Summary Claremont found real-world influence in Israeli leader Menachem Begin’s evolution for Magneto’s character development. X-Men’s mutants were created as a reflection of oppressed minorities in America by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Claremont emphasized storytelling with social relevance while adding complexity to Xavier and Magneto’s dynamic. SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE … Read more
To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews focusing on remarkable women who’ve contributed to the AI revolution. We’ll publish several pieces throughout the year as the AI boom continues, highlighting key work that often goes unrecognized. Read more profiles here. Sarah … Read more
To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews focusing on remarkable women who’ve contributed to the AI revolution. We’ll publish several pieces throughout the year as the AI boom continues, highlighting key work that often goes unrecognized. Read more profiles here. … Read more
LONDON — British taxpayers have been left footing the bill after a Cabinet minister apologized and paid damages to an academic she had accused of expressing sympathy for Hamas. Science Secretary Michelle Donelan acknowledged there was “no evidence” that Kate Sang, a professor of gender and employment studies at Heriot-Watt University, supported Hamas, which is … Read more
Claim: U.S. President Joe Biden was a “full professor” at the University of Pennsylvania for four years. Rating: Rating: Mixture What’s True: From 2017 to 2021, then-former Vice President Joe Biden was the Benjamin Franklin Presidential Practice Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. During his time there, he collected more than $900,000. However … … Read more
Claim: Donald Trump’s uncle was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Rating: Rating: True In an effort to highlight his supposed mental and genetic superiority over U.S. President Joe Biden during a Las Vegas campaign rally on Jan. 27, 2024, former President Donald Trump pointed to his uncle, whom he described as the … Read more
The Taylor Swift class being offered at Harvard next semester is officially titled “English 183ts. Taylor Swift and Her World.” It’s not the first time a Taylor Swift class is available at an institution of higher learning. Stanford, NYU and the University of Texas at Austin are just some of the universities offering similar courses. But when … Read more
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A judge sentenced a South Florida dentist to life in prison on Tuesday in the shooting death of his former brother-in-law, a prominent professor at Florida State University, following a bitter custody battle. Charlie Adelson, 47, was found guilty of first-degree murder, conspiracy and solicitation last month in the 2014 killing … Read more
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Terrified students and professors cowered in classrooms and dorms as a gunman roamed the floors of a University of Nevada, Las Vegas building, killing three people and critically wounding a fourth before dying in a shootout with police. The gunman in Wednesday’s shooting was a professor who had unsuccessfully sought a … Read more
Harvard constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe on Tuesday explained why he believes Donald Trump’s arguments against calls for him to be disqualified from the 2024 election ballot for inciting the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection as he desperately sought to cling to the presidency are “absurd.” Trump faces legal challenges in multiple states that claim he … Read more