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Vox
Beyoncé has officially endorsed Kamala Harris. Will it matter?
“If you suddenly see it in your social media feed or on TikTok or wherever, and see your favorite celebrity has done an interview or had a conversation with a politician, that politician is much more likely to get traction just by having that entry into people’s attention spans,” Josephine Harmon, an assistant professor of political […]
2024 has been a rough year for food safety.
Northeastern University Professor and food safety advisor Darin Detwiler told Popular Science this dichotomy could “cause gaps in oversight,” especially in product categories like burgers which often mix both fresh produce and proteins.
Quartz
The big listeria meat recall has hit Costco chicken
Northeastern University food safety advisor and professor Dr. Darin Detwiler said there have been more listeria advisories because testing for the bacteria has made it easier to detect. But there have also been other factors, such as a massive reorganization at the Food and Drug Administration.
NBC News
Nebraska woman suing McDonald’s says E. coli infection landed her in the ER
Darin Detwiler, a professor of food regulatory policy at Northeastern University, said restaurants and fast-food chains are responsible for what they serve to customers, even if the contamination didn’t happen on site.
What McDonald’s needs to do next after E. coli outbreak
Dr. Darin Detwiler, professor of food policy and corporate social responsibility at Northeastern University, said he believes locations in other unaffected states should be “doubling up on their sanitation procedures and protocols and do more testing of their ingredients.”
Another listeria-related recall hits Costco. Why dangerous outbreaks seem to be on the rise
Darin Detwiler, a food safety adviser, author, and professor at Northeastern University, tells Fast Company that the food system “has grown increasingly complex over the past few decades, largely due to globalization.”
Health
Apple Watches Can Predict When You’ll Get Sick, Users Say. Can a Health Tracker Really Do That?
But they do collect and analyze metrics that are strongly linked to the autonomic nervous system, which plays a crucial role in regulating various functions in the body, including the immune response, Varun Mishra, PhD, assistant professor at Northeastern University and director of the university’s Ubiquitous Computing for Health and Well-being (UbiWell) Lab, told Health.
AI art: The end of creativity or the start of a new movement?
As philosopher Alice Helliwell from Northeastern University London argues, if we can consider radical and divergent pieces like Duchamp’s urinal and Tracey Emin’s bed as art proper, how can something created by a generative algorithm be dismissed?
Ted Cruz Suffers Blow as Texas’ Biggest Newspaper Endorses Opponent
“Texas voters have had reservations about Ted Cruz for years,” Costas Panagopoulos, a political science professor at Northeastern University, previously told Newsweek. “He only squeaked by narrowly to win re-election in 2018.”
The ‘October Theory’ of Changing Your Life
October can feel like an introspective time for people since the seasons are changing, a new academic school year has started and the current year is on its way out, says Laurie Kramer, a licensed clinical psychologist and a professor of applied psychology at Northeastern University.
EconoFact
Turning a Corner on the Opioid Crisis?
Alicia Modestino, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, and Economics at Northeastern University, where she also serves as Research Director of the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy, joins EconoFact Chats.
Verywell Health
What the Public Needs to Know About PFAS (Forever Chemicals)
For example, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) and Northeastern University in Boston have researched and provided details of PFAS pollution in tap water supplies in 27 states and from dozens of industrial and military sources. They have created an interactive map using federal drinking water data and information on publicly documented cases of PFAS pollution.