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El Pais

Lourdes Casanova, senior lecturer of management, discusses Jumia. 

The New York Times

Kevin McGowan, extension associate at the Lab of Ornithology, discusses Rochester's approach to driving away tens of thousands of crows that descend on the city in early December.

Deutsche Welle

Article highlights research led by Jacqueline Rifkin, assistant professor of marketing and management communications, on the Fear Of Missing Out. 

NBC

Angela Odoms-Young, associate professor of nutritional science, says "There’s strong evidence to suggest that a dietary pattern that is high in beans, peas, and lentils is associated with lower chronic disease risk.”

Grist

“This transition to a nighttime schedule pushes an extremely vulnerable population into more difficult work conditions that have significant mental and physical health impacts,” says Mary Jo Dudley, director of the Cornell Farmworker Program.

ABC News

“If one thinks about the underlying value proposition of Bitcoin, it is driven entirely by scarcity,” says Eswar Prasad, senior professor of international trade policy.

Financial Times

Eswar Prasad, senior professor of international trade policy, says “The Chinese economy continues to flirt with deflation, highlighting the inadequacy of the stimulus measures thus far in restoring private sector confidence, reviving domestic demand, and putting growth back on track.”

Reuters

Jason Judd, executive director at the Global Labor Institute, says “If a brand or retailer knows that temperatures in a production area are excessively high or doing damage to worker health, then they're obligated under this new set of rules to do something about it.”

Associated Press

Daniel Barone, associate professor of clinical neurology at Weill Cornell Medicine, talks about weighted blankets. 

The New York Times

Sarah Kreps, director of the Tech Policy Institute, says that Trump may change his mind about TikTok if he is briefed once in office.

Times Higher Education

Hannah Wunsch, professor of anesthesiology at Weill Cornell Medicine, advises on how to start the academic day productively. 

The Atlantic

Richard Friedman, professor of clinical psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine, writes this article about new research pointing to a future in which pleasure and pain relief can be independently controlled.