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How Warren Washington Is Solving the Puzzle of Climate Change
For Warren Washington, a lifetime of researching the heavens began with a relatively simple question posed by a high school chemistry teacher: Why are egg yolks yellow? “Instead of explaining the answer,” recalled Washington, “she asked me to find out, which stimulated me. The answer lay in their diet. I looked up what chickens ate,…
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14 Science and Technology Leaders You Need to Know
Saaret Yoseph is a writer and Assistant Editor at TheRoot.com. She manages and blogs for \”Their Eyes Were Watching …\” Mr. Microsoft goes to Washington, D.C. Fred Humphries, a graduate of Morehouse College, assumed the post of the Microsoft Corporation’s top lobbyist, and the title of managing director of U.S. government affairs. Humphries previously led…
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NEWS STAND: Tiger Woods Wins and Loses, Racism in China, Quads Admitted to Yale, Grading Obama
Tiger Woods Wins PGA Player Award, Loses Tag Heuer Watch Deal The relentless wave of bad news about Tiger Woods took a brief respite Friday when his fellow professional golfers voted him the player of the year. This was the 10th time in 13 years as a professional that Woods has won the award, a…
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Big-Time College Sports: A Waste for Many Athletes
Considering the sordid underbelly and gross hypocrisy of major college sports—namely big-time football and men’s basketball—enjoying the action is a guilty pleasure for fans with any conscience. So many (primarily black) young men … so many of them ignoring academic pursuit in favor of athletic exploits. All while administrators wink and nod, or simply look…
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Avatar: A New Standard in Moviemaking
How to explain Avatar? It’s hauntingly beautiful, a masterpiece of CGI wizardry and 3-D pyrotechnics, nearly three hours of $300 million state-of-the-art filmmaking. James Cameron—he of Titanic and Terminator fame—has created a gorgeously imagined world of wise, blue humanoids, hanging mountains, empathic horses and vibrantly verdant scenery where massive, winged creatures appear to fly straight…
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The Obama Effect and Black Quarterbacks
The New York Times Magazine has released its annual “Year in Ideas” package—alphabetically analyzing such interesting new developments as man-made greenery and bicycle highways. In the “Os” there is, of course, our current president, Barack Obama. The entry related to him, however, explores a trend that’s become known in social science circles as “stereotype threat”—lower…
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Copenhagen's Class Divisions
It isn’t often that Russians climb in bed with Rwandans. Yet, as the much-hyped United Nations climate summit convenes in Copenhagen this week, 56 world newspapers united against the growing threat of catastrophic climate change. An editorial urging global action to deflect the worst effects of fossil fuel dependence appeared in major news outlets, including…
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Obama To Chinese: Get On Your Human Rights (Please)!
President Obama is in China on a diplomatic excursion and today had a Town Hall meeting with students to chit chat about America’s core principles and the glory of freedom. From The Washington Post: “Meeting with a carefully screened group of students at the marquee event of his Asia trip, President Obama on Monday sought…
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Producing Precious
Lisa Cortés has been navigating the entertainment industry for more than twenty years. She worked at Def Jam during the hip-hop label’s early days in the 80s. She cofounded a company with Russell Simmons that represented music producers. She even started her own record label. Eventually the Yale graduate turned her talents towards film, officially…
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‘Precious’ and the Pushback
The subject of weight has always been a hot-button issue and on everyone’s opinionated lips. It’s inescapable. One person’s Lusciously Large Lady is another’s Disgusting Fat Pig. For years we’ve been bombarded with distorted depictions and unrealistic images fueling the debate about how our bodies should look. And now the catalyst that has everyone arguing…