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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.