In the News
-
August 27, 2024
Caffeine and alcohol often make it difficult to fall asleep and may contribute to lower sleep quality, says Erica Jansen, assistant professor of nutritional sciences: “It’s best to avoid both substances four to six hours before bedtime. Although alcohol may cause you to fall asleep faster, it … leaves you feeling unrefreshed.”
I News (U.K.) -
August 27, 2024
Nikola Banovic, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science, says the generative AI model used by X (formerly Twitter) lacks guardrails and can be used with little to no training or tutorials: “What makes it particularly challenging is that (models) are approaching the ability to generate something really realistic, perhaps even plausible, but that the general public might not have the kind of media or AI literacy to detect as disinformation.”
Rolling Stone -
August 27, 2024
Amy Young, lecturer of business communication, says workplace burnout is caused not only by how much work employees have but how that work is done. Burnout can lead to “not showing up to work in a way that they once did, being late on getting assignments in, just low energy. … If you have a really inefficient workflow, or if there are unnecessary tasks that an employee is doing, they can feel really discouraged.”
Inc. Australia -
August 26, 2024
As the world’s population increases and more infrastructure is built across the planet, about 57% of all land will see a rise in overlap between humans and wildlife by 2070, say Neil Carter, associate professor of environment and sustainability, and SEAS research fellow Deqiang Ma. “This means that all sorts of novel interactions, good and bad, between people and wildlife will emerge in the near future,” Carter said. The increasing overlap, Ma said, “is the result of the expansion of human population much more so than changes in species distributions caused by climate change.”
Newsweek -
August 26, 2024
“Immigrants are not an organized rebel group ready to commit violence. They are often fleeing dire and dangerous situations and just trying to live their lives,” said Megan Stewart, associate professor of public policy, who notes that, historically, the much more common dynamic is that immigrants are victims of violence perpetrated by right-wing extremists with white supremacist ideologies.
CNBC -
August 26, 2024
Research by Julie Bynum, professor of geriatric medicine, suggests that stigma as well as access to primary care or behavioral neurological specialists may impact the odds of getting a formal diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease: “We tell anecdotes about how hard it is to get a diagnosis and maybe it is harder in some places. It’s not just your imagination. It actually is different from place to place.”
National Public Radio -
August 21, 2024
“Air pollutants are able to get really deep into our lungs. They can actually travel around our bodies. … They can impact how well our brain works and all of those things — your ability to breathe, your ability to process information while not having dementia — contribute to people’s ability to take care of themselves in late life,” said Sara Adar, professor of epidemiology.
WEMU Radio -
August 21, 2024
“There’s no way that it wouldn’t be a mess. You will have taxpayers pushing their attorneys to try to characterize their wage and salary income as tips. And some would be successful, inevitably, because it’s impossible to write foolproof rules that will cover every situation,” said James Hines, professor of law and economics, about proposals from both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris to eliminate federal taxes on workers’ tips.
The Associated Press -
August 21, 2024
“It’s a positive outcome if you don’t have to live together after you’ve broken up. It allows people to live in the way they want to be living,” said Natasha Pilkauskas, associate professor of public policy, whose research found that a temporary financial benefit for parents during the pandemic helped low-income families stay in their homes — and had the effect of allowing mothers to move on from unwanted partners.
The New York Times -
August 21, 2024
Because of their inverse relationship, bonds are a good way to hedge investments in stocks, but there’s a catch, says Paolo Pasquariello, professor of finance: “If you put some of the eggs in stocks and some of the eggs in bonds, when one of the baskets is breaking, the other one is not. (But) it turns out that this relationship is not stable.”
Marketplace
