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Prof. Char Miller explains what makes burn scars so dangerous when heavy rain arrives in California.

“In any given moment, numerous powers that be would like to see the status quo maintained because they are the ones that have power and authority,” Prof. Sara Sadhwani said.

A staunch conservative with ties to a powerful right-wing lobby group, Sanae Takaichi has repeatedly downplayed Japan’s wartime atrocities, writes the South China Morning Post.

The race for Los Angeles County sheriff is already heating up—even with the primary not scheduled until next June.

Brain imaging is illuminating the patterns linked to productive, positive dialogue, and those insights could help people connect with others.

Los Angeles native Martin Draluck is celebrating Black culinary excellence, joy, and resistance with his Black Pot Supper Club. Draluck was inspired by poet and Prof. Cherene Sherrard-Johnson’s poetry collection, Grimoire.

“This collection of 35 years’ worth of short fiction is Lethem’s career in miniature, highlighting the various ways the Brooklyn native and Pomona College professor has played with form,” the Times writes.

“Loneliness is associated with disruptions in socio-cognitive processes, including altered self-other representations and atypical processing of external stimuli,” the article starts.

Prageeta Sharma is the Henry G. Lee ’37 Professor of English at Pomona College.

Perhaps in this Age of Disinformation, we shouldn’t be surprised that the shameless BS used to peddle ChatGPT and other large language models(LLMs) matches the shameless BS generated by these models.