LostInWonderland

There are moments when we do not agree with what is happening around us… 

Maryam Mirzakhani (born May 3, 1977) is an Iranian-American mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Stanford University.

On 13 August 2014, Mirzakhani became both the first woman and the first Iranian honored with the Fields Medal, the most prestigious award in mathematics. The award committee cited her work in “the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces”.

And he told us this and I think everybody’s heart broke. 

And he felt like if he asked somebody what to do, or told us, that it would feel like an endorsement for her to study here. It isn’t. It’s sharing a problem.

And a professor told him to tell her to contact our dean. To tell the schools she is applying to, us included, what the dilemma was. We were sure that we could help – we have deans, we have experts, we have people who know how to make an application shine even when one part is missing.

And then I woke up today and saw the visa ban.

And I felt crushed. I know this doesn’t hurt me personally. I don’t know her. I’m not her. But we were so hopeful and so sure that we could do something, anything, just something to help out somebody who wanted so badly to do science and one racist executive order shattered that.

The man-free sanctuary will offer up a range of typical beauty services such as hair, waxing, facials and manicures and pedicures, while providing unique services like henna and halal nails and eyebrow shaping.

“We want women to be able to come in and feel completely relaxed,” ~ Quhshi said.

The Guardian is running with the gag order, and leaving the transpacific partnership

The BBC is listing everything he’s doing by executive order

Reuters is talking about the lawsuit about conflicts of interest

and Al Jazeera is go with how the pope thinks he’s like Hitler