Sanofi, Facing Threat From Generics, Moves to Buy Hemophilia Drug Maker

The $11.6 billion deal for Bioverativ would bolster the French pharmaceutical giant’s portfolio as it faces falling sales for its diabetes drug, Lantus. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/22/business/dealbook/sanofi-hemophilia-bioverativ.html?partner=rss

Betsy DeVos May Only Offer Partial Loan Refunds To Defrauded College Students

Betsy DeVos May Only Offer Partial Loan Refunds To Defrauded College Students

Education Secretary and champion of for-profit colleges Betsy DeVos is once again siding with this controversial industry and against students who were defrauded by schools that tricked them into paying top dollar for a bottom-dollar education. Amid the collapse of scandalized for-profit school...

Reading Wikipedia to Answer Open-Domain Questions

This paper proposes to tackle open-domain question answering using Wikipedia as the unique knowledge source: the answer to any factoid question is a text span in a Wikipedia article. This task of machine reading at scale combines the challenges of document retrieval - finding the relevant articles...

Three Tablescapes to Inspire Holiday Entertaining

Three Tablescapes to Inspire Holiday Entertaining

The holidays are my favorite time of year because I get to totally shift all my focus to my true love: entertaining! Setting tables during this busy season helps me to find joy and inspiration even when I’m totally burnt out because it means that delicious food, friends and family are about to...