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People for the enlightened treatment of animals
The philosopher Martha Nussbaum aims to provoke a new relationship between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom. This article was written by Evan Selinger, an affiliate scholar at Northeastern University’s Center for Law, Innovation, and Creativity.
Is California Still in a Drought?
Auroop Ganguly, director of the Sustainability and Data Sciences Laboratory at Northeastern University, Boston, previously told Newsweek, “On the hydrometeorological hazards side, heat waves are getting—and are further projected to get—even hotter, cold snaps persisting even if growing less frequent, heavy precipitation getting heavier, and so on.”
Why it’s time to reinvent selective colleges — and how to do it
Fully online degrees are one way of expanding. But what is likely to be far more attractive to a wide range of students are new, varied combinations of traditional campus learning, remote learning, innovative lower-cost campuses and community experiences and the types of exciting public or private-sector internships that universities such as Northeastern University provide.
Pondering a world without humans
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.
Look Out for These 3 Red Flags Before Downloading an App Over the Holidays
What a policy agreement says about data collection is another important factor to consider before hitting download, according to Engin Kirda, a professor at Northeastern University’s Khoury College of Computer Sciences. Going hand in hand with this is how the app makes money, Kirda said — particularly if it’s free to download.
We’re Only One Day into 2023 and Already This Many Americans Have Been Shot
Speaking to Voice of America Professor Jack McDevitt, an expert in criminology at Northeastern University, said: “We are seeing a return to much higher rates of gun violence than we have seen for a long time.
Wired Magazine
Why Do You Get Sick in the Winter? Blame Your Nose
This precious mucus contains tiny extracellular vesicles—nano-sized lipid spheres—that may be critical to combating viruses like those that cause the common cold. In work recently published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Bleier, along with Mansoor Amiji, a chemist at Northeastern University, determined that during viral infection, cells in the nose release a […]
WGBH
XBB is now the dominant COVID variant in New England. Here’s how to protect yourself
“The properties of the virus that the immune system sees, like the spike protein, are different in a way that causes antibodies from prior infections to not bind as efficiently,” said Sam Scarpino, the director of AI + Life Sciences at Northeastern University. “For individuals that have been previously infected … their antibodies will not […]
STAT News
Three years on, the pandemic — and our response — have been jolting. Here’s what even the experts didn’t see coming
Aerosol or droplet? Lab-leak or natural spillover event? There have been several long-running and nasty scientific disputes during the pandemic. And yet we’ve made little progress in fixing the underlying issues that the participants are fighting about, said Samuel Scarpino, director of AI and life sciences at Northeastern University. (He spent much of the pandemic […]
Covid-Mutation Risk Drives Rush to Test Travelers From China
Despite the rapid growth of cases there, China may not yet be fertile ground for variants that evade humans’ natural or vaccine-aided immunity, said Sam Scarpino, the director of Artificial Intelligence and Life Sciences at Northeastern University’s Institute for Experiential AI.
Voice of America
US Gun Violence Soars in 2022
“We are seeing a return to much higher rates of gun violence than we have seen for a long time,” said Jack McDevitt, a professor at Northeastern University School of Criminology and Criminal Justice in Boston, Massachusetts, speaking with VOA. “We are starting to see more people use firearms to go after victims who they […]
Is recession coming in 2023?, a look back at the year in health: 5 Things podcast
But why didn’t anyone notice until after Santos was elected? Producer PJ Elliott spoke with Dan Kennedy, a journalism professor at Northeastern University and author of the blog Media Nation, to find out the answer.