Day: April 22, 2025

Columbia Journalism Review editor defends behavior as ‘normal workplace interactions’ after ‘baffling’ firing

3:30 pm April 22, 2025

The former editor of the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) defended his reputation and interactions with staff following internal complaints that reportedly led to his firing last week. Sewell Chan, the former executive editor for the Ivy League magazine published by Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, announced on Friday that he had been dismissed by […]

Dem senator hosts businesses concerned ‘enormous uncertainty’ of tariffs could kill crucial tourism industry

3:30 pm April 22, 2025

Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt., hosted his latest in a series of roundtables with small businesses around the Green Mountain State, and the attendees said the Trump administration’s tariff actions will hurt their operations directly and damage the state’s key tourism industry. “These tariffs are a self-inflicted wound,” Welch, who also co-sponsored a bipartisan bill to […]

Discover the world’s first hydrogen outboard engine-powered boat

3:30 pm April 22, 2025

Imagine powering your boat not with gasoline but with clean hydrogen fuel. That’s exactly what Yamaha, together with Roush Industries and Regulator Marine, is working on right now. They’re developing the world’s first hydrogen-combustion outboard engine, aiming to make boating greener and more sustainable. This is part of Yamaha’s big plan to reach carbon neutrality […]

Stem-cell therapy for Parkinson’s shows ‘strong promise’ in relieving symptoms

2:30 pm April 22, 2025

With around one million people living with Parkinson’s disease in the U.S. — and 90,000 getting new diagnoses each year — the race is on for a cure. Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) have announced progress on that front — they have developed a new therapy that uses stem cells to treat […]

Jewish Harvard students speak out after university sues Trump admin over funding freeze

2:30 pm April 22, 2025

Harvard students and alumni are speaking out after the university announced it is suing the Trump administration rather than comply with its demands to address antisemitism on its campus. “The government withheld funds from racist schools that refused to integrate. The Obama administration repeatedly threatened to withhold federal funds to sexist schools that refused to combat […]