Sarah Kreps, professor of government and expert in surveillance systems and cybersecurity, comments on efforts within the federal government to use data and surveillance to control the spread of the new coronavirus.

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Dr. Katherine Houpt, professor emeritus of behavior medicine, offers advice on how to prepare pets for post-quarantine life.

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Sarah Kreps, professor of government, studies artificial intelligence and misinformation. She comments on news that the World Health Organization is working with Google to limit the spread of misinformation related to the coronavirus, and the role of tech companies in limiting the spread of fake news.

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Héctor Abruña, professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Cornell University and an expert on batteries and energy storage technology, comments on the technology behind 'salt batteries.'

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Sarah Kreps, professor of government and international relations at Cornell University, says that while Americans knew about rising casualties resulting from the war in Afghanistan, they were unaware of the financial cost and corruption exposed by the Afghanistan Papers.

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Adam T. Smith, professor of anthropology at Cornell University says that the archaeological record is clear: President Trump’s proposed wall on the Mexico-U.S. border offers only the illusion of security – just as similar walls have throughout history.

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Earlier this week, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe declared a state of emergency in major cities across the country in an effort to limit the spread of COVID-19. Kristin Roebuck, assistant professor in the department of history at Cornell University, studies modern Japan with a focus on the history of medicine and law, race and sexuality and Japanese international relations. She points to Japan’s abysmal domestic violence record and says that those Japanese who feel least safe at home face heightened threats and dwindling protections in the era of COVID-19.

International

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Sarah Kreps, surveillance systems and cybersecurity expert, comments on emerging approaches to smartphone contact tracing to limit the spread of the coronavirus.

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Allen Carlson, associate professor of government at Cornell University and an expert on Chinese politics, says the shadow of SARS is haunting China as it wrestles to bring under control yet another infectious disease outbreak within its borders.

International

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Israeli citizens went to the polls this week to vote in an election that long-serving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hoped would give him and his Likud party a governing mandate. However, the election resulted in no party securing enough seats in parliament to form a government. Uriel Abulof, visiting professor at Cornell University’s Government Department and senior lecturer of politics at Tel-Aviv University, says that the election is an indication that Netanyahu’s political strategy did not pay off and may have cost him his leadership role.

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