These niche Boston-based dating apps seek to cure fatigue, bring together vegans Moira Weigel, assistant professor at Northeastern University, argued in her book “Labor of Love,” that dating has “always been an activity that required a lot of work,” she said. That work, she said, is only amplified on dating apps.
The Seattle Times In tech-centric Seattle, inclusivity could transform the industry By Northeastern University Seattle Campus.
What if companies could read your mind? Neurotechnology is coming, and your cognitive liberty is at stake. Evan Selinger is a professor of philosophy at the Rochester Institute of Technology; an affiliate scholar at Northeastern University’s Center for Law, Innovation, and Creativity; and a scholar in residence at the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project.
What to Know About ‘Forever Chemicals’ and Your Health “It is really one of the broadest categories of chemical ever used, so that does make it very exceptional,” said Phil Brown, an environmental sociologist at Northeastern University in Boston who has studied the chemicals.
US to limit PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water “Wherever you test for it, you find it,” said Phil Brown, a co-director of the PFAS Project Lab at Northeastern University.
Business Insider Biden promised ‘no more drilling on federal lands, period.’ He just broke that pledge to approve a massive oil project in Alaska. Jennie Stephens, a professor of sustainability science and policy at Northeastern University, told Insider the Biden administration “is undermining its own climate justice goals” and “caving into pressure from corporate interests.”
Here’s Why the Science Is Clear That Masks Work David Lazer, a political scientist at Northeastern University, calculated that before vaccines were available, U.S. states without mask mandates had 30 percent higher Covid death rates than those with mandates.
Can Venture Capital Become More Equitable for Women? Laura Huang, faculty director of Women’s Entrepreneurship Center at Northeastern University, says that while more women entering the venture capital space is a step in the right direction, it’s not the full solution.
The Associated Press Gymnast Dunne’s AI spot raises questions about NIL ethics “It does seem problematic to have people sort of promoting plagiarism,” said John Basl, a philosophy professor at Northeastern University in Boston who specializes in AI and data ethics, and who also is a faculty affiliate of Harvard’s Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society.
GBH Should a new government agency protect the Massachusetts coastline from climate change? In a recent Boston Globe opinion piece, Northeastern University professor Joan Fitzgerald and two coauthors argued that Massachusetts needs a brand new coastal adaptation agency to organize and execute a response that spans the state’s shoreline.
Portland Press Herald Access denied: Authorities refuse to release records for Maine school shooter hoax calls Daniel Medwed, a professor at Northeastern University’s law school and School of Criminology & Criminal Justice, called the responses “(par) for the law enforcement course.”
Guess Which Sex Behaves More Erratically (at Least in Mice) The new research is “tipping all of these assumptions about sex differences and the influence of hormones on their head,” said Rebecca Shansky, a behavioral neuroscientist at Northeastern University and a co-author of the new study.
