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Weather manipulation claims flood social media after California storms
In her comments shared on social media, the San Diego County resident also says cloud seeding experiments “fell out of favor” in the 1980s because they were hazardous, referencing an article by a Northeastern University assistant professor (archived here).
Oaklandside
Hung Liu’s legacy of mentorship lives on at Mills College Art Museum
The renowned Chinese artist laid the groundwork for an exhibit honoring women artists she had mentored during her two decades as a tenured professor at Mills College (now Mills College at Northeastern University).
Taylor Swift is related to another tortured poet: See the family tree
“It’s really exciting,” says Dr. Catherine Fairfield, a writing professor at Northeastern University who is an expert in gender studies and literature. “Swifties have been really interested in the overlaps between Taylor Swift and Emily Dickinson, especially since the release of ‘Evermore.'”
Why hospitals in many states with legal abortion may refuse to perform them
State liability shield laws go further than conscience protections enforced by the federal government. They can limit what’s possible under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, the 1986 federal law protecting patient access to emergency care, said Katherine Kraschel, assistant professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University.
A list of mass killings in the United States this year
The latest mass killing in the U.S. happened Sunday in King City in central California, where police said a group of men in masks opened fire at an outdoor party, killing four people and wounding seven others. This was the country’s 10th mass killing this year, according to a database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today […]
WHDH 7 News
Supreme Court keeps Trump on Colorado ballot, rejecting 14th Amendment push
Featuring Jeremy Paul, Professor of Law at Northeastern University
Super Tuesday may underline Trump’s transformation of the GOP
Counting Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Michigan, Trump has won a little over three-fifths of the total combined vote so far. That slightly exceeds the share that Reagan won in 1980 and equals the percentage George W. Bush won in 2000, according to results compiled by Northeastern University political scientist William Mayer.
The Washington Examiner
Super Tuesday: Three takeaways from marquee primary night that opened the 2024 show
Cracks in Biden’s or Trump’s support “portend obstacles for either or both,” according to Northeastern University political science chairman and professor Costas Panagopoulos, based in Massachusetts, another Super Tuesday state. “Sizable numbers of ‘no preference’ protest votes in states that allow them could signal fissures in the Biden coalition,” Panagopoulos said.
Boston Magazine
Diana DiZoglio Won’t Back Down
Still, Northeastern University professor emeritus of law Peter Enrich, who focuses on state law, cautions that this argument is not as straightforward as it appears.
Alabama lawmakers set to finalize IVF legislation, but experts say it’s going to take more work to protect fertility services
Still, the law “does not nullify the Supreme Court’s analysis that says the law ought to treat embryos just like people,” Katherine Kraschel, an assistant professor at Northeastern University School of Law, told CNN on Tuesday.
Al Jazeera
New AI video tools increase worries of deepfakes ahead of elections
“I go online, I see something, I’m like, ‘Is this real? Is this AI generated?’ I cannot tell any more,” Kaicheng Yang, a researcher at Northeastern University who studies AI and disinformation, said. “For average users, I am just going to assume it’s going to be worse. It doesn’t matter how much genuine content is […]
NBC News
The AI industry is pushing a nuclear power revival — partly to fuel itself
Beyond Silicon Valley, “big investment firms are actually starting to believe that this is going to take off,” said Ayan Paul, a research scientist at Northeastern University who studies AI.