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March 21, 2018
Lionel Robert, associate professor of information, discussed the overall safety of autonomous vehicles, the regulatory atmosphere surrounding self-driving cars and the history of public fear in reaction to technological innovation.
Michigan Radio's "Stateside" -
March 21, 2018
“It’s one thing for a person … to avoid this language so as to reach out to a neighbor or someone else and get them to act to adapt to climate change without triggering the political identities that ‘climate change’ often does. But by the federal government avoiding this language, it sends a message that this is not climate change,” said Kaitlin Raimi, assistant professor of public policy, on the Trump administration’s silence on climate change in the wake of last summer’s devastating hurricanes.
Scientific American -
March 20, 2018
“Frankly, it’s like Trump and his constituency. They’re people who really take pride in Russia coming back into the leadership positions of the world. They like Putin’s persona, and he’s been very careful to cultivate that,” said Melvyn Levitsky, clinical professor of public policy, commenting on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent re-election.
U.S. News & World Report -
March 20, 2018
“The toxicity of plastic really depends on the chemical makeup and the physical structure … the plastic may have surface properties that make it attract or carry chemicals or other compounds of concern,” said John Meeker, professor of environmental health sciences, in an article about microplastics found in bottled water worldwide.
BuzzFeed News -
March 20, 2018
“Black men aren’t doomed, but the work to be done falls upon us — the critical thing is what we must do, not simply what they must do. I would not argue there’s a simple or even immediate way of transforming the condition we live in now around black men. It’s going to take consistent investment and thinking differently about them,” said Alford Young, professor of sociology and Afroamerican and African studies.
National Public Radio's "On Point" -
March 19, 2018
Rebecca Haffajee, assistant professor of health management and policy, discussed past cases against opioid drugmakers and recent lawsuits filed by hundreds of U.S. communities against the makers and distributors of such drugs.
The Associated Press / The New York Times -
March 19, 2018
David Dunning, professor of psychology, says we repeatedly and consistently fool ourselves into thinking we know more than we do and convince ourselves that our opinion or choice is right — even when there’s absolutely no evidence to support this: “Unfortunately, we’re programmed to know enough to cobble together an answer.”
Quartz -
March 19, 2018
New measures to bolster security for Michigan’s 2018 midterm elections — hand-counting ballots and replacing all election equipment — are not enough to fully reassure Alex Halderman, professor of electrical engineering and computer science, who says post-election audits occur after results are already certified, rendering the practice moot when it comes to disputing a race’s outcome.
The Detroit News -
March 18, 2018
Comments by Elizabeth Anderson, professor of philosophy and women’s studies, were featured in a story about the monitoring of employee health and fitness via wearable technology.
The Christian Science Monitor -
March 18, 2018
“It does seem there is a place for compensated plasma donation in the U.S., in some form — it is not inherently morally objectionable. But what’s concerning is the extent to which many ‘voluntary’ donations are anything but, with people depending on them in the absence of an adequate social safety net,” wrote H. Luke Shaefer, director of Poverty Solutions and associate professor of social work and public policy, and Analidis Ochoa, doctoral student in sociology and social work.
The Atlantic
