US Records Nearly 20 Mass Killings For The Year So Far A database compiled by The Associated Press, Northeastern University and USA Today shows that the number of mass killings has held steady in 2019 compared with past years.
‘Emotion detection’ AI is a $20 billion industry. New research says it can’t do what it claims. “About 20 to 30 percent of the time, people make the expected facial expression,” such as smiling when happy, said Lisa Feldman Barrett, a professor of psychology at Northeastern University, who worked on the report published earlier this month.
Science News Tiny magnetic coils could help break down microplastic pollution Chemical by-products of this microplastic decomposition, such as aldehydes and carboxylic acids, aren’t major environmental hazards, says Long Chen, an environmental engineer at Northeastern University in Boston not involved in the work.
Tsarnaev’s lawyers to plead appeal of death penalty in December Defendants typically aren’t present for their appellate hearings before the First Circuit, said Daniel S. Medwed, a professor at Northeastern University School of Law and former associate appellate counsel at the Legal Aid Society Criminal Appeals Bureau in New York City.
What Are PFAS? And Are They Hazardous To Our Health? Northeastern University professor of health sciences Phil Brown joined WBUR’s Morning Edition host Bob Oakes to explore just what danger the chemicals present.
WGBH Boston Public Radio Hallmarks of Innocence: Government Informants WGBH’s Morning Edition Host Joe Mathieu spoke with Northeastern University law professor and WGBH legal analyst Daniel Medwed about how the information government informants give can occasionally lead to wrongful convictions.
NBC News Forget props and fixed wings. New bio-inspired drones mimic birds, bats and bugs. “There will be these machines that are round the clock doing monitoring and providing information,” says Alireza Ramezani, a Northeastern University roboticist who is working on a bat-inspired robot called Bat Bot.
U.S. News & World Report Media Critic, 4 Journalists Are 2019 Yankee Quill Winners The Academy of New England Journalists says this year’s honorees are Ross Connelly, Callie Crossley, Dan Kennedy, Angelo Lynn and John C. Peterson. Kennedy is a critic and journalism professor at Northeastern University. Lynn is the owner of Vermont’s Addison Press and publisher-editor of the Addison Independent.
New York Magazine What Does the History of Black Primary Voting Tell Us About 2020? Thanks to the assistance of William Mayer, a political scientist at Northeastern University and an expert on presidential campaigns, NBC News has assembled for the first time a publicly available state-by-state record of the black vote for each of the nine competitive national Democratic campaigns since the inception of widespread exit polling.
Slate How a Big Pharma Lawsuit Could Succeed Where Big Tobacco Failed A settlement agreement could also be an opportunity to rein in the power of Big Pharma, said Leo Beletsky, a professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University. “Any settlement agreement should improve the monitoring and regulation of the pharmaceutical industry,” he said.
MarketWatch Kamala Harris proposes cancelling $20,000 in student debt for these low-income borrowers, unleashing backlash on Twitter A borrower with $30,000 in student debt is 11% less likely to start a business than someone who graduated from college without loans, according to researchfrom Karthik Krishnan, a finance professor at Northeastern University’s De’Amore-McKim School of Business.
Harvard Business School Working Knowledge How Companies Benefit When Employees Work Remotely … 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 HBS doctoral student Cirrus Foroughi and Barbara Larson, executive professor of management at Northeastern University.
