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November 23, 2020
“It’s not that people suddenly start grinding their teeth when they’re stressed. It’s usually that they have an underlying habit that’s minor and then when they’re stressed it becomes more severe and it starts affecting their life in different ways,” said Romesh Nalliah, clinical professor of dentistry, on the uptick in dental patients nationwide experiencing pain from grinding or clenching their teeth during the pandemic.
MarketWatch -
November 20, 2020
“They’ve got to give some rational explanation for why change … is okay. So that makes it a little bit more challenging,” said Oday Salim, director of the Environmental Law and Sustainability Clinic, on Joe Biden’s plan to restore environmental protections gutted by Donald Trump. “You read descriptions of the process and it sounds like flipping a switch,” said Barry Rabe, professor of public policy and the environment. “But the quick things tend to be somewhat superficial. The deeper and more significant the action, the more likely you are going to bat a hornet’s nest.”
Grist -
November 20, 2020
Richard Primus, professor of law, commended Michigan’s Republican legislative leaders for not trying to appoint their own slate of electors after the popular election was held, saying to do so would be an “enormous affront to American democracy”: “It would produce outrage in the streets of a kind that Americans have usually been spared. It would provoke an enormous crisis because it would be just so inappropriate.”
The Detroit News -
November 20, 2020
“The reality is that Michigan, and the west side of Michigan especially, never got close enough to (COVID-19) containment over the summer, and so every region still had enough embers around to restart a fire as soon as behavior changed,” said Emily Toth Martin, associate professor of epidemiology.
HuffPost -
November 19, 2020
New research by cardiologist Yogendra Kanthi and rheumatologist Yu Zuo, both assistant professors of internal medicine, shows that the novel coronavirus can trigger the production of clot-causing autoantibodies — which may explain the high rate of blood clots among COVID-19 patients. “Antibodies from patients with active COVID-19 infection created … some of the worst clotting we’ve ever seen,” Kanthi said.
Medical News Today -
November 19, 2020
Sinking fish carcasses carry toxic mercury pollution from the surface waters to the most remote parts of the ocean, according to research by Joel Blum, professor of earth and environmental sciences, and chemistry: “It was widely thought that anthropogenic mercury was mainly restricted to the upper 1,000 meters of the oceans, but we found that while some of the mercury in these deep-sea trenches has a natural origin, it is likely that most of it comes from human activity.”
Earth.com -
November 19, 2020
“If you had asked me a month ago, ‘Who are the other Black microbiologists?’ I would have had one, maybe two people that I would have known offhand. I know at least 30 very well, and about 100 more,” said Ariangela Kozik, research fellow in internal medicine, on concerted efforts on social media to raise the profile of Black scientists. “It kind of solidifies the fact that we are not out here on our own.”
The Scientist -
November 18, 2020
Research led by Sang Gune Yoo, a resident in internal medicine, found that patients who used cannabis and underwent angioplasty to clear blocked arteries were more likely to experience stroke and bleeding after the procedure than those who didn’t use pot, and that marijuana smokers who had survived a heart attack were more likely to have a subsequent heart attack.
NBC News -
November 18, 2020
“This action is based on sound scientific evidence that the continued operation of the pipelines poses an unacceptable level of risk to the health and safety of residents of Michigan,” said David Schwab, a retired hydrodynamicist formerly with the U-M Water Center and Graham Sustainability Institute, on a lawsuit filed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to shut down Enbridge Energy’s dual pipeline in the Straits of Mackinac.
The Detroit News -
November 18, 2020
“One of the things that we’re seeing is that when people leave the mainstream platforms, there aren’t as many folks to fight with. So then they’re just in their echo chambers … but if your point was to own (humiliate) the liberals or to show how right you are, if nobody else is disagreeing with you, then it’s not going to be that useful,” said Libby Hemphill, associate professor of information, on conservative-leaning social media users moving to Parler.
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