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Bloomberg

“Business was weak in 2022, but banks chose to hang on to employees for another year as it was hard to get a definitive read on the economic data that was developing over the course of 2022,” says Drew Pascarella, senior finance lecturer. “Now that 2023 is shaping up to be weak, banks have the data they need to act now.”

BBC

“You are completely covered in phages. They are everywhere. We are constantly consuming them,” says Sam Nugen, professor of food science.  

Forbes

This piece notes that the first mention of the term supercloud was found in a 2017 Cornell study which defines a supercloud as “a cloud architecture that enables application migration as a service across different availability zones or cloud providers.”

Inside Higher Ed

Tracy Mitrano, visiting professor of information science and public policy, writes this opinion piece about the potential impact of ChatGPT in education.

NBC Today

Robert Gravani, professor emeritus of food science, shares some common food safety mistakes and how to avoid them.

The Wall Street Journal

“Like Washington, Beijing seeks greater stability in the near term while investing in efforts to deter and counter perceived threats,” says Jessica Chen Weiss, professor of government and public policy. Tensions aren’t likely to subside, she says, “without reciprocal actions to lower the temperature.” 

Vox

“Courts do not view this type of legislation kindly or did not when Trump proposed a similar ban. But that was three years ago and antagonism toward China has only increased in the intervening years,” says Sarah Kreps, professor of government and public policy.

National Geographic

“Once they are in the culture, we tend to honor them,” says Thomas Gilovich, professor of psychology, explained in 2013. “You feel like if you are going to ignore it, you are tempting fate.” 

Forbes

“Assuming the Trumps structured their loans properly, all these sweetheart deals could have been entirely legal. I tell my law students there’s two tax regimes out there—one for the informed and one for the uniformed,” says Jill Miller, adjunct professor of law. “The people that are informed have the ability to make the best decisions for their family.”

CNN

Risa Lieberwitz, professor in the ILR School, explains that “there’s a lot at stake” for Apple employees at the unionized store and other stores as negotiations begin. 

Marketplace

Right now, “companies need to borrow money either because they don’t have the money to pay back what they already owe or — maybe heading into 2023 — to pad the balance sheet, to put together a rainy day fund,” says Drew Pascarella, senior lecturer of finance. 

Bloomberg

Eswar Prasad, professor of economics and international trade policy, discusses China reopening and its impact on China's economy.