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Taiwan came out relatively unscathed despite experiencing its biggest earthquake in over two decades. “It is quite remarkable that given an earthquake of this magnitude, we have seen so few reported causalities,” Daniel Aldrich, a political science professor at Northeastern University who studies global earthquake resilience, said to NPR. 

Jonathan Blazek, an assistant professor of physics at Northeastern University in the US, said even those not directly beneath the path of totality will have the opportunity to gain a few minutes of “cosmic perspective” during Monday’s eclipse.

“Having access to a mode of lethal violence makes it just as easy for them to perpetrate that against others as to perpetrate that on themselves,” Northeastern University criminology professor and psychologist Carlos Cuevas said.

A diet high in UPFs has been linked to numerous health concerns, including certain types of cancer, type two diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. Around 73% of the US food supply is ultra-processed, according to a 2024 research paper by Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute.

Daniel Aldrich teaches political science and public policy at Northeastern University. He said it was a major wake-up call that led to important government changes to improve emergency services and disaster reduction.

Beth Noveck, professor of experiential AI at Northeastern University, expressed enthusiasm about the rules.