Food & Wine Only 6 Cinnamon Brands Were Deemed Safe for Consumption, According to a New Investigation by Consumer Reports “Lead can be present in the soil where cinnamon is grown, especially in countries with heavy industrial activity or where leaded gasoline and pesticides were once used,” says Darin Detwiler, L.P.D., an associate teaching professor of food policy at Northeastern University and author of Food Safety: Past, Present, and Predictions. “Plants can absorb lead from contaminated […]
JD Vance fogs up the school safety debate “Vance compares apples to oranges. His argument is specious,” said Matthew Miller, professor of health sciences and epidemiology at Northeastern University and codirector of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center.
Politico Mail-in mishaps Northeastern University reported that the amount of Black incoming freshmen slightly decreased from almost 8 percent to just over 5 percent.
Newsweek Get Ready to Start Seeing a Lot More of Kamala Harris Harris “needs to hit the campaign trail hard” and has “no time to waste” due to her later entry into the race, Costas Panagopoulos, a political science professor at Northeastern University told Newsweek.
Bill would ban sports betting ads during games and forbid bets on college athletes Harry Levant, director of gambling policy at the Public Health Advocacy Institute at Northeastern University School of Law, compared gambling to drugs and alcohol in terms of potential addictiveness.
Al Jazeera In a historic move, Colombia bypasses patent to access HIV drug Colombia is “a shining example of a country that has taken a little bit of risk”, said Brook Baker, a health policy analyst and law professor emeritus at Northeastern University.
Vox The horrifying rape case roiling France, explained “While there is still perhaps more skepticism in France than in the US about the legitimacy of sexual assault and sexual harassment, these attitudes are changing fast, especially as a younger generation of women and French feminists and their male allies … are willing to confront these issues head-on,” Laura Frader, a professor of history […]
Grist Magazine Hurricanes are personal for this disaster researcher Grist spoke with Aldrich, now a professor of political science at Northeastern University, about his post-disaster experience, how climate shocks like hurricanes affect voters, and how Americans’ expectations of how the federal government should respond to a disaster have changed over time.
Al Jazeera Did Harris win the debate or did Trump lose it? “In the first debate, while Biden was mainly the agent of his own destruction, Trump did help by sitting back, staying calm, and staying largely on-message,” Nick Beauchamp, a political science professor at Northeastern University whose work includes modelling political debates, told Al Jazeera.
France 24 In the zone: Harris conducted debate on her turf, effective at ‘drawing out Trump’s worst qualities’ Following a fiery debate that saw Harris dominate an extremely combative exchange, FRANCE 24’s Nadia Massih is joined by Alan Schroeder, Author, former Diplomat, and Professor Emeritus in the School of Journalism at Northeastern University.
What if Elon Musk ran the economy? I just dropped my son off at Northeastern University last week for his for freshman year, and I’m excited to see their model of education, which involves thinking much more deeply about the post-college experience and connecting education to the world of work (in ways that don’t undermine core liberal education).
Quanta Magazine Novel Architecture Makes Neural Networks More Understandable Liu’s fledgling networks started showing promise, so the pair soon reached out to colleagues at MIT, the California Institute of Technology and Northeastern University. They wanted mathematicians on their team, plus experts in the areas they planned to have their KAN analyze.