China: Separation of 1 Million Tibetan Children from Families and Forced Assimilation at Residential Schools
Around a million children of the Tibetan minority were being affected by Chinese government policies aimed at assimilating Tibetan people culturally, religiously and linguistically through a residential school system, UN experts* warned today. “We are very disturbed that in recent years the residential school system for Tibetan children appears to act as a mandatory large-scale […]
Why English Departments Died
For a number of reasons mostly within my control, I attended a very bad college, where I happened to be a very mediocre student. I was there to study classics, and discovered upon my arrival that the program was largely non-existent. (I read Homer in the first semester and found that, just as in high […]
Massive Structures Threaten the History of the Universe
Everything we know about the Universe is about to change due to a recent discovery of a massive cluster of galaxies in the constellation of Bootes the Herdsman. British Ph.D. student, Alexia Lopez, was analyzing the light from distant quasars when she discovered the Giant Arc, a cluster of galaxies covering 1/15th of the observable […]