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May 14, 2025
More than two-thirds of older adults will require long-term care services, yet fewer than half are actually planning for it, said Ana Montoya, associate professor of internal medicine: “Nearly two-thirds of adults 50 and older thought that Medicare would cover their stay if they needed to move into a nursing home permanently, which is not the case. Some may also think that caregivers are covered under Medicare services, which is also not true.”
WDIV/Detroit -
May 14, 2025
“He seems to be a continuation of Pope Francis — someone that is very concerned about the poor, somebody that is very concerned about people who fall to the margins of society,” said Silvia Pedraza, professor of sociology and American culture, about Pope Leo XIV. “That would include not only people in Peru and that sort of rural poverty that he was a part of, but also it would include immigrants in the United States.”
U.S. News & World Report -
May 13, 2025
Heightened nationalistic sentiment in India and Pakistan fuels misinformation and amplifies extreme voices, crowding out those advocating peace, says Joyojeet Pal, associate professor of information: “If the social media discourse gets out of hand, then you have the government being forced to do certain things which it might not otherwise do in typical statecraft.”
The Washington Post -
May 13, 2025
“It’s going to be tough for anybody … to put electricity on the grid by then. People don’t want to wait, so they’re trying to short circuit that timeline with alternative concepts, and if one of them is successful, that would be great … but it has not been demonstrated yet,” said Ryan McBride, professor of nuclear engineering and radiological sciences, about the promise of nuclear fusion companies to produce commercial electricity within 10 years.
Fortune -
May 13, 2025
When it comes to social media posts about the new pope, it may be hard to tell the difference between legitimate comments and virtue signaling or trolling, says Cliff Lampe, professor of information: “The challenge is that people do have legitimate differences of opinion … but the lack of context in social media often makes it difficult to know if someone is making an argument in good faith.”
Forbes -
May 12, 2025
“THC in one’s saliva doesn’t necessarily indicate someone is impaired because they could have ingested THC hours or even days prior … and it still shows up in their system,” said Justin Colacino, associate professor of environmental health sciences, about a state bill that would allow police to use roadside saliva tests to detect drug use in suspected impaired drivers.
Bridge Michigan -
May 12, 2025
“It’s not working in those contexts, so it’s certainly not going to work in ours,” said Paula Lantz, professor of public policy and of health management and policy, about the Trump administration’s proposal to pay Americans to have children to boost birth rates — after other countries with robust social and health care systems tried the same thing with little success.
The Guardian (U.K.) -
May 12, 2025
“Political culture imagines that the Supreme Court safeguards the Constitution, when in reality it is chipping away at the constitutional rights of historically marginalized groups. The court is allowing feelings and politics to trump the law and sometimes just be the law,” wrote Leah Litman, professor of law.
Mother Jones -
May 9, 2025
“This is compelling evidence that planets can not only survive the violent death of their star, but also move into orbits where we didn’t previously necessarily expect them to exist,” said Mary Anne Limbach, assistant research scientist in astronomy, who led a study that used the James Webb Space Telescope to detect the first planet seen orbiting a dead star, offering new insights into how planets evolve during the final stages of a star’s life.
Space.com -
May 9, 2025
At the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research, more than $8 million in federal grant renewals — 40% of the institute’s budget — are in limbo and officials say layoffs are imminent for 20 out of 48 employees. “Those employees aren’t directly employed by the federal government, but their funding has been choked off by the grants not being renewed,” said CIGLR associate director Mike Shriberg.
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