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Business Insider

Kamala Harris’ campaign strategy includes calling Trump’s camp ‘weird.’ It could work, campaign experts say.

Costas Panagopoulos, a political science professor at Northeastern University, told BI in an email that Harris’ attacks on Trump are “sharper and more focused and the Trump campaign is scrambling to figure out how best to respond.”
NBC News

Boar’s Head recalls more than 207,000 pounds of meat due to listeria concerns

“For every one case that gets reported, there’s 15, 20, 25 cases that go unreported because there’s so many people who get sick and they go, ‘Oh, it’s a stomach bug, I’ll get over it,’” said Darin Detwiler, a professor of food regulatory policy at Northeastern University.
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This family wants to redevelop their Roxbury home into much-needed housing. It isn’t working.

‘This development will ruin the neighborhood,’” said Ted Landsmark, a Northeastern University professor, longtime civic planner, and member of the Boston Planning and Development Agency board.
Boston.com

Wickedpedia: When did people in Boston start saying ‘wicked’?

Adam Cooper, a teaching professor in Northeastern University’s linguistics program, said these theories are most likely explanations found “after the fact.”

‘Viability’ is a dangerous euphemism

Meg Heckman is an associate professor at Northeastern University’s School of Journalism and Media Innovation.
National Geographic

Bats have disease-defying superpowers. What if we could copy them?

Could this intricate, intuitive movement be replicated in a machine? Bat flight is “dancing in the air,” said Alireza Ramezani, an assistant professor of engineering at Northeastern University
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Bloomberg Balance of Power: Harris Cements Support

Seth Harris, senior fellow at the Burnes Center for Social Change at Northeastern University, former top labor policy advisor to President Biden, former US Deputy Secretary of Labor and former-Acting Secretary of Labor joins to talk about how President Biden arrived at the decision to end his campaign
The Orange County Register

What VP Kamala Harris likely leading Democratic ticket means for women in California

Harris at the top of the ticket “is symbolic of how powerful women in California are in national politics,” said Martha Johnson, an expert in women’s studies and gendered[ politics who teaches at Northeastern University Oakland.
Business Insider

It took less than 24 hours for the attacks on Kamala Harris to get deeply sexist and extremely ugly

Costas Panagopoulos, a political science professor from Northeastern University, echoed this sentiment. “As an African and Asian American woman, Vice President Harris is likely to face a barrage of subtle and overt racist and sexist attacks in this race, but many voters will reject these and be personally offended by them,” he said.
STAT News

Microsoft global outage forces health systems to cancel appointments, delay procedures

“CrowdStrike is just one of 100 companies that manage these tiny little components that are everywhere. And if any of the other 99 go down, we’re going to have the same effect…This is just a sign that we can’t wait anymore. We need to stop the bleeding,” said Kevin Fu, a professor of electrical engineering […]
Food & Wine

A Multi-State Listeria Outbreak Linked to Deli Meats Killed 2 and Sickened 28 — Here’s What to Know and How to Keep Safe

“It is important to note that it can take up to 70 days after exposure to listeria for symptoms of listeriosis to develop,” say Darin Detwiler, LPD, an associate teaching professor of food policy at Northeastern University and author of Food Safety: Past, Present, and Predictions. 
AFP

Posts falsely claim US ballot deadlines prevent new Democratic nominee

“The state ballots have no reason to be printed yet because even if Biden had stayed in, he had not formally been nominated,” said Jeremy Paul, a law professor at Northeastern University (archived here).