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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Too Many Ads in Your World? Block Them With This Headset
Undergraduate students who developed a headset called “Brand Killer: Adblock for Real Life” as a part of the PennApps Winter 2015 Hackathon are featured.
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Unconscious Thought Not So Smart After All
Jonathan Baron of the School of Arts & Sciences comments on UTA, “unconscious-thought advantage,” and how psychologists have studied it in the past.
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Real-life Logo Blocker Blurs Out Corporate White Noise
Undergraduates Tom Catullo, Alex Crits-Christoph, Jonathan Dubin and Reed Rosenbluth are featured for creating “Brand Killer” at the PennApps Winter 2015 hackathon.
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Why Do Nasty Online Comments Get Us Riled Up? It’s Literally in Our DNA.
Doctoral student Johannes Eichstaedt of the School of Arts & Sciences says, “We now think of chronic stress as a chronic upregulation of the sympathetic nervous system.”
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Tweets Can Better Predict Heart Disease Rates Than Income, Smoking and Diabetes, Study Finds
Graduate student Johannes Eichstaedt of the School of Arts & Sciences is featured for researching how emotional language used on Twitter in specific locations predicts heart disease rates in those areas.
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Word Choice on Twitter Measures a Community’s Vital Signs
Johannes Eichstaedt of the School of Arts & Sciences is quoted about researching how emotional language used on Twitter in particular locations predicts heart disease rates in those areas.
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Audio: Climate Change: Science, Politics and Public Opinion
Irina Marinov of the School of Arts & Sciences is interviewed about climate change.
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The Talking Cure
Mark Liberman and Annette Lareau of the School of Arts & Sciences are cited.
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Psychologist Paul Rozin on Wasting Food
Paul Rozin of the School of Arts & Sciences is featured for his thoughts on wasting food.
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Video: While the Drone Industry Zooms, Regulation Lags
Vijay Kumar of the School of Engineering and Applied Science discusses how to design flying robots that are equipped with sensors to avoid things autonomously.