Archive for August 2025

As a Black, Christian former Democrat with little previous engagement with Jewish causes, Terrell, now 70, seemed an improbable pick to lead the effort to “root out anti-Semitic harassment in schools and on college campuses,” as the task force announcement put it. But his zealous conversion and penchant for media bombast made him a perfect bullhorn for the task force’s actual mission: to strong-arm colleges into stripping away any vestige of “wokeness” in their hiring, admissions, classes and research. Above: Terrell speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2021 in Orlando, Florida.

Artificial intelligence chatbots designed to act like friends should not be used by children and teens, Stanford Medicine psychiatrist Nina Vasan says.

By 2028, research firm Gartner forecasts that 15% of day-to-day work decisions will be made by so-called agentic AI.
Research by consultancy Ernst & Young found that about half (48%) of tech business leaders are already adopting or deploying agentic AI.

KJ cradles her Hyodol, an AI-equipped companion robot, at her home in Guro, Seoul.

An exodus appears to be under way of Ph.D.s and faculty generally, who are leaving academia in the face of political, financial and enrollment crises…. On top of everything else affecting higher education, this is likely to reduce the quality of education for undergraduates, experts say.

As Huff explained it in the kitchen, this is what “no drama” means: no whisper campaigns, no sulking or stewing. A resident with an interpersonal problem has two choices: tolerate it or address it. “If I go to somebody and say, ‘We need to work something out so I’m not upset about it,’ then we will work something out. Everybody here would at least attempt to make me happy, like I would do for them,” she said. Above: Huff watering the garden outside her home, helped come up with the motto for the Bird’s Nest: no drama.

MH turned around her high school experience with support from a Treehouse educational specialist.