“It would be a bitter irony if Sarah Palin, of all people, proves to be the vehicle through which the media are taken down,” wrote Northeastern University professor Dan Kennedy on Boston’s WGBH last week. Ironic, he explained to me later, because of the emptiness of Palin’s past anti-media rhetoric and the overall weakness of her suit.

A study by researchers at Northeastern University and Imperial College London found data from TVs and smart devices was sent to Google’s ad business and to Netflix, even if people didn’t have Netflix.

As of December 2021, the PFAS Project Lab at Northeastern University had documented per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in soil or water at 1,781 sites, with groundwater at 1,385 of those sites contaminated with the man-made chemicals.

“The reason this is not a top priority is this is invisible work that gets done by generation after generation of American women,” said Alicia Sasser Modestino, associate professor at Northeastern University who has done extensive research on the impact of the pandemic on women.

Larissa Doroshenko, a researcher at Northeastern University who has studied Russian disinformation, said the recent tactics are in keeping with traditional Russian propaganda measures, which aim to undercut trust in government and media institutions.

Jack McDevitt, director of Northeastern University’s Institute on Race and Justice, noted that Boston has a long history of “unions not being advocates for reform.” “Their actions over the vaccine doesn’t give me a lot of hope,” he said.

Amy Farrell, co-director of the Violence and Justice Research Lab at Northeastern University, has studied the flaws in the FBI data-collection system on human trafficking. State and local officials often misclassify trafficking cases, leading to chronic underreporting.

Steven Vallas, a professor of sociology at Northeastern University, goes even further in describing how Americans relate to work. “Whether it’s personal fulfillment, social inclusion, or respectability,” he says, in the U.S., “work is the single most important way of proving your worth” as a person.

The results were “impressive” and “exciting,” said James Monaghan, an associate professor in the department of biology at Northeastern University. He wasn’t involved in the research. close dialog You give us five minutes, we’ll give you five things you must know for the day. Sign Me Up By subscribing you agree to our privacy policy.

Some of the decisions against jab mandates feature aggressively ideological and political language that breaks from the traditional style of judicial writing, which is typically staid, careful, and often boring, said Wendy Parmet, a law professor who directs Northeastern University’s Center for Health Policy and Law.