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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Zane Cooper, a doctoral candidate in the Annenberg School for Communication, said all networked computation, including cryptocurrency, is powered by fossil fuels and harmful to the environment. “Bitcoin reveals a fundamental truth about the relationship between computing and energy,” he said.
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Amritha Mallikarjun, a postdoc in the School of Veterinary Medicine, weighed in on a study that found that female frog lungs can not only amplify the mating calls of male frogs but also muffle noises from other species. “It seems incredibly smart,” she said. “They’re taking sounds that aren’t interesting and trying to reduce them.”
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Research by Amy Castro Baker of the School of Social Policy & Practice found that guaranteed income did not dissuade recipients from working, instead enabling stability and helping people get out of the cycle of poverty.
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Dan Hopkins of the School of Arts & Sciences spoke about how Texas’ energy crisis might impact the state’s politics. “If you ask who is going to win the governor’s race in 2022, my answer is going to be the Republican,” he said. “But events like this can inject uncertainty.”
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Laura Su of the Perelman School of Medicine said certain memory cells, especially T cells, might be flexible enough to recognize a modified version of their viral target, including the novel coronavirus.
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Katherine Milkman of the Wharton School discussed the important of “temporal landmarks,” something that “stands out and makes a day feel special and different from the days that roll by without our noticing.”
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Garret FitzGerald of the Perelman School of Medicine commented on research that found that drug administration in hospitals is closely tied to clinician schedules. “Any of us that are physicians know that a lot of hospital behavior is driven by rounding times, and those rounding times are chosen for all sorts of reasons that don’t necessarily have any particular scientific basis,” he said.
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Katy Milkman of the Wharton School said pandemic-related behavior changes, like increased hand washing, may not last forever. “Certainly there will be some stickiness [in people’s behaviors], and no one’s ever going to forget going through this, but I think people are overestimating the degree to which their future actions will be shaped by the current circumstances,” she said.
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Daniel Gillion of the School of Arts & Sciences said, “Democrats are more mobilized, more likely to give, and more energized” than they have been in a while.
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Diana Mutz of the Annenberg School for Communication said Trump’s position on trade relations with China appealed to Republican supporters who view trade “as a means to dominate—as a way to beat the Chinese and these other countries and get the upper hand.”