On an episode of “Working It,” Lindsay Cameron of the Wharton School examines whether the four-day workweek is a viable long-term solution by contrasting the difference between U.S. and European work attitudes.
A study by Dan Romer of the Annenberg Public Policy Center and colleagues found that 56% of stories published last year perpetuated the false connection between the holidays and suicide.
A report from Jesse Taylor of the Perelman School of Medicine and colleagues finds that minor, well-healed facial scars may actually increase perceived friendliness, rather than negatively affecting first impressions of attractiveness or confidence.
Scott Hensley of the Perelman School of Medicine and colleagues have developed an experimental mRNA flu vaccine that could fight the entire family of influenza viruses.
A quoted essay by Kevin Platt of the School of Arts & Sciences derides pro-Ukraine cancellation of Russian art as reflecting the same kind of nationalism driving the Russian invasion.
Rachel Werner of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics says that it’s hard to balance competing life priorities when getting access to care from a doctor’s office or pharmacy.
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center says that reduced time in the classroom for teaching civics will come back to haunt America’s future politics.
The Philadelphia Orchestra has donated almost its entire archive, as well as that of the Academy of Music, to Penn Libraries’ Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books, and Manuscripts, with quotes from the center’s director, Sean M. Quimby.
Tobias Wolff of Penn Carey Law discusses whether the Respect for Marriage Act would provide protection for married same-sex couples.