Every year around the middle of October, reporters start contacting me wanting to talk about rumors of contaminated Halloween treats.
Social Sciences
Oct 13, 2022
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As Hurricane Ian made landfall, devastating parts of Florida, South Carolina and the Caribbean, readers saw media images of destruction, rescues and recovery. How images from such disasters are presented often cast people ...
Social Sciences
Oct 11, 2022
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Continued greenhouse gas emissions risk triggering climate tipping points. These are self-sustaining shifts in the climate system that would lock-in devastating changes, like sea-level rise, even if all emissions ended.
Environment
Oct 8, 2022
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Food delivery services should give customers a voice, respond quickly to complaints and proactively apologize when things go wrong, according to a new study which explores what companies can do to rebuild trust after failures.
Social Sciences
Sep 26, 2022
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Between doomscrolling and disinformation, our media-saturated world makes it difficult to know who to trust. To mark today's International Day of Democracy we spoke to a journalism researcher about the role of media in a ...
Social Sciences
Sep 16, 2022
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"Sports are the last unifying cultural feature in America," says Alex Tolkin, a joint doctoral student in political science and communication who recently gave a Penn Grad Talk titled "Field of (American) Dreams: Sports and ...
Social Sciences
Sep 14, 2022
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Everywhere, it seems, back-to-school has been shadowed by worries of a teacher shortage.
Education
Sep 12, 2022
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Given recent and often sensationalist media coverage of the issue, it's easy to overlook the fact that transgender athletes have participated in elite sport for decades—at least as far back as tennis player Renée Richards ...
Social Sciences
Aug 8, 2022
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A new map in Oregon that rated the wildfire risk of every tax lot in the state—labeling nearly 80,000 structures as high-risk—generated so much pushback from angry homeowners that officials abruptly retracted it, saying ...
Environment
Aug 5, 2022
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New research in the INFORMS journal Management Science finds that firms that have experienced data breaches intentionally stage the timing of such announcements around other significant breaking news as a means of reducing ...
Economics & Business
Jul 26, 2022
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