Links for you. Science:
Biden to sign executive order aimed at advancing study of women’s health
STEM’s Empire: STEM rules everything around me
Universities Have a Computer-Science Problem: The case for teaching coders to speak French
CDC continues to receive reports of MIS-C in kids following COVID infections (article here)
Our Jurassic Park Future Is Almost Here. It’s Not Wondrous. It’s Sad.
Climate models can’t explain 2023’s huge heat anomaly — we could be in uncharted territory
Other:
The Coffee Machine That Explained Vice Media
Health Workers Fear It’s Profits Before Protection as CDC Revisits Airborne Transmission
Jared Kushner says Gaza’s ‘waterfront property could be very valuable’: Donald Trump’s son-in-law also says Israel should bulldoze an area of the Negev desert and move Palestinians there (anyone who says it can’t get worse is showing a profound lack of imagination)
The U.S. Economy’s Rebound Since COVID Is Kind of Incredible. Why Doesn’t Anyone Seem to Realize This?
There is a distinctly political tenor to Biden’s trouble on the issue that defies material conditions.
Alabama Republicans Pass Expansive Legislation Targeting D.E.I.: The measure would not only cut funding to diversity programs at public colleges, but also limit the teaching of “divisive concepts” surrounding race and gender.
The Department of Homeland Security Is Embracing A.I. (lol)
How Not To Fall For Yet More Trumper Textualism About His Latest Threat of Violence
Trump hiring Manafort would be the ultimate MAGA troll aimed at liberals
Henry Cavill’s Warhammer 40K TV Show Gets an Amazing Update
The Case Against The Case Against YIMBYism
Adult MAGA rage is making schools more dangerous for students
Simon Rosenberg on the 2024 election (video)
Donald Trump Isn’t Running A Presidential Campaign. It’s a campaign for immunity from the law, and Democrats aren’t doing nearly enough to counter it.
Trump favors national abortion ban
Standard pregnancy care is now dangerously disrupted in Louisiana, report reveals
“Experts are desperate to warn the public”: Hundreds sign Dr. John Gartner’s Trump dementia petition
Hal Malchow Is Going to Die on Thursday. He Has One Last Message for Democrats.
Elon Musk’s X Is Suspending Accounts That Reveal a Neo-Nazi Cartoonist’s Alleged Identity
The IRS Finally Has an Answer to TurboTax
The GOP’s C-Section Plan: They’d rather torture women than admit abortion is healthcare
“Restore Roe!” Is a Bad Rallying Cry
Trump’s ‘bloodbath’ threat — and campaign coverage that doesn’t work
What Biden Would Do if He Were Serious About Ending the War in Gaza
The War in Gaza Exposes a Disintegrated Israeli Army
Inside The Ritzy Retreats Hosting Right-Wing Judges
mikethemadbiologist
Is that Warhammer 40K headline some sort of joke, or did you link to the wrong page?
Grumble. There have been a slew of clones of that “Universities Have a Computer Science Problem” article, but their authors have an intellectually illiteracy problem.
Said authors fail to understand that Computer Science is a valid academic discipline concerned with the mathematical properties of computation and the engineering issues associated with implementing instantiations of said mathematical abstraction. These inane articles think that a Computer Science department is a place that teaches people to code. This is wrong, twice over, since (a) they don’t spend anywhere near enough time on coding (since there are things with intellectual content to teach), and (b) if you want to learn to code, you largely have to do it yourself (i.e. put in the time), and the various YouTube and “boot camp” courses and books are perfectly adequate.
Note that I’m writing from the standpoint of someone with an MA in Japanese Literature, earned after my SB in Comp. Sci. There’s plenty of time in life to learn French or Japanese. But you should get a background in an intellectual discipline in college. History, Comp. Sci., Bio. All valid things. Coding isn’t, and MIT doesn’t teach it.
(Hilariously French and Japanese are way more like coding than they are like Comp. Sci.: they are detail dense, theory sparse. (There’s a learn-to-be-a-polyglot boom on the internet, but actually learning a second language to the point of being able to read literature and literary criticism isn’t something mere mortals do more than once.))