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El Pais

‘The most emotional terrorism in a movie I’ve ever seen’: Why does an animal’s death on film affect us so deeply?

The subject that has even drawn scientific attention, having been analyzed by researchers at Boston’s Northeastern University and the University of Colorado. For the study, 256 students were shown four pieces of fake news about a supposed brutal attack carried out with a baseball bat.
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Why do some gamers invert their controls? Scientists now have answers, but they’re not what you think

But Corbett and Munneke, now based at MIT and Northeastern University respectively, were certain that there would also be important cognitive components to the inversion question that could be measured only through behavioural responses. 

Trump’s Climate Rollback Takes on a Key Scientific Finding

“They think they have a good chance of succeeding because the Supreme Court in recent cases has significantly curbed agency authority,” said Sharmila Murthy, a professor of law and public policy at Northeastern University.
Al Jazeera

US right shifts tone on social media censorship after Charlie Kirk’s murder

“The attorney general herself made comments about limiting hate speech online that have actually drawn a backlash from other conservatives, but other conservatives are fighting with each other about this,” John Wihbey, director of the AI-Media Strategies Lab at Northeastern University, told Al Jazeera.
POLITICO

And the winner isn’t …

It’s a phenomenon that could “very easily be interpreted through a kind of voter suppression lens, especially given the scrutiny of big tech,” said John Whibey, the director of the AI-Media Strategies Lab at Northeastern University.

Viral TikToks of Virginia kidnappings and serial killer spark panic

Many people don’t feel directly threatened and are drawn in by the thrill of amateur sleuthing, says James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University.
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Covid shot access, coverage at stake as RFK Jr.’s hand-picked vaccine panel convenes

“There’s a pretty good likelihood that the decisions coming out of this meeting will further restrict vaccinations or at a minimum, limit or add confusion to the scope of vaccination coverage at a time when we really need to be doing everything possible to make them as widely available as possible,” Neil Maniar, a public […]
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Is ‘Quiet Cracking’ Just a New Term for Burnout? It Still Says Something Important About Work Today

Research by Lisa Feldman Barrett of Northeastern University and others shows that the more precise language we have for our feelings, the better we are at understanding and coping with difficult emotions. More vocabulary can lead to more EQ.
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Healthy Returns: What to know about RFK Jr.’s five new vaccine panel members

“There’s some evidence to certainly suggest that some of the members have based their opinions on questionable scientific information or have misinterpreted the results of scientific studies,” Neil Maniar, a public health professor at Northeastern University, told CNBC.
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Republicans Get Warning About Government Shutdown in New Poll

Costas Panagopoulos, political scientist at Northeastern University, told Newsweek the poll is not particularly surprising.
ABC News

Social media has us in its grip and won’t let go. The Charlie Kirk killing is a case study

“I do think we’re in a moment here,” said Laura Edelson, a Northeastern University professor and expert on social media algorithms. “Our country is being digitally mediated. Where we interact with other people, how we interact with broader society, that is more and more happening over feed algorithms. This is the most recent in a […]
Portland Press Herald

Maine should vie to be the next US spaceport | Opinion

Those would necessarily depend upon STEM educational capabilities in Maine and the employment of graduates from such programs, involving the Maine Space Grant Consortium, Maine universities and the developing Roux Institute at Northeastern University.