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April 24, 2023
“We lost a disproportionate number of low-wage jobs during the early stages of the pandemic,” said economist Donald Grimes of the Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics. “As the economy recovered more fully from the pandemic, the average (wage) went down because we were disproportionately adding more lower-wage workers in industries like accommodation and food services.”
The Washington Post -
April 21, 2023
Edible landscapes in urban areas provide access to fruits, nuts and produce, and increase food security, but also benefit the environment, says Sheila Schueller, lecturer of environment and sustainability: “Food forests are not annually tilled like most crops and have deep root systems, so they can store a lot of carbon in the soil and below-ground vegetation.”
Popular Science -
April 21, 2023
While there is no federal law requiring that businesses accept cash, a proposed ordinance in Detroit would require businesses to do so. “From a business perspective, you want a customer base as wide and diverse as possible. To say you only want folks who keep money in a certain way, that’s exclusive by nature,” said Afton Branche-Wilson, assistant director of community initiatives for Poverty Solutions.
Crain's Detroit Business -
April 21, 2023
Charging parents of school shooters is gaining more attention as prosecutors face mounting political pressure to hold people accountable, but proving negligence is challenging, says Eve Brensike Primus, professor of law: “At what point do we charge the parents with being able to foresee that the child would do something like this?”
The Associated Press -
April 20, 2023
At some U.S. schools, 1 in 4 teens report they’ve abused ADHD prescription drugs in the past year, according to research by Sean Esteban McCabe, professor of nursing and director of the Center for the Study of Drugs, Alcohol, Smoking and Health: “This study is a major wake-up call. …The two biggest sources are leftover medications, perhaps from family members … and asking peers, who may attend other schools.”
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April 20, 2023
“It’s unclear what Parler’s competitive advantage would be over … other online spaces where people can gather with varying levels of anonymity and encryption. Given its association with the January 6 attacks, it seems like the brand would attract only right-aligned marginalized groups,” said Cliff Lampe, professor of information, about the relaunching of the social media platform under new ownership.
Forbes -
April 20, 2023
“It’s a breach of ethics because these lending institutions expect the Asia Society to treat objects with care and respect. These images were not made to offend, but to laud the prophet,” said Christiane Gruber, professor of Islamic art, on the Asia Society’s blurring of two borrowed images of the Prophet Muhammad in an online exhibit for fear of offending Muslims.
The New York Times -
April 19, 2023
“The expectation was: We have this ape with an upright back. It must be living in forests and it must be eating fruit. But as more and more bits of information became available, the first surprising thing we found was that the ape was eating leaves. The second surprise was that it was living in woodlands,” said Laura MacLatchy, who along with John Kingston, a fellow professor of anthropology, found that snacking on leafy greens may have helped apes stand upright.
Popular Science -
April 19, 2023
“People were starting to realize that it’s not necessarily this promise of authenticity and realness that they were expecting it to be,” said Oliver Haimson, assistant professor of information and digital studies, commenting on BeReal, a French photo-sharing app that prompts users at a different time each day to take shots with their front and rear phone cameras.
The New York Times -
April 19, 2023
“Wind and solar are very cheap. They give you zero carbon electricity. But some times of the year, and some years even, you need something other than wind and solar because you don’t have power from them. And so you get it from somewhere else,” said Michael Craig, assistant professor of environment and sustainability, and industrial and operations engineering.
The Washington Post
