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September 7, 2022
The impact of climate change depends on how much a community can adapt to change. For instance, heat waves may be more bearable for affluent residents who can afford to adjust their living circumstances. “For communities in which residents are facing greater economic challenges, the purchase of air conditioning units or weatherization of homes is simply not an option,” said Frank Marsik, an associate research scientist of climate and space sciences. Richard Rood, professor of climate and space sciences and engineering, said reducing greenhouse gas emissions would prevent further temperature increases, but more action to remove these gasses from the atmosphere is necessary to reverse the heat from human-induced climate change.
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September 7, 2022
“President Biden has taken some criticism about doing some partisan action that has … not necessarily brought the country together,” said Aaron Kall, U-M director of debate, about the recent speech amid ongoing investigations by the Jan. 6 committee and the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago. “So with just over two months until the midterm elections, certainly something he wants to do.”
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September 7, 2022
“Right now, this solves some kind of need for sex, intimacy, companionship — whatever it is — but this does not have necessarily a long-term time horizon,” said Elizabeth Armstrong, professor of sociology, about “situationship,” a term that describes a hard-to-define stage of dating that experts say has skyrocketed in popularity among Gen Z.
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September 6, 2022
“The prognosis for the forest is not great,” said Peter Reich, director of the Institute for Global Change Biology at the School for Environment and Sustainability, of Michigan’s forests. “It may be we are at a tipping point beyond which these northern species just can’t hack it. Nature is really resilient, but we are pushing it really far, maybe up to its boundaries.”
Detroit Free Press -
September 6, 2022
An expanded U-M program, Michigan Alternate Route to Certification, seeks to bring career changers into education. School districts that are very urban or very rural areas have tended to be hit the hardest by teacher shortage, said Kendra Hearn, associate dean in the School of Education. Added Jean Mrachko, associate director of M-ARC, “We’re not sacrificing the integrity or quality or even the content of the training. What we’re doing is flipping the model.”
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September 6, 2022
“If we don’t pay attention to the unintended impacts of policies such as the plastic waste ban, we run into the potential of playing environmental Whac-a-Mole,” said Shelie Miller, professor of environment and sustainability and director of the Program in Environment, of New Jersey as the only state to ban paper and plastic bag.
New York Times -
September 2, 2022
Web designers often focus on monetization or engagement tactics — hooking users by offering “rewards” for watching ads or finding ways to make it hard to navigate off a site — and don’t consider the unintended negative consequences to kids. “We’re finding that adult design norms are just copied and pasted sloppily into children’s digital products,” said Jenny Radesky, assistant professor of pediatrics.
Los Angeles Times -
September 2, 2022
“This doesn’t solve everything about college affordability. And I guess it wasn’t fully intended to do that,” said Terri Friedline, associate professor of social work, of President Biden’s student debt plan. “This is one part of a much larger and more complicated question about how we pay for and fund higher education.”
The New Yorker -
September 2, 2022
The lack of rules for readjustments and updates in the criteria for Brazil’s social program leaves room for political use, said Luciana de Souza Leão, assistant professor of sociology. “Ideally, all this would be regulated so that they stop playing with the lives of poor families. We have to see this social policy as a right to income transfer.”
Folha de São Paulo -
September 1, 2022
Ukraine wants the West to take more action against Russia with a visa ban that would prohibit Russian travelers from entering the European Union, the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada. “A potential EU visa ban is being discussed as evidence of ethnic discrimination against Russians, and as a warning to anyone considering leaving the country that ‘no one wants you over there,'” said Yuri Zhukov, associate professor of political science.
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