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  • BlackRock CEO suggests changes to Social Security
    Newsweek

    BlackRock CEO suggests changes to Social Security

    Olivia Mitchell of the Wharton School says that early 2000s proposals for voluntary adoption of personal accounts into Social Security would have required some transition funding in the short-term but returned the system to solvency in the long-run.

    Mar 18, 2025

    Four ways the COVID-causing virus changed science
    Scientific American

    Four ways the COVID-causing virus changed science

    Susan Weiss of the Perelman School of Medicine says that the successful race to develop vaccines, especially those based on messenger RNA, was probably the most important lesson from the pandemic.

    Mar 17, 2025

    Why we’re ‘perilously close’ to a global warming threshold
    PBS NewsHour

    Why we’re ‘perilously close’ to a global warming threshold

    Michael Mann of the School of Arts & Sciences says that a critical warming threshold will be passed in little more than a decade if society continues on its current course.

    Mar 16, 2025

    Business schools ease their resistance to AI
    Financial Times

    Business schools ease their resistance to AI

    Christian Terwiesch of the Wharton School found that ChatGPT outperformed some students in his operations management class.

    Mar 16, 2025

    We should ask why alcohol remains our social default
    Boston Globe

    We should ask why alcohol remains our social default

    Postdoc Luis E. Seija of the Perelman School of Medicine writes that society should be honest about the risks of alcohol and its role in lives rather than mythologizing it as a modern-day miracle.

    Mar 16, 2025