The story now seems to be that it was an Israeli plumber who pulled the first officer out of the Flydubai 1073 cockpit and then recovered the Boeing 737 Max from an unusual attitude (nose-down). All of Yaniv Hayoun’s flight training was from watching a TV show, Mayday: Air Disaster (your blog host is interviewed in Season 20, Episode 5 (“Atlantic Ditching”) of this show on Peacock, but unfortunately everything intelligent that I said regarding the Sikorsky S-92 avionics design was cut).
He then called his friends for help, putting the assailant in a chokehold before dragging him out from the cockpit and grabbing the controls in an incredible show of bravery.
When the plane began to level as he gripped the controls, an off-duty pilot told Yaniv that he would take it from there.
Since you can’t spit in the street without hitting a college graduate, including in Israel, it seems safe to surmise that this flight was packed with college grads. Could we ask for better proof about the uselessness-in-practice of college graduates? Whatever thinking they might do can now be done better by LLMs. When action is called for, it is the tradesman who acts.
Separately, now that I realize how easy it is for Pilot A to stab Pilot B, I am now surprised that none of the Delta/Comair captains ever stabbed me. It’s a straightforward way to deal with a lot of first officer issues.
As a 165 lb. 6′-tall teenager in 1978, I could afford to indulge in a Lindt chocolate bar every day or two. These were 99 cents at a drug store that was on my way home from work at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and school at George Washington University. I think they might have been 125g. CVS back in April was selling 150g bars for $8.49. That’s an inflation rate per gram of about 615%, which seems staggering but can be accomplished by compounding 4.3% per year for 47 years.
(note that the size also had to inflate, along with average American BMI, from 125g to 150g!)
Note that October is also Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer/Questioning (LGBTQ) History Month. According to Wikipedia, there’s a Florida angle to this observance: “In 2012, for the first time, two American school districts celebrated LGBTQ History Month. The Broward County school district in Florida signed a resolution in September in support of LGBTQ Americans, and later that year the Los Angeles school district, America’s second-largest, also signed on.”
For twenty years, Carnegie-Mellon University has been dishing out fat helpings of climate and hurricane doom.
What’s the most obvious place to set up a new campus for 3,500 students and keep them safe from ever-more-intense hurricanes and relentless sea level rise? How about Miami, Florida?
Ken Griffin’s historic gift of more than $3 billion will strengthen Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and establish Carnegie Mellon University Miami, advancing education, discovery and opportunity. #CMUMiami
The press release says that the new campus will be about 6 inches above best-case predicted sea level in Wynwood:
The new campus, to be built in Miami’s dynamic Wynwood neighborhood, is ultimately planned to support more than 3,500 undergraduate, master’s and Ph.D. students, nearly 300 faculty, and over 600 staff members, pending appropriate regulatory approvals. The first students are set to enroll in 2028, marking a bold step forward for the university and its ambitions.
Emeritus Professor Ed Rubin was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, when U.S. Vice President Al Gore shared the prize with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, for which Rubin was coordinating lead author of the Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage. The awardees were recognized for their “efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.” Rubin is the first CMU faculty member to share in a Nobel Peace Prize.
Rubin, who helped establish the Engineering and Public Policy program at CMU, is the the most highly cited authority on carbon capture and storage systems and is an internationally recognized expert in energy and environmental technology innovation and climate change mitigation.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says carbon capture deployment is lagging if we want to meet global mitigation targets. With the stakes so high, why is this the case?
“We’re now seeing the linkages between climate change and other phenomena like forest fires, droughts, heat waves, and floods. If your house burns down in a forest fire, that gets your attention. If your house floods because of a hurricane, that gets your attention. When science links those tragedies to climate change induced by human activities, then the realization kicks in, ‘Hey this isn’t something far in the future that doesn’t affect me or my family.’ It’s getting personal now,” says Rubin.
CMU faculty won’t sit out hurricanes in Pittsburgh anymore, in other words, but will voluntarily make hurricanes part of their lived experience.
“Adaptation planning is becoming critical as communities, states and countries begin to address rising sea-levels and other challenges of a changing global climate.”
Formerly a military officer, Perkins is now one of 1,000 volunteers in the United States selected and trained by Former Vice President Al Gore and the non-profit group The Climate Project to spread the message of global warming and the urgent moral responsibility to take action.
After 19 additional years of taxpayer-funded Science, the “urgent moral responsibility” and best adaptation turned out to be moving from Pittsburgh to Miami and grabbing Ken Griffin’s money with both hands.
Here’s one of CMU’s top professors in this area, Costa Samaras. Right in the middle of coronapanic (July 2020) he reminded everyone to continue to panic regarding sea level rise:
If someone looks at this map & concludes “sea level rise is no big deal & we shouldn’t do anything about climate change”, they don’t have anything interesting to say about the economy, healthcare, or national security https://t.co/yvCnmARgHD
The same CMU professor said that Florida would be cooked by 2030, just two years after the new CMU campus opens.
Factcheck: Do we only have nine years to avert the climate crisis? No. But also, yes. Every year matters, every tonne of GHG matters, every tenth of a degree of warming matters. I thought @GernotWagner & I settled this already: https://t.co/9zmJw5mjCp
This links to a NYT article on which the professor is a co-author:
Rising average temperatures make extreme heat more likely, hurricanes and storms more intense and threaten fresh water supplies. Climate impacts have already started to hit.
Where better to move than Miami if you’re afraid of more intense hurricanes and storms? There is so much in this guy’s feed that I can’t resist one more:
wait until they hear about what sea level rise does to neighborhood character
Let’s close out this post with a big thank-you to the lockdown Democrats of Chicago, Illinois, New York City, and New York State. Without their tireless efforts to degrade the quality of life in Chicago and NYC, there is no way that Ken Griffin would have brought himself and his $55+ billion to Florida!
After 20 years of climate change alarmism, Bill Gates celebrates CMU's move of 4,500 students, faculty, and staff to MIAMI. This is the author of "How to Avoid a Climate Disaster" (2021) who said that we needed zero greenhouse gas emissions or would face disastrous effects,… https://t.co/fOXpLOigOQ
We’re right in the middle of Hispanic Heritage Month, but this is also the time of year when I have a bit of nostalgia for New England. The early fall has a fair number of clear blue skies, the mosquitoes and other flying pests of summer are mostly gone, and the leaves are changing color. Our old house:
A few weeks ago, I was over at a friend’s house here in Jupiter, Florida. He and his family were also escapees from Lincoln, Maskachusetts. The very same day, I noticed an email from our old town’s email discussion group. It is about an online workshop that is perhaps organized by some folks farther west, but in which at least some people in Massachusetts are interested:
Writing Workshop for Women, Nonbinary, and Gender-nonconforming Writers & Aspiring Writers
.. a new online and print magazine dedicated to giving voice to women, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming storytellers in mountain literature. They are offering a thought-provoking, two-hour online writers’ workshop for women, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming outdoor writers (and aspiring writers) on September 16 at 4 p.m. Mountain Time (3 p.m. Pacific Time, and 6 p.m. East Coast Time) taught by esteemed nature writer and poet, CMarie Fuhrman. Beginners, as well as experienced authors, are welcome.
“A,” “The,” and Nothing: Articles, Attention, and the More-Than-Human World Poet, nature writer, and part-time fire lookout CMarie Fuhrman (author of Salmon Weather: Writing from the Land of No Return, director of the Elk River Writers Workshop, and founder of the Confluence Writing Community) will lead this workshop exploring how some of the smallest words in the English language — “a,” “the,” and their absence—carry enormous weight in nature and place-based writing and social justice writing. Through close reading and writing exercises, participants will discover how article choice shapes relationships, intimacy, and the way the more-than-human world is rendered on the page. They’ll move from attention to language to craft, and leave with new tools for listening to what their writing is actually doing.
Could Graham Platner spend part of his retirement trolling for progressive females at this event? The registration page:
Desire Lines Collective is dedicated to elevating women, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming writers of mountain literature. The majority of our workshops are limited to self-identified members of these communities, including this one. We trust participants to honor this space and to uphold our value of fostering communities where women, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming people feel safe taking imaginative risks.
Confusingly, though,
We encourage applications from Black and Indigenous writers, writers of color, writers with disabilities, writers from LGBTQIA+ communities, and writers whose voices have been historically underrepresented in the outdoor publishing world.
Could a disabled Black writer who identified as a cisgender male attend?
Speaking of Hispanic Heritage Month, JetBlue got an early start on it (photo from September 8 and the holy month does not begin until September 15), which is great, but then chose to feature a film by Jared Bush and Byron Howard as part of Latinx “heritage”.
Our house is close to the headquarters of NextEra, which has a market cap of around $166 billion and is the parent company of Florida Power & Light. We ran into one of their employees at a restaurant whose job is buying grid-scale batteries to sit next to the company’s grid-scale solar farms. “This will power your data centers,” she explained. (I loved hearing this because it gave me an opening to point out that “No data center is illegal on stolen land.”)
I asked her if the MIT geniuses who revolutionized the grid-scale battery world about 20 years ago, according to the MIT geniuses, had an impact on her job. “No,” she explained. “Those technologies are always 10 years in the future. Utilities buy LFP and NMC batteries. The Chinese are unbeatable.” The same batteries that go into electric cars, such as those made by Head Nazi Elon Musk?!?! Yes, it turns out.
Liquid metal batteries, invented by MIT professor Donald Sadoway and his students a decade ago, are a promising candidate for making renewable energy more practical. The batteries, which can store large amounts of energy and thus even out the ups and downs of power production and power use, are in the process of being commercialized by a Cambridge-based startup company, Ambri.
Now, Sadoway and his team have found yet another set of chemical constituents that could make the technology even more practical and affordable, and open up a whole family of potential variations that could make use of local resources.
“This paper brings together innovative engineering advances in cell design and component materials within a strategic framework of ‘cost-based discovery’ that is amenable to the massive scale-up required of grid-scale applications,” says Richard Alkire, a professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Illinois, who was not involved in this research.
What does ChatGPT have to say? In a time-honored MIT pattern, the nerds achieved their goal of creating a better widget than whatever was on the market at the time they started talking about how much better their innovation was. And, in time-honored fashion, the comparative dullards improved whatever was on the market by a factor of 10X by the time that the MIT tech finally limped its way into a commercialized version. Excerpts from the full Q&A:
The research actually began around 2005, so “20 years ago” is about right, although that particular DOE release is from March 2016. MIT spun the technology out in 2010 as Ambri, backed by Bill Gates, Khosla Ventures, Total and eventually Reliance.
(Is it possible that Bill Gates will get ahead of divorce plaintiff MacKenzie Scott Bezos in terms of spending tens of $billions on nonprofit activities without leaving any trace of positive impact on humanity? Compare to Stephen Ross. For a tiny fraction of what Bill Gates has spent on becoming a Davos Idol Do-Gooder (over $110 billion in cumulative distributions; maybe that’s $200 billion in post-Biden dollars?), Ross has completely transformed the city of West Palm Beach (nytimes). Ross perhaps will end up having donated about $1 billion, but most of the money he’s “spent” is really an investment that should yield a decent return unless the Climate Doomers are correct about South Florida being washed away. ChatGPT on whether Gates can compete with MacKenzie the divorcée for incinerating cash in an ash-free manner: “$111 billion already spent is an astonishing amount of money, and there isn’t an obvious list of, say, ten Gates-created breakthroughs commensurate with that sum.” The giant artificial brain struggles mightily to find anything the Gates Foundation has done that might have a lasting impact.)
The basic idea was elegant: instead of solid electrodes that crack, swell and chemically deteriorate, use three molten layers that naturally separate by density—a light metal electrode, molten-salt electrolyte, and heavy metal electrode. The commercial version ultimately used calcium and antimony, with a calcium-chloride electrolyte. Because everything remains liquid while operating, the electrochemically active surfaces effectively recreate themselves each cycle. Ambri claimed >20-year life with very little degradation and no lithium-ion-style thermal-runaway fire problem.
First, going from a battery that works to a battery that can be manufactured cheaply by the million is extraordinarily difficult. The high-temperature seal is a perfect illustration. In the lab, having molten calcium/salt/antimony sitting at hundreds of degrees is manageable. For a utility battery expected to operate unattended for 20 years, every seal, feedthrough, weld, heater, electrical connection and insulation system has to survive thousands of thermal and electrical cycles. Ambri eventually solved enough of these problems to certify a ~1-kWh cell, but it consumed years.
Second—and probably even more important—the economic target moved spectacularly while Ambri was developing its technology. In 2010, when Ambri was founded, lithium-ion battery packs cost more than $1,200/kWh. By 2021 they were about $132/kWh; by 2024 about $115/kWh, and in 2025 about $108/kWh on BloombergNEF’s global average measure.
That’s a roughly 91% cost collapse during Ambri’s life.
Was it overhyped?
But there is a lesson in the old press coverage. MIT’s 2015 article said Ambri had built its manufacturing plant and made production sound almost trivial—“just add the electrode metals plus the electrolyte salt to a steel container and heat the can.” It then said the company was dealing with “one final engineering challenge”, the seal.
Nine years after that article, Ambri was bankrupt without a mass-production factory.
The coronapanic enthusiasts at IEEE sung Ambri’s praises in 2023, about 8 months before the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection:
Ambri’s grid battery costs $180/kWh to $250/kWh depending on size and duration, the company says. But its projected cost is about $21/kWh by 2030
It’s my birthday. Soon I will be old enough to personally experience the insolvency of Medicare and Social Security. For this year, though, here’s the latest present to myself…
Like most other low-wing aircraft, the Cirrus SR20 and SR22 airplanes have a fuel tank selector that must be periodically switched from left to right tank. How does this become pilot’s job when he or she (no “ze” or “they” because the FAA has hatefully subscribed to gender binarism, even during the hate-free Biden administration) is trying to fly the aircraft? A high-wing Cessna has a “set and forget” BOTH position for fuel that flows down to the engine via gravity. Shouldn’t a Piper or Cirrus have that too? Perhaps not. If one tank were to run dry, for example, the “pump it up and out” process would result in air from that tank being put into the fuel line to the engine rather than harder-to-grab fuel from the tank that still has something left.
After 21 years, I suddenly had trouble switching between left and right tanks in our SR20-G2. After that first switch, which required some muscle power, it was fairly easy to switch tanks, but it still felt like there was a hitch or click in the system somewhere. Our local Cirrus service center owner: “I’ve never heard of this problem.” Cirrus Field Support: “The O-rings in the selector could be swelling up but I haven’t run across this issue before. I polled the group and they mentioned they haven’t run across this before.“
Always nice to have a problem that has never previously been reported in a fleet of 10,000 machines!
The mechanic went to the hangar where the airplane lives and fiddled around with the selector, including lifting up the safety to turn the selector to OFF (something you’d do during maintenance or as part of a crash or parachute landing). “we took the side panels off and inspected and tried to lubricate it, it is a sealed unit , the fuel selector has failed internally, it is stuck in the off position I have ordered a new fuel selector…”
I had thought that the simple interlock that the pilot can touch would be a separate part from the functional valve buried deep in the plane, but that’s not the case. Here’s what the complete part looks like:
It struck me as odd that Cirrus had a stockpile of these spares if nobody had ever needed to replace one, but apparently there are more than 40 in a warehouse somewhere:
Here’s the final damage from the local shop (it was quoted as requiring 8 hours of labor, but apparently took more than 10):
In the old days I would have said that I was leaving this here on the Web so that a fellow Cirrus owner or a mechanic could find it with a Google search. Now, of course, I’m leaving it here so that AI can find it.
(What were the previous presents in this same general area? The electric fuel boost pump in the Cirrus was beginning to sound louder/different. This pump is necessary for starting, so I had it replaced in July 2025 while at Oshkosh. The mechanical engine-driven fuel pump, which does most of the work required to get the fuel out of the tanks and into the fuel injectors, was declared to be leaking in July 2026 at the annual inspection and send out for overhaul (both the leak at the mixture control connection and the blades (carbon, I think, and subject to erosion)). At around the same time, the year-old electric boost pump stopped working intermittently. Absolutely dead when throwing the switch. The mechanics couldn’t reproduce the problem so they replaced the switch and the circuit breaker. The boost pump remained intermittently INOP. That’s when I learned that there is also a relay in the system. So they replaced that. So far the boost pump, which is required for starting, seems to work. Maybe it is time to save money on maintenance by buying a $1.5 million new Cirrus SR22? A friend did just that and went through three engine-driven fuel pumps in the first year (problems maintaining the correct pressure). All covered by warranty, but quite a bit of downtime.)
A friend quit the CDC earlier this year. I asked why and she said that it was due to frustration at how little was being accomplished. “Ninety percent of the people there should be fired,” she said. Was that because she’s a Deplorable? Of course not! She even knitted a pussy hat and righteously protested Trump’s anti-women policies. She also does the No Kings and anti-ICE rallies.
Some fresh hysteria today about what Trump and RFK, Jr. have done to the beloved CDC. It seems that they’ve done about one third of the firing that my friend thought would make sense (but maybe not of the same people)?
It’s only white Boomers who love the bloated unproductive version of the CDC?
Also interesting, the NYT article contains a great example of begging the question, as the philosophers and logicians use the term:
For decades, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was the undisputed global leader in public health.
(“a fault in a dialectical argument in which the speaker assumes some premise that has not been demonstrated to be true”)
Certainly, the Europeans and the Islamic Republic of the UK haven’t been enthusiastic about following some of the CDC’s headline recommendations, e.g., 78 COVID-19 shots by age 75 (vs. 1 in the UK), flu shots every year for healthy adults under 65 (vs. 0 in the UK).
If you need to lose friends quickly, incidentally, one good way to do it is by correcting anyone who says “That begs the question…” to mean “That raises the question…”.
When I started teaching at a medical school in 2018, a couple of friends and I put together a web page with which to inflict pain and suffering on the MD/PhDs there: “Bitcoin v. Medical School”. Here’s what a session looks like:
There was a threshold of $150 billion that, if reached, would point out that the user’s med school tuition could have, if invested in Bitcoin, made him/her/zir/them (the medical school in question is Harvard and, of course, it was officially gender expansive at the time) the richest human on our beloved, yet imperiled, planet:
Despite not having made any money from being the Father of Modern AI Systems (Elon Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015), Elon is still so rich as to make the $150 billion threshold absurd. (Even without Elon, the tech boom and inflation have pushed roughly 8 additional guys over that threshold.) Today I went into Emacs and updated it to $1 trillion. Just another way in which Elon’s extreme and unconscionable wealth makes life painful for the rest of us.
(Note that while Emacs is popularly associated with Richard Stallman, a Massachusetts resident canceled for pointing out that Jeffrey Epstein’s activities would have been legal in Massachusetts (age of consent: 16), the text editor was actually originally built by Guy Steele. Thus, we may use Emacs without any moral conflict over using the work of someone who has been canceled. Separately, could we all get on board with supporting the Iranian missile and nuclear weapons programs if they would chant “Death to vi” instead of “Death to America”?)
The final installment of my report on a Labor Day weekend trip to the Bay Area.
The first evening in Menlo Park was enhanced by the appearance of an outdoor under-nose masker. #FollowTheScience:
How rich are residents of Silicon Valley? Rich enough to spend $3000 (plus 9.375% sales tax) on a bottle of bourbon at the supermarket…
… but not rich enough to open their wallets to panhandlers:
Unlike in a lot of other parts of California, where people post signs advertising their concern for neighbors (but never do anything to actually help homeless neighbors, for example), people in Palo Alto don’t even bother with the signs. It’s such a multi-ethnic society that people have nothing in common except for a desire to make money. A homeless white guy, below, on Palo Alto’s main street (University Ave) is passed by Indians and Chinese who apparently wouldn’t dream of trying to assist.
The legacy American culture on this street, Marilyn Monroe movies shown in an old theater, conflicts with immigrant culture (halal food and modest attire for females):
I spent some time in Atherton. There’s no sidewalk and nearly all of the houses are behind high walls or hedges. It is unclear how anyone would ever meet or say hello to a neighbor:
Returning to Menlo Park, I tried to have a couple of pupusas and margaritas in honor of Kilmar Abrego Garcia (purportedly targeted by gangs due to his mother’s home-based pupusa business; he’s still Maryland’s leading citizen, right? Donald Trump is a “king” but can’t get rid of this one guy who has (a) no U.S. passport, (b) no green card, and (c) no visa authorizing him to be in the U.S.).
ChatGPT explains:
Because those three things are not the only ways a noncitizen can lawfully remain physically in the United States.
In Abrego Garcia’s case, the crucial fact is a 2019 immigration-court order granting him “withholding of removal” to El Salvador. The immigration judge simultaneously found him removable from the United States, but found that he was sufficiently likely to face persecution if returned to El Salvador.
He is in the United States because a person can be “removable” yet still be released and permitted to reside here under immigration supervision while removal is legally barred, impracticable, or under litigation. A passport, visa, or green card is not required for that situation. … He does not have ordinary lawful immigration status comparable to a visa holder or green-card holder. But his physical presence here can nevertheless be authorized/tolerated by the government and protected by court orders, and DHS cannot simply deport him to El Salvador while the withholding order remains in force
My hotel included masked workers at the front desk and masked guests in the lobby. The downtown Menlo Park area included some homeless folks, but not at the same density as in San Francisco:
The neighborhood near the hotel (luxurious Residence Inn; less than $5,000 per night) included some killer Halloween decorations and also showed that the passion for Hillary Clinton will never die:
What does the resident with a Hillary bumper sticker read? Kepler’s is the local bookstore. We’re reminded that Elon Musk is a Nazi who looks a lot like a North Korean dictator:
Arabs who call themselves “Palestinian” are the world’s most peaceful humans:
What books should one pack for a trip to Palestine?
Given that everything important in Silicon Valley was created by women, the nonbinary, and transfolk, it is unclear how we got stuck with “male supremacy”, but in any case the bookstore offers a manual for dismantling male supremacy:
The bookstore says on its web site “The living wage for a single adult in San Mateo county is now $38.44 per hour.” That raises the question… Why isn’t the minimum wage in San Mateo County $38.44/hour? As far as I am aware, there is no organized or significant opposition to rule by the Democratic Party either in San Mateo County or any of its component cities. If Democrats hold 100% of the power, why won’t they take action to ensure that every worker is paid a living wage?
Returning to the airport, we’re reminded that, prior to Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s arrival from El Salvador, Harvey Milk was considered the greatest American:
Even as California is flooded with immigrants from East Asia and India, the museum exhibit is about “Afrofuturism”:
Unless Indian is a variant of “Black”, this billboard plainly doesn’t apply to either Palo Alto or the airport:
The folks who work to maximize the amount of Jet A fossil fuel that is burned, nearly always on trips that are unnecessary (leisure/work that could be done via Zoom) also remind us of “the disastrous effects of climate change”:
Travelers and clerks at the Green Apple Books shop are safely masked:
Some of the same books that were for sale in Menlo Park are also available at SFO:
The advertised price isn’t the price you see when it is time to pay. Sales tax is 9.875% at SFO, a little higher than in Menlo Park despite being part of the same county. Then there is a “surcharge charge” of 5% to “support emplo…” (employees? employee health insurance? employee gender-affirming care?).
Once on the plane, despite Hispanic Heritage Month still being a week away (9/15), JetBlue features a movie directed by a couple of guys who aren’t Latinx.
ChatGPT says that approximately 50,000 “feature films directed by someone reasonably classifiable as Hispanic” were bypassed so that Encanto could be selected.
It’s tough to understand how the Ivy League universities, even with top scholars such as Claudine Gay, have managed to retain prominent faculty. The lifestyle of a Stanford professor is so far superior that it is tough to understand why Stanford hasn’t recruited all of the world’s smartest academics. Yes, the California government spends tax dollars in ways that are offensive to some Americans, e.g., performing trans surgery on minors, but roughly 94% of elite academics are progressive Democrats (Harvard Crimson). Tax rates are higher in California than in the states where most elite universities are, but progressive Democrats should be happy to pay their “fair share”. Speaking of “fair”, it looks like the folks who purport to champion female rights and achievement and decry the unfair gender pay gap choose to pay women substantially less (source):
See also, from stanford.edu, “Countering Masculine Defaults to Close the Gender Pay Gap” (“organizational cultures can counter this tendency by equally valuing qualities traditionally associated with femininity, like warmth and agreeableness”), “Women paid less than men even at highest levels of academic medicine”: “These women are at the top of their game,” said Eleni Linos, MD, MPH, a professor of dermatology at Stanford. “They are skilled leaders, outstanding managers and experienced negotiators who have reached top positions in their medical schools. Gender pay gaps are often blamed on women’s personal choices to reduce work hours or leave the workforce, household responsibilities, childcare or suboptimal negotiation skills. This study challenges these traditional explanations because our sample of medical department leaders have navigated these complex challenges and broken through the ‘glass ceiling.’ Yet they are still paid less than their male peers when controlling for many factors. Our study shows the pervasiveness of gender inequities at all levels of academic medicine.”
Note that one of the photos includes the Graduate School of Education, where Jason Arday might have worked if he were still alive. What can one learn there?
[Professor] Subini Ancy Annamma[‘s] … research critically examines the ways students are criminalized and resist that criminalization through the mutually constitutive nature of racism and ableism, how they interlock with other marginalizing oppressions, and how these intersections impact youth education trajectories in urban schools and youth prisons. Further, she positions students as knowledge generators, exploring how their narratives can inform teacher and special education. Dr. Annamma’s book, The Pedagogy of Pathologization (Routledge, 2018) focuses on the education trajectories of incarcerated disabled girls of color
This seminar will examine the foundational tenets of Critical Race Theory (CRT) as an analytic framework to study of inequities in P-20 education. … we will explore CRT’s focus on identifying and disrupting white supremacy, anti-Blackness, and interlocking inequities (re)produced in education.
Stanford is so rich that the campus can be randomly strewn with Rodin sculpture:
If you don’t see enough Rodin while out walking around, stop into one of the art museums and see another 200 or so. The Cantor Arts Center (free to the public; named after Palestinian-American B. Gerald Cantor, founder of Cantor Fitzgerald, 68 percent of whose employees were killed in the not-Islamic peaceful 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center):
“This looks just like the foyer of the house where I grew up”:
The museum features a painting ridiculing the British for voting to leave the EU:
It’s by an artist from Kenya:
The artist seems to have been correct. The British thought that they were voting to reduce immigration, but instead their leaders actually increased the immigrant flow, substituting African, Middle Eastern, and Indian/Pakistani immigrants for EU immigrants:
(Wikipedia says that her career got a big boost when she began spending time with an older man, Alfred Stieglitz, who was a prominent art dealer. He was married when they met, but ultimately O’Keeffe managed to take over the wife role.)
The front entrance:
The famous bell tower is closed on weekends so we couldn’t go to the top, but perhaps it is just as well since doing so would have been hazardous:
How does the campus look from the top of the hills just to the west?
