On this edition, Joe and Kailey speak with: Bloomberg’s Dani Burger as US dockworkers go on strike along the east and gulf coasts. Senior Fellow at the Burnes Center for Social Change at Northeastern University Seth Harris about the political and economic impacts of the strike. 

As a result, there’s been almost no scrutiny of how these laws are used against kids, said Katie McCreedy, a Northeastern University doctoral researcher who studies these charges. “How can young people in media stories be simultaneously assumed to know nothing about how deadly the drugs are and also held accountable for homicide?”

And at Northeastern University in Boston, music neuroscientist Psyche Loui and her colleagues are trialling a basketball-hoop-shaped device — developed by Oscillo Biosciences in Farmington, Connecticut, and nicknamed The Stargate — that synchronizes light with music, adding a rhythmic visual component tied to the beat of any song, while emitting a gentle flicker to promote […]

Andrew Haile is an assistant teaching professor at Northeastern University School of Law.

Professor Ajay Satpute is director of the Affect and Brain Science at Northeastern University.

However, Costas Panagopoulos, a professor of political science at Northeastern University in Boston, said that Melania Trump’s views are unlikely to have much impact at all.

The first in her family to attend college, Wily Scholar Nicki Pantiledes earned a full scholarship to Northeastern University. She’s now in her fourth year.

Leo Beletsky, professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University, remembers when 12,000 deaths in the US were considered “absolutely catastrophic” – compared with more than 100,000 now.

“I don’t think we will see immediate, significant economic impacts…but over the course of weeks, if the strike lasts that long, we can begin to see prices rise and for there to be some shortages in goods,” said Seth Harris, a professor at Northeastern University and a former White House adviser on labour issues.

Northeastern University’s Roux Institute launched its ClimateTech Incubator this month, a shared space for environmentally-focused startups to collaborate and grow their businesses.

No one is immune. “We just don’t have the time, the cognitive resources or even the motivation to literally fact-check every piece of information that comes our way,” says Briony Swire-Thompson, director of the Psychology of Misinformation Lab at Northeastern University.

Darin Detwiler, LPD, is an associate teaching professor of food policy at Northeastern University and author of Food Safety: Past, Present, and Predictions.