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Daily Archives: August 26, 2026
Five American Universities
Late Night Music Fix
Nine Inch Nails – Cars with Gary Numan
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Late Night Music Fix
Simply Red – Holding Back The Years
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Interesting Read
via The New York Times:
Moving Back Home After College? All Your Friends Are Doing It.
by Noam Scheiber
published on August 2, 2026
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Youth sentiment is a notoriously hard thing to track. Polling is a fraught enough enterprise without having to deal with flaky kids, occasionally impenetrable survey questions, and the real possibility that words such as “confidence” or “satisfied” might not mean the same thing from one generation to the next.
~ Jay Caspian Kang via The New Yorker
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via the report published by MIT’s Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training:
AI is generating both immediate rapid changes and long-term tectonic disruptions – and MIT needs to respond.
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Empires of the past were built upon the idea that conquest was the divine right of great powers. There was no legal distinction between the acquisition, occupation and takeover of foreign territory. The Portuguese did as they wished in Angola, and the British did as they wished in India.
~ Linda Kinstler via The New York Times
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General Maxwell D. Taylor was born
on this day in 1901
Maxwell D. Taylor – the American four-star general who served as the 5th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the 20th Chief of Staff of the Army – was born on this day – August 26, 1901 – in Keytesville, Missouri.
He was a graduate of the United States Military Academy and the Command and General Staff College.
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Campus Map
Abertay University
Midnight Trailer
A Most Wanted Man
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