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Wednesday, February 20, 2019
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/pint-size-philosophers
Young philosophers (https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/pint-size-philosophers?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=12e4881cfb-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_11_26_01_33_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-12e4881cfb-44504553)
By engaging with Philadelphia elementary students and high school literature teachers, Karen Detlefsen (left) of the School of Arts and Sciences is opening young minds to a new kind of thinking. “I want to enable the philosophical voices of many people—including children,” she says.
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/get-smokers-quit-tap-their-biology
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Using biomarkers to customize care, a new treatment model from Penn Medicine’s Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Nicotine Addiction could significantly help people who want to quit smoking. “The problem is not monolithic,” says pulmonologist Frank Leone. “Once we recognized that, we could start to identify subgroups more likely to respond to one type of therapy than to others.”
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/community-outreach-penn-medicine
Compassionate care (https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/community-outreach-penn-medicine?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=12e4881cfb-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_11_26_01_33_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-12e4881cfb-44504553)
Community outreach is a central tenet of Penn Medicine’s mission, and faculty, staff, and students work hard to provide health care and services to people in need. Ana Park (second from right) of the Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, for example, founded Loads of Love, a nonprofit that provides laundry services to Philadelphia’s homeless. Park has recently received a Penn Medicine CAREs grant to expand her services in the community.
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#https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iZTk9OyAig
World of comedy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iZTk9OyAig&utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=12e4881cfb-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_11_26_01_33_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-12e4881cfb-44504553)
Research conducted by Prateekshit Pandey, a doctoral student in the Annenberg School for Communication, has shown that certain regions of the brain process humorous messages differently than non-humorous ones. His interest in the perception of humor inspired him to begin taking improv classes. (Video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iZTk9OyAig&utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=12e4881cfb-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_11_26_01_33_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-12e4881cfb-44504553) )
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/venezuelan-crisis-explained
Eye on Venezuela (https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/venezuelan-crisis-explained?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=12e4881cfb-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_11_26_01_33_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-12e4881cfb-44504553)
Tulia Falleti of the School of Arts and Sciences looks at the past, present, and potential future of a politically polarized Venezuela as other nations take sides in the country’s problems. Currently, the country has two claimants to the presidency, Nicolás Maduro and Juan Guiadó, “a very exceptional situation,” Falleti says. (Video (https://vimeo.com/315751024?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=12e4881cfb-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_11_26_01_33_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-12e4881cfb-44504553) )
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/rogers-races-school-record-200m
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Senior sprinter Calvary Rogers broke the 14-year-old indoor school record in the 200-meter dash by running a 21.05 at the Texas Tech Shootout in Lubbock. The Rochester, New York, native is a co-captain of the men’s track and field team and a five-time All-Ivy honoree.
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/wired-femmehacks
Women who code (https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/wired-femmehacks?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=12e4881cfb-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_11_26_01_33_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-12e4881cfb-44504553)
President Amy Gutmann and Engineering Dean Vijay Kumar stopped by FemmeHacks at the Pennovation Center. The annual event is a beginner-friendly collegiate hackathon for women-identifying people with an interest in computer programming and featured a day of all-levels workshops.
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#https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/07/green-new-deal-climate-change-us-politics
Green New Deal (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/07/green-new-deal-climate-change-us-politics?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=12e4881cfb-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_11_26_01_33_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-12e4881cfb-44504553)
Daniel Aldana Cohen of the School of Arts and Sciences co-authors a piece in The Guardian calling for a Green New Deal, which, he argues, would both realize and expand on the principles of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal and reorient goals as a society.
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#http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/federal-reserve-interest-rates/
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The Federal Reserve announced that it would wait to raise interest rates for now because of global economic uncertainties such as trade tensions, the impact of Brexit, and slowing economic growth in China and Europe. Peter Conti-Brown and Jeremy Siegel of the Wharton School see the decision as a positive. (Audio (http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/federal-reserve-interest-rates/?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=12e4881cfb-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_11_26_01_33_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-12e4881cfb-44504553) )
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/flower-blooms-winter
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Horticulturist Anthony Aiello of the Morris Arboretum discusses the winter-blooming witchhazels, their unique botanical role, and where to find them at the Arboretum and on campus.
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#https://www.statnews.com/2019/02/07/three-identical-strangers-address-ethical-violations/
‘Magnitude of harm’ (https://www.statnews.com/2019/02/07/three-identical-strangers-address-ethical-violations/?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=12e4881cfb-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_11_26_01_33_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-12e4881cfb-44504553)
In an article for STAT, PIK Professor Karen Glanz and the Perelman School of Medicine’s Holly Fernandez Lynch discuss medical ethics, a key theme in documentaries like “Three Identical Strangers.” The film, about triplets separated as infants, reveals that their adoptions were actually part of an unethical experiment about child development. “Although those harms will never be fully repaired, it is time for a socially responsible public and the research ethics community to help support these individuals in their effort to find answers,” the authors write.
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/celebrating-150-years-periodic-table
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As the periodic table marks 150 years, chemists continue to rely on the information captured in this resource as they study the diverse properties of the 118 known elements. Judith Currano of Penn Libraries and Jenine Maeyer of the School of Arts and Sciences share their perspectives on how all types of chemists still use this tool.
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#https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/06/how-students-are-founding-funding-and-joining-startups/
‘Young founders’ (https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/06/how-students-are-founding-funding-and-joining-startups/?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=12e4881cfb-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_11_26_01_33_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-12e4881cfb-44504553)
Student startup culture is more vibrant than ever. With alumni-founded companies such as Neil Blumenthal’s Warby Parker and Dillon Chen’s Commonwealth Labs, Penn has one of the highest concentrations of venture-backed student founders of any university. The startups were profiled in TechCrunch by grad student Shawn Xu of the Wharton School and the Lauder Institute.
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/conversation-kristen-ghodsee
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In the second episode of Penn Today’s “Office Hours” podcast series, Kristen Ghodsee of the School of Arts and Sciences explains why women report better sex under socialism, details her immense typewriter collection, and describes her favorite Bulgarian food in mouth-watering detail. (Audio (https://soundcloud.com/user-731151642/office-hours-kirsten-ghodsee?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=12e4881cfb-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_11_26_01_33_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-12e4881cfb-44504553) )
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/eniacs-anniversary-nod-its-female-computers
Pioneering programmers (https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/eniacs-anniversary-nod-its-female-computers?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=12e4881cfb-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_11_26_01_33_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-12e4881cfb-44504553)
Six women who were the original operators of Penn’s pathbreaking ENIAC, the world’s first computer, emerged from the shadows after decades of obscurity. Last Friday, for the annual celebration of ENIAC’s debut, the Penn Libraries screened a documentary featuring some of their stories.
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#https://www.philly.com/business/brandon-copeland-newyork-jets-nfl-wharton-penn-personal-finance-20190213.html
Fiscal fundamentals (https://www.philly.com/business/brandon-copeland-newyork-jets-nfl-wharton-penn-personal-finance-20190213.html?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=12e4881cfb-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_11_26_01_33_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-12e4881cfb-44504553)
Five years after New York Jets linebacker Brandon Copeland (above) graduated from the Wharton School, he was persuaded by Brian Peterson of the School of Arts and Sciences to return to co-teach an undergrad course in personal finance. Now, as reported in The Philadelphia Inquirer, the popular class meets weekly to discuss budgeting, investments, and career basics. The curriculum is “not just about wealth creation but also wealth inequity,” says Copeland.
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#https://www.wharton.upenn.edu/story/how-this-former-green-beret-is-using-his-wharton-mba-to-grow-a-microbrewery/
Brewing business (https://www.wharton.upenn.edu/story/how-this-former-green-beret-is-using-his-wharton-mba-to-grow-a-microbrewery/?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=12e4881cfb-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_11_26_01_33_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-12e4881cfb-44504553)
After 10 years in the Army, Micah Niebauer made a career change and co-founded a brewery in Southern Pines, North Carolina. Niebauer joined the Wharton School’s MBA Program for Executives to build his brewery and learn practical solutions to the challenges of running his business.
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/what-does-dolphin-have-common-fruit-fly
Sleep types (https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/what-does-dolphin-have-common-fruit-fly?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=12e4881cfb-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_11_26_01_33_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-12e4881cfb-44504553)
Penn researchers have proposed that the purpose of standard sleep differs from that of recovery sleep, which follows sleep deprivation. “The debate about the function of sleep continues—but is now informed by remarkable findings in the expanding world of sleep and chronobiology research in multiple species,” says lead researcher David Raizen of the Perelman School of Medicine. The study was published in Nature Reviews Neuroscience.
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