The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/category/uncategorized/)
COVID-19’s ability to spread through air borne transmission, along with some transmission via contaminated surfaces, has necessitated social distancing measures that often run opposed to sustainable practices but through the pandemic Cornell has maintained its commitment to sustainability and eventual carbon neutrality.
Nov. 3 seemed like a fairly normal day on Cornell’s campus: Against a backdrop of gray skies and chilly winds, Cornellians went to class, huddled up in cafes and grabbed food from campus dining halls. Around the country, however, the highly-anticipated, contentious 2020 presidential election unfolds. And most Cornellians have already made their voices heard through absentee or early voting.
In Southside Community Center’s Black Town Hall Wednesday, seven panelists from different parts of the Ithaca community explored mental health, self-care and “radical vulnerability”.
Between Jan. 1 and May 26, a Cornell study found that Trump mentions comprised 37.9 percent of the overall infodemic — the 1.1 million news articles out of the 38 million that were related to misinformation on the pandemic.
Friday afternoon’s Make America Great Again rally was met with a counterprotest organized by the Ithaca chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America.
When massive stars undergo gravitational collapse, they sometimes become black holes, with such extreme gravity they prevent even light from escaping. Three researchers investigating black holes — Sir Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez — received the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics on Oct. 6.
After state budget cuts forced the Women’s Opportunity Center to lay off seven employees at the beginning of October, the center has made progress in its struggle for government funding.
Contenders for the New York State Senate’s seat for District 58 debated on Thursday night, discussing issues from police funding to fossil fuel divestment.
Boredom — modern man’s worst fear. Typically it’s avoided by countless hours of swiping left and right through cookie-cutter Tinder profiles in hopes of securing a post-quarantine hookup, scrolling through meme feeds on Instagram that no longer make you laugh, browsing your favorite subReddit in hopes of finding a new post since the last time you checked (two minutes ago) and sending pictures of your blank face to other expressionless victims of the same archaic curse. How else is a Gen Z-er supposed to pass his time when forced live like a Band on the Run? Any way you look at it, quarantine presents a psychological and social quandary of the likes my generation has never had to deal with. Solitude.
The Young Researchers Program saw its audience expand after moving virtually.
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