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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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A co-authored study by Matthew Levendusky of the School of Arts & Sciences suggests that in-person conversations with people from the other side of the political spectrum can reduce partisan hostility.
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The University of Pennsylvania is noted as one of the schools using Gather, a metaverse technology which recreates real-life buildings and interactions in a virtual meeting space.
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Farah Jan of the School of Arts & Sciences writes that ideology and religion are divisive forces in modern-day Pakistan, far from Mohammad Ali Jinnah’s dream of a secular democratic homeland with equal rights for all.
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A study from Homa Hosseinmardi of the Annenberg School for Communication suggests that television, not the web, is the top driver of partisan audience segregation among Americans.
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A report co-authored by PIK Professor Karen Glanz weighs the negative environmental effects of UV filters against their positive impact on human health.
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Ph.D. candidate Jeanna Sybert of the Annenberg School for Communication contemplates Tumblr's unique place in internet culture.
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Lacey Wade of the School of Arts & Sciences writes about a phenomenon called “linguistic convergence” when people copy word choices, mirror sentence structures, or mimic pronunciations.
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Kevin Werbach of the Wharton School wrote about the risks and rewards of decentralized finance. While there are benefits to transactions made without the involvement of a financial institution, these unregulated markets are very volatile.
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Perry World House Distinguished Global Leader-in-Residence Anote Tong, former president of the Republic of Kiribati, co-wrote an article about the uncertain future of Kiribati amid rising sea levels. “What we need is a model where displaced people can migrate to host nations when their homes become uninhabitable,” Tong and co-author Akka Rimon wrote. “Countries like Australia need workers—and we will soon need homes.”
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Dan Romer of the Annenberg Public Policy Center and a colleague from Ohio State University co-authored an article about the prevalence of guns in movies. “The more guns there are in movies, the more likely it is that a shooting will occur—both in the ‘reel’ world and in the ‘real’ world,” they wrote.