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A Harvard law professor believes that homeschooling can be ‘dangerous’ because it gives parents authoritarian control over their children. More than 50 million children in the United States are at home due to the coronavirus pandemic that forced the shut down of schools, restaurants and bars, and other businesses deemed non-essential. While states are developing … Read more
She gets an A+ in matchmaking! College student tries to set up her single mom with her professor during his Zoom ‘office hours’ after she saw his photo and called him a ‘babe’ Aly Oliver has been taking her University of Colorado at Boulder on Zoom Her single mom saw one of her professors and thought … Read more
A coronavirus vaccine could be ready by autumn, an Oxford University professor has said. Sir John Bell said trials could be finished by mid-August but warned the real challenge would be manufacturing ‘many billions of doses’. He also revealed the prestigious institution started human trials with a candidate vaccine this week. There have been conflicting reports over … Read more
Oxford classics professor, 63, is arrested over theft of ‘priceless’ papyrus bible fragments ‘stolen from university library collection and sold to US museum’ Dr Dirk Obbink, 63, was arrested last month on suspicion of theft and fraud 13 papyrus bible fragments were stolen from Oxford University’s Sackler Library The associate professor of papyrology and Greek … Read more
An entire American college class has banding together to prank their professor during Zoom lessons — and their jokes have been getting more and more elaborate. TikTok user Samuel Grubbs, from North Carolina, shared recordings of the pranks on the social media platform, capturing the moments that a class of 24 students have surprised their … Read more
A leading Oxford professor has blasted the Government’s failure to introduce a lockdown sooner and says it was ‘completely out of step with almost all other European countries’. David Hunter condemned the ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ attitude among ministers, while scientists have repeatedly pressed the ‘panic button’. When EU neighbours Spain, the Netherlands, France … Read more
As the coronavirus pandemic continues and more people around the world are forced into isolation away from family members, it’s becoming more difficult to manage stress levels and get a decent night sleep. Consultant psychiatrist and professor of Psychological Medicine from the University of Sydney, Nick Glozier, offered his advice and said in order to sleep … Read more
Jan Karbaat Pictured: parents and donor children of Dr Karbaat reacting to news in February that they would be given the results of Karbaat’s DNA test so they could conduct their own comparisons Jan Karbaat, who died in April 2017 aged 89, is feared to have fathered up to 200 children while working at the Karbaat’s Blijdorp … Read more
Britain’s coronavirus restrictions could be eased next month if the public continues to obey social distancing, a top government scientific adviser has said. Professor Neil Ferguson, whose grim forecast of 250,000 deaths initially prompted Boris Johnson to impose the lockdown, hoped some curbs could be lifted by the end of May. The Imperial College academic … Read more
Tributes are paid to world-renowned science professor, 64, who died after suspected coronavirus infection Professor Michael Wakelam, 64, dies after suspected coronavirus infection The father-of-two was Director of the leading Babraham Institute in Cambridge He was also an honorary professor at Cambridge and Birmingham universities By James Robinson for MailOnline Published: 15:36 BST, 3 April … Read more