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The Washington Post

“The labor market is still looking strong, which validates the Federal Reserve’s sense that there’s enough momentum to slow things down without tanking it entirely,” said Erica Groshen, senior labor market advisor. “This is a period of very high churn, but it’s by and large driven by workers who are quitting to switch jobs, not to leave the labor market entirely.” 

The New York Times

“It’s our cultural decisions that have created the high numbers of susceptible plants, really,” said Margery Daughtrey, senior extension associate at the School of Integrative Plant Science. 

Reuters

Qatar, the world's largest producer of natural gas, pledged to host a carbon neutral World Cup when it bid for the event more than 11 years ago. "Can they claim it's a carbon neutral event at this point? Too early," said Fengqi You, professor of energy systems in engineering. 

NPR

Kate Bronfenbrenner, senior lecturer in the ILR School, says for employers who've never had a contract before, every issue is a fight. “You're having to negotiate every word.”

The New York Times

Gilmore D. Clarke and Michael Rapuano’s “impact on American space, primarily the New York metro area but by example, cities throughout the United States, was every bit as profound as the impact of Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, if not more so,” says Thomas J. Campanella, professor of city & regional planning who is writing a book about the pair.  

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.