Professors advised to treat racial microaggressions in classrooms like assault - The College Fix

Professors advised to treat racial microaggressions in classrooms like assault - The College Fix:
"Professors attending a recent academic conference were advised to treat racial microaggressions in the classroom like actual assaults, according to attendees’ tweets.

The advice was doled out at a panel workshop at the annual Association for Theatre in Higher Education conference, held in Las Vegas earlier this month.
The workshop at which the comments were made focused on ways to make theater for students of color a “safe space,” according to the conference’s program.

...“Treating racism in our classrooms as we would an assault removes the burden from the victim and begins to create safe space,” one scholar in attendance, Professor Shawna Mefferd Kelty of SUNY Plattsburgh, tweeted out.

Another attendee, Penn State Professor Jeanmarie Higgins, also tweeted: “Faculty: Treat racist microaggressions in classroom as you wd assault. Overtalking puts burden on students of color. -K Papailler.”...
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Why Is This Not a Story? - Debra J. Saunders

Why Is This Not a Story? - Debra J. Saunders:

"Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., the former Democratic National Committee chairwoman known in political circles as DWS, is knee-deep in a scandal that involves a laptop, money and possible foreign entanglements.
Unlike the Trump Russian scandal, however, The Washington Post and New York Times have barely reported on the story, which has conservatives observing -- with President Donald Trump's Twitter account concurring -- that the mainstream media have a double standard."

Charlottesville mayor largely blames Trump for white supremacist violence

Charlottesville mayor largely blames Trump for white supremacist violence:
"The mayor of Charlottesville, Va., says President Trump bears responsibility for the violence that erupted during a white supremacist rally there Saturday.
“Look at the campaign he ran,” Charlottesville Mayor Michael Signer said in an interview with CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday.
“I mean, look at the intentional courting, both on the one hand of all these white supremacists, white nationalists — a group like that — anti-Semitic groups, and then look on the other hand the repeated failure to step up, condemn, denounce, silence, you know, put to bed all those different efforts, just like we saw yesterday. I mean, this is not hard.”
“I’m not going to make any bones about it,” Signer told the Virginian-Pilot.
“I place the blame for a lot of what you’re seeing in American today right at the doorstep of the White House and the people around the president...”"

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New Study By German Physicists Concludes We Can Expect Climate Cooling For Next 50 Years! | Principia Scientific International

New Study By German Physicists Concludes We Can Expect Climate Cooling For Next 50 Years! | Principia Scientific International:
German physicists: “CO2 plays only minor role for global climate”

In a just published study in The Open Atmospheric Science Journal here, German scientists Horst-Joachim Lüdecke and Carl-Otto Weiss have used a large number of temperature proxies worldwide to construct a global temperature mean over the last 2000 years, dubbed G7, in order to find out more about the sun’s role on climate change.
Their results drop a huge surprise on the laps of scientists who have long believed the earth is warming due to human-emitted CO2.
...The authors used extensive local temperature proxy data [2 – 6] together with Britain’s Hadley CRU temperature records since 1870 and the recent satellite measurements and combined them to make up the global temperature time series G7 for the last 2000 years.

Also the pronounced minimum of 1450 AD, when the vines in southern France were killed by cold. 
Also clearly shown by the climate curve is the warming from 1850 to 1995...
In particular, the sum of the three cycles shows the temperature increase from 1850 to 1995 as a result of the three natural cycles, the German researchers say, adding: “
Thus one can conclude that CO2 plays only a minor role (if any) for the global climate.”
Lüdecke and Weiss note that the present maximum of the cycle sum corresponds well with the world temperature stagnation since 1995 AD, the stagnation unexplained by current climate models. 
As the dominant cycles have persisted for an extended time, one can assume that they will persist for the near future. 
They write: “This allows to predict cooling until 2070 AD.”
Read more at No Tricks Zone"

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Stanford University course to study ‘abolishing whiteness’ - The College Fix

Stanford University course to study ‘abolishing whiteness’ - The College Fix:
"Anthropology course will explore ‘coming to terms with white identity’
Stanford University is slated to offer a class this fall called “White Identity Politics,” during which students will “survey the field of whiteness studies” and discuss the “possibilities of … abolishing whiteness,” according to the course description.
Citing pundits who say “the 2016 Presidential election marks the rise of white identity politics in the United States,” the upper-level anthropology seminar will draw “from the field of whiteness studies and from contemporary writings that push whiteness studies in new directions.”
...“Students will consider the perils and possibilities of different political practices,” according to the course description, “including abolishing whiteness or coming to terms with white identity.”...
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White House: ‘Of Course’ President Trump Condemns White Supremacists, KKK, and Neo-Nazis - Breitbart

White House: ‘Of Course’ President Trump Condemns White Supremacists, KKK, and Neo-Nazis - Breitbart:

"The White House issued a statement on Sunday to clarify President Donald Trump’s views on white supremacists, the KKK, and Neo-Nazis."

Type in your ZIP code-----A solar eclipse is coming to America. Here’s what you’ll see where you live. - Vox

A solar eclipse is coming to America. Here’s what you’ll see where you live. - Vox:
"On Monday August 21, a solar eclipse will cut across the entire United States. And wherever you are, you will be able to see it. Even though the “totality” — the area where the sun is completely blocked out by the moon — is only 70 miles wide, the whole country (even Alaska and Hawaii) will experience a partial eclipse.

This is what you’ll see, and the time you’ll see it, in your zip code.

We recommend punching in a few different ones to see how the eclipse experience will vary across the country. Salem, Oregon (97301), is going to see a total eclipse. Downtown Los Angeles (90012) will see 62 percent of the sun blocked at the peak. In Lake Charles, Louisiana (70601), it’ll be 71 percent.