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WGBH Boston Public Radio
Hallmarks Of Innocence: Forensic Evidence
WGBH’s Morning Edition Host Joe Mathieu spoke with Northeastern University law professor and WGBH News legal analyst Daniel Medwed about how forensic evidence is not always as reliable as it may seem.
Filter Magazine
New North Carolina Drug-Induced Homicide Law Ramps Up Punishments
The bill follows the “usual War-on-Drugs approach: to satisfy the urge to take the punitive approach,” said Jeremiah Goulka, a senior fellow at the Health In Justice Action Lab at Northeastern University’s law school.
Fortune
Bernie Sanders: America Is Drowning in Student Debt. Here’s My Plan to End It
Karthik Krishnan, a professor at Northeastern University who specializes in student debt, told CNBC last year that people with $30,000 in student loan debt are 11% less likely to start businesses than are those without debt.
Americans Surveyed See Artificial Intelligence as Jobs Killer
At the same time, global workers — particularly Americans — say going back to school is no longer a feasible option, according to a survey by Northeastern University and Gallup.
Attorneys for Michelle Carter ask US Supreme Court to review her conviction in suicide case
Daniel Medwed, a Northeastern University law professor, said the Supreme Court is becoming increasingly stingy in granting petitions for review.
45 Numbers Highlighting The State Of AI Today
70.8%: Percentage of Americans believing AI will eliminate more jobs than it will create (Canada 61.2%, UK 59.8%) [Gallup/Northeastern University] 42%: Percentage of Americans expressing confidence that their job skills will never become obsolete [Gallup/Northeastern University]
As the World Heats Up, the Climate for News Is Changing, Too
Matthew C. Nisbet, a communications professor at Northeastern University and the editor of the journal Environmental Communication, has argued for more nuance.
E-cigarette users seeking help in lonely struggle to quit vaping
In Massachusetts, a class-action lawsuit initiated in April against Juul Labs by the Public Health Advocacy Institute at Northeastern University demands that the company fund addiction treatment and research initiatives throughout the state.
‘Leonardo da Vinci: A Life in Drawing’ Review: Mind and Hand at Work
Ms. Brothers is an associate professor at Northeastern University and the author of “Michelangelo, Drawing, and the Invention of Architecture” (Yale).
To Cut Urban Bloodshed, Focus on Violent Hot Spots
Last year, independent evaluators from Northeastern University determined that the initiative—called Oakland Ceasefire—had cut the homicide rate in the city nearly in half since 2012, when the effort was launched.
NBC Boston
June Heatwave Cooks Mussels Along Northern California Coastline
“We no longer think of climate change in the future when we do this kind of forecasting work,” Northeastern University marine ecologist Brian Helmuth told Bay Nature. “It’s how do you prepare for it now.”
These are the sneaky new ways that Android apps are tracking you
This study and another presented Thursday—’Panoptispy: Characterizing Audio and Video Exfltration from Android Applications,’ by Elleen Pan of Northeastern University with Jingjing Ren, Martina Lindorfer, Christo Wilson, and David Choffnes—did not, however, report evidence that Facebook’s apps were exploiting any loopholes to surreptitiously listen to ambient real-world audio.