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MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies

MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies

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  • shrubble
    Is it true that Brookline had very few murders in the past 5 years? Increases the chance of it being targeted instead of random.
  • mxkopy
    This is his ORCID profile, which lists his grants and published works:https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9755-6563
  • kazinator
    > Correction 16 December: An earlier version of this story incorrectly defined the kind of plasma that Professor Loureiro researched.If I get shot and someone writes some libelous bullshit about how I worked with hygienic macro systems, someone kindly jump on that shit ASAP. Thanks in advance!
  • simple10
    Here's the local Boston news reporting on it:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmbmBNre5SQ
  • javiramos
    Could this be related to the Brown shooting?
  • JuniperMesos
    My prediction is that it was a random home invasion robbery committed by someone with multiple previous felonies who had no idea that the person living in the house they were trying to rob was a MIT professor.But I have no more information than anyone else does, I'm making a low-confidence educated guess, and at some point in the near future it's very likely that the professionals whose job it is to investigate serious crimes will have a better idea of what actually happened than anyone posting in this thread.
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  • RagnarD
    I'd made another post (that I can't reply to) pointing to an Israeli news article that Nuno Loureiro was Jewish. Apparently, he was not, so please note the correction here.To those who say that being Jewish would NOT have been a motivation for some in the world: stop evading reality. Especially so soon after the Bondi beach massacre.
  • neilv
    Flagged. The post is about someone just murdered, yet most of the HN comments on this post are strangely insensitive and dumb. HN ranks highly in Google, so friends and family members may see these comments.
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  • david_shaw
    >"The theoretical physicist and fusion scientist was known for his award-winning research in magnetised plasma dynamics.Magnetised plasma dynamics is the study of the state of matter in which the motion of charged particles is influenced by the presence of an external magnetic field, according to Nature.Loureiro joined MIT's faculty in 2016 and was named director of MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center in 2024."Although it may be a total red herring, it may be worth noting that there are (debatably pseudoscientific) theories -- primarily Plasma cosmology[1] and the Electric Universe theory[2] -- that are related to (and potentially in conflict with) this field of research.1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_cosmology2: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Electric_Universe
  • FilosofumRex
    Pros always use silencers - but amateurs instigated/inspired by security services/spies, are meant to be caught and will confess