2 mn readThe 1933 Goudey Babe Ruth No. 149 card sold for $1.62 million on Thursday at a Fanatics Collect auction, making it one of the most highly prized pieces of Ruth memorabilia ever sold. The card is just one of four Ruth issues in the 1933 Goudey set, and one of them currently resides in The Smithsonian. […]
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2 mn readThanksgiving week is one of the busiest times for travel across the United States as people hit the roads, rails and sky to visit friends and family for the late-November holiday. This year, the weather across the country could complicate some travel plans, AccuWeather meteorologists warn. Nearly 80 million people are expected to travel for Thanksgiving in […]
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< 1 mn readMeta cleared its first regulatory hurdle Wednesday to construct a massive data center in Louisiana when the Public Service Commission agreed to Entergy’s request to hire consultants and attorneys for its application to build three new power plants to accommodate the project. Commissioner Foster Campbell said Meta’s investment could be $10 billion or more to […]
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2 mn readFine Arts Gallery presents new artwork reflecting on Ruth Asawa’s Garden of Remembrance on campus Eighty-two years ago, Japanese American students from San Francisco State College were forced to withdraw from classes, some taken to prison camps. Twenty-two years ago, San Francisco State University dedicated a garden to honor the Japanese American experience of incarceration […]
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2 mn readAn emergency hearing was held in Colorado Thursday morning regarding a lawsuit against the Mountain West Conference and San Jose State University. This the latest turn of events after a San Jose State player claimed that her teammate is transgender. As a season full of controversy for the San Jose State women’s volleyball team comes […]
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3 mn readLots of people need our help — why rescue Socrates? The title actually works on three levels. It signals a real moment when I found a volume of Plato’s dialogues in a garbage pile in New York and it changed my life. It alludes to the attempt to free Socrates from jail before he was […]
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