Chicago Tribune Professors: How the Electoral College concentrates candidate attention and why it matters Op-ed co-written by Costas Panagopoulos, professor at Northeastern University, and co-author of the recently published book “Battleground: Electoral College Strategies, Execution, and Impact in the Modern Era.”
The First Lyme Disease Vaccine Failed. It’s Time to Try Again. Constantin Takacs, a biologist at Northeastern University, is looking for answers in way the bacteria behave in different animals — including in ticks, which have been around since the time of the dinosaurs, and in the wild mice that have come to some sort of immune truce with it, the way some bats have with […]
Could exploding device attacks like those in Lebanon happen here? Josep Miquel Jornet, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern University, added that pagers and walkie-talkies have plenty of unused space inside and offer easy access to the chips that control them. That makes it relatively simple to install control circuitry and an explosive.
Fox News IDF ops in Beirut bring closure for some; Hezbollah terrorists who killed Americans now dead Max Abrahms, a leading expert on counter-terrorism and a tenured professor of political science at Northeastern University, told Fox News Digital that, “Targeted killings have been a cornerstone of U.S. counterterrorism since the 9/11 attacks. And yet, Israel killing Hezbollah terrorists with American blood on their hands has been rebuked by Democrat leaders.”
Birmingham, Alabama, leaders plead for information on mass shooting and announce reward money Three of the nation’s 31 mass killings this year occurred in Birmingham, according to a database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University.
Wired Italia Israel, How It Tries to Discredit the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees on Google “ I suspect that Israel is paying a significant amount of money to have these ads appear consistently ,” says Christo Wilson, a computer scientist at Northeastern University and a co-author of the study. Since it seems unlikely that Google would sacrifice any of its profits by intervening in the matter, Wilson suggests that organizations involved in this type […]
News Nation Americans have lost trust in US physicians, hospitals since 2020: Study | Morning in America According to a Northeastern University study, Americans’ trust in the U.S. health care system has decreased from 71.5% to 40.1%. Dr. Marty Makary discusses how the healthcare system can work to regain Americans’ trust.
NBC News Banned political ads found on TikTok weeks ahead of 2024 elections Laura Edelson, an assistant professor of computer science at Northeastern University, said TikTok likely bans political ads outright because it is expensive for platforms to distinguish between “good” and “bad” political content.
Chappell Roan wants privacy amid newfound fame, ‘predatory’ fan behavior. Here’s why. Rebekah Moore, assistant professor of music at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, said unfortunately, Roan’s recent outcry is “very familiar territory.”
Voice of America US Fed expected to announce its first interest rate cut since 2020 “As much as I think the Fed tries to say that they’re not a political animal, we are in a really wild cycle right now,” Alicia Modestino, an associate professor of economics at Northeastern University, told AFP.
Mass Live Maria Servellón teaches Boston students to tell stories through art “Through collaboration and experimentation, I enjoy creating immersive experiences that foster dialogue and understanding, both within the self and the community,” she wrote. “Spaces to create and play serve as places for collective growth.” Servellón has since become an arts educator and is currently teaching at Northeastern and Massachusetts College of Art & Design.
LiveScience Why do we forget things we were just thinking about? “Memory is not just one thing,” Susanne Jaeggi, a professor of psychology at Northeastern University, told Live Science. “There are very different components of memory, and they’re also related to different cognitive processes.”