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Trump, Lincoln ballot comparison meme ‘doesn't hold water,’ experts say
Rogers Smith of the School of Arts & Sciences says that 10 of the 11 states that would go on to form the Confederacy did not have ballots with Abraham Lincoln’s name on them in the 1860 election. Kermit Roosevelt of Penn Carey Law explains why likening Lincoln’s situation to Donald Trump’s is a bad comparison.
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Can a big village full of tiny homes ease homelessness in Austin?
Dennis Culhane of the School of Social Policy & Practice says that tiny homes are better for homelessness than shelter but still don’t meet America’s housing standards.
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Preparing the archives: Sun Ra comes to Kislak Center
Samantha Hill of Penn Libraries discusses the recent acquisition of two collections of archival materials by Sun Ra, a prolific jazz musician and forefather to the Afrofuturist movement.
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Judges in England and Wales are given cautious approval to use AI in writing legal opinions
Cary Coglianese of Penn Carey Law says that individual courts and judges at the federal and local levels in the U.S. have set their own rules about artificial intelligence.
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Anthony Fauci and unlocking the biggest mystery in medicine
In an Op-Ed, Michael J. Stephen of the Perelman School of Medicine shares advice gleaned from Anthony Fauci and studies of long COVID for medically addressing chronic fatigue syndrome.
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The best scholarly books of 2023
Jed Esty of the School of Arts & Sciences is lauded for his 2022 book, “The Future of Decline,” which compares the current decline of U.S. power to the dissolution of the British empire.
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AI detects cancers and immunotherapy biomarker
Daiwei Zhang and Mingyao Li of the Perelman School of Medicine and colleagues have developed an AI tool called iStar that can automatically spot tumors and types of cancer that are difficult for clinicians to see or identify and can predict candidates for immunotherapy.
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How severed cockroach legs could help us ‘fully rebuild’ human bodies
David Meaney of the School of Engineering and Applied Science oversees an undergraduate bioengineering lab that uses cockroach legs to teach students to work with human prostheses.
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Penn hires former Johns Hopkins head coach Greg Chimera as offensive coordinator
Chimera arrives at Penn after guiding Johns Hopkins to one of its best seasons in program history. The team finished with 12-1 and a quarterfinal run in the NCAA Division III playoffs.
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Life is not a series of linear stages defined by age: Mauro F Guillen
In a Q&A, Mauro F. Guillén of the Wharton School discusses his latest book, “The Perennials,” which outlines the shaping of a post-generational society and its implications for businesses, governments, and society at large.