Toll the Bell is a city-wide sound installation bringing greater awareness to the gun violence epidemic affecting our city and the nation. At 1 p.m. on June 6, National Gun Violence Awareness Day, a prolonged period of bell ringing and other sound-making will take place at 30-plus locations across the city and beyond.
Continuing the city-wide Toll the Bell event that calls attention to gun violence, this free program will feature an encore of Philadelphia-based jazz vocalist and composer Ruth Naomi Floyd’s “Echoes: Shattered Flesh and Breathless Souls,” as well as several speakers and a two-part showcase by the Omar’s Hat music collective. Omar’s Hat will perform a commissioned work exploring loss, community, and hope.
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Carlo Siracusa of the School of Veterinary Medicine says that it’s scientifically important to prove even common-sense facts like a cat’s ability to recognize its owner’s scent.
Bruce A. Brod of the Perelman School of Medicine says that the properties of chemical sunscreens can absorb different wavelengths of ultraviolet light and prevent them from damaging the skin.
Cornelia C. Walther of the Wharton School explains how AI chatbots manipulate the brain’s preference for information that feels familiar and effortless to process.
Witold Henisz of the Wharton School says that ignoring carbon emissions would incur costs bigger than the great financial crisis housing crisis, and dot-com crisis.”