Claudia Goldin (CC-BY-SA-4.0)
Election to the American Philosophical Society honors extraordinary accomplishments in all fields. Those accomplishments don’t end upon induction, however. In this week’s APS Member News Digest, read about fertility rates, Gen Z movie habits, and exoplanets.
- Claudia Goldin (APS 2015) spoke with Bloomberg about dads, “duds,” and the declining birth rate worldwide
- For The New York Times, Darren Walker (APS 2021) wrote about the analog backlash to the digital revolution, and why Gen Z is going back to the movies
- Sara Seager (APS 2018) spoke with The New York Times about LHS 1140b, a nearby, potentially habitable exoplanet
- Jill Lepore (APS 2014) went on Decoder, a podcast by The Verge, to talk about AI backlash and its role in shaping the future
- APS Members Carla Hayden (APS 2020), David Blight (APS 2021), Sherrilyn Ifill (APS 2025), and Eric Foner (2018) will appear in a new Ava Duvernay documentary, as reported on in The New York Times and elsewhere