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Academic conferences are usually serious affairs, but the 1973 International Symposium on Gender Identity, held in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, was an exception. All was quiet until a psychologist named John Money stood up and shouted, "Mickey Diamond, I hate your guts!"Milton Diamond, a sexologist who had been called Mickey since childhood, was sitting across the room. Dr. Money and Dr. Diamond were bitter rivals: Dr. Money, a nationally recognized researcher at Johns Hopkins University, had long argued that sexual and gender identities are neutral at birth and shaped primarily by one's environment. the child is found.Dr. Diamond, who had just begun his career at the University of Hawaii, strongly disagreed, and had said so repeatedly, including in a widely read critique of Dr. Money'...

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will tell university leaders on Thursday to do more to combat anti-Semitism on university campuses, in a sign of growing dissatisfaction within the government over the recent growth of encampments set up by students protesting against the war in Gaza .Vice-chancellors of some of Britain's top universities have been invited to Downing Street to discuss "the escalation of anti-Semitic abuse against Jewish students in the UK", Sunak's office said in a statement released ahead of the meeting.Britain has so far not seen the kind of riots witnessed on American campuses. But small-scale, largely peaceful protest encampments have recently sprung up around several universities, including Oxford, Cambridge, Newcastle, Leeds and Manchester.“Universities sho...

The trumpet is the first thing to be crushed. Then the industrial compressor flattens a row of paint cans, straps on a piano and levels what appears to be a marble bust. In a final act of destruction, he pops the eyes out of a yellow ball emoji.When the compressor rises, it reveals Apple's latest product: the updated iPad Pro.Tim Cook, Apple's chief executive, released the ad, called "Crush," on Tuesday after the company held an event to announce new tablets. “Introducing the new iPad Pro: the thinnest product we've ever created,” Cook wrote, adding, “Imagine all the things it will be used to create.”For decades, Apple has been the beacon of the creative class. He won over designers, musicians and film editors with the promise that his products would help them “Think Differ...

President Biden has suspended shipments of bombs to Israel to prevent their use in the assault on the city of Rafah. Administration officials said that 1,800 2,000-pound bombs and 1,700 500-pound bombs will be withheld and that the administration is evaluating whether to withhold future transfers.The United States is by far Israel's largest arms supplier and has accelerated deliveries since the Hamas-led attacks on October 7. It's difficult to determine how much Israel received, but here's a closer look at what we know.What happened after October 7th?Since October 7, the United States has sent tens of thousands of weapons to Israel. According to Bradley, in most cases, it accelerated supplies already committed under contracts, many of which were approved by Congress and the ...

In 2010, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was suffering from memory loss and brain fog so severe that a friend began to fear he might have a brain tumor. Mr. Kennedy said he had consulted many of the country's top neurologists, many of whom had treated or spoken to his uncle, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, before his death the previous year from brain cancer.Several doctors noticed a dark spot on the young Mr. Kennedy's brain scans and concluded that he had a tumor, he said in a 2012 deposition reviewed by The New York Times. Mr. Kennedy was immediately scheduled for surgery at Duke University Medical Center by the same surgeon who had operated on his uncle, he said.As he was packing for the trip, he said, he received a call from a doctor at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital who had a different opi...

China and Serbia proclaimed an "iron friendship" during Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to Belgrade on Wednesday, underscoring the close political and economic ties between two countries that share mistrust of the United States.Mr Xi arrived in Serbia on Tuesday, marking the 25th anniversary of a 1999 plane crash involving the US Air Force during the Kosovo war and destroying the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, the Serbian capital. Three Chinese journalists were killed in the strike.“We should never forget this,” Xi said in a statement published Tuesday by Politika, a Serbian newspaper, recalling that “25 years ago today, NATO flagrantly bombed the Chinese embassy.” He said China's friendship with Serbia was "forged with the blood of our compatriots" and "will remain in the sha...

President Biden will travel to Wisconsin on Wednesday to announce the creation of an artificial intelligence data center, highlighting one of his administration's biggest economic achievements in a crucial state and underscoring a significant failure of his immediate predecessor and 2024 challenger.At a technical college in Racine, Biden will announce that Microsoft will invest $3.3 billion to build the center, which the tech giant estimates will create 2,300 union construction jobs and 2,000 permanent jobs, according to the White House . The project is part of Biden's "Investing in America" ​​agenda, which has focused on bringing billions of private sector dollars into manufacturing and areas such as clean energy and artificial intelligence.In his fourth trip to Wisconsin this ye...

Israel has reopened the Kerem Shalom crossing in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli agency that oversees aid deliveries to the territory said on Wednesday, restoring one of two critical entry points for humanitarian aid that it had closed.The Kerem Shalom crossing between Israel and Gaza has been closed since a Hamas rocket attack from Gaza on Sunday killed four soldiers in the area. The Israeli army staged a raid on Tuesday that closed the Rafah crossing on Gaza's border with Egypt.Since the war began, most aid to Gaza has passed through the Rafah crossing. International aid agencies and officials had said Israel's closure of the two crossings could worsen the already dire humanitarian crisis.On Wednesday, aid trucks were expected to arrive at the Kerem Shalom crossing and enter Gaza a...

Günümüzde işletmelerin dijital varlıklarını yönetmek ve büyütmek için güvenilir bir sanal sunucu altyapısına ihtiyaçları vardır. Bu alanda adını sıkça duyuran ve güvenilir hizmetleriyle dikkat çeken bir firma olan sunucucozumleri.com, işletmelere sağladığı sanal sunucu çözümleriyle öne çıkmaktadır. Sanal sunucular, işletmelerin ihtiyaçlarına uygun olarak tasarlanmış ve yönetilmiş sanal makinelerdir. Her bir sanal sunucu, bağımsız bir işletim sistemi ve kaynaklara sahiptir, bu da işletmelerin esneklik ve performans konusunda ihtiyaçlarını karşılar. Ayrıca, sanal sunucular, fiziksel sunuculara kıyasla daha düşük maliyetli ve daha kolay yönetilebilir özelliklere sahiptir. İşletmeler için sanal sunucu tercih etmenin birçok avantajı bulunmaktadır. Bunlardan biri, esneklik ve ölçeklenebili...

At 7pm on May 7, 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven, then 53 years old, took to the stage at Vienna's magnificent Theater am Kärntnertor to help conduct the world premiere of his Ninth Symphony, the last he would ever complete.That performance, which marks its 200th anniversary on Tuesday, was unforgettable in many ways. But it was marred by an incident at the start of the second movement that revealed to the audience of around 1,800 just how deaf the revered composer had become.Ted Albrecht, professor emeritus of musicology at Kent State University in Ohio and author of a recent book on the Ninth Symphony, described the scene.The movement began with loud kettledrums and the crowd applauded wildly.But Beethoven was oblivious to the applause and his music. He stood with his back to the audien...