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Bloomberg

“What you don’t want to happen is to end the strike, take the vote, lose the vote and go back out on strike,” says Arthur Wheaton of the Worker Institute.

The New York Times

“Any reputable scientist would say there’s nothing here,” says David Levitsky, a professor in the College of Human Ecology. “And I guarantee you next year there will be some other juice or food or magical mushroom that will come out and offer these same properties.”

Agence France-Press

"I think it is a good idea to separate the CEO duties to allow a high ranking independent official to manage health and safety concerns," said Arthur Wheaton, an expert in aerospace industrial relations at Cornell University.

BBC

Lisa Kaltenegger, director of the Carl Sagan Institute, discusses why the work of the Nobel Prize winners of physics is so important and what their work means for the search for alien life 

The Washington Post

“There’s no way you can insulate the political process from those concentrations of criminal wealth,” says Ken Roberts, professor of government. “It has a highly, highly distortionary and disruptive effect on democratic politics.”

Vox

Jens David Ohlin says, “In this case, impeachment is the ultimate constitutional tool — a blunt tool but a tool nonetheless — for pushing back against a non-compliant executive branch.”

Associated Press

Lisa Kaltenegger, director of the Carl Sagan Institute comments on the work of the winners of the Nobel Prize in physics and the chances of finding life in space.

Associated Press

“I don’t really see repayment happening, but (the federal government) is leaving its options open,” says Joshua Macey, visiting assistant professor of law. “If Blackjewel goes away, the government will not be able to recover money from Blackjewel and will have to try to get paid from (purchasers or creditors). This is very hard to do.”

The New York Times

“President Trump has failed to build a physical wall along the U.S.-Mexico border to deter illegal immigrants, but he has effectively built an invisible wall to keep out legal immigrants,” says Steve Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law.

The Hill

Glenn Altschuler writes this opinion piece on the damage Trump’s rhetoric has on his presidency and politics, generally.

New York Post

Andre Kessler, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, published a new study finding that goldenrod plants communicate through airborne chemicals when they are in danger. 

NBC

Ross Knepper, assistant professor in the department of computer science, says anthropomorphizing of a robot is normal “something the brain automatically tries to do.”