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Mongabay
Whistleblower: Enviva claim of ‘being good for the planet… all nonsense’
Enviva is the largest maker of wood pellets burned for energy in the world. The company, has from its inception, touted its green credentials. It says it doesn’t use big, whole trees, but only uses wood waste, “tops, limbs, thinnings, and/or low-value smaller trees” in the production of woody biomass burned in former coal power plants in the U.K., EU and Asia. A major recent scientific study finds that Enviva is contributing to deforestation in the U.S. Southeast, writes journalism professor Justin Catanoso, a regular contributor to Mongabay.
December 5, 2022
The New York Times
Human composting should be an option for New Yorkers
Law professor Tanya Marsh, a leader in human remains law, said that in the New York bill the final product is defined as soil, with no restrictions placed on its use.
December 5, 2022
Information Today
Entrepreneurial librarianship is alive and well: The Entrelib Conference 2022
Summer Krstevska, research and instruction librarian – business & economics, said that libraries have undertaken to support social entrepreneurship; that is, the application of entrepreneurial tactics to realize social, rather than commercial, objectives. But supporting social entrepreneurs is just one way that librarians engage with entrepreneurship.
December 5, 2022
Times Higher Education (THE)
Australian university combines PhD and MBA in national first
Joint PhD-MBA programs were pioneered in the US, with the first example emerging more than 20 years ago at Wake Forest University.
December 4, 2022
The Washington Post
Law school revolt against U.S. News rankings gains steam
Harvard Law School is one of several law schools that have taken a stand recently against rankings from U.S. News & World Report. U.S. News ranks UC-Irvine 34th among national universities for its undergraduate program, and it ranks the law school 37th, in a six-way tie with counterparts at UC-Davis, Boston College, Fordham University, the University of Utah and Wake Forest University.
December 3, 2022
Christian Science Monitor
Where do Americans draw lines when it comes to guns and teens?
“Generally, until the rise of the era of the mass shooter with an AR-style rifle, people weren’t really concerned about 18-year-olds owning long guns,” said sociologist David Yamane, author of “Concealed Carry Revolution.” “That distinction … that handguns are really for violence and long guns are for sport – I think that’s broken down in the minds of a lot of people.”
December 2, 2022
Physics Today
Fabricating human tissues: How physics can help
By understanding and applying the physics of cellular self-assembly, scientists aim to predict tissue behaviors and accelerate the regeneration of human tissues and organs. Chemistry professor Elham Ghadiri and Ashkan Shafiee, a researcher in clinical physics in the department of radiation oncology, both at Wake Forest University co-wrote this piece featured in Physics Today.
December 2, 2022
On Point (WBUR-FM)
Essential trust: How healthy skepticism builds trust
Julia Jordan-Zachery, chair of women, gender, and sexuality studies participated in this program. “In part of my research as a political scientist, I talk about Black women’s hesitant hope, which is this interesting combination of both trust and skepticism. And it’s very grounded in data. But how do we understand data? Data is sometimes understood differently depending on the communities that we’re talking about.”
December 1, 2022
The Conversation
Resounding success of ‘Black Panther’ franchise says little about the dubious state of Black film
When Marvel Studios released “Black Panther” in February 2018, it marked the first Marvel Cinematic Universe film to feature a Black superhero and star a predominantly Black cast. Its estimated production budget was US$200 million, making it the first Black film ever to receive that level of financial support. Would it lead to more big-budget Black films? Media studies professor Phillip Lamarr Cunningham explores this question.
December 1, 2022
Reuters
Alabama case over mistaken pregnancy highlights risks in a post-Roe world
Law professor Meghan Boone and Benjamin McMichael, an economist and professor at the University of Alabama School of Law, analyzed the impact of Tennessee’s 2014 fetal endangerment law – which expired two years later – in a 2021 paper. They found “consistent evidence” that outcomes worsened under the law.
December 1, 2022
WFDD-FM (Winston-Salem, NC)
For many in the Latino community, Soccer is a unifying force
“Soccer is what gives them a sense of their identity, right, like their Latino identity,” explains politics and international affairs professor Betina Cutaia Wilkinson, who specializes in sports activism. “In the United States people don’t care about soccer that much but I mean, in Latin America soccer is life. If you know your soccer team is playing, you are throwing parties. You are excited for weeks on end if they win, or depressed for weeks on end if they lose.
December 1, 2022
The Charlotte Observer
Supreme Court’s ‘independent state legislature’ case: How we got here, and what’s next
Law professor John Korzen spent 45 pages in one brief arguing that a win for the legislature would make elections much more expensive in the future, and also much more confusing. Some valid ballots might be accidentally thrown out, he wrote, even as other ballots that should’ve been thrown out might get accidentally counted. “Voters need reassurance that election procedures produce accurate results. The more complicated and complex the system is, the more voters will question an election’s integrity.”
November 27, 2022