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Professor Simon Conway Morris receives 2026 Templeton Prize

Professor Simon Conway Morris receives 2026 Templeton Prize

Published by Sam Flores

Conway Morris joins past laureates Freeman Dyson, the Dalai Lama, and Jane Goodall to receive one of the world’s largest individual lifetime achievement awards Professor Simon Conway Morris, a groundbreaking paleontologist at the University of Cambridge, has been awarded the 2026 Templeton Prize for his outstanding contributions to the field of evolutionary biology and his enduring efforts to explore the broader human implications of his scientific discoveries. Professor Conway Morris is internationally recognized for his pioneering research on the Cambrian explosion and his meticulous analysis of the Burgess Shale fauna. These studies have significantly reshaped our understanding of the early evolution of animal body plans and the dynamics of evolutionary innovation. Conway Morris’s most distinctive contribution is the articulation and empirical substantiation of evolutionary convergence—the recurrence of similar biological forms and behaviors across vastly different evolutionary lineages. Vision and many other sensory organs, as well as wings, fins, and other forms of locomotion have all evolved numerous times, independently, in different periods of Earth’s history. To Conway Morris, these are not just curious coincidences, but …

CSU professor acquitted of assaulting U.S. agents with their own tear gas

CSU professor acquitted of assaulting U.S. agents with their own tear gas

Published by Sam Flores

A Cal State Channel Islands professor said he is feeling a sense of “righteous indignation” after a federal jury acquitted him Thursday of charges that he hurled a tear gas canister at Border Patrol agents last summer during a protest against a sweeping immigration raid at a Southern California cannabis farm. A federal jury in downtown Los Angeles found Jonathan Caravello, 38, a U.S. citizen and lecturer in Cal State Channel Islands’ math and philosophy department, not guilty of one count of assault on a federal officer with a deadly or dangerous weapon, a charge that carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison, according to prosecutors. Caravello said he declined a plea deal early in the process. “I knew I didn’t assault anyone and wasn’t going to take a plea,” he said. He added that his position as a professor, white male, and access to a strong legal defense team made him feel it was his responsibility to fight the charges. “I thought it was my responsibility to take this to trial …

AI Forces College Professor to Get Typewriters for Entire Class

AI Forces College Professor to Get Typewriters for Entire Class

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Meme wisdom holds that modern problems require modern solutions, but what peddlers of this internet adage failed to consider is that an antiquated and possibly impractical approach could be loads more fun. We present Grit Matthias Phelps, a German language instructor at Cornell University who’s rebelling against a world gone mad with AI fever and pervasive brainrot by compelling students to use typewriters in class, the Associated Press reports. It’s an exercise she only conducts once a semester, but seems to leave a lasting impression on her pupils. Suddenly, they’re forced to depend not on screens, but on themselves and their classmates. The closest thing they hear to an attention-span destroying notification is the ding of the typewriter bell letting them know that they only have a few characters left on a line. “It dawned on me that the difference with typing on a typewriter is not just how you interact with the typewriter, but how you interact …

Being a Late-Career Professor | Psychology Today

Being a Late-Career Professor | Psychology Today

Published by Jenni Sidey

As academics get older, their roles and functions at a research university evolve. Throughout the academic lifespan, there are diverse and changing ideas, conceptions, and goals concerning academic tasks and identity. The developmental trend tends to move from gaining a tenure-track position, chasing tenure and promotion to associate professor, maintaining a productive research lab, increasing administration and university governance responsibilities, promotion to full professor, a plateau phase, and (probably overdue) retirement. I once had sympathies with the anti-tenure crowd who argue that tenure protects professors of poor quality, those who have checked out of their responsibilities and do the minimal amount of work. Rooting out the deadwood old professors to replace them with younger, hungrier, and cheaper assistant professors is one goal of the folks wanting to get rid of tenure. I had an appreciation for the mandatory retirement age for professors that many nations use. I had complained that old professors are often not current on growing scientific literature, they have given the same lectures for the last 30 years, and their ideas are …

The view from Professor Dominic Tierney, author of The Right Way to Lose a War – Spotlight

The view from Professor Dominic Tierney, author of The Right Way to Lose a War – Spotlight

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To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. Accept Manage my choices One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Try again Spotlight © France 24 Issued on: 21/03/2026 – 20:23 14:58 min From the show Reading time 1 min Dominic Tierney, the author of The Right Way to Lose a war, published in 2015, looking at US conflicts from Korea, to Vietnam, Iraq, to Afghanistan and the lessons taken from them. Dominic is professor of political science at Swarthmore College and a senior fellow at the foreign policy reserach institute. By: Video by: Source link

A Neurology Professor Says Many People Over 50 Still Do These 4 Brain-Damaging Habits

A Neurology Professor Says Many People Over 50 Still Do These 4 Brain-Damaging Habits

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As you age into your 50s and 60s, your routine and habits impact your brain health in the long term, so you are unknowingly harming your brain health a little daily. Dr. Rudolph E. Tanzi, a professor of Neurology, blames these reckless routines that are harming your cognition and pushing you toward neurodegenerative diseases. These everyday, brain-damaging habits are so normalized that they have now become the norm. It’s a way of life that is not only accepted but appreciated. Here are the four everyday habits that are hurting your cognition and memory. A neurology professor says many people over 50 still do these 4 brain-damaging habits: 1. Working more than 8 hours a day can damage your brain Marcus Aurelius / Pexels It is the norm to work for at least 8 hours a day. There’s no denying that the pressure and workload of most jobs will have you put in at least 8 hours daily. Corporate has made it a norm that you can not get any job with less work time, but …

Vladimir review – Rachel Weisz’s sociopathic professor falls for Leo Woodall in ‘post-woke’ drama

Vladimir review – Rachel Weisz’s sociopathic professor falls for Leo Woodall in ‘post-woke’ drama

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Me Too, one of the most famous political slogans of the 21st century, was a show of solidarity. For victims of abuse it was evidence that there were others out there who had endured the same experiences and survived. But what was less described, during the long process of recriminations, was the solidarity in the communities of the accused. Friends standing by their friends, parents standing by their children, wives standing by their husbands. That’s the jumping off point for Vladimir, a new Netflix limited series based on Julia May Jonas’s provocative 2022 bestselling novel. Rachel Weisz is an unnamed creative writing professor at some semi-rural liberal arts college. She lives with her feckless husband, and fellow academic, John (John Slattery), ceaselessly narrating her mundane domestic and professional life. But two things happen to shake up their existence. Firstly, John is …

Harvard Professor Says AI Users Are Losing Cognitive Abilities

Harvard Professor Says AI Users Are Losing Cognitive Abilities

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb is perhaps best known for raising eyebrows with public suggestions that various stellar phenomena could be evidence of extraterrestrial civilization. It’s controversial, to be sure — but if nothing else, at least Loeb’s using his own brain, at a time when dependence on AI chatbots has never been higher. In a recent essay on his personal blog, the Harvard professor lamented the mental decay among the AI users in his life. “Recently, I noticed that some people around me are starting to lose their cognitive abilities as a result of excessive use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) platforms, such as ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini,” Loeb wrote. “This phenomenon resembles muscle loss from excessive use of public transportation as a substitute for walking. In academia, the only reliable way of testing the cognitive abilities of students right now is by placing them in a Faraday cage.” Nevermind studies showing that public transit users walk a tremendous amount — a much …

After anti-abortion backlash, Notre Dame professor declines director position

After anti-abortion backlash, Notre Dame professor declines director position

Published by Sam Flores

(RNS) — After weeks of backlash from anti-abortion Catholics, the University of Notre Dame associate professor who had been appointed to lead the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies will not be accepting the post, a dean announced in an email Thursday (Feb. 26). Susan Ostermann, a scholar of regulatory compliance in South Asia, had contributed to opinion pieces promoting abortion rights and arguing that anti-abortion laws are built on lies and white supremacy.  “At present, the focus on my appointment risks overshadowing the vital work the Institute performs, which it should be allowed to pursue without undue distraction,” wrote Ostermann in a statement shared by Mary Gallagher, dean of the Keough School of Global Affairs, in an email announcing the decision. More than a dozen Catholic bishops, as well as Notre Dame students and alumni and other anti-abortion Catholics, had vocally opposed the appointment since it was announced Jan. 8, arguing that the university’s Catholic identity is under threat due to the appointment and other decisions made by the administration.  On Tuesday, Fort …

NYC professor on leave after ‘abhorrent’ remarks 

NYC professor on leave after ‘abhorrent’ remarks 

Published by Sam Flores

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