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The New York Times

“If it’s a useful thing to do, to see where our own faces are, we have to imagine that a company offering only that service is going to be transparent and audited,” says Helen Nissenbaum, professor of information science.

MarketWatch

”Apple recognizes there is a market for privacy, and consumers’ growing concern,” says Steve Wicker, professor of electrical and computer engineering. “Facebook represents the free-for-all mentality.”

USA Today

"When you're presented with information that goes contrary to what you believe, then you actually start thinking more deeply about it in order to counter argue,” says David Pizarro, professor of psychology, who studies how biases affect moral judgment.

Insider

Ileen DeVault, professor of labor history, says it's Amazon Labor Union's win that could be the tipping point for organized workers. "I've said over and over again that the real change would come when the first Amazon warehouse unionized.”

Associated Press

“So there’s this really interesting flow of information that’s not just top-down, mainstream media communicating to subcultures, but allowing various groups, in this case Black Twitter, to have really important, impactful conversations that the media took up and got disseminated to the wider public,” says Brooke Erin Duffy, associate professor of communication. 

Wired

Natalie Mahowald, professor in engineering, discusses her collaboration with NASA on the Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation. 

 

The Guardian

Chiedozie Egesi, adjunct professor of plant breeding and genetics, writes this piece about how cassava could help the world wean off wheat. 

The New York Times

“We really can’t do it this way in the future — we can’t leave children to the very last,” says Dr. Sallie Permar, chair of pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine.

Politico

“​​People are parsing the opinion for clues about exactly what its logical implications are,” says Michael Dorf, a Cornell Law School constitutional law expert who has predicted that the court’s abortion ruling has more profound disruptions in store.

The New York Times

There are limits to analyzing the reasoning of published Supreme Court opinions, to say nothing of drafts, says Michael C. Dorf, professor of law. “Logic and syllogisms don’t carry us very far in the law."

The Washington Post

“Business travelers as well as many leisure travelers value what Airbnb lacks and what hotel brands do best: availability (hotels cannot delist at short notice), professional hospitality, brand standards and loyalty program perks,” said Chekitan Dev, a professor at in the Cornell Peter and Stephanie Nolan School of Hotel Administration.

Boston Globe

Cornell University historian Mary Beth Norton is quoted in this piece about Matthew Hale, whose scholarship is cited in the recent leaked Supreme Court opinion.