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‘Democracy is a tool of Satan’: The murky world of Orthodox influencers

Historically Orthodoxy was the faith of Eastern European immigrants. However, Sarah Riccardi-Swartz, assistant professor of religion and anthropology at Northeastern University, told Euronews the religion is being pulled to the right, “even alt-right”, by a rising cohort of home-grown converts.
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Taming the Counterfeiting Epidemic

By Anand Nair, professor of supply chain and information management in the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University.
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An earthquake crumpled Morocco’s mud brick houses, but this isn’t the end of adobe

According to Mehrdad Sasani, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University, conventional adobe houses also lack the kind of reinforcing components that would give a building structural integrity and prevent, say, the roof from collapsing under lateral loads.
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Can the EU stop Italy from drifting further right after record migrant arrivals?

“Salvini and Meloni have been in a certain tug of war since the beginning, because I don’t think he ever accepted his loss,” Marianna Griffini, assistant professor in International Relations and Anthropology at the Northeastern University in London, told Euronews.

Survey: Residents around Belle Isle marsh worry about flooding made worse by rising seas

Residents living near the Belle Isle salt marsh in Boston Harbor say they are concerned about flooding and its impact on their homes, according to a new survey from Northeastern University and The Nature Conservancy.
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Biden’s EV Push Complicates Bargaining for Union That Backed Him

In order for the federal government to earmark funds from the IRA and federal loans for labor at these plants, however, Congress—not the president—has to act, according to Northeastern University professor Seth Harris.
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What these men behind a historic photo taken 47 years ago say about race in Boston then and now

Landsmark, a long-time civil rights activist and now a professor of public policy at Northeastern University, said Boston has come a long way but said work still needs to be done to achieve racial justice.
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New Smartphone Vulnerability That Could Expose User Location to Hackers Found by Researchers

A recent discovery by a PhD student of Northeastern University has revealed a potential vulnerability in text messaging that could expose smartphone users’ location to hackers.
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One More COVID Summer?

In the southern and northeastern United States, concentrations of the coronavirus in wastewater have been slowly ticking up for several weeks, with the Midwest and West now following suit; test-positivity rates, emergency-department diagnoses of COVID-19, and COVID hospitalizations are also on the rise. 
BBC Science Focus

Living ink and computational knitwear: 6 programmable materials that will soon shape your world

Researchers at Harvard, and Northeastern Universities in Boston, showed they could genetically program the bugs in their bio-ink to release the anticancer drug Azurin (a bacterial protein), when prompted by a chemical signal. It could also be useful for “incorporating living cells into structural building materials”.
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Photos: How Boston grappled with racial tensions the last time the NAACP convention was in town

Plus, Black Bostonians, dissatisfied with City Hall’s predominantly white makeup, rallied to register Black voters and amped up its critiques of those in leadership, said Charlotte M. Nelson, a program coordinator for Northeastern University’s School of Law.
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Elon Musk’s X takes @X handle from longtime Twitter user

It is possible to trademark a single letter, but doing so will make it harder for Musk’s company to sue for infringement or to avoid lawsuits from other companies that use X, said Alexandra Roberts, a professor of law and media at Northeastern University.