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  • You’re probably doing small talk wrong
    The New York Times

    You’re probably doing small talk wrong

    Erica Boothby of the Wharton School explains how strong bonds occur through playful conversational riffing rather than pre-existing similarities.

    Sep 4, 2025

    The politics of cutting someone out of your life
    Deseret News (Salt Lake City)

    The politics of cutting someone out of your life

    Matthew Levendusky from the School of Arts & Sciences comments on liberal voters being more likely to cut off someone due to their opposing politics.

    Sep 4, 2025

    How Philadelphia scientists turn toxic fungi, snake venom, and trees into medicine
    Philadelphia Inquirer

    How Philadelphia scientists turn toxic fungi, snake venom, and trees into medicine

    Xue (Sherry) Gao of the School of Engineering and Applied Science and César de la Fuente of Penn Engineering, the Perelman School of Medicine, and the School of Arts & Sciences are discovering lifesaving therapeutics in unexpected places.

    Sep 3, 2025

    This is how much we can cool the planet by burying carbon underground
    The Washington Post

    This is how much we can cool the planet by burying carbon underground

    Jennifer Wilcox of the Weitzman School of Design’s Kleiman Center for Energy Policy and School for Engineering and Applied Science says that geological carbon storage is large but not limitless and should be prioritized.

    Sep 3, 2025

    Damson Idris has his eye on jewelry fame
    The New York Times

    Damson Idris has his eye on jewelry fame

    PIK Professor Michael Platt of the Wharton School, Perelman School of Medicine, and School of Arts & Sciences says that Damson Idris’s Didris jewelry brand is taking the right steps to be authentic and appealing for consumers.

    Sep 3, 2025

    So um, why do we say ‘um’ so much?
    NPR

    So um, why do we say ‘um’ so much?

    Delphine Dahan of the School of Arts & Sciences says that the shortness of “um” and its employment of the “uh” vowel makes it easy to say, since it relaxes the tongue.

    Sep 3, 2025