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Linda McMahon bodyslams Harvard.
https://x.com/EDSecMcMahon/status/1919569106644107696
Harvard has the right to set it’s own HR policies, including DEI, but it does not have the right to receive continued funding from the federal government through grants. That is a privilege that comes with strings attached, and can be revoked.
Of course, if Harvard sticks with that position, it can kiss it’s reputation as a research university goodbye. Why would any STEM faculty member stick around at a school that can’t get research grants? Academics is a publish or perish world and it’s hard to publish groundbreaking work when you have no way to fund that work. Why would any STEM student attend such a school after all the STEM faculty have fled to greener pastures and/or where they themselves cannot build their skills and resumes by doing scut work on well-funded research projects?
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Just heard a new term on the 6 am news. The article was on how Australia had achieved between 30 and 40 % electricity supply over summer from “renewables” thus driving down prices from coal and gas generators. It then broke down the “renewable” supply by wind, solar, hydro and, drum roll please, BATTERY GENERATION.
It appears Australia has found the holy grail, batteries that generate electricity.
“How many fingers am I holding up Winston? “
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