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January 16, 2024
“The idea that ‘just doing his job’ as president entails inciting a violent riot at the Capitol, interfering with the certification of the election, and attempting to throw out legitimate votes is and has always been absurd,” said Leah Litman, professor of law. “He wasn’t a candidate anymore, Trump’s new theory goes, so he must have been doing his job as president to ensure elections are fair.”
Politico -
January 15, 2024
Adults with sickle cell disease are half as likely to have received an initial COVID-19 vaccine dose as people without sickle cell disease, according to research by Sarah Reeves, assistant professor of epidemiology and pediatrics, and colleagues. “It is essential to develop targeted interventions to increase COVID-19 vaccination among people with sickle cell disease,” she said.
UPI -
January 15, 2024
Kendrin Sonneville, associate professor of nutritional sciences, worries that dieting may put some people at risk of developing an eating disorder. But even if they don’t, their relationships with food can deteriorate if they start “prioritizing weight and nutrition over joy and culture and connection,” she said.
The New York Times -
January 15, 2024
Subjecting every person to the degree of fact-checking that ousted Harvard President Claudine Gay received is “just not humanly possible,” says Earl Lewis, professor of history, Afroamerican and African studies, and public policy. “God knows, I think if we submitted every scholar in the United States to that kind of scrutiny, what would happen?”
The Chronicle of Higher Education -
January 12, 2024
“The idea of there being a statue of Penn … strikes me as something that Penn himself might have been quite ambivalent about,” said Andrew Murphy, professor of political science, on the retraction of a decision to tear down a statue of William Penn at a Philadelphia historical site.
ABC News -
January 12, 2024
“Population data reporting in China is as much a demographic issue as it is a political event,” said Yun Zhou, assistant professor of sociology, who suggests that next week’s official figures might deliberately understate the population decline to hide the magnitude of the COVID impact.
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January 12, 2024
Nicholas Bagley, professor of law, says the U.S. government should negotiate with drug companies over prices, rather than allowing states to purchase cheaper medicines directly from wholesalers in Canada: “So instead, we’re sort of trying to exploit the machinery that Canada has created and that we were too timid to create.”
The New York Times -
January 11, 2024
“People tend to assume that young folks who are ‘born digital’ have all of the skills they need to be able to navigate the online world and determine what is true or not. While they may have more skills than others … they also need explicit training in media literacy to be able to really use these tools safely and effectively,” said Cliff Lampe, professor of information.
Forbes -
January 11, 2024
“We didn’t really understand why inflation spiked in the first place. So maybe we shouldn’t be surprised that it came down faster than we thought, too,” said James Hines, professor of economics and law, who notes that the U.S. recovery has been stronger than in other developed countries.
The Wall Street Journal -
January 11, 2024
Going to bed and getting up at the same time every day can help you wake up and fall asleep more easily. “Our circadian system is constantly trying to predict the regular changes that occur in the 24-hour day to optimize our physiology best to meet that,” said Helen Burgess, professor of psychiatry and co-director of the Sleep and Circadian Research Laboratory.
National Geographic
