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Everything, everywhere, all at once: What it’s like to be Oakland’s at-large councilmember

The interns had a good time working at the center of Oakland’s government. Tristan, a freshman at Northeastern University, says it was fun and a little surreal going to City Hall. 
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A plan to sell artifacts from the Titanic faces US government opposition

Richard Daynard, a law professor at Northeastern University School of Law in Boston who specializes in public interest advocacy, said rules on the display and sale of Titanic artifacts are intended to preserve the wreckage for the benefit of the public, and so it can’t be “picked up by billionaires for further display of their […]
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A plan to sell artifacts from the Titanic faces US government opposition

Richard Daynard, a law professor at Northeastern University School of Law in Boston who specializes in public interest advocacy, said rules on the display and sale of Titanic artifacts are intended to preserve the wreckage for the benefit of the public, and so it can’t be “picked up by billionaires for further display of their […]
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Trump, Iran, and the logic of a new nuclear deal

“They’re incentivized now to play nice with Iran,” says Max Abrahms, an international relations professor at Northeastern University who is critical of the Trump administration’s diplomacy.
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A plan to sell artifacts from the Titanic faces US government opposition

The rules governing the display and sale of Titanic artifacts are intended to preserve the wreckage for the benefit of the public and so it can’t be “picked up by billionaires for further display of their wealth and power,” said Richard Daynard, a law professor at Northeastern University School of Law in Boston.
Science

ScienceAdviser: Heartbeats quietly shape your brain activity

“Heart function is never irrelevant to any task,” explained Lisa Feldman Barrett, a neuroscientist whose research links emotion, prediction, and bodily regulation.

Young adults given up to $1,000 to start investing in groundbreaking new study

The study, led by the city-sponsored Bank on Boston initiative — along with partners at Northeastern University and Harvard Business School, among others — is giving 15 lucky members of a summer youth employment program up to $1,000 to invest in a Roth IRA (1).
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Employers want more AI-fluent workers. It’s testing young graduates’ loyalties.

There is a “resigned compliance” to students’ embrace of AI tools in their academic and career pursuits, said Maitraye Das, an assistant professor at Northeastern who has studied AI and cognitive dissonance.
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Misinformation about sunscreen is spreading on TikTok, researchers say

Briony Swire-Thompson, an assistant professor at Northeastern University and director of the university’s Psychology of Misinformation Lab, said it was encouraging that the majority of the videos on TikTok did not contain misinformation and promoted sunscreen.
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Lauren Sánchez plays major role in deploying Bezos’ full $10 billion climate fund by end of decade: report

The fund, the largest contribution any individual has ever made to the environment, according to Northeastern University, is obligated to deploy all $10 billion by the end of the decade.
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How Trump’s Approval Rating Has Changed with Black Voters as of Juneteenth

“Holidays are established by Congress and cannot be revoked just by a president,” Northeastern University law professor Jeremy Paul told Newsweek.
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Your heartbeat quietly shapes how your brain processes information

“Heart function is never irrelevant to any task,” says Lisa Feldman Barrett, a neuroscientist at Northeastern University whose research links emotion, prediction, and bodily regulation.