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Scientists lay out revolutionary method to warm Mars
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UChicago, Northwestern study suggests new approach to warm Mars could be 5,000 times more efficient than previous proposals
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A landmark analysis of how a marginalized subculture used modern media to transform public attitudes toward sexual desire. In Becoming Lesbian, historian Tamara Chaplin argues that the history of female same-sex intimacy in France is central to understanding the struggle to control the public...
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5 Questions with Roberta L. Millstein, author of “The Land Is Our Community” | The Chicago Blog
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Informed by his experiences as a hunter, forester, wildlife manager, ecologist, conservationist, and professor, Aldo Leopold developed a view he called the land ethic. In
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Coderspeak delves into the hidden world of software development, offering a combined anthropological and technical approach that explores the coder community's impact on our digital landscape. Software applications have taken over our lives. We use and are used by software many times a day....
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Most of America, and a lot of the world, has been singularly focused on the U.S. presidential election. With so much media attention on this one event, could foreign actors be taking advantage of this moment to do unpopular things? In a new paper, economist Ruben Durante from the University of...
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The essays turn about a single theme, the loss of the capacity to deal constructively with ambiguity in the modern era. Levine offers a head-on critique of the modern compulsion to flee ambiguity. He centers his analysis on the question of what responses social scientists should adopt in the...
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The Social Costs of Keystone Species Collapse: Evidence From The Decline of Vultures in India
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by Eyal Frank and Anant Sudarshan Context Scientists agree that human activity is causing the loss of animal and plant species at alarmingly high rates, making it ever important to understand how the loss of species might affect human welfare. Vultures are one example of a “keystone species” in...
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An English translation. All of Plutarch's Lives are onsite; in turn part of a very large site on classical Antiquity.
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Django Generations shows how relationships between racial identities, jazz, and national belonging become entangled in France. Jazz manouche—a genre known best for its energetic, guitar-centric swing tunes—is among France’s most celebrated musical practices of the twentieth and twenty-first...
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The sudden demise of Indian vultures killed thousands of people
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The same cast of characters features in most wildlife conservation campaigns: majestic tigers, adorable pandas or other creatures that tug human heartstrings. Images of the blood-splattered bills of endangered vultures tend to evoke less sympathy, but a new study provides a reason to be...
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Traces a commonplace average—sea level—from its origins in charting land to its emergence as a symbol of global warming. News reports warn of rising sea levels spurred by climate change. Waters inch ever higher, disrupting delicate ecosystems and threatening island and coastal communities. The...
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There is an ever-increasing number of books on improvisation, ones that richly recount experiences in the heat of the creative moment, theorize on the essence of improvisation, and offer convincing arguments for improvisation’s impact across a wide range of human activity. This book is nothing...
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The book series Replay published or distributed by the University of Chicago Press.
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The Evidence Base on the Impact of Price Controls on Medical Innovation | BFI
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This issue brief reviews the evidence on the impact of price controls on biopharmaceutical innovation and calibrates what this evidence implies for recent price control proposals in the US. A large academic literature estimates the effect of future drug revenues on R&D spending with a mid-range...
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A new catalyst can “recycle” carbon dioxide into useful chemicals
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Research by Argonne, University of Chicago scientists aims to turn CO2 into resource
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Harley Katz | Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics | The University of Chicago
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The Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics is a world leader in astrophysical research and offers rigorous academic programs at both the graduate and undergraduate level.
on Jul 9
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Taking a stand against book bans
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The University of Chicago stands firmly behind the promise of the book and the promise of the library. We also stand with librarians across the country and all those who seek to inquire or express themselves.
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A compelling and pragmatic argument: solutions to yesterday’s environmental problems reveal today’s path forward. We solved planet-threatening problems before, Susan Solomon argues, and we can do it again. Solomon knows firsthand what those solutions entail. She first gained international fame...
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A bizarre and compelling biography of a scientist and his work, using rodent cities to question the potential catastrophes of human overpopulation. It was the strangest of experiments. What began as a utopian environment, where mice had sumptuous accommodations, had all the food and water...
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UChicago researchers invent new fabric that reduces heat
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Textile could be used for clothing, construction, and food storage to reduce impact of climate change
on Jun 28
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A study of Indian indentured labor in Mauritius, British Guiana, and Trinidad that explores the history of indenture’s normalization. In this book, historian Jonathan Connolly traces the normalization of indenture from its controversial beginnings to its widespread adoption across the British...
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A revelatory and comprehensive history of the gay Right from incisive political commentator Neil J. Young. One of the most maligned, misunderstood, and even mocked constituencies in American politics, gay Republicans regularly face condemnation from both the LGBTQ+ community and their own...
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Scientists find evidence that meltwater is fracturing ice shelves in Antarctica
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Increased temperatures from climate change cause ponds that weaken ice, expedition finds
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Optimal Urban Transportation Policy: Evidence from Chicago | BFI
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In Chicago, welfare would be increased by charging almost nothing for public transit, increasing the frequency of trains, and lowering the frequency of buses. Road pricing reduces environmental...
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Idealization and the Aims of Science
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Science is the study of our world, as it is in its messy reality. Nonetheless, science requires idealization to function—if we are to attempt to understand the world, we have to find ways to reduce its complexity. Idealization and the Aims of Science shows just how crucial idealization is to...
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The first comprehensive defense of an inferential conception of scientific representation with applications to art and epistemology. Mauricio Suárez develops a conception of representation that delivers a compelling account of modeling practice. He begins by discussing the history and...
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2024 Poll: Americans' Views on Climate Change and Policy in 12 Charts
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Americans’ Attitudes and Actions on Climate Change 1. Belief in human-driven climate change rebounded from last year, while Republicans under 45 drove a small increase in overall Republican belief After a several year decline in support for the statement that climate change is primarily driven...
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Can you find good health information on TikTok? UChicago study advises caution
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Research finds 44% of videos posted about sinusitis contained misinformation
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Financial Statement Analysis with Large Language Models | BFI
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We investigate whether an LLM can successfully perform financial statement analysis in a way similar to a professional human analyst. We provide standardized and anonymous financial statements to...
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Financial Statement Analysis with Large Language Models | BFI
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GPT outperforms financial analysts in predicting companies’ earnings changes, especially when analysts struggle, with accuracy comparable to state-of-the-art machine learning models.
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UChicago political scientist Molly Offer-Westort named Carnegie Fellow
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Prize will support experiments and tools to study online political discourse and misinformation
on May 26
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What “living drill bits” can teach us about evolution
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Clams that can bore into solid rock show surprising patterns of evolution, UChicago study finds
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The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots
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Lost on the other side of the world since 1855, the story of John Swanson Jacobs finally returns to America. For one hundred and sixty-eight years, a first-person slave narrative written by John Swanson Jacobs—brother of Harriet Jacobs—was buried in a pile of newspapers in Australia. Jacobs’s...
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The Arctic of towering icebergs and midnight sun, of flaming auroras and endless winter nights, has long provoked flights of the imagination. Now, in The Last Imaginary Place, renowned archeologist Robert McGhee lifts the veil to reveal the true Arctic world. Based on thirty years of work with...
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Expanding Our Vocabulary of Vision Using AI | DSI
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Our perception of the world is inexorably linked to the words we use to describe it. Our appreciation for and ability to discriminate between different colors or different artistic styles is markedly improved after we acquire the words to describe those colors or artworks. This is called...
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Undefeated Despair – Critical Inquiry
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A journal of Art, Culture and Politics, Published by the University of Chicago
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In science and technology, the images used to depict ideas, data, and reactions can be as striking and explosive as the concepts and processes they embody—both works of art and generative forces in their own right. Drawing on a close dialogue between the histories of art, science, and...
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Drawing as a Way of Knowing in Art and Science
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In recent history, the arts and sciences have often been considered opposing fields of study, but a growing trend in drawing research is beginning to bridge this divide. Gemma Anderson’s Drawing as a Way of Knowing in Art and Science introduces tested ways in which drawing as a research practice...
on May 17
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The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax and Other Irreverent Essays on the Study of Language
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How reliable are all those stories about the number of Eskimo words for snow? How can lamps, flags, and parrots be libelous? How might Star Trek’s Commander Spock react to Noam Chomsky’s theories of language? These and many other odd questions are typical topics in this collection of essays that...
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Authoritarian Privacy | The University of Chicago Law Review
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Privacy laws are traditionally associated with democracy. Yet autocracies increasingly have them. Why do governments that repress their citizens also protect their privacy? This Article answers this question through a study of China. China is a leading autocracy and the architect of a massive...
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A clear, accessible, and fun guide on everything it takes to land a job. Searching for a job can be hard and demoralizing work. In Why You, Why Me, Why Now, Rachel Toor delivers some good news. The most important thing is within your control—a mindset that shows you know the goals of the...
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Melissa Gasparotto joins UChicago as Deputy University Librarian
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Gasparotto will join the Library in this newly created role on July 22.
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