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If You're Looking For A Link To the Mueller Report, Look No Further
Editor's Note:
We're not downloading the entire Mueller report, but here is the Justice Department URL to read the report at:
Report On the Investigation Into Russian Interference In The 2016 Election, Vol I and II; Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller, III
https://www.justice.gov/storage/report.pdf?_ga=2.80421777.744576135.1555603755-461170982.1555603755
Mueller received the following military awards and decorations:
Maryam Mirzakhani: "It's like solving a puzzle or connecting the dots in a detective case"
The first woman to ever win the Fields Medal – known as the 'Nobel Prize of mathematics' – in recognition of Mirzakhani's contributions to the understanding of the symmetry of curved surfaces. It has implications for the study of prime numbers and cryptography. Despite the breadth of applications of her work, she had said that she enjoys pure mathematics because of the elegance and longevity of the questions she studies. more »
The Paris of Toulouse-Lautrec at the MoMA: Women From All Walks of Life
Lautrec's work allows entry into many facets of Parisian life, from politics to the rise of popular entertainment in the form of cabarets and café-concerts. Lautrec made the venues and performers of late-19th-century Paris famous through his posters and prints, and in turn, it was his work for them that brought him the greatest acclaim. more »
A Scaffold of Silk Protein: Tufts Bioengineers Create Functional 3D Brain-like Tissue
As a first demonstration of its potential, researchers used the brain-like tissue to study chemical and electrical changes that occur immediately following traumatic brain injury and, in a separate experiment, changes that occur in response to a drug. The tissue could provide a superior model for studying normal brain function as well as injury and disease, and could assist in the development of new treatments for brain dysfunction.
Bioengineers have created three-dimensional brain-like tissue that… more »
Violence Against Women Act Next Steps: A Judiciary Hearing at the Request of Gabrielle Giffords
Dr. Jacquelyn Campbell: "In leaving out abusive dating partners, current federal firearm prohibitions ignore the perpetrators of a large and growing share of intimate partner homicides …S. 1290, the Protecting Domestic Violence and Stalking Victims Act, would expand our national domestic violence laws to include both former and current dating partners." more »