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How to die in good health
The New Yorker

How to die in good health

PIK Professor Ezekiel Emanuel says that incessantly preparing for old age mistakes a long life for a worthwhile one.

‘Can Technology Spark Joy and Imagination?’
A stage with three chairs, two tables, and a blank screen; Bauermeister and Patton look on as Cogburn speaks.

Bauermeister (left) and Patton (right) look on as Cogburn speaks at the recent lecture “Can Technology Spark Joy and Imagination?”

(Image: Michael Fisher)

‘Can Technology Spark Joy and Imagination?’

In the 2024 Albert M. Greenfield Memorial lecture hosted by Penn Nursing, Desmond Upton Patton and Courtney D. Cogburn discussed how social media and AI might foster well-being.

Kristina García

What the brain reveals in nature’s subtle game of give and take 
A person in a suit and button-down shirt sitting on a stairwell landing, smiling. The intricate white stairwell and a brick wall behind it are to the person's right.

Penn Integrates Knowledge professor Michael Platt holds appointments in the Department of Psychology in the School of Arts & Sciences, the Department of Neuroscience in the Perelman School of Medicine, and the Marketing Department in the Wharton School.

What the brain reveals in nature’s subtle game of give and take 

Research led by Michael Platt uncovers the neural pathways for primate reciprocity, social support, and empathy.
Scholars at risk in their own countries find a new home at Penn
Philadelphia Inquirer

Scholars at risk in their own countries find a new home at Penn

Penn Global’s Scholars-at-Risk program is featured. Global’s Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Scott Moore, Penn Carey Law’s Eric Feldman, and Wharton’s Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, along with former and current scholars Angel Alvarado, Pavel Golubev, and Jawad Moradi are interviewed.

‘From the Freedom Rides to neuroscience’
Peter Sterling recently next to mugshot from 1961.

University of Pennsylvania neuroscience professor Peter Sterling joined the Freedom Rides in 1961, when he was an undergraduate at Cornell University, and was arrested.

(Images: Courtesy of the Office of Social Equity and Inclusion)

‘From the Freedom Rides to neuroscience’

In conversation with Professor of Practice Ben Jealous, neuroscience professor Peter Sterling returned to campus to talk about activism in his youth and how that informed his research in health.
The YouTube algorithm isn’t radicalizing people
A person pressing play on a YouTube video on a smartphone.

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The YouTube algorithm isn’t radicalizing people

A new study from Annenberg School for Communication’s Computational Social Science Lab finds that the YouTube recommendation system is less influential on users’ political views than is commonly believed.

From Annenberg School for Communication