Thomas Urban, visiting scholar in classics, is co-author of new research finding humans were present in North American more than 21,000 years ago, several thousand years earlier than scientists once believed. 

NYC approved of a package of bills setting minimum pay and working conditions for delivery workers. Patricia Campos-Medina, executive director of the Worker Institute says that protections are the “floor” of what is necessary to provide “basic rights.”

“In opaque crises like the one now afflicting China’s Evergrande real estate conglomerate, it’s less ‘what you know’ than ‘what you know you don’t know’ that drives financial volatility,” says Robert Hockett, professor of law.  

Nina Bassuk, professor of urban horticulture, explains how climate change can kill trees through a multitude of stressors. 

“The only way these strikes can serve the function of minimizing political risk is if you have good intelligence,” says Sarah Kreps, professor of government. “You might be able to get away with the recklessness of one or two strikes that kill civilians but you get too many of those and you will start to see some blowback.” 

“When I go shopping for an Audi and I can’t afford it, I don’t get to declare an Audi shortage,” says Erica Groshen, senior labor market advisor. “At the wage being offered, businesses still aren’t getting as many applicants for work.” 

Nikole Lewis, assistant professor of astronomy, says, “A lot of those iconic Hubble images are because you are seeing dust scatter light all over the place, which is beautiful. But it makes it really hard to study the stuff that is inside.” The new James Webb telescope will be able to peer through dust that can obscure stars. 

“The arrangement of the prints defies any practical explanation, such as walking, or any accidental explanation, such as falling,” says co-author of the study Thomas Urban, visiting scholar in the classics department. “They appear to have been carefully arranged, implying a deliberate choice was made in placing them this way.”

Eli Friedman, associate professor in the ILR School, says that the new push by the Chinese government for companies to unionize workers may leave many people out as they are not considered employees. 

This piece features field studies being conducted by Cornell research teams looking to find soil amendments that grab carbon from the air and trap it below ground. Dean Benjamin Houlton says, “As far as I can tell, ours is the largest-scale project of its kind, using this intensive sort of scientific approach.”

“Labor unions are a microcosm of the society we live in,” says Patricia Campos-Medina, executive director of The Worker Institute. “The same political divide we have right now exists within the rank and file of unions.” 

Douglas Kriner, professor in American Institutions, writes this piece about what 9/11 revealed about the President, Congress and war.