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Associated Press

“So there’s this really interesting flow of information that’s not just top-down, mainstream media communicating to subcultures, but allowing various groups, in this case Black Twitter, to have really important, impactful conversations that the media took up and got disseminated to the wider public,” says Brooke Erin Duffy, associate professor of communication. 

Wired

Natalie Mahowald, professor in engineering, discusses her collaboration with NASA on the Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation. 

 

The Guardian

Chiedozie Egesi, adjunct professor of plant breeding and genetics, writes this piece about how cassava could help the world wean off wheat. 

The New York Times

“We really can’t do it this way in the future — we can’t leave children to the very last,” says Dr. Sallie Permar, chair of pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine.

Politico

“​​People are parsing the opinion for clues about exactly what its logical implications are,” says Michael Dorf, a Cornell Law School constitutional law expert who has predicted that the court’s abortion ruling has more profound disruptions in store.

The New York Times

There are limits to analyzing the reasoning of published Supreme Court opinions, to say nothing of drafts, says Michael C. Dorf, professor of law. “Logic and syllogisms don’t carry us very far in the law."

The Washington Post

“Business travelers as well as many leisure travelers value what Airbnb lacks and what hotel brands do best: availability (hotels cannot delist at short notice), professional hospitality, brand standards and loyalty program perks,” said Chekitan Dev, a professor at in the Cornell Peter and Stephanie Nolan School of Hotel Administration.

Boston Globe

Cornell University historian Mary Beth Norton is quoted in this piece about Matthew Hale, whose scholarship is cited in the recent leaked Supreme Court opinion.

Yahoo Finance

Louis Hyman, professor of industrial and labor relations, says the system of non-employee workers in the tech industry is not new and that it originated in Silicon Valley with migrant agricultural laborers. 

The Wall Street Journal

This piece features a study by Kaitlin Woolley, associate professor of marketing and communications, and Laura Giurge, assistant professor of behavioral science at the London School of Economics and Political Science, finding that people who worked on weekends and holidays enjoyed their work less and experience decreased motivation, even if they chose their schedule themselves. 

CNN

This pieces highlights the cross-college research effort by Carol Anne Barsody, masters student in archaeology; Frederic Gleach, senior lecturer and curator of the Anthropology Collections; and Vanya Rohwer, curator of the birds and mammals at the Cornell Museum of Vertebrates, on the “mummy bird” that is part of the Anthropology Collections.

The New York Times

“It’s rare for a company that is not generating as much cash, or is generating only moderate amounts of cash, to have this amount of debt because you’ll starve the company of the ability to continue to hire engineers and seek out growth opportunities,” says Drew Pascarella, senior lecturer of finance.