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The Wall Street Journal

Chekitan Dev, professor of marketing and management communication, says that the trend of being a digital nomad, “a person with no fixed address, who lives and works while traveling the globe,” was first driven by millennials, but now older millennials are taking their families with them.

BBC

Valzhyna Mort, assistant professor of English, weaves her work with first-hand accounts, texts and tweets related to the uprising in Belarus this past summer.

The New York Times

Francine Blau, professor in the ILR School, says, “These are a subset of essential workers who, given the nature of their jobs, must provide their labor in person. Prioritizing them makes sense given the heightened risk that they face.” 

Los Angeles Times

Francine Blau, professor in the ILR School, says, “These are a subset of essential workers who, given the nature of their jobs, must provide their labor in person. Prioritizing them makes sense given the heightened risk that they face.”

The Wall Street Journal

Bernd Blossey, professor in the Department of Natural Resources, discusses why controlling deer populations is so difficult. Blossey says, “For vegetation and insects, birds and plants to recover, sometimes you need to reduce deer population down to almost nothing.”

Smithsonian

“Our research shows that the benefits of environmental regulation have likely been underestimated,” says Ivan Rudik, assistant professor in applied economics & policy and co-author of the study. “Reducing pollution has positive impacts in unexpected places and provides an additional policy lever for conservation efforts.”

CNBC

“The numbers we’re looking at now are [far higher than] anything we’ve seen before,” says Erica Groshen, senior labor market advisor, about employment numbers. “We’ve never seen a shock like this.”

Associated Press

Isaac Weisfuse, epidemiologist at the College of Veterinary Medicine, says that people should try to spend as little time in stores as possible. “You just want to go in and out,” he says. “Get your shopping done and move on.” 

The New York Times

Maria Figueroa, director of labor and policy research at the Worker Institute, says, “In addition to getting low pay, they don’t get enough work from each of the applications, so they have to work for at least three or four of them, and there are more workers than the market can hold.”

The Wall Street Journal

Vanessa Bohns, associate professor of organizational behavior at the ILR School, notes that charismatic people often boost other people and that “People tend to perk up when you talk about them.”

Associated Press

“Whittle it down to the folks who are being prosecuted and either prosecute them or don’t, but don’t just hang on to them,” says Joseph Margulies, professor of law, about prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.

Reuters

Ariel Ortiz-Bobea, associate professor of applied economics and policy, says, “Maybe the best way to ensure food security is not necessarily for small-scale farmers to grow their own food, but being able to get an education and work in a sector where they can buy that food.”