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Can You Eat The Pumpkin You Used For A Halloween Jack-O-Lantern?

“You use a pumpkin as an ingredient or as a decoration, but not as both,” said Darin Detwiler, a professor of food policy at Northeastern University and author of “Food Safety: Past, Present, and Predictions.”
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Young people are leading efforts to increase voter turnout among their peers

Hilary Sullivan, director of community service and civic engagement at Northeastern University, said that prior to the creation of the coalition, it was the university’s student government that mobilized around election time to increase participation. However, Sullivan says the goal was to institutionalize these practices to ensure that anytime a student became eligible to vote, […]
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How artificial intelligence is being used to deter voters

Aanjhan Ranganathan, Northeastern University Associate Professor at Northeastern University’s Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute, said people are “creating false information to erode public trust.”
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Maximum pressure on major US TV networks on election night

“The stakes are really high. There is incredible pressure to capture viewers’ attention and give them information as quickly as possible, but the biggest risk is sacrificing accuracy,” said Costas Panagopoulos, a professor of political science at Northeastern University and a former NBC decision-making board member who works with Edison Research.
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Menendez brothers’ freedom bid points to shifting attitudes on sex abuse

Carlos Cuevas, a professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University and a co-director of the Violence and Justice Research Lab, said the attention the case is receiving shows a societal shift in how male victims of childhood sexual abuse are perceived and believed.
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See the full list of the youngest presidents in U.S. history

Back in 1789, the Constitution established 35 as the minimum age requirement to become president, but the times have changed, said Costas Panagopoulos, a political science professor at Northeastern University.
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David Lazer, computational researcher: “If Trump wins, it is a victory for disinformation”

In a later interview at the Barcelona Computing Center, organizer of the largest conference on computer science held in Spain, this renowned researcher and professor at Northeastern University (Boston), who combines in one person two fields such as computing and political science
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Kamala Harris Goes Quiet on Student Loan Forgiveness

Costas Panagopoulos, a political science professor at Northeastern University, told Newsweek that Harris “is focusing on issues that are much more important for voters in this election cycle.”
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Pig infected with bird flu for first time in US, health officials confirm

Samuel Scarpino, director of AI and life sciences and professor of health sciences at Northeastern University in Boston, said there are two factors that could potentially mitigate the risk associated with this pig becoming infected with bird flu.
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Why are there so many food recalls right now? Experts share tips to stay safe

The number of recalls in the U.S. have increased steadily in the last few years and, in 2023, reached the highest level since the pandemic, per FDA data. “There’s been a 20-25% increase in recalls over the last two to three years,” Darin Detwiler, Ph.D., professor of food regulatory policy at Northeastern University, tells TODAY.com.

Mucus: It’s Snot What You Think

Specific sugars will feed specific bacteria, meaning that the makeup of your mucus can affect the composition of your microbiome, said Rebecca Carrier, a professor of chemical engineering at Northeastern University who studies intestinal mucus.

14 sent to hospital after suspected overdoses at Men’s Central Jail

Leo Beletsky, a professor of law and health sciences who studies addiction at Northeastern University, said law enforcement officials have repeatedly misstated the dangers of fentanyl exposure in recent years.