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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.
NBC News

Journey to power: The history of black voters, 1976 to 2020

But 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.
The Times UK

Scientists frown at technology’s ability to read facial expressions

Lisa Feldman Barrett, a psychologist at Northeastern University in Massachusetts and lead author of the paper in Psychological Science in the Public Interest, said: “People scowl when angry, on average, approximately 25 per cent of the time, but they move their faces in other meaningful ways when angry.”
Refinery29

Suspect In Ally Kostial Murder Was Abusive & “Crazy Aggressive,” Say Classmates

This murder happened amid an alarming rise in intimate-partner murders in the U.S. According to recent research by Northeastern University criminologist James Alan Fox, intimate-partner homicides increased every year between 2014 and 2017.
Technology Review

Computers can’t tell if you’re happy when you smile

People do smile when they’re happy and frown when they’re sad, but the correlation is weak, says study coauthor Lisa Feldman Barrett, a psychologist at Northeastern University.
EducationDive

3 ways colleges can prepare the workforce for automation

“It’s a wakeup call for the need to be more agile in our thinking and our approach to lifelong learning,” said Kemi Jona, associate dean for digital innovation and enterprise learning at Northeastern University. 
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In Tsarnaev case, death sentence policy change will have little short-term effect, attorneys say

Since the appeal is still pending, the policy change holds little significance for his case at the moment, according to Daniel Medwed, a professor at Northeastern University School of Law.
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‘Conrad’s Law’ proposed in Massachusetts in response to Michelle Carter suicide texting case

Lawmakers worked with Daniel Medwed, a professor at Northeastern University School of Law who specializes in criminal law, to help with the drafting. 
WGBH

Millennials And The News: A New Study Shows That They’re Tuned In After All

According to a new study by the Knight Foundation, millennials are regular news consumers who rely on journalism for information, entertainment, and guidance on how to vote.
The Verge

AI ‘EMOTION RECOGNITION’ CAN’T BE TRUSTED

“Companies can say whatever they want, but the data are clear,” Lisa Feldman Barrett, a professor of psychology at Northeastern University and one of the review’s five authors, tells The Verge. “They can detect a scowl, but that’s not the same thing as detecting anger.”