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FAQ: Annual climate negotiations are about to start. Do they matter?

“The needs for climate finance are much, much higher — more on the order of a trillion dollars per year,” says Laura Kuhl, assistant professor of public policy and international affairs at Northeastern University.
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If You’re Guilty Of Any Of These Common Turkey-Cooking Practices, Food Safety Experts Say You Should Stop

“You should never, ever thaw the turkey or other foods on the counter. Thaw your turkey in the refrigerator,” said Darin Detwiler, a professor of food policy and corporate social responsibility at Northeastern University and author of ”Food Safety: Past, Present, and Predictions.”
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Scientists Have Revealed A Clear Culprit For Decreased Sperm Counts

Insecticides are a concern for public health and all men,” Lauren Ellis, a researcher on the study and a doctoral student at Northeastern University, said in a statement.

Hidden North Shore history as told through Marblehead’s signature rum and molasses cookie

We spoke with Lauren McCormack, executive director of the Marblehead Museum, and Kabria Baumgartner, dean’s associate professor of history and Africana studies at Northeastern University, to shed new light on the story of these cookies in 2022.
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Why Is It So Hard (and Expensive) to Build Anything in America?

That is Ivan Rupnik. He’s a professor of architecture at Northeastern University. Productivity, as you probably know, is how economists measure the relationship between the resources that go into a process — money, time, labor, things like that — and what comes out the other end. Humankind has become much, much, much more productive over time — although […]
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If free will is only an illusion, it’s the most convincing one ever

By Evan Selinger, professor of philosophy at the Rochester Institute of Technology and an affiliate scholar at Northeastern University’s Center for Law, Innovation, and Creativity.
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Small business owners welcome return of the annual Black Owned Bos. holiday marketplace

As a few shoppers got started with their holiday shopping on Saturday morning, business owners at a pop-up marketplace near Northeastern University’s campus were anticipating a busy day ahead.
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Brookline banned anyone born this century from buying tobacco in town. The rule is ‘clever,’ but is it legal?

“I would think [tobacco companies] may consider it a bit of a long shot, but a potentially mortal threat to their industry,” said Mark Gottlieb, executive director of the Public Health Advocacy Institute at Northeastern University’s School of Law, which is representing Brookline in the lawsuit.

Amazon’s Black Friday NFL game could change holiday shopping

Bruce Clark, a Northeastern University marketing professor, said the game can be a mid-day break, and “dedicated Black Friday shoppers will be up and out in the morning to get deals.”
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South Africa, Colombia and others are fighting drugmakers over access to TB and HIV drugs

Now, poorer countries are trying to become more self-reliant “because they’ve realized after COVID they can’t count on anyone else,” said Brook Baker, who studies treatment-access issues at Northeastern University.

A Powerful Tool for Fighting Corruption Is Going Extinct

Mr. Kennedy, a professor of journalism at Northeastern University, said the local information vacuum left people susceptible to the polarized diet of national news, so that parents showed up at school board meetings yelling about vaccinations or critical race theory but without a clue on issues like math tests and new facilities.

Why the OpenAI drama matters in Massachusetts

Boston Globe reporter Aaron Pressman and Northeastern University professor Sina Fazelpour join Radio Boston to discuss.