On an episode of “The Smerconish Podcast,” Kathleen Hall Jamieson discusses the Annenberg Public Policy Center’s new study on declining civics knowledge.

Russel Ramsay of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted on the notion of uncertainty as an anxiety generator.

Witold Henisz of the Wharton School says that new Republican anti-environmental state policies have created an opaque system in which politicians have total discretion.

Hun Michel Koo of the School of Dental Medicine, Edward Steager of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and colleagues have created automated shapeshifting microrobots with the ability to brush, floss, and rinse teeth.

Jeffrey S. Morris of the Perelman School of Medicine says that people have become apathetic about COVID-19 but that long COVID’s loose symptoms make determining its risk difficult.