Michael Mazourek, associate professor of plant breeding, explains that bitter taste receptors become less sensitive in adulthood, allowing us to “adventure to enjoy the flavors of sourdough bread, hoppy bear, dark coffee, and dark chocolate.”

David Sherwyn, professor of hospitality human resources and professor of management and organizations, talks about the high hotel prices in New York City. 

“It can be devastating. With such high expectations, there’s so much room for disappointment,” says Katherine Saunders, assistant professor of clinical medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine. 

Sunita Sah, associate professor of management and organizations, says “We start equating compliance with being good and defiance with being bad because that's what we were told so often growing up and we were rewarded for being compliant and not rewarded for being defiant.”

“We get angry because we hear someone say something that we feel is just so wrong and we have to tell them that it's wrong. So we have this mixture of anxiety and anger, and over time that becomes resentment. And contempt — and contempt is a very destructive interpersonal process,” says Ken Barish, clinical professor of psychology in psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine.

Lisa Kaltenegger, associate professor of astronomy, discusses the Pentagon’s latest report on UFOs, and the possibilities of finding life on other planets.

Article spotlights Cornell enrolls about 100 transfer students a year, making it the leader of the Ivy Leagues. Ian Schachner, senior associate director of admissions at ILR, says “We are charged with helping improve people’s lives in the state. If it helps to provide a pipeline for these incredible community college students to get the best education in the state, we do that, too.”

Nathan Kravis, clinical professor of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine, says “Its strangeness is part of the power. It really has no parallel anywhere else in our social world.”

“Those people taking the subway into Manhattan, they live in a very different world than those people who live in Manhattan. They live in very different worlds in terms of the pressures that they feel, challenges that they feel in life, and they don’t want to be preached to,” says Richard Bensel, professor of government.

Kate Manne, associate professor of philosophy, discusses the challenges women face in the American electoral process. 

“Places like New York City, Newark, Philadelphia, and Wilmington are lacking more than 7 inches of rain since the start of September. The forecast shows little precipitation, meaning drought relief appears limited,” says Samantha Borisoff, climate scientist at NOAA’s Northeast Regional Climate Center.

George Hay, professor of law, says “It's very rare that, at the presidential level, there's any attempt to influence the course of cases which have already been filed.”