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The New York Times

Cornell University College of Engineering Dean Lance Collins and Columbia’s Mary Boyce, both of whom led the team of university engineers who advised the New York governor on the rehabilitation of the L-train East River tunnel, discuss the reasoning behind their plan. 

The Atlantic

“Poverty not only limits parents’ ability to pay for music lessons, for example, but is also a major source of stress that can influence parents’ energy, attention, and patience when interacting with children,” says Patrick Ishizuka, a postdoctoral fellow at Cornell University.

Buzzfeed News

"It is definitely possible for AI to detect bestiality-related porn, but it would need to be trained on images related to that. So, it requires a special effort to do that kind of training and it's not 'fun to work on,'" says Bart Selman, a Cornell University professor of artificial intelligence. "Another issue is that the content spreading mechanisms may actually push this stuff widely, going around content safety checks."

Vice

“The uncertainty is unnerving, but the not-knowing part is somewhat typical,” says Jens David Ohlin, vice dean of Cornell Law School. “Normally the Justice Department is quiet about ongoing investigations.”

The Economist

Research conducted by Ariel Ortiz-Bobea, assistant professor of applied economics and policy at Dyson, suggests farmers are already enduring lower yields than they would otherwise, had climate change not been under way. The Midwest, he says, “is more vulnerable than we’d like to believe.” 

Associated Press

John Cawley, a policy analysis and management professor at the College of Human Ecology, says it’s telling that a light beer would be the most forthcoming about its ingredients and nutrition information. Since nutrition labels were first required, companies have competed to look healthier or remove objectionable ingredients. “That is actually the biggest public health victory of all,” Cawley says.

National Geographic

The CHIME discovery points to a huge potential,” says Shami Chatterjee, a senior researcher at the Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science who was not involved in the latest discoveries. “I’m intensely curious how many [fast radio bursts] they are sitting on now. They must have dozens or hundreds.”

NPR

The stockpile started to build several years ago, in large part because the pace of milk production began to exceed the rates of consumption, says Andrew Novakovic, professor of agricultural economics at Cornell University. "What has changed — and changed fairly noticeably and fairly recently — is people are turning away from processed cheese," Novakovic says. 

Marketplace

Given the stakes involved, meetings like these are typically handled by the Treasury Secretary or the Secretary of Commerce, according to Eswar Prasad, a trade policy professor at Dyson. This time around,  the U.S. has sent members of the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative because, according to Prasad, the Trump administration views Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin as being too soft against China.

Bloomberg

Robert Hockett, a professor at Cornell Law School, discusses the changes at Tesla to satisfy a requirement of the settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The Verge

Discussing Governor Andrew Cuomo’s announcement that the L train tunnel between Manhattan and Brooklyn would not be shut down for 15 months, Lance Collins, dean of Cornell University’s College of Engineering, says the repairs won’t be a “quick fix.” 

The Washington Post

In this op-ed, Jonathon Schuldt, associate professor of communication at CALS, discusses his recent research on U.S. public concern about the climate. He finds that attitudes have increasingly polarized by partisan identity.