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Federal Reserve opts to wait on the American consumer with rate cut pause
William Dickens, a professor at Northeastern University and a visiting scholar at the Boston Fed, suggested that the Fed is waiting for the lag. “With three cuts on the record now they want to see what effect those cuts have before they push further,” he said.
Scientific American
Failure Found to be an “Essential Prerequisite” For Success
Wang’s model, tested now in three disparate domains, shows promise as a tool in other arenas, says Albert-László Barabási, director of the Center for Complex Network Research at Northeastern University and author of The Formula: The Universal Laws of Success.
‘Leonardo da Vinci’ Review: Genius in Its Many Stages
Ms. Brothers is an associate professor at Northeastern University and the author of “Michelangelo, Drawing, and the Invention of Architecture” (Yale).
Business Insider
2 women have been criminally charged over their partners’ suicides. Why do men escape the same blame?
Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University, told Insider it’s rare to charge someone with manslaughter over another person’s suicide, so the fact that both recent cases involved female defendants may at this point be nothing more than a coincidence — but it could also point to a larger, more worrying trend of gender […]
Psychology Today
Three Stunning Psychological Truths
Intimate relationships are the greatest source of murder and suicide: “Homicides by intimate partners are increasing. . . to 2,237 in 2017, a 19 percent increase from the 1,875 killed in 2014, said James Alan Fox, a criminologist and professor of criminal justice at Northeastern University. . . . The majority of the victims in 2017 were women, a total of 1,527.”
Japan Today
Streaming TV gears up for ad targeting
“There is a small number of these cloud providers that are getting a lot of insight into what you’re doing with these devices,” said David Choffnes of Northeastern University, who led the research.
Buzzfeed
A Fight Over Vaping “Bots” Is Blazing While E-Cigarette Bans Loom
The brawl over whether the support for vaping comes from real people or astroturfing (fake grassroots efforts invented by companies or politicians), looks familiar, drug policy expert Leo Beletsky of Northeastern University told BuzzFeed News.
WGBH
Regulating The State Police Amid Corruption Scandals
WGBH Morning Edition Host Joe Mathieu spoke with Northeastern University law professor and WGBH News legal analyst Daniel Medwed about some of the more recent corruption scandals that have affected the state police, and how the department is addressing them.
New York Post
https://nypost.com/2019/10/28/salamander-that-eats-its-siblings-may-unlock-secrets-for-limb-regeneration/
It is an act that Northeastern University associate professor of biology James Monaghan believes could help with the ability to grow back human limbs, akin to the Marvel superhero Deadpool.
Experts say manslaughter case against former BC student may be stronger than Michelle Carter case
“This strikes me as a much stronger case for manslaughter than Carter,” said Daniel S. Medwed, a professor at Northeastern University School of Law, in an e-mail. “For one thing, the evidence points to physical abuse in addition to verbal harassment. For another, the fact that the defendant was on site at the time of […]
AFP
With Baghdadi gone, who is heir to the ‘caliph’?
But day-to-day IS operations are not likely to be impacted by the leadership void, according to Max Abrahms, professor of political science at Northeastern University.
Fox News
Cannibalistic smiling salamander may unlock secrets for limb regeneration
Known as an axolotl, this unique amphibian, which is described as “smiley-faced” and “feathery-gilled,” lives in Mexico and has been known to eat the limbs of its siblings for food. It is an act that Northeastern University associate professor of biology James Monaghan believes could help with the ability to grow back human limbs, akin to […]