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A list of mass killings in the United States since January
The Oklahoma City shooting was the country’s 33rd mass killing of 2023, in which four or more people were killed, not including the assailant, within a 24-hour period, according to a database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University as of Aug. 17.
Could Clarence Thomas Get Impeached and Removed From Supreme Court?
Daniel Urman, a law professor at Northeastern University whose expertise includes the Supreme Court, is doubtful.
Buffalo mass shooting witnesses sue gun industry, others for trauma
At least 159 people have died in 32 U.S. mass killings this year, according to a database maintained by the Associated Press, USA Today and Northeastern University.
How heat affects the body – inside and out
“Not everyone is going to show the same symptoms,” said Gredia Huerta-Montañez, a pediatrician and environmental health researcher at Northeastern University. “It’s easy to ignore them, so we need to continue educating communities.”
IEEE Spectrum
Meta’s AI Agents Learn to Move by Copying Toddlers
These simulated body parts were the latest showings from the MyoSuite platform, and were included in the MyoSuite 2.0 collection, which was released today by Meta AI, working in collaboration with researchers at McGill University in Canada, Northeastern University in the United States, and the University of Twente in the Netherlands.
Engadget
With some tech savvy, you can disconnect your robot vacuum from the cloud
Robot vacuums may seem like mindless suction machines with wheels. But today, “basically these devices are like smartphones,” Dennis Giese, PhD student at Northeastern University who researches robot vacuum security, said.
The lifelong effects of ‘the favourite child’
That’s because feeling less-favoured can be very subjective, says Laurie Kramer, a professor of applied psychology at Northeastern University in the US. “It is the experience that people have, that a parent prefers another child to them,” she says.
Boston Herald
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu weighing ordinance to ban tents at Mass and Cass
Amelia Caramadre, a senior legal fellow at Northeastern University’s Health and Justice Action Lab, criticized the mayor’s plans for a potential anti-encampment ordinance.
When Hackers Descended to Test A.I., They Found Flaws Aplenty
Dr. Ghosh, a lecturer at Northeastern University who specializes in artificial intelligence ethics, was a volunteer at the event.
We spearheaded state’s 2014 gun law; new legislation can build on it
In 2014, we worked together to update Massachusetts firearm laws following the mass killings of school children in Sandy Hook, Connecticut. Following that mass homicide, one of us, as speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, formed a task force, chaired by the other, a Northeastern University expert in criminal justice issues, to determine if […]
Let’s be more discerning when it comes to sentencing
By James Alan Fox, professor of criminology, law, and public policy at Northeastern University.
Grist Magazine
What one school’s fight to eliminate PFAS says about Indian Country’s ‘forever chemical’ problem
“We can certainly say that PFAS is an issue for every single person in the United States and its territories, that includes tribal areas,” Kimberly Garrett, a PFAS researcher at Northeastern University whose work has highlighted the lack of PFAS testing on tribes.