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  • Students had to make all kinds of decisions about college before knowing how much financial aid they would get. Now, some are scrambling to stay in school.
  • If the legislation is passed, social media platforms including X, TikTok, Instagram and Facebook would have one year to work out how to exclude Australian children.
  • Policymakers in California embrace a proven but unorthodox treatment for meth and cocaine addiction: Give people gift cards to stay off the drugs.
  • The Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded Wednesday to David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for their work with proteins. The awards continue with the literature prize on Thursday.
  • Carmen Winant is an artist and the Roy Lichtenstein Chair of Studio Art at the Ohio State University. Her work utilizes archival and authored photographs to examine feminist care networks, with particular emphasis on intergenerational, multiracial, and sometimes transnational coalition building. Winant's recent projects have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Sculpture Center, Wexner Center of the Arts, ICA Boston, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and el Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo. Winant's artist’s books include My Birth (2018), Notes on Fundamental Joy (2019), and Instructional Photography: Learning How To Live Now (2021); Arrangements, A Brand New End: Survival and Its Pictures (both 2022), and The last safe abortion (2024). Winant is a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow in photography, a 2020 FCA Artist Honoree and a 2021 American Academy of Arts and Letters award recipient. She is also a community organizer, prison educator, and mother to her two children, Carlo and Rafa, shared with her partner, Luke Stettner. For more information visit: visarts.ucsd.edu Stay Connected on Instagram
  • The San Diego Independent Scholars organization presents a Works in Progress event. This event is both in person and via zoom. The in-person venue is the North University Community Library, 8820 Judicial Drive, San Diego, CA 92122. To join the zoom webinar, click here! Meeting ID: 837 1686 4012 Passcode: SDIS Dr. Montebruno Saller received her doctoral degree in East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Southern California. She is writing a book titled Japanese American Citizens as Survivors of the Hiroshima Atomic Bombing (Routledge, forthcoming). This book tells the story of young American citizens of Japanese ancestry who were in Hiroshima during World War II and their efforts to survive the atomic bomb, make their way back to the United States, build a life on the painful memories of their past, start a social movement to obtain medical relief from both the Japanese and American governments, and contribute to the peace movement for a world without nuclear weapons. Her presentation will discuss the challenges she has faced in the writing process.
  • Scripps Institution of Oceanography researchers hope to get a peek into the dynamics of the ocean's movement underwater. They spent a week collecting data around an underwater canyon near La Jolla.
  • The emergency management agency has long tried to respond to rumors that might delay recovery efforts. But a former FEMA official says the current information environment has never been so bad.
  • Illinois is the 8th state to adopt a law making it illegal for employers to hold mandatory religious, political or anti-union meetings, a move aimed at helping workers trying to unionize.
  • This time next year, NASA plans to send its first crewed mission to the moon in more than 50 years. NPR visited the facility to find out how astronauts are preparing for this high stakes exploration.
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