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The world's oceans have suddenly spiked much hotter and well above record levels in the last few weeks, with scientists trying to figure out what it means and whether it forecasts a surge in atmospheric warming.

Guys, take out the razor blades and get ready to shave, and save the world!

President Donald Trump's legal team suffered yet another defeat in court on Nov. 27 as a federal appeals court in Philadelphia roundly rejected the campaign's latest effort to challenge the state's election results.

Trump's lawyers vowed to appeal to the Supreme Court despite the judges' assessment that the "campaign's claims have no merit."

"It is so good to be home. This is a picture of my nostos," tweeted University of Pennsylvania classical studies professor Emily Wilson on May 13, attaching a photographs of her two daughters. She had clearly missed her family during her lengthy tour of Great Britain and Australia to promote her critically acclaimed translation of Homer's "Odyssey."

'After Europe' by Ivan Krastev (University of Pennsylvania Press, 120 pages, $19.95)

'What Is Populism?' by Jan-Werner Müller (University of Pennsylvania Press, 136 pages, $20)

English-speaking universities continue to dominate the world, according to a new ranking from the Times Higher Education (THE) supplement released on Thursday.

According to University of Pennsylvania linguistics professor Mark Liberman speakers of English, Spanish, Polish, Norwegian and Swedish all use … Greek as a metaphor for the incomprehensibility as a language, as in “It’s all Greek to me”.

Yet, what do Greeks use to describe the incomprehensible?

It’s Chinese.