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April 7, 2025
Unnecessary imaging scans for Medicare recipients alone create up to 129 metric kilotons of carbon dioxide emissions a year — equivalent to powering a town of more than 70,000 people, according to Julia Schoen, clinical assistant professor of radiology: “Emissions are likely to continue to increase given sustained increases in overall imaging volumes over the past decade and the potential for further increases related to climate-change related exposures and events.”
U.S. News & World Report -
April 7, 2025
“Monstrously destructive, incoherent, ill-informed tariffs based on fabrications, imagined wrongs, discredited theories and ignorance of decades of evidence. And the real tragedy is that they will hurt working Americans more than anyone else,” said Justin Wolfers, professor of economics and public policy, about Donald Trump’s tariffs.
Business Insider -
April 4, 2025
Ben van der Pluijm, professor emeritus of earth and environmental sciences, says Myanmar is known for its big earthquakes because it sits on the boundary of the Indian Plate, which is still moving northward after 100 million years, and the Eurasian Plate. That motion “is what accumulated the energy that gets released in earthquakes like (last week’s) earthquakes in Southeastern Asia,” he said.
Live Science -
April 4, 2025
Amy Rothberg, clinical professor of internal medicine and director of the U-M Weight Management Program, says if you don’t want to count calories or track food intake, intermittent fasting “may be beneficial for some people. There’s no superior dietary approach. So you need to find an approach that is tailored to that individual.”
ABC News -
April 4, 2025
“There is near-universal agreement … that nonbank financial companies like hedge funds and insurance companies can pose systemic risks,” said Jeremy Kress, associate professor of business law. “Designating individual nonbanks for heightened oversight is one of the only tools U.S. regulators have to respond to these risks. Unilaterally taking that tool off the table would be a grave mistake.”
Bloomberg -
April 3, 2025
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services now requires that those applying for asylum, permanent residency or naturalization provide their social media handles. “Previously, this information has been used for a limited set of reasons — fraud, national security risks, criminal backgrounds. … If the intention is to screen applicants for what they say in social media in terms of their personal beliefs, that would be new ground and unprecedented,” said Cliff Lampe, professor of information.
Forbes -
April 3, 2025
The federal government has canceled dozens of grants related to researching advancements in HIV care, decimating progress toward eliminating the epidemic in the U.S., said Erin Kahle, associate professor of nursing, who lost an NIH grant: “This is erasing an entire population of people who have been impacted by an infectious disease. This is setting us back decades.”
The Guardian -
April 3, 2025
“If we no longer include women or females in our research, we’re obviously going to go back to not having answers that are going to be applicable to both sexes. And I think that’s a big step backward,” said Jill Becker, professor of psychology, who believes her research on how sex differences affect people’s responses to drug addiction and treatment could lose federal funding.
PBS News -
April 2, 2025
Consumer sentiment is at its lowest level in more than two years, after plummeting 12% in March. “Consumers perceive a tremendous amount of uncertainty in the economy — policy uncertainty, market uncertainty, general economic uncertainty,” said Joanne Hsu, director of the Surveys of Consumers. “The fact that expectations worsened across the board suggests that consumers perceive more downside than upside risk for the foreseeable future.”
The Detroit News -
April 2, 2025
“Its fragile Afro-alpine ecosystems are crucial to biologists studying biodiversity. Its freshwater resources are southern Africa’s most important. Archaeologically, it is significant,” co-wrote Brian Stewart, associate professor of anthropology and curator of African archaeology at the Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, after Donald Trump described Lesotho as a country that “nobody has ever heard of.”
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