4/22
Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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What happens when humans stop emitting carbon dioxide?
Michael Mann of the School of Arts & Sciences appears on “The Sweaty Penguin” to clarify misconceptions about a “carbon lag” that would supposedly continue warming the planet for decades, even after humans stopped emitting carbon dioxide.
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Curbing gun violence with a public health approach
Sara Jacoby of the School of Nursing explains how public health research and interventions could be used to reduce gun violence.
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Mary Frances Berry and Douglas Brinkley
Mary Frances Berry of the School of Arts & Sciences joined a conversation about the inauguration of President Biden, the legacy of President Trump, and the state of the country. “There are some deep-seated fissures in our country on major issues like race, law enforcement, poverty, homelessness, and jobs,” she said. “None of those went away while Trump was there and they haven’t gone away yet, and after the pandemic they will still be here.”
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Millions of Americans are receiving relief payments this week, but who is being left out?
Amy Castro Baker of the School of Social Policy & Practice said lawmakers should consider how stimulus legislation will shape society going forward. “Any types of inequality that we’re writing into policy now are going to have a reverberation moving forward—both in terms of policy precedent and in terms of uneven distribution of resources,” she said.
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Study finds kittens bond with their human caregivers like babies do
Carlo Siracusa of the School of Veterinary Medicine advised readers to keep in mind that while babies and kittens are similar, they’re not analogous; scientific findings about one may not hold true for the other. “We should be open-minded about the idea that there are other variables [at play],” he said.
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Radical ideas spread through social media. Are the algorithms to blame?
Hadi Elzayn, a Ph.D. student in the School of Arts and Sciences, weighed in on the logic that fuels social media algorithms. Elzayn said that these platforms tend to cater to our immediate gratification, not our long-term goals: “This principle is often called ‘revealed preference’ in economics.”
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Video: Rise of the Robots
Dean Vijay Kumar of the School of Engineering and Applied Science is included in a video about how human-like robots can change the future.