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Renae Beaumont, assistant professor of psychology at Weill Cornell Medicine, says “Time blindness has two core components. One is difficulty sensing how much time has passed, so that sense of losing track of time. And the second is estimating how long it takes to complete a task.”

Forbes

Article highlights GazeTrak and EyeEcho, technologies that track facial expressions, and are under development at Cornell.

Associated Press

Brooke Erin Duffy, associate professor of communication, notes that content creators turn to full-time content creation after seeing a payoff or being forced into it due to unemployment.

Korea JoongAng Daily

Q&A with President Pollack who participated in the 2024 Asia-Pacific Leadership Conference with Cornell alumni. 

The Guardian

Joseph Shin, assistant professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, explains that bias against incarcerated individuals can cause medical professionals to overlook serious medical conditions.

Wired

James Grimmelmann, professor of digital and information law comments on the possibility of a court deciding that AI models can't train on copyrighted characters.

Newsweek

Harry Segal, senior lecturer in psychology, explains that Donald Trump is showing signs of onset dementia.

The New York Times

Sandra Babcock, clinical professor of law, says “Gender bias is normalized and tolerated to an extent that racial bias no longer is in the administration of the death penalty. Women on trial for capital murder have been subjected to similar shaming tactics for hundreds of years.”

Politico

“The level of insecurity that low-wage workers in manufacturing lived through now is coming after the professional class, who didn’t feel they had to face that level of disruption before,” says Patricia Campos-Medina, executive director of The Worker Institute at ILR.

Christian Science Monitor

Rick Geddes, director of the Infrastructure Policy Program, discusses the surge in transportation funding.

Associated Press

“I think with many big elections coming up this year, it’s not surprising that Facebook is taking yet another step away from politics so that they can just not, inadvertently, themselves become a political headline,” says Sarah Kreps, professor of government.

CNN

Rick Geddes, director of the Infrastructure Policy Program, says “It’s absolutely a wake-up call. The people who were building the Francis Scott Key Bridge never really contemplated ships of this size. It wasn’t their fault – they just didn’t have a crystal ball.”