The Walrus The New Old Age Research on superagers is in its infancy, but Lisa Barrett, a psychology professor at Northeastern University, says that joining that exclusive group is about more than inheriting good genes or enjoying financial security: based on the available scientific evidence, a lot of it has to do with social interactions and persistent mental and physical exercise. […]
Newsweek Joe Biden Now Leads Donald Trump in Presidential Polling Average “At this stage of the campaign, I wouldn’t ignore polls altogether, but I would take them with a grain of salt,” Costas Panagopoulos, a political science professor at Northeastern University, told Newsweek.
The Messenger Researcher Discovers Possible Trove of New Stories by Louisa May Alcott Academic Max Chapnick told The Guardian that he was searching for one of Alcott’s unknown works, “The Phantom,” when he found the story under the name EH Gould. Chapnick, a postdoctoral teaching associate in English at Northeastern University, at first thought it was a mistake, but then realized it could be one of Alcott’s pseudonyms.
The Week Could newly released Jan. 6 footage backfire for Mike Johnson and the GOP? While Rep. Greene has used the latest released footage to call for a new congressional committee to investigate Jan. 6, her demand is a “political stunt to delay resolution and to muddy public opinion on the matter,” Northeastern University Professor of Political Science Costas Panagopoulos told Newsweek, which noted that much of the social media response […]
CBS Boston Concern about parking garage safety in Mass. in wake of deadly collapse in New York City Northeastern University Professor of Structural Engineering Mehrdad Sasani told WBZ there is a possibility something similar could happen right in our backyard.
ABC News Biden administration is flying in baby formula. Here’s why the shortage happened “The scenario where you have a manufacturing problem that occurred at an Abbott facility in Michigan, those kinds of things happen all the time,” Nada Sanders, a professor of supply chain management at Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business, told ABC News. “Ultimately, we have very, very weak supply chains.”
Neiman Journalism Lab “Crushing resistance”: Yet again, newsrooms aren’t showing up to the industry’s largest diversity survey For this year’s report, which will be the first released since 2019, NLA said it reached out to thousands of news organizations and planned to have 2,500 print and online organizations participate. Meredith Clark, a professor at Northeastern University who has been the survey’s lead researcher since 2018, told the Associated Press in October that her goal was to reach […]
The Daily Beast How the White House Caved to Fox News’ Biden ‘Crack Pipe’ Faux-Scandal Leo Beletsky, a law and health sciences professor at Northeastern University School of Law, told the Associated Press he was let down by the White House’s reaction to the GOP outrage. “This administration has said repeatedly they are making harm reduction one of their key priorities,” he stated. “As soon as there’s a little right-wing echo chamber […]
ABC News COVID burden shifts to younger Americans with older generations vaccinated Because the U.S.’ vaccination strategy targeted high-risk individuals by age, almost all of these younger hospitalized patients have yet to be vaccinated, Samuel Scarpino, epidemiologist and assistant professor at Northeastern University, told ABC News.
Police posed as reporter in phone call with hostage taker Dan Kennedy, a professor of media ethics at Northeastern University, agreed that the incident “raises media ethics concerns” but recognized that “in-the-moment” decisions were required. “You can see what a difficult situation everybody was in,” Kennedy told the newspaper. “Lives were at stake here.”
Poop Could Be Our New Secret Weapon Against Mutant COVID Strains Then, once researchers get the sewage, it needs to be evaluated. That process involves using computers to sift through enormous piles of genetic information, to separate the signal from the noise, according to Jared Auclair, who leads the genomic sequencing lab at Northeastern University. “The largest problem is the sheer amount of data,” Auclair told […]
FBI’s Newest Hate Crime Stats Reveal Gaping Hole In Agencies’ Reporting “Every year a large number of jurisdictions fail to report hate crimes,” Jack Levin, a professor at Northeastern University and co-director of the Brudnick Center on Violence and Conflict, told HuffPost.