What to Know About Elizabeth Magill, the Penn President Who Resigned | Your Health Information Was Hacked. What Now? | How to Speak Up When It Matters | A Novel That Shows the Dark Side of Utopia

View online | Unsubscribe (one-click).
For inquiries/unsubscribe issues, Contact Us

?

?

?

?

?

?

You Might Like

?

?

?

?

?

?

?

?

?

Want to accelerate software development at your company? See how we can help.

Want to accelerate software development at your company? See how we can help.

What to Know About Elizabeth Magill, the Penn President Who Resigned -

Ms. Magill, who had been in her post since last year, stepped down four days after testifying before Congress.

The president of the University of Pennsylvania, Elizabeth Magill, resigned on Saturday, four days after she came under fire for her responses at a congressional hearing on Tuesday in which she was pressed, along with the presidents of Harvard and M.I.T., on whether students calling for the genocide of Jews should be disciplined.

Ms. Magill seemed to evade the question and drew intense criticism from donors, students and others, some of whom were already angry that she had allowed a Palestinian writers conference to be held on campus in September.

Continued here

?

?

?

?

?

?

You Might Like

?

?

?

?

?

?

?

?

?

Want to accelerate software development at your company? See how we can help.

Want to accelerate software development at your company? See how we can help.

Your Health Information Was Hacked. What Now? -

A data breach can leave you feeling helpless, but there are steps you can take to limit the potential harm.

Your health data is exceptionally valuable — and exceptionally vulnerable.

That has been made clear in a string of recent breaches that have exposed sensitive medical information, including a hack at the genetic testing company 23andMe; a ransomware attack in November that affected emergency rooms and delayed medical procedures at hospitals in several states; and a cyberattack on a medical transcription company that stole the health data of nine million people.

Continued here

?

?

?

?

?

?

You Might Like

?

?

?

?

?

?

?

?

?

Don't like ads? Go ad-free with TradeBriefs Premium

Want to accelerate software development at your company? See how we can help.

How to Speak Up When It Matters - Harvard Business Review

When you notice something ethically questionable, encounter offensive speech, or disagree with consensus opinion, speaking up can be hard to do. Most people tend to not act, and then rationalize their inaction. But you’re not really doing your job — as a diligent employee, compassionate colleague, or thoughtful leader — if you don’t lend your voice to the conversation. So what can you do? First, realize how just how psychologically difficult but worthwhile speaking up can be. Second, work to lessen the social threat that it creates, making it clear that you’re not out to get anyone. Third, make an if-then plan: if I see this, then I will do that.

Continued here

?

?

?

?

?

?

You Might Like

?

?

?

?

?

?

?

?

?

A Novel That Shows the Dark Side of Utopia - The Atlantic

Gabriel Bump’s new book examines the human impulse to build new societies—and to destroy them.

Straddling the border of Virginia and North Carolina, the Great Dismal Swamp stretches 750 square miles and teems with thick, tangled vines. Lofty pine trees shade the sun; pools of standing black water snake a path to an expansive freshwater lake. In the 16th century, when Europeans began to colonize North America’s coast, this marshy interior became a haven for outcasts. “Self-emancipators,” the historian J. Brent Morris writes in Dismal Freedom: A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp, “settled into new lives of freedom in a wilderness landscape deemed worthless and inaccessible by whites.” In these maroon settlements, which bloomed throughout the Atlantic world, formerly enslaved people raised livestock, built homes out of self-harvested timber, tended gardens, and occasionally raided the farms and slave camps of their neighbors.

In the woods, Rio sprints through a clearing and finds herself in front of an imposing mountain. On its peak sits an abandoned restaurant. She remembers stories of her forebears, who trekked from Georgia to Florida after emancipation: “all those Black people living in peace for the first time in their lives.” Suddenly, she is struck by a vision for a new world. They’d build underground, burrowing deep into the side of the mountain—a retreat for modern-day maroons. “A new world that could last forever,” separate from all the unease of the current one. They’d call it the New Naturals.

Continued here

?

?

?

?

?

?

You Might Like

?

?

?

?

?

?

?

?

?

You are receiving this mailer as a TradeBriefs subscriber.
We fight fake/biased news through human curation & independent editorials.
Your support of ads like these makes it possible. Alternatively, get TradeBriefs Premium (ad-free) for only $2/month
If you still wish to unsubscribe, you can unsubscribe from all our emails here
Our address is 309 Town Center 1, Andheri Kurla Road, Andheri East, Mumbai 400059 - 93544947