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A Harvard anthropologist is drawing attention for publicly challenging the assumptions and habits of his own field, a move that has sharpened an already long-running debate over anthropology’s methods, authority, and political commitments. The critique lands at a moment when elite academia is under pressure to justify its relevance, rigor, and public value.
Janus Metz Pedersen's Netflix film revisits Ted Kaczynski's life through two timelines — his teenage years at Harvard and the FBI's late-1990s hunt for the bomber — but the result is a sluggish, uneven drama that struggles to justify its own premise. Despite strong turns from Jacob Tremblay, Russell Crowe and Shailene Woodley, the film is said to lose track of its central subject by trying to force a real-life figure into a fictional villain template.
Chinese President Xi Jinping used his White House meeting with President Donald Trump to argue that the long-feared "Thucydides Trap" between a rising China and an established United States can be overcome. The message signaled Beijing's preference for intense competition without military confrontation, even as core flashpoints such as Taiwan remain unresolved.
Astronomers have reported the first-ever detection of radio emissions traced directly to an exoplanet, a breakthrough that could open a new way to study distant worlds and their magnetic environments. The signal, identified by Harvard researchers and highlighted across major science outlets, is being framed not as evidence of alien life but as a historic step in understanding how planets outside our solar system behave.
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