ryan Jeffers, Kyle Farmer, Emilio Pagan, Zach Remillard, Eloy Jimenez, Cody Bellinger, Jameson Taillon, Louis, Bellinger, Dylan Carlson's, Louis ' Jordan Montgomery, Nolan Arenado, Jonah Heim, Leody, Brad Miller, Ezequiel Duran, Martin Perez, Emmet Sheehan, Mauricio Dubon, Houston's Hunter Brown, Oakland's Luis Medina, Yainer Diaz, JJ Bleday, Jordan Diaz, Santiago Espinal, Vladimir Guerrero Jr, Mike Ford Organizations: Los Angeles Angels, Pittsburgh Pirates, Angel, Angels, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, The Pirates, Pirates . Red Sox, Mets, Boston, New, Tigers, Padres, Detroit, San, Yankees, Royals, New York, Kansas City, Nationals, Giants, Washington, Phillies, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Reds, Diamondbacks, Cincinnati, Orioles, Rays, Baltimore, Tampa, American League East, Marlins, Miami, Rockies, Braves, Brewers, Atlanta, White Sox, Minnesota, Twins, Chicago, Cubs, Cardinals, St, Rangers, Dodgers, Texas, Astros, Athletics, Houston, Oakland, Blue Jays, Mariners, Toronto, Seattle, Brandon Belt, Thomson Locations: Anaheim , California, USA, Anaheim , Calif, New York, San Diego, Diego, San Francisco, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Arizona, St . Petersburg, Fla, Colorado, Milwaukee, Chicago, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Atlanta, York, Los, Arlington , Texas, Texas

☆ The rise of gig workers is changing the face of the US economy
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( Samantha Delouya | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

The number of gig workers is growing and making an impact throughout the economy. But workplace experts say the number of gig workers is growing, and and their impact is being felt throughout the economy. “People who have access to the gig economy borrow less money than people who don’t. Working in the gig economy can help people spend more time searching for their next job, if they've been laid off. “We could do so much better.”Recently, local governments have attempted to bolster platform gig workers’ protections.

Persons: Los Angeles CNN — Lazarus, ”, that’s, Eric Baradat, Louis Hyman, Uber, DoorDash, Jenn Rosenberg, Hyman, “, Erica Groshen, they've, Spencer Platt, Doordash, Susan Houseman, Groshen, we’ve, ” Groshen, they’re Organizations: Los Angeles CNN, Uber, CNN, DoorDash, Getty, of Labor Statistics, Cornell University, “ Society, University of Chicago, IRS, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, BLS, . Upjohn Institute, Employment Research, North, New York City, Federal Reserve, Federal, System Locations: Hill , North Carolina, “, United States, AFP, DoorDash, Kalamazoo , Michigan, North America, New York, California

☆ Oppenheimer never won a Nobel Prize, but these 31 scientists with ties to the Manhattan Project did
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( Jenny Mcgrath | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +26 min

Manhattan Project: After a harrowing escape from Nazi-occupied Denmark in 1943, Bohr began consulting on the Manhattan Project. Manhattan Project: Between 1943 and 1944, Muller was a civilian advisor for the Manhattan Project, consulting on experiments studying the effects of radiation. Maria Goeppert Mayer, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1963Maria Goeppert Mayer worked on the Manhattan Project and later won the Nobel Prize in physics. Manhattan Project: Working as an assistant to his father, Niels Bohr, Aage Bohr proved instrumental in interpreting for some members of the Manhattan Project. Manhattan Project: At 18, Glauber was still a student at Harvard when he became one of the youngest scientists to join the Manhattan Project.

Persons: Robert Oppenheimer, Alfred Nobel, Joseph Rotblat, Albert Einstein, Christopher Nolan's, Oppenheimer, Niels Bohr, Bohr, Nicholas Baker, Nick, James Franck, Boyer, Roger Viollet, Gustav Ludwig Hertz, Niels Bohr's, Franck, Arthur Compton, Imagno, Compton, Harold Urey, Harold, Urey, James Chadwick, Chadwick, Enrico Fermi, Fermi, Ernest Lawrence, Lawrence, Isidor Isaac Rabi, Nancy R, Schiff, Rabi, Hermann Muller, Muller, Edwin McMillan, Bettmann, Glenn Seaborg, McMillan, Elsie McMillan, Seaborg, Felix Bloch, Edward Purcell, Nobel, Hans Bethe, Bloch, Purcell, Emilio Segrè, Owen Chamberlain, Chamberlain, Segrè, Willard Libby, Leona Libby, Lowell, Libby, Linus Pauling, Leona Woods Marshall Libby, Eugene Wigner, Wigner, Leo Szilard's, Einstein, Franklin D, Roosevelt, Maria Goeppert Mayer, J, Hans Jensen, Goeppert Mayer, Teller, Richard Feynman, Tomonaga, Julian Schwinger, Fenynman, Hans Bethe's, Feynmwan, Feynman, Schwinger, Robert Mulliken, Mulliken, Szilard, Hans A, Bethe, Luis Alvarez, Alvarez, Enola Gay, Walter Alvarez, James Rainwater, Aage Bohr, Ben Mottelson, Rainwater, Wu, Aage Niels Bohr, Mottelson, mumbled, Val Fitch, James Cronin, Fitch, Jerome Karle, Isabelle, Larry Morris, Herbert Hauptman, Karle, Isabella Karle, Norman Ramsey, Ellie Welch, Ramsey, Norman Ramsey's Nobel, David Cheskin, Rotblat, Russell, Bertrand Russell, Enstinen, Frederick Reines, Philippe Caron, Sygma, Reines, Roy Glauber, Gail Oskin, Glauber Organizations: Manhattan Project, Service, Manhattan, US Army, AP, Getty, University of Chicago's Metallurgical Laboratory, Chicago Met, Los Angeles Examiner, USC, Columbia, Keystone, Gamma, Columbia University, University of Chicago, Trinity Test, University of California, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Hulton, Trinity, Deutsch, Los Alamos, University of Chicago's Metallurgical, Atomic Energy Commission, Harvard University, MIT Rad Lab, Denver, Chicago Met Lab, Materials Laboratory, Los, Radiation Laboratory, MIT, University of Chicago's, Princeton University, Naval Research Lab, Washington, US Naval Research Laboratory, Science, World Affairs, Einstein, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Harvard, Institute for Locations: Wall, Silicon, Polish, Denmark, Copenhagen, Nazi, London , Washington, Los Alamos, German, Germany, Japan, Manhattan, British, France, Washington, DC, Berkeley, Ridge , Tennessee, Los, New Mexico, Hanford, antiprotons, Hiroshima, Lowell Georgia, San Diego, Chicago, Washington ,

The study — by Opportunity Insights, a group of economists based at Harvard who study inequality — quantifies for the first time the extent to which being very rich is its own qualification in selective college admissions. The result is the clearest picture yet of how America’s elite colleges perpetuate the intergenerational transfer of wealth and opportunity. Less than 1 percent of American college students attend the 12 elite colleges. For the several elite colleges that also shared internal admissions data, they could see other aspects of students’ applications between 2001 and 2015, including how admissions offices rated them. Share of admitted students who were recruited athletes at selected elite colleges Recruited athletes at elite colleges were much more likely to come from the highest-earning households.

Persons: ”, Susan Dynarski, Raj Chetty, John N . Friedman of Brown, David J . Deming, Christopher L, “, Neil Gorsuch, didn’t, Ivy, Dynarski, Pell, You’re, Michael Bastedo, Bastedo, John Morganelli, don’t, It’s, you’re, Jana Barnello, Stuart Schmill, “ It’s Organizations: Elite College, Ivy League, Opportunity, Harvard, Stanford, Duke, University of Chicago, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Princeton, Notre Dame, Public, University of Texas, University of Virginia, Fortune, University of Michigan, New York Times, Dartmouth, University of Michigan’s School of Education, Cornell, College Board, Brown, University of California Locations: M.I.T, America, Northwestern, N.Y.U, Austin, United States, California, U.C.L.A

☆ Biden will create a national monument honoring Emmett Till, the Black teenager whose 1955 murder was a catalyst for the civil-rights movement, on what would have been his 82nd birthday
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-23 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

President Joe Biden will create a national monument in honor of Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley. Till's murder in Mississippi helped spark the civil-rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. The monument locations will consist of a site in Chicago and two sites in rural Mississippi. Bryant and Milam then tortured and lynched the teenager before throwing his body into the Tallahatchie River. In March 2022, Biden signed into law the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act, which made lynching a federal hate crime for the first time in US history.

Persons: Joe Biden, Emmett Till, Mamie Till, Mobley, Till's, Biden, Emmett Till's, Carolyn Bryant Donham, Donham, Roy Bryant, Bryant, Till, Moses Wright, Milam, Pell Grant Organizations: Service, White, Black, Roberts Temple Church of God, Supreme Locations: Mississippi, Chicago, Wall, Silicon, The Illinois, Bronzeville, The Mississippi, Tallahatchie, Sumner

☆ The women behind the Manhattan Project that Nolan's new film 'Oppenheimer' completely ignored
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-22 | by ( Katie Hawkinson | Jenny Mcgrath | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Nolan's "Oppenheimer" fails to highlight the women who helped make the Manhattan Project possible. Here are the stories of just six of the hundreds of women that made essential contributions to the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos. Hornig first arrived at Los Alamos after Manhattan Project officials tapped her husband to join the effort. Los Alamos National LaboratoryCharlotte SerberCharlotte Serber first went to Los Alamos with her husband, a physicist, in 1942. Los Alamos National LaboratoryMaria Goeppert MayerTheoretical physicist Maria Goeppert Mayer contributed to the development of nuclear fission while working at Columbia University, Sarah Lawrence College, and visiting Los Alamos from time to time.

Persons: Nolan's, Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan's, J, Robert Oppenheimer, Lilli Hornig, Charlotte Serber, Nolan, Hornig, Lilli Hornig's, Alamos National Laboratory Charlotte, Serber, Charlotte Serber's, Alamos National Laboratory Floy Agnes, Naranjo Stroud, Lee Floy Agnes, Lee, — Lee, Louis Slotin, Joan Hinton Joan Hinton, Hinton, Harry Daghlian, Joan Hinton, Reuters Elizabeth Graves Elizabeth Graves, Graves, Henry Barschall, Elizabeth Graves, Alamos National Laboratory Maria Goeppert Mayer, Maria Goeppert Mayer, Sarah Lawrence, Mayer, Edward Teller, Sharon McGrayne, Marie Curie Organizations: Manhattan, Service, Manhattan Project, Trinity Test, Hornig, Alamos National Laboratory, Sun, University of New, University of Chicago, American Indian Science and Engineering Society, University of Wisconsin, Los Alamos, Trinity, New York Times, Reuters, US Department of Energy, Columbia University, Sarah, Sarah Lawrence College Locations: Wall, Silicon, Los Alamos , New Mexico, Los Alamos, United States, Berlin, Germany, New Mexico, Japan, Santa Fe, University of New Mexico, Santa Clara Pueblo, Hiroshima, Nagaski, China, Beijing, Alamos, Los, —

☆ '4chan for economists' is melting down as racist, sexist anonymous posts are linked to Harvard, Yale, and other top institutions
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( Kate Taylor | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

A new study links anonymous posts on "4chan for economists" to IP addresses at Harvard, Yale, and other top schools. Other snippets of posts with IP addresses at Harvard, Stanford, Yale, University of Chicago, and the National Bureau of Economic Research headquarters include: "Rapefugees Welcome!!!!! Other snippets of posts with IP addresses at Harvard, Stanford, Yale, University of Chicago, and the National Bureau of Economic Research headquarters include: "Rapefugees Welcome!!!!! Notre Dame IP addresses made up 3.4% of posts from a research-institution IP address. According to Ederer, it took just 15 minutes to figure out how to connect usernames with IP addresses.

Persons: Anya Samek, Samek, EJMR, Boston University's Florian Ederer, Yale's Paul Goldsmith, Pinkham, Kyle Jensen, Ederer, Christina Romer, Scott Cunningham, Rob Seamans, Merkel, bubba, Trevon Logan, that's, She's Organizations: Harvard, Yale, North American Economic Science Association Conference, University of Chicago, undergrad, National Bureau of Economic Research, American Economics Association, Baylor, Marvel, Stanford, University of Notre Dame, Columbia, Notre Dame, Ohio State University, UMass Amherst, University of California Locations: Tucson , Arizona, Cambridge , Massachusetts, Ederer, Erdogan's Turkey, troon, Samek, San Diego

☆ Compare Republic Bank of Chicago Money Market Accounts
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ A historic settlement could bring environmental justice to a Chicago neighborhood that's been filled with polluting industries
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( Catherine Boudreau | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

"If you take away our health, you take away our wealth," Sanchez, a community planning manager at the Southeast Environmental Task Force, told Insider. The first-of-its-kind settlement with HUD could be a model for environmental justice advocates in other cities. If the city didn't agree to address environmental harms, it risked losing hundreds of millions of dollars in federal housing money. "Now all levels of city government have to listen to us and develop policies that are protective of public health." Sanchez said the case underscored the importance of updating city policies, because administrations come and go.

Persons: Oscar Sanchez, Sanchez, polluters, Robert Weinstock, who's, he's, Cheryl Johnson, Johnson, Jamie Kelter Davis, Weinstock, Brandon Johnson, Charles Rex Arbogast, Angela Tovar Organizations: Service, Environmental, Force, US Department of Housing, Urban Development, Northwestern University's Pritzker School of Law, Urban, Community, Factories, Washington, Getty, Chicago AP Locations: Chicago's, Chicago, Lincoln Park, Black, Calumet

☆ Dick Biondi, Fast-Talking Star of Top 40 Radio, Dies at 90
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( Richard Sandomir | More About Richard Sandomir | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Dick Biondi, an exuberant, fast-talking Top 40 radio personality, nicknamed “the Screamer,” who in the early 1960s became one of Chicago’s most popular disc jockeys and, thanks to the strength of his station’s signal, was heard well beyond the city, died on June 26 in Chicago. His death was confirmed by Pamela Enzweiler-Pulice, the director of a forthcoming documentary, “The Voice That Rocked America: The Dick Biondi Story.”Mr. Biondi was a yeller, though not a shock jock, at WLS-AM, which had just changed its format to rock ‘n’ roll when he was hired for the late evening shift in 1960 for $378 a week (about $3,900 in today’s dollars). The station’s reach into 38 states and Canada provided Mr. Biondi with a platform that made him a major media personality as rock music’s popularity surged. Mr. Biondi, who was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1998, quickly established himself as a Chicago star. He called himself “the Wild I-tralian”; hosted record hops and charity events; and recorded a novelty song, “On Top of a Pizza,” a parody of “On Top of Old Smoky” that in 1961 became a local hit.

Persons: Dick Biondi, ”, Pamela Enzweiler, ” Mr, Biondi Organizations: WLS, Radio Hall of Fame Locations: Chicago, America, Canada

☆ The number of people doing gig work on apps like Uber and DoorDash more than doubled during the pandemic
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( Juliana Kaplan | Madison Hoff | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The number of people doing platform gig work like deliveries on apps in the US grew by over 150% during the pandemic. The researchers used tax data from 90 gig economy platforms and apps for their analysis. "COVID was a watershed moment for a particular type of platform gig work, which is delivery work," Koustas said. Gig workers became younger and more female; 44% of transportation and delivery platform workers were female by 2021, per the working paper. While platform gig work climbed during the pandemic, a research brief about the working paper results states that other contract and freelance work fell during COVID.

Persons: Dmitri Koustas, COVID, Koustas Organizations: Service, The University of Chicago Harris School of Public, McKinsey, Workers, Economic Policy Institute Locations: Wall, Silicon, United States

☆ Here's exactly how much I made as a JP Morgan trader and Buzzfeed account executive. I have no regrets leaving behind my $656K job to become my own boss.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-19 | by ( Aria Yang | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Tu says leaving Wall Street was one of the best decisions she's ever made. I wanted to go on to Wall Street because that's what everybody else was doing. I chose Wall Street because a lot of my friends were interviewing for Wall Street jobs, and I didn't want to be left behind. I had never really thought about investing or growing my wealth until I hit the desk on Wall Street. Buzzfeed:Digital Media Strategy Salesperson, $80K base salary + commissionsAccount Executive, Client Partnerships, $100K base salary + $127K commissionsSenior Account Executive, Client Partnerships (2020), $110K base salary + $252K commissionsSenior Account Executive, Client Partnerships (2021), $120K base salary + $536K commissionsI worked on the digital marketing strategy sales team at BuzzFeed, focusing on establishing partnerships with brands.

Persons: Vivian Tu, Morgan, she's, —, JP, JP Morgan, Rich BFF, it's, I've, Rich, Aria Yang Organizations: University of Chicago, Wall, Chicago, Fifth Third Bank, JP Morgan, Media, BuzzFeed, YouTube Locations: BuzzFeed

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