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April 20, 2023
At some U.S. schools, 1 in 4 teens report they’ve abused ADHD prescription drugs in the past year, according to research by Sean Esteban McCabe, professor of nursing and director of the Center for the Study of Drugs, Alcohol, Smoking and Health: “This study is a major wake-up call. …The two biggest sources are leftover medications, perhaps from family members … and asking peers, who may attend other schools.”
CNN -
April 20, 2023
“It’s unclear what Parler’s competitive advantage would be over … other online spaces where people can gather with varying levels of anonymity and encryption. Given its association with the January 6 attacks, it seems like the brand would attract only right-aligned marginalized groups,” said Cliff Lampe, professor of information, about the relaunching of the social media platform under new ownership.
Forbes -
April 20, 2023
“It’s a breach of ethics because these lending institutions expect the Asia Society to treat objects with care and respect. These images were not made to offend, but to laud the prophet,” said Christiane Gruber, professor of Islamic art, on the Asia Society’s blurring of two borrowed images of the Prophet Muhammad in an online exhibit for fear of offending Muslims.
The New York Times -
April 19, 2023
“The expectation was: We have this ape with an upright back. It must be living in forests and it must be eating fruit. But as more and more bits of information became available, the first surprising thing we found was that the ape was eating leaves. The second surprise was that it was living in woodlands,” said Laura MacLatchy, who along with John Kingston, a fellow professor of anthropology, found that snacking on leafy greens may have helped apes stand upright.
Popular Science -
April 19, 2023
“People were starting to realize that it’s not necessarily this promise of authenticity and realness that they were expecting it to be,” said Oliver Haimson, assistant professor of information and digital studies, commenting on BeReal, a French photo-sharing app that prompts users at a different time each day to take shots with their front and rear phone cameras.
The New York Times -
April 19, 2023
“Wind and solar are very cheap. They give you zero carbon electricity. But some times of the year, and some years even, you need something other than wind and solar because you don’t have power from them. And so you get it from somewhere else,” said Michael Craig, assistant professor of environment and sustainability, and industrial and operations engineering.
The Washington Post -
April 18, 2023
“We often think about antibiotic resistance as being a real problem, but there’s actually dozens of classes of antibiotics. There’s only three classes of antifungals available,” said Teresa O’Meara, assistant professor of microbiology and immunology. “And so this is going to be a big problem going forward just because there are more and more fungal infections that are on the rise and we need to develop new antifungal treatments.”
ABC News -
April 18, 2023
“These are things that very often can’t be proven with mathematical precision. It can be very hard to show that people who didn’t do business with you didn’t do it for this reason as opposed to some other reason,” said Len Niehoff, professor from practice of law, on the issue of monetary damages in Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News.
National Public Radio -
April 18, 2023
“People are open to the promise of the technology of gene editing, but there’s still skepticism for some … people who live with sickle cell disease to go through this process,” said Melissa Creary, assistant professor of health management and policy. “It’s more than providing a scientific intervention. It’s about looking more widely at these structures of systemic oppression that have occurred for generations for this population.”
Al Jazeera -
April 17, 2023
Fossilized urine mounds from generations of marmot-like critters called rock hyraxes can be radiocarbon-dated and act as an archive of ancient climate, research shows. “These are continuous records. … This is the way we’re going to actually move forward, instead of making these kind of wavy pronouncements about what the climate is doing at a global level,” said Brian Stewart, associate professor of anthropology.
Scientific American
