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Battle for Latino voters intensifies amid population’s shift right
John Kwoka, an economics professor at Northeastern University, told the FT’s Stefania Palma that DoJ officials could “go soft” in a potential appeals process, since Trump was unpredictable and Harris seemed open to a milder antitrust policy than her boss.
Experimental study suggests fear responses to spiders, heights and more don’t always activate the same parts of the brain
Not all fear is created equal, according to a new experimental study from Northeastern University in the United States.
Rolling Stone
These Moms Smoked Weed Legally. Then Their Kids Were Taken Away
Alexander Stein, a staff attorney for the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project at Northeastern University in Boston and a former public defender in Chicago, has seen similar strategies used against his clients.
Competition and the clock: how Google plans to deflect and delay a historic break-up threat
John Kwoka, professor at Northeastern University, says Google was “a complicated company that has an awful lot of operating levers to achieve what it wants, and so it needs to be matched with an equally wide set of complementary remedies, up through and including divestitures where necessary”.
We hacked a robot vacuum — and could watch live through its camera
That’s why I needed help from Dennis Giese, a security researcher who has spent the best part of a decade pulling apart robot vacuums.
Inside Climate News
N.C. Health Officials Issue Guidelines for Thousands of Potentially Flooded Private Wells
Kelsey Pieper, now an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University, was one of the researchers.
A rare challenge to the machine in our one-party state
Jeff Howe, a former contributing editor at Wired magazine, is an associate professor of journalism at Northeastern University.
Full List of Food Recalls in September as Warnings Issued
Boston’s Northeastern University food policy expert Darin Detwiler said in a recent report by Northeastern Global News that the increase in food recalls was in part due to better reporting procedures, which he views as a positive change.
Vox
How “Divorce him!” became the internet’s de facto relationship advice
Messy and mean-spirited internet comments sections are nothing new, of course: Joseph Reagle, an associate professor of communications at Northeastern University and author of Reading the Comments: Likers, Haters, and Manipulators at the Bottom of the Web, uses the metaphor of the “rotten barrel.”
Bats’ weird wings inspired this drone
Now, researchers from Northeastern University are leaning on those unique elements and applying them to a fully autonomous flying drone called “Aerobat.”
The Washington Examiner
Biden administration should discourage, not reform, active shooter drills
From 2013 to May 2022, 77 K-12 students died in mass shootings, fewer than 10 per year, according to a report from Northeastern University.
Donald Trump Gets Pennsylvania Boost as Democrats’ Voter Lead Drops
Costas Panagopoulos, a political science professor at Northeastern University, said the numbers “suggest Republicans are investing more heavily in their ground game, getting more of their supporters to register to vote.”