The following is a press release from the Professional Staff Congress at the City University of New York: Low-wage staff members and student workers at the State University of New York will receive a much-needed increase in wages because of executive action taken today by Governor Andrew Cuomo.But thousands of staff and student workers at…

The following was written by Terrance Heath for the Progressive Breakfast blog of the Campaign for America’s Future. It is reposted here with the permission of Roger Hickey, co-director of the campaign. Its mission statement is very much worth reading and available at: https://ourfuture.org/about-us/campaign. _________________________ “No Go Zone” on the Brain In January, we learned…

  News   Leadership “How Missouri’s Deans Plotted to Get Rid of Their Chancellor” By Jack Stripling Bowen Loftin’s resignation as chief of the flagship campus at Columbia has been cast as fallout from racial discord there. That’s not even the half of it.   Faculty “A Professor, a Graduate Student, and 2 Careers Derailed” By…

1. Greater than the Sum of Its Parts October 3rd | Science and technology Over a century of interbreeding between America’s wild coyotes, wolves and dogs has created a new species: the coywolf. The genetic mix means the animal has the size and strength of a wolf and the social nature of a dog. The new…

This brief item appears at Phys.org: “American household Christmas lights, a favorite holiday tradition, use up more electricity than some poorer countries—such as El Salvador or Ethiopia—do in a year. “Bright lights strung on American trees, rooftops and lawns account for 6.63 billion kilowatt hours of electricity consumption every year, according to a recent blog post by the Center…