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Inclusive Play
While adaptive sports like powerchair football provide invaluable opportunities for children with mobility disabilities to participate in athletic events, these games are not designed for competitive play between kids with disabilities and those without. A media artist inspired by a young sports enthusiast with cerebral palsy is looking to change that.
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A World Without Ice
This multisensory experience created by U-M SMTD professor Stephen Rush and SMTD and Residential College professor Michael Gould with visual artist Marion Tränkle and climate scientist Henry Pollack, is now on view at the Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum through Jan. 5, 2020.
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What humans want in an automated car
U-M researchers set out to examine how a person’s perception of safety in an autonomous vehicle was influenced by the degree to which the vehicle and the rider seemed to share certain “personality” traits.
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DESI opens its 5,000 eyes
A new instrument mounted atop a telescope in Arizona aimed its robotic array of 5,000 fiber-optic “eyes” at the night sky to capture the first images showing its unique view of galaxy light.
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- New species of whale represents intermediate stage between foot-powered, tail-powered swimming
- Fiscal health: Mixed signals for Michigan's local governments
- Inclusive play: U-M art professor leads creation of interactive game for kids with disabilities
- Water births are as safe as land births for mom, baby
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- Sociologists Neil Gong, Xiaohong Xu: How Andrew Yang can and should advance racial understanding
- Barbara McQuade: The FBI properly, legally investigated 2016 Trump campaign. The rest is noise and spin.
- Leah Litman: Supreme Court faces Republican pressure to be activist and scrap Obamacare. How ironic.
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- The Great Courses Daily New way to calculate 'dog years' raises questions of aging, DNA
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- U.S. News & World Report 'Prehab' before surgery helps speed seniors' recovery
- Michigan Radio As many as 1 in 5 moms deal with perinatal mood disorders. But stigma stops many from seeking help.
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Students from @MichiganRoss are using faculty research to help generate new ideas on how to reduce inequalities around the world. myumi.ch/lxmdG
Whether in high school, college, or the workplace, group projects can be frustrating. Faculty from @UMEngineering and @UMichiganAI have developed a new tool that aims to help make group work more equitable and efficient. myumi.ch/yKVE5 pic.twitter.com/Tw4DY1ivaW
The fossilized remains of a 35-million-year-old whale found in the deserts in Egypt could represent an important step in the evolution of whales, between foot-powered and tail-powered swimming. myumi.ch/qgXE1 pic.twitter.com/PpgKXhvNyY