“At the end of the day, Facebook’s response to disinformation is always going to be driven by how to increase their user engagement and advertising revenue,” says Alexandra Cirone, assistant professor of government.

“OSHA is the first order and Biden has said he wants new rules to be issued, so I think that’s the first big thing,” says Kate Bronfenbrenner, director of labor education research. 

“When we talk about food poisoning, there are certain microbes or germs that cause illness, but that doesn’t mean you can only get them through foods,” says Martin Wiedmann, professor in food safety. “You can get salmonella from undercooked chicken, for example, but also through direct contact with animals.” 

Gemma Rodrigues, curator of the Global Arts of Africa at the Johnson Museum of Art, says, Pascale Marthine Yayou’s “playful, witty, large-scale installations often harbor shrewd critiques of power and capitalism in a global economy, as seen from the vantage of an internationally mobile African with strong ties to the place of his birth.”  

Christine Bacareza Balance, associate prof of performing and media arts and Asian American studies, provides examples of how Asian women have been portrayed in films and novels.

“We’re still down quite a few jobs. But there’s certainly more grounds for optimism than several months ago,” says Erica Groshen, senior labor market advisor. 

“These online brokers use prompts, push notifications and other nudges for the purpose of eliciting a specific behavior: increased trading by the investor,” says Vicki Bogan, associate professor of applied economics and management. 

In this opinion piece Thomas L. Friedman, foreign affairs op-ed columnist, references a webinar he moderated which was hosted by the College of Veterinary Medicine, the World Wildlife Fund and Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability. Friedman focuses on Steve Osofsky of the College of Veterinary Medicine and the way he summarized how our health and the health of wildlife and ecosystems are all linked. 

Garrick Blalock, associate professor of applied economics and policy, and Vrinda Kadiyali, professor of economics and marketing, write this opinion piece about how it is statistically safer to fly in a plane than drive a car, even amid the pandemic. 

“Women’s freedoms are seen as dispensable, as disposable — very much like sometimes, tragically, women ourselves,” says Kate Manne, associate professor of philosophy.  

“What we learn from experience today is that a lot of surrogates are white and tend to be lower middle class,” says Sital Kalantry, clinical professor of law, noting that warnings from radical feminists that poor women of color would be taken advantage of by the wealthy for their reproductive capabilities have empirically not held true. 

“People may think, ‘Oh, well, now the government is always going to be trying to find ways to help immigrants’ and that's not the case,” says Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of law.