Article quotes Sean Reardon, professor of poverty and inequality in education and senior fellow at SIEPR, pointing out that other pandemic-related factors, such as economic conditions, illness, and social isolation may have also played a role in learning loss.
Article quotes Ranak Trivedi, assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, on not beating yourself up when embracing thankfulness is complicated.
Article quotes Heidi Williams, professor of economics and senior fellow at SIEPR, on how current research grant structures don’t encourage scholars to pivot when projects aren’t returning promising results.
Article quotes Erik Brynjolfsson, senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence and at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, on Twitter’s new fee for account verification.
Article quotes Oussama Khatib, professor of computer science, explaining form follows function as the reason the haptic-controlled deep water robot OceanOneK has a humanoid form.
Quotes Guoguang Wu, senior research scholar at the Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institutions, on how Xi Jinping is patterning himself after Mao Zedong.
Quotes Rob Jackson, professor of Earth system science, on a new study that finds the accelerating rate of methane in the atmosphere could undermine efforts to slow climate change.
Quotes Sean Reardon, professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, on drawing conclusions about whether states where schools that stayed closed longer during the pandemic had worse educational outcomes than states where schools opened sooner.
Quotes Aaron Roodman, professor of particle physics and astrophysics, on a camera that will soon move from SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to an observatory in Chile.
Article quotes Kari Nadeau, director of the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, on how wildfire smoke dissipates but the polluting byproducts get worse over time.
Article quotes Matt Abrahams, lecturer at the Graduate School of Business, on how time-traveling phrases such as “what if” and “picture this” can engage an audience when public speaking.
Quotes Ron Davis, professor of biochemistry and of genetics, about the lack of funding for research into myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, which is gaining new attention because of the fatigue associated with long COVID.
Article quotes Erik Brynjolfsson, senior fellow at Human-Centered AI and at SIEPR, arguing for AI that does things humans can’t, to avoid driving up wage inequalities.
Article quotes Daphne Keller, director of the Program on Platform Regulation at Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center, on how social media content moderation has become a political flashpoint.
Article quotes Ram Rajagopal, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, on the potential for nighttime electricity rates to go up as more electric vehicles are charging overnight.
Article quotes Zara Patel, professor of otolaryngology, on how olfactory training can help some people regain their sense of smell and taste after COVID-19.
Article quotes Marco Perez, associate professor of medicine, on how notifications from smartwatches about irregular heartbeats can aid the early detection of other heart problems, such as cardiomyopathy.
Article quotes Aaron Roodman, professor of particle physics, on the world’s largest digital camera, which is being assembled at SLAC and has 3.2 billion pixels.
Article quotes David Thiel, chief technical officer at the Stanford Internet Observatory, on one of the misleading narratives being pushed online ahead of the midterm elections.
Article quotes Marshall Burke, associate professor of Earth system science and senior fellow at FSI, on wildfire smoke rolling back progress on clean air.
