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4/26
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Daniel Rock of the Wharton School says that reducing people’s workloads is a key advantage of AI entering the workplace.
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Ethan Mollick of the Wharton School says that workers who get increasingly fluent with AI can find themselves ahead of the curve and at a distinct advantage in the workplace.
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Mathias Basner of the Perelman School of Medicine said sleeping in a quieter bedroom or wearing earplugs at night can help people cope with noise pollution. "If you're living in Manhattan, you won't notice how loud it is after a while because it is normal," he said. "But if you have habituated to it psychologically, that doesn't mean it doesn't have negative health consequences."
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Heather Sharkey of the School of Arts & Sciences spoke about the history of interreligious contact in Iraq. “What we’ve seen in the last 20 years since 2003 has been very acute, and there were challenges that led to the slight attrition of Christians steadily over time, which reduced their numbers in the long run,” she said. “But by and large, it is a history of people getting along well and that bodes well for the future of different religious communities in Iraq.”
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Alison Buttenheim of the School of Nursing spoke about the hesitancy surrounding the COVID-19 vaccine. “It looks like right now about half of adults, in the U.S. at least, say they are likely to get the vaccine—this moves around a bit—but another 20-30% either say they’re maybe unlikely or might want to wait,” she says.
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Frank Diebold of the School of Arts & Sciences shared the origins of the phrase “Big Data,” which he initially referenced in a 2003 academic paper.
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Research by John MacDonald of the School of Arts and Science was cited in an article fact-checking the most recent Democratic debate. The study found that stop and frisk “made almost no difference” to New York City’s crime rates.
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In the wake of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s decision to distance themselves from the British royal family, Mauro Guillén of the Wharton School spoke about the economic impact of monarchies around the world.
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Maria Geffen of the Perelman School of Medicine spoke about the potential implications of the ongoing use of predictive text technology. “By taking prediction away from our language system, more advanced predictive text fills it in with something that regresses to the mean, reducing variability,” she said.
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Tanya Dapkey of the School of Arts and Sciences said it’s unlikely that mosquitoes feed on inebriated humans to get drunk themselves. However, she said, the fact that “alcohol makes us more attractive to them is an interesting question to me.”