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• Chen Guangcheng Asked to Leave NYU

  
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  Blind activist Chen Guangcheng released a statement on Sunday evening confirming reports that New York University had given him until the end of the month to leave the school, citing “unrelenting pressure” placed on NYU by Chinese authorities as the main reason for his departure. The Wall Street Journal ...
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• Why We Need to Redefine Intelligence

  
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  Scott Barry Kaufman, adjunct assistant professor of psychology at New York University and author of "Ungifted: Intelligence Redefined."
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• Jonathan Zimmerman: What Happened to Plain Old Summer Camp?

  
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  Jonathan Zimmerman teaches education and history at New York University. He is the author of "Small Wonder: The Little Red Schoolhouse in History and Memory." I went to three different summer camps when I was a kid, in the late 1960s and early 1970s. I swam, hiked and played sports (badly). And sometimes, I did ...
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• Prominent law professor disputes NYU booted Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng

  
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  Jerome Cohen, a New York University law professor who was closely involved in arranging Chinese activist Chen Guangchengs escape from house arrest in China to the U.S. , where he was granted a special scholarship at NYU law, says that a New York Post story alleging that Chen was "booted" from the university under ...
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• Do Facebook and Other Social Media Encourage Narcissism?

  
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  Does Facebook enhance your self-esteem or does the popular method of connecting with people and “making friends,” actually detract from a strong sense of self and promote narcissistic behavior? read more
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• A cooler approach to men’s issues

  
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  York professor and Waterloo student deserve a closer look
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• Possible homicide suspect in standoff with NYPD

  
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  New York City police officers are involved in a standoff with a potential suspect in the 2010 killing of a college student. The New York Post reports (http://bit.ly/11vDYlU ) that a police warrant squad went to arrest the man at his home in Chinatown on Wednesday morning. But police tell the Post that ...
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• Rat Study Finds Long-term Use of Antidepressants May Hinder Treatment of PTSD, Some Learning

  
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  New animal research suggests long-term use of a class of medicines used to commonly treat depression may have a downside by interfering with a technique used to treat fear and stress. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, commonly called SSRIs, are antidepressants used to treat depression, as well as a range of ...
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• Criteos Coleman Joins Opera Software Board

  
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  Opera Software has named Criteo president Greg Coleman to its board of directors. The maker of browser software for computers, tablets and phones is based in Norway. Coleman has previously worked at AOL, the Huffington Post and Yahoo and is also an adjunct professor of digital marketing at New York University’s ...
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• Beijing gives passport to brother of dissident who escaped house arrest

  
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  The brother of blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng, whose flight to the US embassy last year provoked a diplomatic crisis, has been given his first ever passport by authorities in Beijing, he said on Friday. The development comes on the day that Chinese President Xi Jinping is to start his first summit with ...
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• Academy of Arts and Sciences Defends Its Leader’s Honesty

  
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  The American Academy of Arts and Sciences has defended its president, Leslie Cohen Berlowitz, who is accused of falsely claiming to have earned a doctorate.        
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• Unnecessary Roughness

  
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  Is this excessive force? If you were a resident of this neighborhood would this make you feel protected or terrorized? This video filmed on May 13 in a Harlem subway station in New York. A man was tackled by the NYPD, then joined by several more police officers, then one more, and then a few more still until he is ...
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• Are You Too Fat To Get A J.D.?

  
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  I think all fat people have dealt with the stigma that their outward corpulence belies an inner laziness. Who would willingly be fat and unhealthy when they could be thin and beautiful? Many people believe, even subconsciously, that the obese must be lacking in some other important quality. Thin people think fat ...
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• How To Destroy Your Career In 140 Characters Or Less

  
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  Geoffrey Miller, an Evolutionary Psychology Professor at New York University and the University of New Mexico, got himself into hot water on Sunday when he tweeted this: Sure, that’s offensive — and it’s also aggressive, since the tweet is addressed directly to obese people. But worse for his employers, it’s ...
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• College professor says obese grad applicants lack willpower to finish degrees

  
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  A University of New Mexico psychology professor is under fire after he tweeted that people battling obesity dont have the willpower to finish doctorate degrees. Geoffrey Miller wrote on Twitter Sunday that obese doctoral applicants who dont "have the will power to stop eating carbs" wont "have the willpower to do a ...
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• Fatsos Need Not Apply: Professor Geoffrey Miller Likes His Students Slim ‘n Trim

  
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  University of New Mexico social psychology professor Geoffrey F. Miller researches and writes on such fascinating topics as: The positive correlation of intelligence and semen quality; Women who prefer longer penises are more likely to have vaginal orgasms (but not clitoral orgasms), and Ovulatory cycle effects ...
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• New York University Professor to Obese Ph.D. Candidates: “You Won’t Have the Willpower to Do a Dissertation”

  
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  A visiting New York University lecturer is in scalding water after tweeting several derogatory, fat-shaming statements. Dr. Geoffrey Miller, an evolutionary psychologist from the University of New Mexico apparently thinks weight and academic success share a connection. His advice to doctoral psychology candidates is ...
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• HAITI REDUX, REDUX, & REDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM—another historical retrospective….

  
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  The Story of Haiti never goes away.  But it is always the same, and the repetitive tales of nightmarish horror begin to get boring after a while.  Much as I resent Harvard Condiscipulo Wade Davis for stealing a beautiful French … Continue reading →
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• Catherine Eva Krasnik – Healthcare: Mental Wellness – Stanford Who’s Who Certified

  
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  Catherine Krasnik Earns Inclusion Into The Exclusive Ranks Of Stanford Who’s Who PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIA, May 28, 2013 / Stanford Who’s Who / — Stanford Who’s Who proudly announces the addition of Dr. Catherine Krasnik to the ranks of professional individuals as a result of her work in the ...
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• Tuesday Morning Book Review || Give & Take

  
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  Every Tuesday morning, I review a book that I read recently. If you missed any, you can read past reviews  here . This week’s book is  Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to success   ( kindle version ) by Adam Grant. I’ll be honest, I had a hard time getting into this book. But once I did, I was not ...
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