“Film is intelligible to everybody. You don’t have to be an expert. ... It’s an art form that is more open to a general public commenting on it. You watch a film and you feel you can pass judgment on it immediately.”
—Gerd Gemunden, the Sherman Fairchild Professor of the Humanitiesin Valley News
April 13, 2017
“We cannot come to terms with the Vietnam War until we acknowledge the story of the generation who served there and understand the emotional complexity they confronted.”
“Here we show that the eyes not only reveal the inner workings of one mind, but reveal when two minds connect.”
—Thalia Wheatley, associate professor of psychological and brain sciencesin Daily Mail
April 11, 2017
“In the long term, we hope that this will help with the development of better treatment strategies for a wide range of conditions that limits the usefulness of vision for millions of people worldwide.”
—Patrick Cavanagh, research professor of psychological and brain sciencesin Daily Mail
April 10, 2017
“There may be some emotional satisfaction that something was done, but this remains the problem from hell. And deeper engagement (in Syria) is anything but easy. And it’s unclear if it is wise.”
—Daniel Benjamin, the Norman E. McCulloch Jr. Director of the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understandingin San Francisco Chronicle
April 7, 2017
“The basic finding in the literature is that it’s very hard to detect a robust impact from changing taxes to growth.”
—Andrew Samwick, the Sandra L. and Arthur L. Irving ’72a P’10 Professor of Economicsin the San Francisco Chronicle
April 6, 2017
“If you correct a false claim, they might double down on their existing opinions.”
“The 2016 election allowed evangelicals finally to dispense with the fiction that their political behavior was motivated by moral concerns or ‘family values.’ ”
“This is why technology needs a diverse set of developers making software. We all have stories to tell and we all have communities we love; let’s make technology for us and for those communities.”
“We’re not there yet where we can, say, find all extremist content. Machine learning, AI, is nowhere near that yet. Don’t believe the hype.”
—Hany Farid, the Albert Bradley 1915 Third Century Professor of Computer Sciencein Bloomberg
March 31, 2017
“The Russian era was about paternalistic control, but the Russian goal was not to transform life radically, but to harness the people for economic purposes. With the Americans, it was accompanied with a much more forceful Westernization.”
—Sergei Kan, professor of anthropology and Native American studiesin The New York Times
March 30, 2017
“This looks to me like the most serious suicide note from a country since the Treaty of Versailles.”
—David Blanchflower, the Bruce V. Rauner 1978 Professor of Economicsin Bloomberg
March 29, 2017
“Those are the hardest arguments to deal with, the hardest things you have to overcome in convincing people that lives will be better off if the dam is removed.”
—Frank Magilligan, professor of geography and the Frank J. Reagan ’09 Chair of Policy Studiesin Next City
March 28, 2017
“The goal is to try to educate both kids and parents about the kind of research that scientists do in their neighborhood.”
—Kelly Salmon ’16, one of the graduate student organizers of Science Day 2017in Valley News
March 27, 2017
“The Brexit vote is now starting to have major negative consequences and it is only going to get worse.”
—David Blanchflower, the Bruce V. Rauner 1978 Professor of Economicsin The Guardian
March 24, 2017
“Being in psychiatry has helped my music help me connect to my emotions. And the music has made me better at medicine.”
—Da-Shi Hu, assistant professor of psychiatry at the Geisel School of Medicinein Valley News
March 23, 2017
“A 3-D printed lattice cube made of this smart material lifted a small coin 1.6 millimeters. The numbers may sound small for our day-to-day world, but this is a big step forward in the effort to get nanomachines doing macro work.”
—Chenfeng Ke, assistant professor of chemistryin The Conversation
March 22, 2017
“Partisan polarization is now so extreme in the United States that it affects the way that people consume and understand information—the facts they believe, and what events they think are important.”
“The Trump team appears intent on changing the nature of American government so that power can more comprehensively be centralized in the White House.”
—Daniel Benjamin, director of the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding, and Steven Simon, visiting lecturerin Politico
March 20, 2017
“With respect to North Korean nuclear weapons, the policy of strategic patience is the least awful of a menu of awful options.”
—Jennifer Lind, associate professor of governmentin BuzzFeed News