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With Super Bowl, America places its bets

The boom in sports gambling has been linked with a host of problems. Sports-betting firms have designed their offerings to foster gambling addiction, according to Richard Daynard, president of the Public Health Advocacy Institute at Northeastern University’s law school. 
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Boston’s reparations task force has faced hurdles two years in. The Trump era could present another barrier.

Attendees also heard a presentation from a team of Tufts University and Royall House and Slave Quarters researchers, one of two research teams tapped by the task force to study the slavery’s long lasting legacy in Boston. (Northeastern University, the other research team, presented findings in December.)
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‘Drawing the Italian Renaissance’ Review: Splendor in Sketches

Ms. Brothers is a professor at Northeastern University and the author of “Giuliano da Sangallo and the Ruins of Rome”
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‘We really never came back to each other’: Five years after COVID, we’re more divided than ever

And Esteban Moro, a professor at Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute in Boston who studies foot-traffic data, finds that people of all sorts are far less likely to leave their neighborhoods and interact with people of different income or demographic types than they were before the pandemic.
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The superconductivity of layered graphene is surprisingly strange

Kin Chung Fong at Northeastern University in Massachusetts was stunned when another physicist, Abhishek Banerjee at Harvard University, told him a number over dinner. 
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How Midcentury Women’s Magazines Fought Cancer

Northeastern University student Elsa O’Donnell contributed archival research for this article.
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These researchers used NPR Sunday Puzzle questions to benchmark AI ‘reasoning’ models

“We wanted to develop a benchmark with problems that humans can understand with only general knowledge,” Arjun Guha, a computer science faculty member at Northeastern and one of the co-authors on the study, told TechCrunch.

‘It just doesn’t fit’: Retailers grapple with unprecedented number of returns

“We are always expecting free returns,” said Alexander DePaoli, Associate Professor at Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business. “A lot of consumers will not buy from a company online that does not offer free returns.”
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Northeastern prof: America is in a constitutional crisis. And it can get worse | John L. Micek

It “still can get much worse,” Jeremy R. Paul, a constitutional law expert at Northeastern University Law School, told MassLive. Trump “doesn’t see guardrails and he doesn’t see the law as something to which he owes allegiance,” Paul said.
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The coming Trump inflation bomb

Barry Bluestone is an economist and professor emeritus at Northeastern University.
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‘Someone check on Drake’: Kendrick Lamar’s Grammy win final nail in Toronto rapper’s coffin

But Andrew Mall, an associate professor of music at Northeastern University, told the Northeastern Global News, that he thinks fans hoping to hear the song will be disappointed, largely in part because of Drake’s pending legal action.
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Betting Scandals Intensify As Ohtani’s Ex-Interpreter Receives 57-Month Sentence

Harry Levant serves as director of gambling policy with the Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI) at Northeastern University School of Law. One of the nation’s foremost experts on gambling addiction, Levant testified at December’s federal sports betting hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.