Another listeria-related recall hits Costco. Why dangerous outbreaks seem to be on the rise Darin Detwiler, a food safety adviser, author, and professor at Northeastern University, tells Fast Company that the food system “has grown increasingly complex over the past few decades, largely due to globalization.”
Health Apple Watches Can Predict When You’ll Get Sick, Users Say. Can a Health Tracker Really Do That? But they do collect and analyze metrics that are strongly linked to the autonomic nervous system, which plays a crucial role in regulating various functions in the body, including the immune response, Varun Mishra, PhD, assistant professor at Northeastern University and director of the university’s Ubiquitous Computing for Health and Well-being (UbiWell) Lab, told Health.
AI art: The end of creativity or the start of a new movement? As philosopher Alice Helliwell from Northeastern University London argues, if we can consider radical and divergent pieces like Duchamp’s urinal and Tracey Emin’s bed as art proper, how can something created by a generative algorithm be dismissed?
Newsweek Ted Cruz Suffers Blow as Texas’ Biggest Newspaper Endorses Opponent “Texas voters have had reservations about Ted Cruz for years,” Costas Panagopoulos, a political science professor at Northeastern University, previously told Newsweek. “He only squeaked by narrowly to win re-election in 2018.”
The ‘October Theory’ of Changing Your Life October can feel like an introspective time for people since the seasons are changing, a new academic school year has started and the current year is on its way out, says Laurie Kramer, a licensed clinical psychologist and a professor of applied psychology at Northeastern University.
EconoFact Turning a Corner on the Opioid Crisis? Alicia Modestino, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, and Economics at Northeastern University, where she also serves as Research Director of the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy, joins EconoFact Chats.
Verywell Health What the Public Needs to Know About PFAS (Forever Chemicals) For example, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) and Northeastern University in Boston have researched and provided details of PFAS pollution in tap water supplies in 27 states and from dozens of industrial and military sources. They have created an interactive map using federal drinking water data and information on publicly documented cases of PFAS pollution.
Newsweek Donald Trump’s Success With Black Voters Might be a Myth After All Costas Panagopoulos, a professor of political science at Northeastern University, told Newsweek that people “often mistake small shifts in poll preferences for true movement, but these are often statistical artifacts, especially when zooming in on limited numbers of subgroups of respondents.”
Fox News Netanyahu’s defiance of Biden-Harris Rafah invasion threats led to elimination of Sinwar, experts say Max Abrahms, a leading expert on counterterrorism and a tenured professor of political science at Northeastern University, told Fox News Digital, “Biden and Harris have been basing their advice to Netanyahu on American political calculations.”
Women's Health How to make a vision board that will *actually* help you achieve your goals While positive psychology has found that being optimistic about your future can help you self-actualize your goals, research has also shown that merely fantasizing about an ideal future may actually decrease your likelihood of reaching said future, according to Amy Morin, LCSW, a licensed psychotherapist, psychology lecturer at Northeastern University,
Futurism America’s Food System Is Officially So Disgusting That Frozen Waffles Are Infected With Listeria Some of the uptick in recalls can be attributed to “improvements in detection,” Darin Detwiler, an associate professor at Northeastern University and a food policy expert, told Northeastern Global News last month.
NBC New York Trump and Harris make widely different claims on crime. Here’s what the data shows Kevin Drakulich, associate director of criminology and criminal justice at Northeastern University, says that although many politicians take data out of context, Trump’s claims about crime are particularly harmful.