SEATTLE -- A student at the University of Washington in Seattle was found stabbed to death in a campus housing building, Seattle police said, and now authorities are searching for the killer.

The victim -- a 19-year-old transgender woman -- was found in a laundry room at about 10:10 p.m. Sunday, according to Seattle police.

"The circumstances leading up to the murder are under investigation," police said in a statement on Monday.

Police said "officers are actively searching for the suspect" and they described him as a "black male with a beard, 5'6-8" tall, wearing a vest with button up shirt, and blue jeans." The university added the suspect is believed to be between the ages of 25 and 30 with a slim build and black hair.
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Elite, privileged backgrounds and lack of authentic personal hardship stories supposedly thus compensated for by lots of social justice posturing and allegorical sermons hinting that "this is what makes me morally superior to you narrow-minded proles in flyover country."
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VIDEO EXCERPT: If you look back historically, bands like The Beatles, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, The Who, The Kinks, Nirvana, Allison Chains, Sound Garden, Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins, Oasis, The White Stripes... These are all working class bands that come from very humble beginnings and can tell stories based on their upbringing. Something that rich people frankly can't do.

Rick Beato .... https://youtu.be/sjJrR1OdAIg

THE HILL
https://youtu.be/HPsBg9O4x3Q

VIDEO EXCERPT: If the races of the involved parties were reversed, I think it would probably strike many people as a slam dunk. Now, the employee, a white male and an editor at the Times, had applied for a more senior position as a deputy real estate editor. He did not get the job despite having extensive relevant experience, including with real estate news. That's according to the lawsuit.

Now, this is not just positive on its own, of course. However, the lawsuit also claims he did not even make it to the final round of interviews. He lost out to the following people.

Quote, "A white female, a Black male, an Asian female, and a multi-racial female." The candidate who did receive the position was the multi-racial female. She did not meet the stated qualifications for the position since she did not actually have experience in real estate journalism. Nevertheless, the hiring manager sent an email to herself signaling an intent to choose that person before even interviewing her.

That's according to the lawsuit. Now, these facts become more concerning in light of the time-stated desire to increase the number of minority and female employees in leadership positions. The lawsuit cites various diversity, equity, and inclusion, that's DEI, plans, as well as the Times 2021 proposal, a call to action, which lamented that "people of color, and particularly women of color, remain notably underrepresented in its leadership."

The proposal explicitly endorsed the idea of gradually replacing existing leadership with women of color to the specific exclusion of white and unspecified ethnicities. Leaders at the Times would be judged "by how well they create pathways for a diverse group of deputies to succeed them according to the proposal".

So basically the Times published a manifesto announcing that hiring managers would face pressure to promote underrepresented minorities. The paper took the position that senior leadership would be evaluated on the basis of their success at hiring Black, Latino, and female applicants.

So then when it came time to hire a deputy real estate editor, the Times did not really consider the white male applicant despite the fact he possessed "considerable experience with real estate news, multiple news platforms, and innovative content". The hiring manager only considered diverse candidates and selected the maximally diverse candidate despite questionable qualifications. Again, that's the contention of the EEOC and the Times denies it...

The New York Times exposed for anti-white, anti-male discrimination? ... https://youtu.be/HPsBg9O4x3Q

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1127026

INTRO: Scientists at Columbia University’s Zuckerman Institute have the first direct evidence from human studies that brain-controlled hearing technology can help people single out a voice in a crowd. These early findings suggest that researchers may one day develop a hearing augmentation device that can, among other feats, overcome the problems that conventional hearing aids have with noisy surroundings.

Their research was published online today in Nature Neuroscience.

“We have developed a system that acts as a neural extension of the user, leveraging the brain’s natural ability to filter through all the sounds in a complex environment to dynamically isolate the specific conversation they wish to hear,” said senior author Nima Mesgarani, PhD, a principal investigator at Columbia’s Zuckerman Institute and an associate professor of electrical engineering at Columbia’s Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science.

“This science empowers us to think beyond traditional hearing aids, which simply amplify sound, toward a future where technology can restore the sophisticated, selective hearing of the human brain," Dr. Mesgarani added... (MORE - no ads)

Whoever is excited about this new Michael Jackson movie coming out, let me just suggest that you please watch this documentary first. Sadly, everything we feared might be going on with Michael and all those boys on his ranch was absolutely true.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDIGpVm-5S0

MIND IS MATTER
https://youtu.be/QYAdtfRFI3M

INTRO: In this video, leading philosophers and neuroscientists defend the view that the mind purely physical. Starring some of the very experts who anti physicist quote such as Bob Kirk (Zombie argument) and Frank Jackson (Marys room argument) who have now turned to physicalism, as well as the most cited neuroscientists in the world, Karl Friston and other leading scholars such as Ned Block, David Papineau, Richard Brown, Ken Williford, Anil Seth and Marc Solms, we examine the strongest case for physicalism-the view that everything about the mind can ultimately be explained in terms of the physical brain.

We take on some of the most famous anti-physicalist arguments, including: The Hard Problem of Consciousness, Knowledge arguments (e.g., Mary’s Room), Philosophical zombies Dualist intuitions about the self and panpsychism.

Do these arguments really show that consciousness is non-physical-or do they rely on misconceptions about how the brain works? This video breaks down complex ideas into clear, rigorous explanations while challenging some of the most popular objections to physicalism...

https://youtu.be/QYAdtfRFI3M

https://www.zmescience.com/feature-post/...gh-pangea/

EXCERPTS: Rivers are poor archivists of their own past.

They don’t sit still like fossils, or record a single birthdate like volcanic rock. Instead, they wander across floodplains, cut into rock and often move around or even abandon their channels. A river can spend millions of years destroying the very evidence that would prove how long it’s been there.

That makes the question of the world’s oldest river surprisingly difficult. When geologists ask which river is the oldest on Earth, they’re not looking for one ancient thread of water has flowed unchanged since deep time. Rather, they’re looking for local persistence: a drainage corridor that has survived mountain-building, climate upheaval and continental rearrangement while continuing to carry water across the same broad landscape.

It really is tough work.

But geologists are hard workers, and have mapped several candidates. By that standard, the Finke River of central Australia, known to Indigenous people as Larapinta, has become the leading candidate, believed to be a whopping 400 million years old. This is over 150 million years before the dinosaurs appeared. But it’s not the only candidate.

[...] Of course, not every bend of the modern Finke is hundreds of millions of years old. Rivers wander, splice together new reaches and abandon old ones. But it suggests that a drainage system in the same broad corridor has persisted since deep Paleozoic time.

[...] The Finke’s deepest claim to age is that its history may run through the age of Pangaea itself. If parts of its drainage system began 300 million to 400 million years ago, then the river’s ancestors were already at work as the world’s landmasses were gathering into a single supercontinent, long before Australia became the isolated continent it is today, and even before the supercontinent Gondwana (whom we’ll meet in a bit) came to be... (MORE - missing details)

https://seas.harvard.edu/news/new-explan...ball-earth

PRESS RELEASE: A new study by Earth scientists in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) offers an explanation for one of Earth’s great climate puzzles: how the Sturtian glaciation, an ancient ice age when the planet was nearly entirely frozen, could have lasted 56 million years – far longer than standard climate models have predicted. This lengthy freeze took place during Earth’s Cryogenian period, roughly 717 to 660 million years ago, predating dinosaurs and complex plant life.

The research is published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and led by graduate student Charlotte Minsky, who is advised by co-author Robin Wordsworth, the Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering and Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Co-authors are David T. Johnston and Andrew H. Knoll.

Using a coupled model of the ancient climate and the global carbon cycle, the researchers make the case that Earth may not have been locked in a single, unbroken “Snowball Earth” state, or period when the entire planet was frozen. Instead, they find that the planet likely oscillated between fully ice-covered “snowball” conditions and ice-free “hothouse” intervals throughout the Sturtian period.

The team’s simulations suggest that intense weathering of basalt in the Franklin Large Igneous Province, a vast volcanic region located in northern Canada and believed to have erupted just before the onset of the Sturtian glaciation, drew down atmospheric carbon dioxide enough to trigger multiple global glaciations.

As volcanoes and other processes slowly rebuilt atmospheric carbon dioxide, the climate warmed, the ice retreated, and large areas of fresh basalt were again exposed to the atmosphere. Renewed breakdown from weathering then pulled carbon dioxide back down, pushing the climate into another Snowball phase. This repeating cycle of carbon dioxide-driven freezing and thawing, the authors argue, could naturally sustain glacial–interglacial swings over tens of millions of years.

The mechanisms revealed by the Harvard study resolve several longstanding paradoxes, most notably the previously inexplicable length of the Sturtian when compared with physical climate models. The study also matches observed sedimentary patterns from that time period and explains how atmospheric oxygen levels could have remained stable despite extreme climate upheavals.

Repeated returns to warmer, ice-free conditions may have helped prevent a complete collapse of atmospheric oxygen, the study further suggests. “This could help explain how aerobic life persisted through such an extreme interval,” Minsky said.

Learn more: "Repeated Snowball-hothouse cycles within the Neoproterozoic Sturtian glaciation."