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May 19, 2023
Buildings made up of patterned glass are more visible to birds by breaking up reflections, says Ben Winger, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and assistant curator at the Museum of Zoology. “The window doesn’t look just like the cloudy sky or vegetation around it. It gives them a moment of pause and they will slow down or change direction.”
Crain's Detroit Business -
May 19, 2023
“They need only look next door to Burma to see how bad things can get when a military ignores democratic elections and tries to rule without any meaningful support in cities and among the young,” said Dan Slater, professor of political science and director of the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, about the massive loss of support for Thailand’s military-backed establishment.
The Washington Post -
May 19, 2023
“Republicans have to play this very careful game of supporting the wealthy and big business behind the scenes, but making it appear to the public that they’re on the side of the little person. That’s why going after wokeness is a good way to do it — because that’s not a bread and butter issue (for corporations),” said Mark Mizruchi, professor of sociology and management and organizations.
BBC -
May 18, 2023
“Yes, the FBI could be second-guessed for some of its decisions, and it got sloppy” at times, but given the suggestion that a hostile foreign power was trying to manipulate a presidential election, “it would have been a dereliction of duty not to investigate,” said Barbara McQuade, professor from practice of law, about a probe of the the FBI investigation into Russia’s attempts to manipulate the 2016 election.
The Washington Post -
May 18, 2023
More families are food insecure now than they were 20 years ago, said Noura Insolera, a research investigator at the Institute for Social Research: “The real wages have decreased and then prices are going up. Even if you’re working full-time you just don’t have enough.”
The Detroit News -
May 18, 2023
A common form of greenwashing “is a hidden trade-off between the company’s market activities and its political activities,” said Tom Lyon, professor of business economics and public policy, and environment and sustainability. “You may get a company that says, ‘Look at this, we invested $5 million in renewable energy last year.’ They may not tell you that they spent $100 billion drilling for oil in a sensitive location (and) … $50 million lobbying against climate legislation.”
Salon -
May 17, 2023
Joint bank accounts can help control spending and lead to a happier marriage, suggests research by Scott Rick, associate professor of marketing. “With separate accounts, you really get into scorekeeping: ‘Well I paid this, and you paid that.’ You want to get away from ‘his’ money and ‘her’ money and you want to get into ‘our’ money,” he said. “It might tamp down some more extravagant spending.”
MarketWatch -
May 17, 2023
“If anything, the pandemic has shown us just how important social interaction is for overall mental and physical health and how much more attention we need to pay to this from a clinical, policy and personal perspective,” said Preeti Malani, professor of internal medicine, whose research found that one in three people between 50 and 80 say they sometimes or often experience loneliness.
National Public Radio -
May 17, 2023
“The depositors — they have calmed down, I think … (but) stockholders are going to continue to freak out because there is no bailout happening for the stockholders,” said Amiyatosh Purnanandam, professor of finance, on the aftermath of the recent bank failures in which the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. stepped in to make depositors whole — but not bank investors.
Marketplace -
May 16, 2023
Sandra Graham-Bermann, professor of psychology, says uncertainty immediately following the shooting at Michigan State University in February added to the trauma: “The longer (it) goes on, the more likely people are to be troubled by it and worried about it.” The surge in 911 calls came from people “becoming hyper aware of their surroundings, being on guard … a sharpened focus on who and what is around them.”
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