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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Who says money can’t buy happiness? Here’s how much it costs (really) in different cities
Matthew Killingsworth of the Wharton School says that many people, including scientists, are curious about money’s relationship to happiness.
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It’s not your imagination—shopping in person is getting worse
Marshall Fisher of the Wharton School says that retailers frequently reduce employee head count because of immediate payroll savings, but they don’t necessarily know what damage that does to the top line.
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Big batteries are booming. So are fears they’ll catch fire
Sanya Carley of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the Weitzman School of Design says that people will fixate on even rare battery fires and explosions, connecting them to new infrastructure proposed in their community.
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Online gig work is growing rapidly, but workers lack job protections, a World Bank report says
Lindsey Cameron of the Wharton School explains why online gig work is ultimately exploitive in favor of the platform rather than the workers.
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Here’s why Hurricane Lee is alarming even if it doesn’t make landfall
Michael Mann of the School of Arts & Sciences says that rapid storm intensification is alarming because it means government officials and communities have less time to prepare and face more uncertainty in evacuation planning.
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In twins study, concussions in early life tied to memory issues decades later
Holly Elser of the Perelman School of Medicine says that preventive measures are key to limiting the risk of concussions.
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University of Pennsylvania buys medieval Hebrew manuscript collection
Penn has acquired a collection including scrolls and scroll fragments, manuscript leaves and manuscript fragments, complete and partial books, birth records from a Yemenite family and tefillin.
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Six Lancaster County farms preserved
Tom Daniels of the Weitzman School of Design says that Lancaster County has the most preserved farmland of all U.S. counties.
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Pet ethics, 12-foot puppet Little Amal, trivia & things to do
James Serpell of the School of Veterinary Medicine discusses the ethics of caring for a pet and pet relationships.
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PBS is coming to Philly to talk climate, community empowerment at Penn
The Penn Center for Science, Sustainability, and the Media will convene with PBS, WHYY, community leaders, science communicators, journalists, and leading scientists at an upcoming Philadelphia panel to discuss the value of storytelling to educate about climate change.