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Slain M.I.T. Professor Was a ‘Brilliant Scientist’ and a Beloved Colleague

The saddest and most tragic of stories. Thanks to my colleagues, including Sarah Mervosh, for this lovely remembrance.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/u...

20.12.2025 17:57 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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How Did the C.I.A. Lose a Nuclear Device in the Himalayas? A plutonium-packed generator disappeared on one of the world’s highest mountains in a covert mission that the U.S. will not talk about.

Buried beneath the rock and ice of the Himalayas, in one of the most remote places on earth, lies a sensational chapter of the Cold War, and it's not over yet. www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...

14.12.2025 03:29 👍 38 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
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香港宏福苑大火为何如此致命?

Here's the Chinese-language version of our story on the Hong Kong fire.
www.nytimes.com/zh-hans/inte...

11.12.2025 00:04 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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The Hong Kong Fire Shared Similarities With One at the Grenfell Tower in London

The Hong Kong fire resurrects awful memories of the Grenfell Towers fire in London. In London, flammable cladding drove the fire up the building exterior, and in Hong Kong, it appeared to be bamboo scaffolding.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/w...

26.11.2025 23:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I love all my Chicago friends who are Bears+White Sox fans, but feel really badly for them. And I still root for the Sox, who should send their leaders to sports management school in Green Bay.

29.08.2025 13:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Just one comment from the perspective of this odd, geographically divided loyalty: the Micah Parsons trade shows why the Packers, who have no owner, are in another cosmos from the White Sox, who have... well, you know.

29.08.2025 13:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Switching gears to my mindless sports-fan mode... As an itinerant Midwestern kid, I grew up a fan of the Chicago White Sox and Green Bay Packers. My Dad covered them both, including the end of the Lombardi dynasty as an anchor in Madison.

29.08.2025 13:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Rainer Weiss, Who Gave a Nod to Einstein and the Big Bang, Dies at 92

"When he was about 13, shortly after World War II ended, he began going to Cortlandt Street in Lower Manhattan to buy military surplus electronic components, using them to build radios and amplifiers." For more on Radio Row: 'City in the Sky,' by J. Glanz & E. Lipton
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/s...

28.08.2025 21:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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How Much Damage Did U.S. Strikes Do to Iran’s Fordo Nuclear Site? It may be quite some time before outside experts can gauge exactly how seriously Fordo was damaged. But a look at the bomb used, the facility’s structure and the site’s geology offers some clues.

Why is it so difficult to know how much damage U.S. strikes did to the underground Fordo nuclear site in Iran? For the same reason it was so hard to hit in the first place.

20.08.2025 19:03 👍 74 🔁 14 💬 14 📌 6
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How Much Damage Did U.S. Strikes Do to Iran’s Fordo Nuclear Site? It may be quite some time before outside experts can gauge exactly how seriously Fordo was damaged. But a look at the bomb used, the facility’s structure and the site’s geology offers some clues.

Zigzagging air shafts, a 30,000-pound bomb moving at around the speed of sound, and a bunker protected by volcanic tuff and reinforced concrete. How much damage did the GBU-57 do at the underground Fordo nuclear site in Iran?
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

20.08.2025 09:19 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The first anti-vaxxers worried that the original vaccine, which used cowpox against smallpox, would turn them into cows, a bizarre fear depicted here by caricaturist James Gillray—today is his day.

13.08.2025 21:22 👍 514 🔁 139 💬 29 📌 17
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Trump Pulls Military Into Another Political Issue

Trump’s decision to send 800 National Guard troops into the streets of Washington to fight crime is the latest example of how he has used the military to advance domestic his policy priorities
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/u...

11.08.2025 22:05 👍 81 🔁 32 💬 29 📌 5
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How Trump’s crackdown on Harvard and other universities is affecting the world Mr. Trump’s ideological war on universities is putting students, professors and scientists under pressure. That could undermine the global dominance that American science has enjoyed for decades.

This is the rare piece in which the NYT quotes NYT journalists: "The smartest people in the world are also the least limited in their mobility," said one of Katrin Bennhold's sources. "Scientists are wanted everywhere. They're the ones who will fly free." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

15.07.2025 00:41 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The fight between the Trump administration and Harvard has become a test for the president’s ability to impose his political agenda on all 2,600 universities in the U.S. Our reporters break down how the crackdown is affecting the world. https://trib.al/IZ4aZU8

13.07.2025 23:05 👍 174 🔁 52 💬 36 📌 5
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South side forever — even in Rome.

Pope Leo XIV rocked a White Sox cap at his general audience Wednesday in Saint Peter's Square.

📸 White Sox on X

11.06.2025 17:35 👍 1356 🔁 215 💬 41 📌 175
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World Scientists Look Elsewhere as U.S. Labs Stagger Under Trump Cuts

“If things continue as they are, American science is ruined,” said David W. Hogg, a professor of physics and data science at NYU. “If it becomes impossible to work with non-U.S. scientists, it would basically render the kinds of research that I do impossible.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/w...

31.05.2025 12:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Bayesian Superyacht Sank After ‘Extreme’ Wind Gust, Report Says

It was the yacht called “unsinkable” by its manufacturer. In fact, it blew over sideways in a wind gust and sank in minutes. The crew was taken by surprise but otherwise acted admirably. The initial investigation confirms our story from October.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/w...

18.05.2025 14:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You were not only extremely helpful for my reporting, but also very gracious and one of the most fascinating people I’ve ever interviewed.

21.02.2025 21:45 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you.

21.02.2025 21:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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What the Black Hawk Pilots Could See, Just Before the Washington Crash A 3-D model created by The Times visualizes the helicopter pilots’ field of view minutes before a fatal crash with a jet in Washington.

Our 3-D model visualizes what Black Hawk helicopter pilots could see minutes before a fatal crash with a jet in Washington.

06.02.2025 02:30 👍 111 🔁 12 💬 18 📌 6
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What the Black Hawk Pilots Could See, Just Before the Washington Crash A 3-D model created by The Times visualizes the helicopter pilots’ field of view minutes before a fatal crash with a jet in Washington.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

06.02.2025 07:35 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Power, Pollution and the Internet (Published 2012) Helping to process the staggering amount of Internet activity that occurs, data centers waste vast amounts of energy, belying the information industry’s image of environmental friendliness.

Storing data in a "cloud" of diesel fumes. Comatose, indeed. Thank you, James Glanz @NYTimes for this great article.

nyti.ms/SkoL83

23.09.2012 14:30 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Video: What Happens When Undersea Internet Cables Snap? The internet is made up of hundreds of cables crossing the floors and the canyons of the earth’s oceans. So what happens when the cables snap? James Glanz, an investigative reporter for The New York T...

Fabulous James Glanz @nytimes.com look at a big issue for the physical backbone of the Internet - undersea cable damage. www.nytimes.com/video/world/...

30.11.2024 17:02 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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How Wildfires Came for Southern California Many Californians thought wildfires couldn’t reach deep into their cities. But the Los Angeles fires showed how older homes became fuel that fed the fires.

The U.S. is in a new era of great urban fires — the result of flammable housing, scientists say

“No one in California should be surprised by this at all,” Dr. Kerber said. “This is a disaster that is human created.”

By Soumya Karlamangla, James Glanz & Rob Gebeloff

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/u...

17.01.2025 23:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Happy New Year!!

03.01.2025 01:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I believe one of the best was working that night — Eric Nagourney, who I think is barely visible behind a champaign flute as we’re toasting in the picture. Why, oh why, didn’t they ask him to do a second read before engraving the date?

02.01.2025 16:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I hope you got one! Here’s the funny part: The only glitch that night was on the engraving of the date on the glasses. I don’t know if Steve put that in the story (I promise to read). I think they read 1-0-00

02.01.2025 14:35 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Who recognizes this reporter a couple months after he was hired?

It was a great party.

31.12.2024 22:51 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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At long last, Dick Allen is inducted into the Hall of Fame A posthumous induction of Dick Allen to the Hall of Fame didn't feel too late to a joyous room of his family members at the Winter Meetings in Dallas

Hall of Fame, baby

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09.12.2024 12:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Like ‘old Twitter’: The scientific community finds a new home on Bluesky After recent changes to Elon Musk’s X, a gradual migration turns into a stampede

H/t @kakape.bsky.social

www.science.org/content/arti...

08.12.2024 00:25 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0