The most important thing you can do before traveling: Make sure you are vaccinated and have had a booster shot, says Paula Cannon of the Keck School of Medicine of USC. She also recommends turning on the air vents to direct air away from you while sitting on the plane — although that could make for a pretty cold flight.
A wage hike in San José seemed to improve customers’ perceptions of wait staffs’ friendliness and courteousness, USC Marshall’s Dinesh Puranam says.
The U.S. president needs to make sure that Mexico continues to cooperate on migration, notes USC international relations expert Pamela Starr: “He doesn’t want to call Mexico out.”
Two primary factors: the talented workforce and the supportive culture around clean technology, says USC Marshall’s Shon Hiatt.
It’s difficult to predict how air pollution from idling ships affects port-area residents, says Ed Avol of the Keck School of Medicine of USC — but for people who suffer from asthma and other respiratory or cardiac problems, a monthslong increase in pollution could “push them over the edge.”
Algorithms tend to be good at making fine-grained, short-term predictions, but there isn’t enough data for an algorithm to learn about longer busts and booms, USC Marshall’s Nikhil Malik says. Zillow learned that the hard way: It’s unloading thousands of homes it bought after AI indicated it could profit from buying them.
The U.S. decline was fueled by more than disease, notes Bryan Tysinger of the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics. Homicides and drug overdose deaths also rose, suggesting that the pandemic’s effects on social structures played a role. (NBC News)
With the risk of natural disaster seemingly growing, USC Dornsife’s Matthew Kahn wonders: Will banks still be willing to make 30-year fixed-rate mortgages?
College and university leaders are taking steps to counter the sharp decline in enrollment among Black men during the pandemic. Shaun Harper of the USC Race and Equity Center says we shouldn’t strive to get back to ”normal,” though, because “normal failed to deliver to us the kind of diversity we all say we want at our colleges and universities.”
Attracting and supporting diverse students is just the start, says Dean Elizabeth Daley of the USC School of Cinematic Arts. The school’s efforts include a ”first jobs” program that helps graduates land their first paid jobs in the entertainment industry.
It’s hard to know for sure whether the TikTok algorithm is biased against people of color, USC Marshall’s Kalinda Ukanwa said — but the perception persists.
Zhao Wei was the Reese Witherspoon of China before she was censored by the Communist Party. “Zhao Wei is like a poster child for what the Communist Party sees as what’s wrong with celebrity culture in China,” USC Dornsife’s Stanley Rosen says. “It’s a demonstration that no one, no matter how wealthy or popular, is too big to pursue.”
The early 1990s were a turning point, notes USC Dornsife’s Dennis Chong: In the years since, college-educated and young people have become markedly less tolerant of hate speech pertaining to race, gender and social identity.
The Danish company Maersk has ordered eight vessels that will run on methanol. But one key to the carbon-neutral strategy is ensuring that the methanol used is sustainable. As USC Dornsife’s Surya Prakash notes, China makes a lot of methanol from coal.
Vegetation across the country responded immediately to the change in conditions, a study by USC Dornsife’s John P. Wilson and colleagues found. It indicates that short-term changes in human activity can have a rapid ecological impact.
The MTA is considering eliminating fares, but would that increase ridership? “Unfortunately there’s not a lot of evidence that people will get out of their cars and into transit even if it were free,” says USC Price’s Genevieve Giuliano. “A trip by car often takes half the time it takes by transit.”
Prices are rising across the board, says USC Marshall’s Nick Vyas: “We are buying more and more and more. And that creates this perfect storm for inflation.”
Health care providers who come in contact with patients have an ethical responsibility to protect those patents — and their own colleagues — from COVID-19, says Brad Spellberg, chief medical officer at Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center.
“This is a pattern we’ve seen for 150 years of medical scapegoating, of medical racism in which we blame disease outbreaks on immigrants in place of really looking at other factors — our own behaviors,” notes USC Dornsife’s Natalia Molina.
About 80% of water used in the state goes toward agriculture, says USC Viterbi’s Kelly Sanders. The rest is urban usage, split roughly in half between indoor and outdoor use. So when we talk about shorter showers and turning off the tap when you brush your teeth, you’re playing with a pretty small slice of the pie.
Cockrell’s brother, Ross, is a cornerback for the team. On Monday, the Buccaneers took a break from training to watch her advance to the 400-meter hurdle finals.