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Local editors worry ‘pink slime’ journalism poses real danger

Dan Kennedy, a professor of journalism at Northeastern University and co-author of a book called “What Works in Community News,” said these sites are currently limited in their reach. 
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Why is everyone wearing weighted vests? I tried one for two weeks

“It really has gotten so much attention lately,” says Dr Elaina Manolis, a physical therapist and clinical professor at Northeastern University. The practice used to be called “rucking”, she notes, because people would walk with heavy rucksacks.
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Donald Trump Gets Good News From Most Accurate Pollster

Costas Panagopoulos, a professor of political science at Northeastern University, told Newsweek: “One cannot extract too much from a single poll, which can be an outlier or otherwise imprecise for all sorts of reasons.
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The ‘deadliest kind of highway’: Crashes keep happening on Route 6 in Fairhaven

While some stretches wind through forested areas with few pedestrians or businesses, the section cutting through Fairhaven receives a lot of activity. Peter Furth, a professor at Northeastern University who studies traffic issues, called Fairhaven’s part the “deadliest kind of highway.”
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What has America learned from the Sydney Sweeney situation? We asked the experts

Rachel Rodgers, an associate professor of applied psychology at Northeastern University, did a study on the ads for American Eagle’s flagship brand, Aerie, and how those ads impacted body image in 2019. 
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AI search pushing an already weakened media ecosystem to the brink

According to Northeastern University professor John Wihbey, these trends “will accelerate, and pretty soon we will have an entirely different web.” The dominance of tech giants like Google and Meta had already slashed online media advertising revenue, forcing publishers to pivot toward paid subscriptions.
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Trump’s Bid To Fire BLS Commissioner ‘Preposterously Stupid And Deeply Dangerous’

“There is absolutely no chance that the BLS commissioner or anyone else at BLS manipulated the jobs and unemployment data to hurt Donald Trump politically,” said Harris, now a law professor at Northeastern University.
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Cracks appear in MAGA’s pro-Israel front

Republicans willing to speak out about Israel’s wartime conduct are likely “reading the tea leaves in terms of public opinion,” said Northeastern University Political Scientist Costas Panagopoulos at Newsweek.

With thousands of life sciences workers needed, some say ‘microcredentials’ could revolutionize hiring

“A lot of the work in the life sciences, you don’t need a degree to do,” said Jared Auclair, the dean of Northeastern’s College of Professional Studies.
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Earthquakes, floods, pandemics, fires: why interconnected disasters are the new normal

Interconnected disasters, from the Covid-19 pandemic to flash floods and devastating wildfires to the recent, devastating earthquake in Kamchatka, are now our new normal . This is according to a new study by researchers at Northeastern University, which explored a concept experts call polycrisis.

Sports gambling scandals raise concerns over game integrity

While professional athletes are richly compensated, they are just as susceptible as the public to problem gambling, says Richard Daynard, president of the Public Health Advocacy Institute at Northeastern University. “The temptations are just very, very great,” Daynard tells Axios.

Britain and France Have Pledged to Recognize a Palestinian State. What Would It Mean?

Like all legal questions, “interpretation matters,” said Zinaida Miller, a professor of law and international affairs at Northeastern University. The criteria for recognizing a Palestinian state have been met at a basic level, many experts on international law say.