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Who’s to blame for foodborne illness outbreaks

Axios’ Dave Lawler, and Northeastern University’s Dr. Darin Detwiler.
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The ‘Killer Apps’ That Could Make Apple’s New Headset a Winner

Wallace Lages, an assistant professor of computer science at Northeastern University in Boston, has seen mixed-reality headsets go from nearly unwearable behemoths to something more manageable in the past 10 years. 

Reparations Are a Financial Quandary. For Democrats, They’re a Political One, Too.

Signs at the nine-member Reparations Task Force meeting at Mills College at Northeastern University in Oakland, Calif., earlier this month.
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A Rare 1914 Silent Film Was Considered Lost Forever. A Professor Rescued It From a Vault.

Professor Denise Khor of Northeastern University discovered a rare piece of movie history while she was doing research for a book about film culture. The reels she found in 2016 were believed to be the only known copy of “The Oath of the Sword.” It is among the earliest Asian-American films, historians said.
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How to cut back on junk food in your child’s diet — and when not to worry

Researchers at Northeastern University actually created a cool online database called TrueFood that lets you browse for food items to see how processed they are. 
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Scientists were delighted to discover that parrots willingly made video calls to bird friends and were less lonely as a result

“I think birds in captivity have been misunderstood and mischaracterized for years,” said Jennifer Cunha, parrot behavior expert, researcher at Northeastern University, and one of the study’s authors.
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DeSantis prepares to ‘thread very fine needle’ that he’s like Trump — but not Trump

DeSantis is trying to convince Trump’s supporters that he is “an acceptable alternative,” but the former president’s base may not be “receptive,” per Northeastern University political science professor and Chairman Costas Panagopoulos.
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Joint research team succeeds in transporting light using non-Hermitian meta-gratings

Yongmin Liu of Northeastern University (NEU) in Boston and their joint research team were able to control the direction of light beams using non-Hermitian meta-grating systems.
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The challenges of accurately archiving Black Twitter

NPR’s Juana Summers speaks with journalism and communication studies associate professor Meredith Clark of Northeastern University about her project “Archiving Black Twitter.”
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The latest book ban target: Amanda Gorman’s poem from the Biden inauguration

“They are using erasure of students and erasure of groups of people as educational violence. Kids need to see themselves in what they read and learn,” says Northeastern University education professor Jaci Urbani. 
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A Teen Girl Is Facing Murder Charges After Two Of Her Classmates Died of Overdoses

“Behind the smokescreen of ‘holding someone accountable,’ prosecutors are increasingly manufacturing such homicide charges against friends, family members, and partners of people who die of accidental overdoses,” said Leo Beletsky, a Northeastern University professor of law and health sciences who leads the Health in Justice Action Lab. 
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What Should I Do on the Death Anniversary? More Are Asking as US Mass Killings Rise

There have been 553 mass killings in the United States since 2006, and at least 2,880 people have died in them, according to a database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University.