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January 15, 2025
“If you really want people to care about climate change, put a dollar sign on it and then it hits them personally because the typical line among scientists (is) people will deny climate change. Either it will happen to somebody else, someplace else, or in the future. And it remains abstract,” said Andy Hoffman, professor of sustainable enterprise, on the impact of climate change on property insurance costs.
Michigan Public -
January 15, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court opinion that overturned a school integration plan in Detroit in 1972 was “grounded in white innocence. … There was no acknowledgment of how Blacks were locked in specific Detroit neighborhoods and mostly Black schools, and then into an ever-expanding urban core that was hermetically sealed off from the suburbs,” wrote Michelle Adams, professor of law.
The New York Times -
January 14, 2025
“We have people that are basically not literate or don’t have basic literacy, and it’s a pretty large percentage of the state of Michigan who isn’t even at basic, certainly not at proficient,” said Pamela Davis-Kean, professor of psychology and director of the Survey Research Center at the Institute for Social Research, on the effects of the pandemic learning loss.
WDIV Detroit -
January 14, 2025
“How can we not regulate it if little kids are not only being exposed to it but actually are becoming walking billboards for some of those sports betting companies,” said Michal Lorenc, clinical assistant professor of kinesiology, who believes that backlash to widespread sports betting advertising might lead to regulation.
WCMU Radio -
January 14, 2025
“Exposure to wildfire smoke can contribute to chronic lung disease and cardiovascular disease. It can even increase the risk of dementia,” said MeiLan Han, professor of internal medicine, who advises people to limit outdoor activity when air quality is poor, or at least wear an N95 mask if going outside is necessary.
The Wall Street Journal -
January 13, 2025
About a third of older Americans feel a lack of companionship “some of the time” or “often,” while 1 in 10 cannot name one close friend, according to Sarah Patterson, research assistant professor at the Institute for Social Research and a demographer working with the National Poll on Healthy Aging. “They didn’t think of even one person,” she said.
Bridge Michigan -
January 13, 2025
New FDA guidance on how manufacturers should test and label pulse oximeters is “an important step,” says Thomas Valley, associate professor of internal medicine, but may not be enough: “One reason why this problem has persisted for so long is that pulse oximeters are rarely, if ever, tested on the patients for whom we most need to know their (blood) oxygen levels — sick patients, often in the hospital.”
STAT -
January 13, 2025
Many patients read their medical test results online before their doctor has had a chance to go over them, provoking confusion and anxiety, mainly because medical reports contain a lot of jargon the average patient doesn’t understand, says Cathryn Lapedis, assistant professor of pathology: “Most people cannot get basic information — like whether or not they have prostate cancer — from standard pathology reports.”
U.S. News & World Report -
January 10, 2025
An understanding of how the moon’s temperatures fluctuate in different places will be crucial for future exploration, says John Monnier, professor of astronomy: “If we want to have a permanent settlement on the moon, like a base, or we want to have scientific instruments, we have to know the temperature and how it varies so we can make things that will last.”
Live Science -
January 10, 2025
“Drivers perform many different services in terms of customer service, like answering questions, responding to incidents, or offering help if somebody has a health crisis. There are many different social functions of having paid staff on the bus that contribute to the success of transit,” said Robert Goodspeed, associate professor of urban and regional planning, on the advantages of traditional public transport vs. autonomous personal rapid transit.
Bloomberg
