A ‘tough on drug dealers’ approach won’t work for opioid crisis, expert says Leo Beletsky, an associate professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University, spoke with Morning Edition Tuesday about President Trump’s “get tough” approach on combating the opioid epidemic.
Cambridge Analytica’s ad targeting is the reason Facebook exists “You have to proceed on the assumption that this information has been extracted from you,” Woodrow Hartzog, author of Privacy’s Blueprint: The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies, told me on the phone. “Cambridge Analytica used an information extraction technique that was well-known to technologists for years. The implications of this debacle is […]
Why more than just the AT&T-Time Warner deal is on trial Northeastern University economist John Kwoka documents the drop-off in U.S. merger enforcement.
PGA Tour Superstore expanding as other retailers collapse Such in-store engagement is what differentiates this chain from other struggling retailers, said Bruce Clark, associate professor at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University.
‘It might work too well’: The dark art of political advertising online Alan Mislove, a professor of computer science at Northeastern University and one of the study’s co-authors, said that he gave Facebook credit for having the feature at all, noting that it is one of the only examples of a company offering any kind of explanation of how an algorithm actually works. But the findings do […]
We’re teaching grit the wrong way But the strategies that educators are recommending to build that self-control — a reliance on willpower and executive function to suppress emotions and desires for immediate pleasures — are precisely the wrong ones. Besides having a poor long-term success rate in general, the effectiveness of willpower drops precipitously when people are feeling tired, anxious, or stressed. And, […]
Trump administration to seek stiffer penalties against drug dealers, reduce opioid prescribing “The idea that we can ratchet up punishment and penalties of various sorts to address the supply is based on exactly zero evidence of the probability that this will work,” said Leo Beletsky, a professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University.
NBC News Why did Miami bridge collapse? More than one reason likely New bridges are designed so precisely and under such scrutiny by teams of engineers that it would be rare for an error to result in such a deadly outcome, said Ming Wang, a distinguished professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University in Boston.
Don’t be misled by the publicity on shootings: For kids, schools actually are the safest refuges from gun violence Cornell’s research is backed up by work done by criminologist James Alan Fox of Northeastern University on mass murders, defined as those with four or more victims not including the shooter. Mass murders occur 20 to 30 times per year, but only one of those cases on average takes place at a school. “There is […]
ICE arrests at courthouses are disrupting justice, two lawsuits claim “It’s basically saying to immigrants: ‘Stay away from the courthouse,’ ” said Rachel Rosenbloom, co-director of the Northeastern University School of Law Immigrant Justice Clinic.
The Globe and Mail Why the left and right should embrace a universal basic income As Ontario pilots a basic-income program, support for the concept is growing. For instance, in a recent Northeastern University/Gallup survey, 48 per cent of Americans supported the implementation of a universal basic income, up from 12 per cent in a poll 10 years ago.
The Verge We still have no idea what really happens on Facebook A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute and Northeastern University may have figured out how to beat ad discrimination on Facebook once and for all. After a string of alarming ProPublica stories, Facebook has had trouble keeping advertisers from targeting ads to specific races, potentially violating discrimination laws around housing and employment.