“We’re standing at an inflection point,” said Sam Scarpino, assistant professor at Northeastern University and director of the school’s Emergent Epidemics Lab. Thanks to the arrival of vaccines, he said, “we finally have the chance right now to bring this back under control, but if we ease up now, we may end up wasting all […]

“Overreactions give people an incentive to become terrorists—not only by creating grievances but also by reducing the relative risks of turning to violence,” Northeastern University’s Max Abrahms, a professor of public policy, recently cautioned in Reason. “A standard assumption in political science is that terrorists are rational actors. Many people decide against becoming terrorists because they know that […]

“Rupert Murdoch and Fox News generally sees itself as mouthpiece of Republican party. They were moving away from conspiracy theorists, they were moving away from Trump and hoping to turn the page,” Jonathan Kaufman, professor and director of the school of journalism at Northeastern University, said.

David Choffnes, an associate computer science professor at Northeastern University, said WhatsApp’s policy updates could’ve rekindled concerns over Facebook’s poor track record with privacy. He pointed to the scandal involving Cambridge Analytica, a British political consultancy, that harvested the data of roughly 87 million Facebook users without their permission.

Data collection was included in the new law, and 5 Investigates Northeastern University School of Journalism obtained the data from the Massachusetts Department of Transportation about who’s being stopped under the new law and what’s happening to them.

We can’t rely on the private sector to protect the common good. Wendy E. Parmet Law professor at Northeastern University

“It’s a good match for independent pharmacies because they typically do not have a lot of space in their pharmacies, but they’re very adept at going off-site,” said Todd Brown, vice-chair of Northeastern University’s school of pharmacy and executive director of the Massachusetts independent pharmacists association.

Economist Barry Bluestone, professor emeritus at Northeastern University, said Walsh’s record as mayor Boston should help him run the Department of Labor.

In another study, Dr. Loretta Fernandez, an associate professor at Northeastern University, found that adding a layer of nylon to a homemade mask can make it fit more snugly over the nose and mouth.

Our guests are DEREK THOMPSON, staff writer at the Atlantic, and BARBARA LARSON, professor of management at Northeastern University.

Originally developed by Facebook, the founding members of the Magma consortium include Arm, Deutsche Telekom, Facebook, FreedomFi, Qualcomm, the Institute of Wireless Internet of Things at Northeastern University, the OpenAirInterface Software Alliance, and the Open Infrastructure Foundation.

Then pull the ring over your head and on top of your mask to create a tight fit to the face. Tights should also work well, says Loretta Fernandez, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University who conducted prior research on the power of pantyhose.