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Bloomberg

Andy Novakovic, a professor of agricultural economics at Cornell University, says that better-run dairies are likelier to invest in expansion, and poorly run big dairies are likelier to be driven out of business.

Business Insider

"If he testifies before Congress, whether in public or in private, that will be significant because it will allow him to detail the extraordinary amount of evidence against Trump that he collected," says Jens David Ohlin, a vice dean at Cornell Law School. 

Inside Higher Ed

In their new book, Gregory T. Eells, executive director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Counseling and Psychological Services and former director of CAPS at Cornell University, and Donald A. Rakow, associate professor of horticulture at Cornell University, discuss how being outdoors can improve students' mental health at little cost to colleges.

The Washington Post

Kim Haines-Eitzen, a historian of early Christianity at Cornell University, says Njogu’s faction is not the first to try charting a new course without the celibacy vow. “In Catholicism, there’s always been a pronounced preference for asceticism to prove devotion. But how do you square that with, say, ‘be fruitful and multiply’, from Genesis?” she says.

The New York Times

Eswar Prasad, a professor of trade policy at Cornell University, said the tariffs would have “substantially disruptive effects on the tightly-woven supply chains in North America and portend even greater uncertainty in U.S. relationships with major trading partners.”

Wired

Brooke Erin Duffy, who studies social media and influencers at Cornell says that while female influencers showcase their physical selves, men show the flat lays. (Flat lays are an Instagram staple: a collection of objects artfully arranged on a flat surface, viewed from directly above.)

CNN

In this op-ed, Melissa Ferguson, senior associate dean of social sciences at Cornell, and her colleague Jeremy Cone, demonstrate that fact-checking is highly effective at combatting fake news, and influencing our perceptions.

CBC

Dan Luo, professor in the Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering speaks about creating artificial materials out of DNA with 'lifelike' abilities.

CBC

Dan Luo, professor in the Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering speaks about creating artificial materials out of DNA with 'lifelike' abilities.

Reuters

Comparative literature professor Karen Pinkus expressed doubt about whether “traditional literary language or narrative” could do much to help address climate change. “Even if they might make people feel better for a time. There simply isn’t time,” she says.

Scientific American

Theoretical physicist Yuval Grossman comments on new findings of antimatter and matter "charm" quarks that sheds light on the question of what happened to the universe's anti-matter. It “does bring us closer to finding the answer because it shows one of the possible answers may not be the right one,” Grossman says.

Associated Press

The word "budget" can trigger negative associations, but renaming it to "cash flow plan" or "expense tracker" can change that. "When you think about it in that way, that's pretty easy to handle," says Vicki Bogan, associate professor of finance at SC Johnson College of Business at Cornell University.