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Supercomputers “Hunter” and “Herder” will power cutting-edge academic and industrial research in computational engineering and the applied sciences ...

HPE and the University of Stuttgart have announced they will build two new supercomputers at HLRS, the High Performance Computing Centre in Stuttgart. In [...]

I.On April 18th of this year, Blake Bailey, 58, the author of Philip Roth: The Biography, was abruptly dropped by his literary agency, the Story Company. His book had been published on April 6th,

The Roth Biography Scandal Philip Roth: The Biography—the key issue being, Was Roth a misogynist?—when both book and biographer spilled over from the review pages to Page One. “Sexual Assault Allegations Against Biographer Halt Shipping of his Book,” the New York Times announced in April. Several women accused Bailey of predatory behavior. At a Louisiana private school where he had once taught English, he was said to have “groomed” eighth-graders for later of-age seductions to rap...

Blake Bailey, 57, published the only authorized biography of Roth on April 6 The book, a decade in the writing, was one of the publishing events of the year On Wednesday the publishers took the extraordinary step of pulling the book Two women accuse Bailey of rape, and five more former students spoke out One woman claims he raped her in 2015 at a friends house in New Jersey The other, a former student, said he raped her in a hotel in New Orleans in 2003 Bailey has denied the allegations and thr...

Mazel tov! The whole shtetl buzzed with the news. Chanka, the butcher’s daughter, was engaged to Yankel, the carpenter’s son.  It was a local match, so the whole town got involved in the wedding preparations. A week before the wedding, Chanka could be found sewing the last few stitches on he…