Experts who attribute a rise in the deaths of white people in recent years to economic “despair” might be missing the forest for the trees, according to Dornsife School of Public Health Dean Ana Diez […]
Category: Experts
Q+A: What Happens if the FCC Removes Protections Against Local Media Monopolies?
The Federal Communications Commission plans to vote on a proposal that would eliminate regulations preventing companies from owning multiple broadcast stations in the same media market, as well as the rules that prevented owning both […]
Parents, Here’s How Game Theory Can Help You Survive Candy Sharing on Halloween
The costumes looked great. The bags are stuffed with goodies. But the scariest part of Halloween is just getting started: dividing the spoils of trick-or-treating. Perhaps the family employed a divide-and-conquer strategy for the annual […]
Research Shows Clear Rules Can Lower Recidivism for Non-Violent Drug Offenders
With prison systems across the country clogged with inmates, including the 50,000 residing in Pennsylvania’s Department of Corrections, state governments are investing heavily in efforts to keep offenders from returning once they’ve served their time. […]
Q+A: Are We Planning to Fail by Repealing the Clean Power Plan?
The Environmental Protection Agency is taking steps to repeal the Clean Power Plan, an Obama Administration initiative intended to curtail greenhouse gas emissions so that the nation could reach the emissions benchmarks set forth in […]
Q&A: How Do Firefighters Battling Massive Forest Fires Stay Safe?
At least 8,000 firefighters are currently deployed in Northern California to battle wind-aided wildfires that continue to spread. With 40 people already reported dead and many more still missing, the danger of these fires has […]
Media Watch: Talking About Tragedy After the Las Vegas Shooting
It’s been a rough couple of months. Super-strong hurricanes, intense earthquakes and saber rattling with a nuclear adversary have now given way to the worst mass-shooting the United States has ever seen. And the shooting […]
Q+A: After The Hack, Is Equifax’s ‘Damage Control’ Ethical?
Last week the credit reporting company Equifax was hacked in what is reportedly one of the largest leaks of personal information to date. More than 143 million accounts were compromised, which in some cases meant […]
Drexel Researcher Makes Air Pollution Data User-Friendly
If you live in a town or city where industrial facilities are emitting chemicals into the air, there is plenty of reason to wonder: How is this affecting me? “People living near the nation’s oil […]
Media Watch: Want to Know What’s in Your Water?
The nonprofit watchdog Environmental Working Group recently released a database that compiled publicly available information from water testing programs at more than 50,000 water utility operators across the country from 2010-2015. Its premise is that […]