“You may think you are protecting yourself by keeping yourself from writing, but that’s really not protection at all. That’s just another story trying to talk you out of being yourself.”
—Alexander Chee, associate professor of English and creative writingin Poets & Writers
April 17, 2018
“Why are nerve agents so toxic? These incredibly lethal chemicals affect—essentially kill—the nerve-associated enzyme acetylcholinesterase, causing respiratory failure and death.”
—Gordon Gribble, professor of chemistryin Valley News
April 16, 2018
“First time I ever water skied with dust in my face.”
“As we learn from nature and its grand cycles of creation and destruction that extend from atoms to life to galaxies, from the old comes the new, re-energized.”
—Marcelo Gleiser, the Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophyin NPR
April 12, 2018
“All firms that use steel and don’t get a break from foreign competition in what they’re making—they’ll be worse off.”
—Emily Blanchard, associate professor of business administration at the Tuck School of Businessin Marketplace
April 11, 2018
“The advantage of the ice cores is that they show us just how unusual it is for Greenland to be melting this fast.”
—Erich Osterberg, assistant professor of earth sciencesin Truthdig
April 10, 2018
“We can study Twitter all day, but only about 12 percent of Americans are on it. It’s important for journalists and academics, but it’s not how most people get their news.”
—Brendan Nyhan, professor of governmentin The Atlantic
April 9, 2018
“I think Williams is a disastrous appointment. He was rejected by Trump as vice chair of the board and his academic work suggests he doesn’t believe there was a recession.”
—David Blanchflower, the Bruce V. Rauner 1978 Professor of Economics in Business Insider
April 6, 2018
“Governments should manage opioids the way they manage medical marijuana so all providers can get back to caring for patients.”
—Julie Kim, associate professor of pediatrics at the Geisel School of Medicinein The Huffington Post
April 5, 2018
“Does it really matter to Amazon what President Trump thinks about them? Is it Amazon who has more power or is it Trump? It’s not completely clear.”
—Paul Argenti, professor of corporate communication at the Tuck School of Businessin The Washington Post
April 4, 2018
“The problem with picking a longtime Fed insider is it just amplifies the risk of groupthink, and I think groupthink has been proven to be a very serious threat at the Fed.”
“In general, scientists have not seen it as their responsibility to have a public presence, and are now paying the price.”
—Jeremy DeSilva, associate professor of anthropologyin Medium
April 2, 2018
“Effectively, it’s factory North America, and the administration is threatening to build a wall in the middle of the factory.”
—Emily Blanchard, associate professor of business administration at the Tuck School of Businessin The New York Times
March 30, 2018
“Globally, life expectancy is on the rise and both child and maternal mortality have been halved. Yet climate change threatens to undermine these gains.”
—Chelsey Kivland, assistant professor of anthropologyin WAMC
March 29, 2018
“While the Chinese would prefer that North Korea not have nuclear weapons, their greatest fear is regime collapse.”
“This is not enough diversity. We need more people sitting at the table who are familiar with the challenges of ordinary Americans.”
—Andrew Levin, Professor of Economics, on candidates for Federal Reserve Board leadership in The Washington Post
March 27, 2018
“Children who view advertisements for highly palatable foods, such as chips or candy, as part of TV shows or within video games will eat more snack foods, even if they already had a meal.”
—Jennifer Emond, assistant professor of biomedical data science and of pediatrics at the Geisel School of Medicinein Reuters Health
March 26, 2018
“If the travel is easy people will do it. But the travel will only be easy if there’s a demand for it. And the demand only comes when people are doing it. So something has to kind of kick start that cycle into being.”
—Garrett Nelson, postdoctoral fellow in geography, on public transit in NHPR
March 23, 2018
“The reason we’re seeing a lot of public art controversy erupting right now is that for many people the long legacies of settler nationalism, the legacies of slavery, the legacies of Jim Crow, the legacies of the Civil War era and its destruction of the social safety net—these things are playing out in a really pronounced way right now.”
—Associate Professor of Art History Mary Coffey in VPR
March 22, 2018
“We need more movies like ‘A Wrinkle in Time’, mixing science, fantasy, and strong female protagonists.”
—Marcelo Gleiser, professor of physics and astronomy and the Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophyin NPR