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Daily Mail
Five surprising foods you should eat a day after you cook or open them
Dr Darin Detwiler, a food safety expert at Northeastern University in Boston and former FDA and USDA food safety advisor, told DailyMail.com that ‘cantaloupe should never be kept for an extra day in the fridge because pathogens like salmonella and listeria grow quickly.
Particle Physicists Agree on a Road Map for the Next Decade
Toyoko Orimoto, a physicist at Northeastern University, found these recommendations ambitious and exciting. “The next 10 years are going to be a very thrilling time for particle physics,” she said.
The Portland Press Herald
The pandemic gave Maine a population boom. Will climate change be next?
Wolfel now works as associated vice president of entrepreneurship and venture creation for Northeastern’s Roux Institute, which launched in Portland in 2020.
Women's Health
Decision-Making 101: How To Be Decisive And Confident In Your Choices
The typical person makes around 35,000 choices each day, according to research in the Journal of Health Psychology. Though you may not even realize you’re making all these decisions, especially ones to do with daily life, it’s very normal to get bogged down by the sheer volume. This can lead to decision paralysis, says Lace Padilla, […]
Portland Press Herald
Maine law enforcement officers often lack direction for how to conduct welfare checks
It was the deadliest mass shooting in Maine history and the deadliest in the U.S. this year, according to a database maintained by USA Today in partnership with The Associated Press and Northeastern University. After a three-day manhunt, Card was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Targeting online gambling, Northeastern lawyer who fought Big Tobacco sues DraftKings
Now, a leader of the lawsuits against Big Tobacco has shifted his attention to online betting, targeting the offerings of local firm DraftKings. Northeastern law professor Richard Daynard, who helped uncover evidence in the 1980s that tobacco companies knew about the cancer risks of smoking, said he sees online gambling as another looming crisis for society.
1 member of family slain in suburban Chicago was in relationship with shooting suspect, police say
The Romeoville family’s death marked the 35th mass killing in the U.S. this year, according to a database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University. Since then, there have been a total of 42 mass killings in the U.S., it shows.
Home Is Where the Heart of Hip-Hop Is
“People like Dr. Dre and Grandmaster Flash, they’ll talk about their mom’s, dad’s, uncle’s, aunt’s record collections, that they sometimes were forbidden to touch, but they did anyway,” said Murray Forman, a media and screen studies professor at Northeastern University and the author of “The ‘Hood Comes First: Race, Space and Place in Rap and […]
US lawyer who put Big Tobacco on trial takes aim at sports betting
The case is funded by the Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI), a Boston-based advocacy group chaired by Professor Richard Daynard, who spearheaded litigation against the tobacco industry in the 1980s. DraftKings’ Boston headquarters are located a mile from Northeastern University, where Daynard teaches.
The Messenger
Researcher Discovers Possible Trove of New Stories by Louisa May Alcott
Academic Max Chapnick told The Guardian that he was searching for one of Alcott’s unknown works, “The Phantom,” when he found the story under the name EH Gould. Chapnick, a postdoctoral teaching associate in English at Northeastern University, at first thought it was a mistake, but then realized it could be one of Alcott’s pseudonyms.
Ella Fitzgerald, a Voice That Set the American Standard
Tick is a professor emerita of music history at Northeastern University whose books include a biography Ruth Crawford Seeger, the modernist composer who also happened to be Pete Seeger’s stepmother. She chronicles the slights and insults Fitzgerald faced as a Black woman on tour, especially in the South.
The Conversation
How I identified a probable pen name of Louisa May Alcott
Max Chapnick, Postdoctoral Teaching Associate in English, Northeastern University