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Richmond Magazine (US)
Gun violence has always bedeviled the city’s de facto nightclub district. But the Feb. 21 mass shooting at 18th and Main streets that left two dead and seven hospitalized featured a new twist: a proliferation of guns on full display. “Most of the people who carry concealed weapons or open carry look at this from a self-defense standpoint, or political posturing,” said sociologist and gun culture expert David Yamane. “People openly carrying firearms in commercial areas is interesting. That sounds unique to me.”
April 2, 2026
The Conversation
"Little has seemingly gone as Washington planned in the war against Iran.Trump, like other U.S. presidents before him, has fallen into what I call the trap of asymmetric resolve. In short, this occurs when a stronger power with less determination to fight starts a military conflict with a far weaker state that has near boundless determination to prevail. Victory for the strong becomes tough, even close to impossible," writes politics and international affairs expert Will Walldorf.
This article was reprinted in more than 100 news outlets.
April 1, 2026
CNBC
The consumer-AI refund relationship is off to a rocky start
Artificial intelligence may be the future of customer service, but some early consumer reviews suggest that, at least for now, you should prepare to be annoyed. “What bothers people is automation that traps them in a loop,” said Shannon McKeen, professor of practice and executive director of the Center for Analytics Impact at the School of Business. Research on support automation shows that many conversations with AI still eventually escalate to humans. But when systems cannot resolve the issue or clearly explain a decision, customers often experience the AI layer as an additional barrier rather than a solution, McKeen added.
April 1, 2026
McKnight's Senior Living
New arts ‘prescription’ pilot program will lead to resident wellness model for industry
Residents of a North Carolina continuing care retirement community will be receiving “prescriptions” for artistic and creative engagement to test whether they enhance physical and cognitive well-being. In what is being touted as a “first-of-its-kind” initiative, Southminster is partnering with Lifetime Arts and Wake Forest University’s NeuroArts Lab to pilot the Creative Aging on Prescription initiative.
March 31, 2026
USA Today
‘Fruit Love Island’ goes viral, raises big questions about AI ethics
A new AI TikTok video series, "Fruit Love Island," is dominating social media. Woody Hood, director of critical and creative media and film and media studies, said the series is a culmination of fun, pleasure and poison, an "inevitable" amid the height of AI-generated content. "Even going back to claymation in films, we were laughing. That was part of the enjoyment of that stuff, too, going, 'Okay, there are limits on this, but claymation is charming because it has physics to it,'" Hood said. "Digital, I don't know. It seems less charming when it glitches out."
March 30, 2026
Asheville Watchdog
U.S. Rep. Chuck Edwards is drafting a bill to increase the regulatory powers of the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in direct response to the four Immediate Jeopardy sanctions it’s leveled at Mission Hospital since 2021. The enhancement of powers would allow CMS to impose meaningful, but tailored consequences for hospitals, said law professor Mark Hall.
March 28, 2026
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georgia grapples with rounding change after the demise of the penny
The penny died months ago. Now, state lawmakers are giving their two cents on how to handle the dwindling supply of 1-cent coins. Robert Whaples, professor of economics at Wake Forest University, who has advocated for an end to the 1-cent coin, said that rounding prices to the nearest nickel isn’t likely to have much of an impact on consumers, as the total would be just as likely to be rounded up as it would be down.
March 27, 2026
Healio
Strength training fails to reduce knee stress in osteoarthritis
"The most important thing for older adults with osteoarthritis, or even older adults in general, is to keep moving. Mobility is really important," said health and exercise science researcher Stephen Messier. "When older adults lose their mobility, bad things happen. Let your body help you determine what days you can do more and what days you can do a little bit less, but keep moving and after a while, that pain is going to subside. It doesn’t really matter what exercise you do. Just do one that you enjoy and can do for the rest of your life.
March 27, 2026
Los Angeles Times
We shouldn’t treat Disney adults like cultural abominations
“Authenticity objection” is the belief that there’s something fundamentally wrong with visits to theme parks like the Magic Kingdom because they occur in a wholly manufactured environment," writes philosophy professor Adam Kadlac. "But in an age of curated social media accounts, influencer marketing and political doublespeak, the manufactured worlds of Disney might offer more authenticity than you’d think."
This article was originally published in "The Conversation."
March 26, 2026
The Washington Post
Wisconsin elections chair reminds voters they can’t bet on state races
The chair of elections in Wisconsin had a helpful reminder for voters in the state Wednesday: Don't place bets on a state election. It's illegal. Koleman Strumpf, a political economy professor who specializes in prediction markets at Wake Forest University, told The Washington Post that it would be difficult for Wisconsin officials to identify and prosecute individuals who violate the statute. “If you go and find John Q. Citizen betting $50 on an election, and you do something to this person, you’re going to look not so good,” Strumpf said. “It’s not worth the time.”
March 26, 2026
National Geographic
Newly discovered primate species could redraw the ape family tree
Researchers in Egypt have found the first fossilized ape from North Africa–or at least, part of its lower jaw and some of its teeth. Ellen Miller, a paleoanthropologist at Wake Forest and a National Geographic Explorer who has worked in Wadi Moghra but was not involved in the current study, says many of the fossils at Moghra are broken, so the recovery of such a well-preserved fossil is surprising and very welcome. “Almost everything we know from early Miocene apes comes from sites in East Africa, and then there are lots of apes known from middle Miocene sites in Eurasia,” Miller said. “So the recovery of Masripithecus makes it tempting to draw arrows on maps.”
March 26, 2026
The New Indian Express
While these wagers may seem light-hearted, betting around elections is far from new. A 2004 study by economists Paul Rhode and Koleman Strumpf, which analysed US presidential betting markets between 1868 and 1940, found that such markets were widespread, highly organised, and often remarkably accurate in predicting outcomes.
March 25, 2026