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From deciding when and what to eat to how much food you actually put on your plate, the average person makes over 200 food-related decisions each day, most of which are automatic.
New research shows that the old advertising maxim ‘sex and violence sell’ may be bad for business.
Higher hospitalization rates near unconventional wells could be linked to environmental and social stressors, such as noise and air pollution.
A so-called “organ-on-chip” device could speed up the way drugs are developed. And it’s just been named the London Design Museum’s design of the year.
Choosing health insurance that provides the amount of coverage you’ll likely need at the right cost is a difficult task, especially if it’s your first time picking a plan.
On Human Experiments: what lies behind some of the most shocking human experiments in recent history? Here’s a clue: most of it took place during wartime or when war seemed like a real threat.
The stakes are high for news outlets to raise revenue. Do paywalls have a future?
The debate over the color of “the dress,” a social media phenomena, tells us a lot about how internet-wide opinions are formed and manipulated.
Social media is being actively used in the public debate on Common Core, with an unprecedented 35,000 to 40,000 tweets each month.
We’re hardwired to love finding patterns, solving puzzles, mastering challenges. Business, education, health, marketing and other fields tap into these drives via game elements to help us hit goals or change behavior.
Recent research suggests a new way to look at the famous prisoner’s dilemma and how the results could help us better understand human behavior and encourage cooperation.
It’s no exaggeration to say the tropics drive our planet’s carbon cycle – the constant transfer of carbon back and forth, on a global scale, between living things and the environment. Understanding the…
After the violent attacks on Charlie Hebdo – the French satirical weekly that routinely published caricatures of Muhammad – many are wondering: are depictions of Muhammad actually forbidden in Islamic…
The Senate report on torture found that the “enhanced techniques” used by the CIA were ineffective as a mechanism for gathering intelligence. In fact, the report stated there was no actionable intelligence…
Foundation essay: This article is part of a series marking the launch of The Conversation in the US. Our foundation essays are longer than our usual comment and analysis articles and take a wider look…
It’s clear mortgage standards have gotten too tight when even a former Federal Reserve chairman who makes as much as US$250,000 per speech cannot refinance his home. Ben Bernanke complained about his inability…
Fear of Ebola has put many on high alert and there is increasing anxiety about the possibility of individuals with minimal exposure and no symptoms introducing the virus into communities – people such…
The Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) is a tiny, spiky package of fat, proteins and genes that was first found in a dying man in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 2012. Since then, we…
The danger of reporting findings before peer review is that scientists often can’t talk about the details of their research, which can lead to hype or fear in the media. A recent example of this is a controversial…
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Research Faculty, Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy (AISP), University of Pennsylvania
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Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania
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Doctoral candidate in sociology, University of Pennsylvania
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Professor Emeritus of Ophthalmology; Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania
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Research Scientist, Center for Guaranteed Income Research, University of Pennsylvania
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Professor Emeritus of Legal Studies and Business Ethics; Faculty Director, Wharton Coalition for Equity & Opportunity, University of Pennsylvania
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PIK Professor of Anthropology; Professor of Historic Preservation, Weitzman School of Design, Penn Museum, University of Pennsylvania
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Ph.D. Candidate in Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania
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Professor and Chair of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
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Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania
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Professor of Sociology and Research Associate in Population Studies, University of Pennsylvania
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Presidential Distinguished Professor of Energy Policy and City Planning, University of Pennsylvania
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Senior Lecturer in Critical Writing, University of Pennsylvania
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C. Edwin Baker Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy, University of Pennsylvania
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Vice Dean and Faculty Director, ESG Inititative; Deloitte & Touche Professor of Management, University of Pennsylvania
