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  • January 20, 2017

    “Going after the press from the White House is different from going after the press as a reality show star. That may have the function of chilling the necessary criticism and negative coverage that’s an inherent part of a functioning democracy.”

    —Brendan Nyhan, professor of government in a VPR story about the new administration

  • January 19, 2017

    “Our ape ancestors started eating fermented fruits on the forest floor, and that made all the difference. We’re preadapted for consuming alcohol.”

    —Nathaniel Dominy, professor of anthropology in National Geographic

  • January 18, 2017

    “This can be a silver lining of the Trump years. Because finding a language of resistance doesn’t take linguists or writers. It takes citizens who grasp, as Baldwin did, the importance of this foremost ‘political instrument, means, and proof of power.’”

    —Yuliya Komska, associate professor of German, and coauthor Michelle Moyd in The Guardian

  • January 17, 2017

    “If you look at Dr. King’s major speeches, he doesn’t talk about Jesus, he doesn’t make this an exclusively Christian event. That openness, that embrace of Jews meant so much to my father.”

    —Susannah Heschel, the Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies in PRI's The World

  • January 13, 2017

    “We have more time than we think to adjust to the world that technology makes possible.”

    —Matthew Slaughter, the Paul Danos Dean of the Tuck School of Business and the Earl C. Daum 1924 Professor of International Business in The New York Times

  • January 12, 2017

    “Social media provides a unique opportunity to publicly declare to the world what your beliefs are and how willing you are to denigrate the opposition and reinforce your own political candidates.”

    —Sean Westwood, assistant professor of government in The New York Times

  • January 10, 2017

    “Rather than taking us out of our comfort zone, the digital revolution is enabling each of us to live happily in our own worlds, and in the process closing down opportunities for originality, spontaneity, and learning.”

    —Sydney Finkelstein, the Steven Roth Professor of Management at the Tuck School of Business in Daily Mail

  • January 9, 2017

    “It is a new world in health care as America grapples with an epidemic of opioid drug abuse. ... Almost every day, we try to save a young person dying from infectious complications of injection drug use.”

    —Tim Lahey, an associate professor of medicine and of microbiology and immunology at the Geisel School of Medicine in The New York Times

  • January 6, 2017

    “We know from our prior work that children with this same genetic obesity risk factor are more likely to overeat after watching food advertisements on TV, even when they are not hungry.”

    —Diane Gilbert-Diamond, assistant professor of epidemiology and of community and family medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine in Parents

  • January 5, 2017

    “People have a very distorted notion of how good things were under defined-benefit plans or how good they would be today if that system of defined-benefit plans had continued.”

    —Andrew Samwick, the Sandra L. and Arthur L. Irving ’72a P’10 Professor of Economics in a Bloomberg story

  • January 4, 2017

    “As we increasingly offload our decisions to machines and the software that manages them, developers and engineers increasingly will be confronted with having to encode—and thus directly code—important and, potentially, life and death decision-making into machines.”

    —Daniel Rockmore, the William H. Neukom 1964 Distinguished Professor of Computational Science in Edge

  • January 3, 2017

    “These visits don’t cause reconciliation. It’s the exact opposite. Reconciliation causes these visits.”

    —Jennifer Lind, associate professor of government in The New York Times

  • December 22, 2016

    “Today children all over the world read and hear about the little deer who started out in life as a loser, just as I did. But they learn that when he gave himself for others, his handicap became the very means through which he achieved happiness. My reward is knowing that every year, when Christmas rolls around, Rudolph still brings that message to millions, both young and old.”

    —Robert L. May ’26, author of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” in The Acorn

  • December 21, 2016

    “If nothing else, the Star of Bethlehem tells us of a time when looking up to the skies in awe and wonder was part of people’s lives, something few of us relate to nowadays. Christmas offers the perfect context for us to rekindle this ancient connection.”

    —Marcelo Gleiser, professor of physics and astronomy and the Appleton Professor of Natural Philosphy in a post for the NPR blog 13.7 Cosmos & Culture

  • December 20, 2016

    “All the innovation—new companies, new ideas, new patents—of skilled immigrants boosts the productivity of companies and of America overall.”

    —Matthew Slaughter, the Paul Danos Dean of the Tuck School of Business and the Earl C. Daum 1924 Professor of International Business in U.S. News & World Report

  • December 19, 2016

    “This really is the largest recognized health disparity in the United States. A tragic part of the stigmatization of mental illness is the marginalization of these individuals.”

    —Stephen Bartels, Geisel School of Medicine professor of pyschiatry and of community and family medicine, and professor of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice in Quartz

  • December 16, 2016

    “If Zhou Xiaochuan, governor of the People’s Bank of China, is a currency manipulator, then Janet Yellen is an interest-rate manipulator.”

    —Matthew Slaughter, the Paul Danos Dean of the Tuck School of Business and the Earl C. Daum 1924 Professor of International Business in the Orlando Sentinel

  • December 15, 2016

    “I think people are learning more about what Trump’s real priorities are and they’re … more business friendly than you would have thought based on the campaign.”

    —Eric Zitzewitz, professor of economics in CBC News

  • December 14, 2016

    “There’s a real darkness here if we give up on facts. Standing up for facts is a kind of patriotic act, and a necessary one.”

    —Brendan Nyhan, professor of government in PolitiFact

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