Lisa Kaltenegger, associate professor of astronomy, says, “If we’re looking for intelligent life in the Universe that could find us and might want to get in touch … we’ve just created the star map of where we should look first.” 

George Hay, senior professor of law and economics, discusses the Justice Department’s filing of an antitrust suit against Google.

“For every post which contains misinformation about voting, why not flood the zone so that when I see that post, the very next thing I see is from a credible source,” says Yael Eisenstat, a visiting fellow at Cornell Tech.

“Trump's trade policies have delivered few tangible benefits to the US economy while undercutting the multilateral trading system, disrupting long-standing alliances with US trading partners, and fomenting uncertainty,” says Eswar Prasad, professor of economics. 

Susanne Bruyere, academic director of the Yang-Tan Institute on Employment and Disability, says, “Ultranauts’ purposeful construction of a workplace that really supports people is extraordinary. Its techniques and tools could absolutely be applied more broadly.”

“The regime’s declaration of a state of emergency offers a pretext for a crackdown on protests not just in Bangkok, but in cities in the north, south and northeast,” says Tamara Loos, professor of history.

“What’s made this work is the NBA had complete control over not only the teams but anybody that the teams interacted with,” says Isaac Weisfuse, medical epidemiologist in the College of Veterinary Medicine. “They had a very aggressive testing protocol and they kept outsiders outside of the bubble.”

Lilly Jan, lecturer in food and beverage management at the School of Hotel Administration, suggests looking at what restaurants are doing to distance seating and minimizing touchpoints when hosting family or friends.

“As far as I know, there is no basis for President Trump's comments that Mexico will pay for the wall, period,” says Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration practice at the Law School. “They have not in the past, and I have not seen anything to indicate a change in the future.”

“This means less plastics, less ceramics, less metal wires, less processing, less reprocessing to deliver the same function,” says Huili Grace Xing, professor of electrical and computer engineering, about Apple’s removing power adapters and Lightning headphones from the iPhone 12 package.

Erica Groshen, senior economic adviser, says that the official unemployment rate “goes back a long time. Its definition has not been changed. It’s comparable in ways that most other numbers are not. But it’s just the headline number. It’s like reading the headline of an article and not reading the rest of the article.”

“If Barrett is confirmed and pushes the court’s decisions to the right, I suspect many decisions will be much more conservative than the public prefers, these decisions will get a lot of media attention, and public confidence in the court will decrease,” says Peter K. Enns, associate professor of government.