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Scuzz Nation, the death of English literature & are you a bad house guest?

So can English literature still teach us how to read deeply in an age of diminishing attention spans? Philip joins the podcast alongside Orlando Reade, author and assistant professor at Northeastern University London, where he teaches English and creative writing.
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Why AI ‘Hallucinations’ Are Worse Than Ever

Usama Fayyad, executive director of Northeastern University’s Institute for Experiential Artificial Intelligence, told Northeastern Global News the term “hallucination” attributes “too much to the model,” including intent and consciousness, which AI bots do not have.
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An ‘extremely joyful day’ for US Catholics as Leo XIV becomes first pope from US

William Miles, a professor of political science at Northeastern University in Boston, had considered the selection of an U.S.-born pope a dark-horse possibility as a “theo-political” response to social policies in the United States with which Pope Francis had expressed dismay.
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Trump’s Flippant 5-Word Response To Criticism Over ‘Fun’ AI Pope Image Speaks Volumes

John P. Wihbey, director of the AI-media strategies lab at Northeastern University in Boston, told Reuters on Monday that Trump is exploiting an “uncharted territory,” which is the “merging of social media and AI power, organized for political power and narrative dominance.”
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The chilling effect of crackdowns on leaks to the press

Jill Abramson, a former executive editor of The New York Times, teaches journalism at Northeastern University and is a contributing Globe Opinion writer.
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‘Walk boldly into the room’ and other insights from the Mainebiz Women’s Leadership Forum

The other panelists were: Michelle Anderson, president and CEO of Junior Achievement of Maine; Mufalo Chitam, executive director of the Maine Immigrants’ Rights Coalition; Andrea Cianchette Maker, co-founder and president of FocusMaine; and Liz Kohler, managing director of strategy, operations and growth, at Northeastern University’s Roux Institute.
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The WSJ’s Jonathan Clements Wants to Leave a Living Legacy

Economist Alicia Modestino of Northeastern University is also affiliated with J-PAL. For decades, she says, the Boston Summer Youth Employment Program has aimed “to reduce inequality of opportunity by increasing access to early employment experiences for disadvantaged youth.” 
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How to build strong magnets without rare-earth metals

(An easy way to think of this, says Laura Lewis, an engineer at Northeastern University in Massachusetts, is as a measure of the effort needed to prise a magnet off a steel filing cabinet).
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A new project is helping Chelsea residents better understand their air quality

In collaboration with the city of Chelsea and the local non-profit GreenRoots, scientists and engineers at Northeastern University, which is funding the study, installed these sensors near homes, schools, workplaces, and outside of grocery stores during an 18-month period between the fall of 2023 to the spring of 2025.
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Trump calls AI pope image a joke, but experts say it’s no laughing matter

“I think we are seeing a new phenomenon – the merging of social media and AI power, organized for political power and narrative dominance,” said John Wihbey, director of the AI-Media Strategies Lab at Northeastern University in Boston.
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Trump denies he’ll run for a third term – but that won’t stop the chatter

“Theoretically, that would be legal,” writes Jeremy Paul, a constitutional law professor at Northeastern University in Boston, in an email. “But it would make for a deeply confusing campaign for voters.”
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What Counts as ‘New Vaccines’ for RFK Jr.’s Placebo Testing Order?

“Why would anyone volunteer for that type of a trial?” says Mansoor Amiji, professor of pharmaceutical sciences at Northeastern University. “Why would I want to be getting a saline solution when a vaccine is already out there?”