Religion

We’re Going Forward: Wajahat Ali

 With the threat of a right-wing anti-democratic impulse strengthened by conservative extremist policies, campaigns, and rhetoric on the rise, the preservation and protection of our democracy is more critical now than ever. Wajahat Ali is a leader in this fight, engaging the anti-democratic movement head-on and pushing back against Christian nationalism, racism, bigotry, and other dangers to American democracy....

Sports

Reports: Padres acquire RHP Jason Adam from Rays

Jun 14, 2024; Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Tampa Bay Rays relief pitcher Jason Adam (47) throws against the Atlanta Braves in the eighth inning at Truist Park. Mandatory Credit: Brett Davis-USA TODAY Sports The San Diego Padres are acquiring right-handed reliever Jason Adam from the Tampa Bay Rays in exchange for three prospects, multiple media outlets reported on Sunday morning. Per...

Apps

How we are helping you fix vulnerabilities in your Android apps

Posted by Bessie Jiang – Software Engineer and Chris Schneider – Security Engineer Contributors: Maciej Szawłowski – Security Engineer, Hannah Barnes – Technical Program Manager, Dirk Göhmann – Technical Writer, Patrick Mutchler – Software Engineer Security is tricky, but vital to protecting your users and their data. We’re here to help you build secure Android apps with fewer vulnerabilities for...

Arts and Theater

The Matter of Plexus Polaire’s Moby Dick

There is a well-trotted story that Herman Melville, as he was writing Moby Dick from his study in the Berkshires, saw in the snow-covered humps of Mount Greylock the eponymous white whale. This story of imaginative transformation may be apocryphal, but it captures something of the expansive, mercurial animacy that pervades Plexus Polaire’s stage adaptation of Moby Dick. In January,...

Business

World’s riskiest debt may protect against U.S. election turmoil

Debt from some of the world’s riskiest nations is tipped to offer emerging-market investors protection against US election upheaval. Money managers at William Blair Investment Management and Amundi SA are diversifying their portfolios with frontier-market government bonds — the high-yield debt of less advanced economies in the developing world such as Nigeria and Kazakhstan — saying these nations face limited...

Crypto

University of Wyoming Launches First Bitcoin Research Institute

The University of Wyoming (UW) has established the UW Bitcoin Research Institute, marking the first academic institute dedicated to Bitcoin studies. Dr. Bradley Rettler, an Associate Professor of Philosophy and author of Resistance Money: A Philosophical Case for Bitcoin, has been appointed as the inaugural director, Rettler announced on the Genesis Stage at the Bitcoin 2024 Conference in Nashville.The institute...

Culture

What’s next for the European Green Deal?

As the dust settles after the 2024 European elections, an air of uncertainty surrounds the European Green Deal, which aims to make Europe the first climate-neutral continent by 2050. Launched in 2019, the initiative has led to dozens of new green laws, updating climate and energy targets and the instruments needed to achieve them. But cracks have begun to show...

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