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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Kevin Volpp and David Asch of the Wharton School and Ralph Muller, former CEO of the Health System, wrote about the path to safely reopening the economy. They propose performing or observing multiple social experiments to see what does and doesn’t work and implementing “good scientific practice” to establish early warning systems.
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PIK Professor Karen Glanz offered recommendations for staying active while practicing social distancing.
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Samuel Freeman of the School of Arts and Sciences and Law School spoke about the “failed experiment” of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. constitution, which installed Prohibition, calling it “an amendment that had to do with a matter of private morality [that] didn’t work.”
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Sharath Chandra Guntuku of the Center for Digital Health and Lyle Ungar of the School of Engineering and Applied Science spoke about a study they authored that measured loneliness in Twitter posts.
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Kathleen Morrison of the School of Arts and Sciences weighed in on the origins of human remains found in India’s Skeleton Lake. “I suspect that they’re aggregated there, that local people put them in the lake,” she says. “When you see a lot of human skeletons, usually it’s a graveyard.”
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Peter Cappelli of the Wharton School said modern job listings use language that perpetuates the idea that only obsessively devoted employees are of value, potentially scaring off well-suited applicants.
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Maurice Schweitzer of the Wharton School commented on threats from Hollywood studios to boycott Georgia’s production facilities in response to the state’s new restrictions on abortion rights. Schweitzer said boycotts like these are meant to appease people outside the state who want action from people with power, in government or otherwise: “We now expect CEOs to be moral leaders.”
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Dawn Teele of the School of Arts and Sciences spoke about the suffrage movement and the problematic nature of framing the Nineteenth Amendment as an inevitable progression toward justice. Doing so, says Teele, feeds “into this idea that if only all of these excluded, downtrodden, marginalized groups could wait their turn or bide their time, then, miraculously, this change they’ve been waiting for will just appear.”
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Mary Anne Layden of the Perelman School of Medicines said the social pressure to mimic pornography can result in more sexual violence for some and a resistance to sex by others.
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A recent poll found that “three-quarters of Americans believed that unelected government and military officials secretly control policy decisions in Washington.” John Gans of the Perry World House sees these beliefs as concerning evidence of “collapsing trust” in the U.S. government.