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  • 'Deplorable': French scientist denied US entry over text messages criticising Trump

    03/22/2025 4:40:10 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 70 replies
    France24 ^ | March 20, 2025 | By: Louise NORDSTROM
    French officials have expressed their dismay after a French scientist was denied entry into the United States because immigration officers found text messages containing a "personal opinion" about the Trump administration and its policies on scientific research. In a statement issued on Wednesday and sent to the AFP news agency, France's Minister of Higher Education and Research Philippe Baptiste said he had “learned with concern” that a space researcher working for the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) was stopped for a random check at an unspecified US airport and expelled due to critical text messages about US President...
  • Native American stone tool technology found in Arabia [the style, not actual precolumbian stone tools]

    08/07/2020 10:41:06 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 30 replies
    EurekAlert! ^ | August 5, 2020 | CNRS
    Stone fluted points dating back some 8,000 to 7,000 years ago, were discovered on archaeological sites in Manayzah, Yemen and Ad-Dahariz, Oman. Spearheads and arrowheads were found among these distinctive and technologically advanced projectile points. Until now, the prehistoric technique of fluting had been uncovered only on 13,000 to 10,000-year-old Native American sites. According to a study led by an international team of archaeologists from the CNRS (1), Inrap, Ohio State University and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, the difference in age and geographic location implies there is no connection between the populations who made...