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On the path to writing his PhD dissertation, Lucio Milanese made a discovery one that refocused his research, and will now likely dominate his thesis.
Milanese studies plasma, a gas-like flow of ions and electrons that comprises 99 percent of the visible universe, including the Earth’s ionosphere, interstellar space, the solar wind, and the environment of stars. Plasmas, like other fluids, are often found in a turbulent state characterized by chaotic, unpredictable motion, providing multiple challenges to researchers who seek to understand the cosmic universe or hope to harness burning plasmas for fusion energy.
Chinese censorship invades the U.S. via WeChat
Jeanne Whalen, The Washington Post
Jan. 7, 2021
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1of3Zhou Fengsuo, an organizer in the Tiananmen Square protests who came to the United States in 1995, supports the Trump administration s effort to ban the app WeChat.photo for The Washington Post by Bryan Anselm.Show MoreShow Less
2of3Zhou Fengsuo s colleague, Ouyang Ruoyu, left, has also had his posts censored on the app WeChat and supports a U.S. ban.photo for The Washington Post by Bryan Anselm.Show MoreShow Less
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NEWARK, N.J. - Zhou Fengsuo, a leader of the 1989 Tiananmen Square uprising, hoped to leave Chinese censorship behind when he fled to the United States and became a U.S. citizen. But Chinese censors have caught up with him, through the social-networking service WeChat.
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Wedding Portrait (J. Van Eyck), 1998, Persian wool, mohair, metallic acrylic & silk fibers, 79.5 x 67.75 inches
Lamentable deaths occur every year, but in 2020 Covid-19 has made for an especially grim atmosphere of loss. In the art world, painter Jackie Saccoccio and art historian Barbara Rose are the most recent to be mourned across social media and in thoughtful obituaries in the New York Times
. Artnet has compiled a list of other notable art figures who have passed away, including Beverly Pepper, Emily Mason, William Bailey, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Susan Rothenberg, Ron Gorchov, and Luchita Hurtado. ArtForum
‘s list includes Ulay, John Baldessari, Christo, Suh Se-ok, and May Stevens. At artcritical
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A group of educators, civil rights groups and community organizations sent a Dec. 17 letter to State Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran asking him to make an English proficiency exam voluntary in 2021.
More than a quarter million students in Florida are scheduled to take a required annual exam assessing their English skills early next year and there is no remote option.
This story was updated Monday, Dec. 21, 2020 at 7:10 p.m.
An annual exam assessing the English skills of non-native speakers in public schools is scheduled to be held in early 2021 in person despite consistently high numbers of new COVID-19 cases statewide and concerns that the holidays could make things worse.