Cartoon by Pat Byrnes
By that spring, Alex Kearns, a twenty-year-old student at the University of Nebraska, had been using Robinhood for about two years. The app had permitted him to trade options just months after he opened his account. Kearns grew up in Naperville, Illinois, with his sister and his parents. His father is an I.T. professional at a financial-services firm. The family was close. Kearns was known as an anxious but positive young man who played trombone in the high-school band, received a school-spirit award, and joined the R.O.T.C. at Nebraska, where he majored in business management. Kearnsâs cousin-in-law Bill Brewster, a professional investor, told me that heâd spoken with Kearns that March. âHe was happier than Iâve ever seen him,â Brewster said.
The Creative Arts Building at City College Norwich
- Credit: David Bussey
The architects of old Norwich are well known but what about those of the 21st century? Derek James takes a look at a fascinating new booklet
From council houses to shops and from additions to landmark buildings to high-rise homes….this is the changing face of Norwich.
The story behind the latest developments are told so well in a booklet you can buy for a fiver, tuck under your arm and go exploring…looking at some of our major new developments.
Yes, we have lost too many fine old buildings in the past, but it is interesting to look at the new ones and consider the role they are playing in 21st century life.
Study: Repeated vape aerosol exposure causes minimal lung damage compared to combustible cigarettes
In one of the most advanced applications of in-vitro 3D human lung models in vape research to date, a new peer-reviewed Imperial Brands study shows that, unlike combustible cigarette smoke, blu aerosol had little to no impact on numerous toxicological endpoints under the conditions of test using laboratory models.
Published in the journal
Current Research in Toxicology, the experiments compared the toxicological responses of an in vitro 3D lung model (MucilAir™ from Epithelix) after repeated exposure to undiluted whole blu aerosol (1.6% tobacco flavor) or diluted whole cigarette smoke (3R4F Kentucky Reference) over a 28-day period.
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Tuesdays with Torah is one of Isaac M. Wise Templeâs mainstays of the Adult Learning Program. Itâs always on Tuesday, always at noon, always at Wise Center and always about Torah. It gives attendees an opportunity to take a middle-of-the-day break to feed their minds. Fascinating content led by expert Wise Temple rabbis and rabbinic interns provides a deeper understanding of the Torah and its meaning to Jewish lives.
Wise Temple is pleased to announce that beginning in June (and weather permitting), in-person classes will be held outdoors and the classes will also be viewable simultaneously online for those who cannot attend in person. If weather prohibits an outdoor, in-person class, attendees can still attend online.
U.S. National Security Targeting Americans
Description: Noor Bin Ladin, niece of the terror mastermind, discusses how the national security apparatus under the Biden administration is now being turned inwards to target political opponents, who are viewed as dissidents and unjustly labelled as terrorists.
Noor Bin Ladin was born in Switzerland to a Swiss mother and Saudi father with the most controversial last name of the 21st century. At first glance it isn’t obvious that she would be a freedom-loving Americaphile and patriot at heart. Her background story and early life were recorded in her mother Carmen bin Ladin’s bestselling book,