Dr Neil Maniar, professor of public health practice at Northeastern University, has warned that the virus has not yet peaked. Boston, where Northeastern University is located, has been hit with a 114 percent surge in cases just days before Christmas.

“It’s not very well aligned with the vaccine this year, which means there is potentially a larger proportion of the population that is susceptible to the flu,” Neil Maniar, director of the master of public health program at Northeastern University, said in December.

“While consumers expect convenience and safety, the reality is that prewashed bagged greens remain one of the riskiest items in the grocery store due to contamination risks throughout the supply chain,” says Darin Detwiler, a professor of food policy at Northeastern University and author of “Food Safety: Past, Present, and Predictions.” 

Here & Now‘s Robin Young speaks with Dr. Neil Maniar, professor of public health practice at Northeastern University.

At Northeastern University, the state’s leading study abroad institution, students favor Spain, Australia, Italy and the U.K., said school spokesman Dan Sarro.

“Don’t set a long wish list with vague or all-or-nothing goals, and don’t rely solely on willpower,” said Hristina Nikolova, an associate professor of marketing at Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business.  

Data and public awareness about the true costs of these chemicals could spur more action, says Julia Varshavsky, an expert on endocrine-disrupting chemicals at Northeastern University who coauthored a 2018 study showing that dining out is associated with increased phthalates in the body.

Your brain is predictively regulating your body,” says Lisa Feldman Barrett, a neuroscientist at Northeastern University in Boston. “Your body is [then] sending signals back to your brain about the sensory conditions of the body and the sensory consequences of allostasis.”

“The United Kingdom got hit pretty hard by this,” as did Europe and Australia, said Neil Maniar of Northeastern University. “I think that’s a pretty good harbinger of what we are likely to see here. This is going to be a very difficult flu season.”

It isn’t uncommon for people or entities to buy up patent rights and use them to request settlements. Doing so with trademarks, especially against bigger companies, is less common, said Alexandra Roberts, a law professor specializing in trademark law at Northeastern University. 

Some roboticists say that remote training has its limits. “There’s no world in which an AI operator can train the system for every situation that may occur,” said Taskin Padir, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern University.

“You can talk to older adults and they’ll tell you what happened when they were 5,” said Laurie Kramer, who studies sibling relationships at Northeastern University. “They’re stuck on that.”