Some states cap the number of ounces or grams consumers are allowed to buy — but even a little cannabis can amount to a lot of THC, said Rosalie Liccardo Pacula of the USC Price School of Public Policy.
With makeup wipes, “you’re wiping things on the skin to get the oil, makeup and dirt off,” says dermatologist Nada Elbuluk of the Keck School of Medicine of USC. “But you’re leaving some of the residue from the wipes on the skin. And that’s something that needs to be cleansed off as well.”
A study led by USC Dornsife’s Elisa Baek found that lonely individuals process the world around them differently than other people.
If you’re dreaming of a different career, enroll in a course, shadow someone, take up a hobby or a side job. Making the transition “requires you to say now, today, this week, these are the steps I can actually take” to attain that goal, says USC Dornsife’s Daphna Oyserman.
Among the winners were widely known historians and journalists, including biography winner Beverly Gage, for G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century, and Dahlia Lithwick, whose Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America, won the current interest prize.
Teachers and parents can look for age-appropriate resources — such as the that USC Shoah Foundation — The Institute for Visual History and Education prepared in partnership with Nickelodeon.
A section of the bill cites the inability to attend “to necessary personal or medical care” and “to self-protection or personal safety” as evidence of grave disability. But Elyn Saks of the USC Gould School of Law asks, “What constitutes personal care? And how do we distinguish mental illness from eccentricity or neurodiversity? Who makes that determination?”
Some people can’t continue to do manual labor at age 65, says Dean Pinchas Cohen of the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology. But for workers in knowledge-based fields such as management, business and finance, education and health care — some 45% of us — a retirement age under 65 “makes no sense.”
“It’s domestic, it’s renewable — it’s all the things Japan needs,” USC Dornsife’s Jacques Hymans says. But across the nation, local governments have introduced new restrictions.
USC Dornsife’s Natalia Molina describes her work as a historical consultant on the HBO series, which is set in 1930s Los Angeles.
Some people can’t take statins because of side effects. “If they go home and don’t take it, it’s not doing any benefit,” said cardiologist Eugene DePasquale of the Keck School of Medicine of USC. “It’s really important to have an alternative.”
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A study from the climate change storytelling consultancy Good Energy and USC Annenberg’s Norman Lear Center found less than 3% of the more than 37,000 analyzed movie and TV scripts written between 2016 and 2020 made any reference to climate change. But scenes featuring discussions about climate change or fire control methods, such as raking leaves off a lawn, don’t exactly make for scintillating screen time.
USC Marshall’s Rodney Ramcharan dismissed criticism that the bank reportedly donated millions to Black Lives Matter and similar groups as “trivial and irrelevant,” given the bank had more than $200 billion in assets before it failed. (Los Angeles Times; may require subscription)
The movie and TV series are recognized as the year’s best adaptation of the written word.
USC Annenberg’s Robin Stevens is working with Instagram’s Well-being Creator Collective, a pilot program that trains and educates influencers and content creators on how to create responsible mental health content.
Research conducted by USC’s Matthew Kahn found that L.A. was the fifth-greenest large metropolitan area in the country as measured by carbon emitted by an average household — almost entirely because of relatively mild weather. If L.A. built more housing, there would be less building in areas such as Atlanta or Houston, which have higher greenhouse gas emissions.
An annual report from the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative also found that half of the women over 45 who led or co-led a movie were women of color.
“If you go back 30, 40 years, women went on the education committee, or maybe dealt with health care — whatever little bone was thrown their way,” says Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, a retired USC political science professor. “Dianne didn’t follow the typical path. … She didn’t let herself get pigeonholed as a ‘woman’ senator.”
The entertainer is now part of an elite sorority of Black women who’ve been featured on Super Bowl stages. Shaun Harper of the USC Race and Equity Center explains why that’s important: Rihanna and other Black women work in an industry dominated by white executives and by men, few of whom are Black.
USC’s Robert Kozinets and a colleague describe how to bring transparency and accountability to social media.
One challenge: the absence of uplifting hormones. “There are a lot of endorphins and chemical changes that happen in our body when we exercise,” says Jared Vagy, USC assistant professor of physical therapy. “If that’s the only method that some people have to release those chemicals, then you’ve just lost a large part of what makes you complete as a human or satisfied.”
Most community gardens in L.A. are “hobby gardens” for more affluent demographics, says USC Dornsife’s Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo. But this one, she says, is a “healing spot, homeland and economic generator” for a diverse group of immigrants — Indigenous, mestizo and Central American.
Tests for multiple viruses are “the way of the future” and would help more people get treatment, says Susan Butler-Wu of the Keck School of Medicine of USC. But the United States has historically fallen behind Europe in terms of authorizing new diagnostics, she says: “It takes time to go through the process and get approval.”
One challenge: the absence of uplifting hormones. “There are a lot of endorphins and chemical changes that happen in our body when we exercise,” says Jared Vagy, USC assistant professor of physical therapy. “If that’s the only method that some people have to release those chemicals, then you’ve just lost a large part of what makes you complete as a human or satisfied.” (The New York Times; may require subscription)