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NYU Prof: Trump’s Whole Milk Push Is ‘Dog Whistle To Far-Right’

NYU Prof: Trump’s Whole Milk Push Is ‘Dog Whistle To Far-Right’

Published by Jenni Sidey

Authored by Matt Lamb via The College Fix, When President Donald Trump signed a law that allowed for the National School Lunch Program to distribute whole milk again, he was actually sending out a signal to neo-Nazis, so says a New York University professor. In January, President Trump celebrated the bipartisan “Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2025,” which will allow the federally subsidized school lunch program to offer the higher-fat content dairy once against. President Obama removed the option in 2010 over fears it was contributing to childhood obesity. The legislation passed by a voice vote in the U.S. House and unanimously in the U.S. Senate, according to Roll Call. While many would see this as a triumph of partisan gridlock, Professor Arthur Caplan sees something much darker. “As a student of and writer on the history of science and public health under fascist regimes, I am suspicious,” he said. “Milk drinking is political. Drinking whole white milk has played a big role in racist and far-right thinking.” Here we go. “Fascists have used the beverage …

NYU physicists create visible time crystals levitated by sound

NYU physicists create visible time crystals levitated by sound

Published by Jenni Sidey

A strange form of matter called a time crystal has fascinated physicists for about a decade. These systems move in repeating cycles, even without a steady external push. Now, researchers at New York University have uncovered a new and surprisingly simple version that you can see with the naked eye. The work comes from physicists at NYU, led by David Grier, director of the university’s Center for Soft Matter Research. He worked with graduate student Mia Morrell and undergraduate Leela Elliott. Their findings appear in the journal Physical Review Letters. The team showed that small foam beads, held in midair by sound waves, can fall into steady rhythmic motion on their own. What makes the result stand out is how basic the setup looks. The entire device is about a foot tall and light enough to hold. Yet it reveals physics that bends some of the most familiar rules taught in school. “Time crystals are fascinating not only because of the possibilities, but also because they seem so exotic and complicated,” Grier says. “Our system …

NYU Law School Clinic Attempting to Obtain Copyright for a Forest

NYU Law School Clinic Attempting to Obtain Copyright for a Forest

Published by Jenni Sidey

This article is republished from National Review with the permission of the author. As I have noted here before, NYU Law School’s radical MOTH (More Than Human Life) program embraces neo-earth mysticism as part of its efforts to promote “nature rights.” Here’s the latest example. MOTH participants are seeking to force the Ecuadorian Copyright Office to grant a copyright to a forest as the supposed co-composer of music called Song of the Cedars. From “Giving Back to Nature,” published on the MOTH website: The aim of the song and its accompanying legal petition is to recognize—legally and culturally—the inextricable agency and participation of the natural world in the making of art. The song could not have been made without Los Cedros, legally and philosophically justifying the effort to acknowledge the forest’s “moral authorship” in the song’s creation. Moreover, the hope is that pushing for recognition of Los Cedros’ authorship will trigger a change in the profoundly anthropocentric realm of copyright law. While human musical creations have used sounds of nature since time immemorial—and some have recognized nature’s role in them—this …