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Analyst who said immigrants have lower IQ resigns from U.S. conservative group

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Heritage Foundation policy analyst who co-authored a study slamming the Senate immigration bill, is resigning, the conservative group said on Friday, after revelations he once wrote that Hispanic immigrants had a lower IQ than white Americans. Full story

Heritage’s Richwine resigns after controversial anti-immigration ‘think’ piece

   Victoria DeFrancesco Soto joins Martin Bashir to explain the thinking at the heart of a far right-wing think tank’s paper that argued vociferously against any comprehensive immigration reform – and then why Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, would call Mexico a “hell hole” … twice.

Fighting for social justice through spoken word

Bryonn Bain may have a law degree from Harvard, but instead of fighting mass incarceration and racial profiling through lawsuits, he's doing it through art. Full story

Harvard professor apologizes for remarks on economist Keynes

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Harvard historian Niall Ferguson posted an "unqualified apology" on his personal blog on Saturday after saying that British economist John Maynard Keynes did not care about the future because he was gay and had no children. Full story

Time to 'Recrunch' the Numbers?

   An economic paper on debt from Harvard economists Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff is drawing criticism. Joe Lavorgna, Deutsche Bank and David Malpass, Encima Global, weigh in.

Harvard lets human minds control rats, private rodent armies remain distant (video)

Sure, we've seen rats control other rats, but that won't give us a legion of mind-controlled creatures to unleash upon an innocent public, will it? Harvard Medical School may unwittingly assist with solving our (rather misguided) plight, as it just experimented with a system that lets a human mind Full story

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