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UnDisciplined: The Political Scientist And The Photovoltaic Engineer

Utah Public Radio | By Matthew LaPlante
Published October 5, 2018 at 10:38 AM MDT
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Ian Marius Peters' research helps show how pollution can diminish the ability of solar panels to produce energy in cities like Delhi.
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An anonymous Trump administration official wrote an op-ed in the New York Time published Sept. 6, 2018.
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Alex Coppock is an assistant professor of political science at Yale University who studies the ability of op-eds to change public opinion.
Yale University
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Ian Marius Peters is a research scientist in the photovoltaic research lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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This week on UnDisciplined, we're talking about the way newspapers impact the way people think, and the ways pollution impacts solar energy.

If those things sound like they have nothing in common — well, that's the idea.

Joining us are Alex Coppock, who studies how op-eds impact reader opinions, and Ian Marius Peters, who studies the impact of haze on energy production.
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Matthew LaPlante
Matthew LaPlante has reported on ritual infanticide in Northern Africa, insurgent warfare in the Middle East, the legacy of genocide in Southeast Asia, and gang violence in Central America. But a few years back, something occurred to him: Maybe the news doesn't have to be so brutally depressing all the time. These days, he balances his continuing work on more heartbreaking subjects with his work on UnDisciplined — Utah Public Radio's weekly program on science and discovery.
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