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The Guardian

Katharine Phillips, professor of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine, explains body dysmorphic disorder.

Wired

In this article, findings of new Icefin research by Peter Washam, research associate, which shows that the undersides of deteriorating glaciers are not flat are discussed. Peter Washam says, “It paints this really neat picture of what we see with the ocean circulation being mirrored with the ice morphology.”

NPR

Article mentions OpenEvidence, which is led by scientists at Cornell, Harvard, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and uses AI to read through the latest medical research studies.

New Yorker

Andrew Farnsworth, a senior research associate at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, helped to explain the hurricane-flamingo connection. As a five-year-old, the article explains, he became fascinated by the movements of birds; “when he started work as a researcher, he discovered historical records of epic avian journeys.” 

The Wall Street Journal

William Michael Lynn, professor of services marketing at the Nolan School, joins WSJ Explains to expound on tipping history and culture.

New Atlas

“We uncovered that two different neural codes support these very important aspects of memory and cognition, and can be dissociated, as we did experimentally,” says Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz, assistant professor of neurobiology and behavior at A&S.

CNN

Alyssa Wetterau Kaganer, postdoctoral associate at the Cornell Wildlife Health Lab, notes, “There is innovative research going on all around the world as stellar scientists explore different frog immunity, genetics, microbiome, and environmental treatment options.”

Associated Press

David Bateman, associate professor of government, says, “The biggest threat to trust in institutions was the Trump campaign’s refusal to concede the election and insistence that they had won. That validated the idea that the whole institutional system is rigged, which it isn’t.”

The Chronicle of Higher Education

This article discusses the benefits of prison education and mentions that Cornell offers liberal arts education in four upstate New York prisons.

NBC

Conor Taff, research associate at the Lab of Ornithology, discusses the challenges of keeping birds healthy as the climate changes.

Tech Crunch

Aditya Vashistha, an assistant professor of information science, says, “Even if the rationale behind creating a paywall is right, such policies would broaden the digital divide, making it difficult for people in the Philippines to be part of a global community on X compared to those in New Zealand.”

Axios

Robert Howarth, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, says, “It takes a lot of natural gas to make hydrogen, since the methane in the natural gas is the chemical feedstock for the process, and natural gas is also burned to power the chemical process of breaking the methane down into hydrogen and carbon dioxide. So, the emissions of carbon dioxide are quite high.”