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The Residences at THesis provides surrounding Coral Gables with 204 premium upscale apartments that boast high-end finishes, superior services and an experiential living experience. Our residents have the luxury of integrating themselves into the larger Paseo de la Riviera project as a whole and the community at large, due to the immediate proximity to transit. The highly amenity-driven project is the first of its kind along the US-1 corridor in Coral Gables, Miami.

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The Residences at THesis is truly the first of its kind along the US-1 corridor with modern apartments, open-air outdoor venues with breathtaking views, superior services, and easy access to transportation.

The Residences at THesis provide the surrounding community with 204 premium apartments that boast high-end finishes and project wide activation. Residents have the luxury of integrating themselves into both the project as a whole and the community at large due to the immediate proximity to transit.

The Residences at THesis brings upscale apartment living with Resort-Style Amenities:

• Expansive elevated rooftop pool deck with lounge chairs
• Large open-air community courtyard with entertainment area
• Lounge with gaming, flatscreen TV, WiFi, and prep kitchen
• Two restaurants by James Beard-award nominee Chef Niven Patel
• Rooftop terrace, Mamey on 3rd offers happy hour + live music daily.
• Valet parking
• Modern, fully-equipped fitness studio
• Easily accommodate guests at THesis Hotel in Coral Gables, adjoining the Residences
• Adjacent to Jaycee Park with tennis and basketball courts, a playground, walking paths and more

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Thesis Defense – Yushan Xu

April 29 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm.

Thesis Defense: Yushan Xu

Time: Monday April 29, 2024, at 2:00 PM Eastern Time

Location: Kresge 205

Yushan will present the thesis titled “Whole-genome Sequence Analyses for Daytime Sleepiness in the NHLBI TOPMed Program”. The thesis committee is chaired by Heming Wang, and includes Christoph Lange, and John Quackenbush

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Afrofuturism Explained: A Conversation with Curator Kevin Strait

Curator Kevin Strait answers questions about the museum’s latest exhibition,  Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures,  and shares what visitors can expect during their journey. 

Open to the public through March 24, 2024, the exhibition features more than 100 objects and reveals this evolving concept’s historic and poignant engagement with African American history and popular culture.

What is Afrofuturism?

Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures exhibition located in the Bank of America Special Exhibitions gallery until March 24, 2024.

Afrofuturism  is an evolving concept expressed through a Black cultural lens that reimagines, reinterprets, and reclaims the past and present for a more empowering future for African Americans. Afrofuturism expresses notions of Black identity, agency, and freedom through art, creative works and activism that envision liberated futures for Black life.

Afrofuturism was originally coined in scholarly circles to explore how Black writers and artists have utilized themes of technology, science fiction, fantasy and heroism to envision stories and futures of Black liberation and convey a more genuine and empowered image of the Black experience. 

Today, Afrofuturism has surpassed the boundaries of scholarship, evolving as a concept, and emerging as a philosophy, multimedia genre, aesthetic and cultural movement.

Why did the museum choose to take on the subject of Afrofuturism now?

We are in a moment where we can see examples of Afrofuturism’s influence and impact on our culture.  The term has entered our lexicon from the popularity of films like “ Black Panther ,” yet it has historically been a significant driver of African American culture and expression. 

From the cosmologies of ancient black civilizations, to era of slavery and to the present day, African Americans have re-imagined the futures and possibilities of black people across the globe through the dynamic lens of Afrofuturism and this exhibit explores how Black artists, orators, leaders and intellectuals have utilized themes of technology, sci-fi, space and heroism to envision futures of black liberation and convey an expansive image of the black experience.

What do you want your visitors to walk away thinking or feeling from this exhibition?

Our hope is for visitors to enjoy their visit and learn more about this dynamic topic by seeing the various ways that Afrofuturism connects with and influences American culture. 

The exhibition emphasizes a broader understanding of Afrofuturism, not simply as a subgenre of science fiction and fantasy, but as part of a larger tradition of Black intellectual history, with distinct roots that stretch across generations and the Black Diaspora. 

Our hope is for audiences to be immersed in the concept by exploring Afrofuturist expression through its various forms in literature, music, art, film, fashion activism and visual media to get a sense of Afrofuturism’s historic, and poignant engagement with African American intellectual history and popular culture.

Afrofuturism is not a new concept. Who were some of the historians that first talked about Afrofuturism? And what claims did they make?

Portion of the Afrofuturism exhibition featuring elements of space. 

[Cultural critic and writer] Mark Dery coined the term and it was conceived through his discussions with author Samuel Delany, critic Greg Tate and historian Tricia Rose and featured in his essay “ Black to the Future .” 

Sociologist Alondra Nelson and writers, technologists and artists like Sheree Renée Thomas, Paul Miller and Nalo Hopkinson developed an early list serv to research and develop the language of this new conceptual model, meant to analyze the intriguing ways that race, culture, and technology intersect within the broad nexus of Afrofuturism. 

What is your favorite item in this exhibition?

The ESP guitar from Vernon Reid that was used in the [band Living Colour’s] “Cult of Personality” video and the recording of their debut album, “Vivid.”

A custom electric guitar manufactured by ESP and owned by Vernon Reid. Reid played the guitar on Living Colour's debut album Vivid . Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Donated by Vernon Reid

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The information below is from the 2025 request for proposals. Please see the opportunity website for updated information.

The UC National Laboratory Fees Research Program is offering a competitive Fellowship for Ph.D. candidates who wish to conduct thesis research on-site at Los Alamos National Laboratory or Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The proposal must include a research plan approved by the UC dissertation advisor, and identify a research mentor at one of the two eligible UC affiliated national laboratories who will provide mentorship, guidance, and oversight during the Fellowship period in collaboration with the student’s UC dissertation advisor. The award will be administered by the student’s home UC campus and the student will be the grantee of record. Proposals from students historically underrepresented in the identified fields are encouraged.

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The UC-National Lab Graduate Fellowship provides the following support:

• An annual award of $75,000 for two years, with the possibility of an extension for a third year.
• A $5,000 travel allowance (total for the Fellowship period) to support project-related travel.
• An indirect cost reimbursement of up to 8% (total direct cost basis) to the student’s home UC campus

Fellowship funds may be used for stipends, UC tuition and fees, and other dissertation-related expenses consistent with the proposed research. See the FAQs for general guidance on UC tuition and fees for students advanced to candidacy.

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Tesla Bull Says Elon Musk Delivered 'Rip The Band-Aid Off' Q1 But Cautions This Could Derail Bullish Thesis

Zinger key points.

• Musk laid the foundation for growth strategy, with most importantly a lower cost vehicle now slated for 2025 production and delivery: Ives
• The autonomy and full self-driving is a key longer-term strategy but is fraught with regulatory and technology risks, he says.

Following Tesla, Inc.’s TSLA first-quarter earnings release, Wedbush analyst Daniel Ives maintained his bullish recommendation.

The Tesla Analyst : Ives maintained an Outperform rating, but reduced the price target from $300 to $275, citing his lowered estimates for the company.

The Tesla Thesis: Tesla delivered a “rip the band-aid off 1Q,” with the disaster results widely expected by the Street following the weak quarterly delivery numbers, said Ives in a note. The focus of the analysts and investors was, however, around the blueprint and roadmap for growth, he said.

The analyst also approved of CEO Elon Musk’s earnings call comments. “In a much-needed conference call Elon Musk finally stepped up as the adult in the room and laid the foundation for Tesla’s growth strategy, with most importantly a lower cost vehicle now slated for 2025 production and delivery,” he said.

This quelled anxiety among investors that Musk would take Tesla straight to robotaxis and essentially ditch the low-cost Model 2 vehicle, he had.

“Instead it appears a ‘Model 2.5’ will be the answer with a lower cost EV vehicle that we believe will be in the $25k-$30k range that uses ‘aspects of the next-gen platform’ as well as the current platform and will be produced on current factory lines,” Ives said.

More importantly, the timeline for such a vehicle has been accelerated from the second half of 2025 and this EV will be key to Tesla’s volume turnaround in 2025, he said, adding “While it’s not a next-generation Model 2 platform, we believe this is the right strategy and move at the right time.”

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The autonomy and full self-driving, according to Ives, is a key longer-term strategy but he sees regulatory hurdles and technology challenges serving as pushbacks.

“Clearly Tesla is going through a challenging period of delivery growth and this story will not turn around overnight so patience is required,” the analyst said. But he is encouraged by Musk taking tighter control of the reigns of Tesla, the lower-cost vehicle on the roadmap, cost cuts, FSD advancements, and ample financial power/treasure chest.

Ives cautioned of potential execution missteps. “Execution of the lower cost vehicle and driving incremental demand in the key China market must be flawless….otherwise this could derail the bull thesis in the next 6 to 12 months,” he said.

The “next wave of the Tesla growth story” and the “autonomous vision” was now forming, reinforcing Wedbush’s bullish thesis, the analyst said.

Tesla Price Action: In premarket trading on Wednesday, Tesla climbed 11.57% to $161.42, according to Benzinga Pro data.

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Ep 1: The ACNAtoo Story—The Thesis Wall of Silence

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Welcome to the Wall of Silence. In this first episode we introduce the sexual abuse case of lay pastor Mark Rivera. From there we begin to look outward to see how church leadership responded to it, from the local diocese to the national denomination, the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA). As "the thesis," this episode is the explanation for why this podcast exists and whose story we are telling: the advocacy group ACNAtoo and all victims, whistleblowers, and advocates against church abuse in the ACNA. If you want to support the mission of the Wall of Silence podcast please consider becoming a Patreon member at: https://www.patreon.com/WallofSilencePodcast Membership includes extra monthly interviews and discussions. Also featured: Megan Tucker, Lisa Weaver Swartz (https://lisaweaverswartz.com/), Stephen Backhouse (https://www.stephenbackhouse.com/, https://www.tenttheology.com/), and Audrey Luhmann. Here are the links referenced in this episode: https://twitter.com/ladyjessicahaze/status/1408916453848346629 https://www.instagram.com/mouthful.of.stars/ https://religionnews.com/2023/03/06/mark-rivera-a-former-anglican-lay-pastor-sentenced-to-15-years-in-prison/ https://twitter.com/luhmannaudrey/status/1734612110666244545?s=46&t=gMog_HbpmJgiGAYg7W8m4g https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/anglican-church-of-north-america-sexual-abuse-scandal.html https://twitter.com/luhmannaudrey/status/1734612110666244545?s=46&t=gMog_HbpmJgiGAYg7W8m4g https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1412957114620809221.html https://www.acnatoo.org/acnatoo-blog/umd-abuse-mishandling-summary https://www.acnatoo.org/acnatoo-news/ruchs-ecclesiastical-trial Show transcript:

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Wall Street is souring on Tesla's pivot away from low-cost vehicles towards autonomous driving

• Tesla is losing the confidence of Wall Street amid reports it's pivoting from a low-cost Model 2 to robotaxis.
• Deutsche Bank just downgraded Tesla's stock and Barclays cut its price target. Both see double-digit declines over the next year.
• "We view Tesla's shift as thesis-changing, and worry the stock will need to undergo a potentially painful transition in ownership base," Deutsche Bank said.

Another day, another negative Tesla note from Wall Street.

Tesla has come under intense scrutiny from sell-side analysts after a Reuters report from earlier this month said that the EV maker was shifting away from its low-cost Model 2 vehicle to instead focus on building a fully-autonomous robotaxi.

Deutsche Bank downgrades Tesla

Deutsche Bank analyst Emmanuel Rosner is not impressed with the potential pivot, calling it "thesis-changing" for investors in a note on Thursday.

Rosner downgraded Tesla stock to "Hold" from "Buy" and cut its price target to $123 from $189, suggesting potential downside of about 19% from current levels. 

"Pushing out Model 2 will create significant earnings and FCF pressure on 2026+ estimates, and make the future of the company tied to Tesla cracking the code on full driverless autonomy, which represents a significant technological, regulatory and operational challenge," Rosner said. 

Rosner slashed his 2027 earnings per share estimate for Tesla to $2.40 from a prior estimate of $4.25, and added that there could be further downside to the company's earnings power if they completely abandon the development of a low-cost vehicle. 

"The delay of Model 2 efforts creates the risk of no new vehicle in Tesla's consumer lineup for the foreseeable future, which would put continued downward pressure on its volume and pricing for many more years, requiring downward earnings estimate revisions for 2026+," Rosner said.

Tesla stock fell 2% in early Thursday trading, and is down nearly 40% year-to-date. 

Perhaps the biggest risk to Tesla, aside from lower earnings, is the idea that a pivot to robotaxis could cause a complete recalibration of its underlying shareholder base.

"We view Tesla's shift as thesis-changing, and worry the stock will need to undergo a potentially painful transition in ownership base, with investors previously focused on Tesla's EV volume and cost advantage potentially throwing in the towel, and eventually replaced by AI/tech investors with considerably longer time horizons," Rosen said.

Barclays cuts Tesla price target

It's not just Deutsche Bank that has soured on Tesla.

Barclays slashed its Tesla price target on Wednesday by 20%, and said it expects the company's first-quarter earnings call next week to be a negative catalyst.

Calling it "one of the most widely anticipated calls ever," Barclays analyst Dan Levy said the company is facing challenging near-term fundamentals in combination with a longer-term "investment thesis pivot" as it considers moving away from the Model 2.

According to Levy, if Tesla is indeed moving away from the Model 2, that would be bad news for the stock valuation going forward, calling it a "clear net negative for the Tesla investment thesis."

"It casts significant uncertainty on the path ahead for Tesla, making success of the stock dependent on bets with seemingly binary outcomes," Levy said. "Indeed, we are hard pressed to think of any other precedent of a company of Tesla's size basing its path of success on such binary bets."

Wedbush also concerned about Model 2 pivot

Even long-time Tesla bull Dan Ives is worried about Tesla's potential pivot away from a low-cost Model 2.

In a note from last week, Ives said Tesla needs to commit to its Model 2 development plans if it wants to have any chance in reversing this year's painful stock price decline. 

"If robotaxis is viewed as the 'magic model' to replace Model 2 we would view this as a debacle negative for the Tesla story. It would be a risky gamble if Tesla moved away from the Model 2 and went straight to robotaxis," Ives said.

Ives said Wall Street's criticism of Tesla is warranted, especially given the fact that the EV maker has seen declining profit margins and its first year-over-year sales decline since 2020.

"For Musk, this is a fork in the road time to get Tesla through this turbulent period otherwise dark days could be ahead," Ives said. 

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"Improving the Efficiency and Accuracy of Landing Site Error Calculations for Re-Entry Vehicles"

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Upon entering Earth’s atmosphere, a re-entry body is subjected to a series of largely unpredictable conditions. These may include: entry trajectory, entry mass, vehicle drag, sensor error, atmospheric and weather conditions, unexpected perturbations, and any other unforeseen circumstance. These conditions make the modeling and tracking of the re-entry body’s trajectory a highly uncertain process. The cumulative effect of this uncertainty produces an area of possible landing locations, which often takes on the shape of an ellipse. It is often desirable to reduce the size of the landing ellipse or change the ellipse’s location so that the potential landing sites are restricted to a smaller or unpopulated area, increasing the mission safety and the recoverability of the spacecraft. To change the size or location of a landing ellipse, either the re-entry conditions can be altered or a flight control system, such as the system utilized by the space shuttle, can be implemented.

The current process of analyzing landing site error for re-entry missions is highly inefficient. Landing site error is most often determined by stochastically modeling the re-entry trajectory hundreds or thousands of times to observe the statistical distribution of landing sites, known as a Monte-Carlo simulation. In order to achieve an acceptable landing site and error, a Monte-Carlo simulation is performed, then a re-entry condition is changed based on engineering intuition and the process is repeated until the landing conditions satisfy the mission requirements. Attempts to improve the efficiency of this process focus on reducing the computational cost of the Monte-Carlo simulation, either by making edge-case assumptions for the dynamics or by using optimization techniques which struggle to achieve convergence on a solution.

The current study seeks to improve both the efficiency and accuracy of uncertainty modeling. By combining the accuracy of Monte-Carlo simulations with the efficiency of a reference table, a re-entry body’s landing ellipse location and size can be readily determined using only basic information about the atmospheric re-entry conditions and without the need to produce a full trajectory simulation. In this study, the re-entry conditions that define a landing ellipse are reduced to: the velocity magnitude, the flight path angle, the ballistic coefficient, the heading angle, and the latitude of re-entry. This table will be produced for both uncontrolled bodies and bodies with a propulsive flight control system.

The results produced from these five re-entry conditions represent the first method of determining landing site uncertainty that does not require any modeling of the system dynamics. Overall, the current study can be used to explore a wide range of trajectories to fully understand the envelope of hyper-sonic flight conditions and how they apply to different re-entry vehicles, even being able to scale down to extremely small sizes.

· Prof. Krish Ahuja – GTRI and School of Aerospace Engineering (advisor)

· Prof. Mark Whorton – GTRI and School of Aerospace Engineering (co-advisor)

· Prof. John Dec – School of Aerospace Engineering

The Appendix: A deep dive into Taylor Swift's references on 'Tortured Poets' tracks

Taylor Swift dropped a double album on Friday for her 11th era. She released a total of 31 — the inverse of her favorite number 13 — songs. From "Fortnight" to "The Manuscript," here are some of the references she makes in Part 1 and Part 2. We enter into evidence "The Appendix" to "The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology."

'Fortnight' (ft. Post Malone)

The opening chapter and lead single to "The Tortured Poets Department" starts off where her "Midnights" song "Hits Different" left off. In the bridge, Swift sang: "I heard your key turn in the door down the hallway. Is that your key in the door? Is it OK? Is it you? Or have they come to take me away?" Have they come? Swift answers in the Post Malone collab : "I was supposed to be sent away but they forgot to come and get me." The singer also described her "Midnights" album as "stories of 13 sleepless nights scattered throughout (her) life." Fortnight is a measure of two weeks or 14 days. So the first song is what happens after the 13 nights.

The song peers into the worlds Swift imagined when creating the album. Her music video crosses over with classic movie "Dead Poets Society." Actors from the 1989 film Ethan Hawke and Josh Charles portray scientists studying Swift's tortured thoughts. There's a slew of Easter eggs in the music video including a "Forget Him" pill bottle with the code "121389 - 041924." The first number is Swift's birthday. The second is the day the album was released.

'The Tortured Poets Department'

A line from a 2018 Matty Healy video with GQ magazine could serve as the thesis of this album. In a list of 10 things the 1975 frontman couldn't live without, Healy mentioned typewriters.

"The thing is with typewriters and writing with pen to paper, there's kind of an element of like commitment that goes with the ceremony of it," he said.

Swift briefly dated Healy in spring 2023. The "self-sabotaging"/"tattooed golden retriever" ex in Swift's second track leaves his typewriter at her apartment. In the chorus, Swift says neither of them have the talent of poets Dylan Thomas and Patti Smith , who lived at the Chelsea Hotel in New York, a residence known for housing famous literaries and "who's who" socialites.

Smith mentioned the shoutout on Instagram in a poem of gratitude: "This is / saying I was / moved to be / mentioned in / the company / of the great / Welsh poet / Dylan Thomas. / Thank you Taylor."

Singer and songwriter Charlie Puth hasn't commented on his hat tip, but Swift declares he should be a bigger artist.

The line, "You smoked then ate seven bars of chocolate," could have a double meaning. Bar is another word for a measure of music and "Chocolate" is a 1975 song .

Swift sings, "Sometimes, I wonder if you're gonna screw this up with me, but you told Lucy you'd kill yourself if I ever leave. And I had said that to Jack about you, so I felt seen." Lucy may be Boygenius singer Lucy Dacus, who Healy named in a barbed, insensitive tweet in September. The "Jack" mention is more than likely co-producer Jack Antonoff who knows both Swift and Healy.

'So Long, London'

In a love letter to the English capital and a notable Track 5, Swift mentions "Heath." Although a heath is an area of open, uncultivated land, in this instance the capital H points readers to Hampstead Heath, one of the highest points in London and a grassy space full of hills, ponds, woodlands, playgrounds and a training track.

This dark track answers the upbeat "London Boy" with shades of jagged gray. In the "Lover" track Swift sang, "Like a Tennessee Stella McCartney on the Heath." In "So Long, London," she says, "I left all I knew, you left me at the house by the Heath."

'But Daddy I Love Him'

"How the West Was Won" is a 1962 film spanning decades of America's westward expansion. The five chapters include the Gold Rush, the Civil War and railroad construction. The movie title refers to America’s colonization and pursuit of Manifest Destiny, an ideology that the U.S. ought to stretch from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic. "I forget how the West was won" is not remembering how history came to be, just knowing that it happened.

Sarah (wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac) and Hannah (wife of Elkanah and mother of Samuel), in biblical terms, are two women who struggled with infertility and waited on God's timing to conceive later in life. "Sarahs and Hannahs in their Sunday best" refers to women who may be named after the two matriarchal figures.

'Florida!!!' (ft. Florence + The Machine)

"So you work your life away just to pay for a timeshare down in Destin" highlights the panhandle city in Florida known for white sandy beaches and emerald green waters. A "timeshare" could be a metaphor for an unfaithful spouse who shares time with multiple partners. The mayor of Destin, Bobby Wagner, loved the city's mention and posted a photo with a "Tortured Poets" sand sculpture.

In Verse 2, collaborator Florence Welch sings, "And the hurricane with my name, when it came." In 2018, a Category 4 hurricane sprawled from the western coast of Africa to the East Coast of the United States. Hurricane Florence made landfall in North Carolina and Virginia.

'Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?'

Swift has sung about witches in several songs. She usually use the term in the context of being burned at the stake of public scrutiny. "I Did Something Bad" from "Reputation" included the line, "They're burning all the witches, even if you aren't one." In "Mad Woman," she sang, "And women like hunting witches, too, doing your dirtiest work for you." The theme is continued in "Who's Afraid of Little Old Me" with the chorus line, "So I leap from the gallows." A gallows is a structure of wood where condemned criminals or witches would be hanged in public. She levitates like a banshee spirit ready to "crash the party like a record scratch."

The title is similar to "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" a 1962 Broadway play written by Edward Albee. In the dark comedy, George and Martha are a middle-aged couple who engage in a nightcap with a young couple freshly in love. The rounds of fun and games get increasingly more dangerous. In the 1966 movie adaption, George and Martha were played by Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, a couple referenced in Swift's song "...Ready For It?": "And he can be my jailer, Burton to this Taylor."

Swift sings "I was tame, I was gentle till the circus life made me mean. Don't you worry, folks, we took out all her teeth." To get circus animals to perform and minimize the threat of an attack, there have been cases of cruel measures: declawing, drugging, electric-prodding and taking out teeth.

'I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)'

There are several 1975 songs that use parentheses including: "It’s Not Living (If It’s Not With You)," "Looking For Somebody (To Love)," "I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes)," "Tonight (I Wish I Was Your Boy)" and "If You’re Too Shy (Let Me Know)."

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'I Can Do It With a Broken Heart'

The song about her performing the Eras Tour while dealing with heartaches showcases the dichotomy of conducting a record-breaking tour while slowly dying inside. The first line, "I can read your mind," references the first song of the tour, at least when Sabrina Carpenter is the opening act. She starts off the show with her song "Read Your Mind." Engineer and programmer Oli Jacobs counts Swift in similarly to the click track she would hear during the concert as she's hitting her marks and the crowd is screaming, "More!"

'The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived'

According to the Justice Department's website, information is "automatically declassified once it reaches 25 years of age unless an agency head has determined that it falls within a narrow exemption."

In 2008, President Barack Obama signed Executive Order 13526 which allows for a 50-year rule that says a classified document does not qualify for declassification if it "identifies a confidential human source or a human intelligence source or key design concepts of weapons of mass destruction." So when Swift sings, "In fifty years will all this be declassified?" she's referring to this rule.

The line before Swift asks if the smallest man is "a sleeper-cell spy"? Sleeper-cell spies are trained to live under cover in another country and act as a potential asset on short notice.

'Clara Bow'

"Clara Bow" is a mature version of "The Lucky One" from "Red" with the same theme of fame and the costs that come with it. The song spans a century starting with the silent film actress made famous in the 1920s. Clara Bow was the "it girl" during the Roaring '20s.

Fifty years later, Swift points to Stevie Nicks . It's no coincidence she uses the year 1975. Not only is it the name of Healy's band; it's also the year Fleetwood Mac's eponymous album achieved global success. In 2010, Swift sang with Nicks at the Grammys a combination of Nicks' "Rhiannon" and Swift's "You Belong With Me." Nicks wrote the introductory poem to "The Tortured Poets Department" that starts: "He was in love with her / Or at least she thought so / She was broken hearted / Maybe he was too / Neither of them knew / She was way too hot to handle / He was way too high to try / He couldn't even see her / He wouldn't open his eyes / She was on her way to the stars / He didn't say goodbye."

Finally, Swift mentions herself as a 2020s legend making way for the next "dazzling" star.

'The Black Dog'

In addition to being a symbol for intense depression, the "Black Dog" is a bar in London. Swift mentions the American pop-punk band The Starting Line. The band thanked Swift on Instagram, "Dear Taylor, We heard the song, thank you for name checking our band. We feel flattered and humbled by the reverberations of love that have come back as a result. It's an honor to have TSL memorialized on such a lovely song. You didn't have to do that, but you did, and we appreciate it wholeheartedly. Respect!" Healy covered the band's song "Best of Me" as part of the 1975's At Their Very Best tour.

'imgonnagetyouback'

Track 18 is the only title where all five words are merged into one similar to the 1975 song "Fallingforyou." In the first verse, Healy sang, "All we need's my bike and your enormous house" to which Swift offers a rebuttal: "Whether I'm gonna be your wife or gonna smash up your bike, I haven't decided yet, but I'm gonna get you back. Whether I'm gonna curse you out or take you back to my house, I haven't decided yet, but I'm gonna get you back." Fans have noticed the back-and-forth whiplash and duality of wanting to resume a relationship and exact revenge is similar to Olivia Rodrigo's song "Get Him Back!"

There is also a line about Aston Martin. Swift could choose any car. What's interesting about this choice is the Aston Martin Formula 1 driver Fernando Alonso . In April 2023, it was rumored Alonso and Swift were dating. The gossip took the Formula 1 world by storm at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix with the commentators and social media engaging in an inundation of Swift song puns. Alonso and Aston Martin are in on the joke; after "imgonnagetyouback" came out, they created a TikTok where the driver puts his finger over his mouth in a "Shhh!" manner.

'The Albatross'

Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote  "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" in 1834. It's a poem about an albatross that is abused by sailors as a metaphor for poets or artists abused by society. The sailors fail to understand the beautiful creature, similar to how society fails to understand writers. The main character is haunted by the decision to kill the bird long after the actual act. Swift's line places the blame, in an ironic sense, on herself, "She's the albatross. She is here to destroy you."

'How Did It End?'

The first line of "How Did It End?" is the answer to Apple Music's six-day game where Swifties had to scour the singer's lyrics in search of code words: "We hereby conduct this post mortem." The clue hinted at the double announcement. According to the National Library of Medicine , "Rigor mortis appears approximately two hours after death in the muscles of the face, progresses to the limbs over the next few hours, completing between six to eight hours after death." Swift released her second album at 2 a.m. with 15 additional tracks.

'So High School'

In the lyric video to "So High School," four letters appear in light pink during the line "cheeks pink in the twinkling lights" nodding to her and her boyfriend Travis Kelce : TKTS. The song is a possible keyhole into their relationship —feeling young, in love and like "bittersweet" 16-year-olds watching "American Pie," playing Grand Theft Auto (among other things) and snogging in the back seat. She mentions teenage games like truth or dare, spin the bottle and marry, kiss or kill? It's a question that Kelce was asked in 2016 to which he answered he would kiss Swift.

'thanK you aIMee'

If you missed the obvious "KIM" reference in the song title, "thanK you aIMee" brings Kim Kardashian back into the conversation as a high school bully immortalized with a "bronze, spray-tanned statue" in the hometown square. The track is similar to "Mean" from "Speak Now," but Swift thanks Aimee for all of the pushes down the stairs (i.e. being called a snake, the false edit on the Kanye recording that went viral, etc.) because Swift bounced back stronger.

The line "so I pushed each boulder up that hill" is one of many Greek mythology references. Sisyphus, the king of Ephyra, killed visitors to show how powerful he was. This angered the gods and, as a punishment, he was forced to roll a boulder up a hill for eternity. The boulder never made it to the top. Every time Sisyphus neared the crest, the rock rolled back down to the bottom.

'Cassandra'

"Cassandra" may come after "The Prophecy" because she was the Greek goddess with the power of prophecy. Her gift came from the god Apollo because he was enamored with her, but — after she rejected him — he sabotaged the power with a curse that no one would believe her predictions. She was seen as a liar and madwoman. "So they killed Cassandra first 'cause she feared the worst.'" The line about filling the cell with snakes directly correlates Cassandra to Swift and being called a snake by Kardashian. Cassandra tried to warn the Trojans about the Greeks hiding inside the Trojan horse, but they didn't believe her. "Do you believe me now?" Swift sings.

"When the first stone's thrown there's screaming" is a biblical reference to John 8:7: “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.”

And "I was in my tower weaving nightmares" references Homer's "The Iliad" when women would weave and watch from towers as men fought wars.

The song about childhood toys, "Lost Boys" and a boy who never grows up is "Peter" as in Peter Pan. This isn't the first time Swift has mentioned the fictional character frozen in boyhood. In "Cardigan" from "Folklore," she sings, "Tried to change the ending, Peter losing Wendy."

Finally, in a message of reflection — almost as if Swift is speaking to her youthful self — is "Robin." And while there are many images of childhood (dinosaurs, mud, dragonflies, a swing set and a trampoline) reminiscent of, say, Christopher Robin, the song may be about co-writer Aaron Dessner's son Robin . Dessner thanked his wife and three kids after "Folklore" won album of the year at the Grammys in 2021.

"I just want to say thank you to my family, my beautiful wife Stine, my children Ingrid, Robin and Mimi," he said.

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Why I’m Getting More Pessimistic About Biden’s Chances This Fall

Last fall I argued that Joe Biden was the Democratic Party’s strongest 2024 presidential nominee . I believed that for two reasons: He has been an effective president, and he is the Democrat most likely to appeal to working-class voters.

I still believe Biden is the party’s strongest candidate, but I’m getting more pessimistic about his chances of winning.

The first reason is not political rocket science: Voters prefer the Republicans on key issues like inflation and immigration. Most Donald Trump supporters I know aren’t swept up in his cult of personality; they vote for him because they are conservative types who like G.O.P. policies and think Trump is a more effective executive than Biden.

The second reason I’ve become more pessimistic is because of what’s happening to the youth vote. NBC News released an interesting poll last weekend finding that interest in this election is lower than in any other presidential election in nearly 20 years. Only 64 percent of Americans said they have a high degree of interest in the election, compared to, say, 77 percent who had high interest in 2020.

But what really leaps out is the numbers for voters ages 18 to 34. Only 36 percent of those voters said they are highly interested.

I imagine that’s partly because it’s difficult to get enthusiastic about candidates who are a half-century older than you. But part of it is also about Biden’s approach to the Israel-Hamas war. Young people are much more critical of Israel than other groups, and there are no candidates representing that point of view.

I think what we’re seeing at Columbia and on other elite campuses is a precursor to what we’re going to see at the Democratic convention in Chicago. In 1968 the clashes between the New Left activists and Mayor Richard Daley’s cops were an early marker of the differences between the more-educated and less-educated classes. They were part of the trend that sent working-class voters to the G.O.P.

If there are similar clashes in Chicago this August, the chaos will reinforce Trump’s core law-and-order message. It will make Biden look weak and hapless. Phrases like “from the river to the sea” will be 2024’s version of “defund the police” — a slogan that appeals to activists but alienates lots of other voters.

The folks in the administration project confidence that their man will prevail. I wish I could share that confidence.

Jessica Bennett

A contributing editor in Opinion.

Trump Gets the Everyman Experience

I’m not sure what I was expecting when I walked into court in Lower Manhattan early Monday to hear opening statements in the criminal trial of Donald Trump, but somehow it was something a bit more grandiose. This is the most important trial in American political history. Shouldn’t it have looked more impressive than a decrepit D.M.V.?

But as Trump’s lawyers argued in opening statements, Trump is not merely the former president and presumptive Republican nominee. “He is also a man, he is a husband and a father,” one of them said. “He’s a person, just like you and just like me.” It was an attempt to humanize him — and yet all I could think, in that dreary courtroom, with a sour smell and a broken overhead clock, was that this is going to drive Trump mad.

For the next six weeks, four days a week, seven hours a day, including meals and coffee and bathroom breaks, Trump will be treated like an ordinary New Yorker, forced to sit in a drab 17-story municipal building.

Inside the court, the chairs were uncomfortable. It was so cold that reporters were bundled in heavy coats and scarves. (Trump wasn’t wrong when he complained, “It’s freezing.”) The speckled linoleum floors were drab, the fluorescent lighting was harsh, the rumpled shades were drawn. It was hard to see and hear. The monotony made my eyes droop.

Trump has called the courthouse “an armed camp,” but in reality it has remained open to the public, including spectators who want to attend the trial, like the young man in a beer sweatshirt who, on his way to work, decided to join the press line and peppered a young woman with questions. “Maybe they’ll let me in. I have a blog,” he said confidently. Hours later, I passed him in the hallway.

Court let out early Monday, after the judge explained that an alternate juror had a dental emergency. You could just imagine Trump seething at the thought of his time dictated by a root canal. But I was grateful to leave early — and satisfied that he would be there every day.

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David Pecker and ‘The Trump Tower Conspiracy’

Donald Trump famously calls journalists “enemies of the people.” It turns out the friendly “journalists” of the scuzzy National Enquirer may have done as much as anyone to get him elected in 2016.

Now the worm has turned, and David Pecker, the longtime publisher of the Enquirer, is delivering devastating testimony against his old pal, detailing crimes against Trump’s 2016 rivals, the standards of journalism and the truth.

Pecker is testifying under subpoena, but his plea agreement doesn’t require him to be an enthusiastic prosecution witness with the memory of an elephant. Trump, glaring at him from across the courtroom, seemed unappreciative of all that Pecker once did for him.

I covered the weird and historic 2016 campaign. While the celebrity candidate led in many early polls, he was far from a shoo-in for the nomination. Ben Carson was the front-runner for a spell in late 2015, Ted Cruz won the Iowa caucuses, and Marco Rubio was briefly seen as the logical young choice for the G.O.P.

Pecker testified that as part of what prosecutors call “the Trump Tower conspiracy,” hatched just before Trump announced his candidacy in June 2015, Trump — through Michael Cohen — helped The Enquirer generate phony stories about malpractice by Carson and adultery by Cruz and Rubio (not to mention an article sliming Cruz’s father as connected to John F. Kennedy’s assassination).

No one in the courtroom was laughing at the lurid tabloid headlines when they were introduced into evidence. It seems clear that these bogus stories, too, were part of the corrupt and journalistically disgraceful Trump Tower deal.

Under the terms of the “catch and kill” deal, Pecker was Trump’s “eyes and ears” for stories about dalliances that could harm the candidate. When a Trump Tower doorman, Dino Sajudin, shopped a tip that Trump had fathered a child with a Latina maid in Trump’s apartment, Pecker testified that he reported it to Cohen, who was adamant that the story was untrue. Trump would take a DNA test, Cohen told Pecker: “He is German-Irish, and this woman is Hispanic, and that would be impossible.”

Sure enough, Dino the doorman’s story turned out to be false. To protect Trump before the election, Sajudin nonetheless received an unheard-of $30,000 from The Enquirer for his bogus tip. But the contract introduced into evidence required Sajudin to pay $1 million if he talked about it. After the election, he was released from the nondisclosure agreement — more evidence that suggests that “catch and kill” was a prelude to the criminal cover-up of the Stormy Daniels hush-money payment that is the heart of the case.

On Thursday, we’ll hear more about Trump the double cheater: his efforts to silence his mistress Karen McDougal and Stormy Daniels. And we’ll see more of the mundane but critical documents that connect the man Pecker described as a “detail-oriented micromanager” to criminal wrongdoing.

Michelle Cottle

Opinion Writer

Joe Biden, Abortion Warrior?

I have covered politics for longer than I care to recall, so watching President Biden come out as a champion of abortion access feels a little weird.

I mean, I get why the president felt moved to wave the reproductive rights banner in Florida on Tuesday. With the state’s six-week abortion ban kicking in next week, this seems like a prime moment to remind voters everywhere that Donald Trump likes to brag about being the guy who killed Roe v. Wade.

Still, this issue has never really been in Biden’s comfort zone. The guy is a devout, old-school Catholic who has said he believes life begins at conception. “I’m not big on abortion,” he said last year , even as he insisted that “Roe v. Wade got it right.” And up to this point, he had largely left the reproductive rights crusading to Kamala Harris.

But there he was on Tuesday at a community college in Tampa, backed by big blue banners calling for “Reproductive rights” and “Restoring Roe,” fiercely bashing Trump for putting women’s health and lives at risk. “There is one person responsible for this nightmare!” he roared. It was enough to make my heart go pitter-patter.

In his brief remarks, Biden didn’t utter the word “abortion” very often, but he didn’t really need to. Rather, he emphasized the idea that Trump and his party are messing with women’s fundamental rights — and doing so at their peril. And on this point, he appeared to be enjoying himself. The president observed that in overturning Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court “practically dared women to be heard” when Justice Samuel Alito wrote, “Women are not without political or electoral power.” Leaning in close to the mic, he dropped his voice and said, with a chuckle and a gleam in his eye, “No kidding.”

Raising the stakes, Biden warned that conservatives will be coming for people’s contraception and in vitro fertilization treatments next — maybe even same-sex marriage. And then he wrapped things up by urging voters to “teach Donald Trump a valuable lesson: Don’t mess with the women of America! I mean it!”

For a guy with deep moral qualms about abortion, it was an impressive call to arms.

Jesse Wegman

Editorial Board Member

The Legal Limits of Trump’s Contempt Defense

Donald Trump is on trial in New York for falsifying business records, but if you really want to appreciate just how far removed the rule of law is from the essence of Trumpism, you could have listened to the brief contempt hearing held Tuesday morning, out of the jury’s earshot, before the trial resumed.

At the request of prosecutors, Justice Juan Merchan earlier this month imposed a gag order on Trump, who has a bad habit of attacking anyone and everyone involved in his criminal cases, from prosecutors to witnesses to jurors to the judge and even the judge’s family members. To go by Trump’s recent activity on Truth Social, the order hasn’t worked. Prosecutors pointed to 11 different posts that they said violated the order, including references to two prosecution witnesses as “sleaze bags” and an attack on the jury pool that his lawyers claimed was a repost of comments by a Fox News host.

First things first: In criminal trials, process is everything. Trump is innocent until proven guilty, like any criminal defendant, and there is a process for making that determination. It involves the cooperation of many key players, including regular Americans who are there by duty, not choice. By attacking those people, Trump is making a mockery of the justice system and endangering real people’s lives.

Constant threats and insults against his perceived enemies are Trump’s stock in trade, of course; in the political world, he relies on them like other politicians rely on baby-kissing. It’s coarse and juvenile, but it’s not illegal.

In court, it’s a different matter. There are consequences for behavior like this. “I have never seen a criminal defendant go out and attack the process and the actors in the process while the trial was going on, while a jury was in the box,” Kristy Parker, a former federal prosecutor now with Protect Democracy, told me.

On Tuesday, Trump’s lawyers sought to explain away his posts as protected speech, but surely they know better. So does Justice Merchan, who was clearly out of patience and told them their arguments were “losing all credibility with the court.”

Trump may well come out of this contempt hearing with nothing more than a few thousand dollars in fines and an even sterner warning against similar behavior in the future. But the courts — and the American people — are watching and learning. Trump’s refusal to stop, even pursuant to an explicit court order, tells you all you need to know about the incompatibility of the man and the government he seeks to lead.

Will Justice Merchan Find Trump in Contempt of Court?

What are the chances that Justice Juan Merchan will find Donald Trump in contempt of court? “99.999 percent,” the retired judge George Grasso, a spectator at the trial, told me during a break.

It’s not clear when Merchan will rule on contempt or how many counts Trump will be cited for, but Count 10 is as close as you can get to a sure thing.

That’s the one related to Jesse Watters, the Fox News host who on April 17 made the despicable claim that Juror No. 2, a nurse, was lying during jury selection when she claimed she could be fair and unbiased because no one who said, as she did, that “no one is above the law” could possibly be fair. (Juror No. 2 soon stepped down from the jury, telling the judge she couldn’t handle the negative publicity.)

That day, Watters posted on Truth Social, “Catching undercover liberal activists lying to the judge.” When Trump reposted it, he added: “in order to get on the Trump jury.”

This put the lie to the claim of Trump’s lawyer Todd Blanche that Trump was merely responding to political attacks or reposting content, not willfully defying the gag order.

“This goes to the defendant’s willfulness,” the prosecutor Chris Conroy argued to the judge. “He added to it and posted it.” The judge appeared to agree.

Blanche made a lame attempt to explain. “This gag order — we’re trying to comply with it,” he said. “President Trump is being very careful to abide by your rules.”

That’s when the judge said, “Mr. Blanche, you’re losing all credibility with this court.”

Farah Stockman

Rural Voters Are More Progressive Than the Democratic Party Thinks

If you caught the scathing takedown of the book “White Rural Rage” in The Atlantic , then you’re aware of how intellectually dishonest it is to single out rural voters for special contempt. It’s also politically foolish, as a new poll by Rural Democracy Initiative , which will be released to the public in May, illustrates.

The group, which supports a network of progressive organizers in rural areas, commissioned the poll to help its members shape their messages in the most effective way. The survey, which was answered by 1,713 likely voters from rural areas and small towns in 10 battleground states, suggests that rural voters tend to be economic populists who would overwhelmingly support parts of the Democratic Party’s agenda — as long as the right messenger knocked on their doors.

Some 74 percent of rural voters who answered the poll agreed that decisions around abortion should be made by women and their doctors, not politicians or the government. That high figure helps explain why efforts to preserve abortion rights in Kansas, Ohio and other places have been so successful.

But it’s not just abortion. The survey found overwhelming support for leaders who fight to raise the minimum wage, to protect the right to form a union and to make quality child care more affordable — policy descriptions that seem ripped from President Biden’s campaign speeches.

The trouble is that a significant number of the respondents didn’t associate these policies with Democrats. In fact, once that partisan affiliation was added, support dropped significantly. Nonetheless, 47 percent of respondents said they would prefer to vote for a Democrat who grew up in a rural area and shared their values over a Republican business executive from the East Coast.

But perhaps the biggest problem the survey uncovered was that large numbers of respondents — especially young voters and people of color — reported that no one from the Democratic Party had reached out to them to offer information or ask for their support.

“It’s really clear that Democrats have a significant work to do to rebuild their brand in rural America, but that investment could pay dividends for Democrats, not just in the future but this year,” Patrick Toomey, a partner at Breakthrough Campaigns, which conducted the survey, told me.

In an election in which a few thousand votes could decide who wins the presidency or controls the Senate, it’s foolish to write off rural America.

Jurors Begin to Understand the ‘Trump Tower Conspiracy’

Donald Trump always wears a red necktie, right? Not anymore. For the last four days in court he’s gone with a blue one. Whether this is a lame bid for the sartorial sentiments of blue-state jurors or just a reflection of his mood, he heard more bad news in court on Monday.

We learned that if Trump testifies in his own defense, he will be chewed up on cross-examination. Justice Juan Merchan ruled that Trump can be questioned about lies he told in four of six prior judicial proceedings, including the E. Jean Carroll case and the ruling that the Trump Foundation was a fraud. Only a foolish megalomaniac would take the stand under such circumstances — so perhaps he will.

Merchan also made it very clear he doesn’t approve of “jury nullification,” instructing jurors, who seemed very attentive, that they must convict him if they are convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that he is guilty.

In the prosecution’s opening statement, Matthew Colangelo outlined what his team calls the August 2015 “Trump Tower conspiracy” hatched by Trump, Michael Cohen and David Pecker, boss of The National Enquirer, who began his testimony later in the day. Colangelo previewed a large amount of evidence that will corroborate Cohen’s testimony about the falsified business records (including handwritten notes) that will most likely be damaging to Trump.

The worst day for Trump could come when the prosecution plays a September 2016 taped call in which Trump can be heard asking Cohen, “So what do we have to pay for it? 150?” (Meaning $150,000.) The answer was $10,000 more. Colangelo concluded: “It was election fraud. Pure and simple.”

By saying of Trump, “he’s a man, he’s a husband, he’s a father, he’s a person like you and me,” Todd Blanche, Trump’s lead attorney, seemed to be setting up a defense partly based on Trump not wanting the Stormy Daniels story made public in order to protect his family. But Cohen and others are expected to testify that Trump tried to avoid paying the hush money on the theory that it wouldn’t matter if the story came out after the election. So much for shielding Melania.

The Trump lawyers are denying everything — the alleged affairs and the cover-up — which is unlikely to be persuasive. But they may have better luck arguing that for all the prosecution’s talk of conspiracy, that wasn’t a count in the indictment. Blanche’s best line was: “Spoiler alert: There’s nothing wrong with trying to influence this election. It’s called democracy.”

What the jurors don’t know yet and won’t learn until the judge instructs them just before they deliberate is that there is nothing in New York state law requiring prosecutors to prove that Trump broke tax laws, campaign finance laws or conspiracy laws to win a felony conviction. All they need to do is prove that Trump intended to do wrong in these areas.

And by insisting that Trump is completely innocent, his lawyers have made it harder for the jury to convict him of just misdemeanors, not felonies. But it will be a few weeks before the jury understands all of that.

Parker Richards

Opinion Staff Editor

The Impossible Matzo Ball

What do you call a person who keeps trying the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result? My mom, apparently: Each Passover, she tries once more to make vegan matzo ball soup. I’m sure she’s tried every published recipe, tried variations, tried anything she can think of. The thing about a matzo ball, of course, is that its structural integrity is everything: You need the egg, and most vegan egg substitutes just don’t seem to cut it.

The quixotic pursuit is an essential part of our Seders each year. It’s as much a tradition now as adding the Yankees to the list of Ten Plagues or slight eyebrow raising that accompanies the repeated crossing out and reinsertion of the founding years in Israel on the list of Jewish struggles in our much-modified family Haggadah — or even, for me, of the story of the first matzo, the unleavened bread made by the Israelites as they fled Egypt.

Standard matzo balls — which also have matzo meal and spices and herbs — are held together with egg. There are many vegan egg substitutes that add a bit of stickiness. Bananas work well in muffins; you might try cornstarch for a pie. The two most common versions are silken tofu and flaxseed mixed with water.

When I asked The Times’s recipe columnist Melissa Clark for a tip, she pointed me to Joan Nathan’s vegan matzo ball soup recipe. It calls for the use of aquafaba — chickpea water — as an egg substitute. (Clark noted that Ashkenazic dietary rules prohibit consuming legumes like chickpeas and soybeans, known as kitniyot, on Passover but Sephardic rules allow it. My mom’s veganism is more observant than her Judaism, however, so it’ll probably be all right.) The inside scoop is that this year my mom is going to use both silken tofu and flaxseed. Next year maybe aquafaba will join the list.

The plethora of options seems fitting for a holiday that celebrates liberation and, thus, relaxation; the need to labor in someone else’s name is gone, and so the labor of love that is the matzo ball can continue unhindered.

The quest for the structurally sound vegan matzo ball always made sense to me as latter-day Passover tradition. Judaism — especially of my family’s assimilated, not-really-observant-at-all kind — never seemed to me to require a logic that made sense independent of its own tradition. Jewish history and practice are rife with coincidences and traditions and loopholes. Why not add failed vegan matzo balls to the list? And who knows? Maybe this year the matzo balls will hold together.

Zeynep Tufekci

The N.I.H.’s Words Matter, Especially to Long Covid Patients

Bernie Sanders, who chairs the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee , has proposed allocating $1 billion annually for 10 years to the National Institutes of Health for long Covid research. One potential stumbling block to this good idea is bipartisan criticism of the N.I.H.’s sluggishness in producing useful results from the initial $1.15 billion allocated to long Covid.

It’s in that context the current N.I.H. director, Dr. Monica Bertagnolli, responded to a question about long Covid last week, saying, “We see evidence of persistent live virus in humans in various tissue reservoirs.” She said that the virus can “live a long time in tissues” and that this is “likely one of the ways that it produces some of its terrible symptoms.”

The statement rattled researchers and shocked communities of long Covid patients. Proving persistent live virus that can replicate long after the acute phase and showing that it relates to long Covid symptoms would be a Nobel-territory breakthrough and point to effective treatments.

However, while viral persistence is one hypothesized mechanism for long Covid, as far as I knew, only viral remnants — leftover virus pieces that cannot replicate — have been shown, not persistent live whole virus. Further, such remnants haven’t correlated with long Covid symptoms. (Some healthy and sick people have them.)

Patients were abuzz . Was this more unacceptable sluggishness? Was the N.I.H. sitting on crucial unpublished information? Was the N.I.H. director completely out of touch with the research? Had they all misunderstood the science?

I reached out to the N.I.H. The answer turns out to be mundane. Dr. Bertagnolli said she “misspoke” and had “meant to say ‘viral components’ rather than ‘live virus.’” The N.I.H. also confirmed to me such remnants have not yet been shown to correlate with long Covid symptoms.

Viral remnants may still play a role — maybe only some people are sensitive to them — or maybe leftover viral components are common and harmless. The N.I.H. also told me this is “an area of active investigation,” as it should be.

It’s good that Dr. Bertagnolli is so engaged with long Covid, and misspeaking during an interview is human. Hopefully, the institution keeps in mind that suffering patients are hanging on their every word.

An earlier version of this article misstated the initial amount of money allocated to the National Institutes of Health to study long Covid. It is $1.15 billion, not $1.5 billion.

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Graduate students recognized with ‘three minute thesis’ awards for influential research.

KINGSTON, R.I., – April 22, 2024 – Three Ph.D. students at the University of Rhode Island have been recognized for their ability to communicate their research effectively to the public as part of URI’s inaugural Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. Each student who entered the competition was challenged to present the content and contributions of their research in a 3-minute “ elevator pitch ” that attempted to  capture the attention of a non-specialist audience in a vivid, cogent, jargon-free style – without reverting to academic language – while relying on only a  single static slide as a visual aid.  

“An 80,000 word Ph.D. thesis would take 9 hours to present.  Your time limit… 3 minutes” according to the University of Queensland , which founded the 3MT competition in 2008.  3MT is now replicated at over 900 universities around the world.  “3MT cultivates students’ academic, presentation, and research communication skills, . . . and supports their capacity to effectively explain their research in 3 minutes, in a language appropriate to a non-specialist audience,” according to University of Queensland.

The finals of URI’s 3MT competition took place last month, in Lippitt Hall before an audience of nearly 100 spectators. Winners are: Sarah Davis, who is studying biological and environmental sciences; Md Abdullah Al Rumon, a student in electrical engineering; and Helani Singhapurage, who is studying physics.

“Graduate programs are the secret sauce that makes URI such a great place to study and work, and the Three Minute Thesis competition was an incredible opportunity to showcase the innovative work that our graduate students do every day,” said Professor of Chemistry and Graduate School Dean Brenton DeBoef.

Davis’ first-place presentation, “A Crab’s Eye View of the Plastic Pollution Crisis,” about the New England native Jonah crab, highlighted the urgent threat that pollution poses to ocean life. 

According to Davis, the greatest threat to this species is the level of plastic pollution in the ocean. When the plastic refuse breaks down, becoming microplastics, ingesting these synthetic materials becomes unavoidable for ocean-floor scavengers like crustaceans. 

Second-place winner Al Rumon, wrote his thesis on a device that would more efficiently monitor the vital signs of infants in neonatal intensive care units. His “smart belt” device is a “softer” non-invasive way to gather essential medical information from infants and newborns in delicate conditions. 

Current standard equipment for taking vital signs in infant intensive care units is composed of equipment, including leads for monitors and tubes that are fastened directly to the baby’s skin, which has many drawbacks, says Rumon. Not only can the wires damage or irritate the skin of a newborn, causing bleeding and contact dermatitis, they can prevent the baby from moving freely, making it more difficult for mothers and nurses to hold them. Al Rumon’s belt design is simpler than what exists now for taking vital signs. An article on the $2.6 million grant awarded by the National Institutes of Health to al Rumon and the team developing this device was featured in Rhody Today on Oct. 19, 2023.

Singhapurage, was voted winner of the people’s choice award by the audience, for her research in the field of physics. Singhapurage’s thesis explores light refraction on the microscopic level, and compares the refractions of different kinds of light on different materials by measuring the vibrations emitted. 

Studies of this sort have been conducted before, but Singhapurage’s methods of light and vibration measurement allowed her to discern minute variations in the emitted frequencies that speak to the chemical differences of the material, and perceived differences in its color.

“Analyzing scattered light from Raman active vibrations of materials provides vital information,” Singhapurage said. “Ultimately, findings of my research will help to develop more efficient semiconductors and high-powered lasers.”

DeBoef, who judged the event, along with Jen Riley, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences; Vinka Oyanedel-Craver, professor and associate dean of research in the College of Engineering; and Christopher Lavan, associate vice provost for the advancement of teaching and learning, called the event a resounding success.

You can view the presentations of all the winners and see the list of the 10 finalists HERE

This story was written by Samantha Melia, a senior journalism and political science major at the University of Rhode Island and an intern in the Department of Marketing and Communications.