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"My initial view is that the impact would not first appear as large numbers of drivers suddenly losing their jobs," Gad Allon of the Wharton School. "Because driver supply is flexible, the earliest effects would likely show up in utilization, longer waits between rides, fewer trips per hour, and possibly more unpaid repositioning."

"Getting on the right diet is relatively simple," Eziekiel Emanuel of the Perelman School of Medicine. "There are four things you should do to start, and then there are things you can add."

Neurologist Anjan Chatterjee of the Perelman School of Medicine says warm, intimate spaces can evoke a sense of “homeyness,” making them feel comfortable and inviting. “I suspect homeyness could apply when you think about dark studies or bars, especially if they’re paired with warm light like a fireplace,” he says.

“We find it in places where there is already organized opposition to data centers, [and] where there is not,” says Matthew Levendusky of Annenberg School for Communication, School of Arts & Sciences, and Annenberg Public Policy Center.

Successful early psilocybin trials have “...generated quite a lot of excitement for the treatment-resistant depression field,” says Anna Childress of the Perelman School of Medicine. “But also for things like trauma, post-traumatic stress… obsessive-compulsive disorder, eating disorders and substance use disorders, which all have their own version of being stuck.”

According to the Annenberg Public Policy Center, of the 1,320 U.S. adults polled in mid-June through mid-July, 61 percent said they opposed the construction of new data centers in their area.

“What drives neurotech innovation? It’s often driven by the way the technology is going,” says Anna Wexler of the Perelman School of Medicine. “Maybe we should be thinking about what patients have to say, what their needs are.”

“People can use AI at work and think it saves them time but still think it’s a net negative for society,” says Matthew Levendusky of the Annenberg School for Communication, School of Arts & Sciences, and Annenberg Public Policy Center. “These technologies have all emerged so quickly that none of us have fully unpacked their true costs and benefits.”

"It's a losing effort given the piling up of evidence and the fact that people are seeing and feeling the consequences of climate change so dramatically this summer with the heat domes and wildfires,” says Michael Mann of the School of Arts & Sciences.

“These unlikely, freak events are really the ones that break us,” says Matthijs Bouw of the Weitzman School of Design.