On Wednesday (October 28) morning, Pipo Nguyen-Duy, celebrated photographer and photography professor at Oberlin College and Conservatory, was killed in a shooting at a home near the college in Ohio. Pipo Nguyen-Duy (L) and representational image. (Pipo Nguyen-Duy on Facebook and Unsplash) The Oberlin Police Department said that the bodies of a 64-year-old man and … Read more
A former Texas Tech University professor has been sentenced to 40 years in federal prison for manufacturing and distributing fentanyl, including a pink-colored mixture branded as “pink flamingo”, after several women overdosed on drugs supplied by him, the US Department of Justice said on October 23. Former Texas Tech University professor has been sentenced to … Read more
A Romanian flea-market seller thought an old machine was a typewriter and let it go for €100; the buyer, a cryptography professor, recognized a World War II Enigma I and sold it at auction in 2017 for €45,000/Image: Reuters In 2017, a machine sold for €100 at a Romanian flea market turned out to be … Read more
Late professor Jason Arday/Image: St Mary’s University The University of Cambridge has narrowed its inquiry into the hiring of professor Jason Arday following his death last month, with the review now focusing on whether he received adequate support from the university, NYT reported.Cambridge had announced a broader investigation earlier this summer into Arday’s appointment after … Read more
A podcast clip from the Jack Neel podcast featuring Chinese -Canadian academic, Jiang Xueqin, a.k.a. Professor Jiang has gone viral on social media after he claimed that artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT are not generating responses independently. He instead claimed that AI is “being manipulated by humans somewhere in India.” A clip from Jack … Read more
Carnegie Mellon University professor Dr Uju Anya is facing scrutiny over a series of old social media posts that have recently resurfaced online. The posts, which included comments about the deaths of public figures that went viral. Dr Uju Anya is on voluntary leave as the school reviews her social media posts. (CMU) Carnegie Mellon … Read more
Malaysian university fires professor who claimed Malays could fly. Solehah Yaacob, a former linguistics professor at the International Islamic University Malaysia, went viral last year because of her strange claims, including one that said Malays could fly and Malays taught the Chinese the art of “flying kung fu”. This was only one of a series … Read more
A woman’s celebratory video of welcoming her parents to the US has gone viral. Videos of Indians using wheelchairs at international airports surface on social media from time to time. This time, a video of an Indian woman apparently welcoming her parents at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport in Texas went viral as the mother was seen … Read more
There is a saying among bibliophiles: Never judge a book by its movie. For true readers, nothing any director dreams up can ever match the cinema playing inside one’s head, to borrow a line from Anurag Kashyap’s greatest villain. Two rare adaptations that arguably hold their own against their source novels are Mario Puzo’s The … Read more
At an age when many students are just beginning university, Nathan Thomas had already stepped into the classroom as a college professor. The Florida native earned a place in the Guinness World Records after becoming the world’s youngest male professor at just 18 years and 346 days old, breaking a record that had stood for … Read more