Sean Nicholson, professor of public policy, says Amazon is introducing the generics program to boost their subscriptions, compel people to switch to Amazon for higher-margin branded drugs, and entice them to spend more on other products, but he notes “it’s not going to do much, if anything, to push down spending on drugs that don’t face generic competition.”

Bruce Kornreich, director of the Cornell Feline Health Center, says that between 1 in 100 and 1 in 500 cats are diagnosed with diabetes as obesity rates in cats approach 50%. 

This piece features Karen Levy, professor of information science, and her new book on surveillance in the trucking industry.

“Business was weak in 2022, but banks chose to hang on to employees for another year as it was hard to get a definitive read on the economic data that was developing over the course of 2022,” says Drew Pascarella, senior finance lecturer. “Now that 2023 is shaping up to be weak, banks have the data they need to act now.”

“You are completely covered in phages. They are everywhere. We are constantly consuming them,” says Sam Nugen, professor of food science.  

This piece notes that the first mention of the term supercloud was found in a 2017 Cornell study which defines a supercloud as “a cloud architecture that enables application migration as a service across different availability zones or cloud providers.”

Tracy Mitrano, visiting professor of information science and public policy, writes this opinion piece about the potential impact of ChatGPT in education.

Robert Gravani, professor emeritus of food science, shares some common food safety mistakes and how to avoid them.

“Like Washington, Beijing seeks greater stability in the near term while investing in efforts to deter and counter perceived threats,” says Jessica Chen Weiss, professor of government and public policy. Tensions aren’t likely to subside, she says, “without reciprocal actions to lower the temperature.” 

“Courts do not view this type of legislation kindly or did not when Trump proposed a similar ban. But that was three years ago and antagonism toward China has only increased in the intervening years,” says Sarah Kreps, professor of government and public policy.

“Once they are in the culture, we tend to honor them,” says Thomas Gilovich, professor of psychology, explained in 2013. “You feel like if you are going to ignore it, you are tempting fate.” 

“Assuming the Trumps structured their loans properly, all these sweetheart deals could have been entirely legal. I tell my law students there’s two tax regimes out there—one for the informed and one for the uniformed,” says Jill Miller, adjunct professor of law. “The people that are informed have the ability to make the best decisions for their family.”