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Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law, explains that sanctuary laws can slow down, but not stop, mass deportations.

Michael Mazourek, associate professor of plant breeding, explains that bitter taste receptors become less sensitive in adulthood, allowing us to “adventure to enjoy the flavors of sourdough bread, hoppy bear, dark coffee, and dark chocolate.”

David Sherwyn, professor of hospitality human resources and professor of management and organizations, talks about the high hotel prices in New York City. 

“It can be devastating. With such high expectations, there’s so much room for disappointment,” says Katherine Saunders, assistant professor of clinical medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine. 

Sunita Sah, associate professor of management and organizations, says “We start equating compliance with being good and defiance with being bad because that's what we were told so often growing up and we were rewarded for being compliant and not rewarded for being defiant.”

“We get angry because we hear someone say something that we feel is just so wrong and we have to tell them that it's wrong. So we have this mixture of anxiety and anger, and over time that becomes resentment. And contempt — and contempt is a very destructive interpersonal process,” says Ken Barish, clinical professor of psychology in psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine.