The concept of “food noise” is now ubiquitous on social media, writes Kate Manne, associate professor of philosophy in the College of Arts and Sciences, in a New York Times opinion piece. Coined to name the experience of thinking about or longing for food, Manne writes, “food noise” is a rebrand of some of the most basic human drives: hunger, appetite, craving – and she argues that we should resist this reframing.
“When we are hungry, our bodies tell us to eat, almost literally, issuing cries and calls and pleas that constitute bodily imperatives,” Manne writes in the piece. “We silence or ignore that inner voice of need at the expense of accepting our animal nature — and with it, our humanness.”
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From left, Xi Yang, PhD '10, senior lecturer of finance in the SC Johnson College of Business; Christine Ye; Christine Ye Award recipient Margaret E. Foster, doctoral candidate in communication; Cornelia Ye Award recipient Naman Agrawal, doctoral candidate in neurobiology and behavior; Cornelia Ye; and Derina Samuel, associate director of graduate student development at the Center for Teaching Innovation.
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Artist concept of the gas giant planet WD 1856 b orbiting a white dwarf star. The planet is 7 times larger than the Earth-sized white dwarf it orbits. WD 1856 b has methane and hazes in its atmosphere, which would give it a similar color to Saturn's moon Titan. The white dwarf formed from a star that died 5 billion years ago, and has been cooling ever since, giving it an orange colour similar to the Sun.
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Dressed in clean-room suits, the Warrior-Scholar Project’s STEM boot camp cohort toured the Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility.
