Esra Akcan, professor of architecture, and Mike Fontaine, professor of classics and director of the Program on Freedom and Free Societies, offer historical and cultural perspectives on the symbolism and significance of the proposed “Great Triumphal Arch.”

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Philipp Kircher, is a professor of industrial and labor relations, and a founding member of Cornell University’s AI-Ready Workforce Initiative. This short Q&A with Kircher picks up some of the big un-answered questions related to AI and labor.

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The House Energy and Commerce Committee is holding a hearing on the text of the Water Cost Accountability Act this morning, as data centers become a focal point of the campaign trail and public concern about footing their utility bills mounts. 

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As bird flu numbers rise rapidly in Australia and New Zealand, there are concerns of mass mortality among birds and mammals. Amandine Gamble comments on the impacts.

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David Silbey, a professor of history specializing in military history, defense policy, and battlefield analysis, says the frigate competition is the latest example of the Navy's decades-long struggle to modernize and expand the fleet.

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The United Nations released a new report warning the world will miss its climate target of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial times and calling for ways to limit the resulting “overshoot.”

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The New York City public school system is placing strict limits on artificial intelligence use in classrooms, as well as restricting tech in the classrooms of its youngest students. Cornell experts discuss the impact of tech in the classroom.

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Anthony Townsend, senior research associate at Cornell Tech and author of Ghost Road: Beyond the Driverless Car, says these companies are still at different stages.

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Tommaso Bondi, a professor of marketing at Cornell Tech and at the SC Johnson Graduate School of Management, says advertising is no longer a side business for Amazon.

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Denise Green, director of the Cornell Fashion + Textile Collection, says the controversy is as much about institutional incentives and the attention economy as it is about Galliano himself.

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