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The independent email service she helped start in a Penn dorm almost 30 years ago now has 400,000 users
Alumna Helen Horstmann-Allen is profiled for her foundation, as a Penn undergraduate, of independent email service Fastmail.
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This Penn researcher is exploring how ChatGPT fits into the social sciences
PIK Professor Desmond Upton Patton and colleagues are studying how generative AI, particularly chatbots, can be used ethically in social sciences work.
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Fruit and vegetable ‘prescriptions’ may lead to better heart health
Kevin Volpp of the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School says that randomized trials would be the most systematic way to assess the effectiveness of produce prescription programs.
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Why delays in delivering justice lead to harsher sentencing
A series of studies by Samir Nurmohamed of the Wharton School and colleagues found that delays in arrests or sentencing increase the severity of punishments levied by judges.
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Promoting your ex-CEO to executive chairman is a recipe for trouble. So why are so many companies making that mistake?
Peter Cappelli of the Wharton School questions the purpose behind promoting an ex-CEO to executive chairman.
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Avoid opioids for short-term dental pain in kids, new guidelines say
The Center for Integrative Global Health at the School of Dental Medicine has endorsed guidelines discouraging opioid prescriptions for children with short-term dental pain.
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Have this talk with your parents now to reduce heartache later
A 2017 study of 800,000 Americans by the Perelman School of Medicine found that only 29% had completed a living will detailing their care wishes and only 33% had designated a health care power of attorney.
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Climate change will raise sea levels, cause apocalyptic floods and displace almost a billion people
Michael Mann of the School of Arts & Sciences says that the displacement of hundreds of millions of climate refugees is inevitable but would take place over a much more manageable timeline if carbon emissions were immediately reduced, as opposed to continuing with current rates of fossil fuel burning.
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Climate activists target jets, yachts and golf in a string of global protests against luxury
Michael Mann of the School of Arts & Sciences warns that diverting attention from fossil fuel companies toward the rich could play into the hands of a deflection campaign against climate regulation.
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Can’t sleep? Try this proven alternative to medication
Philip Gehrman of the Perelman School of Medicine says that as many as 80% of the people who try cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia see improvements in their sleep, with most patients finding relief within four to eight sessions even if they’ve had insomnia for decades.