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November 22, 2022
“Maybe you find it relaxing to hear the sounds of the sea, so if you listen to brown noise that sounds like waves crashing, and it helps you, that’s great. … However, there’s no strong evidence that listening to brown noise reduces stress,” said Anahita Mehta, assistant professor of otolaryngology, about the low, deep tones that have gained popularity in helping to improve sleep, concentration and relaxation.
U.S. News & World Report -
November 21, 2022
“We expect monthly inflation to tick back up in the next few months. As a result … the Fed will have to keep raising the federal funds rate through mid-2023,” said economists Daniil Manaenkov and Gabriel Ehrlich of the Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics. But “we are forecasting continued job growth here in Michigan, even as the national economy slips into a mild recession,” said Ehrlich, RSQE director.
DBusiness -
November 21, 2022
The announcement of his 2024 presidential candidacy “gives Trump the ability to portray himself as a victim if he’s indicted in the coming months,” said Barbara McQuade, professor from practice of law. “He can point to that sequence of events as cause and effect and say it’s an effort to undermine his candidacy.”
Bloomberg -
November 21, 2022
“People often try to treat mental health as distinct from physical health, as if your brain is somehow removed from the rest of your body,” said Kara Zivin, professor of psychiatry, obstetrics and gynecology, and health management and policy, noting that in at least eight states that allow abortion exemptions for life-threatening conditions, physical health is the focus — not the mother’s mental health.
The Associated Press -
November 18, 2022
In modern Western life, exposure to toxicants is “common across the human life course,” says Dana Dolinoy, professor of environmental health sciences, and nutritional sciences: “We can be exposed through the air we breathe, the water that we drink. Just going about our day-to-day lives, there are exposures that come through consumer products that we use.”
TIME -
November 18, 2022
“I often am approached by both parents and teens who believe vaping … is OK and better than smoking,” said Carol Boyd, professor emerita of nursing. “My reaction: ‘You are fooling yourself. We know that inhaling hot tobacco/cannabis smoke into your lungs is unhealthy and can cause bronchitis or life-threatening breathing problems.”
CNN -
November 18, 2022
“Traditional policy solutions, such as limiting gun access or increasing aggressive policing, can reduce serious violence. But regulating gun access faces considerable legal and political challenges. And stop-and-frisk style policing can impose very high collateral costs on the communities already most affected by gun violence with unclear benefits,” co-wrote Sara Heller, assistant professor of economics.
MarketWatch -
November 17, 2022
One in five privately insured American adults hospitalized for a traumatic injury end up with medical bills they can’t pay, according to research by John Scott, assistant professor of surgery: “And we accept this system where there’s nearly $100 billion of excess debt on the backs of the sick and the injured, who are unable to pay — that’s just the normal everyday America that we live in.”
UPI -
November 17, 2022
Fossil fuel infrastructure now being built … risks becoming a stranded asset if governments want to make good on their pledges to curb climate change, says Jonathan Overpeck, dean of the School for Environment and Sustainability: “This is why we must leapfrog the gas-based solutions to renewable energy-based solutions, plus battery storage, plus hydrogen.”
The Associated Press -
November 17, 2022
“The people who do enjoy their time commuting tend to really think of it as a gift to them in some ways. They tend to think of it as a protected time where they don’t really necessarily need to be the mother, the caregiver, the type of specific identities associated with being at home, or they’re also not really at work yet,” said Julia Lee Cunningham, associate professor of management and organizations.
The Wall Street Journal
