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October 28, 2022
“When things are not going well financially, it feels embarrassing and shameful. Many, many people have financial difficulties, have struggled to pay their bills, or have over-drafted their accounts,” said Terri Friedline, associate professor of social work. “Debt is a pretty common experience in the United States under capitalism.”
MarketWatch -
October 28, 2022
“There is no other consumer good or service with price tags that are visible from the street, all the time,” said economist Joanne Hsu, director of the U-M Surveys of Consumers, on the large role gas prices play in determining Americans’ optimism (or surliness) about the economy — an outlook embedded in our dependence on gas and the specific ways it differs from just about everything else we buy.
The New York Times -
October 27, 2022
“Perhaps as time goes on we’ll get Republicans and Democrats to agree that there are some real problems in election security that we would all benefit from addressing,” said J. Alex Halderman, professor of computer science and engineering, who has found that voting machines have vulnerabilities that “basically anyone could exploit to inject malicious software and change votes.”
The New Yorker -
October 27, 2022
“The key thing is to have people work fewer hours; you can more effectively deal with the stresses or frustrations of your job when you have more time to recover,” said Amy Bohnert, professor of anesthesiology, psychiatry and epidemiology, whose research shows that the more hours worked each week in a stressful job, the more likely one is to develop depression.
Asian News International -
October 27, 2022
“Patients view these log-in sites as a place to see particularly private information. So it’s more surprising (for them) to learn about this kind of tracking technology,” said Nicholson Price, professor of law, after the personal health information of up to 3 million patients in Illinois and Wisconsin may have been exposed to outside companies.
The Associated Press -
October 26, 2022
“Especially for older adults and people with disabilities living with that additional burden of meeting chronic health needs, with the shock of that disruption and living in a disrupted environment, you don’t just go back to your house and pick up where you left off,” said Sue Anne Bell, assistant professor of nursing, on the toll natural disasters can take on the mental health of those without strong communities and support networks.
Scientific American -
October 26, 2022
Research led by Andrew Ibrahim, assistant professor of surgery and architecture, found that patients are more likely to survive after surgery if they are placed in single rooms close to a nursing station with better lines of sight: “There’s clearly some sense that the nurse managers who are assigning patients know that some rooms are better than others, because the sicker patients got rooms that had more of those features.”
U.S. News & World Report -
October 26, 2022
ER visits related to sexual assault increased more than tenfold from 2006 to 2019 — reflecting a growing cultural shift around confronting sexual assault, according to research by Erica Marsh, professor of obstetrics and gynecology, and colleagues. “We’ve moved a long way, thankfully, in the acknowledgement that any time there’s non-consensual sexual activity, that is sexual assault,” she said.
NBC News -
October 25, 2022
While the production of a battery electric vehicle causes more pollution than a gasoline-powered counterpart, this greenhouse-gas emission difference is erased in less than two years as the vehicle is driven, says Greg Keoleian, professor of environment and sustainability: “In the future, B.E.V. emissions will decrease due to the retirement of coal plants and the increase in renewable energy sources.”
The New York Times -
October 25, 2022
Online grocery shopping and meal kits are more economical and less wasteful alternatives to traditional supermarket shopping, says Kate Astashkina, assistant professor of technology and operations: “There are complaints that they have a lot of packaging … (but) the reduction of food waste actually outweighs the rise in the packaging. So overall it’s a good thing.”
Axios
