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The US enters today's meeting with China with less leverage than earlier this year, @cornellgov's Allen Carlson tells @Newsweek: "Trump and his advisers are approaching this visit as if America won the last round in Beijing and will win again. It did not."
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“Little things can have a large impact."
Inspired by termites, fireflies & other instances in nature, @CornellPhysics researchers have made robots that for the first time can sense the temperature of their surroundings and react together to change it.
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Remembering Barbara Finlay, the W.R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology Emerita at @CornellCAS. An award-winning scholar who challenged traditional thinking regarding psychology and brain function, Finlay died Sept. 12, at age 75. news.cornell.edu/stories/202…
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Tech utopian initiatives “have big aspirations," @Cornellhistory professor Raymond Craib says in @nytimes : "They have extrapolated out of their crypto world that they can now create some kind of new country.…Thus far these haven’t gone particularly well”
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Why should we care whether humans still understand mathematics if AI can solve the problems for us? Fair question. But we can say this at least: Historically, understanding has been a route to predictive power — with enormous benefits for our lives.
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Night transformed: In her new book, “Transforming Night: The History and Science of Light Pollution,” science historian Sara B. Pritchard of @CornellCAS describes a massive spike in artificial light in the 21st century, and actions that are necessary. news.cornell.edu/stories/202…
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History teaches us that maps have political consequences, @STSCornell scholar Christine Leuenberger writes in an opinion article for @MSNOWNews: "Maps may appear to be objective and unbiased representations, but they are inevitably, inherently selective."
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AI is effective in shifting a voter's opinion about presidential candidates or proposed policy, according to research by @CornellPsychDpt faculty members @DG_Rand and @GordPennycook – quoted in @USATODAY reporting on chatbot involvement in the midterms
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There's a gap between the power and deep pockets of tech companies and the amount they're reinvesting in the communities where they're planting their AI flag, @cornellgov professor @sekreps says in @business coverage of Meta's AI aspirations.
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Worldbuilding—when a science fiction author creates a world different from the reality the reader inhabits—has been co-opted in today’s charged political climates, Cornell comp lit scholar Anindita Banerjee argues as co-editor of REACTIONARY WORLDBUILDING.
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ALT Book cover: Reactionary Worldbuilding
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Using a new technique – essentially a microscopic electron spray painter – @CornellPhysics researchers found a unique characteristic of iron selenide: its superconducting “dome” is closely linked to resistance caused by imperfections in its crystal
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In his new book, “Cast Out: A Call for a Forgiving Society in an Age of Incarceration,” Joseph Margulies from @CornellCAS explores compassion and empathy, and the idea that “there is no them, there is only us.” @cornellgov @BeaconPressBks news.cornell.edu/stories/202…
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Yuqing Wu, @CornellPhysics PhD student, was the unifying force behind the team of Cornell grad students that won the @TompkinsHistory Treasure Hunt. They completed the competition in 32 hours and used an algorithm to fairly split the $10,000 prize.
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In his new book, “The Photographic World Picture: A New Prehistory of Photography,” associate professor Andrew Moisey of @CornellCAS describes how key aspects of photography’s “mechanical subjectivity” were present in early modern painting. @yalepress news.cornell.edu/stories/202…
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Julieta Caunedo will be discussing what we know and what we don't know about mechanisation in developing countries and why it matters for policy
📢 Our new VoxDevLit on Agricultural Policies for Growth is out now!
In this VoxDevLit, Senior Editors Tasso Adamopoulos (@YorkUniversity) & @DiegoRestuccia (@econuoft) review agricultural policies for growth.
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Pianist Daniel Anastasio ’11, A&S music and philosophy alum, is on a mission to make classical music welcoming. Through social media videos and live performances he breaks down classical music for new and casual listeners.
Featured on @WeCornellians
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ALT Stage with a grand piano and a person playing it; a singer stands at a microphone wearing a long, full dress
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"If BRICS is a meeting of equals, China is the most equal," @cornellgov prof Allen Carlson says in @Reuters coverage of the summit. "Whatever is built from these proposals, it is hard to imagine the infrastructure coming from anywhere other than Beijing."
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AI is making mathematical breakthroughs happen faster, but what it means for the experts who have dedicated their lives to the field is less clear, Cornell mathematics professor @stevenstrogatz says in an interview with @WIRED.
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