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The Brown University and MIT professor shooter whined that the Ivy League school’s food was lousy and its classes were too easy, it surfaced Friday – along with new details about his academic ...

When Elizabeth Ruane and her family spent a semester in Lüneburg, Germany, her life revolved around Marktplatz, one of the main squares in the northern German town. “In Marktplatz, there was this ...

Longer-end Treasury yields (TBT) (TLT) have climbed since the last Fed meeting, even as Fed expectations have swung from hawkish to dovish. The 10-year yield (US10Y) is trading near 4.2% heading into ...

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A pair of recent studies examined why sophisticated levels of consciousness evolved in some animals, but not in others. In the first study, philosophers outlined the ALARM theory that shows how three ...

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Which is part of the reason she and husband Jeffrey Garten decided not to have kids early on in their relationship. “I mean, it’s amazing to me that I made that decision so young, and that thank God ...

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Technology stocks are down 5.6% since their most recent peak, but they’re up 22.0% since the start of the year. The losses come amid mounting worries about the durability of the surge in AI stocks.