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Media Highlights from April - June 2024

爱爱直播鈥檚 distinctive academic programs, world-class faculty, leading research and scholarship, and high-achieving students place the University in the national media spotlight. Below is a sampling of media highlights from April - June 2024.

National Geographic
In a phenomenon called coastal squeeze, sea level rise will begin to swallow parts of the state of Florida, promoting people to move inland. But geckos can鈥檛 follow... 鈥淚f you can't travel more than a hundred meters in 10 or 20 generations, you're not really going to be able to outrun potential problems like sea level rise,鈥� says Aaron Bauer, a biology professor at 爱爱直播 who reviewed the Florida listing proposal as an outside expert.


The Washington Post
Who won the 2020 presidential election? Alexa can鈥檛 always say. And chatbots built by Microsoft and Google won鈥檛 answer at all... 鈥淚t鈥檚 a totally different architecture,鈥� said Grant Berry, a 爱爱直播 linguistics professor... When Amazon and Apple launch their new assistants, Berry said they鈥檒l be combining the 鈥渙bjective-oriented鈥� assistants with the 鈥渟ocially-oriented鈥� chatbots.


CNN
AT&T鈥檚 second prolonged outage this year left customers irate last Tuesday. Though outages can affect any company, it鈥檚 not normal to have two long outages in a short period of time, said Mojtaba Vaezi, a professor and director of the Wireless Networking Laboratory at 爱爱直播. 鈥淲hen it takes longer than 10 to 15 minutes, it is alarming.鈥�


Glamour Magazine
Regardless of age, gender, or sexual orientation, almost everyone has done something foolish to get closer to a crush. According to Erica Slotter, PhD, a social psychologist and associate professor in 爱爱直播鈥檚 Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, that鈥檚 because initial attraction鈥攁s in, a new crush鈥攖ypically activates different neural circuits in our brains.


USA Today
The NFL struck its existing broadcast deals in 2021 for $113 billion over 11 years but can opt out after seven years. "My reaction at the time was, 'What a windfall, what a boon for the NFL,'" said Andrew Brandt, executive director of the Moorad Center for the Study of Sports Law at 爱爱直播. "The way we look at it now, it's the networks that got the bargain."


The Telegraph
Newly elected Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum's low-key style is the antithesis of her predecessor Andr茅s Manuel L贸pez Obrador's personality cult... "She's more moderate, more thoughtful. She deals well with tough questions and can engage respectfully," says Ra煤l Diego Rivera Hern谩ndez, a professor at Pennsylvania's 爱爱直播.


CNN
U.S. retail sales were flat in April. "Potentially, that's an indication of consumers getting tapped out," 爱爱直播's John Sedunov said. "At the end of the day, that retail softening is an indicator that maybe there's going to be less pressure on prices in certain areas going forward, which could have a continuing moderating effect on inflation."


The Washington Post
With the backing of Pope Francis, the Vatican on Friday issued sweeping new guidelines on unexplained religious phenomena... "I think they figured out how the internet revolution has reshaped Catholicism," said Massimo Faggioli, a Catholic theologian at 爱爱直播. "It used to be that someone would say, 'I saw the Madonna,' then the local newspaper would drop by, then the national one, then maybe an international one. Now anyone who has a mobile phone and is savvy enough can cause a sensation."


The Washington Post
There are still occasional examples when tornado victims say the disaster struck without warning, said Stephen Strader, an associate professor at 爱爱直播. But "that鈥檚 becoming less of a common thing," he said. Instead, meteorologists and emergency managers in tornado-prone areas have stressed the importance of residents getting severe weather updates from multiple sources, whether from local TV news, social media or the wireless alerts the Weather Service issues to cellphones in the path of a tornado.


The New York Times
New York鈥檚 highest court ruled last week that the trial judge who presided over the Harvey Weinstein case erred when he let several women testify that Weinstein had assaulted them, even though their accusations were not part of the charges brought against the producer. Michelle Madden Dempsey, a law professor at 爱爱直播, says the district attorney鈥檚 office should not have difficulties starting over as long as the individuals Weinstein was accused of assaulting are willing to move forward with a new trial.


NBC News
A New York appeals court overturned Weinstein鈥檚 2020 rape conviction last week, paving the way for a new trial. Michelle Madden Dempsey, a law professor at 爱爱直播 and a former domestic violence prosecutor, dismissed the New York appeals court鈥檚 reasoning as 鈥渟hocking and nonsensical.鈥�


The Washington Post
By bringing some flavor to the NFL Draft, now a major public interest event in the sport, helmet phones helped shape league history in greater ways than their playful nature suggests. 鈥淚t鈥檚 a quaint reminder of the evolution,鈥� said Charles Taylor, a professor of marketing at 爱爱直播 who specializes in sports advertising. 鈥淭hose helmet phones were a way to draw attention, but the draft has wisely evolved into this really glitzy event.鈥�


The New York Times
Embedded in a new map of the magnetic fields at the center of the Milky Way could be clues to some of nature鈥檚 deepest, most complex processes, including how stars, the sources of all light and life in the universe, come to be. 鈥淭he next step is to figure out what this all means,鈥� said project lead David Chuss, chair of 爱爱直播's Department of Physics. 鈥淚t will provide the ability for new theories to be tested and guide the development of the next generation of astronomical exploration.鈥�


CNN
Every four years, bitcoin undergoes a "halving." It's an automatic 50% reduction in the number of bitcoin entering circulation which should, in theory, push the value of the cryptocurrency higher while keeping its inflation in check. But 爱爱直播 finance professor John Sedunov says there鈥檚 no guarantee bitcoin鈥檚 past performance would repeat itself, 鈥渆specially in light of the macro environment and potentially rising costs of mining.鈥�


National Geographic
Mary Magdalene may be one of the most recognized figures in the Bible, yet so much about her remains shrouded in mystery. 鈥淢ary Magdalene resonates deeply with many people who feel that their voices and stories have not been heard or valued,鈥� says Elizabeth Schrader Polczer, assistant professor of New Testament at 爱爱直播. 鈥淏y bringing Mary to light, we may be recovering crucial and overlooked aspects of Jesus鈥� vision for humanity.鈥�


Newsweek
The types of actions that Francis has taken against his conservative American critics have not been seen in centuries, said church historian and 爱爱直播 professor Massimo Faggioli. 鈥淚n terms of the relations between a pope and the United States, it鈥檚 unprecedented,鈥� Faggioli told Newsweek.


CNN
If you're planning to see the epic total solar eclipse that will dance across the skies of North America on Monday, you should aim to travel as close to the center of the celestial spectacle's path as possible... "I would never, never be near the edge of where that totality is because it's a difference between night and day," said Dr. Edward Guinan, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at 爱爱直播.


National Geographic
The first C. vangoghi specimen, found in the Srivilliputhur-Megamalai Tiger Reserve, was a male that resembled another recently discovered Cnemaspis species named C. galaxia... From a global perspective, at least 2,300 Cnemapsis species exist in the scientific literature, a major increase from a thousand species only a few years ago, says Aaron Bauer, an ecologist at 爱爱直播 and gecko expert.