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Four students were arrested on felony charges after buildings at the University of Rochester in New York were defaced with "wanted" posters targeting several Jewish faculty members, officials said. The four students were charged with felony criminal mischief and a fifth is being investigated, Quchee Collins, the university public safety chief, said in a news release Tuesday. "The posters identifying faculty, staff, and board members have instilled credible fear among those depicted, their families, and other members of our Jewish community," Mangelsdorf said in a message to the community. The university Department of Public Safety was made aware of the posters last week and immediately began removing them. The posters named certain university staff members and professors for alleged war crimes related to the conflict in Gaza, NBC affiliate WHEC of Rochester reported.
Persons: Quchee Collins, Collins, Sarah Mangelsdorf, Mangelsdorf, Organizations: University of Rochester, University, Trustees, Department of Public, NBC Locations: New York, Gaza, Rochester
Neutrinos pair with antineutrinos, which scientists think mirror their behavior. The first of three new neutrino observatoriesJUNO is part of China’s ambitious efforts to become a global science powerhouse. The sun, for example, sends electron neutrinos toward Earth, but sometimes they arrive as muon neutrinos. Several scientists behind neutrino observatory projects admitted, though, that it’s impossible to predict the practical, earthly benefits of the research. You need a discontinuity,” said Mary Bishai, a particle physicist at the U.S. Energy Department’s Brookhaven National Laboratory and a co-spokesperson for the DUNE project.
Persons: antineutrinos —, Wang Yifang, antineutrinos, ” Wang, Xi Jinping, Eric Baculinao, “ It’s, , Chris Marshall, China —, Wang, , they’ve, ” Patrick Huber, Ignacio Taboada, — it’s, , Sergio Bertolucci, We’ve, JUNO, Pedro Ochoa, you’ll, Mary Bishai Organizations: China’s Institute of High Energy, Workers, NBC, University of Rochester, U.S, NBC News U.S, Virginia Tech’s Center, Neutrino Physics, Georgia Tech, JUNO, University of California, U.S . Energy, Brookhaven National Laboratory Locations: Japan, U.S, Illinois, North Dakota, China, Italian, South Dakota, Irvine, Brookhaven
Self-harm: Why it happens and how to treat it
  + stars: | 2024-10-30 | by ( Kristen Rogers | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +13 min
Editor’s Note: This story contains details of self-harm that some readers may find upsetting or triggering. She had just recently learned about self-harm after asking a friend about her many bandages and long sleeves. In 2019 there were 363,000 emergency department visits for self-harm, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Self-harm can also be a form of self-punishment among those feeling guilt or shame and thus like they deserve physical pain. You should of course use common sense and not let someone have their self-harm toolkit in their bedroom, for example, Whitlock added.
Persons: Megan, ” Megan —, , , ” Megan, , Megan’s, Janis Whitlock, Whitlock, Jeremy Jamieson, There’s, Vibh Forsythe Cox, Marsha M, Linehan, Cox, ” Whitlock, DBT, suicidality, don’t, , ’ ” Whitlock, Whitlock doesn’t, Michele Berk, Benjamin Veness, Berk, ” “, Matt Villano Organizations: International Association for Suicide Prevention, Befrienders, CNN, Houston, Cornell Research, Cornell University, US Centers for Disease Control, University of Rochester, University of Washington, JED, Parents, Stanford University in Locations: New York, Seattle, Boston, Norway, Stanford University in California, Las Vegas, California
CNN —An immunotherapy approach to treating advanced Hodgkin lymphoma may drastically increase patients’ chances of survival, including those as young as 12, according to a new clinical trial. “The standard endpoint in studies of Hodgkin lymphoma is progression-free survival, because we think that best predicts the future,” he said. Hodgkin lymphoma can develop at any age, but it’s most common in early adulthood. ‘An immunotherapy revolution’The new study included nearly 1,000 people who were at least 12 years old and newly diagnosed with stage III or IV Hodgkin lymphoma that had previously been untreated. “However, insights in the field of cancer biology identified other potential approaches to cancer treatment in general and Hodgkin’s lymphoma in particular.
Persons: Hodgkin, Dr, Jonathan Friedberg, , ” Friedberg, it’s, Friedberg, Bristol, , we’ve, Ann LaCasce, Dana, Farber, Brigham, Sanjay Gupta, James Armitage, Dan Longo, ” Armitage, Longo Organizations: CNN, New England, of Medicine, , Wilmot Cancer Institute, University of Rochester, American Cancer Society, Bristol, Myers Squibb, Food and Drug Administration, FDA, Bristol Myers, Brigham Fellowship, CNN Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Brigham, Women’s Locations: United States, Canada, U.S
On the positive side, Wharton professor Jeremy Siegel called the decision the "best news" the Fed has offered in years. He said the Fed "moved too fast" with its 50-point cut. This is unusual, since investors will typically snap up these assets after a rate cut. Related storiesSome on Wall Street noted that the Fed's decision to cut beyond 25 basis points was essentially a signal that the central bank is moving past inflation. To Contopoulos point, this may be premature, as August's consumer price index report still stood above the 2% inflation target.
Persons: , Wharton, Jeremy Siegel, Michael Contopoulos, Bernstein, Contopoulos, Powell, Narayana Kocherlakota Organizations: Service, Business, Bernstein Advisors, CNBC, Wall, University of Rochester
Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailThe Fed has underestimated the extent of their 'new language' in cutting, says Narayana KocherlakotaNarayana Kocherlakota, University of Rochester professor of economics, joins CNBC to discuss why he's surprised by the Federal Reserve's decision to cut rates by 50 basis-points, what risks are present if the Fed is too aggressive in cutting, and more.
Persons: Narayana, Narayana Kocherlakota Organizations: University of Rochester, CNBC, Federal
Mr. Shapiro has said his views have evolved in the years since writing an opinion essay critical of Palestinians when he was a college student. Mr. Shapiro, 51, has embraced his Jewish identity and been one of the Democratic Party’s staunchest defenders of Israel at a moment when the party is splintered over the war in Gaza. “Something I wrote when I was 20, is that what you’re talking about?” Mr. Shapiro told a reporter who asked him about it. He has also not shied away from criticizing college administrators over their response to campus antisemitism, including at the University of Pennsylvania. If Ms. Harris chooses Mr. Shapiro to be her running mate, he will become only the second Jewish vice-presidential nominee on a major-party ticket.
Persons: Josh Shapiro, Shapiro, Kamala Harris, , , ” Mr, Mr, ” Ahmet Tekelioglu, Shapiro’s, Manuel Bonder, Harris, Joseph I, Lieberman, Al Gore, Jon Hurdle, Katie Glueck Organizations: Democratic Party’s, University of Rochester, Campus Times, Israel, Israeli Army, Cheyney University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Inquirer, Islamic, University of Pennsylvania, Jewish Locations: Horsham, Pa, Pennsylvania, Israel, Gaza, New York, United States, , Philadelphia, Connecticut
Josh Shapiro, Democrat of Pennsylvania, wrote in his college newspaper three decades ago that Palestinians were “too battle-minded” to achieve a two-state solution in the Middle East, prompting criticism as Vice President Kamala Harris considers him to be her running mate. Mr. Shapiro, 51, has embraced his Jewish identity and been one of the Democratic Party’s staunchest defenders of Israel at a moment when the party is splintered over the war in Gaza. But he says his views have evolved since publishing an opinion essay as a college student at the University of Rochester in New York, when he wrote that Palestinians were incapable of establishing their own homeland and making it successful, even with help from Israel and the United States. “They are too battle-minded to be able to establish a peaceful homeland of their own,” he wrote in the essay, published in the Sept. 23, 1993, edition of The Campus Times, the student newspaper. “They will grow tired of fighting amongst themselves and will turn outside against Israel.”
Persons: Josh Shapiro, Kamala Harris, Shapiro, , Organizations: Democratic Party’s, University of Rochester, Campus Times, Israel Locations: Pennsylvania, Israel, Gaza, New York, United States
CNN —Earth’s magnetic field plays a key role in making our planet habitable. However, Earth’s magnetic field almost collapsed 591 million years ago, and this change, paradoxically, may have played a pivotal role in the blossoming of complex life, new research has found. The discovery of the sustained weakening of Earth’s magnetic field also helped resolve an enduring geological mystery about when Earth’s solid inner core formed. Shuhai Xiao/Virginia TechUncovering the magnetic field’s near collapseThe intensity of Earth’s magnetic field is known to fluctuate over time, and crystals preserved in rock contain tiny magnetic particles that lock in a record of the intensity of Earth’s magnetic field. The research on the intensity of Earth’s magnetic field suggests that the age of Earth’s inner core is on the younger end of that timescale, solidifying after 565 million years ago and allowing Earth’s magnetic shield to bounce back.
Persons: , , John Tarduno, Xiao, Tarduno, Shuhai Xiao, ” Tarduno, Peter Driscoll, wasn’t, ” Driscoll Organizations: CNN, University of Rochester, Environment, Virginia Tech, Laboratory, Carnegie Institution for Science Locations: New York, South Australia, Virginia, Quebec, Brazil, South Africa, Washington ,, Newfoundland, Canada
Are nicotine pouches better than vaping? Zyn, among other brands of nicotine pouches such as Rogue, On! However, FDA officials have allowed the nontobacco nicotine product to stay on the market while the application is under review. Nicotine pouches have varying degrees of nicotine strength; 3 or 6 milligrams per pouch is most common, but some brands have pouches that contain upward of 28 milligrams. What’s more, the Zyn nicotine pouches come in a variety of flavors, including cool mint, wintergreen, coffee and cinnamon, that could be appealing to younger people.
Persons: Philip Morris, Chuck Schumer, , Kecia Christensen, , ’ ”, Christensen, Philip Morris International’s, ” Philip Morris, Meghan Moran, ” Moran, Brian King, Yanfang Ren, ” Ren, Moran Organizations: CNN, Philip Morris International, Facebook, Federal Trade Commission, Food and Drug Administration, American Cancer Society, Nebraska Medicine, FDA, National Cancer Institute, CDC, Centers for Disease Control, ” Philip Morris International, Swedish, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Tobacco Survey, FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products, University of Rochester Eastman Institute for Oral Health, Philip Locations: United States, , Baltimore, New York, Mayo
If you're already feeling overwhelmed by mounting work assignments, performance reviews or goal setting for the rest of 2024, you aren't alone. In those moments when your stress becomes overwhelming, experts say calming practices like meditation and grounding techniques can help. In fact, life coach and former monk Jay Shetty has a simple hack that he says can help you stay mentally sound, he tells CNBC Make It. "I was introduced to it when I was a monk, [and], for me, it's a really great grounding technique," Shetty says. So when we capture the energy and environment in our minds, through all of our senses, it means all of the senses are present, and we're fully there."
Persons: Jay Shetty, it's, Shetty, Matthew Tull, Tull, you've Organizations: American Psychological Association, CNBC, University of Rochester Medical, Behavioral Health Partners
In Sweden, architects are attempting to journey back to the days before concrete, bricks, and steel, and building impressive towers made with timber, The Washington Post reported. The architects told the Post that, at least in the heavily forested areas of Sweden, wood-based architecture is the future of sustainable building for several reasons. The building material's emissions have grown faster than most other single sources of carbon dioxide thanks to their increased demand and production, Inside Climate News reported. In places like West Africa , architects like Diébédo Francis Kéré are turning back to traditional building materials like soil, stone, and vegetation as sustainable building materials . "The built environment — as it is built now — is not sustainable," Michael Green, the author of "The Case for Tall Wood Buildings," told the Post.
Persons: , Robert Schmitz, Therese Kreisel, Sara, JONATHAN NACKSTRAND, White Arkitekter, Sara center's, Diébédo Francis Kéré, Michael Green Organizations: Service, Washington Post, Post, Sara Cultural Center, Getty, Sweden doesn't, Climate, University of Rochester, World Steel Association Locations: Sweden, Skelleftea, AFP, Stockholm, Europe, Asia, West Africa
David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesJust days before assisting in his first major shoulder-replacement surgery last year, Dr. Jake Shine strapped on a virtual reality headset and got to work. Kettering Health Dayton is one of dozens of health systems in the U.S. working with emerging technologies like VR as one tool for helping doctors to train on and treat patients. Since the beginning of last year, Meta's Reality Labs unit, which develops the company's VR and AR, has lost over $21 billion. Meta Quest 3 VR headset. "The first virtual reality headset that I used was this big clunky headset that had all these wires it had to be connected to a laptop to function."
Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, David Paul Morris, Jake Shine, Shine, Zuckerberg, didn't, Jan Herzhoff, Brennan Spiegel, Spiegel, Caitlin Rawlins, Rawlins, there's, Brent Bamberger, Reem, she's, it's, Daboul, PrecisionOS, Danny Goel, Richard Miller, he's, Miller, They're, It's, Goel, Kettering's Bamberger, Rafael Grossmann, Grossmann, Glass, Hollie Adams Organizations: Bloomberg, Getty, Kettering Health Dayton, CNBC, Meta, VR, Facebook, Labs, Apple, Elsevier Health's, U.S . Department of Veterans Affairs, Spiegel, Software, Doctors, PrecisionOS, University of Rochester, Portsmouth Regional Hospital, Google, of Fine Locations: San Jose , California, U.S, Ohio, Sinai, Los Angeles, Cedars, New Hampshire, Mayfair , London
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Many other scientists greeted the announcement with skepticism because an earlier Nature paper by Dr. Dias describing a different and less practical superconducting material had already been retracted. The university had previously conducted three preliminary inquiries into Dr. Dias’s research and decided the concerns did not warrant further scrutiny. On Tuesday, Dr. Hamlin said he was pleased that the journal had taken his concerns seriously. He said there were two additional instances of apparent data duplication in Dr. Dias’s work that he hoped would also be reviewed. One involves another Nature paper; the other is what Dr. Hamlin describes as a duplication of data in Dr. Dias’s thesis.
Persons: . Dias, James Hamlin, Dias, , Hamlin, Salamat, Keith V, Lawler, University of Rochester “, Dias’s Organizations: University of Florida, Adobe Illustrator, University of Rochester, University of Nevada, UNLV Locations: South Korea, Las Vegas
A major physics journal is retracting a two-year-old scientific paper that described the transformations of a chemical compound as it was squeezed between two pieces of diamond. Such an esoteric finding — and retraction — would not typically garner much attention. But one of the leaders of this research is Ranga P. Dias, a professor in the physics and mechanical engineering departments at the University of Rochester in New York who made a much bigger scientific splash earlier this year, touting the discovery of a room-temperature superconductor. At the same time, accusations of research misconduct have swirled around Dr. Dias, and his superconductor findings remain largely unconfirmed. The retracted paper does not involve superconductivity but rather describes how a relatively mundane material, manganese sulfide, shifts its behavior from an insulator to a metal and then back to an insulator under increasing pressure.
Persons: Ranga P, Dias Organizations: University of Rochester Locations: New York
Carvajal is one of three recent Make It interviewees who earns less than $30,000 while living in a coastal city. Tiara Simmons, a 39-year-old law clerk living in Long Beach, California, pulls in $26,000 a year between her salary and a social media marketing side hustle. Hoping to reinvest in his business, Carvajal pays himself a salary of just $25,000 and lives as minimally as possible. As for his business, Carvajal hopes to put Dominican-based coffee growers back on the map while steadily expanding his business. Tiara Simmons at The Pike, a shopping and amusement complex in Long Beach, Calif., she enjoys visiting with her family.
Persons: Hector Carvajal, Don Carvajal, Carvajal, Chi Baik, Tiara Simmons, Simmons, Don Carvajal Café, Mickey Todiwala, Don Carvajal's, Baik, John Paget, Covid, she'd, he's, Baik isn't, I'm, Long Beach , California Simmons, Tristan Pelletier Organizations: University of Washington, CNBC, University of Rochester, Foods, U.S, Washington , D.C Locations: New York City, Dominican Republic, Chi, Seattle, Long Beach , California, Bronx, New York, Dominican, Long Island City, Washington, Washington ,, chihuahua, The Pike, Long Beach, Calif
Lobotomies used to be a horrific way that doctors tried to treat patients with mental illness. Different doctors performed lobotomies differently, but one of the primary approaches was to drill a hole in the side of the skull to access the brain. Doctors thought that severing certain connections in the brain could help treat mental illness. By the 1950s, lobotomies were on their way out, but not before doctors performed over 40,000 of them in the US alone. A drill, shown on the right, is cranked by hand to help doctors access the patient's brain.
Persons: Lobotomies, , Howard Dully, Dully, Walter Freeman —, National Library of Medicine Lobotomies, lobotomies, Egas Moniz, Mical Raz, Raz, Freeman Organizations: Service, NPR, National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine, Singapore Medical, University of Rochester, Library of Medicine Locations: Portugal, Singapore, Europe, North America, California, Tennessee, Colorado, Delaware
“We thought there’d be a lot of discussion within the history profession for a while, but the public reaction is something else,” Professor Engerman told The Democrat and Chronicle of Rochester in May 1974. What is interesting is that such a conclusion is now necessary to convince white people.”Several months after “Time on the Cross” was published, about 100 historians, economists and sociologists gathered for a three-day conference to discuss the book at the University of Rochester, where Professor Engerman and Professor Fogel taught. The debate was so contentious that The Democrat and Chronicle described it as “scholarly warfare.” Some of the criticism focused on the two men’s emphasis on statistics over the brutal realities of slavery. “They deny the slave his voice, his initiative and his humanity,” the historian Kenneth M. Stampp said at the conference. “They reject the untidy world in which masters and slaves, with their rational and irrational perceptions, survived as best they could, and replace it with a model of a tidy, rational world that never was.”But the Marxist historian Eugene D. Genovese, whose own book about slavery, “Roll, Jordan Roll: The World the Slave Made,” was also published in 1974, called “Time on the Cross” an “important work” that had “broken open a lot of questions about issues that were swept under the rug before.”
Persons: there’d, Engerman, Fogel —, Douglass C, , Kenneth B, Clark, , Toni Morrison, Fogel, Kenneth M, Stampp, Eugene D, Genovese, Jordan, Organizations: New York Times Magazine, University of Rochester Locations: Rochester
Ron DeSantis officially launched his presidential campaign Wednesday, putting his blend of pro-business conservativism and culture-war populism to the test at the national level. In the most recent legislative session, DeSantis signed a bill that stopped union dues from being automatically deducted from public employees' paychecks. Ron DeSantis, a critic of environmentally sensitive investing, didn't succeed in protecting his constituents from the ravages of Hurricane Ian, which may have been intensified by global warming. DeSantis signed a bill in early May barring state and local officials from making ESG-based investment decisions. The Disney sagaApparel promoting Florida Governor Ron DeSantis sit on a table before a book tour event at the North Charleston Coliseum on April 19, 2023 in North Charleston, South Carolina.
Last week, expanded protections for nursing mothers, officially known as the Providing Urgent Maternal Protections for Nursing Mothers Act, or PUMP Act, went into full effect, giving more workers the right to break time and a private space to pump. Building on a 2010 law, which compelled employers to provide breastfeeding accommodations, the PUMP Act was introduced in Congress in 2021. Support grew last summer amid the baby formula shortage and after the American Academy of Pediatrics issued new guidelines that support breastfeeding for two years or more. “Part of the reason for that is that if you’re not emptying your breasts regularly, your milk supply goes down. And if your milk supply goes down, gradually, breastfeeding ceases.”
A professor hired by OpenAI to test GPT-4 said people could use it to do "dangerous chemistry." He was one of 50 experts hired by OpenAI last year to examine the risks of GPT-4. Their research showed that GPT-4 could help users write hate speech or even find unlicensed guns. One professor hired by OpenAI to test GPT-4, which powers chatbot ChatGPT, said there's a "significant risk" of people using it to do "dangerous chemistry" – in an interview with the Financial Times published on Friday. The group of experts – dubbed the "red team" – asked the AI tool dangerous and provocative questions to examine how far it can go.
Yields on Treasury bonds, meanwhile, increased as investors discounted the likelihood that the Fed would shy away from further rate increases. The Fed's preferred measure of inflation is running at almost three times the central bank's target. Important aspects of both reports, however, moved in the favor of a more tempered Fed policy. Wage growth continued to slow in February, and much of the jump in prices last month was driven by the cost of shelter, an area where Fed officials feel inflation will soon prove to be slowing. "The Fed can support liquidity in the banking system and tighten monetary policy at the same time," Sweet said.
Rihanna's Wealth: Breaking Down Her $1.4 Billion Business Empire
  + stars: | 2023-03-10 | by ( ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Energy Breakthrough Opens Up Possibility for Better Battery PowerA team of researchers from the University of Rochester think they have found the holy grail of energy transmission. And in the next decade, it could change how we use our personal gadgets, medical devices and the energy grid. WSJ science reporter Aylin Woodward joins host Zoe Thomas to discuss this new superconductor. Plus, if you have questions about generative artificial intelligence, email us a voice recording at tnb@wsj.com. Photo by Lauren Patracca/WSJ.
Wet Winter Storm Pummels California
  + stars: | 2023-03-10 | by ( ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Energy Breakthrough Opens Up Possibility for Better Battery PowerA team of researchers from the University of Rochester think they have found the holy grail of energy transmission. And in the next decade, it could change how we use our personal gadgets, medical devices and the energy grid. WSJ science reporter Aylin Woodward joins host Zoe Thomas to discuss this new superconductor. Plus, if you have questions about generative artificial intelligence, email us a voice recording at tnb@wsj.com. Photo by Lauren Patracca/WSJ.
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