“People can’t fact check the world,” said Dr. Richard Friedman, professor of clinical psychiatry. “They’re awash in competing streams of information, both good and bad. They’re anxious about the future, and there are a lot of bad actors with the ability to weaponize that fear and anxiety.”
Brian Collins, senior lecturer in the College of Veterinary Medicine, co-writes this opinion piece arguing the American Veterinary Medical Association should denounce the practice of killing animals by subjecting them to heatstroke.
“I do think the pandemic and its aftermath has focused employers on having a sustained relationship with people who know the business and can keep them going,” says Erica Groshen, senior labor market advisor.
“Monarch decline is a gnarly scientific problem,” says Anurag Agrawal, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology. “It takes place over a large temporal scale and vast range of land—getting data is challenging.”
Sherry Colb, S.C. Wong professor of law at Cornell Law School, argues that even pro-life Americans should find the ruling deeply troubling because it minimizes the sacrifice that women undertake in reproduction.
“Unless there is something to arrest that process, we would end up with giant planets mostly close to their host stars,” said Jonathan Lunine, an astronomer at Cornell University. “Is inward migration really a necessary outcome of the growth of an isolated giant planet? What are the combinations of multiple giant planets that could arrest that migration? It’s a great problem.”
“The employer does not have to reach an agreement with the union but the workers can go on strike. And that also goes into the difficulties with U.S. labor law with that, because if workers go on an economic strike, they can be permanently replaced by their employer,” explains Cathy Creighton, director of the ILR Buffalo Co-Lab.
“We don’t tend to think of pregnancy as something that someone might very rationally decide not to do because it’s too much of a risk,” says Kate Manne, associate professor of philosophy. “That kind of thought process is obviated by the sense that it’s natural and moral, and perhaps also holy, for women to do this.”
Thomas Seeley, professor emeritus of neurobiology and behavior, explains, “Workers achieve genetic (evolutionary) success not by reproducing themselves, but helping their mother, the colony’s queen, do so.”
This piece on how urine can be used as a fertilizer notes that Rebecca Nelson, professor of plant science and global development, and colleagues are trying to combine nutrients from urine onto biochar.