The New Yorker The Bot Politic But when I spoke with Lisa Feldman Barrett, a professor of psychology at Northeastern University, she thought that my job seemed easy—maybe too easy. “People have always created personalities for objects,” she said. “People have always talked to their cars; they’ve talked to their plants; they’ve talked to their blankets; they’ve talked to their stuffed […]
Business Insider For every COVID-19 death ‘partisanship’ should be listed as a ‘contributing cause,’ expert says, but politicians on both sides of the aisle are still pointing fingers Briony Swire-Thompson, the director of the Psychology of Misinformation Lab at Northeastern University, told Insider the coronavirus pandemic “right off the bat was just primed for misinformation.”
New Scientist Trick or tweet, or both? How social media is messing up politics Still, there are those who challenge the idea that online media has dramatically sidelined truth from politics. After all, the popularity of conspiracy theories is nothing new. “Many of the same things were happening before Facebook,” says David Lazer, a computer and political scientist at Northeastern University in Boston. “I have not seen a compelling […]
Mass murder on both sides of the Atlantic – politics or psychopathology? On both sides of the Atlantic, last weekend was a particularly bloody time. In Isla Vista, near the campus of the University of California at Santa Barbara, six students were shot to death by Elliot Rodger, a young man who blamed everybody but himself for his inability to attract women. Hours later, a gun-toting terrorist […]
Buzzfeed A Fight Over Vaping “Bots” Is Blazing While E-Cigarette Bans Loom The brawl over whether the support for vaping comes from real people or astroturfing (fake grassroots efforts invented by companies or politicians), looks familiar, drug policy expert Leo Beletsky of Northeastern University told BuzzFeed News.
The Independent Trump administration ‘botched’ rollout of Jerusalem decision, say experts Dov Waxman, a professor of political science, Israel studies and international affairs at Northeastern University in Boston, noted that the Trump administration has yet to nominate ambassadors in Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Egypt – all countries vehemently opposed to the US leader’s decision.
Boston Herald Arrest made in ‘botched’ U.K. bombing “A savvier, more sophisticated terrorist group wouldn’t take credit for a botched attack,” said Max Abrahms, a political science professor and terror expert at Northeastern University. “Your typical Islamic State operative in the West isn’t particularly sophisticated — he’s just a Joe Schmo who is committing violence.”
CBS News The new politics of the “war on drugs” Leo Beletsky, an associate professor of Law and Health Sciences at Northeastern University, recently noted that innovation is increasingly coming from the bottom up. In a column for The Crime Report, he described the police officers’ growing use of naloxone, a drug used to treat overdoses and commonly referred to by its brand name Narcan, […]
PBS Can running for president help your bottom line? Michael Dukakis After losing the 1988 presidential race to George H.W. Bush, then-Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis announced that he would not seek a fourth term in office. Now Dukakis spends his time as a political science professor at Northeastern University, and a visiting public policy professor at UCLA. He also collects turkey carcasses to make […]
Newsweek Strange alliances lead U.S. to support and sabotage Iranian proxies on same day Max Abrahms, professor of political science at Northeastern University and member at the Council on Foreign Relations, says that Washington’s actions towards Iran, in the different arenas in which their interests meet, are muddled. “I think that the U.S. position towards Iran is highly confused and conflicted. Washington seems to have a different position towards […]
Robotic Insect: To Promote Pollination in US, May Support Future Food Supply “We’re getting closer and closer to the point where we don’t have enough bees in this country to meet pollination demands,” said entomologist Dennis vanEngelstorp of the University of Maryland, who led the survey documenting the declines, according to Wired. However, recently, scientists in Harvard and Northeastern University have taken a big step to overcome […]
Patriot Ledger COMMENTARY: Politics trumps economics in disfunctional Congress The number of elected officials in Congress who can be counted on to put the country’s interest above their personal gain can be counted without the need for removing both hands from your pockets.