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Left: Wiener with Max Born in Göttingen in 1925 (Photo: George H. Davis, Jr. Courtesy MIT Museum).
Mathematician and later father of cybernetics Norbert Wiener (1894-1964) crossed paths with many great minds in his life, from Bertrand Russell and G.H. Hardy, to Max Born, John F. Nash Jr. and John von Neumann. von Neumann’s assistant Edgar R. Lorch’s recollection of one of his boss’ encounters with Wiener bears repeating:
Tracy Jones: Guilty verdict for Chauvin is relief, not victory
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Tracy Jones: Guilty verdict for Chauvin is relief, not victory
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The guilty verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial is a relief, but not a victory.
A victory is when we no longer need a witness to record the murder of a Black man in order to recieve some sense of justice, when Black people are not incarcerated into modern-day slavery, or murdered by police in modern-day lynchings. As stated by the Movement for Black Lives organization, “A conviction is not justice; our communities deserve more.”
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, joined by the Presidential Cabinet members, pose for a Cabinet portrait Thursday, April 1, 2021, in the Grand Foyer of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz). By Adam Schultz - The White House, Public Domain, Link
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The U.S. working class, led by people of color, has, at least temporarily, defeated the criminal Trumpian regime and the specter of the consolidation of gangster neofascism. Among its many crimes, this racist regime tried to overturn the results of a U.S. national election. Let us turn to an analysis of the new Joe Biden regime and the personnel and policies it is likely to follow, especially on the all-important questions of the climate crisis and U.S. grand strategy toward China.
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IMAGE: Gerald Holton, winner of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Humanities. view more
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The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Humanities category has gone in this thirteenth edition to Gerald Holton for his numerous seminal contributions to the history of 19th and 20th century science, in which he has shown a special sensitivity to cultural, philosophical, and sociological and gender contexts, says the committee in its citation.
Holton, it continues, has developed a reasoned analysis of the complex phenomenon of anti-science, and its role in totalitarianism.
The citation refers also to his innovative contributions to science education, his decisive role in the preservation of Albert Einstein s documentary legacy, and his studies into the fate of children forced to flee Nazi Germany.
By Michael W. Chapman | April 27, 2021 | 3:56pm EDT
President Joe Biden (Getty Images)
(CNS News) On Apr. 24, President Joe Biden issued a statement in honor of Armenian Remembrance Day, an official acknowledgement of the Ottoman Turks genocide of the Armenians, which occurred in the early 20th century and killed an estimated 1.5 million Armenians, mostly all of whom were Christians. Armenia first declared itself a Christian nation in the year A.D. 301.
Biden is the first U.S. president to issue an official statement on the Armenian genocide. In 1981, then-President Ronald Reagan referred to the genocide of the Armenians in a speech commemorating the liberation of the Nazi death camps.