Professor of Politics Nancy Neiman examined the intersection of markets and social justice on the Academic Minute podcast. When markets operate in the context of strong community norms, she said, “market actors are incentivized to make decisions that are in the best interest of the community.”
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Professor of Philosophy Yuval Avnur delved into the effects of online echo chambers on the Academic Minute podcast. “We should primarily aim to expose and correct biased reasoning, not deficits in information,” he said.
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Associate Professor of Biology Gretchen Edwalds-Gilbert explored how cells respond to stress at the molecular level on the Academic Minute podcast.
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Associate Professor of Chicanx/Latinx Studies Martha Gonzalez offered methods for protecting participatory music and dance from a culture of monetization on the Academic Minute podcast.
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Hao Huang, professor of music and Bessie and Cecil Frankel Chair in Music, discussed the intersection of Balinese music and environmentalist practices on the Academic Minute podcast.
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Scripps College faculty will be featured daily during the week of February 1, 2021, on WAMC Northeast Public Radio’s Academic Minute, a daily podcast dedicated to condensed updates on groundbreaking research.
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Associate Professor of Economics and Chair of the Department of Economics Sean Flynn discussed two changes that would lower American healthcare costs “while delivering universal access, coverage for preexisting conditions, and an ironclad safety net” on the Academic Minute podcast, published on Inside Higher Ed.
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Assistant Professor of Mathematics Christina Edholm explained how mathematical modeling is used to study, predict, and prevent disease outbreaks on the Academic Minute podcast, published on Inside Higher Ed. She also discussed the importance of the role of “superspreaders,” the term for those who transmit infections to an unusually high number of other people, in an outbreak’s impact on the population.
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Assistant Professor of Economics Nicholas Kacher discussed the effects of rising home prices on regional businesses on the Academic Minute podcast, published on Inside Higher Ed. “We find that higher regional home prices boost the creation of entirely new businesses, especially in areas with high homeownership rates, since homeowners’ access to credit increases as the value of their homes rise,” he said.
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Associate Professor of Environmental Science Branwen Williams explored humans’ effect on recent, rapid global warming on the Academic Minute podcast, published on Inside Higher Ed. “Our research shows the recent warming is really unusual, particularly how fast and how widespread it is,” Williams said.
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