Adam Hoffman, assistant professor of psychology and an expert on the development of ethnic-racial and gender identities in youth, says Sesame Street is allowing children to ‘see themselves’ in these muppets.

Social & Behavioral Sciences

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Brian Rahm, director of the New York State Water Resources Institute, comments on the devastating floods in the Northeast caused by Hurricane Ida.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

New York City

New York State

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Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are experiencing a major outage today.  Brooke Erin Duffy, professor of communication, studies the intersection of media, culture and technology. Duffy says that today’s outage brought our reliance on social media platforms into sharp relief.

Social & Behavioral Sciences

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Thomas Jungbauer, professor of strategy and business economics, and Joseph Halpern, professor of computer science, comment on European Union plans to compete with the growth of tech conglomerates in the United States and Asia, and address ethical concerns in artificial intelligence.

Computing & Information Sciences

Cornell SC Johnson College of Business

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Matt Marx, professor of entrepreneurship, comments on the Biden adminstration's executive order asking the FTC to examine non-compete agreements. 

Business, Economics & Entrepreneurship

Law and Policy

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With Thanksgiving just around the corner, families are likely starting to organize their holiday dinner. Cornell University experts Adrienne Rose Bitar and Robert Gravani comment on the history of vegetarian Thanksgiving meals and offer tips on how to keep this year’s dining experience safe.

Arts and Sciences

Agriculture and Life Sciences

Food & Agriculture

Arts & Humanities

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Ken Birman, an expert in cloud computing who researches trustworthy, secure and scalable mobile applications, comments on a delay in Iowa caucus results that party officials have blamed on a "coding issue."

Computing & Information Sciences

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Adam Seth Litwin, says because frontline caregivers are in such high demand, the healthcare sector may need to rely on prevention instead of treatment.

Health, Nutrition & Medicine

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Mason Peck, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, Elizabeth Bilson, former administrative director of space sciences, Peter Thomas, a visiting scientist at the Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science, and Philip Nicholson, professor of astronomy and deputy director of the Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science, comment on the upcoming 50th anniversary of the first moon landing.

Physical Sciences & Engineering

Arts and Sciences

Engineering

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Drew Margolin says that this recent ruling indicates that some jurisdictions are willing to lay the responsibility of monitoring harmful speech to media platforms themselves — a potentially significant trend in how we view future cases.

Agriculture and Life Sciences

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