Day: January 15, 2024

Rice University mocked for ‘afrochemistry’ course on ‘inequities in chemistry and chemical education’

7:05 pm January 15, 2024

Rice University has been mocked in recent days for offering a course titled, “Afrochemistry: The Study of Black-Life Matter,” that addresses “inequities in chemistry and chemical education.” The course, which is posted on the Rice University’s spring 2024 course schedule, is for undergraduate students and does include a final exam. Since being publicized on social […]

SCOTUS preivew

7:01 pm January 15, 2024

In a David versus Goliath matchup, the Supreme Court will hear a set of arguments on Wednesday over a Commerce Department regulation, through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), that could sink the local fishing industry in the United Sates. Last year a group of fishermen from New Jersey petitioned the Supreme Court to […]

Republicans prepare for first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses

6:18 pm January 15, 2024

Caucusgoers are heading out in freezing temperatures to cast the first votes of the 2024 election. Snowfall and temperatures have set new records in the days leading up to the Iowa caucuses. “I haven’t ever experienced a minus 15 degrees in my life,” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said at an event in Altoona last week. […]

Gaza urgently needs more aid to prevent widespread famine and disease, UN warns

6:03 pm January 15, 2024

Gaza urgently needs more aid or its desperate population will suffer widespread famine and disease, the heads of three major U.N. agencies warned Monday, as authorities in the enclave reported that the death toll in the Israel-Hamas war had surpassed 24,000. While the U.N. agency chiefs did not directly point a finger at Israel, they […]

German farmers clog Berlin streets with tractors in protest against diesel subsidy cuts

6:01 pm January 15, 2024

Farmers clogged Berlin streets with their tractors on Monday, honking their horns in protest at a plan to scrap tax breaks on the diesel they use, the climax of a week of protests that has tapped into wider discontent with Germany’s government. Columns of tractors rolled into the capital ahead of the demonstration at the […]