Words For the Wise

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Another toxic lab: Akito Kawahara, entomologist at U Florida and director of the Florida Museum's McGuire Center. [Update: Details of meeting held by Kawahara to mobilize lab members]

A thought experiment about anti-Semitism and Israel's collective punishment of the Palestinian people (in Gaza and West Bank)

Sexual assaulter Peter Rathjen, the fired former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Adelaide, is back in Australian news.

Harvard settles lawsuit claiming it did not protect students from serial sexual harasser John Comaroff. Was Claudine Gay collateral damage in the case?

The home of the Hudson River School of art. (From The Croton Chronicle.)

In my Hudson Valley village, a 78-year-old Vietnam vet who has nearly spent half his life in jail goes into local drug court. It may be his last chance.

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