“Managers often think that knowing more about what workers are doing is useful for making decisions, or eliminating waste, or compelling workers to comply with a firm’s goals,” says Karen Levy, professor of information science. 

“It also speaks to a lot of the ways in which, not just women, but influencers are treated,” says Brook Erin Duffy, associate professor of communication. “There’s just this recurrent critique that they are faking it somehow. They’re faking their success, they’re faking their looks, they’re faking their career. And so much of that is tied into the larger culture of social media, where people are trying to suss out what’s real and what’s performed in these spaces.” 

Eswar Prasad, professor of economics and international trade policy, discusses the outlook for China’s economic recovery. 

“They knew the heart was crucial for life and about blood flow through the arteries, but they didn't really have a category for ‘heart attack’ as an event,” says Courtney Ann Roby, referring to ancient Greek and Roman physicians. 

Sean Nicholson, professor of public policy, says Amazon is introducing the generics program to boost their subscriptions, compel people to switch to Amazon for higher-margin branded drugs, and entice them to spend more on other products, but he notes “it’s not going to do much, if anything, to push down spending on drugs that don’t face generic competition.”

Bruce Kornreich, director of the Cornell Feline Health Center, says that between 1 in 100 and 1 in 500 cats are diagnosed with diabetes as obesity rates in cats approach 50%. 

This piece features Karen Levy, professor of information science, and her new book on surveillance in the trucking industry.

“Business was weak in 2022, but banks chose to hang on to employees for another year as it was hard to get a definitive read on the economic data that was developing over the course of 2022,” says Drew Pascarella, senior finance lecturer. “Now that 2023 is shaping up to be weak, banks have the data they need to act now.”

“You are completely covered in phages. They are everywhere. We are constantly consuming them,” says Sam Nugen, professor of food science.  

This piece notes that the first mention of the term supercloud was found in a 2017 Cornell study which defines a supercloud as “a cloud architecture that enables application migration as a service across different availability zones or cloud providers.”

Tracy Mitrano, visiting professor of information science and public policy, writes this opinion piece about the potential impact of ChatGPT in education.

Robert Gravani, professor emeritus of food science, shares some common food safety mistakes and how to avoid them.