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The brain isn’t the only part of your body that thinks

Lisa Feldman Barrett, of Northeastern University, also argues that a main purpose of the brain is to read the body, and to regulate what she calls the body budget. 
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How Facebook’s Political Ad System Is Designed to Polarize

Yet that’s the implication of a study released this week by a team of researchers at Northeastern University, the University of Southern California, and the progressive nonprofit Upturn. 
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How Facebook’s Political Ad System Is Designed to Polarize

Amid the tense debate over online political advertising, it may seem strange to worry that Facebook gives campaigns too little control over whom their ads target. Yet that’s the implication of a study released this week by a team of researchers at Northeastern University, the University of Southern California, and the progressive nonprofit Upturn. By […]
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Attorneys For Boston Marathon Bomber To Appeals Judges: Trial Was Not Fair

Daniel Medwed, WGBH legal expert and Northeastern University law professor, said the appeals court may be open to O’Toole’s argument: “The question here is whether or not one juror’s posting of information about the bombing on social media somehow infected the trial and potentially deprived Tsarnaev of his right to a fair trial. Unless we […]
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Researchers criticize AI software that predicts emotions

“How people communicate anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise varies substantially across cultures, situations, and even across people within a single situation,” wrote a team at Northeastern University and Massachusetts General Hospital.
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Mass. District Attorney Association Criticizes State Sentencing Commission

WGBH legal analyst and Northeastern University Law Professor Daniel Medwed spoke with WGBH All Things Considered host Arun Rath about what’s happening with the Commission. 
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Small business owners need policies, strategy to keep the workplace safe

According to a story in U.S. News & World Report, Northeastern University criminologist James Alan Fox says that “most of the time there are all sorts of signs of what the grievances were.”
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From Pokémon Go to Facebook, here’s how to protect your privacy on apps

“The reason for data collection is almost always monetization,” David Choffnes, an associate professor in computer science at Northeastern University, told Recode. 
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What To Expect At The Boston Marathon Bomber’s Appeal

WGBH News Legal Analyst and Northeastern Law Professor Daniel Medwed joined Morning Edition Host Joe Mathieu to discuss the claims being raised by Tsarnaev’s defense team. The transcript below has been edited for clarity.
Governing

Massachusetts Revenue to Fade in Next Budget Cycle

Northeastern University economics professor Alan Clayton-Matthews, a senior contributing editor of MassBenchmarks, told the Joint Ways and Means Committee that he expects state tax revenues to total $31.804 billion in fiscal 2021 – a 3.5% rate of growth.
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What To Expect At The Boston Marathon Bomber’s Appeal

WGBH News Legal Analyst and Northeastern Law Professor Daniel Medwed joined Morning Edition Host Joe Mathieu to discuss the claims being raised by Tsarnaev’s defense team.
Governing

Massachusetts Revenue to Fade in Next Budget Cycle

Northeastern University economics professor Alan Clayton-Matthews, a senior contributing editor of MassBenchmarks, told the Joint Ways and Means Committee that he expects state tax revenues to total $31.804 billion in fiscal 2021 – a 3.5% rate of growth.