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February 4, 2019
“The first rule of the Dunning-Kruger club is you don’t know you’re a member of the Dunning-Kruger club. People miss that,” said David Dunning, professor of psychology. “The work is about (how) when people don’t get it, they don’t realize they don’t get it. And so the fact that people don’t get the work in major ways is a delicious irony, but also terrific confirmation.”
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February 4, 2019
Earth’s lack of carbon may have saved it from a Venus-like fate, says Ted Bergin, professor of astronomy, whose work on how primordial gas and dust turned into stars and habitable planets garnered him the 2019 Heineman Prize for Astrophysics.
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February 4, 2019
“I’d give them a 50-percent chance for prevailing, only because they’ll have the money for the lawyers,” said Jessica Litman, professor of law, and information, regarding a potential legal challenge by broadcast companies against Locast, a free app that streams network TV to users in several U.S. cities.
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February 3, 2019
“The independent candidacies that have done the best often have had a kind of populist orientation or capitalize on a particular issue where the parties are out of step with the public. It’s not clear that either of those applies to Schultz,” said Brendan Nyhan, professor of public policy, on the potential independent White House bid by former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz.
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February 3, 2019
“The results are better than expected because expectations were so low. The company still faces the huge challenges of managing its mountain of debt and restoring investor confidence in the accuracy of its numbers,” said Erik Gordon, clinical assistant professor of business, commenting on General Electric beating estimates for sales and cash flow in the fourth quarter.
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February 3, 2019
John Chamberlin, professor emeritus of political science and public policy, was quoted in an article about how Michigan’s new Democratic governor, attorney general and secretary of state are working in concert to disrupt conservative efforts they oppose, even as Republicans still control the state House and Senate.
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January 31, 2019
Comments by Anna Stefanopoulou, director of the U-M Energy Institute and professor of mechanical engineering, were featured in a story about why electric cars struggle in cold temperatures.
Wired -
January 31, 2019
“(It’s) not just the engineering pieces, but a lot of the other social questions that (need to) be well understood before these systems are really going to benefit us. We’re working just as hard on those topics as on the engineering in Michigan,” said Greg McGuire, lab director at Mcity Lab, on the societal and legal implications of self-driving vehicles.
VentureBeat -
January 31, 2019
“This is a remarkable narrowing of the lines between governance, business and politics since the app is not put forth as a channel to learn about the government but centered on the person himself,” said Joyojeet Pal, associate professor of information, on the built-in social network of the personal mobile application of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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January 30, 2019
Heather Ann Thompson, professor of Afroamerican and African studies, history, and the Residential College, says African Americans are less likely than whites to be able to marshal resources to fight back against the justice system: “It has everything to do with who has access to good defense lawyers and who’s getting pulled over to begin with.”
USA Today
