5/18
Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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No, ‘wokeness’ did not cause Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse
Itay Goldstein of the Wharton School says that Silicon Valley Bank’s loans to environmental and community projects were not an important factor behind its collapse.
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At long last, a donkey family tree
Dean Richardson of the School of Veterinary Medicine says that it wouldn’t take many generations to selectively breed larger and larger donkeys.
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The radical act of eating with strangers
Research by Marissa King of the Wharton School found that during the pandemic people’s social networks decreased by an average of 16 percent, with most of the losses occurring among men.
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Seeking evangelicals’ support again, Trump confronts a changed religious landscape
Michele Margolis of the School of Arts & Sciences argues that Donald Trump’s embrace of evangelicals as a constituency has politicized the term.
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New treatment could help fix the heart’s ‘forgotten valve’
Howard Herrmann of the Perelman School of Medicine is enrolling patients in a clinical trial that involves clipping the heart’s floppy tricuspid valve to make it smaller and better able to function.
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Why do so many men avoid doctor’s visits?
Nora Brier of the Perelman School of Medicine says that avoidance can worsen the anxiety and fear triggered by potential visits to the doctor’s office.
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1776 is not just what Ron DeSantis wants it to be
In his book “The Nation That Never Was,” Kermit Roosevelt III of Penn Carey Law argues that the Declaration of Independence is a statement more about Enlightenment social contract theory than abstract or concrete human rights.
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How the Fed opened Pandora’s Box
Christina Parajon Skinner of the Wharton School says that the Federal Reserve System is starting to do things that we would expect our democratically responsive government bodies to do.
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Is it fraud, or is it ‘puffery’?
Matthew Bidwell of the Wharton School asks if people would rather work four days a week and be paid less, or work five days a week and be paid more.
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REM sleep is magical. Here’s what the experts know
Indira Gurubhagavatula of the Perelman School of Medicine says that most adults should aim for seven to nine hours of sleep a night, which includes about two hours of REM sleep.