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Key to Happiness or Distrust? The Couples Who Itemize Their Monthly Bills

Still, keeping finances separate can provide autonomy, let spouses share responsibility for managing money and leave room for both to gain financial knowledge, said Hristina Nikolova, associate professor at Northeastern University, who studies relationship finances. She said transparency is the key: Don’t use a personal account to hide what you’re spending.
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Musk’s Deepfake ‘Parody’ Raises Troubling Online Issues

It’s noteworthy as the public wades through which influential person’s views to take seriously and how to parse them in the midst of a presidential campaign. “Humor,” said Laura Edelson, an expert on online misinformation with Northeastern University, “is how fringe ideas get normalized. It allows people who want to do things that are outside the […]
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Women voters say the 2024 race has more energy now that Harris is running

“Hillary didn’t seem to represent change quite as much, even though she was a woman,” said Martha Johnson, associate professor of political science at Mills College, at Northeastern University.
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Trump Risks Alienating Large Swaths of America With Harris Racial Attack

Costas Panagopoulos, a political science professor at Northeastern University, said the attacks on Harris’ identity are only “likely to accelerate the downward spiral” in support among that very demographic.
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Could galaxy cluster collisions be used as dark matter detectors?

“Galaxy clusters are also dominated by dark matter,” Jacqueline McCleary, assistant professor of physics at Northeastern University, said in a statement.

A complex past, an unrealized promise, and a new vision for two Government Center behemoths

Boston Globe opinion columnist Renée Loth, Northeastern University professor Ted Landsmark, former Boston city councilor Josh Zakim, and former state mental health department commissioner Marylou Sudders join Radio Boston to explore the tangled political and architectural history of the Hurley and Lindemann, and of the ground on which the buildings sit.
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What the JD Vance couch jokes say about social media this election season

Vance’s critics online continued to share the rumor even as it became clear it wasn’t true. “Even if they acknowledge deep down that this is not an empirical fact, it’s kind of fun to talk about,” said John Wihbey, an associate professor of media innovation and technology at Northeastern University.
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How AI chatbots could improve civic engagement in the 2024 election

By Beth Simone Noveck, a professor of experiential AI at Northeastern University, where she directs the Burnes Center for Social Change and its partner project The GovLab. 
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Has Donald Trump Killed His Chances With Black Voters?

Costas Panagopoulos, a political science professor at Northeastern University, believes the remarks “are likely to accelerate the downward spiral” in support for Trump among Black voters.
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Net neutrality deja vu: The Biden administration’s attempt to regulate broadband giants was just blocked in court—again

That’s because the FCC wasn’t really enforcing the rules once the Trump administration took over in 2017, says David Choffnes, one of the creators of Wehe and an associate professor of computer science at Northeastern University. 
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A nutritionist who cut down on ultra-processed foods quit protein shakes and bars. Here are 3 things he would eat after a workout instead.

These foods were found to make up about 73% of the US food supply in a 2024 research paper by Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute (which hasn’t been peer-reviewed) and have been linked to health problems, including cardiovascular disease, cancer, type 2 diabetes, anxiety, depression, and insomnia.
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Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court Decisions Are ‘Promising’ Sign

“Jackson called herself an originalist at her confirmation hearings and has shown a willingness to use history and text in her rulings,” Dan Urman, the director of the law and public policy minor at Boston’s Northeastern University of Law, told Newsweek. “That’s promising. We want our justices to be persuadable by legal arguments.”