Although the public reception of the new CIA advertisements featuring “woke” themes has been rather negative, they will likely keep ramping it up until the “dialect of power” — the vernacular used by a society’s elites — changes. The agency had always adhered to this since its creation. The transatlantic accent, once ubiquitous in the CIA’s older generations of officials, now gives way to inclusive language and a focus on one’s merits in spite of one’s background. Read full article here
Science
‘Ghostly’ neutrinos provide new path to study protons
In groundbreaking research, an international collaboration of scientists from the University of Rochester have used a beam of neutrinos to measure the size and shape of the protons that make up the nuclei of atoms. This feat, once thought impossible, provides scientists with a new way of looking at the small components of an atom’s nucleus and opens up a wealth of new information about the structure of an atom’s nucleus and the dynamics of the forces that affect neutrino interactions. The researchers solved the challenge of harnessing neutrinos in large numbers by using a neutrino detector containing a target of both hydrogen and carbon atoms, and over nine years of data collection at Fermilab’s accelerator. Read full article here
Merv
March 25, 2023
