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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center says that the term “monkeypox” doesn’t convey useful information and predicts that the public will easily adapt to a new name.
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Larry Hamermesh and Jill Fisch of Penn Carey Law speak about how Twitter whistleblower Peiter Zatko’s claims might affect Elon Musk’s case against Twitter.
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Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center says that the CDC fostered a culture of arrogance, overestimating their ability to get things right.
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Adriana Petryna of the School of Arts & Sciences writes that risk factors for wildfires are setting the stage for disasters that our current tools are not always able to manage or suppress.
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Stanley Plotkin of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted on how we can learn things more quickly by doing challenge studies.
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Z. John Zhang of the Wharton School said added fees can deter customers. “Consumers will make buying decisions based mostly on price, and every firm has a strong incentive to quote a lower price to arouse the purchasing interest from a discerning customer and hopefully lock him or her in,” he said.
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Cary Coglianese of the Law School weighed in on the potential impact of proposed boating regulations in California, which some argue could negatively affect mom-and-pop sport-fishing and whale-watching businesses. “You could say society is subsidizing these businesses,” Coglianese said. “We are incurring the cost of this harmful pollution.”
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Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center said herd immunity, which assumes uniform behavior among individuals, is more complicated than people think it is. “Humans are not a herd,” she said.
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Barbara Kahn of the Wharton School said Facebook’s plan to rebrand is both an attempt to distance itself from past controversies and to appeal to the next generation of users. “The big issue for young people is that Facebook is Granny’s platform, your parents’ platform,” she said. “They need to get away from that.”
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Americus Reed II of the Wharton School said gymnast Simone Biles is one of the few athletes who can expand her brand beyond her sport and into the “greater cultural stratosphere.”