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As sports betting explodes, should states set more limits to stop gambling addiction?

“You need regulation when the industry has shown an inability and unwillingness to police itself,” says Harry Levant, director of gambling policy for the Public Health Advocacy Institute at Northeastern University in Boston.
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Researchers sound alarm on junk food addiction that is affecting 1 in 5 young women today

Nowadays, these products high in salt, sugar, and fat, make up more than half of the U.S. diet , according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. They’re also 73 percent of the country’s food supply, according to Northeastern University.
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This week in Oakland: Mills College Art Museum Centennial Celebration, and Oaklandish’s 25th anniversary

 But that’s not all, this weekend there’s also the Oakland Ballers Parade on Sunday, a Día de Muertos event, the centennial celebration of the Mills College Art Museum at Northeastern University, and much more.
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Kids need more independence. If only Massachusetts law would allow it.

An op-ed by Andrew Haile, an assistant teaching professor at Northeastern University School of Law.
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Taylor Swift popularized fighting for masters. Are more artists getting ownership?

“As a result, you had these companies coming in and bestowing upon these young talents this check to enable them to create recordings that the label could then make money with,” says David Herlihy, an entertainment attorney and music industry professor at Northeastern University. “And so the labels owned the recordings.”

What SF can learn from San Jose’s AI deployment

What they’re saying: San Jose’s pilot is part of a broader trend of local governments testing “really, really narrow use cases where tech can actually free up time,” Kimberly Lucas, public policy professor at Northeastern University, told Axios.

Sports Betting Apps Have a Powerful New Tool to Keep Users Gambling

“I have clients who gamble in the shower; they gamble in bed in the morning,” said Harry Levant, a counselor and activist who has been in recovery from gambling addiction for a decade and serves as the director of gambling policy for the Public Health Advocacy Institute at Northeastern University School of Law.
Live Science

The Panama Canal needs a staggering amount of water to operate. Climate change could threaten that, study warns

“The more warming we have, globally, the higher [emissions] pathway we go, the less rainfall Panama receives, particularly in that wet season,” study lead author Samuel Muñoz, an associate professor at the Department of Marine and Environmental Sciences at Northeastern University, told Live Science. “And then, also, the more warming we have in the atmosphere, the […]
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As sports betting explodes, should states set more limits to stop gambling addiction?

“You need regulation when the industry has shown an inability and unwillingness to police itself,” says Harry Levant, director of gambling policy for the Public Health Advocacy Institute at Northeastern University in Boston.
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Research, curriculum and grading: new data sheds light on how professors are using AI

The company partnered with Northeastern University on this research – surveying 22 faculty members about how and why they use Claude. In their survey responses, university faculty said grading student work was the task the chatbot was least effective at.
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Many of Instagram’s teen-safety tools ‘simply are not working’, study finds

The findings call into question Meta’s efforts “to protect teens from the worst parts of the platform”, says Laura Edelson, a professor at Northeastern University who oversaw a review of the findings. “Using realistic testing scenarios, we can see that many of Instagram’s safety tools simply are not working.”
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Doctors Warn Against Imitating Hot Noodle Scene from ‘KPop Demon Hunters’

“KPop Demon Hunters” is a top-watched animated action fantasy musical on Netflix — its music has topped the Billboard charts and the movie has emerged as something of a global phenomenon. Its fast pace and storytelling appeal to children (and their parents), according to Northeastern University Global News.