On Thursday, the House Financial Services Committee will host a hearing to discuss the recent GameStop stock speculation. The committee will hear from the CEO of Robinhood and other financial service apps that contributed to pushing the stock price of the gaming retailer to record highs. Cornell professors Scott Yonker and Robert Hockett comment on the upcoming hearing. 

Economics and Business

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Dr. Bruce G. Kornreich, Director of the Cornell Feline Health Center, shares some tips about heart disease in your pets.

Veterinary Medicine

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Juan Hinestroza the new CDC mask guidance reflects issues many people have with “one size fits all” masks.

Health, Nutrition & Medicine

Arts & Humanities

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Alex Hayes, co-investigator for NASA Perseverance rover's Mastcam-Z, comments on his team's work in advance of the rover's landing on Mars, and on the significance of the mission.

Arts and Sciences

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Cornell University experts are available to weigh in on political and industry developments that signal a shift to a clean energy economy.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

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Sital Kalantry, professor of law at Cornell University, says that censoring social media is just one of several troubling developments related to the Indian government’s recent crackdown on free speech.

International

Law and Policy

Law School

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Sarah Kreps, technology, international politics and national security expert, and Nathan Matias, algorithm and digital technology scholar, comment on Facebook's announcement that it will begin limiting political content on its newsfeeds.

Arts and Sciences

Agriculture and Life Sciences

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Salesforce, a leading cloud-based software company based in San Francisco, announced this week that it would allow its employees to “work remotely part or full time after the pandemic.” Bradford S. Bell says that Salesforce is not alone in suggesting hybrid work arrangements in the long term. He adds that such decisions carry important cost-saving and other benefits for companies with a significant real estate footprint, like Salesforce.   

Economics and Business

Industrial and Labor Relations

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Steve Osofsky says there is much to be learned from the ways humans encounter new pathogens from wildlife.

Health, Nutrition & Medicine

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As protesters in Myanmar continue to rally against the military coup that reversed last November’s election, members of the United Nations are renewing their efforts to address the crisis. Magnus Fiskesjö, says that in claiming election fraud, generals seem to have taken a cue from recent events in the U.S.

International

Arts and Sciences

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