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Baby-formula shortage worsened by drop in breastfeeding rates
Diane Spatz of the School of Nursing comments on how parents who want to breastfeed need a strong support network.
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Monkeypox is here and COVID truthers are losing it
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center says that the public has tried to unmask and get back to engaging in normal activities as the pandemic ends.
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Brittney Griner’s supporters have a new strategy to free her: Make noise
Ph.D. candidate& Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon of the School of Arts & Sciences is quoted on the need to put pressure on Russia to release a detained W.N.B.A. player.
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Sigal Barsade and getting culture right
Sigal Barsade of the Wharton School is posthumously highlighted for her work on how emotions shape workplace culture and influence the performance of both individual employees and teams.
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Inside America’s biased flood program
Carolyn Kouskyof the Wharton School comments on FEMA’s mitigation efforts against flooding and the disparities in its grantmaking process.
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Resilience should not be a solitary pursuit
Angela Duckworth of the School of Arts & Sciences contends that success is about far more than innate ability and it needs long-term adherence and an acceptance that setbacks can be overcome with hard work.
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Dorothy Roberts’ “Torn Apart” calls out racial disparities in foster care
PIK Professor Dorothy Roberts discusses her new book that argues that the nation’s foster care system deprives Black parents of fundamental rights and leads to traumatic consequences for Black children.
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The kids are not all right—copycat cannabis edibles risk their safety
Andy Tan of the Annenberg School for Communication co-writes an article about how copycat cannabis edibles, which have colorful packages that mimic popular snacks and candy, have come under scrutiny.
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Philly hosts a robot lollapalooza, attracting 4,500 roboticists and showing off devices that fly, swim, and enter the body
Vijay Kumar of the School of Engineering and Applied Science is quoted on the International Conference on Robotics and Automation and how robotics has become a fundamental discipline in engineering education.
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What can Philly do to make a home for robotics to flourish? Scenes from ICRA 2022’s mad dash
Dean Vijay Kumar and Avik De of the School of Engineering and Applied Science and Laurie Actman of the Penn Center for Innovation are quoted on their participation in the International Conference on Robotics and Automation.