- Germany reports 134 new coronavirus cases: Robert Koch Institute. The number of cases rose to 534, up from 400 reported on Thursday evening. https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/germany-reports-134-new-coronavirus-cases-robert-koch-institute?cx_testid=20&cx_testvariant=cx_1&cx_artpos=1#cxrecs_s 48 comments europe
- On Detrumpification: An Urgently Necessary Process After Trumpism - Anything less than an overwhelming popular mandate for progressive, fundamental restructuring of the institutions of society along democratic lines will be insufficient to even begin the process of detrumpification. https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/12/11/detrumpification-urgently-necessary-process-after-trumpism 44 comments politics
- Do the Republicans Even Believe in Democracy Anymore? They pay lip service to it, but they actively try to undermine its institutions. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/01/opinion/republicans-trump-democracy.html 789 comments politics
- Even the Cato Institute thinks that Republican judge who struck down Obamacare was wrong https://thinkprogress.org/even-the-cato-institute-thinks-that-republican-judge-who-struck-down-obamacare-was-wrong-cc0432cc867d/ 25 comments politics
- Even for This President, It Was a Remarkable Week of Attacks on American Institutions https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/09/us/politics/trump-whitaker-press-attacks-midterms.html 15 comments politics
- "Nuclear power is the benchmark to beat, outranking coal, oil, gas, and even wind by a slight margin as the least deadly major energy resource in application," according to both the European Union and Paul Scherrer Institute http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2016/reconsidering-risks-nuclear-power/ 11 comments technology
- An Elite That Has Lost the Impulse to Police Itself: The DEA secretly instituted a mass surveillance program–and almost no one objected, even after it was revealed. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/02/an-elite-that-has-lost-the-impulse-to-police-itself/385191/ 21 comments politics
- NSA instituting a "two-man" for sysadmins. How would this even work? http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/24/technology/nsa-leak-puts-focus-on-system-administrators.html?pagewanted=all 32 comments sysadmin
- Yet Another Proof That Even Big Shot 'Reputable' Financial Institutions Are Basically Scumbags http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/06/business/06wachovia.html?ref=business 18 comments reddit.com
- ‘No democracy without strong institutions, even Saddam, Gaddafi allowed voting’: Rahul Gandhi https://indianexpress.com/article/india/no-democracy-without-strong-institutions-even-saddam-gaddafi-rahul-gandhi-7231405/ 42 comments india
- If the national wealth were owned evenly through already-proven social wealth fund institutions, every person would receive a $15k annual dividend on top of their wages and social benefits. https://www.bloombergquint.com/businessweek/rethinking-wealth-from-birthright-capital-to-big-spender-taxes 30 comments economy
- Krugman: conservative economists are well aware of the danger of “regulatory capture”, in which public institutions are hijacked by vested interests, yet blithely dismiss (or refuse even to mention) the essentially equivalent problem of democratic institutions hijacked by concentrated wealth. http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/24/sympathy-for-the-trustafarians/?_php=true&_type=blogs&module=blogpost-title&version=blog%20main&contentcollection=opinion&action=click&pgtype=blogs&region=body&_r=0 99 comments politics
- I have a confession to make. I am part of a vast international conspiracy that is bent on destroying our way of life and even our very survival itself. Its purpose is the erosion of public institutions, theft on a global scale, and the decimation of democratic structures wherever they may be found. http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/9405-entrapped-confessions-of-a-violent-consumerist 4 comments politics
- Few dictators have ruled a country as long and as thoroughly as Moammar Gadhafi. With his death last week, he leaves behind a country without functioning institutions and a traumatized people. Even dead, he will remain a burden to Libya for some time to come. http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,793612,00.html 15 comments worldnews
- TIL that there are 6 Institutes of emminence and Jio Institute declared 'institute of eminence' even before it is set up, ignoring Historical institutions like IIT madras and kharagpur. http://www.newindianexpress.com/business/2018/jul/09/jio-institute-declared-institute-of-eminence-even-before-it-is-set-up-1840779.html 14 comments india
- Given Tag of 'Eminence' by Modi Govt, Reliance's Jio Institute Doesn't Even Exist Yet https://thewire.in/education/given-tag-of-excellence-by-modi-government-jio-institute-doesnt-even-exist-yet 3 comments india
- "Given WikiLeaks' past record, it is unlikely that all or even most of the allegations are true," maintained James Scott, a senior fellow at the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology. http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84353.html 31 comments politics
- " Indeed, Snowden was so irresponsible in what he gave the Guardian and the Post that even these institutions thought some of it should not be disseminated to the public." - The New Yorker http://m.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/06/edward-snowden-nsa-leaker-is-no-hero.html 5 comments politics
- [InfieldChatter] Brock Holt of the @RedSox is a world champion and @MLB All-Star, but the role he’s played for children at the @DanaFarber Cancer Institute’s @TheJimmyFund may be even more impressive. Today, some of the families he’s touched say thank you. https://twitter.com/infieldchatter/status/1149710006658457600 6 comments baseball
- Personal seals lose ground as big Japanese banks stop using 1800s technology - Hanko, the personal stamps required for even simple transactions in the country since the 1800s, are getting phased out at some of the country’s biggest financial institutions. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/09/business/corporate-business/personal-seals-lose-ground-big-japanese-banks-stop-using-1800s-technology/#.xiphksgzbcs 8 comments worldnews
- The MHROD today announced 6 institutions of higher education as "Institutions of Eminence" that would be given 100cr public funds. One of these - Jio University - doesn't even exist. [P] https://www.ndtv.com/education/hrd-minister-prakash-javadekar-announces-names-of-6-institutes-of-eminence-iit-bombay-iit-delhi-bits-1880178 4 comments india
- GOP-Led Congress Unlikely To Institute New Regulations Even After Equifax Hack http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/congress-unlikely-new-regulations-after-equifax-hack 32 comments politics
- Overweight teens get mental health boost from even small amounts of exercise- Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute http://www.cheori.org/en/newsreleases?newsid=323 17 comments science
- Texans To Be Even Stupider .. Conservative members of the Texas Board of Education will punish generations of students after voting to institute a right wing-skewed curriculum that will place a lot less emphasis on fact and a lot more importance on ideology. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/top/all/7017070.html 72 comments politics
- A new kind of portable electrochemical battery that can produce thousands of hours of power - and soon replace the expensive regular or rechargeable batteries eventually in cellphones, laptop computers and even electric cars - has been developed at Haifa's Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. http://www.jpost.com/servlet/satellite?pagename=jpost%2Fjparticle%2Fshowfull&cid=1255547719698 45 comments worldnews
- So an ordinance has been passed by the Govt which makes even small loans from extended family(even uncles and aunts) and acquaintances or friends and loans from charitable institutions for students a violation. https://www.timesnownews.com/business-economy/economy/article/heres-how-modi-governments-ordinance-to-ban-unregulated-deposits-impacts-you/372009 7 comments india
- Rep. Dingell calls out colleagues who supported ALS funding cuts for hypocritical ice bucketing -- There are 16 members of Congress who have publicized their part in Ice Bucket Challenge - even though they voted to slash $1.55 billion from the budget for the National Institutes of Health. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/rep-john-dingell-calls-colleagues-hypocritical-ice-bucketing-article-1.1911814 130 comments politics
- Maybe academia is like art: it has a fire-breathing reaction to the idea of plagiarism, but patchy institutions for enforcing rules against it in practice. But without credit for your ideas, what incentive do you have to share them, or even create them? https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/who-cares-about-plagiarism/ 2 comments truereddit
- EU highlights “Growing Institutional Demand” and Prepares for first Bitcoin Futures Launch while U.S. Politicians even Fail to Approve Bitcoin ETF https://cointelegraph.com/news/europe-prepares-for-first-bitcoin-futures-launch-amid-us-etf-stalemate 17 comments cryptocurrency
- Rudi Garcia: We are confident going into this game even if the season on the whole has not been easy for us. We studied Juve and I can see elements of Sarri’s principles. However they are an institution and they rarely make profound changes to their identity even when the coach is replaced https://www.football-italia.net/150497/garcia-sarri-doesnt-change-juve 10 comments soccer
- A Look at Germany's Extremely Unequal Wealth Distribution: European Central Bank statistics show that wealth distribution in Germany is extremely unequal. But a new analysis by the German Institute for Economic Research shows that the situation is even worse than initially thought. http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/inquality-and-wealth-distribution-in-germany-a-1190050.html 125 comments europe
- Photos of ‘beef party’ at Agra institute go public; trigger row. Institute officials said that prima facie no evidence was found of any such party on campus after photos of the alleged beef party at the CHI hostel appeared online in the evening yesterday. http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/online-photos-of-beef-party-at-agra-central-hindi-institute-spark-protest/ 29 comments india
- The German military may soon adopt new guidelines that call into question the export of democracy, SPIEGEL has learned. In the future, the Bundeswehr is to take greater account of local traditions and institutions, even if they are violent and corrupt. http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,829191,00.html 7 comments worldnews
- Over one hundred years ago, J.C. Bose described to the Royal Institution in London his research carried out in Calcutta at millimeter wavelengths. He used waveguides, horn antennas, dielectric lenses, various polarizers and even semiconductors at frequencies as high as 60 GHz http://www.tuc.nrao.edu/~demerson/bose/bose.html 5 comments electronics
- Why Schools Don't Educate : It is absurd and anti-life to move from cell to cell at the sound of a gong for every day of your youth, in an institution that allows you no privacy and even follows you into the sanctuary of your home, demanding that you do its “homework.” http://www.thesunmagazine.org/archives/937 3 comments politics
- "Why aren’t we focusing on the problem that got us here—the mega-institutions whose risk taking has inflicted enormous harm on our economy? If the Republicans pick up this issue before we do, the elections of 2010 could be even worse than we are now fearing." - Eliot Spitzer http://www.newdeal20.org/?p=6046 6 comments economy
- From 1982 to present, the conservative Heritage Foundation reports 1,308 cases of proven voter fraud for the entire US, a cumulative total that doesn’t even come close to the 11k votes Trump wanted to “find” in GA alone. The Brookings Institute used this information to prove how rare fraud is. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2020/06/02/low-rates-of-fraud-in-vote-by-mail-states-show-the-benefits-outweigh-the-risks/ 36 comments politics
- First-time women principal investigator scientists received considerably less funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) compared to first-time male principal investigators, even at top research institutions, reports a new study from Northwestern Medicine and the Kellogg School of Mgmt. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2726973 12 comments science
- Proposed Split of Large Institutions: Fight Looms Over EU Plans for Bank Reform - Until recently, calls to forcibly split up European banks were dismissed as a radical leftist idea. Now even an EU panel of experts is recommending dividing up dangerous financial giants. http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/analysis-of-eu-report-recommending-big-banks-be-split-up-a-859297.html 47 comments worldnews
- There are caps on H-1B visas, making it harder for college-educated foreigners to work in the United States. However, since academic institutions are exempt from the cap, the cap raises international students’ likelihood of employment in academia, even outside of their field of study. http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/54/2/401.abstract 4 comments science