One night last week Waxman, a professor of Israel studies at Northeastern University, was fretting over an op-ed he wants to write about the outcome of Israel’s elections, in which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking to extend his already record-breaking time in office.

The numbers we do have are too small to suggest any conclusions, says Northeastern University criminologist James Alan Fox. “There is no evidence that we are in the midst of an epidemic of mass shootings,” Fox told Reason last month.

“While prior academic research has studied productivity effects of ‘working from home’ that gives workers temporal flexibility, ‘work from anywhere’ goes a step further and provides both temporal and geographic flexibility,” says Choudhury, who co-authored the paper, (Live and) Work from Anywhere: Geographic Flexibility and Productivity Effects at the United States Patent Office (pdf), with […]

But experts on facial expression, like Lisa Feldman Barrett, a professor of psychology at Northeastern University, warn it’s extremely unlikely these algorithms could detect emotions based on facial expressions and movements alone. 

Earlier this May, scientist Rebecca Shansky of Northeastern University in the US city of Boston wrote about the ongoing need to stamp out sex bias in medical research, starting with lab animals, and the harm it can cause.

Given how much money is needed to confront this crisis, Leo Beletsky, who directs the Health in Justice Action Lab at Northeastern University, said this settlement is “ a drop in the bucket.”

Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University in Boston, said Fairfax could face a tough challenge. “There are a lot of elements you need in a defamation lawsuit to prevail, but one key is proving that the statements are false. In a case like this, where the ground truth about what happened is still […]