The 90-second emotional reset that's changing lives and is backed by Harvard science

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/mo-gawdat-happiness-90-seconds-ex1

The #HarvardCrimson digs into the chatlogs and edit wars among American Nazi Youth propagandists at an elite institution. Names to watch, as some will doubtlessly ascend to our regime's Sicherheitsdienst.

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

#Harvard #CambridgeMA #racism

📚 Joel Metcalf: Theologe, Linsenschleifer und Kometenentdecker.

• Wiederentdeckung des Kometen Brorsen-Metcalf.
• Instrumentenbau für Harvard-Observatorium.
• Vielseitiger Beitrag zur Himmelsforschung.

https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/sternzeit-4-januar-2026-theologe-linsenschleifer-und-kometenentdecker-102.html

#Astronomie #Kometen #Harvard #Wissenschaft #Geschichte

"This past spring, under intense pressure from the Trump administration, Harvard University pulled the plug on diversity, equity and inclusion. The administrator who had overseen D.E.I. operations announced that the university was now focused instead on helping students more freely express their views. The Office of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging would henceforth be the Office of Community and Campus Life, dedicated to “fostering connections across difference” and “creating spaces for dialogue.”

It was the realization of a longtime conservative dream. The right had seethed about the sensitivity trainings, safe spaces, speech policing and inclusion statements of the D.E.I. industry, and nowhere more so than at elite academic institutions. Getting Harvard to concede was a huge victory. Conservatives could at last usher in a golden age of academic freedom.

That’s not how it’s playing out. Under federal pressure, Harvard and other universities around the country now police academic inquiry according to murkier standards of fairness. The goal, it seems, is to avoid offending anyone, anywhere, across an ever-expanding matrix of identities and standpoints. Rather than dismantling the excesses of the woke era, the new Trump-friendly programs and policies simply repurposed them to serve a different ideological agenda. The result is a new orthodoxy even more stifling than the last."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/opinion/harvards-campus-speech-trump.html

#USA #Trump #Authoritarianism #Harvard #Universities #Censorship #FreedomOfSpeech #HigherEd #DEI #AcademicFreedom

Malcolm Gladwell tells young people if they want a STEM degree, ‘don’t go to Harvard.’ You may end up at the bottom of your class and drop out

If you have sky-scraping dreams of attending an Ivy League university, maybe reconsider, according to author Malcolm Gladwell.…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #Harvard #HasanMinhaj #IvyLeagueuniversity #MalcolmGladwell #prospectivecollegestudents #STEMdegree #World
https://www.newsbeep.com/338713/

R.I.P Academic Freedom in the U.S:

"The letter landed with a thud on Saturday in the inbox of Harvard University’s president, Alan M. Garber.

The message, from Linda McMahon, President Trump’s education secretary, conveyed an understanding of an emerging deal between Harvard and the White House that flew in the face of the terms the university had been insisting on.

Dr. Garber felt he had made clear in recent negotiations that the university would not agree to pay the federal government to settle a monthslong battle with the Trump administration over antisemitism on campus and other matters.

But Ms. McMahon’s Saturday message said the opposite. In it, she thanked Dr. Garber for what she portrayed as his commitment to sending $200 million to the government as part of a deal.

Dr. Garber wrote back to clarify Harvard’s position. But, in response, the administration doubled down, introducing terms that were so far-reaching that university officials saw them as nonstarters.

It was unclear whether Ms. McMahon’s interpretation of Harvard’s proposal resulted from a miscommunication or from a deliberate effort to force the university into a year-end deal after months of faltering negotiations.

Whatever the case, it was the latest twist in the long-running dispute between Harvard and the Trump administration, which has shaped up to be the marquee battle in the administration’s effort to exert more influence over elite colleges and universities it views as too liberal."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/us/trump-harvard-letters-deal.html

#USA #Trump #Authoritarianism #Harvard #HarvardUniversity #AcademicFreedom #Academia #HigherEd

#RobertDarnton, historien : « La guerre entre #Grokipedia et #Wikipédia confirme que le savoir et le pouvoir sont inséparables »
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L’ #encyclopédie lancée par #ElonMusk le 27 octobre s’appuie sur une méthode et des sources peu fiables et fait partie d’une offensive culturelle globale, pointe l’ancien professeur à #Harvard dans une tribune au « #LeMonde ». #Trumpadministration
https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2025/12/24/robert-darnton-historien-la-guerre-entre-grokipedia-et-wikipedia-confirme-que-le-savoir-et-le-pouvoir-sont-inseparables_6659277_3232.html