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Yahoo
27-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Fans Troll Gabe Vincent For Surprising New Look In Training Camp Announcement Video
Fans Troll Gabe Vincent For Surprising New Look In Training Camp Announcement Video originally appeared on Fadeaway World. Los Angeles Lakers guard Gabe Vincent is looking to have an exciting offseason, as he recently announced his upcoming skills clinic in Santa Barbara. As an alumnus of UCSB, Vincent seemed particularly enthusiastic about the upcoming training camp. Unfortunately, fans were more interested in the guard's new look. Vincent has typically been known to have a beard, giving him a very distinct appearance. In the training camp announcement video, however, the guard displayed a clean-shaven look, prompting surprised reactions from fans on social media. While Vincent's motives to give back to the community were noble, fans ruthlessly trolled him for shaving his beard. With several sharing their reactions on X, we take a look at a few of the best ones. "Ewww wtf grow the beard back and gtf off the team," said one fan. "Just get off the team. I don't care what's on his face," responded another. "Put it back," demanded another. "Bro looking like he bout to drop the hardest neo soul album of all time," one fan claimed. Another fan built upon this and added, "I thought this was xxxtentacion." "We gotta trade him now lmao ain't no way he finna be cookin w no facial hair," said one fan. "Jumpscare," acknowledged another. One fan hilariously compared the look to actors in movies and said, "That's how 35-year-old actors look when they play high schoolers." "I ain't never seen Kyle and Gabe Vincent in the same room together (Just Saying)," claimed one fan, pointing out the similarity in appearance. One fan acknowledged the reality of the situation and pointed out the reason behind it, and said, "He had to cut it off. It was obvious why. Y'all are just too immature to ask. Fans remember that stress patch, which is a condition. Causes are from high anxiety and stress." Some of the comments made by the fans were hilarious, while others were rather cruel. Considering the consistent theme of demanding a trade, Vincent finds himself in a particularly tough spot with the Lakers' fan base. The 29-year-old guard is on an expiring contract, making him one of several valuable assets the Purple and Gold hold this season. While the team's tradeable draft assets are limited, their wealth of expiring contracts gives them some power. In this regard, players like Vincent have been viewed as trade chips. Although the Lakers' offseason moves have primarily involved signing free agents, rumblings are suggesting that a trade may be on the cards. Several targets have been presented, but given the team's current needs, only a few targets seem truly viable. There is no guarantee that the Lakers will be parting ways with Vincent this offseason, though. While the guard hasn't made a major impact, he's shown flashes of value off the bench, having averaged 6.4 points and 1.4 assists per game, while shooting 40% from the field and 35.3% from three-point range last season. As a solid three-and-D player, he still shows some upside. While there's still potential for him to contribute as a rotation player, the Lakers will be evaluating their story was originally reported by Fadeaway World on Jul 27, 2025, where it first appeared.
Bloomberg
25-07-2025
- Health
- Bloomberg
Elon Musk's Neuralink Joins Study Working Toward a Bionic Eye
Elon Musk's brain implant company Neuralink Corp. is collaborating with researchers in California and Spain on a clinical trial to study visual prosthetics. Neuralink's participation in the trial was disclosed in late July on a government website listing medical studies. The study is sponsored by the University of California at Santa Barbara.
South China Morning Post
28-06-2025
- Science
- South China Morning Post
Trailblazing mathematician Yitang Zhang leaves US for job at Chinese university
Chinese-American mathematician Yitang Zhang has left the United States to join Sun Yat-sen University in southern China as a full-time professor. The 70-year-old number theorist has been appointed to the university's newly established Institute of Advanced Study Hong Kong and will live and work in the Greater Bay Area , the university announced at a ceremony on Friday afternoon. While the university did not give further details about his appointment, it noted that Zhang had relocated to China with his family. Zhang spent a decade as a mathematics professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Zhang is best known for his groundbreaking work on prime numbers. In a 2013 paper published in the Annals of Mathematics, he proved for the first time that infinitely many pairs of prime numbers are separated by a bounded gap. The result marked a major step towards solving the twin prime conjecture – a fundamental unsolved problem in mathematics – and reignited global interest in number theory. Born in Shanghai in 1955, Zhang showed a strong talent for maths from an early age. He was unable to attend high school during the Cultural Revolution but taught himself and was admitted to Peking University in 1978. In 1985, he went to Purdue University in the US for his PhD. After graduating in 1991, he struggled to find an academic position. To make ends meet, Zhang worked various jobs, including as an accountant, restaurant manager, and Chinese food delivery driver, and at one point lived in his car.
Al Jazeera
18-06-2025
- Politics
- Al Jazeera
Foreign students face uncertainty under Trump's shifting visa policies
Santa Barbara, California – Far away from US President Donald Trump's public confrontations with elite universities like Harvard and Columbia, students at the bustling University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) are finishing up their final exams under the sunny skies shining above the nearby beach. Despite the distance and pleasant weather, students here still feel the cloud of uncertainty hanging over them, created by Trump's rhetoric and policies towards foreign students. 'The overall mood across the room [among international students] is that people are looking for other options,' said Denis Lomov, a 26-year-old PhD student from Russia who has been at UCSB since 2022 studying climate change politics and energy transitions. Since coming into office this year, the Trump administration has revoked the student visas of hundreds of foreign nationals, slashed funding for science and research programmes, arrested and tried to deport foreign nationals involved in pro-Palestine campus activism, and suspended student visa appointments. For international students at universities like UCSB, where nearly 15 percent of all students are from outside the US, the rhetoric and policies have left students wondering about their futures in the country. 'It makes you wonder if maybe you'd rather go somewhere else,' Lomov told Al Jazeera, adding that he is still several years away from completing his PhD. Like his fellow international students, he said he has started to consider whether his skills might be more valued in places like Canada or Europe after he finishes his programme. 'I think it's the unpredictability of these policies that makes me fear about the future, both with me being a student, but also after I graduate,' he said. The Trump administration's actions against universities and foreign students have met mixed results in the courts. On Monday, in one of the Trump administration's first significant legal victories in those efforts, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit from Columbia University over the government's cuts to the university's federal funding, based on allegations that the university had not taken adequate steps to curb pro-Palestine activism in the name of combatting anti-Semitism on campus. In another ruling, also on Monday, a judge extended a restraining order pausing Trump's efforts to block incoming international students from attending Harvard as the case makes its way through the legal system. Trump has also threatened to revoke Harvard's tax-exempt status and has frozen more than $2.6bn in research grants. Harvard has also filed a lawsuit challenging those cuts. Several universities in the UC system, including UCSB, have warned international students against travelling outside of the country, a restriction that poses serious complications for their academic work and their personal lives. 'People are considering whether they'll be able to go home and visit their families during their programme,' said Anam Mehta, a US national and PhD student at UCSB. 'They're being extra cautious about what they post online out of concern about being questioned at the airport,' added Mehta, who is also involved with the UAW 4811 academic workers union. These concerns, he said, could also stymie the ability of international students to conduct field work in foreign countries, a common feature of graduate research, or attend academic conferences abroad. Some students — and even university administrators themselves — have noted that it is difficult to keep up with the raft of policy announcements, media reports, lawsuits, and counter-lawsuits that have unfolded as Trump presses his attacks on higher education. 'There have been frequent changes and a lot of these policies have been implemented very quickly and without a lot of advanced notice,' Carola Smith, an administrator at Santa Barbara City College (SBCC), said, noting that prospective international students have reached out with questions about whether they are still able to study in the US. Smith says that between 60 and 70 different national identities are represented on campus and that, in addition to international students paying higher tuition fees than US students, their presence on campus provides a welcome exposure to a wider variety of perspectives for their classmates and creates connections with people from other parts of the world. With student visa appointments currently suspended, Smith predicted the number of foreign student enrollments could drop by as much as 50 percent in the coming year. The stress of keeping up with shifting developments has also been paired with a more abstract concern: that the US, once seen as a country that took pride in its status as a global destination for research and academics, has become increasingly hostile to the presence of foreign students. 'Harvard has to show us their lists [of foreign students]. They have foreign students, almost 31 percent of their students. We want to know where those students come from. Are they troublemakers? What countries do they come from?' Trump said in March. The administration has also said that international students take university spots that could go to US students, in line with a more inward-looking approach to policy that sees various forms of exchange with other countries as a drain on the US rather than a source of mutual benefit. 'They're arguing that they don't need international students, that this is talent they should be cultivating here at home,' says Jeffrey Rosario, an assistant professor at Loma Linda University in southern California. 'You can see a throughline between this and their tariffs abroad, based on this form of economic nationalism that says the rest of the world is ripping us off,' added Rosario, who has written about the government's history of trying to exert influence over universities. For Lomov, the student from Russia, the atmosphere has him wondering if his skills might find a better home elsewhere. 'I left Russia because I didn't feel welcome there, and my expertise wasn't really needed. That's why I left for the United States, because I knew the United States provides amazing opportunities for academics and research,' said Lomov. 'But now it feels like maybe I'm back in the same place, where I have to leave again.'
Yahoo
11-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Letters to the Editor: Why pro-Palestinian protests can actually help protect Jewish students
To the editor: Although I have no qualms calling out President Trump's exploitation of antisemitism charges to silence dissent and defund education, I object to this article's premise that the college protests make Jews unsafe and would argue the opposite is true ('Being Jewish on campus amid Trump's campaign against antisemitism: 'tremendous heartache,'' June 9). Pro-Palestinian protests on campus increase Jewish people's safety because they challenge the normalization of Israel's bombardment and blockage of food, water, medicine and fuel on a starving and caged population in Gaza. Once we normalize and arm the slaughter and imposition of starvation on Gaza, we normalize crimes against humanity everywhere, leaving us all unsafe. Moreover, Israel's proclamation that it is the state of the Jewish people unfairly associates Jews worldwide with its policies of apartheid and ethnic cleansing. I live in Santa Barbara, where I supported the UCSB encampment in the spring of last year and continue to applaud students of all denominations who say, "Never again means never again for anyone." Equating such protests and encampments with antisemitism does us all a disservice. I do not want to be associated with Israel's war crimes, as alleged by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the International Court of Justice and International Criminal Court, and appreciate the opportunity to participate in the anti-Zionist group Jewish Voice for Peace. Not in our name! Marcy Winograd, Santa BarbaraThis writer is a member of the California legislative team for Jewish Voice for Peace. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
