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A physicist’s lessons about race, power, and the universe Posted by: superadmin - 01-18-2022, 03:41 PM - Forum: Sciences - No Replies When Chanda Prescod-Weinstein was a 10-year-old growing up in East Los Angeles, she came across the Errol Morris documentary A Brief History of Time, which chronicled the life of the physicist Stephen Hawking. Watching it, Prescod-Weinstein says, she realized Hawking “was being paid to use math all day to solve problems Einstein hadn’t worked out.” For a queer Black Jewish kid from a working-class neighborhood who liked doing math, that seemed like a pretty good deal. “That was really where I got my first taste of the idea that math is kind of like the language of the universe,” Prescod-Weinstein told me. She’s now an assistant professor of physics and astronomy at the University of New Hampshire, where she studies dark matter and particle physics. She’s also on the core faculty of the university’s Women’s Studies department — a seemingly unusual combination that hints at the multifaceted approach she brings to her work. In 2021, Prescod-Weinstein published The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, & Dreams Deferred, a wide-ranging book that is both a scientific explainer and an argument that unjust power structures shape the world of physics. She tells stories of subatomic particles like baryons, which are the building blocks of atoms; she critiques a trend she’s seen, in which writers compare the mystery and invisibility of dark matter to the lived experiences of Black people. In a chapter called “Rape Is Part of This Scientific Story” — a chapter that grew unexpectedly out of her writing on the dark universe, and that she debated including in the book — she writes about how her own experience of sexual assault shaped her understanding of injustices in her field. - More -   SC can’t confirm if Azam broke the law over share ownership Posted by: superadmin - 01-18-2022, 03:31 PM - Forum: Politics - No Replies PETALING JAYA: The Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) says it cannot “conclusively establish” if Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief Azam Baki broke the law over his ownership of shares. “The SC has concluded its inquiry and based on the evidence gathered, the SC is not able to conclusively establish that a breach under section 25 (4) of the Securities Industry (Central Depositories) Act 1991 (Sicda).” - More -   Who does Azam think he is: Pakatan PSC members call for meet to proceed Posted by: superadmin - 01-18-2022, 02:39 PM - Forum: Politics - No Replies KUALA LUMPUR – Pakatan Harapan (PH) members of the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) on Agencies have pressed their chairman to carry on with tomorrow’s proceedings with or without Tan Sri Azam Baki’s attendance. Kota Melaka MP Khoo Poay Tiong said it is pertinent that the meeting be held even without the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief, to establish the terms of references pertaining to its probe into Azam’s share ownership. Khoo said this would include finalising details on who else would be summoned by the PSC under the Prime Minister’s Department, with Azam’s brother Datuk Nasir Baki among the names being proposed. The DAP lawmaker added that under the Standing Orders, the PSC has the power to call in any person to obtain information related to its investigations. His remark follows Azam’s reasons not to attend tomorrow’s proceedings, which prompted the committee chairman and Kuala Krai MP Abdul Latiff Abdul Rahman to postpone the meeting. “Who is Azam Baki to say he doesn’t want to come? Can Azam override Parliament now? Why is it that when Azam issued a letter (to Latiff stating his reasons not to attend), we had to postpone our meeting? - More -   Did you report demands to interfere with court cases, Gobind asks Muhyiddin Posted by: superadmin - 01-18-2022, 02:35 PM - Forum: Politics - No Replies PETALING JAYA: DAP’s Gobind Singh Deo has questioned if former prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin had lodged a report over alleged demands to interfere with the judiciary while he was in office. “Did Muhyiddin Yassin lodge a report with the police or MACC over allegations he made that certain quarters had demanded that he interfere in court matters to free several individuals who were being prosecuted for certain criminal offences when he was prime minister?” Gobind asked in a Facebook post. - More -   Azam cannot override Parliament, say PSC members Posted by: superadmin - 01-18-2022, 02:29 PM - Forum: Politics - No Replies PETALING JAYA: Four members of a parliamentary select committee (PSC) that was to grill Azam Baki tomorrow say the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief cannot override Parliament and must show up when summoned by the PSC. At a press conference, Kota Melaka MP Khoo Poay Tiong also urged the chairman of the PSC on Agencies under the Prime Minister’s Department, Abdul Latiff Rahman of PAS, to review his decision to cancel the meeting tomorrow. He said the meeting should go ahead even if Azam did not show up as there were other matters the PSC needed to discuss, including who else to summon for questioning. “Who is Azam Baki? Can he override Parliament? We should insist that he comes for the hearing first. If he refuses, then we can take action. We should proceed with our meeting. “The reasons given by Azam (that the hearing cannot be held) were just excuses. If we summon him, he should come for the meeting and give his views. Come first. - More -   Azam wrong about parliamentary panel’s powers, say lawyers Posted by: superadmin - 01-18-2022, 11:36 AM - Forum: Politics - No Replies PETALING JAYA: Three lawyers have dismissed arguments by top graft-buster Azam Baki against a hearing by a parliamentary committee into his shareholdings, saying he was wrong in his contentions. Haniff Khatri Abdulla said the committee would be acting within its powers to investigate the allegations and had the right to recommend the next course of action to the government. He said parliamentary committees have the power to subpoena Azam or his legal team to attend the meeting, and it should go ahead as scheduled on Wednesday with members discussing the terms of reference of the meeting if Azam does not attend. Azam, who is head of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission, had sought a deferment of the meeting. Parliament secretary Nizam Mydin Bacha Mydin said yesterday the meeting had been postponed pending a reference to Parliament’s legal adviser. - More -   Civil society, youth wings to stage street protest against Azam on Saturday Posted by: superadmin - 01-18-2022, 11:31 AM - Forum: Politics - No Replies PETALING JAYA: Civil society organisations and political youth wings will take to the streets in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday to protest against the conduct of Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief Azam Baki and call for his arrest. The Tangkap Azam Baki Committee, a loose coalition of 25 groups, will gather outside Sogo at 11am to demand that he is arrested immediately, that legal action be taken against him, and that the MACC be placed under parliament’s purview. “If you are not with us on the day at the time, fly the black flag and use the hashtags #TangkapAzamBaki and #RombakSPRM on all your social media posts,” the committee said in a statement today. - More -   Environmental Sting Posted by: superadmin - 01-18-2022, 11:24 AM - Forum: Environment Protection News - No Replies In the 15 years Chitra Bhan Khatri has been keeping bees in west Nepal, he has never had trouble providing food for his insects, until 2021 when unseasonally heavy rain left his honeybees hungry. Five days of torrential rainfall in Dang district in October sent temperatures plummeting, killing the bright yellow blooms of the mustard plants Khatri grows to provide nectar and pollen for his 300 colonies of European honeybees. Then, when he took his bees to graze on nectar from chiuri (butter) trees in a nearby forest, he discovered that the rains had knocked all the flowers off their branches, he said. As he walked through his apiary inspecting his hives with their empty honeycombs, the 44-year-old beekeeper said he used to extract more than 40 kilograms of honey per hive each year. But in 2021, his insects produced less than half of that. Previously, Khatri had always been able to move his hives to another part of the region to feed, but in 2021 there was almost no pollen or nectar to be found anywhere. "My 500,000 rupee [$4,220] investment has all gone in vain," he said. "Honey is my sole source of income. I don't know how I can cover my household expenses." - More -   China provides most medical supplies, vaccines to world to fight COVID-19: NBS Posted by: superadmin - 01-18-2022, 10:46 AM - Forum: Covid-19 Pandemic - No Replies China has been playing an indispensable role across the globe in battling the COVID-19 pandemic by providing medical supplies and vaccines to the international community, with the country supplying the most vaccines to the world, a senior official of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Monday.  China had provided about 372 billion face masks, more than 4.2 billion pieces of protective clothing, and 8.4 billion test reagents to the international community as of the end of 2021, Ning Jizhe, director of the NBS, said during a press briefing in Beijing. In addition, China has supplied more than 2 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines to more than 120 countries and international organizations, becoming the country that has supplied the most vaccines to the world as of the end of last year, Ning noted. - More -   Omicron cases in Beijing, Shenzhen suspected of links to packages from North America Posted by: superadmin - 01-18-2022, 10:43 AM - Forum: Covid-19 Pandemic - No Replies China's postal administration on Monday vowed to "build a barrier" against COVID-19 cases imported through international express mail, after at least two Omicron cases, one in Beijing and another one in Shenzhen, were suspected of tracking back to packages from North America. Virologists warned of the high risk of packages from overseas causing domestic COVID-19 flare-ups, when the epidemic overseas is running high, as contaminated packages from epidemic-rampant countries may spread the virus to people with weak immunity through viral particles floating in the air, or people without proper protective gear. A patient from Shenzhen, who was confirmed to be infected with Omicron on Sunday, is likely to have contracted it after being exposed to contaminated goods from overseas, Shenzhen's health authorities said at Monday's press conference. - More - Pages (1271): « Previous 1 … 851 852 853 854 855 … 1271 Next » Jump to page: