Jun. 17—A theoretical physicist has a surprising role in New Mexico’s adult education program. Katya Backhaus, the state high school equivalency and data administrator for the New Mexico Higher Education Department, recently won the Mountain Plains Adult Education Association Award of Excellence. Every year, the award honors one recipient from each association member state: Arizona, […]
In 2002, Thomas Hertog, then a theoretical physics graduate student, stepped inside Stephen Hawking’s office at the University of Cambridge and saw his supervisor’s eyes filled with emotion. Hawking’s news was also a confession. The famed physicist told his student that his book, “A Brief History of Time,” was wrong because it predicted a barren […]
This is The Takeaway from today’s Morning Brief, which you can sign up to receive in your inbox every morning along with: Those waiting for the artificial intelligence bubble to pop have been let down this earnings season. In the latest sign that AI exuberance is alive and well in markets, Arm Holdings (ARM) stock […]
Sociology’s done in Florida. Is history next? Now that Gov. DeSantis has returned to become our full-time Governor again, perhaps he will also acknowledge the fact that he is a magna cum laude history graduate of Yale University. This very difficult accomplishment clearly indicates that he is a very bright, hardworking individual. So, it leaves […]