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November 11, 2024
“Tariffs will lead to more jobs for U.S. workers at component suppliers and higher costs for car buyers, who already suffer from sticker shock,” said Erik Gordon, clinical assistant professor of business. “People will keep cars longer, and that will be good for the replacement parts and service industries.”
Detroit Free Press -
November 11, 2024
“Many of the new Latin American immigrants in Florida come from places … where they had an encounter with socialism, communism. This pushes them into the hands of the Republican Party,” said Silvia Pedraza, professor of sociology and American culture, explaining why, in part, the Sunshine State has become “deeply red.”
Folha de S.Paulo (Brazil) -
November 11, 2024
“While some Americans likely believed these false claims, others, no doubt, simply go along with the con to advance their political agenda or their own careers. Like a child who no longer believes in Santa Claus, best to pretend and keep the gifts coming,” wrote Barbara McQuade, professor from practice of law, on Donald Trump’s strategy to feed the electorate disinformation to stoke fear and division in society.
TIME -
November 8, 2024
“The X-ray data traces a unique picture that you can’t see in any other wavelength,” said David Bogensberger, postdoctoral researcher in astronomy, whose team scoured decades-old data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and found bright, lumpy features dotting a jet of energy spit out by a nearby black hole.
Space.com -
November 8, 2024
“This bias creates echo chambers, online spaces characterized by homogeneity of opinion and insulation from opposing viewpoints,” said Justin Huang, assistant professor of marketing, whose research documents political bias in user-driven content moderation due to lack of guidelines or oversight.
Detroit Free Press -
November 8, 2024
“Daytime clenching is more significantly associated with stressful events than sleep-related bruxism (the grinding or clenching of teeth),” said Elizabeth Rae Hatfield, clinical assistant professor of dentistry. “But we do think that anxiety can increase that activity (at night).”
NBC Today -
November 7, 2024
“There’s a lot of initiatives and activities going on throughout the state, throughout the nation, as well as globally. What we want to do here is to to pull it all together into some sort of coordinated, cohesive approach at the state level,” said Thomas McKenney, clinical associate professor of naval architecture and marine engineering, who is leading a statewide project to figure out ways to make cargo shipping, recreational boating, commercial fishing, ports and ferries more sustainable.
WCMU Radio -
November 7, 2024
“As well as being a means to expend calories, exercising regularly seems to modify your fat tissue in a way that allows you to store your body fat more healthfully if and when you do experience some weight gain — and nearly everyone does as they get older,” said Jeffrey Horowitz, professor of movement science.
The Telegraph (U.K.) -
November 7, 2024
“The overall political climate has changed toward one where I think free trade does not carry the power that it used to. There is more of a nationalistic, buy American component to policymaking on both sides of the aisle in America,” said Jonathan Hanson, lecturer in public policy.
CBC -
November 6, 2024
Research by Jenna Wiens, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science, found that AI medical models may misdiagnose patients of color, due to patients of different racial and ethnic backgrounds receiving medical tests that others are not: “If these data contain spurious correlations or bias, the models trained on these data can replicate or even amplify these biases.”
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